Re: NEW processing friction

2022-02-09 Thread Steve Langasek
ead". I assert that it is much, much worse to continue doing this than to do *no* license/copyright review as part of binary NEW. It does not achieve the goal of having clean debian/copyright across the archive; it slows down the binary NEW queue due to (self-imposed) workload of the FTP team; and

Re: Thanks and Decision making working group (was Re: General Resolution: Statement regarding Richard Stallman's readmission to the FSF board result)

2021-04-20 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 11:25:50PM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 12:31:51PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > IMHO, it's better to have a vote quickly on a limited set of GR options, > > with the possibility of a second GR if there is sufficient

Re: Thanks and Decision making working group (was Re: General Resolution: Statement regarding Richard Stallman's readmission to the FSF board result)

2021-04-19 Thread Steve Langasek
ssibility of a second GR if there is sufficient dissatisfaction with the first GR outcome, than to have community energy spent endlessly on crafting a perfect set of options before we take a vote. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer

Re: Tone policing by a member of the community team [Was, Re: Statement regarding Richard Stallman's readmission to the FSF board]

2021-04-06 Thread Steve Langasek
re it will not change your daily life in your > > > team or in the project. Or wait some hours before doing it. But again, > > > such > > > wordings are unacceptable, regardless the topic itself and the ideas. Keep > > > in mind you speak publicly and your mail

Re: Tone policing by a member of the community team [Was, Re: Statement regarding Richard Stallman's readmission to the FSF board]

2021-04-06 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Apr 06, 2021 at 12:47:23PM +0200, Pierre-Elliott Bécue wrote: > Le lundi 05 avril 2021 à 15:58:37-0700, Steve Langasek a écrit : > > Hi all, > > After some long thought, I believe this message warrants a public response > > (and discussion). > > The facts are t

Tone policing by a member of the community team [Was, Re: Statement regarding Richard Stallman's readmission to the FSF board]

2021-04-05 Thread Steve Langasek
gt; > Regards > > > > Jean-Philippe MENGUAL > Debian Developer non uploading > Community team member > Accessibility team member > debian-l10n-french team member > President of Debian France non-profit organization > Le 26/03/2021 à 20:22, Michael Shigorin a é

Re: Release status of i386 for Bullseye and long term support for 3 years?

2020-12-13 Thread Steve Langasek
r architectures, due to, among other things, lack of adequate support from the upstream kernel/toolchain community. I'm not sure if i386 has caught up and now has adequate mitigation for Spectre etc, but it definitely wasn't available on an equivalent timeline as amd64. -- Steve Langasek

Re: CentOS and Debian/Ubuntu release cycles

2020-12-09 Thread Steve Langasek
an stable > and testing at the same time, brought together and then released. Ubuntu > changes significantly every six months and publishes an LTS once every two > years. A minor correction: Ubuntu pulls from Debian unstable, not from testing or stable. -- Steve Langasek Gi

Re: Y2038 - best way forward in Debian?

2020-02-04 Thread Steve Langasek
ving been a priority for Debian as far back as 2003, I think it was no more than 5 years ago that I was still finding libraries in the archive that were incompatible with LFS because they were leaking 32-bit types into their own ABIs. I think the lesson to be learned from 64-bit file support is that t

Re: Condorcet Internet Voting Service

2020-01-06 Thread Steve Langasek
ity. If you did so, then you would be allowing yourself to be manipulated into being a tool of a harasser. Debian does not expel developers often, or without cause. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, an

Accepted schroot 1.6.10-8 (source all amd64) into unstable

2020-01-04 Thread Steve Langasek
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Sun, 05 Jan 2020 05:36:58 + Source: schroot Binary: schroot schroot-common schroot-dbgsym Architecture: source all amd64 Version: 1.6.10-8 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Debian QA Group Changed-By: Steve

Accepted schroot 1.6.10-7 (source all amd64) into unstable

2020-01-03 Thread Steve Langasek
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2020 21:13:37 + Source: schroot Binary: schroot schroot-common schroot-dbgsym Architecture: source all amd64 Version: 1.6.10-7 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Debian QA Group Changed-By: Steve

