Bug#870687: ITP: rss-bridge -- generate ATOM feeds for websites that don't have them

2017-08-03 Thread Johannes Schauer
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Johannes Schauer * Package name: rss-bridge Version : 2017-08-03 Upstream Author : sebsauvage Mitsukarenai Pierre Mazière logmanoriginal * URL : https://github.com/R

Re: Bug#798476: Returning to the requirement that Uploaders: contain humans

2017-08-03 Thread Russ Allbery
Adrian Bunk writes: > On Thu, Aug 03, 2017 at 05:41:00PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >> Adrian Bunk writes: >>> Regressing on being able to orphan all packages of a known-MIA/retired >>> maintainer would be very bad. >> I agree, but that's not directly relevant here, since we're talking >> about

Re: Bug#798476: Returning to the requirement that Uploaders: contain humans

2017-08-03 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Thu, Aug 03, 2017 at 05:41:00PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Adrian Bunk writes: > > > Regressing on being able to orphan all packages of a known-MIA/retired > > maintainer would be very bad. > > I agree, but that's not directly relevant here, since we're talking about > team-maintained packa

Re: MBF for deprecating Python2 usage

2017-08-03 Thread barry
On Aug 3, 2017, at 17:57, Matthias Klose wrote: > > While at DebCamp, Stefano Rivera and I sat down to analyze what needs to be > done > to deprecate Python2 usage within the distribution. It might not be possible > to > drop Python2 for the next release, but there are still too many issues wi

Re: Bug#798476: Returning to the requirement that Uploaders: contain humans

2017-08-03 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Thu, Aug 03, 2017 at 08:16:30PM -0400, gregor herrmann wrote: > On Fri, 04 Aug 2017 02:16:03 +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > On Thu, Aug 03, 2017 at 06:25:46PM -0400, gregor herrmann wrote: > > > What I don't understand in the point of view of the "keep Uploaders" > > > proponents: What does th

Re: Bug#798476: Returning to the requirement that Uploaders: contain humans

2017-08-03 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Thu, Aug 03, 2017 at 12:11:07PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Tobias Frost writes: > > > Some time ago I did some spring cleaning going over DDs that have > > retired but still in the Maintainer/Uploader fields: There were quite a > > lot "team maintained" packages where the team did not recogn

Work-needing packages report for Aug 4, 2017

2017-08-03 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: 1110 (new: 0) Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 167 (new: 2) Total number of packages reques

Re: Bug#798476: Returning to the requirement that Uploaders: contain humans

2017-08-03 Thread Russ Allbery
Adrian Bunk writes: > Regressing on being able to orphan all packages of a known-MIA/retired > maintainer would be very bad. I agree, but that's not directly relevant here, since we're talking about team-maintained packages. The whole *point* of team maintenance is that there's no reason to orp

Re: Bug#798476: Returning to the requirement that Uploaders: contain humans

2017-08-03 Thread gregor herrmann
On Fri, 04 Aug 2017 02:16:03 +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Thu, Aug 03, 2017 at 06:25:46PM -0400, gregor herrmann wrote: > > What I don't understand in the point of view of the "keep Uploaders" > > proponents: What does this information, whether correct or not, > > actually give others? Are they

Re: Bug#798476: Returning to the requirement that Uploaders: contain humans

2017-08-03 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Thu, Aug 03, 2017 at 06:25:46PM -0400, gregor herrmann wrote: >... > What I don't understand in the point of view of the "keep Uploaders" > proponents: What does this information, whether correct or not, > actually give others? Are they going to email or phone these persons > privately when emai

Re: Bug#798476: Returning to the requirement that Uploaders: contain humans

2017-08-03 Thread Russ Allbery
Clint Adams writes: > On Thu, Aug 03, 2017 at 06:25:46PM -0400, gregor herrmann wrote: >> What I don't understand in the point of view of the "keep Uploaders" >> proponents: What does this information, whether correct or not, >> actually give others? Are they going to email or phone these persons

Re: Bug#798476: Returning to the requirement that Uploaders: contain humans

2017-08-03 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Thu, Aug 03, 2017 at 12:36:04PM -0400, Sean Whitton wrote: > On Thu, Aug 03, 2017 at 12:06:16PM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > Please be more thoughtful about the consequences of such changes to policy. > > > > This would not be "a purely informative change". > > > > Your suggested wording has

Re: Bug#798476: Returning to the requirement that Uploaders: contain humans

2017-08-03 Thread Clint Adams
On Thu, Aug 03, 2017 at 06:25:46PM -0400, gregor herrmann wrote: > What I don't understand in the point of view of the "keep Uploaders" > proponents: What does this information, whether correct or not, > actually give others? Are they going to email or phone these persons > privately when emails to

Re: Bug#798476: Returning to the requirement that Uploaders: contain humans

2017-08-03 Thread Holger Levsen
On Thu, Aug 03, 2017 at 06:04:17PM -0400, gregor herrmann wrote: > On Thu, 03 Aug 2017 12:11:07 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > […] > Thanks for putting my thoughts (again!) into better words than I ever > could! +1 > > (I am entirely in favor of giving the MIA team more actual power.) > (Me too.

