Re: xz backdoor

2024-03-31 Thread Gard Spreemann
On 31 March 2024 12:39:55 CEST, Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues wrote: > >Another example is when I wanted to run a GUI program inside an unshared chroot >environment. Wayland does not seem to be happy about that and I didn't find a >way to test my GUI application successfully. But maybe my

Understanding what's missing for Rust dynamic linking (was: Proposal for how to deal with Go/Rust/etc security bugs)

2024-01-25 Thread Gard Spreemann
Hello. Paul Wise writes: > On Thu, 2024-01-25 at 00:24 +, Wookey wrote: > >> People keep telling us (@ARM) how marvellous Rust is, and we keep >> telling them that it's useless in the real world until it sorts out >> the stable ABI/dynamic linking problem. > > IIRC that has been worked on

Re: Bug#1041731: Hyphens in man pages

2023-10-16 Thread Gard Spreemann
On October 16, 2023 2:41:08 AM GMT+02:00, "Trent W. Buck" wrote: >FWIW, there are lighter alternatives than pandoc: > >pandoc:After this operation, 174 MB of > additional disk space will be used. >sphinx-doc (sphinx-build -b man): After this operation, 140

Re: allow missing description fields and empty long descriptions for Rust/etc packages?

2023-09-20 Thread Gard Spreemann
Hi Johannes, Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues writes: > Quoting Gard Spreemann (2023-09-20 09:26:58) >> Paul Wise writes: >> > […] since the Rust packages are basically only used as build-deps and >> > therefore have no human users. >> I just wanted to raise aw

Re: allow missing description fields and empty long descriptions for Rust/etc packages?

2023-09-20 Thread Gard Spreemann
Hi, Paul Wise writes: > […] since the Rust packages are basically only used as build-deps and > therefore have no human users. I just wanted to raise awareness that some of us humans do use librust-*-dev packages directly, having put cargo in permanent offline mode and having swapped out its

Re: Comments on proposing NEW queue improvement (Re: Current NEW review process saps developer motivation

2022-08-27 Thread Gard Spreemann
"M. Zhou" writes: > On Sat, 2022-08-27 at 09:50 +0200, Gard Spreemann wrote: >> >> I humbly disagree. Even from my own point of view, I may well be very >> motivated to package something I use seriously all the time, >> seriously. But then I see its depen

Re: Current NEW review process saps developer motivation

2022-08-27 Thread Gard Spreemann
Gard Spreemann writes: > Oh no, then we instead insist that related work stops Sorry, this was imprecise of me. We of course don't insist that related work stops. But I really fear that that is the consequence in a great many cases. -- Gard

Re: Current NEW review process saps developer motivation

2022-08-27 Thread Gard Spreemann
Paul Wise writes: > There are a lot of examples of busywork in Debian, such as documenting > licenses, packaging dependencies, removing non-free files that are only > in source packages, runtime selection of correct CPU instructions, > fixing build failures, porting reverse dependencies to

Re: Comments on proposing NEW queue improvement (Re: Current NEW review process saps developer motivation

2022-08-27 Thread Gard Spreemann
"M. Zhou" writes: > To be honest, in terms of volunteered reviewing work, waiting > for several months is not something new. In academia, it may > take several months to years to get a journal paper response. Sure, but (1) that situation isn't popular in academia either, (2) at least you can

Re: Current NEW review process saps developer motivation [Was: Looking for new maintainer(s) for GStreamer packages]

2022-08-26 Thread Gard Spreemann
Jonas Smedegaard writes: > Quoting Gard Spreemann (2022-08-26 08:49:21) >> On August 25, 2022 10:52:56 AM GMT+02:00, "Sebastian Dröge" >> wrote: >> >PS: To preempt any questions as for why, the background for my decision >> >to stop maintaining a

Current NEW review process saps developer motivation [Was: Looking for new maintainer(s) for GStreamer packages]

2022-08-26 Thread Gard Spreemann
On August 25, 2022 10:52:56 AM GMT+02:00, "Sebastian Dröge" wrote: >PS: To preempt any questions as for why, the background for my decision >to stop maintaining any packages is this thread, but it's really just >the straw that broke the camel's back > >

Bug#1017994: ITP: zigpy -- Python Zigbee stack

2022-08-23 Thread Gard Spreemann
Package: wnpp X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Owner: Gard Spreemann Severity: wishlist * Package name: zigpy Version : 0.50.1 Upstream Author : Russell Cloran and contributors * URL : https://github.com/zigpy/zigpy * License : GPL-3+ Programming

Re: Bug#1012712: ITP: ai -- PHP library to develop easily SQL queries usable in web pages

2022-06-13 Thread Gard Spreemann
Georges Khaznadar writes: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Georges Khaznadar > X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org > > * Package name: ai > Version : 0.03 > Upstream Author : François Élie > * URL : https://gitlab.adullact.net/felie/ai > *

Re: isa-support -- exit strategy?

