Re: How to create a custom Debian ISO

2024-05-17 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, 2024-05-11 at 08:21 +, Aditya Garg wrote: > 1. I want to add a custom kernel that supports my Hardware. > 2. I want to add my own Apt repo which hosts various software > packages to support my hardware. Please consider adding that hardware support to the mainline Linux kernel and to

Re: List of libraries not ported to RISC-V

2024-02-26 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, 2024-02-26 at 17:59 +0500, Moiz Hussain wrote: > I'm interested in porting python libraries to RISC-V. Is there a list > of python libs that need to be ported to RISC-V but haven't been > ported yet? Thanks. Take a look at the build/test links on the port wiki page:

Re: List of libraries not ported to RISC-V

2024-02-26 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, 2024-02-26 at 16:13 +, Colin Watson wrote: > This doesn't tell you whether previous versions of the same packages > worked, though; some of those are going to be failures across multiple > architectures rather than just on riscv64, and you have to click through > to find more

Re: debian image questions

2023-08-06 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, 2023-08-03 at 08:41 +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > What is the "modern" way to install an operating system on hardware There are some potentially more modern future options: Plug in the device to a USB port, visit the installer web page, click the button to install the OS, done. This can be

Re: Debian versions

2023-08-01 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, 2023-08-01 at 13:50 -0600, Alan Serrano Peña wrote: > Is there a commercial version of Debian? > Any version with technical support? The Debian project provides the Debian operating system for free and provides technical support for free by volunteers. In addition, there are a number of

Re: package sury.org and php

2023-04-23 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, 2023-04-23 at 10:27 +0200, hassan driss wrote: > We have a number of questions concerning the maintenance and evolution > of php under the debian operating system and particularly debian 11. The > version of php which seems to be maintained under debian 11 is the > version 7.4.3.

Re: dymo drivers

2023-03-10 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, 2023-03-09 at 07:46 -0500, Jeremiah wrote: > How soon will there be a dymo labelwriter 5xl series driver available I suggest that you ask the Debian printing team about this: https://lists.debian.org/debian-printing/ https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Printing Debian's support for Dymo

Re: Brief update about software freedom and artificial intelligence

2023-02-27 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, 2023-02-27 at 01:45 +0100, Roberto A. Foglietta wrote: > Because the principle of the copyright existence is about protecting > the authors' exclusive of that {business, commercial, marketing} > rights. The purpose of copyright is allegedly (in the USA) "To promote the Progress of

Re: Brief update about software freedom and artificial intelligence

2023-02-26 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, 2023-02-24 at 11:37 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > As a general principle, as a free software advocate, I approve of an > expansive definition of fair use and believe that far more uses of > copyrighted material should be fair use than are normally considered fair > use today.  Expansive

Re: thanks.debian.net

2023-02-17 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, 2023-02-18 at 13:45 +1100, Stuart Prescott wrote: > Thomas Hochstein wrote: > > says > > > Last Modified: Sat, May 26 00:37:36 UTC 2012 ... > Is this listing of debian.net domains something that is useful to > keep published and have the

Re: New Contributor Interested in Joining the Debian Project

2023-01-13 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, 2023-01-13 at 11:16 +0530, Rupesh Dubey wrote: > I hope this email finds you well. My name is Rupesh and I am new to > the open source community. I am currently learning Python and I am > excited to start contributing to open source projects. Welcome to the community! > I came across

Re: disabling boot time automatic rootfs resize

2022-12-14 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, 2022-12-14 at 10:17 +0200, Johnny de Villiers wrote: > Thank you for the response... have attempted the dummy partition > method previously and the system would reach the listing of connected > devices and basically hang there forever. Found a work around however > it involves shuffling

Re: disabling boot time automatic rootfs resize

2022-12-13 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, 2022-12-13 at 12:06 +0200, Johnny de Villiers wrote: > Have been trying to disable the root boot time automatic rootfs > resize for devices running arm such as the RPi, Odroid, RockPi etc... > with little to no success. Normal Debian installs do not alter the rootfs size after

Re: update SystemDowngrade wiki page

2022-11-19 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, 2022-11-19 at 19:18 +0300, Alexey Kuznetsov wrote: > I want to suggest a change to the wiki page mentioned above. Feel free to register an account and add the content, it seems to fit with the page just fine. PS: in case you want to package the tools you mentioned:

Re: Question about contributing to debian financially.