Re: Be nice to your fellow Debian colleagues

2020-01-01 Thread Steve Langasek
r view might reflect the current reality but it is not what we have signed > up for. The Social Contract only says that users are our priority. It does not say that we should implement any particular method of soliciting their input on decisions. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long en

Accepted doxygen 1.8.13-13 (all amd64 source) into unstable

2019-12-08 Thread Steve Langasek
Maintainer: Debian QA Group Changed-By: Steve Langasek Description: doxygen- Documentation system for C, C++, Java, Python and other languages doxygen-doc - Documentation for doxygen doxygen-gui - GUI configuration tool for doxygen doxygen-latex - Documentation system for C, C++, Java, Python

Accepted libwmf 0.2.8.4-16 (all amd64 source) into unstable

2019-12-08 Thread Steve Langasek
Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Debian QA Group Changed-By: Steve Langasek Description: libwmf-bin - Windows metafile conversion tools libwmf-dev - Windows metafile conversion development libwmf-doc - Windows metafile documentation libwmf0.2-7 - Windows metafile conversion

Re: Secureboot: how to use MOK

2019-11-07 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Nov 07, 2019 at 03:04:16AM +0100, Ansgar wrote: > Steve Langasek writes: > > On Sun, Oct 27, 2019 at 10:45:49AM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: > >> * Thomas Goirand: > >> I don't think secure boot provides any benefit at all if you store the > >> kernel mo

Re: Secureboot: how to use MOK

2019-11-05 Thread Steve Langasek
all attacks that involve getting access to the private key on the machine; but it does prevent the presence of MOK + DKMS being used to attack the firmware. We do this by default in Ubuntu with dkms. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian D

Accepted doxygen 1.8.13-12 (source) into unstable

2019-10-20 Thread Steve Langasek
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2019 06:34:45 + Source: doxygen Architecture: source Version: 1.8.13-12 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Debian QA Group Changed-By: Steve Langasek Changes: doxygen (1.8.13-12) unstable; urgency

Accepted haskell98-tutorial 200006-2-3 (source) into unstable

2019-10-01 Thread Steve Langasek
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2019 14:00:12 -0700 Source: haskell98-tutorial Architecture: source Version: 26-2-3 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Debian QA Group Changed-By: Steve Langasek Changes: haskell98-tutorial

Accepted doxygen 1.8.13-11 (source) into unstable

2019-10-01 Thread Steve Langasek
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2019 12:47:01 -0700 Source: doxygen Architecture: source Version: 1.8.13-11 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Debian QA Group Changed-By: Steve Langasek Changes: doxygen (1.8.13-11) unstable; urgency

Accepted smlnj 110.79-5 (all amd64 source) into unstable

2019-09-30 Thread Steve Langasek
smlnj-doc smlnj-runtime Source: smlnj Architecture: all amd64 source Version: 110.79-5 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Debian QA Group Changed-By: Steve Langasek Closes: 933588 Description: libckit-smlnj - SML library for parsing and type-checking C programs libcml-smlnj

Accepted edk2 0~20190606.20d2e5a1-4 (source) into unstable

2019-09-01 Thread Steve Langasek
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Sun, 01 Sep 2019 05:31:40 + Source: edk2 Architecture: source Version: 0~20190606.20d2e5a1-4 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers Changed-By: Steve Langasek Changes: edk2 (0~20190606.20d2e5a1

Accepted edk2 0~20190606.20d2e5a1-3 (source) into unstable

2019-08-31 Thread Steve Langasek
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2019 21:59:55 -0700 Source: edk2 Architecture: source Version: 0~20190606.20d2e5a1-3 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers Changed-By: Steve Langasek Closes: 936470 Changes: edk2 (0

Re: Do we want to Require or Recommend DH

2019-05-21 Thread Steve Langasek
ich trims a fair amount of boilerplate. Further improvements are definitely possible. Simplifying debian/rules to only need to declare the exceptions, and not the boilerplate, is always a win. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer

Accepted freetds 1.1.6-1 (source) into unstable

2019-05-01 Thread Steve Langasek
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Thu, 02 May 2019 02:57:34 + Source: freetds Architecture: source Version: 1.1.6-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Steve Langasek Changed-By: Steve Langasek Changes: freetds (1.1.6-1) unstable; urgency

Accepted pam 1.3.1-5 (source) into unstable

2019-02-13 Thread Steve Langasek
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2019 07:08:47 + Source: pam Architecture: source Version: 1.3.1-5 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Steve Langasek Changed-By: Steve Langasek Changes: pam (1.3.1-5) unstable; urgency=medium

Accepted pam 1.3.1-4 (source) into unstable

2019-02-13 Thread Steve Langasek
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2019 23:39:03 + Source: pam Architecture: source Version: 1.3.1-4 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Steve Langasek Changed-By: Steve Langasek Closes: 922239 Changes: pam (1.3.1-4) unstable

Accepted pam 1.3.1-2 (source) into unstable

2019-02-12 Thread Steve Langasek
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2019 23:52:04 + Source: pam Architecture: source Version: 1.3.1-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Steve Langasek Changed-By: Steve Langasek Closes: 922178 Changes: pam (1.3.1-2) unstable

Accepted pam 1.3.1-1 (source) into unstable

2019-02-12 Thread Steve Langasek
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2019 07:38:11 + Source: pam Architecture: source Version: 1.3.1-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Steve Langasek Changed-By: Steve Langasek Closes: 762110 821408 825782 889910 890524 Changes

Accepted shim 15+1533136590.3beb971-2 (source) into unstable

2019-02-10 Thread Steve Langasek
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2019 05:18:18 + Source: shim Architecture: source Version: 15+1533136590.3beb971-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Steve Langasek Changed-By: Steve Langasek Changes: shim (15+1533136590.3beb971

Accepted shim 15+1533136590.3beb971-1 (source amd64) into unstable

2019-02-08 Thread Steve Langasek
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2019 07:23:19 + Source: shim Binary: shim Architecture: source amd64 Version: 15+1533136590.3beb971-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Steve Langasek Changed-By: Steve Langasek Description: shim

Accepted pam 1.1.8-4 (all amd64 source) into unstable

2019-01-08 Thread Steve Langasek
: medium Maintainer: Steve Langasek Changed-By: Steve Langasek Closes: 907492 Description: libpam-cracklib - PAM module to enable cracklib support libpam-doc - Documentation of PAM libpam-modules - Pluggable Authentication Modules for PAM libpam-modules-bin - Pluggable Authentication Modules

Re: Upcoming Qt switch to OpenGL ES on arm64

2018-11-28 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 11:46:21PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 02:06:27PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > >... > > Hmm, so I'm not sure this reflects the actual state of the art wrt dual Qt > > stacks as it existed in Ubuntu at the time Ubunt

Re: Upcoming Qt switch to OpenGL ES on arm64

2018-11-28 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 05:03:51PM +0300, Dmitry Shachnev wrote: > On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 11:00:52PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > The amount of packages will probably be larger in the current sid, > but it should not be more than 20 packages. > Plus there are packages whi

Re: Upcoming Qt switch to OpenGL ES on arm64

2018-11-27 Thread Steve Langasek
work out the scope. And each of those gles source packages is a purely mechanical transformation of the base Qt source package. So perhaps someone in this thread is willing to put in this effort to maintain 6 source packages, in order to avoid having to make a choice between GL and GLES on arm6

Re: Upcoming Qt switch to OpenGL ES on arm64

2018-11-27 Thread Steve Langasek
d to do this analysis, but relatively little human time. If someone was interested in volunteering to ensure both GL and GLES were supported by Qt, this is where I would suggest they start, in order to accurately size the effort involved and know what they're signing up for. -- Steve Langasek

Re: Upcoming Qt switch to OpenGL ES on arm64

2018-11-27 Thread Steve Langasek
think it is too much maintenance overhead to provide a dual stack for these 5 libraries (plus any others that later start to use GL-dependant ABIs), I think you're absolutely entitled to that view. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer

Re: usrmerge -- plan B?

