Re: removal instead of orphaning?

2016-09-18 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi Manuel, On 09/17/16 20:53, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote: >> On Sun, Aug 28, 2016 at 10:13:44AM +0100, Manuel A. Fernandez >> Montecelo wrote: >>> I think that one measure to improve the current situation is that, for >>> the people doing NMUs, to orphan the package when the number of NMU

Re: removal instead of orphaning?

2016-09-18 Thread Marc Haber
On Sun, 18 Sep 2016 10:10:14 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: >With the BTS version tracking feature, acking NMUs is no longer needed >as the BTS tracks changelog heritage IIRC, so I'd not mention that in >the description. So when I do the first upload after an NMU all bugs that the BTS has as "fixed in N

Re: removal instead of orphaning?

2016-09-18 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Sun, 2016-09-18 at 11:45 +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > On Sun, 18 Sep 2016 10:10:14 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > >With the BTS version tracking feature, acking NMUs is no longer needed > >as the BTS tracks changelog heritage IIRC, so I'd not mention that in > >the description. > > So when I do the f

Re: Debian does not have customers, but users

2016-09-18 Thread Abou Al Montacir
On Sat, 2016-09-17 at 13:11 +0200, W. Martin Borgert wrote: > On 2016-09-16 21:26, Nicholas D Steeves wrote: > > What about the term client? ;-) > > What about the term "users"? > > (We use the word already in our social contract > and IMHO it serves us well.) I see that most people are intereste

Re: PIE and static libraries

2016-09-18 Thread Florian Weimer
* Jiri Jaburek: > On 09/12/16 13:42, Jakub Wilk wrote: >> * Bálint Réczey , 2016-09-12, 13:21: Reading up on the subject so far, I got the impression that most static libraries should be built with PIE, but not necessarily PIC (to allow building PIE(xecutable)s, but discourage creat

Re: removal instead of orphaning?

2016-09-18 Thread Stephen Kitt
On Sun, 18 Sep 2016 11:28:55 +0100, "Adam D. Barratt" wrote: > On Sun, 2016-09-18 at 11:45 +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > > So when I do the first upload after an NMU all bugs that the BTS has > > as "fixed in NMU" get changed to "closed"? > > "Fixed in NMU" has not been a distinct state for severa

Re: Debian does not have customers, but users

2016-09-18 Thread Santiago Vila
On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 02:00:26PM +0200, Abou Al Montacir wrote: > you will end being a community of geeks developing SW for themselves only. Debian is a volunteer project made by its users. So we are already a community developing SW for ourselves, the users, and there is nothing wrong with th

Re: Debian does not have customers, but users

2016-09-18 Thread The Wanderer
On 2016-09-18 at 08:40, Santiago Vila wrote: > On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 02:00:26PM +0200, Abou Al Montacir wrote: > >> you will end being a community of geeks developing SW for >> themselves only. > > Debian is a volunteer project made by its users. > > So we are already a community developing S

Re: New project goal: Get rid of Berkeley DB (post jessie)

2016-09-18 Thread Florian Weimer
* Adrien CLERC: > Le 19/06/2014 11:38, Ondřej Surý a écrit : >> List of affected maintainers follows: >> >> Loic Minier >>evolution-data-server (U) >>rpm (U) > I am just a simple user of rpm. Yes, I use rpm for inspecting, > debugging, and so on. I don't use it for managing packages on m

Re: Debian does not have customers, but users

2016-09-18 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting The Wanderer (2016-09-18 15:02:25) > On 2016-09-18 at 08:40, Santiago Vila wrote: > > > On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 02:00:26PM +0200, Abou Al Montacir wrote: > > > >> you will end being a community of geeks developing SW for > >> themselves only. > > > > Debian is a volunteer project made b

Re: removal instead of orphaning?

2016-09-18 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2016-09-18 at 14:30 +0200, Stephen Kitt wrote: > On Sun, 18 Sep 2016 11:28:55 +0100, "Adam D. Barratt" > > wrote: > > > > On Sun, 2016-09-18 at 11:45 +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > > > > > > So when I do the first upload after an NMU all bugs that the BTS has > > > as "fixed in NMU" get chan

Re: Mass bug filing: use and misuse of dbus-launch (dbus-x11)

2016-09-18 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi from im-config maintainer. > Osamu Aoki >im-config On Sun, Aug 28, 2016 at 02:59:13PM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: > I'm about to do a mass-bug-filing against packages that mention > dbus-x11 in their dependencies, or dbus-launch in their code, asking > maintainers to adjust their depende

Bug#829076: general: Random freezes but the mouse can still move

2016-09-18 Thread Abou Al Montacir
Hi John, On Thu, 30 Jun 2016 11:37:24 +0200 John wrote: > Package: general > Severity: grave > Justification: causes non-serious data loss > > I'm running the current 64-bit Debian with the Cinnamon desktop and have been experiencing 'freezes' for about  > a month now. The mouse still moves arou

Re: removal instead of orphaning?

2016-09-18 Thread Santiago Vila
On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 02:25:13PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > That depends on what you mean by 'after'.  If you mean 'with a greater > version', then the answer is no.  The BTS parses changelogs to > determine whether a version currently in the archive is derived from a > version where the bug

Re: removal instead of orphaning?

