Re: RFC: "Recommended bloat", and how to possibly fix it

2024-11-07 Thread Julien Plissonneau Duquène
ation (or misuse) with now two fields with slightly tighter definitions and some significant overlap. In short this is a case of "now you have two problems". -- Julien Plissonneau Duquène

Re: lintian preventing uploads

2024-10-21 Thread Julien Puydt
Le lundi 21 octobre 2024 à 15:05 +1100, Russell Coker a écrit : > Others have already given hints, but if you needed to ask the question, then some sample code is better: there are two places where modifications are needed in the packaging. [Aside: which I find is one too much...] Your d/copyri

Re: Porterbox - impossible efficient debugging?

2024-08-13 Thread julien . puydt
Le mardi 13 août 2024 à 15:54 +0500, Andrey Rakhmatullin a écrit : > On Tue, Aug 13, 2024 at 12:15:22PM +0200, > julien.pu...@gmail.com wrote: > > And of course, this is where I came to my wits' end: I can compile > > the > > new elpi successfully... but I have no way to install this new elpi > > b

Porterbox - impossible efficient debugging?

2024-08-13 Thread julien . puydt
Hi, there was a thread "Any way to install packages+run autopkgtests on porterbox machines?" in march already. Let me add another problematic use case. I'm trying to work on bug #1078549 about the coq-elpi package on ppc64el. With platti.debian.org I could confirm the failure with the package cur

Re: ifupdown maintenance

2024-07-12 Thread Julien Fortin
Hi, Julien here, maintainer and main contributor of ifupdown2 since 2016. > Since Cumulus has been bought by Nvidia, things have changed and > development of ifupdown2 is now done behind closed doors. NVIDIA acquisition of Cumulus didn't change anything for ifupdown2. The team stay

Re: finally end single-person maintainership

2024-04-08 Thread Julien Puydt
Hi Le lun. 8 avr. 2024, 14:45, Simon Richter a écrit : > The web interface presented by salsa also does not have the necessary > data<->metadata filters to provide an actual insight into what is really > happening in the repository. > It's been several times already some people complain about s

Re: 64-bit time_t transition in progress

2024-02-03 Thread julien . puydt
Le samedi 03 février 2024 à 10:16 +0100, julien.pu...@gmail.com a écrit : > > About flint: if you need anything done, don't hesitate to ask me. > In fact multi-arch is broken for flint and I can probably fix it: would a new upload go in your way or on the contrary help you ? [I'll refrain any mo

Re: 64-bit time_t transition in progress

2024-02-03 Thread julien . puydt
Hi, Le vendredi 02 février 2024 à 08:21 -0800, Steve Langasek a écrit : > The packages previously not reported are: > >    flint >    flint-arb About flint: if you need anything done, don't hesitate to ask me. About flint-arb: its code has been merged into flint, so it's abandoned upstream. T

Re: Potential MBF: packages failing to build twice in a row

2023-11-26 Thread julien . puydt
Le dimanche 26 novembre 2023 à 16:34 +0100, Matthijs Kooijman a écrit : > Hi, > > I've also gotten a bunch of bug reports from this MBF. Some were easy > to > fix, but there is one subtype of this issue where I think the > commonly > given advice and policy currently contradict. > > This concerns

Re: allow missing description fields and empty long descriptions for Rust/etc packages?

2023-09-19 Thread Julien Puydt
Hi Le mer. 20 sept. 2023, 04:11, Paul Wise a écrit : > > So I would like to suggest Debian relax our requirements around binary > package descriptions, especially for Rust binary packages. > > Does anyone object to this change? > Yes, definitely. I know it is a pain to write those texts, but t

Re: versioned dependencies between -dev packages

2023-07-16 Thread Julien Puydt
Hi, Le sam. 15 juil. 2023, 17:36, Nicolas Boulenguez a écrit : > Julien Puydt > > - Indeed this is quite fragile; I have two scripts for Coq packages [1]: > > one to tell me about the deps (I give it which package I have to upgrade > > and it gives the list of affected

Re: virtual packages for Ada libraries

2023-07-15 Thread Julien Puydt
Hi Le sam. 15 juil. 2023, 10:05, Jonas Smedegaard a écrit : > Quoting Nicolas Boulenguez (2023-07-12 15:55:09) > > The Ada maintainers are considering a new naming scheme for -dev > packages, > > where > > libada-foo-dev Provides: libada-foo-dev-HASH. > > source packages Build-Depend: libada