2018-11-27 Thread Steve Langasek
se same poor decisions. I don't mean that I'm unsympathetic to downstreams in that situation, or that I wouldn't want to help them; only that their plight /should not/ be an obstacle to Debian doing the right thing. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer

Re: Bug#881333: Qt with GLES on arm64 maintainer's decision - Was:: Upcoming Qt switch to OpenGL ES on arm64

2018-11-27 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 03:39:03PM -0800, Keith Packard wrote: > Steve Langasek writes: > > Long ago I heard rumors of development work on mesa that would allow it to > > function as a proxy library, so that apps would link against libGL as needed > > and the GL imp

Re: Bug#881333: Qt with GLES on arm64 maintainer's decision - Was:: Upcoming Qt switch to OpenGL ES on arm64

2018-11-26 Thread Steve Langasek
e this for any arch (read it: support either one > > or > > the other technology) as long as the decision is taken by the technical > > committee. As I wrote before, we will keep the status quo, so if anyone is > > interested in any change feel free to contact the TC. &g

Re: Q: secure boot

2018-11-05 Thread Steve Langasek
are signed, then what > > should > > we do to achieve it? > Another question: do we want it? It's beneficial only if you can not only > add your own keys but also _remove_ built-in ones, and typical "consumer" > machines don't allow that. [citation needed] -- Steve La

Re: no{thing} build profiles

2018-10-21 Thread Steve Langasek
age providing the actual gpg binary. https://bugs.debian.org/891931 For some applications, that's substantial. I'm not sure if that's the case for any of the reverse dependencies of libgpgme. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer

Accepted freetds 1.00.104-1 (all amd64 source) into unstable

2018-10-19 Thread Steve Langasek
Langasek Changed-By: Steve Langasek Description: freetds-bin - FreeTDS command-line utilities freetds-common - configuration files for FreeTDS SQL client libraries freetds-dev - MS SQL and Sybase client library (static libs and headers) libct4 - libraries for connecting to MS SQL and Sybase

Accepted sqsh 2.5.16.1-2 (amd64 source) into unstable

2018-10-07 Thread Steve Langasek
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Sun, 07 Oct 2018 21:54:29 -0700 Source: sqsh Binary: sqsh Architecture: amd64 source Version: 2.5.16.1-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Steve Langasek Changed-By: Steve Langasek Closes: 910129 Description

Accepted sqsh 2.5.16.1-1 (amd64 source) into unstable

2018-09-25 Thread Steve Langasek
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2018 07:09:33 + Source: sqsh Binary: sqsh Architecture: amd64 source Version: 2.5.16.1-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Steve Langasek Changed-By: Steve Langasek Closes: 717870 780466 891671

Re: Migrating away from ucf without dpkg prompting

2018-08-23 Thread Steve Langasek
the changelog. Why do you think it's necessary here to revert to a conffile? -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer https://www

Re: Should the weboob package stay in Debian?

2018-07-25 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 07:05:33PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > On Tue, 24 Jul 2018 09:40:25 -0700, Steve Langasek > wrote: > >On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 01:15:52PM +0200, Stephan Seitz wrote: > >> On Di, Jul 24, 2018 at 11:49:55 +0100, Matthew Vernon wrote: > >> > a

Re: Should the weboob package stay in Debian?

2018-07-24 Thread Steve Langasek
ebian's core principles (DFSG, Debian Social Contract, Diversity Statement). -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer https:/

Re: Bug#901001: python3-minimal should Pre-Depend on python3.N-minimal

2018-06-09 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Jun 09, 2018 at 06:39:19PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: > On 09.06.2018 18:31, Matthias Klose wrote: > > On 09.06.2018 11:55, Philipp Kern wrote: > > > On 6/9/18 7:20 AM, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > > - the package is being upgraded; it is in the common