2022-04-04 Thread Gard Spreemann
Bastian Blank writes: > On Sun, Apr 03, 2022 at 02:17:15PM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote: >> SIMDe (or similar approaches) could be used to build variant(s) of the >> library that have compile-time emulation of SIMD instructions in the >> lower baseline builds of vectorscan. > > But why? Who in

Re: No mips64el porterbox?

2022-03-01 Thread Gard Spreemann
Julien Puydt writes: > Hi, > > one of my package has a failure on mips64el and upstream is ready to > help me find the cause and debug the issue. > > Unfortunately, on https://db.debian.org/machines.cgi I only see five > developer machines on this architecture -- all buildd! > > Is there really

Re: LESS copyright, not more!

2022-02-09 Thread Gard Spreemann
Adam Borowski writes: > Guys, once again we had a complaint about forcing people to waste their time > on copyright matters then wait months or years for review of said matters > -- just for the discussion degenerate into a proposal to bring even MORE > copyright into our life! > >> - What is

Re: Please participate in Debian Med sprint (Was: 20 years of Debian Med list :-) and suggested sprint date)

2022-02-02 Thread Gard Spreemann
Andreas Tille writes: > Hi again, > > I've just created a preliminary Sprint page[2]. At the top I've added a > table to summarise first responses of participants about the date. > Seems we have a vague preference for the date 2022-02-18 - 2021-02-20. > > I'd be really happy if more interested

Re: Lottery NEW queue (Re: Are libraries with bumped SONAME subject of inspection of ftpmaster or not

2022-01-26 Thread Gard Spreemann
Adam Borowski writes: > On Tue, Jan 25, 2022 at 09:38:01PM +0100, Vincent Bernat wrote: >> For me, the copyright check is just a bad excuse. People upload >> non-distributable stuff everywhere and it seems the world continue to go >> round. What amount of non-distributable packages is stopped

Re: Lottery NEW queue (Re: Are libraries with bumped SONAME subject of inspection of ftpmaster or not

2022-01-26 Thread Gard Spreemann
Jonas Smedegaard writes: > Quoting Vincent Bernat (2022-01-25 21:38:01) >> I didn't comment at first because I thought someone else would raise >> the idea. But it seems people still like the idea of a NEW queue. Not >> me. The NEW queue is a hindrance. > > For the record, I don't "like" the

Re: What are the most important projects that Debian ought to work on?

2022-01-24 Thread Gard Spreemann
Sébastien Delafond writes: > Hello, > > As part of an upcoming survey that we are preparing, we plan to ask > Debian developers to rank, by order of importance, the most popular > ideas of improvements for Debian. > > However, there's no easy way to identify what are the most popular ideas > of

Re: uscan roadmap

2021-12-02 Thread Gard Spreemann
Jonas Smedegaard writes: > Quoting Gard Spreemann (2021-12-02 13:09:17) >> >> Jonas Smedegaard writes: >> >> > Quoting Gard Spreemann (2021-12-02 12:31:30) >> >> >> >> Paul Wise writes: >> >> >> >> > I also

Re: uscan roadmap

2021-12-02 Thread Gard Spreemann
Jonas Smedegaard writes: > Quoting Gard Spreemann (2021-12-02 12:31:30) >> >> Paul Wise writes: >> >> > I also wonder if it is time to split debian/watch out of Debian >> > source packages, since upstream download locations generally change >>

Re: uscan roadmap

2021-12-02 Thread Gard Spreemann
Paul Wise writes: > I also wonder if it is time to split debian/watch out of Debian source > packages, since upstream download locations generally change > independently of the Debian package and so information about upstream > download locations probably should be maintained independently. I

Re: Looking for DDs to sign my keys in Norway, Bergen area

2021-11-23 Thread Gard Spreemann
On November 22, 2021 5:24:57 PM GMT+01:00, Marius Gripsgard wrote: >Hi, > > >I am looking for someone to sign my keys, but due to covid this has not >been easy to do, so im looking for someone in my local area that would >be up to do a key signing. I have already looked at the offering page,

Re: Consequences of the NEW queue's length [Was: Remove packages from NEW queue?]