Bug#1038692: ITP: ppx-cold -- Provide the @cold annotation for OCaml

2023-06-20 Thread Julien Puydt
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Julien Puydt X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, Debian OCaml Maintainers , jpu...@debian.org * Package name: ppx-cold Version : 0.16.0 Upstream Contact: opensource-conta...@janestreet.com * URL : https://github.com

Bug#1033940: ITP: sphinx-lint -- sphinx-lint is a reStructuredText linter for sphinx-doc

2023-04-04 Thread Julien Palard
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Julien Palard X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, jul...@palard.fr * Package name: sphinx-lint Version : 0.6.7 Upstream Contact: Julien Palard * URL : https://sphinx-contrib/sphinx-lint/ * License : Python

Re: Restart rsyslog only once after few packages are upgraded

2022-10-26 Thread julien . puydt
Le mercredi 26 octobre 2022 à 11:49 +0200, Jędrzej Dudkiewicz a écrit : > > in its postinstall script. As this causes rsyslog to be restarted a > few times in a row it sometimes results in rsyslog not functioning. > High-severity issue right there: restarting should just work no matter what. Ins

Re: Submitting Patches

2022-10-20 Thread julien . puydt
Le vendredi 21 octobre 2022 à 16:47 +1100, Phillip Smith a écrit : > On Fri, 21 Oct 2022 at 16:30, Julien Puydt > wrote: > > In general they are ; just attach them to a bug report against the > > package. > > Thanks! Is there a (recommended) tool to do this? I p

Re: Submitting Patches

2022-10-20 Thread Julien Puydt
Hi Le ven. 21 oct. 2022 à 07:28, Phillip Smith a écrit : > Apologies if this is the wrong place to be asking this, but my > Google-fu isn't guiding me to any results... Where/How do I submit > patches for Debian packages? > > I have a small improvement for the iptables-persistent package; I > cl

Re: Firmware GR result - what happens next?

2022-10-13 Thread Julien Cristau
On Thu, Oct 13, 2022 at 05:17:59PM +0200, Tobias Frost wrote: > On Thu, Oct 13, 2022 at 05:08:57PM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 06, 2022 at 05:13:22PM +0200, Tobias Frost wrote: > > > Maybe and idea would to do something like isa-support does for e.g > >

Re: Firmware GR result - what happens next?

2022-10-13 Thread Julien Cristau
ke "new package" | > "you-need-to-enable-nonfree-firmware-reminder-package" > Failing on installation is a terrible user experience, let's not, pretty please. Cheers, Julien

Re: Firmware GR result - what happens next?

2022-10-06 Thread Julien Cristau
On Thu, Oct 6, 2022 at 15:45:25 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > On Wed, Oct 05, 2022 at 10:11:27PM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: > >On Sun, Oct 02, 2022 at 08:21:31PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > >> On Sun, Oct 02, 2022 at 11:08:47AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > >>

Re: Firmware GR result - what happens next?

2022-10-05 Thread Julien Cristau
yway on upgrades. > I think in the absence of a release upgrade script (which I very much doubt will happen, and be tested, and we can rely will be used, for bookworm), Michael's suggestion seems like a reasonable way forward. I imagine we'll need to patch dak to allow that, but it seems like it should be tractable? Cheers, Julien

Bug#1021300: ITP: ocaml-uucp -- access properties of Unicode characters

2022-10-05 Thread Julien Puydt
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Julien Puydt X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, jpu...@debian.org, debian-ocaml-ma...@lists.debian.org * Package name: ocaml-uucp Version : 15.0.0 Upstream Author : Daniel Bünzli * URL : https://erratique.ch/software

Bug#1021294: ITP: ocaml-uunf -- Unicode text normalization form library

2022-10-04 Thread Julien Puydt
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Julien Puydt X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, jpu...@debian.org, debian-ocaml-ma...@lists.debian.org * Package name: ocaml-uunf Version : 15.0.0 Upstream Author : Daniel Bünzli * URL : https://erratique.ch/software

Bug#1021293: ITP: ocaml-uucd -- decode data on Unicode characters off XML

2022-10-04 Thread Julien Puydt
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Julien Puydt X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, jpu...@debian.org, debian-ocaml-ma...@lists.debian.org * Package name: ocaml-uucd Version : 15.0.0 Upstream Author : Daniel Bünzli * URL : https://erratique.ch/software

Bug#1021269: ITP: ocaml-afl-persistent -- use afl-fuzz in persistent mode

2022-10-04 Thread Julien Puydt
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Julien Puydt X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, jpu...@debian.org, debian-ocaml-ma...@lists.debian.org * Package name: ocaml-afl-persistent Version : 1.3 Upstream Author : Stephen Dolan * URL : https://github.com