Re: Bug#901001: python3-minimal should Pre-Depend on python3.N-minimal

2018-06-08 Thread Steve Langasek
e upgrade case; but in the removal case, this code does need to be run unless python3 itself is also being removed, and there is no way to enforce the availability of /usr/bin/python during a dist-upgrade without this pre-depends. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough

Re: autopkgtest results influencing migration from unstable to testing

2018-05-12 Thread Steve Langasek
owed to regress in new versions of the Debian package. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?users=ubuntu-de...@lists.ubuntu.com;tag=autopkgtest It's fine if the raw number of tests goes down, if the overall quality of the tests - and therefore the quality of the release - goes up (and the t

Accepted libplist 2.0.0-3 (source amd64 all) into unstable

2018-04-24 Thread Steve Langasek
: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Debian QA Group <packa...@qa.debian.org> Changed-By: Steve Langasek <vor...@debian.org> Description: libplist++-dev - Library for handling Apple binary and XML property lists libplist++3v5 - Library for handling Apple binary and XML property lists

hijack my thread

2018-04-17 Thread Steve Langasek
e discussed here without needing to name anyone. But by my reckoning, that means we should be trying to get our noses out rather than sticking them further in. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set

Re: Lucas Kanashiro and Athos Ribeiro salvaged my package

2018-04-16 Thread Steve Langasek
t a package is "team" maintained without the consent of one of the members of the "team". -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer

salvage != hijacking

2018-04-16 Thread Steve Langasek
hat any developer can commit to the repo, /not/ that any developer should feel free to upload the result without coordination. I am hopeful that the move to salsa means we will have less of this sort of thing going forward, since creating a separate project under salsa is now not so heavy-weigh

Re: Bug#880014: Technical committee appointment

2018-03-16 Thread Steve Langasek
und it necessary to spend 3x as much space on your ranty response as Gunnar did on his gentle correction. Gunnar, thanks for continuing to work to make Debian a welcoming community, in ways big and small, and helping us live up to the principles enshrined in our diversity statement. -- Steve Langasek

Accepted freetds 1.00.82-2 (source amd64 all) into unstable

2018-02-20 Thread Steve Langasek
Langasek <vor...@debian.org> Changed-By: Steve Langasek <vor...@debian.org> Description: freetds-bin - FreeTDS command-line utilities freetds-common - configuration files for FreeTDS SQL client libraries freetds-dev - MS SQL and Sybase client library (static libs and headers) libct4

Accepted freetds 1.00.82-1 (source amd64 all) into unstable

2018-02-19 Thread Steve Langasek
Langasek <vor...@debian.org> Changed-By: Steve Langasek <vor...@debian.org> Description: freetds-bin - FreeTDS command-line utilities freetds-common - configuration files for FreeTDS SQL client libraries freetds-dev - MS SQL and Sybase client library (static libs and headers) libct4

Accepted freetype 2.8.1-2 (source amd64) into unstable

2018-02-13 Thread Steve Langasek
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2018 07:49:55 + Source: freetype Binary: libfreetype6 libfreetype6-dev freetype2-demos libfreetype6-udeb Architecture: source amd64 Version: 2.8.1-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: high Maintainer: Steve Langasek

Re: Mass bug filing for the removal of freetype-config and freetype.m4

2018-02-06 Thread Steve Langasek
newer upstream Freetype releases, it seems more likely > > to happen. > > Not carrying long-term patches to the build systems of a large number of > > packages seems a good goal. > Good point. I'll file a bug upstream to ask them to drop freetype-config. > In the meantime

Bug#886238: Build-Profiles purpose, mechanism vs policy (was Re: Bug#886238: Please introduce official nosystemd build profile)

2018-01-10 Thread Steve Langasek
that this be done in such a way that the list of files within the stage1 package is no different than the list of files within a final package is an additional, artificial constraint. I don't believe it fundamentally makes the bootstrapping problem any easier than if this were done ad-hoc. -- Steve

Bug#886238: Please introduce official nosystemd build profile

2018-01-10 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Jan 08, 2018 at 08:36:50PM -0500, Michael Stone wrote: > On Mon, Jan 08, 2018 at 12:09:09PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > Top-posting to just say +1, and that I was going to reply with much the > > same. > > I don't even think the requirement for t

