Bug#1060113: ITP: debgpt -- Chatting LLM with Debian-Specific Knowledge

2024-01-05 Thread M. Zhou
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mo Zhou X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: debgpt Version : ? (CLI not yet stablized) Upstream Contact: me * URL : https://salsa.debian.org/deeplearning-team/debgpt * License : MIT/Expat

DebGPT: how LLM can help debian development? demo available.

2024-01-02 Thread M. Zhou
Hi folks, Following what has been discussed in d-project in an offtopic subthread, I prepared some demo on imagined use cases to leverage LLMs to help debian development. https://salsa.debian.org/deeplearning-team/debgpt To run the demo, the least requirement is a CUDA GPU with > 6GB memory. You

Re: RFC: advise against using Proton Mail for Debian work?

2023-11-14 Thread M. Zhou
On Tue, 2023-11-14 at 18:40 -0500, Nicholas D Steeves wrote: > > I see three outcomes: > > A) Continue to explain this to new contributors on a one-by-one > basis. > B) Advise against using Proton Mail for Debian work (where?  our > wiki?) > C) Proton Mail begins to do something differently on

Bug#1055677: ITP: monaspace -- An innovative superfamily of fonts for code

2023-11-09 Thread M. Zhou
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mo Zhou X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: monaspace * URL : https://github.com/githubnext/monaspace/tree/main * License : OFL-1.1 Programming Lang: N/A Description : An innovative superfamily of

Re: [idea]: Switch default compression from "xz" to "zstd" for .deb packages

2023-09-17 Thread M. Zhou
On Sun, 2023-09-17 at 22:16 +0200, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > > I do not think wasting space is any good idea. > > > ## More bandwidth > >  According to https://www.speedtest.net/global-index, broadband > >  bandwidth > >  in Nicaragua becomes almost 10x > > And elsewhere it may have gone up a

Re: [idea]: Switch default compression from "xz" to "zstd" for .deb packages

2023-09-16 Thread M. Zhou
Just one comment. Be careful if it bloats up our mirrors. Is there any estimate on the extra space cost for a full debian mirror? If we trade-off the disk space with decompression speed, zstd -19 is not necessarily very fast. I did not benchmark, but it is slow. On Sat, 2023-09-16 at 10:31

Re: bookworm+½ needed (Arc GPUs, ...)

2023-09-12 Thread M. Zhou
Intel is also slow in upstreaming their SYCL implementation to LLVM upstream. So that there is still a very far way to go towards the pytorch variant that can use intel ARC GPU. On Mon, 2023-09-11 at 12:47 +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > So... > If you've watched our Dear Leader's talk, a

Re: Default font: Transition from DejaVu to Noto

2023-09-09 Thread M. Zhou
On Sun, 2023-09-10 at 11:23 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Sat, 2023-09-09 at 23:08 +0200, Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote: > > > My personal view is that it is a change in the right direction, and > > I > > have taken a couple of follow-up steps in Debian. There are still > > loose > > ends and more

Bug#1051520: ITP: python-expecttest -- expect test for python

2023-09-08 Thread M. Zhou
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mo Zhou X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: python-expecttest * URL : https://github.com/ezyang/expecttest/ * License : MIT Programming Lang: (python Description : expect test for python Unit testing

Re: opencl-icd virtual package(s)?

2023-06-17 Thread M. Zhou
On Sun, 2023-06-18 at 10:37 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > [BCCed to OpenCL ICD implementation package maintainers] > > I noticed that some packages have a dep on specific OpenCL ICD > packages, but don't dep on the opencl-icd virtual package(s). > Presumably any of the OpenCL ICDs work for most

Bug#1038326: ITP: transformers -- State-of-the-art Machine Learning for JAX, PyTorch and TensorFlow (it ships LLMs)

2023-06-16 Thread M. Zhou
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mo Zhou X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian...@lists.debian.org * Package name: transformers Upstream Contact: HuggingFace * URL : https://github.com/huggingface/transformers * License : Apache-2.0 Description