Bug#1021246: ITP: crowbar -- library to fuzz-test code

2022-10-04 Thread Julien Puydt
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Julien Puydt X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, jpu...@debian.org, debian-ocaml-ma...@lists.debian.org * Package name: crowbar Version : 0.2.1 Upstream Author : Stephen Dolan * URL : https://github.com/stedolan

Re: packages expected to fail on some archs

2022-09-26 Thread Julien Puydt
Hi Le lun. 26 sept. 2022 à 23:42, Adrian Bunk a écrit : > > If we limit the problem to avoiding build failures in cases that > upstream does not support, there would be the trivial solution of > having a package ship Provides like: > - architecture-is-64bit > - architecture-is-32bit > - architec

Re: Q: uscan with GitHub

2022-09-19 Thread julien . puydt
Hi, Le lundi 19 septembre 2022 à 20:50 +0900, Hideki Yamane a écrit : > >  Recent changes in GitHub releases pages, I cannot check upstream > version with uscan. How do you deal with it? It's not that recent ; here is a working example: version=4 opts="\ dversionmangle=s/\+dfsg.*$//,\ filenamem

Re: Automatic trimming of changelogs in binary packages

2022-08-19 Thread julien . puydt
Le vendredi 19 août 2022 à 09:04 +0200, Fabio Fantoni a écrit : > Il 19/08/2022 03:01, Paul Wise ha scritto: > > On Thu, 2022-08-18 at 21:18 +0200, Gioele Barabucci wrote: > > > > > Does anybody have objective objections against activating > > > automatic > > > changelog trimming in binary package

Re: Coq packages in Debian : difficult transitions

2022-08-07 Thread julien . puydt
Hi, Le lundi 01 août 2022 à 14:20 +0200, Joachim Breitner a écrit : > > it looks like you re-created the setup that the Haskell and Ocaml > packages use, with the provides/depends and hashes. > Yes, dh-ocaml was a great help. I learned Perl to write dh-coq... > We have a tool that produces a f

Re: Coq packages in Debian : difficult transitions

2022-08-03 Thread julien . puydt
Hi, Le lundi 01 août 2022 à 14:20 +0200, Joachim Breitner a écrit : > > Am Sonntag, dem 31.07.2022 um 12:33 +0200 schrieb > julien.pu...@gmail.com: > > I have a little script that tells me the following packages needs > > to be > > rebuilt when a transition has to be done ; for example: > > > >

Re: Coq packages in Debian : difficult transitions

2022-08-03 Thread julien . puydt
Le dimanche 31 juillet 2022 à 12:43 +0200, Sebastian Ramacher a écrit : > On 2022-07-31 12:33:35 +0200, julien.pu...@gmail.com wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I tried to ask on debian-release because it seemed more sensible > > but didn't get feedback. [1] > > Please file a transition bug. The mailing lis

Re: Coq packages in Debian : difficult transitions

2022-07-31 Thread julien . puydt
Le dimanche 31 juillet 2022 à 12:43 +0200, Sebastian Ramacher a écrit : > On 2022-07-31 12:33:35 +0200, julien.pu...@gmail.com wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I tried to ask on debian-release because it seemed more sensible > > but > > didn't get feedback. [1] > > Please file a transition bug. The mailing

Coq packages in Debian : difficult transitions

2022-07-31 Thread julien . puydt
Hi, I tried to ask on debian-release because it seemed more sensible but didn't get feedback. [1] The Coq-related packages have a habit of breaking their ABI with almost each upload, and until recently that meant broken user configurations: installed packages stopped working because of an upgrade

Re: Bug#1014908: ITP: gender-guesser -- Guess the gender from first name

2022-07-14 Thread julien . puydt
Hi, Le jeudi 14 juillet 2022 à 14:16 +0200, Marc Haber a écrit : > On Thu, 14 Jul 2022 12:54:52 +0100, Steve McIntyre > wrote: > > And I see you uploaded ~immediately - why even bother with an ITP? > > Is it proper procedure to upload without an ITP? > No ; I have to admit a large percentage o

Re: questionable massive auto-removal: buggy deps nvidia-graphics-drivers-tesla-470

2022-06-28 Thread julien . puydt
Le mardi 28 juin 2022 à 16:17 -0400, Scott Talbert a écrit : > On Tue, 28 Jun 2022, julien.pu...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > Wild guess: were your new uploads _*source-only*_ ? > > I looked at a couple of them and they were (source all) so that does > appear to be the problem.  All uploads need to

Re: questionable massive auto-removal: buggy deps nvidia-graphics-drivers-tesla-470

2022-06-28 Thread julien . puydt
Le mardi 28 juin 2022 à 22:08 +0200, Bastian Venthur a écrit : > Hi, > > sorry I didn't follow the conversation but it seems that all my > Python > packages are still not migrating to testing and I don't really > understand how to fix it. The error I see consistently in my Python > packages is:

Re: guile-cairo

2022-06-15 Thread julien . puydt
Le mercredi 15 juin 2022 à 11:11 +0300, Tommi Höynälänmaa a écrit : > ke, 2022-06-15 kello 09:55 +0200, julien.pu...@gmail.com kirjoitti: > > > > Let your new package migrate to testing, since it's that one which > > doesn't have the autoremoval issue? > > I'm not sure I understand what you mean.