2022-11-16 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, 2022-11-16 at 08:35 -0500, Zeke Williams wrote: > I have an additional question for if I were to hire someone personally > to maintain certain debian packages. What happens with the security > team if a package has no maintainer and a security vulnerability is > found? Does the security

Re: Question about contributing to debian financially.

2022-11-15 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, 2022-11-15 at 12:22 -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > Debian is defined –and proud– to be a volunteer-based project, > that is, we don't hire and have never hired people to do our work, > technical or otherwise. The only exception thus far has been Outreachy internships. > If you donate funds

Re: Apt feature request / suggestion

2022-10-06 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, 2022-10-06 at 10:54 -0700, xaq xaq wrote: > Hi, how do I submit a suggestion to the Apt team? I've tried to > register on their website (https://salsa.debian.org/apt-team/apt). You can report a bug via the Debian BTS: https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting > - Have an option to ignore

Re: Are users of Debian software members of the Debian community?

2022-09-16 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, 2022-09-16 at 10:13 -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > Most people running interactive VMs (e.g., on a desktop with a > graphical console) aren't using Xen, they're using kvm or virtualbox > or just about anything else. While the number is probably less, some people (including Debian

Re: Fwd: Are users of Debian software members of the Debian community?

2022-09-16 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, 2022-09-16 at 20:58 +0200, Steffen Moeller wrote: > > Am 16.09.2022 um 15:36 schrieb Andrey Rahmatullin: > > On Fri, Sep 16, 2022 at 08:56:12AM -0400, Chuck Zmudzinski wrote: > > > > Russ does have point though in that if you don't like something in > > > > Debian, there are really only

Re: Debian on ia64 / HP Itanium servers

2022-09-16 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, 2022-09-16 at 22:41 +0200, Étienne Mollier wrote: > To the best of my knowledge, there is still a port alive of > Debian for ia64 architecture[1,2], but support is not official > in the sense of a "Release architecture"[3,4] for contemporary > Debian version 11 bullseye. Due to the

Re: How do you manage debian mails on your mailbox?

2022-08-28 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, 2022-08-28 at 11:07 +0530, Nilesh Patra wrote: > - - Do you have any sensible way to cope up with so many mails from > different mailing lists and not potentially miss out on something > important? I don't know that what I do is sensible, but am moving towards a model where I subscribe

Re: question with the Debian Project

2022-07-29 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, 2022-07-29 at 17:13 +0800, 桑猛 wrote: >  Hello debian,I am a user of debian system and belong to the company > Loongson Zhongke. We have our own loongarch architecture. Please check out our documentation on how to create new Debian ports, it has the steps you will need to get LoongArch

Re: Getting a new package onto Debian

2022-07-21 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, 2022-07-21 at 12:13 -0700, Mia wrote: > Which list should I contact to try to get a new package onto the > official Debian repositories? Please review these pages: https://mentors.debian.net/intro-maintainers/ https://www.debian.org/intro/help#coding -- bye, pabs

Re: OS

2022-06-25 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, 2022-06-25 at 19:45 +, SHIN LING wrote: > I can't get pass the debian login screen. Please ask for help using Debian on our support channels: https://www.debian.org/support -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed

Re: Can the Debian Project ever fall?

2022-06-06 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, 2022-06-06 at 09:37 -0500, Shayan Akbar wrote: > As someone who depends on the Debian project a lot in my daily life, > I cannot seem to let this idea go... Can the linux project fall? The Linux kernel project has been around since 1991 and is supported by a large number of companies and

Re: We need to define a path for Debian to climate neutrality

2022-04-20 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, 2022-04-08 at 20:35 +0200, Julian Andres Klode wrote: > Budget: We need to determine our current CO2 emissions as a project, > and then define a roadmap to carbon neutrality by an acceptable date, I would be wary of the legitimacy and effectiveness of carbon offset products. In Australia