Bug#1033345: ITP: nvitop -- An interactive NVIDIA-GPU process viewer and beyond

2023-03-22 Thread M. Zhou
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mo Zhou X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: nvitop * URL : https://github.com/XuehaiPan/nvitop * License : Apache-2.0 / GPL-3.0 dual license Programming Lang: Python Description : An interactive

Bug#1031973: ITP: nvidia-cutlass -- CUDA Templates for Linear Algebra Subroutines

2023-02-25 Thread M. Zhou
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mo Zhou X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, pkg-nvidia-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org * Package name: nvidia-cutlass * URL : https://github.com/NVIDIA/cutlass * License : BSD-3-Clause (has to enter contrib due to non-free

Bug#1031972: ITP: nvidia-cudnn-frontend -- c++ wrapper for the cudnn backend API

2023-02-25 Thread M. Zhou
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mo Zhou X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, pkg-nvidia-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org * Package name: nvidia-cudnn-frontend * URL : https://github.com/NVIDIA/cudnn-frontend * License : MIT (but will enter contrib due to

Bug#1031565: ITP: nvidia-nccl -- Optimized primitives for collective multi-GPU communication

2023-02-18 Thread M. Zhou
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mo Zhou X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, pkg-nvidia-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org * Package name: nvidia-nccl * URL : https://github.com/NVIDIA/nccl * License : BSD-3-Clause but has to enter non-free. Programming

Re: Populating non-free firmware?

2022-12-24 Thread M. Zhou
On Sat, 2022-12-24 at 11:44 +0200, Jonathan Carter wrote: > > The non-free-firmware [component] has been created, but so far it > only > contains the rasbpi-firmware package. Please ensure to include the packages for wifi cards, especially the iwlwifi since I don't use desktop pc. One of the

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

2022-08-27 Thread M. Zhou
On Sat, 2022-08-27 at 09:50 +0200, Gard Spreemann wrote: > > contributing work. In some sense, contributing to Debian becomes > mostly > about waiting. (Sure, there is something to be said about extremely > short, fragmented attention spans being unhealthy – but some > contributions are naturally

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

2022-08-26 Thread M. Zhou
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. I've ever tried to think of possible ways to improve the process, but several observations eventually changed my

Re: Automatic trimming of changelogs in binary packages

2022-08-18 Thread M. Zhou
On Thu, 2022-08-18 at 21:18 +0200, Gioele Barabucci wrote: > * The `--no-trim` option allows package maintainers that want to ship > the whole changelog a way to do so. > > * The full changelogs are preserved in the source packages and thus > available via `apt changelog` and similar

Bug#1014661: ITP: lodepng -- LodePNG is a PNG image decoder and encoder

2022-07-09 Thread M. Zhou
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mo Zhou X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: lodepng Version : git master Upstream Author : Lode Vandevenne * URL : https://lodev.org/lodepng/ * License : Zlib Programming Lang: C Description

Re: needs suggestion on LuaJit's IBM architecture dilemma

2022-06-10 Thread M. Zhou
e it does work > with lua. > Also I see that the autopkgtest of knot-resolver still fails on > ppc64el. > > F. > > On Thu, 19 May 2022 22:14:01 -0400 "M. Zhou" wrote: > > On Thu, 2022-05-19 at 16:30 +0200, Frédéric Bonnard wrote: > > > Hi, >

Re: How to handle packages which build themselves with bazel?

2022-06-08 Thread M. Zhou
Hi David, Debian has a group of people working on bazel packaging. https://lists.debian.org/debian-bazel/2022/06/threads.html And bazel itself has been a years-long pain for tensorflow packaging. I'm not following the updates for bazel packaging, but you may browse the packaging work of the

Re: how to convey package porting details?

2022-06-05 Thread M. Zhou
I like this idea. I would personally recommend adding negative priority as well. You know, it is completely meaningless to port some high performance scientific computing software to archs like armel... Meanwhile, different packages varies in the difficulty to port as well. A software that

Bug#1011667: ITP: mujoco -- A general purpose physics simulator.

