Work-needing packages report for May 27, 2022

2022-05-26 Thread wnpp
The following is a listing of packages for which help has been requested through the WNPP (Work-Needing and Prospective Packages) system in the last week. Total number of orphaned packages: 1250 (new: 10) Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 179 (new: 0) Total number of packages reque

Re: use of Recommends by vlc to force users to use pipewire

2022-05-26 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2022-05-26 23:55:02 +, Alberto Garcia wrote: > On Fri, May 27, 2022 at 01:03:57AM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > > It was actually due to a problem in Evolution that we made WebKitGTK > > > depend on xdg-desktop-portal (later downgraded to a recommendation): > > > > > > https://bugzilla

Re: use of Recommends by vlc to force users to use pipewire

2022-05-26 Thread Alberto Garcia
On Fri, May 27, 2022 at 01:03:57AM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > It was actually due to a problem in Evolution that we made WebKitGTK > > depend on xdg-desktop-portal (later downgraded to a recommendation): > > > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1845743 > > https://bugs.webkit.or

Re: use of Recommends by vlc to force users to use pipewire

2022-05-26 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2022-05-26 20:08:22 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: > On Thu, 26 May 2022 at 17:21:27 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > Here, this could be > > > > Recommends: pipewire | pulseaudio > > Those are not interchangeable. > > pipewire started as a multiplexer for video streams, and only later > gai

Re: use of Recommends by vlc to force users to use pipewire

2022-05-26 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Alberto Garcia (2022-05-27 00:12:14) > On Thu, May 26, 2022 at 10:09:32PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > > It looks like that's happening because atril depends on > > > WebKitGTK, a relatively complete web browser engine, which uses > > > xdg-desktop-portal to invoke per-user services a

Re: use of Recommends by vlc to force users to use pipewire

2022-05-26 Thread Alberto Garcia
On Thu, May 26, 2022 at 10:09:32PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > It looks like that's happening because atril depends on > > WebKitGTK, a relatively complete web browser engine, which uses > > xdg-desktop-portal to invoke per-user services across a sandbox > > boundary (so that it can provide

Re: use of Recommends by vlc to force users to use pipewire

2022-05-26 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Simon McVittie (2022-05-26 21:08:22) > On Thu, 26 May 2022 at 17:21:27 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > Indeed, for a remote VM, it is silly to recommend a sound server, > > just because a library appears in the chain of dependencies: > > > > joooj:~> apt-get install -s atril | grep '^Ins

Re: use of Recommends by vlc to force users to use pipewire

2022-05-26 Thread Jérémy Lal
Le jeu. 26 mai 2022 à 21:08, Simon McVittie a écrit : > On Thu, 26 May 2022 at 17:21:27 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > Here, this could be > > > > Recommends: pipewire | pulseaudio > > Those are not interchangeable. > > pipewire started as a multiplexer for video streams, and only later > ga

Re: use of Recommends by vlc to force users to use pipewire

2022-05-26 Thread Simon McVittie
On Thu, 26 May 2022 at 17:21:27 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > Here, this could be > > Recommends: pipewire | pulseaudio Those are not interchangeable. pipewire started as a multiplexer for video streams, and only later gained audio capabilities. The reason most people with pipewire will have

Re: Project Improvements

2022-05-26 Thread David Kalnischkies
On Thu, May 26, 2022 at 08:50:21AM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > On Wed, 25 May 2022 20:21:03 +0200, David Kalnischkies > wrote: > >apt actually marks dependencies > >of packages in section metapackages as manually installed if the > >metapackage is removed due to the removal of one of its dependenci

Re: Project Improvements

2022-05-26 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Thu, May 26, 2022 at 06:47:19PM +0200, David Kalnischkies wrote: > > > > > I support many people with Debian, what I often see is that they > > > > > remove a > > > > > package, and then also the meta-package is removed. And later all > > > > > dependencies of the meta-package are removed by ac

Re: Project Improvements

2022-05-26 Thread David Kalnischkies
On Thu, May 26, 2022 at 03:44:29PM +0500, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > On Thu, May 26, 2022 at 03:28:21PM +0500, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > > > > I support many people with Debian, what I often see is that they remove > > > > a > > > > package, and then also the meta-package is removed. And later

Re: 1011146: nvidia-graphics-drivers-tesla-470 is a dependency of libb2

2022-05-26 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
No, see https://bugs.debian.org/1011268 (already linked in the bug report you replied to). -- WBR, wRAR signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: cups-pdf is marked for autoremoval from testing