2021-11-19 Thread Gard Spreemann
Andrey Rahmatullin writes: > On Thu, Nov 18, 2021 at 04:08:23PM +0100, Stephan Lachnit wrote: >> > > I don't know if that has been proposed before, but how about waiving >> > > the NEW queue requirement for experimental packages as a start? >> > > [...] Since packages in experimental will never

Re: Consequences of the NEW queue's length [Was: Remove packages from NEW queue?]

2021-11-19 Thread Gard Spreemann
Simon Richter writes: > Hi, > > On 11/18/21 4:08 PM, Stephan Lachnit wrote: > >> I guess this raises the (maybe already answered) question if the >> additional license QA from NEW is for the end-product (i.e. Debian >> stable) or for the servers that run the Debian infrastructure, which >> of

Consequences of the NEW queue's length [Was: Remove packages from NEW queue?]

2021-11-18 Thread Gard Spreemann
Hi all. Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues writes: > slightly related question: if I upload a new version to NEW, will the Age of > the package be reset? I'm asking because my package has been in NEW for four > months already and I'd like to avoid loosing that place by an upload of a new >

Re: Have the watch file checks stopped?

2021-08-23 Thread Gard Spreemann
Mattia Rizzolo writes: > On Mon, Aug 23, 2021 at 12:59:39PM +0200, Gard Spreemann wrote: >> Have the uscan watch file checks that feed qa.debian.org stopped? Is it >> on purpose? Perhaps a consequence of the recent release? > > That's one part that's included in the UDD d

Have the watch file checks stopped?

2021-08-23 Thread Gard Spreemann
Hi list, Have the uscan watch file checks that feed qa.debian.org stopped? Is it on purpose? Perhaps a consequence of the recent release? Best, Gard signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Cancel "culture" is a threat to Debian

2021-03-30 Thread Gard Spreemann
Dmitry Smirnov writes: > Nobody is perfect. Everybody said a foolish thing at least once in a > lifetime. If we cancel those who love what they do, those who are good > with what they do, those who are passionate and caring for what they do > for something they have said somewhere else then

Re: Changed Github download URLs are affecting lots of existing watch files

2021-03-27 Thread Gard Spreemann
Phil Morrell writes: > Sounds like you're asking for a new github redirector on qa.debian.org > as there is for sf.net, which could use the official api for stability. This got me thinking: the version checking mechanism of d/watch files is useless if the outside world changes, i.e. if

Re: I'm orphan my packages and leave the project as maintainer

2021-03-26 Thread Gard Spreemann
Timothy M Butterworth writes: > The FSF with out RMS would be like the Linux Foundations with out > Linus. To me, and I dare guess, to most people, the actions of RMS are not being weighted against the important contributions he has made. Many of us believe that he has crossed certain lines

Re: Fixed release dates are hurting quality

2021-02-09 Thread Gard Spreemann
Adrian Bunk writes: > On Sun, Feb 07, 2021 at 05:19:17PM +0100, Gard Spreemann wrote: >> and instead try to track positive attributes like fitness for >> release, though? > > Can you provide a less lofty description of what you want to implement? I didn't suggest that an

Re: Fixed release dates are hurting quality

2021-02-07 Thread Gard Spreemann
Andrey Rahmatullin writes: > On Sun, Feb 07, 2021 at 02:20:28PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: >> > the packages being untouched for a long time in some cases meaning there is >> > no guarantee for quality. >> >> Sure, but if there is no serious issue left with the package, we can as >> well

Bug#977907:

2020-12-22 Thread Gard Spreemann
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Gard Spreemann X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, g...@nonempty.org * Package name: CLBlast Version : 1.5.1 Upstream Author : Cedric Nugteren and others * URL : https://cnugteren.github.io/clblast/clblast.html

Bug#972680: ITP: eagerpy -- Wrapper around various Python multidimensional array types

2020-10-22 Thread Gard Spreemann
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Gard Spreemann X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, g...@nonempty.org * Package name: eagerpy Version : 0.29.0 Upstream Author : Jonas Rauber * URL : https://eagerpy.jonasrauber.de/ * License : MIT Programming

Re: how to add small console application to debian linux distribution?

2020-10-12 Thread Gard Spreemann
pe pi writes: > 1) Open Terminal > > 2) Type: sudo nano /etc/default/grub > > 3) Find the line starting with GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT, and add > video=hyperv_fb:[the resolution you want]. >So my line ends up looking like this: > GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash

Problems with the CI infrastructure?

