Bug#1075903: ITP: fonts-noto-emoji -- monochrome emoji font from Google

2024-07-07 Thread jeremy . bicha
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, pkg-fonts-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org Control: affects -1 src:fonts-noto-emoji Owner: jeremy.bi...@canonical.com Package Name: fonts-noto-emoji Version: 3.002 Upstream Author: Google License: SIL-1.1 Programming Lang:

Re: Bug#1029907: ITP: xdg-terminal-exec -- user default terminal execution utility

2023-01-28 Thread Jeremy Bicha
r experimental now. The only place it's been packaged so far is the Arch Linux AUR: https://repology.org/project/xdg-terminal-exec/versions Thank you, Jeremy Bicha

Bug#1029907: ITP: xdg-terminal-exec -- user default terminal execution utility

2023-01-28 Thread Jeremy Bicha
for users to override the preference; they would need to add/edit the config file in their home directory manually. More details in the README at https://github.com/Vladimir-csp/xdg-terminal-exec Thanks, Jeremy Bicha

Re: Q: How about versions/features in bookworm?

2022-11-06 Thread Jeremy Bicha
we > can introduce those in point releases with "predictable" schedule, > it would be better, IMHO. > > * KDE Plasma: 5.27 - 2023-02? > * GNOME : 44 - 2023-03 The Debian GNOME team doesn't have anywhere close to enough developer time and energy to make backporting a new major GNOME release feasible. Thank you, Jeremy Bicha

Re: Firmware GR result - what happens next?

2022-10-02 Thread Jeremy Bicha
o handle that file, but maybe they needed to handle sources.list.d/ anyway. Thank you, Jeremy Bicha

Re: Switch default from PulseAudio to PipeWire (and WirePlumber) for audio

2022-09-18 Thread Jeremy Bicha
ause I'm not involved in those decisions. I'll likely upload the gnome-core change to Unstable tomorrow. Thank you, Jeremy Bicha

Re: Switch default from PulseAudio to PipeWire (and WirePlumber) for audio

2022-09-15 Thread Jeremy Bicha
an easy escape. However, I've not seen a single complaint from Ubuntu about switching to PipeWire. So maybe we still ought to switch gnome-core now to get real feedback. Thank you, Jeremy Bicha

Re: Switch default from PulseAudio to PipeWire (and WirePlumber) for audio

2022-09-14 Thread Jeremy Bicha
sion on this topic. We are still able to fix release critical bugs until the Release and after the release as stable updates. I think we should make the swap this week so we can see the actual effects instead of hypothetical concerns. Thank you, Jeremy Bicha

Re: Switch default from PulseAudio to PipeWire (and WirePlumber) for audio

2022-09-12 Thread Jeremy Bicha
for Debian 12. Most but not all of the Ubuntu desktop flavors have also switched to PipeWire for Ubuntu 22.10. I'm not involved in the decisions for other Debian desktop flavors but they would get the same advantages and their apps designed for PulseAudio should still work with PipeWire. Thank you, Jeremy Bicha

Bug#1018974: ITP: pangomm2.48 -- C++ wrapper for Pango

2022-09-02 Thread Jeremy Bicha
pangomm2.48 ABI is intended for use with gtkmm4.0 (which uses GTK 4). The pangomm2.48 source package naming has been adopted by other distros: https://repology.org/project/pangomm/versions Thanks, Jeremy Bicha

Bug#1018908: ITP: cairomm1.16 -- C++ wrappers for Cairo

2022-09-01 Thread Jeremy Bicha
cairomm1.16 source package naming has been adopted by other distros: https://repology.org/project/cairomm/versions Thanks, Jeremy Bicha

Bug#1016606: ITP: libpanel -- IDE paneling library for GTK

2022-08-03 Thread Jeremy Bicha
dependency for GNOME Builder 43 which will use GTK4. Thanks, Jeremy Bicha

Bug#1016316: ITP: gnome-shell-extension-gsconnect -- KDE Connect implementation for GNOME Shell

2022-07-29 Thread Jeremy Bicha
ce is currently non-linear. https://github.com/GSConnect/gnome-shell-extension-gsconnect/issues/1412 Thanks, Jeremy Bicha