Re: guile-cairo

2022-06-15 Thread julien . puydt
Le mercredi 15 juin 2022 à 10:29 +0300, Tommi Höynälänmaa a écrit : > > I recently received e-mail that package guile-cairo is to be > autoremoved 2022-07-09. The reason is that it depended on guile 2.2. > However, I made new version guile-cairo-1.11.2-5 that depends only on > guile 3.0. What shal

Re: Python installation paths

2022-06-02 Thread julien . puydt
Le jeudi 02 juin 2022 à 14:31 -0500, Richard Laager a écrit : > > There are a couple different ways to do Python to C. I think the > terms are CFFI (or FFI or ctypes, maybe some of those are different > though?) vs CPython extension, but I'm not 100% certain of that. May I suggest debian-pyt...@l

Re: Re: questionable massive auto-removal: buggy deps nvidia-graphics-drivers-tesla-470

2022-05-27 Thread Julien Puydt
Hi Le ven. 27 mai 2022 à 09:27, Andreas Tille a écrit : > Am Thu, May 26, 2022 at 08:47:20AM +0200 schrieb Nilesh Patra: > > Would it be possible to manually remove this item from the list that > generates > > autoremovals? > > ... or generate a blacklist of packages that should not trigger thos

Re: questionable massive auto-removal: buggy deps nvidia-graphics-drivers-tesla-470

2022-05-25 Thread julien . puydt
Le jeudi 26 mai 2022 à 09:32 +0300, Timo Lindfors a écrit : > > On 5/24/22 21:34, Paul Gevers wrote: > > https://bugs.debian.org/1011268 (but apparently my first assumption > > was wrong and it's another bug, most likely Simon was right. > > Thanks for the link. I was quite puzzled this morning w

Re: popularity-contest: support for XB-Popcon-Reports: no

2022-05-04 Thread julien . puydt
Le mercredi 04 mai 2022 à 10:12 -0700, Russ Allbery a écrit : > Bill Allombert writes: > > > I plan to add support for 'XB-Popcon-Reports: no' to popularity- > > contest. > > This allows to build packages with private names that will not be > > reported to popcon, by adding 'XB-Popcon-Reports: no

Re: proposed MBF: packages still using source format 1.0

2022-03-15 Thread Julien Cristau
> My limited understanding of the landscape of git workflows is that a > > workflow that is quite popular among packages still using the 1.0 format > > is the one used by the Debian X strike force. Julien Cristau described > > it as follows when I asked about it on IRC: > > &

Re: No mips64el porterbox?

2022-03-01 Thread Julien Puydt
Le mardi 01 mars 2022 à 10:34 +0100, Sebastiaan Couwenberg a écrit : > On 3/1/22 10:28, Julien Puydt wrote: > > Is there really no mips64el porterbox, or is it only a transitory > > situation? > > eller.debian.org has mips64el chroots. > How do I use one of those and not

No mips64el porterbox?

2022-03-01 Thread Julien Puydt
Hi, one of my package has a failure on mips64el and upstream is ready to help me find the cause and debug the issue. Unfortunately, on https://db.debian.org/machines.cgi I only see five developer machines on this architecture -- all buildd! Is there really no mips64el porterbox, or is it only a

Re: Legal advice regarding the NEW queue

2022-02-05 Thread Julien Puydt
Le samedi 05 février 2022 à 15:07 +, Andrew M.A. Cater a écrit : > There's a huge amount of software that's undistributable: Debian's > good faith attempt to review this is one of the crucial arguments I > have with $DAYJOB about the benefits of a curated distribution, > however fallible we may

IPv6-only testing

2022-02-04 Thread Julien Puydt
Hi, I got an RC bug on python-anyio, because its testsuite fails when run on an IPv6-only host [1]. I pushed the issue upstream, and upstream has a patch proposal [2]. Now comes the question: how do I test this patch? Cheers, J.Puydt [1] https://bugs.debian.org/1004461 [2] https://github.com/