Re: (was: Re: Bug#886238: Please introduce official nosystemd build profile)

2018-01-10 Thread Steve Langasek
), are significantly less usable if the build profile doesn't follow the resulting .deb as a tag. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer

Bug#886238: Please introduce official nosystemd build profile

2018-01-08 Thread Steve Langasek
gt; I agree with Simon that defining an architecture to try and deal with > this is abuse of that mechanism. An architecture is an ABI and life is > complicated enough without adding baggage to that concept. > > Wookey > -- > Principal hats: Linaro, Debian, Wookware, ARM > http://wookware.org

Accepted freetype 2.8.1-1 (source amd64) into unstable

2018-01-04 Thread Steve Langasek
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2018 00:42:36 + Source: freetype Binary: libfreetype6 libfreetype6-dev freetype2-demos libfreetype6-udeb Architecture: source amd64 Version: 2.8.1-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Steve Langasek

Bug#886238: Please introduce official nosystemd build profile

2018-01-03 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Jan 03, 2018 at 02:48:11PM -0900, Britton Kerin wrote: > On 1/3/18, Steve Langasek <vor...@debian.org> wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 03, 2018 at 09:13:24AM -0500, Paul R. Tagliamonte wrote: > >> Conversely, if the patches are invasive and unmaintainable, its not on &

Re: Bug#886238: Please introduce official nosystemd build profile

2018-01-03 Thread Steve Langasek
libraries that get linked in the archive, is not sensible. Catering to fanatics who insist on treating it specially, without technical merit, has no bearing on the freeness or universality of Debian. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer

Bug#886238: Please introduce official nosystemd build profile

2018-01-03 Thread Steve Langasek
ing an official "nosystemd" build profile makes life easier for > people who want to support systemd-less builds, and they send patches to > keep the build profile actually working, then that doesn't hurt us in > any way and I think we should do it. > > -- &g

Re: Why do we list individual copyright holders?

2018-01-02 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Jan 03, 2018 at 10:22:19AM +0500, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > On Tue, Jan 02, 2018 at 04:25:07PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > If S-V is declaring that the package conforms to some older version of the > > > policy then all the tools should check that packag

Re: Why do we list individual copyright holders?

2018-01-02 Thread Steve Langasek
version they have done the work to update to, but the policy that the package should comply with is still the most current one and the tools should facilitate that. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer

Re: Is missing SysV-init support a bug?

2017-12-30 Thread Steve Langasek
ave an uphill battle to codify such an expectation in the release-critical bug guidelines. If not, I think you will find other userspace incompatibilities creeping in. In particular, I expect glibc's minimum kernel compatibility level to continue to ratchet up. -- Steve Langasek Give me a l

Re: Has Copyright summarizing outlived its usefulness?

2017-12-11 Thread Steve Langasek
for some of the reasons we have explored here. Yes; and the way to fix this is to correct this misconception (rooted in the historical policy error to specify copyright as a source-level file) that debian/copyright *should* document the source copyright instead of the binary copyright. -- Steve Langasek

Accepted libgpiv 0.6.1-7 (source amd64 all) into unstable

2017-09-01 Thread Steve Langasek
Group <packa...@qa.debian.org> Changed-By: Steve Langasek <vor...@debian.org> Description: libgpiv-mpi3 - library for Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) - MPI version libgpiv3 - library for Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) libgpiv3-common - library for Particle Image Velocimetry (P

Re: Can Ubuntu font be added to a Debian repository?