Re: Bug#1014908: ITP: gender-guesser -- Guess the gender from first name

2022-07-14 Thread Jeremy Bicha
n-binary people face a lot of discrimination, harrassment and bullying around the world. That bad treatment of these people is against Debian's core values. Therefore, the Debian Project wouldn't want to distribute software that appears to facilitate that kind of harassment, regardless of the software license it is released under. We might not want to distribute such software even if it also has non-harmful uses. We don't have to distribute *everything* ourselves. [1] https://www.debian.org/intro/diversity Thank you, Jeremy Bicha

Re: Bug#1014908: ITP: gender-guesser -- Guess the gender from first name

2022-07-14 Thread Jeremy Bicha
link in my ITP bug which makes it easy for someone to review it if they want. Thank you, Jeremy Bicha

Re: Bug#1013992: ITP: session-migration -- tool to migrate in user session settings

2022-07-06 Thread Jeremy Bicha
;t really have limits. You must trust the .deb publisher. Otherwise, you can use something like Snap which has significant restrictions on what Snap publishers can do with the apps they publish. Thanks, Jeremy Bicha

Re: Bug#1013992: ITP: session-migration -- tool to migrate in user session settings

2022-07-06 Thread Jeremy Bicha
I didn't get a reply yet and we need to make a decision. Thank you, Jeremy Bicha On Tue, Jun 28, 2022 at 9:51 PM Jeremy Bicha wrote: > On Tue, Jun 28, 2022 at 8:07 PM Guillem Jover wrote: > > > Package: session-migration > > > Description: Tool to migrate in user se

Re: Bug#1013992: ITP: session-migration -- tool to migrate in user session settings

2022-06-28 Thread Jeremy Bicha
like it's only used by about 6 current Ubuntu source packages so a rename is doable if needed. I think I wouldn't even need a transitional package since we'd rebuild all those Ubuntu packages which would get them the properly named dependency. Here's a suggestion: user-session-migration dh-migrate-user-session Providing dh-sequence-migrate-user-session Thank you, Jeremy Bicha

Bug#1013992: ITP: session-migration -- tool to migrate in user session settings

2022-06-28 Thread Jeremy Bicha
s This is a "native" package and will be maintained by the Ayatana Packagers team. Packaging is at https://salsa.debian.org/debian-ayatana-team/session-migration Thanks, Jeremy Bicha

Bug#1013289: ITP: glibmm2.68

2022-06-20 Thread Jeremy Bicha
urce package naming has been adopted by other distros: https://repology.org/project/glibmm/versions Thanks, Jeremy Bicha

Re: Is there room for improvement in our collaboration model?

2022-04-16 Thread Jeremy Bicha
ave Salsa commit privileges for. Thanks, Jeremy Bicha

Re: proposed MBF: packages still using source format 1.0

2022-03-07 Thread Jeremy Bicha
quot;. > > The packages work just fine, the source format is still supported, I > have better things to do with my time? I guess you'd be ok with orphaning aspic to allow others to more easily modernize the packaging? https://bugs.debian.org/657083 Thank you, Jeremy Bicha

Re: MBF: valgrind-if-available

2022-02-20 Thread Jeremy Bicha
-]depend on valgrind-if-available. Do you have any suggestions on how to handle this when the valgrind test is set by a configure flag? The way I've been handling it is to just keep a hard-coded list of valgrind architectures in sync between my debian/control and debian/rules. Thank you, Jeremy Bicha

Bug#1006006: ITP: libsoup3 -- HTTP library implementation in C

2022-02-18 Thread Jeremy Bicha
are ported. Migration Guide: https://libsoup.org/libsoup-3.0/ch02.html Upstream porting status tracker: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libsoup/-/issues/218 Thanks, Jeremy Bicha

Bug#1004739: ITP: mozjs91 -- SpiderMonkey JavaScript library

2022-02-01 Thread Jeremy Bicha
is Cinnamon. It is hoped that Cinnamon will be able to switch to mozjs91 soon too. https://discourse.gnome.org/t/spidermonkey-91/8665 Thanks, Jeremy Bicha

Re: ayatana-indicator-messages: bump epoch in package version from to 1

2021-12-12 Thread Jeremy Bicha
big deal to bump your version from 0.9 to 14. After that, you don't have any obligation to do year.month versioning. Thanks, Jeremy Bicha

Re: Multiple teams maintaining one package (proposal)

2021-11-09 Thread Jeremy Bicha
ty team so it's easy for these packages to follow GNOME style without conflicting with a different team's style. Thanks, Jeremy Bicha