Re: Cloud team plans for cloud-hosted mirrors

2022-01-31 Thread Julien Cristau
On Wed, Jan 26, 2022 at 09:43:16PM -0800, Ross Vandegrift wrote: > On Wed, Jan 26, 2022 at 07:58:23PM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: > > I think we (DSA) have been reluctant to add new third-party-run services > > under debian.org, and it's not clear to me if that infrastructure

Re: Cloud team plans for cloud-hosted mirrors

2022-01-26 Thread Julien Cristau
ud team on behalf of debian, or if the cloud team would control the names but point them at mirrors run by the cloud providers themselves. Either way as Stefano said if you go for a new domain name it should be possible to use the same setup as our other domains if you want. Cheers, Julien

Re: Deps of -dev packages with pkg-config .pc file: Policy Change?

2021-12-09 Thread Julien Cristau
ns or policy changes IMO. Libs.private is a bit different because static linking is not typically used for Debian packages, but Requires and Requires.private are quite clear cut. Cheers, Julien On Thu, Dec 09, 2021 at 03:24:27PM +0100, Alexander Traud wrote: > Linux distributions, which have

Re: uscan roadmap

2021-12-02 Thread Julien Puydt
Hi Le jeu. 2 déc. 2021 à 11:36, Yadd a écrit : > > Another idea to have a compromise: > * uscan is released with versioned schemes (GitHub.json, sf.json,...) > * when launched, it tries to download new version from a new Debian API > (static json files) > * if no response or no new v

Re: Bug#995722: Not running tests because tests miss source code is not useful

2021-10-10 Thread Julien Puydt
Hi Le sam. 9 oct. 2021 à 18:52, Jonas Smedegaard a écrit : > Quoting Julien Puydt (2021-10-09 18:48:07) > > Hi > > > > Le sam. 9 oct. 2021 à 17:40, Jeremy Stanley a écrit > : > > > > > On 2021-10-09 08:53:57 +0200 (+0200), Yadd wrote: > > > [..

Re: Bug#995722: Not running tests because tests miss source code is not useful

2021-10-09 Thread Julien Puydt
Hi Le sam. 9 oct. 2021 à 17:40, Jeremy Stanley a écrit : > On 2021-10-09 08:53:57 +0200 (+0200), Yadd wrote: > [...] > > If you really consider minified files as binary, there's a room for > > creating a lot of RC bugs > > The more appropriate question is whether Debian considers minified > file

Re: uscan upstream version: padding zero to the left with elegance?

2021-09-20 Thread Julien Puydt
Le lundi 20 septembre 2021 à 11:11 +0200, Markus Frosch a écrit : > > I would keep using the versioning style of upstream. > > dpkg and uscan should be pretty much fine with this: > > $ dpkg --compare-versions 2021.8.23 eq 2021.08.23; echo $? > 0 Oh, you mean 2021.9.9 won't be seen as the last

uscan upstream version: padding zero to the left with elegance?

2021-09-20 Thread Julien Puydt
Hi, I'm having an issue with an upstream where the latest git tag is v2021.8.23 ; I would have liked them to (also) tag v2021.08.23, but that won't happen. So I need some uversionmangle magic. I know how to get the parts $1=2021, $2=8 and $3=23, but I don't know how to say $2 ($3 will need a sim

Re: Q: Use https for {deb,security}.debian.org by default

2021-08-25 Thread Julien Cristau
x27;re connecting to via SNI happening unencrypted, > > SNI is not unencrypted if you do TLS1.3... > It is, though... ECH (née ESNI) https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-tls-esni/ is still WIP. Cheers, Julien

Re: Proposed mass-bug filing: missing support for build-arch or build-indep

2021-04-20 Thread Julien Cristau
a lower severity and consider bumping it to serious once you're down to a manageable number (and possibly a couple of NMU campaigns). Cheers, Julien

Re: Thanks and Decision making working group (was Re: General Resolution: Statement regarding Richard Stallman's readmission to the FSF board result)

2021-04-19 Thread Julien Puydt
Le lundi 19 avril 2021 à 14:05 +0100, Jonathan Dowland a écrit : > On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 11:30:48AM +0800, Benda Xu wrote: > > The winning option "Debian will not issue a public statement on > > this > > issue" implies that the majority of DDs is not interested in such > > non-technical affairs.