2020-09-18 Thread Gard Spreemann
Hi, I must admit I don't know much about the CI/autopkgtest infrastructure, but I've noticed over summer that the frequency at which my packages are being tested has decreased a lot, especially when it comes to ordinary tests in unstable (as opposed to tests that pick a few packages from

Re: Nitrokey for DDs

2020-09-14 Thread Gard Spreemann
Zlatan Todorić writes: > I saw there was mention of GNUK and Yubikeys but I didn't see anyone > mentioned Nitrokey. > > https://www.nitrokey.com/ > > They are a small German-based vendor, producing some nice products > (among other "keys") and they (AFAIK) are doing it all in FLOSS spirit >

Re: DEP-14: renaming master to main?

2020-06-22 Thread Gard Spreemann
Michael Biebl writes: > there has been a lot of talk recently about how master is a loaded term > that should be avoided. > If I read the news correctly, github and others are going to change the > default master branch to main. > I don't really have any strong opinion on that matter myself. >

Lintian status reporting on packages overview broken?

2020-06-18 Thread Gard Spreemann
Hello list, It seems to me that the "Lintian E+W" column on the QA packages overview page currently incorrectly shows a checkmark even when there are Lintian warnings for a package. Is this a known bug? Best, Gard signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#961784: ITP: hera -- Library for computing bottleneck and Wasserstein distances between persistence diagrams

2020-05-29 Thread Gard Spreemann
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Gard Spreemann * Package name: hera Version : 0~git20200309 Upstream Author : Arnur Nigmetov * URL : https://github.com/grey-narn/hera * License : BSD-3-clause Programming Lang: C++ Description : Library

Re: Temporary(?) bundling of code that may not warrant its own package

2020-05-21 Thread Gard Spreemann
Adam Borowski writes: > If, for whatever reason, you feel urgency, the ftpmasters are very good at > prioritizing your needs. There's just no information attached to packages > normally -- you need to let them know. One way is popping up in #debian-ftp > and whining. > > I've never had them

Re: Temporary(?) bundling of code that may not warrant its own package

2020-05-20 Thread Gard Spreemann
Wookey writes: > On 2020-05-20 13:42 +0200, Gard Spreemann wrote: >> >> Wookey writes: > >> Is there any community consensus on putting the bundling in place >> temporarily while the separate package is held up in NEW? Being the >> maintainer of bo

Re: RFC: threading-aware virtual BLAS/LAPACK

2020-05-20 Thread Gard Spreemann
>use the libblas.so.3 in the global scope: > /usr/lib//libblas.so.3 (a symlink) > > --- end solution --- > > That's it, much simpler and much more efficient than my first version. > > Comments please? Would it make sense for DH to acquire functionality to automate deali

Re: Temporary(?) bundling of code that may not warrant its own package

2020-05-20 Thread Gard Spreemann
Wookey writes: > On 2020-05-20 10:16 +0200, Gard Spreemann wrote: >> Hi list, >> >> Upstream for a package I maintain has as of its latest release started >> bundling and requiring a third-party header-only library. I am >> considering packaging that third

Temporary(?) bundling of code that may not warrant its own package

2020-05-20 Thread Gard Spreemann
Hi list, Upstream for a package I maintain has as of its latest release started bundling and requiring a third-party header-only library. I am considering packaging that third-party library (it's useful to me, at the very least) but I think it's a borderline case of whether it warrants being a

Re: RFC: threading-aware virtual BLAS/LAPACK

2020-05-13 Thread Gard Spreemann
Mo Zhou writes: > Please comment: > 1. Do we have a better solution where we can retain high performance and > avoid threading trouble at the same time? > 2. If we don't have a better solution, is my proposal acceptable? > 3. In which way can my proposal be improved? Hi Mo, Your

Re: Salsa update: no more "-guest" and more

2020-04-25 Thread Gard Spreemann
Bernd Zeimetz writes: > On 4/25/20 10:05 PM, IOhannes m zmölnig (Debian/GNU) wrote: >> On 4/25/20 8:34 PM, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/security/two_factor_authentication.html >>> >>> Enforce that (if Salsa is doing that in the meantime, ignore me). >> >>

Re: Overinterpretation of DFSG? QR code for receiving donation is non-free???