Re: several questions /Debian Source Code build 11.3/related to Unrestricted Encryption Source Code Notification Commodity

2022-04-14 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, 2022-04-13 at 14:14 +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > The review by the NSA went long ago. Debian has treated the code as being > exportable worldwide but has not normally accepted new official mirrors in > countries subject to US sanctions like Iran, Syria or Cuba. There has been an

Re: Rethink about who we (Debian) are in rapid dev cycle of deep learning

2022-01-15 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, 2022-01-12 at 19:00 -0500, M. Zhou wrote: > I've had some discussions with several fellow developers on suggesting Debian > to buy some GPUs to extend its infrastructures for better GPU support. Was there a plan for what to use these GPUs for? Were they needed for driver/other package

Re: Debian Roadmap 2030

2021-11-15 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, 2021-11-14 at 16:09 -0800, Felix Lechner wrote: > Three folks on -vote recently responded to a GR proposal that we—as a > group—have more important things to do, yet no one articulated what > those things were. With this message, I hope to collect your ideas. In case people aren't aware

Re: Debian python package bytecode compatibility

2021-09-29 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Sep 29, 2021 at 8:25 AM Bastian Blank wrote: > All Python source is compiled into bytecode during installation. Scripts in the bin/ directories are not compiled into bytecode, and there are a number of packages that do not compile .py files into bytecode:

Re: Inquiry regarding libncurses5 license information /#266603

2021-09-15 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, 2021-09-15 at 18:52 +0900, 赤星香菜【株式会社Cygames】 wrote: > Sorry and thanks for letting me know about support channel > information page, > and also thanks for the License information, > I'd missed checking Copyright section in the right panel. > > Thanks again for your support, > have a

Re: Inquiry regarding libncurses5 license information /#266603

2021-09-14 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Sep 15, 2021 at 3:08 AM 赤星香菜【株式会社Cygames】wrote: > Hi support, This isn't a Debian user support channel, see here: https://www.debian.org/support > Here is my inquiry regarding your libncurses5 package: > https://packages.debian.org/ja/stretch/libncurses5 > > By what license is this

Re: Bug#273323: doc-debian: please ship typesettable version of social contract and dfsg documents

2021-09-08 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Sep 8, 2021 at 1:11 PM Diederik de Haas wrote: > But then the question becomes: what is the authoritative version? The other copies of it (in doc-debian and the doc directory of the Debian apt archive) are all copied/built from the version on the website.

Re: Broken Mouse

2021-08-29 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Aug 29, 2021 at 7:35 PM MichaelHoots wrote: > It seems the mouse in the latest version of Debian simply doesn't work. I > tried it in a VM and it worked great. Upon trying to install from live USB, > the mouse simply doesn't move. This was the case for both net install and > offline

Re: I need your consultation

2021-08-06 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Aug 6, 2021 at 2:12 AM Информационное антифашистское сопротивление "Красная Пенза" группы "Красный саботаж" wrote: > Is it possible to get a job in the Debian community, I am a system > administrator. I use Debian-based distributions for many years. I can > not work not only by the system

Re: Working for Linux/Debian

2021-08-04 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Aug 4, 2021 at 3:28 PM Zayd Ahmed wrote: > I hope that you are doing well. My name is Zayd. I am currently in the midst > of a career change. A couple of years ago, I discovered Linux and realize > that I have a passion for it. I have already completed my Bachelors degree. I > recently

Re: Debian for flash usb, external hdd or ssd

2021-06-25 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Jun 25, 2021 at 9:49 PM caio santos da silva wrote: > My is Caio and I have a little idea for Debian system. My idea to you is the > creation of a system exclusive for Flash USB, external HDD or SSD. Already > exist the GNU/Linux Slax, such system able to install directly in a Flash >

Re: Debian for HP 15s-eq0 (/15.6"/1920x1080) (/15.6"/1920x1080)000ur (AMD Athlon 300U 2400MHz/15.6"/1920x1080/4GB/128GB SSD/AMD Radeon Vega 3/DOS)

