Work-needing packages report for Jun 24, 2016

2016-06-23 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: 741 (new: 3) Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 174 (new: 1) Total number of packages request

Re: Keysigning via Video Conferencing

2016-06-23 Thread james
Hello Everyone, Sorry to interject in this matter however it is beginning to become repetitive. PGP Key Signing for New Members is purely an identification process, to prove that you are who you say you are. This provides the Debian Foundation with the assurance that you can be trusted monitor

Re: Keysigning via Video Conferencing

2016-06-23 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Michael Lustfield (2016-06-23 21:27:15) > Somewhere, I saw it mentioned that you should be able to verify based > on history only and their legal name doesn't matter. I don't entirely > disagree. The chances of the NSA building a super computer to > contribute to Debian, become a DD, and

Re: Keysigning via Video Conferencing

2016-06-23 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 12:52:35PM -0700, Nikolaus Rath wrote: > On Jun 23 2016, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 09:23:07AM -0700, Nikolaus Rath wrote: > >> As I said in my other email, I am wondering if the extra burden is worth > >> the gain in security. > > > > Is there an ext

Re: Keysigning via Video Conferencing

2016-06-23 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Peter Colberg (2016-06-23 20:39:52) > On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 07:30:42PM +0200, Jakub Wilk wrote: >> As as data point, if everybody[0]'s key signing policy had been that >> establishing "social bonds" was a prerequisite, I would have almost >> certainly never become a DD. > > I would like

Re: Keysigning via Video Conferencing

2016-06-23 Thread Nikolaus Rath
On Jun 23 2016, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 09:23:07AM -0700, Nikolaus Rath wrote: >> As I said in my other email, I am wondering if the extra burden is worth >> the gain in security. > > Is there an extra burden? Seems to me that it'd happen naturally if > you contribute to De

Re: Keysigning via Video Conferencing

2016-06-23 Thread Michael Lustfield
On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 9:28 AM, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 09:23:07AM -0700, Nikolaus Rath wrote: > > As I said in my other email, I am wondering if the extra burden is worth > > the gain in security. > > Is there an extra burden? Seems to me that it'd happen naturally if >

Neomutt packages available

2016-06-23 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
Hi all, I am pleased to announce the availability of neomutt [0] packages for Debian. Hints for installation you'll find at [1]. I've packaged neomutt for Debian. A Debian ITP [2] is filed. The binaries are build in a sid environment. The sources are fetched from [3]. The neomutt branch is used.

Re: Keysigning via Video Conferencing

2016-06-23 Thread Peter Colberg
On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 02:39:52PM -0400, Peter Colberg wrote: > The union of the DDs I have worked with and the DDs that were kind > enough to meet with me for key signing on their travel through my > city is an empty set. How embarrassing: I meant the intersection, of course. Peter signature.

Re: Keysigning via Video Conferencing

2016-06-23 Thread Peter Colberg
On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 07:30:42PM +0200, Jakub Wilk wrote: > As as data point, if everybody[0]'s key signing policy had been that > establishing "social bonds" was a prerequisite, I would have almost > certainly never become a DD. I would like to add another data point as a recent DM. The union o

Re: Keysigning via Video Conferencing

2016-06-23 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Nikolaus Rath , 2016-06-23, 09:23: I am wondering if the extra burden is worth the gain in security. If everyone were to follow this procedure then the bar to becoming a Debian developer would be raised significantly. As as data point, if everybody[0]'s key signing policy had been that esta

Re: Vcs-* and shared repos

2016-06-23 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Lars Wirzenius (2016-05-26 08:08:35) > On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 10:09:47PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: >> By also considering the fact that the "-d DIR" solution does not >> prevent to add a "-l" in the future, I think minimality wins here >> (hence my "Yay" to your proposal in separa

Re: Keysigning via Video Conferencing

2016-06-23 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 09:23:07AM -0700, Nikolaus Rath wrote: > As I said in my other email, I am wondering if the extra burden is worth > the gain in security. Is there an extra burden? Seems to me that it'd happen naturally if you contribute to Debian and as part of that interact with other Deb

Re: Keysigning via Video Conferencing

2016-06-23 Thread Nikolaus Rath
On Jun 23 2016, Ben Finney wrote: > Nikolaus Rath writes: > >> But how is your policy preventing this? > > If you're looking for claims of “This policy will absolutely guarantee > the malicious behaviour is impossible”, of course that's not a > believable claim and I don't expect anyone to seriou

Bug#827992: ITP: phipack -- PHI test and other tests of recombination

2016-06-23 Thread Andreas Tille
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andreas Tille * Package name: phipack Version : 0.0.20160614 Upstream Author : David Bryant * URL : http://www.maths.otago.ac.nz/~dbryant/software/PhiPack.tar.gz * License : LGPL Programming Lang: C Description

Bug#827988: ITP: apertium-eu-en -- Apertium translation data for the Basque-English pair

2016-06-23 Thread Kartik Mistry
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Kartik Mistry * Package name: apertium-eu-en Version : 0.3.1 Upstream Author : 2008, Prompsit Language Engineering 2005-2008, Universitat d'Alacant (Transducens group) 2005-2007, IXA research group / I

Bug#827978: ITP: libfastahack -- library for indexing and sequence extraction from FASTA files

2016-06-23 Thread Andreas Tille
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andreas Tille * Package name: libfastahack Version : 0.0+20160309 Upstream Author : Erik Garrison * URL : https://github.com/ekg/fastahack * License : GPL Programming Lang: C++ Description : library for indexing

Re: opinions of snappy packages

2016-06-23 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jun 22, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > Given that snapd therefore seems to be, in practice, only usable by > Canonical's server, shouldn't the package be in contrib instead of > main? No: this was discussed the first time ~15 years ago IIRC for ICQ clients, and I do not think that anything has chang