2020-04-01 Thread Gard Spreemann
Mo Zhou writes: > On Wed, Apr 01, 2020 at 10:37:07AM +0200, Gard Spreemann wrote: >> Or, another example that I can imagine plausibly arising in practice: >> suppose a terrabyte of raw data was collected from a scientific >> experiment or simulation in order to produc

Re: Overinterpretation of DFSG? QR code for receiving donation is non-free???

2020-04-01 Thread Gard Spreemann
Jeremy Bicha writes: > Let's say I take a photo of myself to include in an app so that users > can appreciate what I look like. What is the "preferred form of > modification"? If it's 15 years later and I no longer look the same, > would I edit the photo with free software to make it look like

Bug#950783: ITP: python-cdsapi -- Python interface for the ECMWF CDS API

2020-02-06 Thread Gard Spreemann
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Gard Spreemann * Package name: python-cdsapi Version : 0.2.5 Upstream Author : ECMWF * URL : https://pypi.org/project/cdsapi * License : Apache-2.0 Programming Lang: Python Description : Python interface

Accepted gudhi 3.1.0+dfsg-2 (source) into unstable

2020-01-22 Thread Gard Spreemann
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2020 11:16:38 +0100 Source: gudhi Architecture: source Version: 3.1.0+dfsg-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Gard Spreemann Changed-By: Gard Spreemann Changes: gudhi (3.1.0+dfsg-2) unstable

Accepted gudhi 3.1.0+dfsg-1 (source) into unstable

2020-01-21 Thread Gard Spreemann
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2020 10:26:33 +0100 Source: gudhi Architecture: source Version: 3.1.0+dfsg-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Gard Spreemann Changed-By: Gard Spreemann Changes: gudhi (3.1.0+dfsg-1) unstable

Bug#949381: ITP: python-pot -- Python optimal transport library

2020-01-20 Thread Gard Spreemann
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Gard Spreemann * Package name: python-pot Version : 0.6.0 Upstream Author : Rémi Flamary * URL : https://github.com/rflamary/POT/ * License : MIT Programming Lang: Python, C++ Description : Python optimal

Accepted tikzit 2.1.4-4 (source) into unstable

2019-12-28 Thread Gard Spreemann
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2019 16:50:53 +0100 Source: tikzit Architecture: source Version: 2.1.4-4 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Gard Spreemann Changed-By: Gard Spreemann Changes: tikzit (2.1.4-4) unstable; urgency=medium

Accepted tikzit 2.1.4-3 (source) into unstable

2019-12-28 Thread Gard Spreemann
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2019 15:39:24 +0100 Source: tikzit Architecture: source Version: 2.1.4-3 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Gard Spreemann Changed-By: Gard Spreemann Closes: 947517 Changes: tikzit (2.1.4-3) unstable

Accepted proofgeneral 4.4.1~pre170114-1.2 (source) into unstable

2019-12-19 Thread Gard Spreemann
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2019 17:50:59 +0100 Source: proofgeneral Architecture: source Version: 4.4.1~pre170114-1.2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Hendrik Tews Changed-By: Gard Spreemann Closes: 941544 Changes

Accepted gudhi 3.0.0+dfsg-4 (source) into unstable

2019-12-16 Thread Gard Spreemann
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2019 14:33:51 +0100 Source: gudhi Architecture: source Version: 3.0.0+dfsg-4 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Gard Spreemann Changed-By: Gard Spreemann Closes: 945226 Changes: gudhi (3.0.0+dfsg-4

Bug#943817: ITP: ripser -- Fast computation of persistent homology of Vietoris-Rips complexes

2019-10-30 Thread Gard Spreemann
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Gard Spreemann * Package name: ripser Version : 1.1 Upstream Author : Ulrich Bauer * URL : http://ripser.org * License : MIT Programming Lang: C++ Description : Fast computation of persistent homology of flag

Accepted gudhi 3.0.0+dfsg-3 (source) into unstable

2019-10-30 Thread Gard Spreemann
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2019 09:27:19 +0100 Source: gudhi Architecture: source Version: 3.0.0+dfsg-3 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Gard Spreemann Changed-By: Gard Spreemann Changes: gudhi (3.0.0+dfsg-3) unstable

Re: doxygen 1.8.16 is ready for unstable, 10+ packages will FTBFS on amd64

2019-10-25 Thread Gard Spreemann
Hi, Paolo Greppi writes: > The 10 remaining packages all fail with latex-related errors. > Unfortunately I know nothing about latex so I cant' help with those. > But I filed bugs or updated the existing open bug: > - ccfits, "Overfull \hbox" latex error, see: https://bugs.debian.org/943423 > -

