Re: Binary conflict between Midnight Commander and MinIO Client

2024-04-22 Thread Jonathan Dowland
package name (which as an end-user I always appreciate), is more discoverable, and very unlikely to clash with anything else. Then set up a /usr/libexec/mc as suggested else-thread, and end-users will either use that or set up their own shell alias. -- Please do not CC me for listmail. 

Re: Silent hijacking and stripping records from changelog

2024-04-18 Thread Jonathan Dowland
aps that's relevant. I haven't traced the history that results in there being a separate haskell-pandoc source package yet. [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-haskell/2024/02/msg1.html [2] https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/haskell-hakyll -- Please do not CC me for listmail.  Jonat

Re: Silent hijacking and stripping records from changelog

2024-04-17 Thread Jonathan Dowland
osing side", your mail reads to me as unnecessarily snarky. -- Please do not CC me for listmail.  Jonathan Dowland ✎j...@debian.org  https://jmtd.net

Re: Silent hijacking and stripping records from changelog

2024-04-17 Thread Jonathan Dowland
orepo should not be taken lightly. -- Please do not CC me for listmail.  Jonathan Dowland ✎j...@debian.org  https://jmtd.net

Re: finally end single-person maintainership

2024-04-12 Thread Jonathan Dowland
that there's too much magic. Some of that is inherited from the Debian-specific tooling it sits on top of: I also think there's too much magic and/or complexity in debuild and dpkg-buildpackage. -- Please do not CC me for listmail.  Jonathan Dowland ✎j...@debian.org  https://jmtd.net

Re: Debian openssh option review: considering splitting out GSS-API key exchange

2024-04-03 Thread Jonathan Dowland
ves do exist. -- Please do not CC me for listmail.  Jonathan Dowland ✎j...@debian.org  https://jmtd.net

Re: ITP: gtk-gnutella -- The Most Efficient Gnutella Client

2024-03-14 Thread Jonathan Dowland
ar. I couldn't easily answer the question: is your packaging based on the previous iteration of the debian package? Do the previous packagers hold copyright? [1] https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/ -- Please do not CC me for listmail.  Jonathan Dowl

Re: Bug#1010746: ITP: docker-squash -- Squashing helps with organizing docker images in logical layers

2024-02-14 Thread Jonathan Dowland
r listmail.  Jonathan Dowland ✎j...@debian.org  https://jmtd.net

Bug#1055584: ITP: cekit -- Container image creation tool

2023-11-08 Thread Jonathan Dowland
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jonathan Dowland X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: cekit Version : 4.9.1 Upstream Contact: Jonathan Dowland * URL : https://cekit.io/ * License : MIT Programming Lang: Python Description

Re: Bug#1050348: ITP: melonds -- nintendo DS emulator

2023-08-23 Thread Jonathan Dowland
melonDS be usefully used without a BIOS/firmware dump from a DS? -- Please do not CC me for listmail.  Jonathan Dowland ✎j...@debian.org  https://jmtd.net

Re: Issues in the Patch Tagging Guidelines

2023-08-16 Thread Jonathan Dowland
its the header field name.) So I think that the next step would be for someone to start a draft to update DEP3. I might do it myself at some point, but would be very happy if someone else did it. +1 -- Please do not CC me for listmail.  Jonathan Dowland ✎j...@debian.org  https://jmtd.net

Re: Bug#1028467: ITP: borgbackup2 -- version 2.x of a deduplicating and compressing backup program

2023-01-17 Thread Jonathan Dowland
keep it, and borg2 should exclusively use a different command name, even though that makes us significantly divergent from upstream. -- Please do not CC me for listmail.  Jonathan Dowland ✎j...@debian.org  https://jmtd.net

Re: Firmware - what are we going to do about it?

2022-04-20 Thread Jonathan Dowland
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Re: Firmware - what are we going to do about it?

2022-04-20 Thread Jonathan Dowland
ave raised and should be addressed separately. ² perhaps starting with renaming it… -- Please do not CC me for listmail.  Jonathan Dowland ✎j...@debian.org  https://jmtd.net

Re: Firmware - what are we going to do about it?