Re: Bug#798476: Returning to the requirement that Uploaders: contain humans

2017-08-03 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, 03 Aug 2017 21:25:32 +0200, Christian Seiler wrote: Thanks for your long and elaborate email. Unfortunately I find myself disagreeing with your two main points: > I wonder whether we are framing this in the right way anyway. There > are two orthogonal questions in my mind: > - is a speci

Re: Bug#798476: Returning to the requirement that Uploaders: contain humans

2017-08-03 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, 03 Aug 2017 12:11:07 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Tobias Frost writes: > > Some time ago I did some spring cleaning going over DDs that have > > retired but still in the Maintainer/Uploader fields: There were quite a > > lot "team maintained" packages where the team did not recognize that

MBF for deprecating Python2 usage

2017-08-03 Thread Matthias Klose
While at DebCamp, Stefano Rivera and I sat down to analyze what needs to be done to deprecate Python2 usage within the distribution. It might not be possible to drop Python2 for the next release, but there are still too many issues with packages. For now we identified some categories which need f

Re: User-installable Debian packages?

2017-08-03 Thread Florian Weimer
* Steffen Möller: > The HPC community does not want to need root privileges to get their > software installed/used on the HPC setup. This excludes regular > Debian packages, traditional containers like Docker and chroot > environments. So they would rather give the user full file system access on

Re: Bug#798476: Returning to the requirement that Uploaders: contain humans

2017-08-03 Thread Christian Seiler
On 08/03/2017 08:58 PM, Russ Allbery wrote: > Jonas Smedegaard writes: > >> Do the MIA team also track MIA teams? > >> My concern is that packages without maintainers may go unnoticed when >> none of its previously active maintainers were tracked individually. > >> For such detection of abando

Re: Bug#798476: Returning to the requirement that Uploaders: contain humans

2017-08-03 Thread Russ Allbery
Tobias Frost writes: > Some time ago I did some spring cleaning going over DDs that have > retired but still in the Maintainer/Uploader fields: There were quite a > lot "team maintained" packages where the team did not recognize that the > (sole) Uploader wasn't there anymore and the packages wer

Re: Bug#798476: Returning to the requirement that Uploaders: contain humans

2017-08-03 Thread Russ Allbery
Jonas Smedegaard writes: > Do the MIA team also track MIA teams? > My concern is that packages without maintainers may go unnoticed when > none of its previously active maintainers were tracked individually. > For such detection of abandonment we need not track _all_ active > maintainers, but

Re: Bug#798476: Returning to the requirement that Uploaders: contain humans

2017-08-03 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Russ Allbery (2017-08-03 11:41:12) > Bill Allombert writes: > > > The patch also remove the requirement to list individual email of the > > maintainers. That is what I am objecting to. > > Oh, okay, I see that, but I'm not sure why. What is the purpose of > listing those email addresses

Re: Bug#798476: Returning to the requirement that Uploaders: contain humans

2017-08-03 Thread Tobias Frost
Am Donnerstag, den 03.08.2017, 12:44 -0400 schrieb Sean Whitton: > Hello Tobias, > > Thank you for writing about this bug from the MIA team's perspective, > which is very relevant to resolving this. > > On Thu, Aug 03, 2017 at 08:44:36AM +0200, Tobias Frost wrote: > > Some remarks / questions I d

Re: Bug#798476: Returning to the requirement that Uploaders: contain humans

2017-08-03 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello Tobias, Thank you for writing about this bug from the MIA team's perspective, which is very relevant to resolving this. On Thu, Aug 03, 2017 at 08:44:36AM +0200, Tobias Frost wrote: > Some remarks / questions I do not see adressed: > - If you have not a name on some task human nature tends

Re: Bug#798476: Returning to the requirement that Uploaders: contain humans

2017-08-03 Thread Sean Whitton
On Thu, Aug 03, 2017 at 12:06:16PM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote: > Please be more thoughtful about the consequences of such changes to policy. > > This would not be "a purely informative change". > > Your suggested wording has the potential to create a HUGE amount of tensions. You're right. After s

Re: Bits from the 10th Debian Groupware Meeting

2017-08-03 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Hi. Christian Seiler - 03.08.17, 17:34: > On 08/03/2017 03:21 PM, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > > thank you for all the links. My main question was why it is not listed at > > all in the groupware wiki, you could easily list nextcloud/owncloud in > > the section "Groupware projects not currently conside

Re: Bits from the 10th Debian Groupware Meeting

2017-08-03 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Rainer Dorsch (2017-08-03 09:21:37) > thank you for all the links. My main question was why it is not > listed at all in the groupware wiki, you could easily list > nextcloud/owncloud in the section "Groupware projects not currently > considered for inclusion in Debian". The wiki page