Accepted gudhi 3.0.0+dfsg-2 (source) into unstable

2019-10-23 Thread Gard Spreemann
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2019 22:18:22 +0200 Source: gudhi Architecture: source Version: 3.0.0+dfsg-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Gard Spreemann Changed-By: Gard Spreemann Changes: gudhi (3.0.0+dfsg-2) unstable

Accepted gudhi 3.0.0+dfsg-1 (source) into unstable

2019-10-23 Thread Gard Spreemann
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2019 11:47:25 +0200 Source: gudhi Architecture: source Version: 3.0.0+dfsg-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Gard Spreemann Changed-By: Gard Spreemann Changes: gudhi (3.0.0+dfsg-1) unstable

Re: GPL for package under MIT license upstream; repack?

2019-09-24 Thread Gard Spreemann
Colin Watson writes: > On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 10:41:07AM +0200, Gard Spreemann wrote: >> A package I maintain (src:gudhi) was mostly under GPL-3+ up to and >> including the current version in the archives. Since then, upstream has >> switched to an MIT license, but with

Re: GPL for package under MIT license upstream; repack?

2019-09-24 Thread Gard Spreemann
Filippo Rusconi writes: > Greetings, > > On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 10:41:07AM +0200, Gard Spreemann wrote: >>Hello, >> >>A package I maintain (src:gudhi) was mostly under GPL-3+ up to and >>including the current version in the archives. Since then, upstream

GPL for package under MIT license upstream; repack?

2019-09-24 Thread Gard Spreemann
Hello, A package I maintain (src:gudhi) was mostly under GPL-3+ up to and including the current version in the archives. Since then, upstream has switched to an MIT license, but with the caveat that many parts of the code has GPL dependencies and that "for practical purposes this code is GPL-3

Re: Clarification regarding Qt 4 removal (and #875036 in particular)

2019-09-05 Thread Gard Spreemann
Scott Kitterman writes: > On September 5, 2019 7:36:01 AM UTC, Gard Spreemann wrote: >>Can someone help clarify why the Qt 4 removal causes all of >>src:libqglviewer to be marked for removal? Surely its Qt 5 binaries >>could stay? > > All binaries from a source p

Clarification regarding Qt 4 removal (and #875036 in particular)

2019-09-05 Thread Gard Spreemann
Hi, I maintain src:gudhi, which build-depends on libqglviewer-dev-qt5 and depends on libqglviewer2-qt5. Because of the Qt 4 removal, src:libqglviewer, which provides the two aforementioned binaries, seems to be marked for autoremoval (#875036), and thus src:gudhi too has been marked for

Re: tag2upload service architecture and risk assessment - draft v2

2019-08-28 Thread Gard Spreemann
Scott Kitterman writes: > Several time people have said they feel it's important to be able to verify > from contents of the archive. Hi all, Please forgive my ignorance if this is stupid, or if it's already been discussed and I overlooked it. I'm not posing this as a suggestion, but rather

Accepted lbfgsb 3.0+dfsg.3-7 (source) into unstable

2019-08-26 Thread Gard Spreemann
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2019 17:20:47 +0200 Source: lbfgsb Architecture: source Version: 3.0+dfsg.3-7 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Gard Spreemann Changed-By: Gard Spreemann Changes: lbfgsb (3.0+dfsg.3-7) unstable

Accepted lbfgsb 3.0+dfsg.3-6 (source) into unstable

2019-08-21 Thread Gard Spreemann
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2019 09:55:26 +0200 Source: lbfgsb Architecture: source Version: 3.0+dfsg.3-6 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Gard Spreemann Changed-By: Gard Spreemann Changes: lbfgsb (3.0+dfsg.3-6) unstable

Accepted phat 1.5-3 (source) into unstable

2019-08-15 Thread Gard Spreemann
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2019 11:05:29 +0200 Source: phat Architecture: source Version: 1.5-3 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Gard Spreemann Changed-By: Gard Spreemann Changes: phat (1.5-3) unstable; urgency=medium

Accepted phat 1.5-2 (source) into unstable

2019-08-15 Thread Gard Spreemann
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2019 09:36:51 +0200 Source: phat Architecture: source Version: 1.5-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Gard Spreemann Changed-By: Gard Spreemann Changes: phat (1.5-2) unstable; urgency=medium

Bug#932726: ITP: python-pyspike -- Python library for the numerical analysis of spike train similarity