2017-08-08 Thread Steve Langasek
ce: > https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~sladen/ubuntu-font-family/midstream/view/head:/midstream/SOURCES.txt Which differs from the majority of fonts in Debian main only in that the source is public. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to s

Re: New package split of util-linux

2017-07-26 Thread Steve Langasek
not true. It is not /required/ for basic operation of containers and chroots, which is maybe what you meant, but that doesn't mean it's useless. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the worl

Re: Intended MBF: maintainer scripts not using strict mode

2017-06-27 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 09:03:16AM +0200, Ralf Treinen wrote: > On Mon, Jun 26, 2017 at 11:09:26PM +0200, Mattia Rizzolo wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 26, 2017 at 10:23:56PM +0200, Ralf Treinen wrote: > > > we currently have in sid 84 maintainer scripts not using strict mode. > > > That is, they neither

Accepted golang-github-blevesearch-bleve 0.5.0+git20170324.202.4702785f-2 (source all) into unstable

2017-06-25 Thread Steve Langasek
Maintainer: Debian Go Packaging Team <pkg-go-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org> Changed-By: Steve Langasek <vor...@debian.org> Description: golang-github-blevesearch-bleve-dev - modern text indexing library for go Changes: golang-github-blevesearch-bleve (0.5.0+git20170324.202.4702785f

Re: "Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?"

2017-06-11 Thread Steve Langasek
ings like the signing of kernel modules with ephemeral keys, it's now guaranteed by the Ubuntu kernel team that each kernel published to the Ubuntu archive will have its ABI bumped. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it

Re: Too many Recommends (in particular on mail-transport-agent)

2017-06-06 Thread Steve Langasek
systemd already has this dependency and the separate recommends could be dropped. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer

Accepted golang-github-gosexy-gettext 0~git20130221-2 (source all) into unstable

2017-05-15 Thread Steve Langasek
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Tue, 16 May 2017 04:41:32 + Source: golang-github-gosexy-gettext Binary: golang-github-gosexy-gettext-dev Architecture: source all Version: 0~git20130221-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Steve Langasek <

Re: Adding postgresql as pre-depends for gitlab

2017-04-17 Thread Steve Langasek
s, not a pre-depends, since there is no reason to be configuring a database in a package preinst. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer

Accepted shim-signed 1.28 (source amd64) into unstable, unstable

2017-04-15 Thread Steve Langasek
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2017 21:44:06 + Source: shim-signed Binary: shim-signed Architecture: source amd64 Version: 1.28 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Steve Langasek <vor...@debian.org> Changed-By: Steve Langase

Re: how to mount /(dev|run)/shm properly? (was Re: Auto reject if autopkgtest of reverse dependencies fail or cause FTBFS)

2017-01-14 Thread Steve Langasek
ad, we effectively now have a mess in the other direction. We should fix it so that everything again treats /dev/shm as the mountpoint. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the w

Re: Auto reject if autopkgtest of reverse dependencies fail or cause FTBFS

2017-01-14 Thread Steve Langasek
at the tests are flaky enough for this to matter? Upstream put them in the test suite for a reason. I'd suggest that it's much better to block by default, and if you find that a particular test is becoming a problem (for you or for another maintainer), you can upload to make that

Re: dput: Call for feedback: What should change? What should stay the same?

2016-12-28 Thread Steve Langasek
dcut rm' take its arguments as '-f ' instead of as further positional arguments), and the fact that dcut dm requires an up-to-date local *DM* keyring to match against instead of letting you use your GPG keyring is irksome. So if dput were to implement a saner dcut command I would gladly switch ba

Accepted snapd 2.20-2 (source all amd64) into unstable

2016-12-25 Thread Steve Langasek
: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Steve Langasek <vor...@debian.org> Changed-By: Steve Langasek <vor...@debian.org> Description: golang-github-snapcore-snapd-dev - snappy development go packages. golang-github-ubuntu-core-snappy-dev - transitional dummy package snap-confine - Suppor

Accepted unixodbc 2.3.4-1 (source amd64) into unstable

2016-12-12 Thread Steve Langasek
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2016 10:55:09 + Source: unixodbc Binary: unixodbc libodbc1 unixodbc-dev odbcinst1debian2 odbcinst Architecture: source amd64 Version: 2.3.4-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Steve Langasek <

Re: Building architecture:all packages

2016-11-12 Thread Steve Langasek
uz/tests/test_build_set.py > I don't know. CCing William and Steve since maybe they do. I don't have links to any more formal specification, sorry - I just used the field as Adam and William told me it would work :) -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and

