Work-needing packages report for May 13, 2022
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: 1243 (new: 0) Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 180 (new: 0) Total number of packages requested help for: 62 (new: 0) Please refer to https://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ for more information. No new packages have been orphaned, but a total of 1243 packages are orphaned. See https://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/orphaned for a complete list. No new packages have been given up for adoption, but a total of 180 packages are awaiting adoption. See https://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/rfa_bypackage for a complete list. For the following packages help is requested: apache2 (#910917), requested 1307 days ago Description: Apache HTTP Server Reverse Depends: apache2 apache2-ssl-dev apache2-suexec-custom apache2-suexec-pristine backuppc bfh-container-server courier-webadmin cvsweb debbugs-web doc-central (133 more omitted) Installations reported by Popcon: 97493 Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/910917 apparmor (#1006872), requested 66 days ago Description: user-space parser utility for AppArmor Reverse Depends: apparmor-notify apparmor-profiles apparmor-profiles-extra apparmor-utils content-hub-testability dbus-daemon dbus-tests debian-cloud-images-packages dovecot-core firejail (18 more omitted) Installations reported by Popcon: 185971 Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1006872 aufs (#963191), requested 691 days ago Description: driver for a union mount for Linux filesystems Reverse Depends: fsprotect Installations reported by Popcon: 8416 Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/963191 autopkgtest (#846328), requested 1989 days ago Description: automatic as-installed testing for Debian packages Reverse Depends: debci-worker sbuild-qemu Installations reported by Popcon: 1214 Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/846328 balsa (#642906), requested 3882 days ago Description: An e-mail client for GNOME Reverse Depends: balsa Installations reported by Popcon: 649 Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/642906 cargo (#860116), requested 1857 days ago Description: Rust package manager Reverse Depends: dh-cargo rust-all Installations reported by Popcon: 2889 Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/860116 courier (#978755), requested 497 days ago Description: Courier mail server Reverse Depends: courier-faxmail courier-filter-perl courier-imap courier-ldap courier-mlm courier-mta courier-pcp courier-pop courier-webadmin couriergrey (3 more omitted) Installations reported by Popcon: 837 Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/978755 cron (#984736), requested 431 days ago Description: new maintainer need Reverse Depends: apticron autolog backintime-common btrfsmaintenance buildd checksecurity clamtk cricket email-reminder exim4-base (20 more omitted) Installations reported by Popcon: 206409 Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/984736 cyrus-imapd (#921717), requested 1189 days ago Description: Cyrus mail system - IMAP support Reverse Depends: cyrus-admin cyrus-caldav cyrus-clients cyrus-dev cyrus-imapd cyrus-murder cyrus-nntpd cyrus-pop3d cyrus-replication Installations reported by Popcon: 399 Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/921717 debtags (#962579), requested 701 days ago Description: Debian Package Tags support tools Reverse Depends: packagesearch Installations reported by Popcon: 1444 Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/962579 dee (#831388), requested 2127 days ago Description: model to synchronize mutiple instances over DBus Reverse Depends: dee-tools gir1.2-dee-1.0 gir1.2-unity-7.0 libdee-dev libunity-dev libunity-protocol-private0 libunity-tools libunity9 zeitgeist-core Installations reported by Popcon: 42953 Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/831388 developers-reference (#759995), requested 2812 days ago Description: guidelines and information for Debian developers Installations reported by Popcon: 3300 Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/759995 devscripts (#800413), requested 2417 days ago Description: scripts to make the life of a Debian Package maintainer easier Reverse Depends: apt-build apt-listdifferences aptfs arriero brz-debian buildd debci debian-builder debmake debpear (31 more omitted) Installations reported by Popcon: 10530 Bug Report URL: https://bu
Re: Firmware: Scope of non-free-firmware
On Thu, 2022-05-12 at 16:56 +0200, Thomas Goirand wrote: > If protected by a debconf prompt (by default, doing nothing...), all > of your remarks are going away. That means that people who only ever upgrade via unattended-upgrades or other mechanisms that disable debconf/dpkg prompts etc aren't going to see the prompt. At work we disable them even when upgrading from one release to the next. I think that there are too many potential corner cases in automatically updating apt sources and that it is much simpler to subset non-free than require updates to apt sources. For how to announce the availability of the non-free/firmware subset, an apt hook that checks that installed packages from non-free only include packages with firmware or microcode in their names seems like a good idea, along with the usual info in the release notes etc. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Firmware: Scope of non-free-firmware