2022-04-20 Thread Jonathan Dowland
oss *after* the change proposed by Steve. -- Please do not CC me for listmail.  Jonathan Dowland ✎j...@debian.org  https://jmtd.net

Re: warzone2100 video downloader

2021-11-23 Thread Jonathan Dowland
on the Debian mirrors. I think it would be OK to have a video downloader package or a downloader script in the main package but I don't plan to write it. A possible good home for something like this is "game-data-packager". -- Please do not CC me for listmail.  Jonathan Dowland

Re: Future of /usr/bin/which in Debian?

2021-09-27 Thread Jonathan Dowland
ing reason for there to be more than one `which`, we could avoid the burden of alternatives entirely. I should get off my soapbox now. ¹ Message-ID: -- Please do not CC me for listmail.  Jonathan Dowland ✎j...@debian.org  https://jmtd.net

Re: Future of /usr/bin/which in Debian?

2021-09-21 Thread Jonathan Dowland
. -- Please do not CC me for listmail.  Jonathan Dowland ✎j...@debian.org  https://jmtd.net

Re: Future of /usr/bin/which in Debian?

2021-09-20 Thread Jonathan Dowland
, and there's a compelling reason that the GNU one was chosen; but if so there's no evidence of that on -devel. :( -- Please do not CC me for listmail.  Jonathan Dowland ✎j...@debian.org  https://jmtd.net

Re: git workflows (was: Steam Deck: good news for Linux gaming, bad news for Debian :()

2021-08-14 Thread Jonathan Dowland
enting a technical improvement to a project-wide process would be the way to go. This pre-supposes that there *was* a project-wide process. There I agree with other posters on this thread: this is where to start. -- Please do not CC me for listmail.  Jonathan Dowland ✎j...@debian.org  https://jmtd.net

Re: Steam Deck: good news for Linux gaming, bad news for Debian :(

2021-08-14 Thread Jonathan Dowland
It's *one* repository, not a system where people (not just Debian maintainers) can create repos. -- Please do not CC me for listmail.  Jonathan Dowland ✎j...@debian.org  https://jmtd.net

Re: filtering ITP in debian-devel (was: Reconsider sending ITP bugs to debian-devel: a new list?)

2021-06-16 Thread Jonathan Dowland
> the subject line. Is this correct? That will catch the initial ITP mail but none of the replies. --  Jonathan Dowland ✎j...@debian.org  https://jmtd.net

Re: Reconsider sending ITP bugs to debian-devel: a new list?

2021-06-15 Thread Jonathan Dowland
articipated in the other thread. --  Jonathan Dowland ✎j...@debian.org  https://jmtd.net

Re: Unique kernel with my own backup of all Debian repositories

2021-06-14 Thread Jonathan Dowland
tarted to assume an authoritative voice, which could be misleading. It's clear you want to get more involved in Debian, and that's great: have you read <https://www.debian.org/intro/help>? That lays out the best ways to get started. --  Jonathan Dowland ✎j...@debian.org 

Re: Reconsider sending ITP bugs to debian-devel: a new list?

2021-06-14 Thread Jonathan Dowland
he driving force behind me trying to consume Debian lists via NNTP, so I could stop having to subscribe to so many lists; and also, have easier access to the archives prior to subscribing. --  Jonathan Dowland ✎j...@debian.org  https://jmtd.net

Re: Reconsider sending ITP bugs to debian-devel: a new list?

2021-06-14 Thread Jonathan Dowland
y. You can match on the subject, but you will miss any replies that change it. When I was doing this whatever I ended up with didn't reach 100% accuracy. --  Jonathan Dowland ✎j...@debian.org  https://jmtd.net

Re: Unique kernel with my own backup of all Debian repositories

2021-06-14 Thread Jonathan Dowland
ian mirrors. To avoid any doubt, it would be best in future to state clearly that you don't, and aren't; in fact it would be best to be clear that you aren't involved in developing Debian at all (unless that changes). --  Jonathan Dowland ✎j...@debian.org  https://jmtd.net

Reconsider sending ITP bugs to debian-devel: a new list?

