Re: Hardware Support

2014-08-19 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Sven Bartscher (2014-08-19): > On Tue, 19 Aug 2014 14:49:42 -0600 > Ryan Burchett wrote: > > > Hello! My apologies if this is the wrong email to contact for my issue. > > debian-u...@lists.debian.org would have been better. > > > I would absolutely love to use Debian. I cannot do this however.

Re: Standardizing the layout of git packaging repositories

2014-08-19 Thread Jeremy Stanley
On 2014-08-20 02:21:35 +0800 (+0800), Thomas Goirand wrote: > Well, for the changelog of OpenStack stuff, the FTP masters have > express their opinion that it's just too big to be in every > packages, so I have to *not* include them. Understandable for some of those larger projects with many thous

Re: Standardizing the layout of git packaging repositories

2014-08-19 Thread Jeremy Stanley
On 2014-08-20 02:32:10 +0800 (+0800), Thomas Goirand wrote: [...] > Good! For the moment, it has worked nicely, apart from the fact that > *some* upstream, like Jeremy Stanley, don't like it. I honestly feel > sorry about that, especially with people like Jeremy and other OpenStack > folks which ar

Re: Bug#758124: Documenting the Testsuite field in the Policy.

2014-08-19 Thread Antonio Terceiro
On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 06:34:39AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > > Le Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 09:36:50PM +0900, Charles Plessy a écrit : > > > > > > > > Here is a patch to update the Policy accordingly. Do you have comments > > > > ? > > > On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 07:44:19AM +0900, Charles Pless

Re: Hardware Support

2014-08-19 Thread Michal Sojka
On Tue, Aug 19 2014, Ryan Burchett wrote: > Hello! My apologies if this is the wrong email to contact for my issue. I > would absolutely love to use Debian. I cannot do this however. The problem > I am having is that you guys do not support my Wireless card. I went to the > wiki and the wireless se

Re: Bug#758124: Documenting the Testsuite field in the Policy.

2014-08-19 Thread Charles Plessy
> > Le Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 09:36:50PM +0900, Charles Plessy a écrit : > > > > > > Here is a patch to update the Policy accordingly. Do you have comments ? > On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 07:44:19AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > > > Anybody wanting to see the Testsuite field documented in the Poli

Re: Hardware Support

2014-08-19 Thread Sven Bartscher
On Tue, 19 Aug 2014 14:49:42 -0600 Ryan Burchett wrote: > Hello! My apologies if this is the wrong email to contact for my issue. debian-u...@lists.debian.org would have been better. > I would absolutely love to use Debian. I cannot do this however. The problem > I am having is that you guys do

Hardware Support

2014-08-19 Thread Ryan Burchett
Hello! My apologies if this is the wrong email to contact for my issue. I would absolutely love to use Debian. I cannot do this however. The problem I am having is that you guys do not support my Wireless card. I went to the wiki and the wireless section and saw my wireless card on the list of supp

Bug#758672: ITP: node-webfinger -- Host Meta (RFC 6415) and Webfinger library for NodeJS

2014-08-19 Thread Tim Retout
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Tim Retout * Package name: node-webfinger Version : 0.4.2 Upstream Author : Evan Prodromou * URL : http://github.com/e14n/webfinger * License : Apache 2.0 Programming Lang: Javascript Description : Host Meta (RFC

Bug#758670: ITP: lazr.smtptest -- framework for testing SMTP-based applications and libraries in Python

2014-08-19 Thread Barry Warsaw
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Barry Warsaw -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 * Package name: lazr.smtptest Version : 2.0.1 Upstream Author : lazr-us...@lists.launchpad.net * URL : https://launchpad.net/lazr.smtptest * License : LGPL P

Re: Why is package X not in testing yet?

2014-08-19 Thread Sven Bartscher
On Mon, 18 Aug 2014 21:55:37 +0100 Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: > Hi again Sven, > > I would just ask one (I hope little) feature, I'm not an haskell guy, so I > find rather difficult to submit a patch :) > > I would like to see also this > outputUrl = > "people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-archive/

Re: Standardizing the layout of git packaging repositories

2014-08-19 Thread Arturo Borrero Gonzalez
I would like to point out some considerations. A winning approach for me is: * don't assume that if I maintain packages in git, upstream is also developing using git. * don't assume that upstream is making releases. Maybe they don't make tarballs, even tags. Maybe they do, but they are very wrong

Re: First steps towards source-only uploads

2014-08-19 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 19 Aug 2014, Hector Oron wrote: > 2014-08-15 16:04 GMT+02:00 Ondřej Surý : > > I have encountered a situation where the FTBFS bug was caused > > by segfault in other package. This has forced me to split opendnssec-doc > > to arch:all package (which was good thing anyway), so there are cases

Re: Standardizing the layout of git packaging repositories

2014-08-19 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 08/19/2014 07:40 AM, Barry Warsaw wrote: > As Debian developers, I think we generally shouldn't be dictating best > practices to upstreams. Let them do whatever is most comfortable to them and > let them concentrate on making good software! I agree with that. But the same way, I don't think up

Re: Standardizing the layout of git packaging repositories

2014-08-19 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 08/19/2014 04:40 AM, Jeremy Stanley wrote: > For a variety of historical and pragmatic reasons, many distribution > channels expect a release tarball to contain some information which > is more efficiently stored in VCS metadata (authorship, detailed > change information, version numbers, et cet

Re: Why is package X not in testing yet?