On 5/12/22 04:52, Paul Wise wrote: On Wed, 2022-05-11 at 17:14 +0200, Thomas Goirand wrote: A work around would be to have some automation to check if non-free is activated, and (propose to) update the sources.list automatically to add non-free-firmware. That isn't feasible, since apt sources are managed external to Debian. At my workplace we have $foo-apt-config* packages that manage our apt sources, modifying them would cause us conffile prompts and that would mean that upgrades to our $foo-apt-config* packages would get blocked, since unattended-upgrades skips packages with conffile prompts. Other people use configuration management systems that overwrite modified files and probably manage their apt sources using those systems, so Debian changes to apt sources would get removed. Others might be running Debian on read-only squashfs images so they would never get the apt sources modifications needed to get firmware from non-free, their image builds could either just fail or maybe silently fail to install the needed firmware files. I'd prefer doing this, as having copies of the same package in both non-free and non-free-firmware is (IMO) a mess. Having the same package in unstable and testing works fine, I don't see why it would be different for non-free and non-free/firmware. If protected by a debconf prompt (by default, doing nothing...), all of your remarks are going away. Example text: > It looks like you have non-free firmware package(s) installed in your > system, but the non-free-firmware repository doesn't look like present > in your sources.list. Do you wish to add a new file to > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-non-free-firmware.list to add this > repository? Just my 2 cents idea, hoping it helps, Cheers, Thomas Goirand (zigo)
Bug#1010899: ITP: python3-pyst -- Python module for interacting with the Asterisk PBX
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Bernd Schumacher * Package name: python3-pyst Version : 0.8 Upstream Author : Ralf Schlatterbeck * URL : https://github.com/schlatterbeck/pyst.git * License : LGPL, PSFL Programming Lang: Python Description : Python module for interacting with the Asterisk PBX Pyst consists of a set of interfaces and libraries to allow programming of Asterisk from python. The library currently supports AGI, AMI, and the parsing of Asterisk configuration files. The library also includes debugging facilities for AGI. In debian buster an older python2 version of pyst called python-pyst is already maintained by Apollon Oikonomopoulos . Now pyst supports also python3. Apollon Oikonomopoulos told me he is a bit short on time these days, and I could feel free to file an ITP and "adopt" the package. Ralf Schlatterbeck told me, he likes to see the a debian python3-pyst pakage.
Bug#1010897: ITP: python3-versioningit -- PEP 518 driven setuptools plugin for auto-versioning using git/hg
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Yaroslav Halchenko X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: python3-versioningit Version : 1.1.1 Upstream Author : John T. Wodder II * URL : https://github.com/jwodder/versioningit * License : MIT Programming Lang: Python Description : PEP 518 driven setuptools plugin for auto-versioning using git/hg versioningit is yet another setuptools plugin for automatically determining your package's version based on your version control repository's tags. Unlike others, it allows easy customization of the version format and even lets you easily override the separate functions used for version extraction and calculation. Features: - Installed & configured through PEP 518's pyproject.toml - Supports Git, modern Git archives, and Mercurial - Formatting of the final version uses format template strings, with fields for basic VCS information and separate template strings for distanced vs. dirty vs. distanced-and-dirty repository states - Can optionally write the final version to a file for loading at runtime - Provides custom setuptools commands for inserting the final version into a source file at build time - The individual methods for VCS querying, tag-to-version calculation, version bumping, version formatting, and writing the version to a file can all be customized using either functions defined alongside one's project code or via publicly-distributed entry points - Can alternatively be used as a library for use in setup.py or the like, in case you don't want to or can't configure it via pyproject.toml - The only thing it does is calculate your version and optionally write it to a file; there's no overriding of your sdist contents based on what's in your Git repository, especially not without a way to turn it off, because that would just be rude.
