Re: Overall bitrot, package reviews and fast(er) unmaintained package removals

2016-04-05 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 6:18 AM, Ondřej Surý wrote: > I totally understand that our QA team can't solve all of this, but I > have a couple of automated ideas that might help: Sounds a lot like some of these should be added to bapase: https://udd.debian.org/cgi-bin/bapase.cgi > I have a feeling t

Processed: block 820036 with 820129

2016-04-05 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > block 820036 with 820129 Bug #820036 [general] Debian does not run on systems with Secure Boot enabled 820036 was blocked by: 820041 820124 820052 820010 820006 820050 820038 820037 820008 820036 was not blocking any bugs. Added blocking bug(s) o

Re: Remove clamav-unofficial-sigs

2016-04-05 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, 2016-04-06 at 00:35 +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > I was discussing this yeasterday with Paul. > While the current package has some issues I believe that it is already  > quite useful as is, so if the alternative is to remove it from the  > archive then I am going to adopt it. It would be g

Re: Removing licq from the archive

2016-04-05 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 12:41 AM, Erik Johansson wrote: > I'm planing on asking for Licq (multi-protocol instant messaging client) to > be removed from Debian unstable due to it being unmaintained upstream and > now FTBFS. Since it is a network application it feels bad from a security > POV to keep

Re: Remove clamav-unofficial-sigs

2016-04-05 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Apr 05, Francois Gouget wrote: > clamav-unofficial-sigs is broken and not maintained anymore. So unless > something changes there is no point leaving it in the repository. I was discussing this yeasterday with Paul. While the current package has some issues I believe that it is already quite

Overall bitrot, package reviews and fast(er) unmaintained package removals

2016-04-05 Thread Ondřej Surý
Hey, while doing some work on PHP transitions, saving courier-imap, finally packaging seafile since they finally stopped violating GPL, I found a quite a lot of bitrot in some (mostly leaf) packages. Packages untouched for years after initial upload, packages with unreachable maintainers, etc[1].

Processed: Re: Bug#820013: general: Touchpad not working on Lenovo IdeaPad Yoga 13 after updating from 8.3 to 8.4

2016-04-05 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing control commands: > reassign -1 src:linux 3.16.7-ckt25-1 Bug #820013 [general] general: Touchpad not working on Lenovo IdeaPad Yoga 13 after updating from 8.3 to 8.4 Bug reassigned from package 'general' to 'src:linux'. Ignoring request to alter found versions of bug #820013 to the sa

Bug#820013: general: Touchpad not working on Lenovo IdeaPad Yoga 13 after updating from 8.3 to 8.4

2016-04-05 Thread Ben Hutchings
Control: reassign -1 src:linux 3.16.7-ckt25-1 Control: tag -1 moreinfo On Mon, 2016-04-04 at 22:11 +0300, Juho wrote: > Package: general > Severity: important > > After running "apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade" on 2016-04-03  > touchpad of IdeaPad Yoga 13 stopped working. Both touch plate

Bug#820153: ITP: rfcmarkup -- add HTML markup and links to internet-drafts and RFCs

2016-04-05 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Daniel Kahn Gillmor * Package name: rfcmarkup Version : 1.118 Upstream Author : Henrik Levkowetz * URL : https://tools.ietf.org/tools/rfcmarkup * License : GPL Programming Lang: Python Description : add HTML mark

Processed: block 820036 with 820124

2016-04-05 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > block 820036 with 820124 Bug #820036 [general] Debian does not run on systems with Secure Boot enabled 820036 was blocked by: 820038 820041 820010 820008 820006 820050 820037 820052 820036 was not blocking any bugs. Added blocking bug(s) of 820036

Re: debhelper compat 10 ready for testing (debhelper/9.20160403)

2016-04-05 Thread Niels Thykier
Simon McVittie: > On Tue, 05 Apr 2016 at 19:43:13 +, Niels Thykier wrote: >> I do not mind managing a mass-bug filing for removing manual dbg >> packages without reverse dependencies if that is any help. > > Is there a plan/timeline for having -dbgsym packages appear in testing > (and ideally

Re: debhelper compat 10 ready for testing (debhelper/9.20160403)

2016-04-05 Thread Simon McVittie
On Tue, 05 Apr 2016 at 19:43:13 +, Niels Thykier wrote: > I do not mind managing a mass-bug filing for removing manual dbg > packages without reverse dependencies if that is any help. Is there a plan/timeline for having -dbgsym packages appear in testing (and ideally also stable backports), or

Bug#819894: ITP Lin-guider

2016-04-05 Thread Rumen Bogdanovski
Package: wnpp Owner: Rumen G. Bogdanovski Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-as...@lists.debian.org, debian-pyt...@lists.debian.org * Package name: lin-guider Version : 3.2.2 Upstream Author : GM software * URL : https://sourceforge

Re: debhelper compat 10 ready for testing (debhelper/9.20160403)

2016-04-05 Thread Niels Thykier
Matthias Klose: > On 03.04.2016 12:12, Niels Thykier wrote: >> Hi, >> >> With the latest debhelper upload today, I believe compat 10 is now ready >> for widespread testing. > > please could you consider generating new style dbg files (using > build-id) for every debhelper compat level, if a binary