Bug#996646: ITP: gnome-text-editor -- simple text editor for GNOME

2021-10-16 Thread Jeremy Bicha
default. gedit will still be available and offers more complex features. GNOME Text Editor uses GTK4 and libadwaita. Thanks, Jeremy Bicha

Bug#996609: ITP: gtksourceview5 -- shared libraries for the GTK4 syntax highlighting widget

2021-10-15 Thread Jeremy Bicha
-4-to-5.html And since you'll need to port from GTK3 to GTK4 to use gtksourceview5: https://docs.gtk.org/gtk4/migrating-3to4.html Thanks, Jeremy Bicha

Bug#994090: ITP: gnome-connections -- Simple GNOME app to access remote computers

2021-09-11 Thread Jeremy Bicha
for GNOME: GNOME Connections. This app will be maintained by the Debian GNOME team. Packaging is at https://salsa.debian.org/gnome-team/gnome-connections Thanks, Jeremy Bicha

Re: Proposal: use /usr/bin/open as an alternative for run-mailcap and others.

2020-10-13 Thread Jeremy Bicha
r not. I think "see" was used because "open" was not available. I don't know why you are so interested in having "see" go away. It could be removed but it's not clear at all to me that it needs to be removed at the same time "open" is added. (I

Re: Proposal: use /usr/bin/open as an alternative for run-mailcap and others.

2020-10-07 Thread Jeremy Bicha
On Wed, Oct 7, 2020 at 7:15 PM Jeremy Bicha wrote: > You should be aware that Ubuntu implemented this idea 2 years ago. Oh, I misread. Ubuntu used /usr/bin/browse but 'open' sounds a lot better. Thanks, Jeremy Bicha

Re: Proposal: use /usr/bin/open as an alternative for run-mailcap and others.

2020-10-07 Thread Jeremy Bicha
nted this idea 2 years ago. (I'm sure Ubuntu developers would love for this to be implemented by other distros or further upstream.) https://launchpad.net/bugs/1624022 Thanks, Jeremy Bicha

Re: Mass bug filing: dependencies on GTK 2

2020-04-29 Thread Jeremy Bicha
nice. https://salsa.debian.org/gnome-team/gnome-themes-extra/-/commit/4c5691edd Thanks, Jeremy Bicha

Re: Overinterpretation of DFSG? QR code for receiving donation is non-free???

2020-03-31 Thread Jeremy Bicha
t you have to use a DFSG-compatible generator to create the image. Just like there is no requirement that my camera run DFSG-compatible software or that I only use DFSG-compatible editors or software or websites whenever I contribute to Debian. [1] https://www.debian.org/vote/2004/vote_003 Thanks, Jeremy Bicha

Re: please avoid writing useless/annoying stuff in debian/gbp.conf (was: source only upload with git-buildpackage)

2019-11-13 Thread Jeremy Bicha
On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 5:23 AM Thomas Goirand wrote: > On 11/11/19 12:50 PM, Jeremy Bicha wrote: > > It is absolutely not possible to set the correct > > pristine-tar=True/False in ~/.gbp.conf to work with your packages > > (which avoid pristine-tar) and the vast majori

Re: please avoid writing useless/annoying stuff in debian/gbp.conf (was: source only upload with git-buildpackage)

2019-11-11 Thread Jeremy Bicha
hat repo needs to use those same settings to avoid issues. On the other hand, there are some developer-level preferences like export-dir and "pbuilder = True". Those should not be in the repo's debian/gbp.conf but they should be in ~/.gbp.conf . Thanks, Jeremy Bicha

Re: Usage of DEP5

2019-11-09 Thread Jeremy Bicha
st to try to build a complete enough d/copyright file to clear the NEW queue. And I am an experienced packager. [1] https://alioth-lists.debian.net/pipermail/pkg-ayatana-devel/2019-September/002438.html Thanks, Jeremy Bicha

Re: Merge request friendly handling of debian/changelog

2019-10-22 Thread Jeremy Bicha
On Mon, Oct 21, 2019 at 11:06 PM Bastian Blank wrote: > There is "gbp dch", which ignores merge commits (so no really good for > merge requests), but I don't consider it to have enough control over the > content of the changelog. Just set your merge settings per project to fast-forward. Thanks,

Re: Reusing source package name of long-removed, unrelated package

2019-02-06 Thread Jeremy Bicha
nsider using a different name? You don't need to bump the epoch since your package has a higher version number than the old package. Thanks, Jeremy Bicha