2019-07-22 Thread Gard Spreemann
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Gard Spreemann * Package name: python-pyspike Version : 0.6.0 Upstream Author : Mario Mulansky * URL : https://mariomulansky.github.io/PySpike/ * License : BSD-2-clause Programming Lang: Python, C Description

Accepted lbfgsb 3.0+dfsg.3-5 (source) into unstable

2019-07-18 Thread Gard Spreemann
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2019 13:48:32 +0200 Source: lbfgsb Architecture: source Version: 3.0+dfsg.3-5 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Gard Spreemann Changed-By: Gard Spreemann Changes: lbfgsb (3.0+dfsg.3-5) unstable

Accepted lbfgsb 3.0+dfsg.3-4 (source) into unstable

2019-07-17 Thread Gard Spreemann
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2019 09:03:37 +0200 Source: lbfgsb Architecture: source Version: 3.0+dfsg.3-4 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Gard Spreemann Changed-By: Gard Spreemann Changes: lbfgsb (3.0+dfsg.3-4) unstable

Accepted tikzit 2.1.4-2 (source) into unstable

2019-07-16 Thread Gard Spreemann
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2019 12:35:16 +0200 Source: tikzit Architecture: source Version: 2.1.4-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Gard Spreemann Changed-By: Gard Spreemann Changes: tikzit (2.1.4-2) unstable; urgency=medium

Re: Content Rating System in Debian

2019-06-26 Thread Gard Spreemann
Bagas Sanjaya writes: > Regarding freedom, yes it can be affected by CRS because CRS can limit > freedom to use programs for some users > (particularly non-adults). But CRS limit such freedom in order to protect > psychology users for long term from negative > impacts of programs they used.

Re: Towards lapack / lapack64 packaging

2019-05-16 Thread Gard Spreemann
Hi, Incidentally, and somewhat off-topic: Do you know if a similar effort is being made for the PETSc and SLEPc packages (src petsc and slepc)? Best, Gard

Re: Preferred git branch structure when upstream moves from tarballs to git

2019-05-02 Thread Gard Spreemann
My initial question resulted in a lot of useful advice and opinions, and spurred quite an interesting discussion. Thanks to everyone who contributed, and apologies for not contributing myself.

Preferred git branch structure when upstream moves from tarballs to git

2019-04-29 Thread Gard Spreemann
Hi, For one of my packages, I maintain two public git branches: one is upstream/latest, where I've been importing upstream's released tarballs, and the other is debian/sid that contains the packaging. Recently, upstream has finally started using git. What is the recommended way for me to

Accepted phat 1.5-1 (source all amd64) into unstable, unstable

2019-04-03 Thread Gard Spreemann
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Format: 1.8 Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2019 13:03:51 +0100 Source: phat Binary: libphat-dev phat-utils python3-phat Architecture: source all amd64 Version: 1.5-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Gard Spreemann Changed-By: Gard Spreemann

Re: Reusing source package name of long-removed, unrelated package

2019-02-07 Thread Gard Spreemann
Ian Jackson writes: > Julien Cristau writes ("Re: Reusing source package name of long-removed, > unrelated package"): >> I would say reusing binary package names is usually worse than reusing >> source package names, in that it's a lot more likely to affect users. >> Sometimes it happens

Re: Reusing source package name of long-removed, unrelated package

2019-02-07 Thread Gard Spreemann
(Apologies if you receive this message twice; I dropped a ball juggling e-mail identities). Ian Jackson writes: > Julien Cristau writes ("Re: Reusing source package name of long-removed, > unrelated package"): >> I would say reusing binary package names is usually worse than reusing >> source

Re: Reusing source package name of long-removed, unrelated package

2019-02-06 Thread Gard Spreemann
Ian Jackson writes: > Gard Spreemann writes ("Reusing source package name of long-removed, > unrelated package"): >> I understand that 3.3.2 of the policy mandates that I at least bump the >> epoch, but I wanted to ask the list to make sure: is reusin

Reusing source package name of long-removed, unrelated package

2019-02-06 Thread Gard Spreemann
Hello, I filed an ITP (#920912) regarding a package I'm preparing. The upstream name for this package is "phat", which doesn't appear in the archives from jessie to the present day. After filing the ITP and uploading my package to mentors, I realized that there was an unrelated "phat" with a

