Re: Questionable Package Present in Debian: fortune-mod

2023-09-24 Thread Sven Bartscher
Hi Am 24.09.23 um 18:41 schrieb Salvo Tomaselli: Without an ftpteam hat on, but my point of view -- I believe the team would absolutely reject a package only based on its name (see: #914179). Not very consistently though: $ apt search penis | grep penis | wc -l 2 Can you please clarify what

Re: debian/copyright format and SPDX

2023-09-24 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Sep 22, 2023 at 12:58:10PM +0200, Stephan Lachnit wrote: > On Fri, Sep 22, 2023 at 11:11 AM Steve Langasek wrote: > > SPDX defines an xml format only. They lost before they'd even started. > > debian/copyright is supposed to be human-readable first and foremost. XML > > need not apply.

Re: lpr/lpd

2023-09-24 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, 2023-09-25 at 12:08 +0900, Simon Richter wrote: > What I'd like to see is something like ... > No installed packages are looking for a new maintainer. That is what how-can-i-help does, except it doesn't print anything when there have been no changes to the status of packages on the s

Re: lpr/lpd

2023-09-24 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, 2023-09-25 at 12:08 +0900, Simon Richter wrote: > What I'd like to see is something like > > No installed packages are looking for a new maintainer. That is what how-can-i-help does, except it doesn't print anything when there have been no changes to the status of packages on the sy

Re: lpr/lpd

2023-09-24 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On 9/23/23 12:10, Paul Wise wrote: You may be thinking of how-can-i-help, which is recommended to every new person who asks about how to contribute to Debian. There is also the older wnpp-alert in devscripts. What I'd like to see is something like Scanning processes... Scann

Re: lintian.debian.org off ?

2023-09-24 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 24/09/23 at 12:16 -0700, Otto Kekäläinen wrote: > > I don't know if it is just me, but even udd gives me a 500 > > when I try to check lintian output for any (existing) package. > > > > For example: https://udd.debian.org/lintian/?packages=nim > > I also just get error 500 when trying to look u

Bug#1052562: ITP: eza -- Modern replacement for ls

2023-09-24 Thread Sylvestre Ledru
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Sylvestre Ledru X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: eza * URL : https://github.com/eza-community/eza * License : MIT it is a replacement of exa (dead upstream). it will break/replace it. exa is an improved

Re: Salsa-CI featured on GitLab.com blog

2023-09-24 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 24.09.23 um 21:26 schrieb Otto Kekäläinen: Hi all! I just wanted to share that the story about Salsa-CI was featured a couple days ago at https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2023/09/19/debian-customizes-ci-tooling-with-gitlab/ Personally I think Salsa-CI is extremely useful and pleasant to use and

Bug#1052560: ITP: zsh-antidote -- ZSH plugin manager

2023-09-24 Thread Michael Fladischer
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Michael Fladischer X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 * Package name: zsh-antidote Version : 1.9.2 Upstream Contact: Matt McElheny * URL : https://github.com/mattmc3/antid

Salsa-CI featured on GitLab.com blog

2023-09-24 Thread Otto Kekäläinen
Hi all! I just wanted to share that the story about Salsa-CI was featured a couple days ago at https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2023/09/19/debian-customizes-ci-tooling-with-gitlab/ Personally I think Salsa-CI is extremely useful and pleasant to use and understand, and it surely helped make Debian 12

Re: lintian.debian.org off ?

2023-09-24 Thread Otto Kekäläinen
> > > Host lintian.debian.org not found: 3(NXDOMAIN) > > > > > > is this expected ? > > > > Yes, it is replaced by the UDD interface: > > > > https://wiki.debian.org/Services/lintian.debian.org > > https://udd.debian.org/lintian/ Could we please have a HTTP 301 redirect from lintian.debian.org to

Re: lintian.debian.org off ?

2023-09-24 Thread Nilesh Patra
On Sat, Sep 23, 2023 at 11:02:08AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Fri, 2023-09-22 at 09:27 +0200, Jérémy Lal wrote: > > > Host lintian.debian.org not found: 3(NXDOMAIN) > > > > is this expected ? > > Yes, it is replaced by the UDD interface: > > https://wiki.debian.org/Services/lintian.debian.org

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

Re: Questionable Package Present in Debian: fortune-mod

2023-09-24 Thread Salvo Tomaselli
> Without an ftpteam hat on, but my point of view -- I believe the team > would absolutely reject a package only based on its name (see: > #914179). Not very consistently though: $ apt search penis | grep penis | wc -l 2 And that's without considering that every language has hundreds of synonyms

Re: debvm for autopkgtests with multiple host?

2023-09-24 Thread Helmut Grohne
Hi Johannes, On Sun, Sep 24, 2023 at 10:27:37AM +0200, Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues wrote: > There is really not much magic. The core of it is to pass this to your > mmdebstrap or debvm-create invocation: > > --setup-hook='for f in /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/* > /etc/

Kudos to everyone who has worked on the Debian build & packaging infrastructure

2023-09-24 Thread Jonathan Kamens
Hi all, I set out this weekend to get up to speed on maintaining and packaging Debian packages and spent many hours reading documentation and playing around with the tooling surrounding building packages. This prompted me to drop in here to say just how darned impressive everything is. The d

Re: debvm for autopkgtests with multiple host?

2023-09-24 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi, On 24-09-2023 10:27, Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues wrote: Is the apt configuration on those systems set to something that is not the default and should be considered as well? How the unstable to testing migration runs work is that they have a testing testbed (with apt pinning making te

Bug#1052536: ITP: cowsql -- Embeddable, replicated and fault tolerant SQL engine

2023-09-24 Thread Free Ekanayaka
Package: wnpp Owner: Free Ekanayaka Severity: wishlist * Package name: cowsql Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : Free Ekanayaka * URL or Web page : https://github.com/cowsql/cowsql * License : LGPLv3 with Static Linking Exception Description : Embeddable, replicated and

Re: debvm for autopkgtests with multiple host?

2023-09-24 Thread Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues
Hi, Quoting Helmut Grohne (2023-09-23 20:18:21) > Quoting Ian Jackson (2023-09-23 12:19:27) > > To summarise that discussion: at that time the best available solution that > > worked in ci.d.n seemed to be to write an ad-hoc script to run the tests in > > qemu; three packes had done that, each sep