2014-08-19 Thread Jérôme Vouillon
Hi Sven, Thanks a lot for taking the time to look at comigrate! On Tue, 19 Aug 2014 12:45:59, Sven Bartscher wrote: > On Mon, 18 Aug 2014 23:51:43 +0200 > Pietro Abate wrote: > >> Hei Sven, >> >> On 18/08/14 18:10, Sven Bartscher wrote: [...] >> you might want to have a look at comigrate [1] a

Re: Why is package X not in testing yet?

2014-08-19 Thread Sven Bartscher
On Tue, 19 Aug 2014 19:15:25 +0200 Sven Bartscher wrote: > On Tue, 19 Aug 2014 18:53:52 +0200 > Jérôme Vouillon wrote: > > > Hi Joachim, > > > > On Tue, 19 Aug 2014 11:07:57, Joachim Breitner wrote: > > > unfortunately, comigrate doesn’t cut it for our case. From the page > > > for haskell-hge

Re: Why is package X not in testing yet?

2014-08-19 Thread Sven Bartscher
On Tue, 19 Aug 2014 18:53:52 +0200 Jérôme Vouillon wrote: > Hi Joachim, > > On Tue, 19 Aug 2014 11:07:57, Joachim Breitner wrote: > > unfortunately, comigrate doesn’t cut it for our case. From the page > > for haskell-hgettext, I get redirected to haskell-uniplate, and from > > there to other pa

Re: Re: Why is package X not in testing yet?

2014-08-19 Thread Jérôme Vouillon
Hi Joachim, On Tue, 19 Aug 2014 11:07:57, Joachim Breitner wrote: > unfortunately, comigrate doesn’t cut it for our case. From the page > for haskell-hgettext, I get redirected to haskell-uniplate, and from > there to other packages, none of which are the real culprit. Sven’s > tool has an idea of

Re: Reintroducing FFmpeg to Debian

2014-08-19 Thread Michael Niedermayer
On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 12:15:10AM +0200, Clément Bœsch wrote: > On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 09:14:47PM +0200, Luca Barbato wrote: > [...] > > > Ive asked [1][2] back then what "policy in place" was broken > > > > - you tried to commit code that was blatantly below the already lax > > quality requirem

Bug#758644: ITP: haskell-icalendar -- Haskell Data definitions, parsing and printing of the iCalendar format (RFC5545).

2014-08-19 Thread Jelmer Vernooij
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jelmer Vernooij * Package name: haskell-icalendar Version : 0.4.0.1 Upstream Author : Christian Rødli Amble * URL : http://github.com/tingtun/iCalendar * License : BSD3 Programming Lang: Haskell Description : ical

Re: Standardizing the layout of git packaging repositories

2014-08-19 Thread Norbert Preining
On Sat, 16 Aug 2014, Russ Allbery wrote: > > And anyway I'd say that downloading the original archive is simpler than > > having to deal with pristine-tar... > > I'm mystified. What is there to deal with? I literally never touch it. > It just works, completely transparently and silently. Unfor

Re: First steps towards source-only uploads

2014-08-19 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Tue, 19 Aug 2014, Hector Oron wrote: > If amd64 was to be picked, what would happen to packages producing > arch:all packages that do not build on such architecture? They would get a FTBFS bug and they would get fixed. Or, if it's not a bug, the package would be uploaded by the maintainer himse

Bug#758638: ITP: python-diff-match-patch -- robust algorithms for synchronizing plain text

2014-08-19 Thread Stuart Prescott
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Stuart Prescott * Package name: python-diff-match-patch Version : 20121119 Upstream Author : Neil Fraser * URL : https://pypi.python.org/pypi/diff-match-patch * License : Apache-2.0 Programming Lang: Python 2 and 3 D

Re: First steps towards source-only uploads

2014-08-19 Thread Hector Oron
Hello, 2014-08-15 16:04 GMT+02:00 Ondřej Surý : > I have encountered a situation where the FTBFS bug was caused > by segfault in other package. This has forced me to split opendnssec-doc > to arch:all package (which was good thing anyway), so there are cases > where you want to build the arch:all

Bug#758636: ITP: libmoox-cmd-perl -- easy Moo style way to make command organized CLI apps

2014-08-19 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jonas Smedegaard -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 * Package name: libmoox-cmd-perl Version : 0.009 Upstream Author : Torsten Raudssus * URL : https://metacpan.org/pod/MooX::Cmd * License : Artistic or GPL

Re: Bug#758124: Documenting the Testsuite field in the Policy.