Bug#820013: general: Touchpad not working on Lenovo IdeaPad Yoga 13 after updating from 8.3 to 8.4

2016-04-05 Thread Juho
Update: Problem still exists. However I managed to get touch-pad back to work after putting my Yoga laptop to suspend mode and back on. After the power is restored the touch-pad works. After full power cycle (power off and back on) it is again in non-working state. I have also reproduced this

Remove clamav-unofficial-sigs

2016-04-05 Thread Francois Gouget
clamav-unofficial-sigs is broken and not maintained anymore. So unless something changes there is no point leaving it in the repository. clamav-unofficial-sigs is broken because of changes in securiteinfo. This issue has been reported a year ago and has not even been acknowledged by the devel

Bug#820124: ITP: fwupdate-signed -- Linux Firmware Updater EFI signed binary

2016-04-05 Thread Mario Limonciello
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mario Limonciello * Package name: fwupdate-signed Version : 1.11 Upstream Author : Mario Limonciello * URL : https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fwupdate-signed * License : (GPL-3+) Programming Lang: (Python) Descri

Removing licq from the archive

2016-04-05 Thread Erik Johansson
Hi, I'm planing on asking for Licq (multi-protocol instant messaging client) to be removed from Debian unstable due to it being unmaintained upstream and now FTBFS. Since it is a network application it feels bad from a security POV to keep it. Does this sound right or is there any other opinion?

Re: debhelper compat 10 ready for testing (debhelper/9.20160403)

2016-04-05 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Apr 05, 2016 at 12:01:40PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: > On 05.04.2016 00:23, Steve Langasek wrote: > >That's a behavior change for existing packages and may introduce build > >failures for packages that assume things about the output of dh_strip. It's > >inconsistent with the design prin

Bug#820115: ITP: ruby-cheffish -- library to manipulate Chef in Chef

2016-04-05 Thread Lucas Kanashiro
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Lucas Kanashiro * Package name: ruby-cheffish Version : 2.0.2 Upstream Author : Opscode, Inc. * URL : http://github.com/chef/cheffish * License : Apache-2.0 Programming Lang: Ruby Description : library to manipula

Bug#820114: ITP: ruby-compat-resource -- cookbook with some features of Chef 12.5 in previous 12.X releases

2016-04-05 Thread Lucas Kanashiro
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Lucas Kanashiro * Package name: ruby-compat-resource Version : 12.5.14 Upstream Author : John Keiser * URL : http://chef.io * License : Apache-2.0 Programming Lang: Ruby Description : cookbook with some features

Bug#820103: ITP: dh-make-elpa -- helper for creating Debian packages from ELPA packages

2016-04-05 Thread Sean Whitton
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Sean Whitton * Package name: dh-make-elpa Version : 0.1.0 Upstream Author : Sean Whitton * URL : N/A * License : GPL-3+ Programming Lang: Emacs Lisp Description : helper for creating Debian packages from ELPA pac

Re: Packages without long term stable releases

2016-04-05 Thread Simon McVittie
On Tue, 05 Apr 2016 at 12:18:18 +0200, Enrico Zini wrote: > ...and to have a suite, like testing, that: > > - does not transition to stable, and is intended to be used as is > - contains anything that enter testing > - also contains the packages that would enter testing but do not >because

Re: Packages without long term stable releases

2016-04-05 Thread Enrico Zini
On Tue, Apr 05, 2016 at 11:46:36AM +0200, Markus Koschany wrote: > I think the success of our stable releases depends on the continued > assessments of each and every maintainer. I don't believe you will find > enough developers and maintainers who are willing to evaluate all > packages in the arc

Re: debhelper compat 10 ready for testing (debhelper/9.20160403)

2016-04-05 Thread Matthias Klose
On 05.04.2016 00:23, Steve Langasek wrote: On Mon, Apr 04, 2016 at 10:28:18PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: On 03.04.2016 12:12, Niels Thykier wrote: With the latest debhelper upload today, I believe compat 10 is now ready for widespread testing. please could you consider generating new sty

Re: Packages without long term stable releases

2016-04-05 Thread Markus Koschany
Hello, I think the success of our stable releases depends on the continued assessments of each and every maintainer. I don't believe you will find enough developers and maintainers who are willing to evaluate all packages in the archive. Who will make the decision if a package is ok for stable or

Re: Bug#818407: fixed in unixodbc 2.3.1-4.1

2016-04-05 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi Steve! On 04/05/2016 12:39 AM, Steve Langasek wrote: > Ummm what? What do you think you're doing? Where is the NMU patch for > this, which in all cases must be sent to the BTS *before* you upload? And > since when is a 0-day NMU for a two-week-old FTBFS that doesn't previously > have a patch

Packages without long term stable releases

2016-04-05 Thread Enrico Zini
Hello, I've recently seen constructive and polite[1] as well as destructive and rude[2] examples of dialogues with upstreams who cannot or would not support long-term stable releases of their software. I have not heard often of Debian maintainers negotiating with upstreams before packaging their