Re: Missing samba DSA-4513 changelog in https://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs/

2021-04-07 Thread Julien Cristau
, so long as that > is open, i.e. until the last point release. So it looks as if the copy > to the main archive failed for some reason. > The samba package is held in stable-new by bug#939419, see https://release.debian.org/proposed-updates/stable.html Cheers, Julien > >  Somet

Re: Cancel "culture" is a threat to Debian

2021-03-30 Thread Julien Puydt
Hi Le mar. 30 mars 2021 à 12:49, Gard Spreemann a écrit : > > In order to calibrate what is considered merely "a foolish thing said" > from your perspective, I feel a need to ask: what is, from your > perspective, the least of the sufficiently bad things that a person can > do in order for Debia

Re: Bug#984811: ITP: openbgpd -- Free, functional, and secure implementation of the BGP-4 protocol.

2021-03-08 Thread Julien Cristau
On Mon, Mar 08, 2021 at 05:13:35PM +0100, Job Snijders wrote: > Dear Julien, > > > >   Description     : Free, functional, and secure implementation of the > BGP-4 protocol. > > the above short description has 3 useless words in it, I suggest you drop &g

Re: Bug#984811: ITP: openbgpd -- Free, functional, and secure implementation of the BGP-4 protocol.

2021-03-08 Thread Julien Cristau
them. If it wasn't free it wouldn't be in Debian; if it wasn't functional why would anyone release or package it; same with "secure", plus it's a rather meaningless descriptor that'll be wrong the day somebody finds a bug (especially combined with "implemented in C"...). Cheers, Julien

Bug#982562: general: Storing upstream signatures next to upstream tarballs is problematic

2021-02-12 Thread Julien Cristau
hanging, at which point both filenames change. Cheers, Julien

Re: Bug#981994: ITP: xserver-xorg-input-aiptek -- X.Org X server -- Aiptek input driver

2021-02-05 Thread Julien Cristau
in #955603 despite many objects. > These hardware drivers belong in the kernel. Do aiptek USB devices not show up as regular input devices that generic userspace drivers can handle? Cheers, Julien

Re: Bug#981113: ITP: root -- open-source data analysis framework

2021-01-26 Thread Julien Cristau
[1] https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/root-system > Please re-use the old name. "root" is a terrible choice of package name. Thanks, Julien

Re: RFC: raising ca-certificates package Priority to standard or important

2021-01-22 Thread Julien Cristau
Hi Antonio, On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 02:47:25PM -0300, Antonio Terceiro wrote: > On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 03:10:47PM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: > > And which of standard or important made most sense (AIUI, standard > > means "installed by default in d-i" and impo

RFC: raising ca-certificates package Priority to standard or important

2021-01-21 Thread Julien Cristau
d. And which of standard or important made most sense (AIUI, standard means "installed by default in d-i" and important means "installed by default in debootstrap"). Thanks, Julien

Re: Architecture: all binNMUs (was: deduplicating jquery/)

2020-12-01 Thread Julien Cristau
binNMU'd, it > automatically gets Provides: foo-data (= 1.2-3) > > - Change some more central component so that the dependencies are edited > or the Provides is added globally > > - Something clever that I haven't thought of > Make no-change-other-than-version-bump source uploads easier? Cheers, Julien

Re: doubt with autopkgtest for javascript packages

2020-11-09 Thread Julien Puydt
Le lundi 09 novembre 2020 à 21:08 +, Sudip Mukherjee a écrit : > I have attached the list. > Do you want me to add them in my MBF list and raise bug reports for > them? If I remember well, I'm the main culprit behind those, and I'll refresh them -- probably at the end of the week: node-ast-ty

Re: How does one package a multirepo project?

2020-10-20 Thread Julien Puydt
Le mardi 20 octobre 2020 à 18:00 +0200, Jonas Smedegaard a écrit : > > > - bad: the tarball contains the whole sources (no repack) ; > > > - bad: the bare checkout isn't cleared. > > > > Still current. > > Please file bugreports about concrete weaknesses of Debian tools. > > If you are still ask

Re: How does one package a multirepo project?

2020-10-20 Thread Julien Puydt
Le lundi 19 octobre 2020 à 10:06 +0200, Jonas Smedegaard a écrit : > You might find some inspiration in the source package > jsbundle-web-interfaces which uses version type "group" and > mode=git, > and sets individual version numbers for each binary package. > > Another example is matrix-mirage

Re: How does one package a multirepo project?

2020-10-20 Thread Julien Puydt
Le mardi 20 octobre 2020 à 10:02 +0200, Julien Puydt a écrit : > Hi, > > Le lundi 19 octobre 2020 à 20:03 +, PICCA Frederic-Emmanuel a > écrit : > > what about the git mode of uscan > > > > then you would have all the tags ? > > Ah, yes, I had forgott

Re: How does one package a multirepo project?