2021-05-30 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, May 30, 2021 at 10:36 AM Gadsden Flag wrote: > I got casual distributive debian 10, but it did not work Please ask for help on the Debian support channels: https://www.debian.org/support -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise

Re: Download Options

2021-04-25 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Apr 25, 2021 at 2:08 PM Damian wrote: > It wouldn't be a bad idea to add a direct torrent download link on the main > page under the normal download link. I think the Debian website team has aimed for simplicity with their new design, which means downloading one file directly using the

Re: "gr_rms" worked with mutt+gpg+ssh+sendmail (Evolution is difficult)

2021-04-16 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Apr 16, 2021 at 12:48 PM Osamu Aoki wrote: > Evolution PGP sign seems fragile and it doesn't work I signed my vote using Evolution's OpenPGP support and it worked fine for me. > (Maybe I should have used S/MIME sign) Debian doesn't use S/MIME signing in any context. -- bye, pabs

Re: Questions about the Debian Project

2021-03-09 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Mar 9, 2021 at 1:43 PM David wrote: > Hi, my name is David and I'm a 17 years old student from Austria. Welcome! Please keep Debian in mind if you decide to join the Google Summer of Code program when you reach university. GSoC is the main paid internship program for Free Software and

Re: [External] Re: Debian and fingerprint readers

2021-03-07 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Mar 7, 2021 at 9:52 AM wrote: > Surely there is some "canonical" way of dealing with "oh, this shiny > piece of hardware has just appeared; what do you want to do with > it?". The isenkram package is meant to do this, it relies on the packages containing hardware support announcing this

Re: [External] Re: Debian and fingerprint readers

2021-03-06 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Mar 6, 2021 at 4:29 PM Wouter Verhelst wrote: > If it is instead installed by hardware detection (through > https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/hw-detect), I think that the isenkram package is meant to replace this, it relies on the packages containing hardware support announcing

Re: Debian and fingerprint readers

2021-02-24 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 9:12 PM Mark Pearson wrote: > Is there any interest, as fingerprint reader functionality is now > improving so much on Linux, to have these packages installed by default? Biometrics are almost always used incorrectly and often insecure or easily hackable, it would be

Re: Re: [Try] Informing point release *before* its release via SNS (Re: Upcoming stable point release (10.7))

2020-12-13 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Dec 14, 2020 at 1:35 AM Hideki Yamane wrote: > Thanks, that's really good but not enough to reach to our users, IMHO, > so I said "via SNS". I'm not sure what you mean by SNS, but "Social Networking Service" seems the most appropriate option: https://www.allacronyms.com/SNS I think

Re: Question about repositories

2020-10-23 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Oct 23, 2020 at 1:29 PM negin jafari wrote: > I am a university Student trying to learn a lot of things about Debian. As a university student, you might be interested in participating in Debian through the Google Summer of Code or Outreachy paid mentorship programs.

Re: Documentation for Debian gnu/Hurd

2020-10-18 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Oct 18, 2020 at 6:07 PM NotPexel wrote: > Hello! I would like to toy around with and write documentation for Debian > gnu/Hurd and have not found an official wiki where I can write docs. The best option is probably to contribute to the upstream GNU/Hurd documentation first:

Re: Fwd: protontypes wants to support the Debian Project with LibreSelery

2020-10-12 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Oct 12, 2020 at 9:31 PM Tobias Augspurger wrote: > 5. After the split is done, we distribute the money to the email address via > the Coinbase API. You can define a custom note that will be attached to the > Coinbase email. If the user does not have a Coinbase account to that email >

Re: Ynt: Raspberry Pi - Default Language

2020-09-15 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, 2020-09-15 at 06:12 +, onurcan köken wrote: > Before mailing to you I've mailed to Raspberry Pi about the > situation. > > Here is their answer, > "The decision to offer Kurdish as a language option for Turkey is > made by the maintainers of Debian. If you are unhappy about this, >

Re: Raspberry Pi - Default Language

2020-09-14 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 9:10 PM onurcan köken wrote: > My name is Onurcan, from Turkey. I would like to know why "Kurdish" is a > default language when I select the region as "Turkey"? Our official language > is not "Kurdish", it is "Turkish". Kurdish is the second most-widely spoken >