2016-09-18 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Sun, 2016-09-18 at 16:01 +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: > On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 02:25:13PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > That depends on what you mean by 'after'. If you mean 'with a greater > > version', then the answer is no. The BTS parses changelogs to > > determine whether a version c

Re: removal instead of orphaning?

2016-09-18 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Sun, 2016-09-18 at 14:30 +0200, Stephen Kitt wrote: > On Sun, 18 Sep 2016 11:28:55 +0100, "Adam D. Barratt" > wrote: > > If your next maintainer upload includes the changelog stanza for the NMU > > in its changelog then the BTS will automatically know that your upload > > includes those fixes,

Bug#838211: general: black screen after suspending

2016-09-18 Thread Maicon Rosa da Cunha
Package: general Severity: important Dear Maintainer, Thanks and good work. I suspend my laptop to not miss work of the college, so, I just call him later and continue my work, it was expected. Sometimes, he turns on the screen, but, black screen, doesn't respond, and I have to restart it by for

I'm searching for a developper

2016-09-18 Thread MENGUAL Jean-Philippe
Hi, We are searching for a developper who is able to fix problems in existing apps. Used languages are C++, C, and Python, for apps such as Pulseaudio, MATE, Mozilla suite. Our purpose is to be helped, of course paying for someone, to improve global GNU/Linux accessibility, through a universal app

Bug#838211: general: black screen after suspending

2016-09-18 Thread Rafael Pandini
Hello Maicon, Based on your locale variable I think that you can explain your problem in portuguese, that won't be a problem to me. Can you provide some logs to help ? And some hardware details ? On Sep 18, 2016 11:51, "Maicon Rosa da Cunha" wrote: > Package: general > Severity: important > >

Re: Debian does not have customers, but users

2016-09-18 Thread Jeremy Stanley
On 2016-09-18 09:02:25 -0400 (-0400), The Wanderer wrote: [...] > There are many, many people who are users of Debian who do not > contribute to the development of Debian, except possibly by way of > filing bug reports. > > As such, "people making Debian" is at most a subset of "users of > Debian"

Re: Debian does not have customers, but users

2016-09-18 Thread Santiago Vila
On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 04:49:54PM +, Jeremy Stanley wrote: > On 2016-09-18 09:02:25 -0400 (-0400), The Wanderer wrote: > [...] > > There are many, many people who are users of Debian who do not > > contribute to the development of Debian, except possibly by way of > > filing bug reports. > >

Re: Network access during build

2016-09-18 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Wed, Sep 07, 2016 at 09:26:37AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >... > Full disclosure: several of my packages in the archive have similar tests. > Those tests are part of the upstream test suite for the getaddrinfo and > getnameinfo replacement functions for OSes that are too old to have them. > The

Bug#838226: ITP: bucklespring -- Nostalgia bucklespring keyboard sound

2016-09-18 Thread Dominik George
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Dominik George -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 * Package name: bucklespring Version : 1.3.6 Upstream Author : Ico Doornekamp * URL : https://github.com/zevv/bucklespring * License : GPL-2 Programming La

Re: Network access during build

2016-09-18 Thread Adam Borowski
On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 08:07:14PM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote: > The only controversial cases seem to be tests, and these can run > optionally after the packages have been built. > > Has anyone already thought of moving such tests into a separate optional > step after the build is completed? > > W

Re: removal instead of orphaning?

2016-09-18 Thread Stephen Kitt
On Sun, 18 Sep 2016 15:39:38 +0100, "Adam D. Barratt" wrote: [...] > In order to determine whether a particular upload is "descended" from > any other previous upload, the information used by the BTS is generated > by parsing changelogs and building a tree of uploads, with each stanza > being cons

Bug#838240: ITP: python-dicttoxml -- Python module for converting dict into a XML string

2016-09-18 Thread Marcos
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Marcos * Package name: python-dicttoxml Version : 1.7.4 Upstream Author : Ryan McGreal * URL : https://pypi.python.org/pypi/dicttoxml/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: Python Description : Python module for conve

Bug#838241: ITP: python-olefile -- Improved version of the OleFileIO module from PIL

2016-09-18 Thread Marcos
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Marcos * Package name: python-olefile Version : 0.43 Upstream Author : Philippe Lagadec * URL : http://www.decalage.info/python/olefileio * License : BSD Programming Lang: Python Description : Improved version of

Bug#838245: ITP: java-string-similarity -- A library implementing different string similarity and distance measures.

2016-09-18 Thread tony mancill
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: tony mancill * Package name: java-string-similarity Version : 0.18 Upstream Author : Thibault Debatty * URL : https://github.com/tdebatty/java-string-similarity * License : MIT Programming Lang: Java Description

Re: Network access during build

2016-09-18 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 1:07 AM, Adrian Bunk wrote: > The only controversial cases seem to be tests, and these can run > optionally after the packages have been built. > > Has anyone already thought of moving such tests into a separate optional > step after the build is completed? IIRC DEP-8 has

Bug#838257: ITP: golang-github-go-stack-stack -- capture, manipulate, and format call stacks

2016-09-18 Thread Alessio Treglia
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alessio Treglia * Package name: golang-github-go-stack-stack Version : 1.5.2 Upstream Author : Chris Hines * URL : http://github.com/go-stack/stack/ * License : Apache-2.0 Programming Lang: Go Description : captur