Accepted tikzit 2.1.4-1 (source) into unstable

2019-02-05 Thread Gard Spreemann
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2019 14:09:02 +0100 Source: tikzit Binary: tikzit Architecture: source Version: 2.1.4-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Gard Spreemann Changed-By: Gard Spreemann Description: tikzit - visual

Bug#920912: ITP: phat -- header-only library for boundary matrix reductions over Z/2Z

2019-01-30 Thread Gard Spreemann
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Gard Spreemann * Package name: phat Version : 1.5 Upstream Author : Ulrich Bauer, Michael Kerber, Jan Reininghaus * URL : https://bitbucket.org/phat-code/phat * License : LGPL-3+ Programming Lang: C++ Description

Accepted tikzit 2.1.3-1 (source) into unstable

2019-01-25 Thread Gard Spreemann
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2019 11:38:43 +0100 Source: tikzit Binary: tikzit Architecture: source Version: 2.1.3-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Gard Spreemann Changed-By: Gard Spreemann Description: tikzit - visual

Accepted tikzit 2.1.2-1 (source) into unstable

2019-01-17 Thread Gard Spreemann
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2019 10:06:57 +0100 Source: tikzit Binary: tikzit Architecture: source Version: 2.1.2-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Gard Spreemann Changed-By: Gard Spreemann Description: tikzit - visual

Accepted tikzit 2.1.1-1 (source) into unstable

2019-01-12 Thread Gard Spreemann
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2019 08:42:08 +0100 Source: tikzit Binary: tikzit Architecture: source Version: 2.1.1-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Gard Spreemann Changed-By: Gard Spreemann Description: tikzit - visual

Accepted tikzit 2.1+git20190109.97c2a2-1 (source) into unstable

2019-01-09 Thread Gard Spreemann
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2019 08:39:30 +0100 Source: tikzit Binary: tikzit Architecture: source Version: 2.1+git20190109.97c2a2-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Gard Spreemann Changed-By: Gard Spreemann Description

Accepted tikzit 2.0+git20181101.87b50b-1 (source) into unstable

2018-11-01 Thread Gard Spreemann
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2018 12:01:25 +0100 Source: tikzit Binary: tikzit Architecture: source Version: 2.0+git20181101.87b50b-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Gard Spreemann Changed-By: Gard Spreemann Description

Accepted gudhi 2.3.0+dfsg-2 (source) into unstable

2018-10-23 Thread Gard Spreemann
Spreemann Changed-By: Gard Spreemann Description: gudhi-utils - Utilities from the GUDHI library gudhui - GUI for some of the functionality of the GUDHI library libgudhi-dev - Generic open source C++ library for topological data analysis libgudhi-doc - Documentation for the GUDHI library

Accepted tikzit 2.0-1 (source) into unstable

2018-10-23 Thread Gard Spreemann
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Format: 1.8 Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2018 17:51:00 +0200 Source: tikzit Binary: tikzit Architecture: source Version: 2.0-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Gard Spreemann Changed-By: Gard Spreemann Description: tikzit - visual PGF

Accepted tikzit 1.0+ds-3 (source) into unstable

2018-10-16 Thread Gard Spreemann
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Format: 1.8 Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2018 14:05:45 +0100 Source: tikzit Binary: tikzit Architecture: source Version: 1.0+ds-3 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Gard Spreemann Changed-By: Gard Spreemann Description: tikzit - visual

Accepted gudhi 2.3.0+dfsg-1 (source) into unstable

2018-09-16 Thread Gard Spreemann
Spreemann Changed-By: Gard Spreemann Description: gudhi-utils - Utilities from the GUDHI library gudhui - GUI for some of the functionality of the GUDHI library libgudhi-dev - Generic open source C++ library for topological data analysis libgudhi-doc - Documentation for the GUDHI library

Accepted gudhi 2.2.0+dfsg-3 (source) into unstable

2018-08-17 Thread Gard Spreemann
Spreemann Changed-By: Gard Spreemann Description: gudhi-utils - Utilities from the GUDHI library gudhui - GUI for some of the functionality of the GUDHI library libgudhi-dev - Generic open source C++ library for topological data analysis libgudhi-doc - Documentation for the GUDHI library

Accepted gudhi 2.2.0+dfsg-2 (source) into unstable

2018-08-10 Thread Gard Spreemann
Spreemann Changed-By: Gard Spreemann Description: gudhi-utils - Utilities from the GUDHI library gudhui - GUI for some of the functionality of the GUDHI library libgudhi-dev - Generic open source C++ library for topological data analysis libgudhi-doc - Documentation for the GUDHI library

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