Accepted snapd 2.16-1 (source all amd64) into unstable

2016-11-02 Thread Steve Langasek
: Steve Langasek <vor...@debian.org> Changed-By: Steve Langasek <vor...@debian.org> Description: golang-github-snapcore-snapd-dev - snappy development go packages. golang-github-ubuntu-core-snappy-dev - transitional dummy package snapd - Tool to interact with Ubuntu Core Snappy. Cl

Accepted edk2 0~20160813.de74668f-2 (source all) into unstable

2016-10-19 Thread Steve Langasek
org> Changed-By: Steve Langasek <vor...@debian.org> Description: ovmf - UEFI firmware for virtual machines qemu-efi - UEFI firmware for virtual machines Changes: edk2 (0~20160813.de74668f-2) unstable; urgency=medium . [ dann frazier ] * d/p/arm64-reorder-blocks-al

Re: Is missing SysV-init support a bug?

2016-10-18 Thread Steve Langasek
change, the insistence on > mislabeling something, and the surprising anger and oddly twisted defenses > that ensue afterwards, making it clear that this is a marker of something > much deeper and much darker than just a trivial mistake. So... a shibboleth. ;) -- Steve Langasek

Accepted unixodbc 2.3.1-5 (source amd64) into unstable

2016-09-29 Thread Steve Langasek
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2016 13:13:32 -0700 Source: unixodbc Binary: unixodbc libodbc1 unixodbc-dev odbcinst1debian2 odbcinst Architecture: source amd64 Version: 2.3.1-5 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Steve Langasek <

Re: Debian does not have customers

2016-09-19 Thread Steve Langasek
g as your name does not appear at this URL, you get to decide for exactly 0 Debian Developers what they spend their time on in Debian. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Develo

Re: Network access during build

2016-09-08 Thread Steve Langasek
may be considered a bug, but certainly not a serious one. If you don't want packages in your build environment talking to the Internet, you take away their network connection, you don't try to use policy to enforce it. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long

Re: Porter roll call for Debian Stretch

2016-08-31 Thread Steve Langasek
t a rebuild test (i.e.: test rebuild packages in dependency order, and build later packages against the output of the earlier rebuilds). -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubun

Re: Bug#835520: Policy 9.3.1 is inaccurate to the point of being harmful

2016-08-28 Thread Steve Langasek
ity via the debian-policy mailing list. Have you done this? If not, the work is not "done". But I would invite you to engage in this process and help to improve Policy. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set i

Accepted lshw 02.18-0.1 (source amd64) into unstable

2016-08-20 Thread Steve Langasek
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2016 13:42:04 -0700 Source: lshw Binary: lshw lshw-gtk Architecture: source amd64 Version: 02.18-0.1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Ghe Rivero <g...@debian.org> Changed-By: Steve Langase

Accepted edk2 0~20160813.de74668f-1 (source all) into unstable

2016-08-16 Thread Steve Langasek
org> Changed-By: Steve Langasek <vor...@debian.org> Description: ovmf - UEFI firmware for virtual machines qemu-efi - UEFI firmware for virtual machines Closes: 830488 834467 Changes: edk2 (0~20160813.de74668f-1) unstable; urgency=medium . * New upstream release. -

Accepted snap-confine 1.0.38-3 (source amd64) into unstable

2016-07-28 Thread Steve Langasek
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2016 21:00:38 + Source: snap-confine Binary: snap-confine ubuntu-core-launcher Architecture: source amd64 Version: 1.0.38-3 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Steve Langasek <vor...@debian.

Accepted openhackware 0.4.1+git-20140423.c559da7c-4 (source all) into unstable

2016-07-03 Thread Steve Langasek
-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org> Changed-By: Steve Langasek <vor...@debian.org> Description: openhackware - OpenFirmware emulator for PowerPC Changes: openhackware (0.4.1+git-20140423.c559da7c-4) unstable; urgency=medium . * d/patches/001_build.patch: pass -fno-stack-protector. This is not

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