Re: opencl-icd virtual package(s)?

2023-06-19 Thread Rebecca N. Palmer
(beignet's FTBFS is #974792, my previous attempts to fix it are in Salsa, and I was planning to remove it and accept that older hardware would only be able to use CPU (pocl) OpenCL. Please use that bug for further discussion of that.) I'd leave the loader packages alone, i.e. ocl-icd-libopenc

Re: [Pkg-opencl-devel] opencl-icd virtual package(s)?

2023-06-18 Thread Rebecca N. Palmer
On 18/06/2023 03:37, Paul Wise wrote: Presumably any of the OpenCL ICDs work for most packages? For most OpenCL-using *packages* but not most *hardware*. (Except for pocl-opencl-icd, which works nearly everywhere but is slow.) Perhaps there should be a default-opencl-icd virtual package?

Re: Bug#1031701: python3-pandas: Pandas requires version '2.0.1' or newer of 'xlrd'

2023-02-27 Thread Rebecca N. Palmer
I don't consider the lack of .xls in pandas worth a freeze exception, but consider it reasonable for others to disagree with that. As noted in the bug, there are some (possibly not-technically-valid) .xlsx files that xlrd 1 can open but openpyxl can't - _pandas_ won't be able to open those eit

Re: how to override piuparts for package transition to testing

2020-09-06 Thread Rebecca N. Palmer
Ask the release team ("unblock" bug against release.debian.org, or debian-release@l.d.o): they can override the automated checks.

Re: UDD/dmd: fails to load when debci data is missing

2020-05-25 Thread Rebecca N. Palmer
Johannes Schauer wrote: In particular, in the "CI" column, look for those rows where the first line shows exactly "✔-" -- those packages have to be excluded. Failures are fine and even both missing is fine but a checkmark followed by a minus triggers that bug. Neutral/missing ("⛔-") is also bad

UDD/dmd: fails to load when debci data is missing

2020-05-25 Thread Rebecca N. Palmer
Control: retitle -1 UDD/dmd: fails to load when debci data is missing The problem isn't the number of packages, but some specific packages that can't be displayed even when they are the only package requested: https://udd.debian.org/dmd/?email1=&email2=&email3=&packages=node-file-entry-cache&ig

known bad addresses Re: lintian

2020-04-24 Thread Rebecca N. Palmer
gregor herrmann wrote: This link and the whole check would be helpful only for not-migrated alioth lists which don't work anymore but I guess lintian has no chance to make this discrimination. Lintian already has a list of individual known-bad addresses (data/fields/bounce-addresses, tags *-ca

429 too many requests Re: Problems while searching for a new upstream version

2020-04-08 Thread Rebecca N. Palmer
This is an issue with the checking system, not a bug in your package. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=955268

Re: tag2upload (git-debpush) service architecture - draft

2019-08-02 Thread Rebecca N. Palmer
On 02/08/2019 19:09, Ian Jackson wrote: Sam Hartman writes ("Re: tag2upload (git-debpush) service architecture - draft"): Can you outline how to get from the dsc to a verification of the tag signature without contacting the dgit server? Sure. Split the tag object daa at the relevant - bo

Re: tag2upload (git-debpush) service architecture - draft

2019-08-01 Thread Rebecca N. Palmer
e commit tag debian/1.3.2-6 tagger Rebecca N. Palmer 1549574096 + beignet Debian release 1.3.2-6 [signature deleted] Bastian Blank wrote: The output of all operations obviously needs to be reproducible to be signed. Other parties could re-run the tag2upload transformation to verify it,

Re: tag2upload (git-debpush) service architecture - draft

2019-07-31 Thread Rebecca N. Palmer
On 31/07/2019 17:08, Ian Jackson wrote: .dsc generation is complicated, slow, and inconvenient. In what circumstances is it slow enough to matter? My measurements, in a sid chroot: source .orig .debian origcreate dpkg-b. size size time time dgit(native)4M 0.3sec

Re: tag2upload (git-debpush) service architecture - draft

2019-07-31 Thread Rebecca N. Palmer
dak -- ? Breaks "get sponsor name from .dsc" tools abcde On 30/07/2019 16:54, Bastian Blank wrote: On Sun, Jul 28, 2019 at 07:05:49PM +0100, Rebecca N. Palmer wrote: That suggests that working towards requiring the SHA-256 mode of git (which at least sort of exists since 2.21 [2], but I