Bug#921464: ITP: gnome-books -- ebook reader for GNOME

2019-02-05 Thread Jeremy Bicha
Software app. Packaging is maintained by the Debian GNOME Team at https://salsa.debian.org/gnome-team/gnome-books Thanks, Jeremy Bicha

Bug#919120: ITP: bst-external -- external plugins for BuildStream toolset

2019-01-12 Thread Jeremy Bicha
tream. Its ITP is https://bugs.debian.org/916668 I intend to maintain this with the Debian GNOME Team. Initial packaging is at https://salsa.debian.org/gnome-team/bst-external Thanks, Jeremy Bicha

Re: introduction of x-www-browser virtual package

2019-01-11 Thread Jeremy Bicha
LXDE doesn't ship with any tool that allows customizing what x-www-browser is, right? I don't see that LXDE .desktop as being very useful in practice. Thanks, Jeremy Bicha

Re: introduction of x-www-browser virtual package

2019-01-08 Thread Jeremy Bicha
lt GNOME desktop (and hopefully other desktop environments), > > Which raises a question: why does GNOME reinvent this system? Because sensible-utils is not cross-distro. (unless I misunderstood your question) Thanks, Jeremy Bicha

Re: Bug#917830: ITP: pdfarranger -- maintained fork of pdfshuffler

2018-12-30 Thread Jeremy Bicha
The packaging link should be https://salsa.debian.org/python-team/applications/pdfarranger If anyone wants more background to justify the fork, see https://github.com/jeromerobert/pdfarranger/issues/9 Thanks, Jeremy Bicha

Bug#917830: ITP: pdfarranger -- maintained fork of pdfshuffler

2018-12-30 Thread Jeremy Bicha
ffler. Thanks, Jeremy Bicha

Re: Bug#915050: (gitlab) Re: Bug#915050: Keep out of testing

2018-12-18 Thread Jeremy Bicha
Firefox ESR and Chromium. Thanks, Jeremy Bicha

Bug#916668: ITP: buildstream -- toolset for the BuildStream project

2018-12-16 Thread Jeremy Bicha
depend on the Freedesktop SDKs. Thanks, Jeremy Bicha

Re: Sending using my @debian.org in gmail

2018-11-30 Thread Jeremy Bicha
d your email first. Thanks, Jeremy Bicha

Update on removing obsolete GNOME libraries & gtk2 MBF

2018-11-25 Thread Jeremy Bicha
ceview2 gtksourceview3 gtkspell3 libglade2 libglademm2.4 libgnomecanvas libgnomecanvasmm2.6 libgtk2-perl libunique pygtk python-gtkglext1 (xpra) vte (cdebconf-terminal which is part of debian-installer) Not removing at this time -------- libart-lgpl On behalf of the Debian GNOME Team, Jeremy Bicha

Re: usrmerge -- plan B?

2018-11-21 Thread Jeremy Bicha
to be complete in Buster before the Transition Freeze which is scheduled for January 12. [1] [1] https://release.debian.org/ Thanks, Jeremy Bicha

Re: julia_1.0.0-1_amd64.changes REJECTED

2018-11-21 Thread Jeremy Bicha
appily upgrade my Debian install to Unstable. Thanks, Jeremy Bicha

Re: Bug#913766: ITP: librsvg-c -- the pre-Rust version of librsvg

2018-11-14 Thread Jeremy Bicha
On Wed, Nov 14, 2018 at 5:22 PM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > Hi Jeremy! > > On 11/14/18 10:52 PM, Jeremy Bicha wrote: > > As requested, this is librsvg reintroduced for ports that don't > > supported the rustified librsvg yet. The name is because this is

Bug#913766: ITP: librsvg-c -- the pre-Rust version of librsvg

2018-11-14 Thread Jeremy Bicha
r NEW. I don't have experience with archive management for non-release architectures at all. Thanks, Jeremy Bicha

Re: I resigned in 2004

2018-11-12 Thread Jeremy Bicha
es against the spirit of the Debian Code of Conduct. You can say "no" to requests and still be nice. You're also pulling someone else in (formorer) to demonstrate your argument and I'm not sure he approves of your message here. Thanks, Jeremy Bicha

Re: Uncoordinated upload of the rustified librsvg

2018-11-06 Thread Jeremy Bicha
id some minor enablement work for mutter for hurd/kfreebsd recently but I'm absolutely not a porter and I've never used those ports. Thanks, Jeremy Bicha