2014-08-19 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Charles, On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 07:44:19AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 09:36:50PM +0900, Charles Plessy a écrit : > > Package: debian-policy > > Version: 3.9.5 > > Severity: wishlist > > > > Hi Guillem and everybody, > > > > thanks for adding direct support for the

ITP: Argonaut -- Client server system for Managing system and their

2014-08-19 Thread Benoit Mortier
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Benoit Mortier * Package name: Argonaut Version : 0.9.1 Upstream Author : Name * URL : https://forge.fusiondirectory.org/projects/argonaut- agents * License : GPL Programming Lang: Perl Description : Client serve

Re: Why is package X not in testing yet?

2014-08-19 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, Am Dienstag, den 19.08.2014, 12:46 +0200 schrieb Sven Bartscher: > That's a bit more tricky than it seems, due to limitations in wget. > wget doesn't support the -N (only download if remote file if newer) > together with -O. So if I rename them wget won't be able to check their > timestamps.

Re: incoming.debian.org opens its doors to the public

2014-08-19 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, Am Sonntag, den 17.08.2014, 00:07 +0200 schrieb Ansgar Burchardt: > First, the archive used by buildds is now publically accessible in > http://incoming.debian.org/debian-buildd/. This location provides access > to all recently uploaded packages, split into individual suites, and > provides t

Re: Reintroducing FFmpeg to Debian

2014-08-19 Thread Ivan Kalvachev
On 8/18/14, Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote: > Andreas Cadhalpun schrieb: >> Hi Thomas, >> >> On 18.08.2014 08:36, Thomas Goirand wrote: >>> There's been a very well commented technical reason stated here: the >>> release team don't want to deal with 2 of the same library that are >>> doing (nearly) the

Re: Standardizing the layout of git packaging repositories

2014-08-19 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 19 Aug 2014, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 07:28:51PM -0400, Barry Warsaw wrote: > > Also, it makes me somewhat uncomfortable to assume that a git tag in the > > upstream repo will always be equivalent to their released tarball. In fact, > > it's often not, as is the case

Re: Why is package X not in testing yet?

2014-08-19 Thread Sven Bartscher
On Mon, 18 Aug 2014 21:55:37 +0100 Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: > I would just ask one (I hope little) feature, I'm not an haskell guy, so I > find rather difficult to submit a patch :) > > I would like to see also this > outputUrl = > "people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-archive/proposed-migration/u

Re: Why is package X not in testing yet?

2014-08-19 Thread Sven Bartscher
On Mon, 18 Aug 2014 23:51:43 +0200 Pietro Abate wrote: > Hei Sven, > > On 18/08/14 18:10, Sven Bartscher wrote: > > If we have a package, which doesn't migrate to testing, we usually > > check the "Why does package X not in testing yet?" page or the PTS. > > Usually they do a great job in tellin

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] Reintroducing FFmpeg to Debian

2014-08-19 Thread Clément Bœsch
Hi, On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 10:50:31AM +0200, Ondřej Surý wrote: [...] > From the security viewpoint, I would be also interested if ffmpeg > has tests and what is current code coverage. That could help avoiding > regressions when doing security updates. > > 1. There are also other tools: llvm/cla

Bug#758617: ITP: ibacm -- InfiniBand Communication Manager Assistant Library

2014-08-19 Thread Ana Guerrero Lopez
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ana Guerrero Lopez * Package name: ibacm Version : 1.0.9 Upstream Author : Sean Hefty * URL : https://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/rdmacm/ * License : To choose between OpenIB.org BSD license or GPL v2 Programming Lan

Re: Why is package X not in testing yet?

2014-08-19 Thread Joachim Breitner
Dear Pietro, Am Montag, den 18.08.2014, 23:51 +0200 schrieb Pietro Abate: > On 18/08/14 18:10, Sven Bartscher wrote: > > If we have a package, which doesn't migrate to testing, we usually > > check the "Why does package X not in testing yet?" page or the PTS. > > Usually they do a great job in te

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] Reintroducing FFmpeg to Debian

2014-08-19 Thread Ondřej Surý
On Sat, Aug 16, 2014, at 20:59, Russ Allbery wrote: > The problem, however, is that taking security seriously, while possibly > necessary, is not sufficient. I'm glad that FFmpeg takes security > seriously, but what FFmpeg needs is to *have fewer security bugs*. JFTR the Coverity Scan results for

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] Reintroducing FFmpeg to Debian

2014-08-19 Thread Ondřej Surý
On Sat, Aug 16, 2014, at 17:29, Thomas Goirand wrote: > On 08/15/2014 11:53 PM, The Wanderer wrote: > > It's also something the Linux kernel is still doing, with apparent > > success. > > Yes, the Linux kernel is a successful project. Does this mean using a > list for reviewing patches is a good t