Re: Bug#798476: Returning to the requirement that Uploaders: contain humans

2017-08-03 Thread Russ Allbery
Bill Allombert writes: > The patch also remove the requirement to list individual email of the > maintainers. That is what I am objecting to. Oh, okay, I see that, but I'm not sure why. What is the purpose of listing those email addresses that you want to preserve? > When a team is reduced to

Re: Bits from the 10th Debian Groupware Meeting

2017-08-03 Thread Christian Seiler
Hi, On 08/03/2017 03:21 PM, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > thank you for all the links. My main question was why it is not listed at > all > in the groupware wiki, you could easily list nextcloud/owncloud in the > section > "Groupware projects not currently considered for inclusion in Debian". It's

Re: Bits from the 10th Debian Groupware Meeting

2017-08-03 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On 2017-08-03 14:21, Rainer Dorsch wrote: So I can see multiple solutions 1) Debian includes nextcloud only in unstable and testing (probably most compatible with the nextcloud/owncloud business models, see also https:// help.nextcloud.com/t/will-nextcloud-be-inviting-to-distribution-packages/

Re: Bits from the 10th Debian Groupware Meeting

2017-08-03 Thread Guido Günther
Hi, On Thu, Aug 03, 2017 at 01:12:55PM +0200, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > Hi Guido, > > just wondering, did you consider nextcloud as groupware? Yes. I had owncl...@packages.debian.org on the list of people contacted. -- Guido

Bug#870625: ITP: libengine-gost-openssl1.1 -- Loadable module for openssl implementing GOST algorithms

2017-08-03 Thread Wartan Hachaturow
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org --- Please fill out the fields below. --- Package name: libengine-gost-openssl1.1 Version: 1 Upstream Author: Many URL: https://github.com/gost-engine/ License: OpenSSL license Descript

Re: Bits from the 10th Debian Groupware Meeting

2017-08-03 Thread Rainer Dorsch
Hi Martin, thank you for all the links. My main question was why it is not listed at all in the groupware wiki, you could easily list nextcloud/owncloud in the section "Groupware projects not currently considered for inclusion in Debian". I always had the impression that part of the motivation

Bug#655420: ITP: jtransforms -- A multithreaded FFT library written in pure Java

2017-08-03 Thread Carnë Draug
Package: wnpp Followup-For: Bug #655420 Owner: =?utf-8?q?Carn=C3=AB_Draug?=

Re: Bits from the 10th Debian Groupware Meeting

2017-08-03 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Hello Rainer. Rainer Dorsch - 03.08.17, 13:12: > Hi Guido, > > just wondering, did you consider nextcloud as groupware? Owncloud has been in Debian… and its past maintainers gave up on maintaining it. For a part of the discussion see: Debian Bug report logs - #822681 RM: owncloud -- ROM; Unfit

Re: Bits from the 10th Debian Groupware Meeting

2017-08-03 Thread Rainer Dorsch
Hi Guido, just wondering, did you consider nextcloud as groupware? Thanks Rainer Am Mittwoch, 2. August 2017, 19:44:14 CEST schrieb Guido Günther: > Hi, > The 10th Debian Groupware Meeting[1] was held on a weekend in April in > the LinuxHotel, Essen, Germany[2]. We were five people altogether. >

Re: Bug#798476: Returning to the requirement that Uploaders: contain humans

2017-08-03 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Thu, Aug 03, 2017 at 12:30:11PM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Thu, Aug 03, 2017 at 11:01:24AM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 02, 2017 at 04:22:41PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > > > Bill Allombert writes: > > > > On Wed, Aug 02, 2017 at 05:48:15PM -0400, Sean Whitton wrote: > > >

Re: Bug#798476: Returning to the requirement that Uploaders: contain humans

2017-08-03 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Thu, Aug 03, 2017 at 11:01:24AM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > On Wed, Aug 02, 2017 at 04:22:41PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > > Bill Allombert writes: > > > On Wed, Aug 02, 2017 at 05:48:15PM -0400, Sean Whitton wrote: > > > > >> I've also included a purely informative change which emphasises

Re: Bug#798476: Returning to the requirement that Uploaders: contain humans

2017-08-03 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Wed, Aug 02, 2017 at 05:48:15PM -0400, Sean Whitton wrote: >... > I've also included a purely informative change which emphasises that > packages that are team maintained in name only should be orphaned > properly, with their maintainer field set to the QA team. This is > already current best p

Re: Bug#798476: Returning to the requirement that Uploaders: contain humans

2017-08-03 Thread Bill Allombert
On Wed, Aug 02, 2017 at 04:22:41PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Bill Allombert writes: > > On Wed, Aug 02, 2017 at 05:48:15PM -0400, Sean Whitton wrote: > > >> I've also included a purely informative change which emphasises that > >> packages that are team maintained in name only should be orphan

Re: Bug#798476: Returning to the requirement that Uploaders: contain humans

2017-08-03 Thread Tobias Frost
Am 2. August 2017 23:48:15 MESZ schrieb Sean Whitton : >Hello, > >Here is an updated diff for this bug, against the docbook version of >the policy manual. > >I've also included a purely informative change which emphasises that >packages that are team maintained in name only should be orphaned >prop