Re: Keysigning in times of COVID-19

2020-08-13 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Aug 12, 2020 at 3:27 PM Pierre-Elliott Bécue wrote: > I'd rather try to solve the issue in a more sensible way : lower the > number of expected GPG signatures to 0 temporarily, and ask for two or > three advocacies from DDs. This seems like the most natural solution to the problem of

Re: Using Debian OS to bundle and sell our product

2020-07-21 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 1:37 PM Héctor Orón Martínez wrote: > > I'm Kamalakannan from Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd. We build cloud > > apps and we have a plan to bundle our application in a laptop with debian > > OS and sell it to custmers with our product bundle over debian OS. > > We want

Re: [External] Re: ThinkPad laptops preinstalled Linux

2020-06-12 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Jun 12, 2020 at 9:47 PM Mark Pearson wrote: > I have some ideas but is there a 'wishlist' or guidance on which > platforms are the most popular? Either Lenovo specifics (makes my life > easier) or general "it should have at least ". Assume you are talking about hardware platforms

Re: FW: [External] Re: ThinkPad laptops preinstalled Linux

2020-06-05 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Jun 5, 2020 at 7:46 PM Philip Hands wrote: > Of course, Grml isn't a direct output of the Debian project, so perhaps > people might take issue with having that as the "Debian Recovery > Option", but it is closely based on Debian, and includes a couple of > ways of installing vanilla

Re: [External] Re: ThinkPad laptops preinstalled Linux

2020-06-05 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Jun 5, 2020 at 1:20 PM Mark Pearson wrote: > I haven't so far got as far as thinking about the backporting stage so I > probably need more education there. My goal so far has been to get fixes > from upstream into sid so that Debian users can pick them up from there. It sounds like you

Re: Debian hardware support and enablement for newer devices (was ThinkPad laptops preinstalled Linux)

2020-06-03 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Jun 3, 2020 at 10:03 PM Hector Oron wrote: > There are more companies expecting better hardware support, this issue > is not limited to Lenovo, they are willing to pay consultancy time > and/or sponsor Debian events, however on volunteer premises, it has > been really hard to provide

Re: [External] Re: ThinkPad laptops preinstalled Linux

2020-06-03 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Jun 3, 2020 at 7:51 PM Vincent Bernat wrote: > Then, we need the SOF firmwares, currently not in Debian. I see > you have #960788. I just got aware of it through #962134. I am happy to > help you on this package and get it uploaded. Unfortunately SOF firmware, while it has freely

Re: Debian infra services and tools looking for programming contributions

2020-05-22 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 4:28 PM Federico Ceratto wrote: > IMO a friendly interface to create, list and search for work items > would help. This is Debian's attempt at such a tool: https://wiki.debian.org/how-can-i-help -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise

Re: Debian infra services and tools looking for programming contributions

2020-05-21 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 7:02 PM Antonio Terceiro wrote: > I'm planning a talk titled "I'm a programmer, how can I help Debian?" in > which I intend to present contribution opportunities for people who are > programmers, but are not necessarily interested in packaging. There are a number of

Re: Using apt-get after Debian installation

2020-04-13 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 7:24 PM Nathanael Skrepek wrote: > I want to offer a suggestion, because i was a little bit puzzled by the > following. Please file a report about this so the installer team can work on fixing it: https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ch05s04#submit-bug -- bye,

Re: Salsa as authentication provider for Debian

2020-04-07 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Apr 7, 2020 at 6:23 PM Bastian Blank wrote: > No, not really. The services ask the SSO service for the identity of > the user and get an attestation back. So each service needs to handle > it's own login. Hmm, the OIDC documentation I've been able to find seemed to indicate the login

Re: Salsa as authentication provider for Debian

2020-04-07 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Apr 6, 2020 at 3:58 PM Bastian Blank wrote: > ## Highlevel plan I'd like to learn a bit about what the effects for Debian account holders and service admins will be. > - Salsa becomes primary source of user info and authentication for secondary > services via OpenID Connect (OAuth2),