2020-10-20 Thread Julien Puydt
Hi, Le lundi 19 octobre 2020 à 20:03 +, PICCA Frederic-Emmanuel a écrit : > what about the git mode of uscan > > then you would have all the tags ? Ah, yes, I had forgotten that! I tried with a simpler version (one component), and my d/watch is : version=4 opts=\ component=algorithm,\ dve

Re: How does one package a multirepo project?

2020-10-19 Thread Julien Puydt
Hi, Le lundi 19 octobre 2020 à 11:51 +0200, Julien Puydt a écrit : > Even in that case, will uscan see the tag subpackage42/3.14 on > github? > In my experience, it only sees a handful of last tags, so it will see > the releases of something like subpackage1/* to subpackage23/*, b

Re: How does one package a multirepo project?

2020-10-19 Thread Julien Puydt
Hi, Le lundi 19 octobre 2020 à 20:33 +0200, Jonas Smedegaard a écrit : > Quoting Julien Puydt (2020-10-19 19:27:11) > > Am I getting somewhere with today's tools? Can someone propose a > > nicer way in the future? > > My apologies for mistaking the scope of your quest

Re: How does one package a multirepo project?

2020-10-19 Thread Julien Puydt
Hi, Le lundi 19 octobre 2020 à 12:15 +0200, Jonas Smedegaard a écrit : > Quoting Pirate Praveen (2020-10-19 12:01:47) > > On 2020, ഒക്‌ടോബർ 19 12:45:28 PM IST, Julien Puydt > > wrote: > > > I was trying to update the ipywidgets package. It once had a > > > quite

Re: How does one package a multirepo project?

2020-10-19 Thread Julien Puydt
Le lundi 19 octobre 2020 à 16:42 +0530, Pirate Praveen a écrit : > > On Mon, Oct 19, 2020 at 11:51, Julien Puydt > wrote: > > Here is what I have in d/control for my src:lumino experiments : > > > > Provides: node-lumino-algorithm (= 1.3.3), > >

Re: How does one package a multirepo project?

2020-10-19 Thread Julien Puydt
Hi, Le lundi 19 octobre 2020 à 10:06 +0200, Jonas Smedegaard a écrit : > Hi Julien, and others, > > Quoting Julien Puydt (2020-10-19 09:15:28) > > I was trying to update the ipywidgets package. It once had a quite > > normal upstream, but then things went wild, if not st

How does one package a multirepo project?

2020-10-19 Thread Julien Puydt
Hi, I was trying to update the ipywidgets package. It once had a quite normal upstream, but then things went wild, if not stellar : they went monorepo. For those lucky ones who never crossed the principle, the idea is to have a single repository, and make dozens of different packages live within.

Re: Build-Depends-If-Available

2020-08-09 Thread Julien Puydt
Hi, Le dim. 9 août 2020 à 18:16, Simon McVittie a écrit : > Unfortunately, to the best of my knowledge, this is currently the least bad > thing to do. > if the current practices/software doesn't give enough leeway, perhaps we should seek to improve the situation. How would that fly if there we

Packaging minetest mods

2020-07-16 Thread Julien Puydt
Hi, I have packaged a few mods for the minetest game these last years. Recent minetest versions have a feature where you can download mods directly online. So the questions are : (1) should I go on updating the existing packages? or ask for their removal? orphan them? whatever? (2) should I go

Re: Lintian status reporting on packages overview broken?

2020-06-18 Thread Julien Puydt
Hi, Le jeudi 18 juin 2020 à 09:21 +0200, Gard Spreemann a écrit : > It seems to me that the "Lintian E+W" column on the QA packages > overview > page currently incorrectly shows a checkmark even when there are > Lintian > warnings for a package. Is this a known bug? I was about to ask around why

Re: Pimp your shell - Debian developer tips?

2020-05-27 Thread Julien Puydt
Le mercredi 27 mai 2020 à 22:06 +0300, Otto Kekäläinen a écrit : > Do we have Debian devs here who have pimped their shell heavily with > custom prompts, colors, command line fonts, shell window title hacks, > perhaps using zsh etc? Have you written blogs about you experiences, > can you share some

Re: Question for alioth-lists.debian.net status

2020-04-24 Thread Julien Cristau
On Sat, Apr 25, 2020 at 00:51:34 +0800, Shengjing Zhu wrote: > And another question for DSA is, whether the lists.alioth.debian.org > address is expected to work, as long as the alioth-lists.debian.net > exists? > I don't see a reason to break it. Cheers, Julien

Re: What to do when DD considers policy to be optional? [kubernetes]

2020-03-24 Thread Julien Puydt
Le mardi 24 mars 2020 à 14:03 +0100, Vincent Bernat a écrit : > > There are other reasons, notably that you speed up builds by having > all > the source code ready. Sorry, I don't know much about how go works, but : can't the developer just have the deps ready -- and just not commit them to the