2021-06-11 Thread Jonathan Dowland
c. I think it would be better if ITP mail went to a separate, dedicated list, e.g. "debian-itp" to which contributors are encouraged to subscribe and participate. Does anyone have any strong feelings about this, either for or against? Thanks --  Jonathan Dowland ✎j...@debi

Re: ARM architectures

2021-06-08 Thread Jonathan Dowland
: a quickness to interpret messages as being hostile. Please, assume good faith from fellow participants in the Debian community. --  Jonathan Dowland ✎j...@debian.org  https://jmtd.net

Re: Thanks and Decision making working group (was Re: General Resolution: Statement regarding Richard Stallman's readmission to the FSF board result)

2021-04-19 Thread Jonathan Dowland
ation of the result would be true if the majority of people voted for that as their first preference. They did not: it was the most-agreed upon preference between two ideologically opposite factions. The majority of voting DDs expressed a strong preference one way or the other. --  Jonathan Do

Re: a proper-unix meta package (Re: Proposal: plocate as standard for bookworm)

2021-04-14 Thread Jonathan Dowland
ed to *build* as well as the initial packaging, goes to David Jones) -- 👱🏻 Jonathan Dowland ✎ j...@debian.org 🔗https://jmtd.net

Re: RFC: Final update of DEP-14 on naming of git packaging branches

2020-09-24 Thread Jonathan Dowland
test change and leave it in DRAFT status whilst we debate that point (since I believe there is consensus to move away from master, at least, so land that change now) Best wishes, --  Jonathan Dowland ✎j...@debian.org  https://jmtd.net

Re: Mass bug filing: dependencies on GTK 2

2020-05-14 Thread Jonathan Dowland
majority of it should. --  Jonathan Dowland ✎ j...@dow.land  https://jmtd.net

Re: RFC: Replacing vim-tiny with nano in essential packages

2020-03-18 Thread Jonathan Dowland
the smaller choice. One circumstance that non-newbies might be interacting with a minbase system includes odd environments where "apt install *" is not an option. --  Jonathan Dowland ✎ j...@dow.land  https://jmtd.net

Re: New fast porterbox for powerpc and ppc64 available

2020-01-30 Thread Jonathan Dowland
port after jessie, re-activated as an unofficial one in 2018, suitable for use on "new world" Apple Macs e.g. some Mac Minis etc.? Great news if so, thanks! -- Jonathan Dowland

Re: Bug#949307: ITP: disk-filltest -- Simple Tool to Detect Bad Disks by Filling with Random Data

2020-01-21 Thread Jonathan Dowland
Write files random- to the current directory until the disk is full. How does this compare to f3read and f3write, from the "f3" package? -- Jonathan Dowland

Re: getting rid of "testing"

2019-06-27 Thread Jonathan Dowland
codenames, some not, same for numbers - the real question is: Does it really matters? This is a bad summary. -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄ Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list.

Re: getting rid of "testing"

2019-06-27 Thread Jonathan Dowland
term support" They still have to resolve what that means, right? You don't want them putting "stable" in pinning etc. for the reason you list above. So, they still have to map stable → codename, and could just as easily map stable → version number. -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowl

Re: getting rid of "testing"

2019-06-27 Thread Jonathan Dowland
what Ubuntu do, if we wanted to increase the remember-or-computability of the current version. I do like how easy it is to look at an existing release number and be able to establish how old it is (aah, 18.04, was released in April 2018) -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄⠀

Re: Debian, so ugly and unwieldy!

2019-06-08 Thread Jonathan Dowland
at a different point in the release cycle to now. In the past, this has been worked on via the debian-desktop@ list. -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄ Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list.

Re: @debian.org mail

2019-06-03 Thread Jonathan Dowland
, as a project, considering whether we would like something different to what we have now, and I guess that's exactly what this thread is. Best conducted at a project (requirements) level rather DSA (solutions) level. -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄ Please do not CC

Re: Buster/XFCE unlock screen is blank

2019-06-03 Thread Jonathan Dowland
different for desktop environments.) I cannot reproduce it with gnome (1:3.30+1) running in an Xorg session (rather than Wayland). Perhaps it has been fixed. -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄ Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list.

Re: NMUs: Do we want to Require or Recommend DH

2019-05-20 Thread Jonathan Dowland
the distribution more quickly. -- Jonathan Dowland

Re: Do we want to Require or Recommend DH

2019-05-15 Thread Jonathan Dowland
ian/rules/ 2. https://tracker.debian.org/news/449441/accepted-doom-wad-shareware-19fixed-2-source-all/ -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄ Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list.

