Re: Please drop anacron from task-desktop

2019-03-07 Thread Laurent Bigonville
Paride Legovini wrote: Having a useless service running is itself a downside; I second the removal. I'll also mention that anacron has been orphaned almost one year ago. anacron is AFAICS not running as a service (at least not all the time), it is started by cron (or systemd) every hours and ex

Work-needing packages report for Mar 8, 2019

2019-03-07 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: 1390 (new: 4) Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 163 (new: 0) Total number of packages reques

Re: Please drop anacron from task-desktop

2019-03-07 Thread David Bremner
Holger Wansing writes: > > Any thoughts on this? > > Is there still a broad necessity for anacron? > Are there still many packages, that don't rely on systemd timer units? > Presumably packages that work without systemd, but still need to periodic activity? d

Re: Please drop anacron from task-desktop

2019-03-07 Thread Paride Legovini
Michael Stone wrote on 07/03/2019: > On Thu, Mar 07, 2019 at 09:02:23PM +0100, Holger Wansing wrote: >>> I'm actually wondering if this is a good idea.. >>> >>> There are lot of other packages installing cronjobs and people, I would >>> assume, expect that they will run. cronjobs run even without

Re: Please drop anacron from task-desktop

2019-03-07 Thread Michael Stone
On Thu, Mar 07, 2019 at 09:02:23PM +0100, Holger Wansing wrote: I'm actually wondering if this is a good idea.. There are lot of other packages installing cronjobs and people, I would assume, expect that they will run. I would personally revert his patch as long as all the cronjobs have not a c

Re: Please drop anacron from task-desktop

2019-03-07 Thread Holger Wansing
[ Forwarding this to -devel ] Hi, Laurent Bigonville wrote: > On Mon, 03 Dec 2018 09:44:05 +0100 Michael Biebl wrote: > > Hello, > > > > > anacron was added to the desktop-task a long time ago. > > The changelog doesn't mention why it was added, but I assume it was to > > support systems

Re: Adding translation and freeze

2019-03-07 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Osamu, On Fri, Mar 08, 2019 at 12:33:02AM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > I just uploaded "Source: maint-guide" to the archive. > > Problem is I added Vietnamese translation as a part of active build > contents. This created an extra binary package maint-guide-vi which got > stack in the NEW queue

Re: Bug#923945: ITP: intel-graphics-compiler -- Intel graphics compiler for OpenCL

2019-03-07 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On 07.03.19 15:26, Timo Aaltonen wrote: > * Package name: intel-graphics-compiler Is that under the pkg-opencl umbrella, where stuff like pocl and beignet also lives? Simon signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Adding translation and freeze

2019-03-07 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, I just uploaded "Source: maint-guide" to the archive. Problem is I added Vietnamese translation as a part of active build contents. This created an extra binary package maint-guide-vi which got stack in the NEW queue. Should I wait quietly hoping fr the best or do I have things to do to get

Bug#923945: ITP: intel-graphics-compiler -- Intel graphics compiler for OpenCL

2019-03-07 Thread Timo Aaltonen
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Timo Aaltonen * Package name: intel-graphics-compiler Version : 0.1.0 Upstream Author : Intel Corporation * URL : https://github.com/intel/intel-graphics-compiler * License : MIT Programming Lang: C++ Description

Re: FYI/RFC: early-rng-init-tools

2019-03-07 Thread Andy Simpkins
On 03/03/19 17:59, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > I think the only sane things are: > - Use a hardware RNG (CPU, TPM, chaos key, ...) > - Credit a seed file stored during the previous boot > - Wait for new entropy from other sources > > Note that is can be a combination of all 3. > > We currently do not cr

Bug#923923: ITP: ruby-jekyll-github-metadata -- Jekyll plugin to propagate the site.github namespace

2019-03-07 Thread Daniel Leidert
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Daniel Leidert -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 * Package name: ruby-jekyll-github-metadata Version : 2.12.1 Upstream Author : GitHub, Inc. * URL : https://github.com/jekyll/github-metadata * License : MIT