Re: tag2upload (git-debpush) service architecture - draft

2019-07-28 Thread Rebecca N. Palmer
On 28/07/2019 20:01, Sean Whitton wrote: When I read your first e-mail what I thought you had in mind was just this -- having git-debpush compute a stronger hash of the tree object and add that to the tag metadata, ignoring commit objects. Of the files in the signer's repository, not of an actu

Re: tag2upload (git-debpush) service architecture - draft

2019-07-28 Thread Rebecca N. Palmer
On 28/07/2019 16:18, Ian Jackson wrote: What it amounts to is a parallel Merkle tree to the git one, just with a different data format and a better hash. Not really: it wouldn't need the history tree structure (in Git terms [0], it would be a tree object not a commit object), and if we use ta

Re: tag2upload (git-debpush) service architecture - draft

2019-07-28 Thread Rebecca N. Palmer
On 28/07/2019 10:58, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: On 7/27/19 8:16 PM, Rebecca N. Palmer wrote: As a way to avoid relying on SHA-1, would it work to have git-debpush include a longer hash in the tag message, and tag2upload also verify that hash? what exactly would you create that long hash of? The

Re: tag2upload (git-debpush) service architecture - draft

2019-07-27 Thread Rebecca N. Palmer
As a way to avoid relying on SHA-1, would it work to have git-debpush include a longer hash in the tag message, and tag2upload also verify that hash?

Re: OpenCL / handling of hardware-specific packages

2019-07-01 Thread Rebecca N. Palmer
On 01/07/2019 18:10, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult wrote: On 19.06.19 09:09, Rebecca N. Palmer wrote: I proposed [0] fixing this by creating a metapackage for "all OpenCL drivers" (similar to the ones for graphics).  However, having unusable OpenCL drivers installed can trigge

Re: AMDGPU+OpenCL with Debian?

2019-06-19 Thread Rebecca N. Palmer
Summary: try installing mesa-opencl-icd. It's a known issue that there is currently no way for an OpenCL-using package to ask for "the correct OpenCL driver for this hardware": it can ask for "any OpenCL driver" (letting apt choose) or "an OpenCL driver chosen by the packager", either of which

Re: Bug#930219: ITP: node-dagre-layout - should other dagre users switch?

2019-06-09 Thread Rebecca N. Palmer
Changes from dagre to this fork are summarized at [0]. It looks like Gitlab use this fork because Mermaid does [1] and the fork author is a major Mermaid contributor [2]. A few packages currently use the original dagre(-d3), but none run its full build process: firefox/firefox-esr/thunderbi

Re: Mono status

2018-12-09 Thread Rebecca N. Palmer
The monodevelop package has been removed from Debian, as there were not enough maintainers to handle its large number of dependencies (the debian-cli list has received nothing but spam for nearly 2 years): https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=893860 It remains available from upstr

Re: Upcoming Qt switch to OpenGL ES on arm64

2018-11-24 Thread Rebecca N. Palmer
Would packaging Regal solve any of this? https://github.com/p3/regal It claims to implement OpenGL on top of OpenGL ES, but I don't know if it is complete enough or efficient enough to be useful in this context. Dmitry Shachnev wrote: We do not have a final list yet, but packages that may ge

Re: Upcoming Qt switch to OpenGL ES on arm64

2018-11-24 Thread Rebecca N. Palmer
Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: El viernes, 23 de noviembre de 2018 09:23:29 -03 Dmitry Shachnev escribió: I have an embedded Intel card right now :) Same here, 10 years old machine with an embedded Intel video card. I don't think I can expect it to work with GLES. Wikipedia says I

distribution-and-changes-mismatch not emitted when it should be

2018-11-19 Thread Rebecca N. Palmer
Package: lintian Version: 2.5.112 Patrice Duroux wrote: I was surprise to discover such case of the following package: https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/libnfs for which the unstable and testing versions have the ~exp1 suffix and the head of the corresponding changelog.Debian.gz is: libnfs (2.0.

Re: PHP Support in Debian

2018-10-16 Thread Rebecca N. Palmer
This was recently discussed on the -backports list: https://lists.debian.org/debian-backports/2018/10/threads.html#00014

Re: Forbidding Firefox addons from testing & stable

2018-05-05 Thread Rebecca N. Palmer
Sorry - I was looking at the "Bug reports" link which is the binary package, not the source package, so missed ublock-origin #877040 and debianbuttons #870344. There's also #866997 requesting that mozilla-devscripts provide tools for packaging WebExtensions, which has patches.