Re: my debian box

2020-03-12 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 2:33 AM kevenzone wrote: > I've been having trouble finding answers, or maybe I dont know how to ask. > I'm hoping you can help out. In future, please ask for help using Debian on our support channels: https://www.debian.org/support > 1. how is Debians anonymity? I

Re: The Debian Trademark Team needs Your Help

2020-03-01 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Mar 1, 2020 at 6:46 PM Jean-Philippe MENGUAL wrote: > Who is in the team so far? How to join? Is there a doc about their > activities? Some possibly useful links that might answer those questions: https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DPL/Trademark

Re: Using Debian OS on a custom commercial device

2020-02-23 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 11:31 AM Sam Hartman wrote: > License compliance is a complex field and for any mass-produced > commercial product you're going to need to retain the services of a > professional qualified in that field to succeed. Nevertheless, there are resources available to help you

Re: Lenovo X395 Support Latest Debian Version

2020-02-07 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Feb 7, 2020 at 3:39 PM Brett Lougher wrote: > To: debian-project@lists.debian.org > > I wish to install the latest Linux Debian as my main OS on my Lenovo X395 This sort of discussion is best had on Debian support channels: https://www.debian.org/support > My question is wheter or not

Re: MiniDebConf Maceió (Brazil) March 25-28, 2020

2020-01-18 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Jan 18, 2020 at 7:15 PM Paulo Henrique de Lima Santana wrote: > The brazilian community of Debian developers and users invites you to > the MiniDebConf in Maceió, Brazil. MiniDebConf will take place from > March 27th to 28th at Federal University of Alagoas, and it will be > preceded by a

Re: Understanding position of debian developer

2019-12-24 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Dec 24, 2019 at 11:09 PM John Lenin wrote: > I was just going through debian project in general and had a problem in > understanding what debian developers are. The phrase "Debian Developer" refers to a Debian member; someone who has an account in the Debian LDAP account directory with

Re: Sponsored Content for planet.debian.org

2019-12-03 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Dec 4, 2019 at 3:25 PM Wouter Verhelst wrote: > We don't do this. Its best to get spammers banned (poke #debian-lists) instead of responding. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise

Re: onion.debian.org sources.list

2019-11-18 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Nov 18, 2019 at 7:18 PM wrote: > Hi. Your team probably forgot to update onion sources.list when you > released Debian 10. It is still set to Debian 9. Please find-and-replace > "stretch" to "buster" at bottom of onion.debian.org. Updated, thanks for the notice. -- bye, pabs

Re: BSP Reimbursements

2019-10-06 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Oct 5, 2019 at 4:52 PM Elena ``of Valhalla'' Grandi wrote: > I'm also not sure that this kind of event is still considered a good > idea from a Debian-wide perspective, so maybe they wouldn't qualify > anymore anyway, and this is all moot. While I never attended them due to not being in

Re: Using Debian funds to support a gcc development task

2019-09-29 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Sep 30, 2019 at 1:14 AM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Having said that, I'm going to unsubscribe from this list now as I realize > that what we do in Debian Ports is still not considered useful many others, > so I think it's not possible to find an agreement. To be clear, I think

Re: Using Debian funds to support a gcc development task

2019-09-28 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Sep 28, 2019 at 5:44 PM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Since Debian is also supporting projects for a good cause using their funds, Do you have any examples of this? AFAIK we don't support development nor external projects using Debian funds. The only exception I can think of is

Re: Using Debian funds to support a gcc development task

2019-09-28 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Sep 29, 2019 at 1:38 AM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > GSOC exist are the very proof that it’s perfectly normal to support one-time > development tasks through funding efforts. I think that the purpose of GSoC (and other outreach programmes) is (or should be) mainly to grow the

Re: Upstream metadata to help our users contribute back to projects we redistribute.

2019-07-29 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Jul 29, 2019 at 5:18 PM Chris Hofstaedtler wrote: > http://upstream-metadata.debian.net appears to be dead. >From the wiki: Help! there is a bug that I do not manage to solve by myself. -- Charles https://lists.debian.org/debian-qa/2014/06/msg00022.html > Is there a canonical

Re: Upstream metadata to help our users contribute back to projects we redistribute.