Re: Uncoordinated upload of the rustified librsvg

2018-11-06 Thread Jeremy Bicha
On Sun, Nov 4, 2018 at 2:30 PM Jeremy Bicha wrote: > On Sun, Nov 4, 2018 at 11:33 AM Ben Hutchings wrote: > > I do like the proposal of adding a librsvg-c for just the architectures > > that don't have Rust (yet). > > This sounds reasonable. Thanks Samuel for the sugge

Re: Uncoordinated upload of the rustified librsvg

2018-11-04 Thread Jeremy Bicha
On Sun, Nov 4, 2018 at 11:33 AM Ben Hutchings wrote: > I do like the proposal of adding a librsvg-c for just the architectures > that don't have Rust (yet). This sounds reasonable. Thanks Samuel for the suggestion. Any volunteers to maintain this new old package? Thanks, Jeremy Bicha

Re: Uncoordinated upload of the rustified librsvg

2018-11-03 Thread Jeremy Bicha
27;t think it should have been a surprise that this upload was coming. Reference -- https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2017-December/msg00072.html Thanks, Jeremy Bicha

Re: epoch bump request for gnome-calculator

2018-09-26 Thread Jeremy Bicha
nchpad to allow whitelisted downgrades I appreciate your thinking of possible solutions, but my understanding is that Canonical isn't investing in any more Launchpad work than is necessary. And it's rare for anyone else to work on Launchpad. Thanks, Jeremy Bicha

Bug#909670: ITP: gnome-remote-desktop -- Remote desktop daemon for GNOME using Pipewire

2018-09-26 Thread Jeremy Bicha
, at least it will be available as an option for people using Buster. Packaging is at https://salsa.debian.org/gnome-team/gnome-remote-desktop Thanks, Jeremy Bicha

epoch bump request for gnome-calculator

2018-09-26 Thread Jeremy Bicha
x27;s epoch? [1] Current example of the hack: https://salsa.debian.org/fonts-team/fonts-ubuntu/blob/debian/unstable/debian/rules Thanks, Jeremy Bicha

Re: Package not compatible with old systemd

2018-09-19 Thread Jeremy Bicha
eople want to try to hold on to Firefox 52 ESR past its expiration date, but may have Chromium installed), I think it's probably as good as we can get there. Thanks, Jeremy Bicha

Re: Limiting the size of installed changelogs

2018-09-13 Thread Jeremy Bicha
ripfiles, a bash script in the pkgbinarymanagler package. That package is not available in Debian. Thanks, Jeremy Bicha

Re: Bug#895246: gconf: Intent to Adopt

2018-05-13 Thread Jeremy Bicha
On Sun, May 13, 2018 at 1:54 PM, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 06:47:41PM -0400, Jeremy Bicha wrote: >> Why? Basically there are only two things left in Buster that depend on >> gconf: eclipse and pulseaudio. > > Plus ~ 50 more in unstable. > >> Plea

Re: Firefox 60esr on Stretch ?

2018-05-03 Thread Jeremy Bicha
you maintain yet another web browser. [1] https://www.debian.org/releases/stretch/amd64/release-notes/ch-information.html#browser-security Jeremy Bicha

Bug#897633: ITP: bolt -- system daemon to manage thunderbolt 3 devices

2018-05-03 Thread Jeremy Bicha
. Packaging is at https://salsa.debian.org/freedesktop-team/bolt Thanks, Jeremy Bicha

Re: Bug#895246: gconf: Intent to Adopt

2018-04-30 Thread Jeremy Bicha
to be resolved in time for Buster. Eclipse is a major headache as you know. Please be more specific about what software you are interested in that requires gconf and why it can't be ported away from gconf this year. Thanks, Jeremy Bicha

Re: Please do not drop Python 2 modules

2018-04-21 Thread Jeremy Bicha
2022. But I think if we had that philosophy, we wouldn't ever remove anything until identified security concerns force it out. Jeremy Bicha

Re: Questionable mass bug filling

2018-04-21 Thread Jeremy Bicha
ian-devel/2018/04/msg00258.html Thanks, Jeremy Bicha

Re: multiple ITPs - mbrola voices

2018-04-21 Thread Jeremy Bicha
before these new ITPs? [1] It might be a bit late to try to change the source packaging for all of that… [1] https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?email=sthibault%40debian.org Thanks, Jeremy Bicha

Re: About the MBF on now-failing alioth list addresses (was: Completed: lists.alioth.debian.org migration)

