Re: lpr/lpd

2023-09-24 Thread Thorsten Alteholz
Thanks to all of you for your insights and experiences. So I guess those lpr/lpd packages should stay within Debian and should be maintained by the debian-printing team. Thorsten

lpr/lpd

2023-09-17 Thread Thorsten Alteholz
Hi everybody, as you might have heard during the Debconf talk of Till, cups3 and CPDB (Common Printing Dialog Backends) are waiting at the gates. Maybe this is a good opportunity to get rid of some old legacy stuff. Is there anybody or do you know anybody who is using the old BSD lpr/lpd stuff

Re: SONAME bumps (transitions) always via experimental

2023-01-06 Thread Thorsten Alteholz
On Thu, 5 Jan 2023, Simon McVittie wrote: 3. experimental packages appear in red on https://ftp-master.debian.org/new.html, which makes me wonder whether that reflects those packages being de-prioritized, but perhaps I'm reading too much into that? Yes, you do. T

Re: What can Debian do to provide complex applications to its users?

2018-02-17 Thread Thorsten Alteholz
Hi Sean, On Sat, 17 Feb 2018, Sean Whitton wrote: I was making a more specific claim -- we don't and will never have the manpower to provide security support for multiple different versions of hundreds of little JavaScript libraries. please have a look at for example CVE-2017-18077 [1] in the

Re: pasting license text into debian/copyright

2017-09-16 Thread Thorsten Alteholz
On Sat, 16 Sep 2017, Bastien Roucaries wrote: Will implement a lintian tag that will output statistics about not common license. It will help to add common license yeah, that would be great. Thorsten

Re: pasting license text into debian/copyright

2017-09-16 Thread Thorsten Alteholz
Hi Jonas, On Sat, 16 Sep 2017, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: Not quite sure what you suggest. It looks like you suggest to duplicate the work of SPDX - see e.g. https://github.com/spdx/license-list no, it is much simpler. I just wanted to offer the license text in a format that is immediately usa

pasting license text into debian/copyright

2017-09-16 Thread Thorsten Alteholz
Hi everybody, manually working on debian/copyright can be nasty from time to time. Would extending a service like: curl http://licapi.debian.net/template curl http://licapi.debian.net/template/lgpl3 with all those licenses not in /usr/share/common-licenses be of any help? Thorsten

Re: Thanks to ftpmasters for being so responsive

2016-12-27 Thread Thorsten Alteholz
Hi Thomas and Ian, thanks a lot for your kind words. On Mon, 26 Dec 2016, Thomas Goirand wrote: However, after the deep freeze, we saw the queue getting bigger and bigger. The graph for Jessie shows up to 600+ packages in the queue. For good reasons the Release Team does not want to have pac

Re: copyright precision

2016-08-09 Thread Thorsten Alteholz
On Tue, 9 Aug 2016, Helmut Grohne wrote: Dropping most of the Cc list as we move to general handling of similar issues. On Tue, Aug 09, 2016 at 01:30:39PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: ISTM that in situations where Built-Using is arguably relevant, there is also often a requirement to make sure

Re: Reintroducing FFmpeg to Debian

2014-08-06 Thread Thorsten Alteholz
On Tue, 5 Aug 2014, Michael Gilbert wrote: The problem is an undermanned ftpmaster team [0], so help there is I have to object here. If I read something like: please reject YYY forgot to add the full MPL 2.0 text.. I wonder why this hadn't been checked before the upload. If all maintaine

Re: On building everything from source.

2013-12-27 Thread Thorsten Alteholz
Hi Raphael, On Fri, 27 Dec 2013, Raphael Hertzog wrote: What's unpredictable is that your package might be refused not for the addition of the NEW binary but for because debian/copyright is not good enough for current standards of the ftpmasters while it was ok at the time it got accepted the fi

Re: Bits from Debian Med team

2012-04-04 Thread Thorsten Alteholz
Hi David, On Tue, 3 Apr 2012, David Prévot wrote: [1a] http://debian-med.alteholz.de/advent/ Thanks for your initiative, but I don't really feel comfortable with the way you baptized it. Would it be possible to avoid religious-based naming scheme? in my opinion this Advent Calendar has rath