2022-05-26 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Thu, May 26, 2022 at 02:33:20PM +0300, Martin-Éric Racine wrote: > Someone apparently made a commit to the autoremoval hinter that makes > it mark packages unrelated to an RC-bug package getting marked for > autoremoval. That's not what has happened. > Could someone please look into this? The b

1011146: nvidia-graphics-drivers-tesla-470 is a dependency of libb2

2022-05-26 Thread Robert Ransom

Re: cups-pdf is marked for autoremoval from testing

2022-05-26 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
Dev list, Someone apparently made a commit to the autoremoval hinter that makes it mark packages unrelated to an RC-bug package getting marked for autoremoval. Could someone please look into this? Thanks! Martin-Éric On Thu, May 26, 2022 at 10:38 AM Debian testing autoremoval watch wrote: > >

Bug#1011749: ITP: interception-tools -- minimal composable infrastructure on top of libudev and libevdev

2022-05-26 Thread Osamu Aoki
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Osamu Aoki X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, Ethan Djeric , Francisco Lopes * Package name: interception-tools Version : 0.6.8 Upstream Author : Francisco Lopes * URL : https://gitlab.com/interception/linux/tools *

Re: use of Recommends by vlc to force users to use pipewire

2022-05-26 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Sebastian Ramacher (2022-05-16 00:56:03) > On 2022-05-16 00:40:25 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > The vlc package now uses a Recommends (vlc-plugin-pipewire) to force > > users to use pipewire instead of pulseaudio (which broke the use of > > VLC, but also apparently ogg123 with the alsa

Re: use of Recommends by vlc to force users to use pipewire

2022-05-26 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2022-05-17 08:54:59 -0400, Marvin Renich wrote: > There is, unfortunately, a catch here. In order for any of the > applications that require a sound server to work, one of them must be > installed. For example, mpd links with libasound, libpipewire, and > libpulse. If each of these libs simpl

Re: maildir-utils is marked for autoremoval from testing

2022-05-26 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Thu, May 26, 2022 at 04:54:25PM +0200, Hector Oron wrote: > > > maildir-utils 1.6.10-1 is marked for autoremoval from testing on > > 2022-06-30 > > > > > > It (build-)depends on packages with these RC bugs: > > > 1011146: nvidia-graphics-drivers-tesla-470: CVE-2022-28181, > > CVE-2022-28183, CVE

Re: maildir-utils is marked for autoremoval from testing

2022-05-26 Thread Hector Oron
Hello, El dj., 26 de maig 2022, 16:54, Hector Oron va escriure: > Hello, > > El dj., 26 de maig 2022, 15:19, Norbert Preining > va escriure: > >> Hi >> >> (please cc) >> >> On Thu, 26 May 2022, Debian testing autoremoval watch wrote: >> > maildir-utils 1.6.10-1 is marked for autoremoval from te

Re: maildir-utils is marked for autoremoval from testing

2022-05-26 Thread Hector Oron
Hello, El dj., 26 de maig 2022, 15:19, Norbert Preining va escriure: > Hi > > (please cc) > > On Thu, 26 May 2022, Debian testing autoremoval watch wrote: > > maildir-utils 1.6.10-1 is marked for autoremoval from testing on > 2022-06-30 > > > > It (build-)depends on packages with these RC bugs:

Re: maildir-utils is marked for autoremoval from testing

2022-05-26 Thread Norbert Preining
Hi (please cc) On Thu, 26 May 2022, Debian testing autoremoval watch wrote: > maildir-utils 1.6.10-1 is marked for autoremoval from testing on 2022-06-30 > > It (build-)depends on packages with these RC bugs: > 1011146: nvidia-graphics-drivers-tesla-470: CVE-2022-28181, CVE-2022-28183, > CVE-20

Re: Project Improvements

2022-05-26 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Thu, May 26, 2022 at 03:28:21PM +0500, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > > > I support many people with Debian, what I often see is that they remove a > > > package, and then also the meta-package is removed. And later all > > > dependencies of the meta-package are removed by accident. > > Not to rain

Re: Project Improvements

2022-05-26 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Wed, May 25, 2022 at 08:21:03PM +0200, David Kalnischkies wrote: > > I support many people with Debian, what I often see is that they remove a > > package, and then also the meta-package is removed. And later all > > dependencies of the meta-package are removed by accident. > > Not to rain on y