2019-07-25 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Jul 25, 2019 at 4:28 PM Charles Plessy wrote: > This is why some packges are shipping metadata indicating where to find > the upstream sources, send upstream bugs, or even where to dontate > money, in order to help our users contribute back to the developement > of the software that

Re: Debian supports pridemonth?

2019-06-28 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Jun 28, 2019 at 8:10 PM Marc Haber wrote: > Can we probably find consensus abut having one "Free Software Month" in > the year? I think it would be great to co-ordinate a "Free Software Month" with the wider Free Software community. Debian has participated in the FSFE's "I ♥ Free

Re: future of the Debian Party Line mumble server?

2019-06-13 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, 2019-06-13 at 10:48 +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > I have grabbed mumble.debian.net and hope others in the RTC team will > help run it. For now it points to a Mumble instance of mine... Great, thanks. I don't know if it is possible to fix, but mumble complains about the cert being

future of the Debian Party Line mumble server?

2019-06-12 Thread Paul Wise
Hi folks, The Debian Party Line was a mumble server run by Joey Hess and an associated ikiwiki page with details about how to connect to it. It was used for voice communication for events like Debian release parties. https://debian-party-line.branchable.com/ Due to the coming release of Debian

Re: Debian Helping Scammer Websites to Cheat its Readers?

2019-06-12 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Jun 12, 2019 at 12:01 PM Jeff Licquia wrote: > That link on Debian Junior for shoes should probably be removed now. The link is pulled directly from the package metadata from (now-obsolete) Debian releases. The junior-programming metapackage still suggests it. -- bye, pabs

Re: RFC: endorse debian-mentors as entrance to our infrastructure projects

2019-06-09 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Jun 10, 2019 at 6:17 AM Sam Hartman wrote: > I wonder whether it might be a good idea to write down which > infrastructure services people in the mentors community are most able to > help with. I don't want to discourage people from for example asking > dak questions, but it might be

Re: RFC: endorse debian-mentors as entrance to our infrastructure projects

2019-06-09 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Jun 9, 2019 at 6:55 PM Jonas Meurer wrote: > My hope is that having debian-mentors as an endorsed entry point for > diving into Debian infrastructure would lower the entry barrier > significantly for new contributors who'd like to dive into our > infrastructure software projects. > > What

Re: 請問,ask. Debian master.

2019-05-20 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, May 21, 2019 at 2:39 AM Wong Kemba wrote: > 有幾套的OS都不錯, Debian, Ubuntu, Opensuse, Win7 都可以作為Host, 然後在安裝virtualbox, > 去安裝其他的OS. > > a.請問,這個host LinuxOS 應該選 Debian, Ubuntu or Opensuse or Win7? > 那一套作為host可以讓別套的OS發揮最大的效率效能? Please ask for help on the Debian user support channels:

Re: Hardware Support

2019-05-11 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, May 12, 2019 at 3:57 AM Evrim Erdil wrote: > Hi. I'm using creative audigy fx sound card on my pc. I have surround sound > problem on debian releases after debian 8. Dummy output and no sound. Please > help me to solve this problem. Please ask for help using Debian on our support

Re: Preparing for Debian instalation, manual in pdf

2019-05-07 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, May 7, 2019 at 4:39 PM wrote: > Second (Debian GNU Linux Faq) I still can see only HTML, where is PDF? The English PDF version is available here: https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-faq/debian-faq.en.pdf I'm not sure which language you prefer, but these are available: German:

Re: RFA: rtc.debian.org

2019-04-30 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, May 1, 2019 at 12:30 AM W. Martin Borgert wrote: > I'm one of the rather inactive people in respect to the Debian XMPP > server. My lack of activity is caused by the fact that I don't know > anything about the administration tools used by DSA. I'm only > starting to use Ansible in my

Re: S390x files gone from Debian jessie

2019-04-24 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Apr 25, 2019 at 5:39 AM D. Herrendoerfer wrote: > an odd question maybe, but the s390x files seem to have been removed from the > Debian Jessie distro servers. The s390x architecture is not supported by Debian's LTS efforts, we suggest you upgrade your systems to Debian stretch (and