2022-05-25 Thread M. Zhou
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mo Zhou X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: mujoco Version : 2.2.0 Upstream Author : DeepMind * URL : https://mujoco.org/ * License : Apache-2.0 Programming Lang: C Description : A general

questionable massive auto-removal: buggy deps nvidia-graphics-drivers-tesla-470

2022-05-24 Thread M. Zhou
I wonder why an irrelevant package suddenly triggered autoremoval of a very large portion of packages from testing. https://udd.debian.org/cgi-bin/autoremovals.cgi Searched for keyword nvidia-graphics-drivers-tesla-470, and I got 68866 entries. There must be something wrong.

Bug#1011460: ITP: gnome-shell-extension-flypie -- an innovative marking menu written as a GNOME Shell extension

2022-05-23 Thread M. Zhou
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mo Zhou X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: gnome-shell-extension-flypie Upstream Author : Simon Schneegans * URL : https://github.com/Schneegans/Fly-Pie * License : MIT/X Programming Lang: Javascript

Re: needs suggestion on LuaJit's IBM architecture dilemma

2022-05-19 Thread M. Zhou
On Thu, 2022-05-19 at 16:30 +0200, Frédéric Bonnard wrote: > Hi, > > I've followed luajit closely since 2015 on ppc64el as a porter > without enough knowledge to port it, but trying to ease on the > packaging/Debian side (being both IBMer/DD). > That port has been a mixed effort between a code

Re: needs suggestion on LuaJit's IBM architecture dilemma

2022-05-19 Thread M. Zhou
Hi Dipack, I filed an ITP bug for luajit2 and will look into it. Thank you! On Mon, 2022-05-16 at 16:22 +, Dipak Zope1 wrote: > Hello all, > It'd be better to switch to luajit2 if it is possible. We can see > right now the main issue with luajit project is no response from > upstream of

Bug#1011320: ITP: luajit2 -- OpenResty's Branch of LuaJIT 2

2022-05-19 Thread M. Zhou
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mo Zhou X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: luajit2 * URL : https://github.com/openresty/luajit2 * License : MIT/X Description : OpenResty's Branch of LuaJIT 2 I'm going to remove ppc64el support from

needs suggestion on LuaJit's IBM architecture dilemma

2022-05-11 Thread M. Zhou
Hi folks, I learned in disappointment after becoming LuaJit uploader that the LuaJit upstream behaves uncooperatively especially for IBM architectures [1]. IIUC, the upstream has no intention to care about IBM architectures (ppc64el, s390x). The current ppc64el support on stable is done through

Re: Is there room for improvement in our collaboration model?

2022-04-15 Thread M. Zhou
On Fri, 2022-04-15 at 14:24 +0200, Luca Boccassi wrote: > > > > I think this will also improve newcomer's contributing experience. > > This proposal is also filed at > > https://salsa.debian.org/debian/grow-your-ideas/-/issues/34 > > What about doing something even simpler - rather than having

Is there room for improvement in our collaboration model?

2022-04-14 Thread M. Zhou
Hi, I just noted this problem recently. Our model for team collaboration (specifically for package maintenance) is somewhat primitive. We are volunteers. Nobody can continuously maintain a package for decades like a machine. Currently our practice for accepting other people's help involves:

Re: Debian doesn't have a "core team", should it? can it?

2022-04-10 Thread M. Zhou
Hi, "Core team" is already ambiguous enough. I'd suggest leave it alone and do not try to define it. Attempts to define it are likely lead to nowhere other than a definition hell. Unless there is such need in Debian constitution, I think Debian should not try to do that. The intention of that

Re: isa-support -- exit strategy?

2022-03-26 Thread M. Zhou
On Sat, 2022-03-26 at 11:42 +0100, Stephan Lachnit wrote: > On Sat, Mar 26, 2022 at 2:36 AM M. Zhou wrote: > > > > Indeed supporting number crunching programs on ancient > > hardware is not meaningful, but the demand on Debian's > > support for number crunching i

Re: isa-support -- exit strategy?