2018-04-19 Thread Jeremy Bicha
ts.alioth.debian.org%' ; >source| maintainer > -+ > libglademm2.4 | Deng Xiyue > libgnomecanvasmm2.6 | Deng Xiyue Neither of those 2 packages are in Testing and it's intended for them to be removed from Unstable "soon". Thanks, Jeremy Bicha

Re: missing recommends are not RC severity

2018-04-17 Thread Jeremy Bicha
ng that is a RC bug for package to recommend a library that has been removed from Testing because recommended packages won't be auto-removed on upgrade." That means users will have libraries installed that will not get any security support. I think that's an RC issue. Thanks, Jeremy Bicha

Re: hijack of gjots2 package

2018-04-17 Thread Jeremy Bicha
s. I think we should be a lot more forgiving to new contributors instead of telling everyone that you will object if he ever applies to become a DM. I strongly hope that Athos does continue contributing to Debian and does apply to be a DM. Thanks, Jeremy Bicha

Re: Lucas Kanashiro and Athos Ribeiro salvaged my package

2018-04-16 Thread Jeremy Bicha
o developer response: https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/ch05.html#nmu https://bugs.debian.org/876571 Thanks, Jeremy Bicha

Bug#894579: ITP: libmypaint -- brush library for mypaint

2018-04-01 Thread Jeremy Bicha
this library also. I intend to help maintain this package under the Debian Multimedia Team. Packaging is at https://salsa.debian.org/multimedia-team/libmypaint Thanks, Jeremy Bicha

Bug#894578: ITP: mypaint-brushes -- brushes for paint apps

2018-04-01 Thread Jeremy Bicha
, but upstream advised to wait a bit longer for https://github.com/mypaint/mypaint/pull/538 to be approved. I intend to help maintain this package under the Debian Multimedia Team. Packaging is at https://salsa.debian.org/multimedia-team/mypaint-brushes Thanks, Jeremy Bicha

Re: Debian part of a version number when epoch is bumped

2018-03-28 Thread Jeremy Bicha
Debian had some form of informal conflict resolution besides the Tech Committee. Thanks, Jeremy Bicha

Bug#890510: ITP: gnome-usage -- simple system monitor app for GNOME

2018-02-15 Thread Jeremy Bicha
ovide power statistics yet. Packaging is at https://salsa.debian.org/gnome-team/gnome-usage Thanks, Jeremy Bicha

Re: Debian part of a version number when epoch is bumped

2018-02-14 Thread Jeremy Bicha
not only an infrastructure problem. If you Depends on X (>= 1.8), > this will be true with X 1:1.6 as well. In the particular case of gnome-calculator, virtually nothing depends on a particular version of gnome-calculator. And in this case, it's probably better for me to just go ahead and upload the epoch bump, upsetting a few people, but it's not really a big deal at all and saves a bunch of needless work in the long run. Thanks, Jeremy Bicha

Bug#890218: ITP: psautohint -- standalone version of the AFDKO autohinter

2018-02-11 Thread Jeremy Bicha
at https://salsa.debian.org/fonts-team/psautohint Thanks, Jeremy Bicha

Re: Update on removing obsolete GNOME libraries

2018-02-09 Thread Jeremy Bicha
On Fri, Feb 9, 2018 at 7:25 PM, Jeremy Bicha wrote: > Debian GNOME's "oldlibs" bug list: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?users=pkg-gnome-maintainers%40lists.alioth.debian.org;tag=oldlibs Thanks, Jeremy Bicha

Update on removing obsolete GNOME libraries

2018-02-09 Thread Jeremy Bicha
r for one of these packages that is no longer maintained upstream and if you don't intend to port it to deprecated libraries, you can help us out by filing a removal bug for the package. Thanks, Jeremy Bicha References == Previous email https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2017/10/msg

Re: Debian part of a version number when epoch is bumped

2018-02-09 Thread Jeremy Bicha
or the transitional package gcalctool allowing the rest of gnome-calculator to avoid an epoch. Pretty cool trick except that it just causes extra work in Ubuntu multiple times a year. Thanks, Jeremy Bicha

Debian part of a version number when epoch is bumped

2018-02-05 Thread Jeremy Bicha
#x27;m bring up this issue here to get input from other developers. Thanks, Jeremy Bicha

What is the point of RFA? Was: Re: proposal: ITR

2018-02-01 Thread Jeremy Bicha
n most cases is ... no much. What is the point of RFA? I mean why don't you just Orphan it and continue to maintain it with QA uploads until a volunteer wants to adopt it? See this for reference: https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/pkgs.html#orphaning Thanks, Jeremy Bicha

Re: Removing packages perhaps too aggressively?