Re: Do we want to Require or Recommend DH

2019-05-15 Thread Jonathan Dowland
twice (with and without dh), inspects the resulting changes to the binary packages with diffoscope and is confident that each change is appropriate. Here you state your opinion but you haven't provided any rationale for it. -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net

Re: PPAs (Re: [Idea] Debian User Repository? (Not simply mimicing AUR))

2019-04-08 Thread Jonathan Dowland
my sub-thread is a hijack, but to be clear what I was referring to was the naming of the pre-existing "Bikeshed" proposal for Debian, which is equivalent to PPAs. -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄ Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list.

Re: is Wayland mature enough to be the default desktop choice in Buster?

2019-04-08 Thread Jonathan Dowland
. Would the GNOME team kindly share with this thread the criteria that you folks use to make your decision as to whether to default to Wayland in Debian? Best wishes -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄ Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list.

Re: [Idea] Debian User Repository? (Not simply mimicing AUR)

2019-04-08 Thread Jonathan Dowland
"Bikeshed" is a bad idea. -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄ Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list.

is Wayland/Weston mature enough to be the default desktop choice in Buster?

2019-04-05 Thread Jonathan Dowland
. -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄ Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list.

Re: Bug#924270: O: keepassx -- Cross Platform Password Manager

2019-03-10 Thread Jonathan Dowland
. -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄ Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list.

Re: Bug#923300: ITP: golang-github-openshift-imagebuilder -- Builds Dockerfile using the Docker client

2019-03-01 Thread Jonathan Dowland
dependency of the buildah tool. I would love to see that (and podman) packaged in Debian. Thanks for working towards this. -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄ Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list.

Re: Salsa CI news

2019-02-25 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 11:19:35AM -0300, Inaki Malerba wrote: On behalf of the Salsa CI Team I'm pleased to announce some of the changes we've been working on this weekend. We don't have an official mailing list, so please excuse us if this is not the place for this kind of announcements.

Accepted wadc 3.0-1 (source all) into unstable

2019-02-21 Thread Jonathan Dowland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2019 11:53:18 + Source: wadc Binary: wadc Architecture: source all Version: 3.0-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Jonathan Dowland Changed-By: Jonathan Dowland Description: wadc

Re: Recreating history of a package

2019-02-07 Thread Jonathan Dowland
uot; https://packages.debian.org/sid/dgit -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄ Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list.

Re: package management symlink

2019-02-04 Thread Jonathan Dowland
), and the package managers are a small part of all the differences between distributions. That said, if you want to pursue this, the route above is how to do it. -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄ Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list.

Re: confused about virtual build-depends libcurl-dev

2019-01-18 Thread Jonathan Dowland
process populates that path needs to please be updated. Thanks! Or alternatively: if linking to arbitrary files in [1] is to be deprecated we could change the link in the debian-policy document instead. [1] https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/ -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland

Re: introduction of x-www-browser virtual package

2019-01-11 Thread Jonathan Dowland
ithin the constraints of Debian stable release policies. That's a very sensible decision for GNOME-in-Debian. I think it would be wise of all the DEs in Debian (with possibly the notable exception of KDE) aligned accordingly. I'll take this to pkg-lxde-maintain...@alioth-lists.debian.net as the ne

Re: introduction of x-www-browser virtual package

2019-01-11 Thread Jonathan Dowland
also modifying the .desktop file to use xdg-open) -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄ Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list.

introduction of x-www-browser virtual package

2019-01-07 Thread Jonathan Dowland
-- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄ Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list.

Accepted zdbsp 1.19+20181027+dfsg.1-2 (source amd64) into unstable, unstable

2019-01-07 Thread Jonathan Dowland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Format: 1.8 Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2018 19:03:48 + Source: zdbsp Binary: zdbsp Architecture: source amd64 Version: 1.19+20181027+dfsg.1-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Jonathan Dowland Changed-By: Jonathan Dowland Description

Accepted trash-cli 0.17.1.14-2 (source) into unstable

2018-11-24 Thread Jonathan Dowland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Format: 1.8 Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2018 19:43:18 + Source: trash-cli Binary: trash-cli Architecture: source Version: 0.17.1.14-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Stefano Karapetsas Changed-By: Jonathan Dowland Description: trash

Re: usrmerge -- plan B?

2018-11-22 Thread Jonathan Dowland
this is a constructive comment. -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄ Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list.