Re: RFC: Replacing vim-tiny with nano in essential packages

2020-03-22 Thread Julien Cristau
eir side, without imposing that decision on the debian archive. Cheers, Julien

Re: trimming changelogs

2020-03-19 Thread Julien Puydt
Hi, Le vendredi 20 mars 2020 à 07:44 +0100, Ansgar a écrit : > > We should probably also not ship the same changelog in multiple > packages, especially when one depends on the other. > Switching to per src:package changelogs would cover that. But that will probably mean making dpkg smarter. J

Re: Migration to testing blocked by broken piuparts?

2020-01-02 Thread Julien Cristau
it'll eventually get retried and (assuming it passes) the migration block will lift. Cheers, Julien

Re: Mozilla Firefox DoH to CloudFlare by default (for US users)?

2019-09-10 Thread Julien Cristau
defaulting to not doing so. > How is this worse than what we're already doing by default, namely sending the same data to whoever happens to be on the network, in addition to whoever happened to be listed in an unauthenticated dhcp response? (Which, if you're lucky, is your ISP, aka a 3rd party.) Cheers, Julien

Re: buster backports question/status

2019-07-10 Thread Julien Cristau
backports being non available. > > Is the problem linked to buster-backports not existing yet ? Is backports > repo not created automatically on new releases? > buster-backports exists. AIUI this is an apt bug when dealing with empty repos. (Although why are you setting default-release to buster-backports?) Cheers, Julien

Re: Bug#824495: Use of the Build-Conflicts field

2019-02-16 Thread Julien Cristau
orkstation install" is the wrong > class of standard (whether I have a grasp on it or not). If it's not going > to > cause an FTBFS on a buildd, I think it's not RC. That would limit it to > packages that are build-depends (direct or indirect) of other packages, i.e. > no leaf packages. > > So my answer to both your questions is no. > +1 I'd say (1) and (2) range somewhere from minor to normal severity. Cheers, Julien

Re: Reusing source package name of long-removed, unrelated package

2019-02-06 Thread Julien Cristau
ackage names is usually worse than reusing source package names, in that it's a lot more likely to affect users. Sometimes it happens anyway, but IMO it's best avoided. Cheers, Julien

Re: Bug#913976: ITP: python-hgapi -- module providing a pure-Python API to Mercurial

2018-12-20 Thread Julien Cristau
is instead of hglib, which: - is already in debian - is maintained by mercurial upstream - has pretty much the exact same package description as the above ? This seems like useless duplication. Thanks, Julien

Re: Perl 5.28 transition underway

2018-12-07 Thread Julien Cristau
On 12/7/18 4:34 PM, Cyrille Bollu wrote: > The URL https://release.debian.org/transitions/html/perl5.28.html  is > 404 :-( > With Perl 5.28 in testing, the transition is over. Cheers, Julien

Re: Deployment of buildd machines [was: Re: usrmerge -- plan B?]

2018-11-28 Thread Julien Cristau
equivalent to sbuild-createchroot(8). https://salsa.debian.org/dsa-team/mirror/dsa-puppet/tree/master/modules/schroot/ Cheers, Julien

Re: Upcoming Qt switch to OpenGL ES on arm64

2018-11-23 Thread Julien Cristau
On 11/23/18 12:18 PM, Dmitry Shachnev wrote: > On Thu, Nov 22, 2018 at 11:05:27PM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: >> At least mesa drivers can be used for desktop GL or GLESv2 just fine, >> AFAIK. Maybe the answer for Qt is to switch to GLESv2 for all >> architectures, to st

Re: Upcoming Qt switch to OpenGL ES on arm64

2018-11-22 Thread Julien Cristau
y > box and use it as a normal OpenGL accelerated desktop (did that already > few years ago). > At least mesa drivers can be used for desktop GL or GLESv2 just fine, AFAIK. Maybe the answer for Qt is to switch to GLESv2 for all architectures, to stop the special-casing madness, instead of making it spread? :) Cheers, Julien

Re: Updating the policy for conflicting binaries names ? [was: Re: Re: New package netgen-lvs with binary /usr/bin/netgen - already taken]

2018-09-11 Thread Julien Cristau
t with the same filenames. > >> I think the policy should be changed. > > I'd very very strongly oppose any such change. > Ditto. Cheers, Julien

Re: Browserified copy and DFSG

2018-09-06 Thread Julien Cristau
t seem like something we want or need to do. browserify doesn't seem to be that special, IMO. Cheers, Julien

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