2018-01-31 Thread Jeremy Bicha
k we need to add an artificial delay for package removals that are approved by the package maintainer. Thanks, Jeremy Bicha

Re: Removing packages perhaps too aggressively?

2018-01-31 Thread Jeremy Bicha
ink you'll get much sympathy for a package being removed from unstable when it hasn't shipped with a Debian release since Wheezy, and has continuously been out of Testing for 3.5 years. Thanks, Jeremy Bicha

Re: FTBFS with parallel make

2018-01-26 Thread Jeremy Bicha
On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 9:38 AM, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > I wonder what percent of the packages has compat < 10. Well start with https://lintian.debian.org/tags/package-uses-deprecated-debhelper-compat-version.html Thanks, Jeremy Bicha

Bug#888208: ITP: libmanette -- simple GObject game controller library

2018-01-23 Thread Jeremy Bicha
ed in mid-March. The Debian GNOME team currently intends to maintain this package. Packaging is at https://salsa.debian.org/gnome-team/libmanette Upstream is at https://gitlab.gnome.org/aplazas/libmanette Thanks, Jeremy Bicha

Updating the Maintainer field in preparation for Alioth's shutdown?

2018-01-19 Thread Jeremy Bicha
t address to that address, right? 4. There may eventually be a tracker.debian.org team contact service that might be a better fit for the Maintainer field than lists.debian.org but that isn't expected before the deadline, right? [1] https://wiki.debian.org/Alioth#News Thanks, Jeremy Bicha

Re: (was: Re: Bug#886238: Please introduce official nosystemd build profile)

2018-01-09 Thread Jeremy Bicha
it benefits Debian for Ubuntu and Debian packaging to be as shared as much as possible. https://launchpad.net/bugs/1734339 Thanks, Jeremy Bicha

Re: salsa.debian.org (git.debian.org replacement) going into beta

2018-01-04 Thread Jeremy Bicha
email to be delivered. (Maybe that's what you meant, but it wasn't clear to me.) Thanks, Jeremy Bicha

Re: python2 warnings (Re: Why do we list individual copyright holders?

2018-01-03 Thread Jeremy Bicha
Has the python2 dependency issue been reported upstream yet? Thanks, Jeremy Bicha

Re: salsa.debian.org (git.debian.org replacement) going into beta

2017-12-30 Thread Jeremy Bicha
web tools (packages, tracker, qa, ...) would link > to the group page automatically, right? Tracker currently needs someone to create the team but that takes a few seconds. It can automatically keep the team up-to-date for all packages that use the same Maintainer email address. Thanks, Jeremy Bicha

Re: salsa.debian.org (git.debian.org replacement) going into beta

2017-12-28 Thread Jeremy Bicha
is gone, we would need an alternative. Someone just has to add the packages to the team list. It's a one-time maintenance cost that in my opinion takes very little time. I don't think it's a scalability problem at all. Surely, someone can spend a few seconds per package.… Thanks, Jeremy Bicha

Re: salsa.debian.org (git.debian.org replacement) going into beta

2017-12-27 Thread Jeremy Bicha
ams. Thanks, Jeremy Bicha

Re: salsa.debian.org (git.debian.org replacement) going into beta

2017-12-27 Thread Jeremy Bicha
On Wed, Dec 27, 2017 at 12:27 PM, Tobias Frost wrote: > How can one easily retrieve a list of packages from a specific team, The team can make a Tracker team and add their packages individually to the team like this: https://tracker.debian.org/teams/desktop-themes-team/ (This is a very new team

Re: Why do we list individual copyright holders?

2017-12-22 Thread Jeremy Bicha
yone listed in a Copyright line to always be mentioned in debian/copyright. Anyway, I do appreciate your email. Thanks, Jeremy Bicha

Re: Why do we list individual copyright holders?

2017-12-18 Thread Jeremy Bicha
r mozjs52 which is simply the JavaScript engine from Firefox 52 ESR. I first tried copying the Firefox 52 ESR's copyright file (removing the extra lines that didn't apply to this more minimal source) but it wasn't complete enough. (mozjs52 is essential for GNOME Shell 3.26.) Thanks, Jeremy Bicha

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