Re: usrmerge -- plan B?

2018-11-22 Thread Jonathan Dowland
our next release but the one after. ¹ I can't remember our own code names any more. -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄ Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list.

Re: usrmerge -- plan B?

2018-11-21 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 11:31:40AM +, Jonathan Dowland wrote: I'll upgrade to 7.6 and see what happens. I've upgraded and /bin -> /usr/bin However I didn't correctly check this before so it might have already happened. -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.

Re: usrmerge -- plan B?

2018-11-21 Thread Jonathan Dowland
have a merged /usr. It was, however, running a much earlier version of 7.x originally. I can't remember which. I'll upgrade to 7.6 and see what happens. -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄ Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list.

Accepted wadc 2.2-3 (source) into unstable

2018-11-20 Thread Jonathan Dowland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Format: 1.8 Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2018 16:42:52 + Source: wadc Binary: wadc Architecture: source Version: 2.2-3 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Jonathan Dowland Changed-By: Jonathan Dowland Description: wadc - programming

Accepted glbsp 2.24-4 (source) into unstable

2018-11-20 Thread Jonathan Dowland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Format: 1.8 Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2018 16:41:41 + Source: glbsp Binary: libglbsp-dev libglbsp3 glbsp Architecture: source Version: 2.24-4 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Jonathan Dowland Changed-By: Jonathan Dowland Description

Re: Iptables on Sid

2018-11-20 Thread Jonathan Dowland
a bug, is to check whether it has already been filed. And that's what the page Ian linked to says. -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄ Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list.

Re: git vs dfsg tarballs

2018-11-20 Thread Jonathan Dowland
in upstream branches to git repos) and I imagine is common on Salsa, too. In practise we are not applying the DFSG to the content of the VCS, the wiki, or really much except the archive. -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄ Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list.

Re: Opt-in to continue as DD/DM? (was: I resigned in 2004)

2018-11-14 Thread Jonathan Dowland
I suggest the exact algorithm(s) used by <https://contributors.debian.org/>; any shortcomings there should be fixed there. -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄ Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list.

Re: salsa.debian.org: merge requests and such

2018-11-11 Thread Jonathan Dowland
their Vcs-Git pointing at salsa.../debian/*. (contrast this to the alioth arrangement, where the Maintainer: field was also set to indicate this) Therefore, the salsa "Debian" project is carrying a lot more meaning than any other salsa project, or other potential VCS URI. -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿

Re: Installer: 32 vs. 64 bit

2018-11-09 Thread Jonathan Dowland
the kernel modules and passing the course. -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄ Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list.

Re: salsa.debian.org: merge requests and such

2018-11-09 Thread Jonathan Dowland
to differ, there's a huge difference of visibility between the "main" Debian project, to which we are all members, and personal namespaces. Not least the lack of any implied rules of behaviour. -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄ Please do not CC me, I am

Re: Installer: 32 vs. 64 bit

2018-11-09 Thread Jonathan Dowland
suggestion. -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄ Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list.

Re: salsa.debian.org: merge requests and such

2018-11-07 Thread Jonathan Dowland
that the sky did not fall and perhaps there are many advantages to this arrangement. But of course, the wiki docs can be improved, including by you :-) -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄ Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list.

Re: salsa.debian.org: merge requests and such

2018-11-07 Thread Jonathan Dowland
and/or the project of your package sources in the Debian project (more eyes, bus factor…) -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄ Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list.

Re: Uncoordinated upload of the rustified librsvg

2018-11-06 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Tue, Nov 06, 2018 at 12:37:30PM +, Jonathan Dowland wrote: On Tue, Nov 06, 2018 at 11:58:57AM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Well, if it wasn't for me, we'd probably be shipping the 2.40-version of librsrv in Debian Buster and Firefox would be missing on a couple of release

Re: Uncoordinated upload of the rustified librsvg

2018-11-06 Thread Jonathan Dowland
sn't exist in Debian anymore. Debian's Dictionary is in a weird order; "Thank You" is right next to the definition of "Entitlement" -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄ Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list.

Re: Uncoordinated upload of the rustified librsvg

2018-11-06 Thread Jonathan Dowland
to bring -devel into this. All it does it cost the rest of us a small amount of effort to bother looking it up. Instead I think it would be both more polite and more effective to name them directly, AND ensure to CC them on the mail discussing them. -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https

Re: Confusing our users - who is supporting LTS?