2022-03-25 Thread M. Zhou
Hi Adam, I think the problems that apt/dpkg are trying to deal with is already complicated enough, and the architecture specific code are still not significant enough to introduce change there. Indeed supporting number crunching programs on ancient hardware is not meaningful, but the demand on

Re: Bug#1006885: ITP: lumin -- pattern match highlighter

2022-03-08 Thread M. Zhou
Meh... an interesting package name. On Mon, 2022-03-07 at 20:29 +0100, Vincent Bernat wrote: >  ❦  7 March 2022 18:33 +01, Adam Borowski: > > > > lumin highlights matches to a specified pattern (string or > > > regular > > > expression) in files, using color. This is similar to grep with > > >

Re: Rakudo has a transition tracker and then what ?

2022-02-04 Thread M. Zhou
wrote: > On 2022-02-03 17:58:24, M. Zhou wrote: > > @dod: It looks that we have to change the Architecture: of raku-* > > packages into any (instead of "all") because there is no binnmu > > for Arch:all package. Then upon each time we bump the rakudo API > > ve

Re: Rakudo has a transition tracker and then what ?

2022-02-03 Thread M. Zhou
@dod: It looks that we have to change the Architecture: of raku-* packages into any (instead of "all") because there is no binnmu for Arch:all package. Then upon each time we bump the rakudo API version, we just need to file a regular transition bug to the release team and trigger the rebuild. On

Re: Legal advice regarding the NEW queue

2022-02-02 Thread M. Zhou
On Wed, 2022-02-02 at 13:44 +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > Hi Wookey, > > Am Tue, Feb 01, 2022 at 02:07:21PM + schrieb Wookey: > > Has anyone on the actual FTP team responded to this thread yet? > > (sorry, I can't remember who that is currently) > > > > Either on Andreas's original simple

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

2022-01-21 Thread M. Zhou
Hi Andreas, Thank you for mentioning this. Your post inspired me to came up a new choice. On Fri, 2022-01-21 at 11:33 +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > > This recently happed for me in the case of onetbb (which was not > uploaded by myself - so I'm not even asking for myself while other > packages

Re: ROCm installation

2022-01-12 Thread M. Zhou
On Wed, 2022-01-12 at 21:06 +0100, Maxime Chambonnet wrote: > > > Headers and libraries should installed under the standard path, > > so that the compiler and linker should be able to find them without > > additional flags. Just install all stuff to /usr should be enough. > Currently for example

Re: ROCm installation

2022-01-12 Thread M. Zhou
Hi, Thanks for the updates. On Wed, 2022-01-12 at 18:14 +0100, Maxime Chambonnet wrote: "Native" Debian packages are starting to cover a significant portion of the stack [2], and it would be great to figure out the installation topic The word "native" is ambiguous to a portion of developers as

Re: Recalling Key Points of the Previous Attempt (was: Re: Regarding the new "Debian User Repository"

2021-07-05 Thread M. Zhou
On Mon, 2021-07-05 at 02:09 +, Paul Wise wrote: On Sun, Jul 4, 2021 at 11:20 AM Mo Zhou wrote: > (2) use the "hardware capabilities" feature of ld.so(8) ... > Solution (2) will result in very bulky binary packages; Solution (2) seems like the only option that can be done entirely within

Re: ZFS 2.0 update - buster

2021-02-23 Thread M. Zhou
Hi Daniel, On Tue, 2021-02-23 at 12:23 +0100, Daniel Garcia Sanchez wrote: > Yesterday the backports ZFS package was updated to 2.0. I have a > machine using ZFS as the root filesystem. After the update the > machine was not able to boot. I think it was the ZFS update that > caused the problem.

Re: Tools to better colorize the command-line experience?

2021-01-07 Thread M. Zhou
Hi Otto, I rely on such helper utilities. Here I can list some recommendations. On Thu, 2021-01-07 at 23:02 +0200, Otto Kekäläinen wrote: > Do you have any tips about generic command-line coloring programs? 1. [diff-highlight] highlighting .diff/.patch files located in package git:

Disabling automatic upgrades on Sid by default?

2020-12-26 Thread M. Zhou
Hi folks, I don't quite understand the meaning of automatic upgrades on a rolling system such as Debian/Sid. According to my own experience, such automatic upgrades could be dangerous. Recently package ppp is pending for upgrade but it does not co-exist with my currently installed