Re: metaphors and feminism

2019-03-31 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Mar 30, 2019 at 10:58 AM Paul Wise wrote: > Personally I think the phrase "Debian Developer" and the abbreviation > DD is a relic of an earlier era when the set of tasks available to > Debian contributors were more technical and less varied. I try to use > "De

Re: metaphors and feminism

2019-03-29 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Mar 29, 2019 at 6:19 PM Laura Arjona Reina wrote: > We call Debian Developer to the Debian contributors who have Debian finished > the > New Member process: the process of becoming an official Debian Developer (DD) > [1]. Personally I think the phrase "Debian Developer" and the

Re: Problem: Opera 12.16 and Opera 58 can't install this in Debian 9.8

2019-03-20 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 1:12 AM Patrick Dreier wrote: > To: debian-project@lists.debian.org > > Problem: Opera 12.16 and Opera 58 can't install this in Debian 9.8 > How can resolve this? Please resend your question to Debian's support channels: https://www.debian.org/support -- bye, pabs

Re: Linux - Debian

2019-03-18 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 12:06 AM Mucska.La wrote: > I look for operation systems for new notebook, which it will be. This sort of question should generally be asked on Debian support channels. I've included some answers to your questions below but please ask any further questions on Debian

Re: Debian Geldspenden an ffis e.V.

2019-03-14 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Mar 15, 2019 at 1:53 AM Klauspeter Hauf wrote: > Sorry to send my request in German only. I was misleaded by the fact the > the Debian contact Webpage providing all information in German. The Debian contact page suggests to ask questions in English, do you have any ideas about how we can

Re: Practicas Profesionales

2019-01-18 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Jan 19, 2019 at 7:33 AM Gunnar Wolf wrote: > [ Mexican student asking for how to do professional practices for his > university studies in some way related to Debian. Debian cannot > offer much, but I can possibly coach him, as I work in a different > university...? ] Sounds like a

Re: Stickers Debian

2019-01-17 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 10:14 AM Paul Wise wrote: > On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 2:55 AM Adam Borowski wrote: > > > https://www.debian.org/misc/merchandise > > https://wiki.debian.org/Merchandise > > > > These pages are notoriously outdated and incomplete, though -- most

Re: Stickers Debian

2019-01-16 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 2:55 AM Adam Borowski wrote: > https://www.debian.org/misc/merchandise > https://wiki.debian.org/Merchandise > > These pages are notoriously outdated and incomplete, though -- most swag > comes in one-off runs, or is at least quite volatile in availability. The first one

Re: Broken Archive Link

2018-11-29 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 5:48 AM Bill Chapman wrote: > I’m trying to search for an archived package at this URL but the link is > broken: > https://historical.packages.debian.org/squeeze/ This website has not yet been fully setup yet so it isn't surprising that it is broken. > Can you tell me

Re: Is it possible to add a software into Debian project?

2018-11-28 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 3:45 PM Denis wrote: > Is it possible to add to the main debian repository these two utilities? This would require that someone work on creating packages and getting them into Debian. Folks who aren't yet Debian members can have their work sponsored by an existing member.

Re: Do we need embargoes for GPL compliance issues?

2018-09-12 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 12:36 PM, Russ Allbery wrote: > I may just be hopelessly naive or out of touch, but I feel like the > termination of rights clauses under the GPLv2 and GPLv3 are widely ignored > for good-faith violations (such as those Debian would make) and basically > never enforced

Re: Do we need embargoes for GPL compliance issues?

2018-09-12 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 9:57 AM, Russ Allbery wrote: > What exactly would we be embargoing, and why? It seems to me that Florian is talking about the rare GPL violations that Debian (and other distros) commit and keeping those secret until they can be rectified. These happen (and are sometimes

Re: [Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#532856: Bug#532856: closed by Mathieu Parent (Closing " umask settings overridden by Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) clients")

2018-07-01 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Jul 2, 2018 at 7:14 AM, Josip Rodin wrote: > The Debian social contract doesn't go into that much detail, to explicitly > require keeping bugs open because they exist in practice -- but common sense > and decades of precedent do. > > Or is this some new thing that we're now doing, am I

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