2018-11-03 Thread Jonathan Dowland
objection, I think the former category of company is what's important. -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄ Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list.

Re: Bug#912745: ITP: libregexp-wildcards-perl -- converts wildcard expressions to Perl regular expressions

2018-11-03 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Sat, Nov 03, 2018 at 04:25:15PM +0100, Christoph Biedl wrote: s/joker/wildcard/ ? Not sure here. Seems in English "joker" is unusual to describe a wildcard, unlike other languages. If some native English speaker could comment? In English, in the context of a deck of cards, Joker and

Re: Confusing our users - who is supporting LTS?

2018-11-02 Thread Jonathan Dowland
the hypothetical competing company would be too bashful to ask us to update the website. And we could pre-empt the situation by making a clear statement as to the project's position on listing Freexian (essentially codifying what I'm writing here, somewhere) -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland

Re: no{thing} build profiles

2018-10-26 Thread Jonathan Dowland
n as default). I should get on and do it. -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄ Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list.

Re: no{thing} build profiles

2018-10-26 Thread Jonathan Dowland
policy, and helping to explain the perspective of outsiders looking at our policies and coming to different conclusions to the old-timers. It's valid, we just need to follow through in the right place (-policy or in a bug) and fix policy wording. -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https

Re: Confusing our users - who is supporting LTS?

2018-10-26 Thread Jonathan Dowland
on Debian. -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄ Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list.

Re: Mass bugfiling potential: bundled implementation of md5

2018-10-25 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Thu, Oct 25, 2018 at 09:32:57AM +, Holger Levsen wrote: I dont think delaying fixes is a the best solution. Especially since that's prioritising backports (support: maintainer best-effort, as-is basis, use with care) over our main release (full support) -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan

Re: no{thing} build profiles

2018-10-24 Thread Jonathan Dowland
; but I'm not motivated to spend more time investigating. Someone more troubled than I by this should both do that & file the relevant bugs. -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄ Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list.

Accepted trash-cli 0.17.1.14-1 (source) into unstable

2018-10-24 Thread Jonathan Dowland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Format: 1.8 Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2018 15:17:07 +0100 Source: trash-cli Binary: trash-cli Architecture: source Version: 0.17.1.14-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Stefano Karapetsas Changed-By: Jonathan Dowland Description: trash

Re: no{thing} build profiles

2018-10-24 Thread Jonathan Dowland
actly this package to get this feature to work" -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄ Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list.

Re: no{thing} build profiles

2018-10-24 Thread Jonathan Dowland
There's room for improvement there. mutt (1.9.2-1) is worse Error: verification failed: Unsupported protocol both with the default configurations. -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄ Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list.

Re: no{thing} build profiles

2018-10-23 Thread Jonathan Dowland
/Muttrc files too. -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄ Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list.

Re: no{thing} build profiles

2018-10-23 Thread Jonathan Dowland
case basis. -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄ Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list.

Re: tinysshd dependency on systemd

2018-10-22 Thread Jonathan Dowland
ntrol file) -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄ Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list.

Re: no{thing} build profiles

2018-10-22 Thread Jonathan Dowland
be installed on a different machine to a MarieDB server. , or how libxt6 does /not/ depend on an X server package, and so on, and so forth.) Same idea: separation of client and server. The same is not true for libgpgme11. -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄ Please do

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-18 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 09:09:38AM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: Thanks for passing that along: I'm using it with Exim and haven't noticed this particular problem, but it's useful to know it could happen. Ah, because I have User=nobody, and so the systemd sub-process can't reap the privileged

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-18 Thread Jonathan Dowland
problem, but it's useful to know it could happen. -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄ Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list.

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-18 Thread Jonathan Dowland
abit, because I have a lot of useful information in my journal. -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄ Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list.

Re: You are not seriously considering dropping the support of sysVinit?!

2018-10-17 Thread Jonathan Dowland
when stuff leaks through my killfile via quotes in your (or other people's) mails. -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄ Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list.

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-16 Thread Jonathan Dowland
ect, and I don't condone it. -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄ Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list.

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-16 Thread Jonathan Dowland
is to get a good spam filter. It's effectively a solved problem these days. Hiding addresses makes legitimate use of mail harder. Why let spammers make our lives harder? -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄ Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list.

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