Re: Forbidding Firefox addons from testing & stable (was: Firefox 60esr on Stretch ?)

2018-05-05 Thread Rebecca N. Palmer
Vincent Bernat wrote: WebExtensions are backed by a standard draft: https://browserext.github.io/browserext/. So, situation is expected to improve in the future. Mozilla have explicitly said that "Extensions created with the new standard[...]won’t break in new Firefox releases." [0] It has pre

-all driver packages

2017-06-12 Thread Rebecca N. Palmer
Anthony DeRobertis wrote: The only thing I've seen is Recommends: cpu-microcode-all | cpu-microcode and having a cpu-microcode-all package that Depends on both, and having the two real package Provides cpu-microcode. If I remember correctly, Xorg did this at one point for video drivers (may

Re: AppStream Re: Depends/Recommends from libraries

2017-03-10 Thread Rebecca N. Palmer
On 10/03/17 00:10, Jeremy Bicha wrote: I think a lot of those appstream installs are from KDE and GNOME which install plasma-discover and gnome-software by default. Do those things display AppStream "packages related to this hardware" by default? (beignet-opencl-icd isn't a valid test because

AppStream Re: Depends/Recommends from libraries

2017-03-09 Thread Rebecca N. Palmer
appstream itself is installed on ~60% of sid/stretch desktops [0], but isenkram on only ~5% (and most of those are the -cli version). When beignet-opencl-icd added AppStream metadata (black line in [1]), there was no noticeable increase in its installs. As it's for popular hardware (~33% of s

Re: Where can build scripts be found?

2017-01-25 Thread Rebecca N. Palmer
For investigating a crash, you may not need to recompile: first try installing the debug symbols package (icedove-dbg). For already known bugs, see https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?repeatmerged=no&src=icedove If you still want to recompile, you're missing $ sudo apt-get install build-

Re: Thinking about a "jessie and a half" release

2016-07-05 Thread Rebecca N. Palmer
Would it be possible/reasonable (at least for stretch) to have the installer detect this and ask "your hardware appears to be too new for this release, would you like to enable -backports?" On 04/07/16 23:38, Ben Hutchings wrote: As I understand it, xserver-xorg-video-modesetting should be use

Re: cmake GNUInstallDirs question

2015-09-12 Thread Rebecca N. Palmer
It outputs "lib: lib". No arch triplet. Is this expected? Yes; you probably want ${CMAKE_INSTALL_FULL_LIBDIR}. http://www.cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.1/module/GNUInstallDirs.html https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-opencl/beignet.git/tree/debian/patches/Enable-multiarch.patch?id=a4be256b30625db8829a

Re: git and https

2015-05-27 Thread Rebecca N. Palmer
Why? Which attack do you envision[...]that would be thwarted by https but not by signed commits? I don't; I see https as easier and hence more likely to actually get used in practice. Telling users to use the existing https:// instead of git:// is a simple change to the wiki; enabling https on

git and https

2015-05-25 Thread Rebecca N. Palmer
While we're on the subject of git security...should we stop recommending that non-account-holders use git:// (most efficient, but insecure against MITM unless you manually check the commit number) in preference to https:// (at least some security)? https://wiki.debian.org/Alioth/Git#Accessing_r

Re: static linking

2015-05-19 Thread Rebecca N. Palmer
What's the preferred way to set Built-Using: http://sources.debian.net/src/chromium-browser/42.0.2311.135-2/debian/control/?hl=82#L82 , http://sources.debian.net/src/binutils/2.25-7/debian/rules/?hl=998#L998 , or something else? The existing statically-linked-binary / shared-lib-without-depe

Re: CUT rolling release debian

2015-03-06 Thread Rebecca N. Palmer
And as DM I can't upload to experimental. Sometimes in freeze time I am getting emails from Ubuntu users which wants to have new upstream version in upcoming Ubuntu release. DMs can upload to experimental, and Ubuntu will sync from there if you ask them to: see e.g. https://tracker.debian.org/p

Re: moving to multiarch for packages with plugins

2015-02-18 Thread Rebecca N. Palmer
As a transitional measure, you could patch lcmaps so it searches /usr/lib/lcmaps with lower priority than ${libdir}/lcmaps, so that these older plugin packages continue to work for a couple of years. openscenegraph does that (currently openscenegraph-plugin-citygml-shared and libopenscenegraph's

Re: Age of built packages to be part of the jessie release?

2014-11-22 Thread Rebecca N. Palmer
There's no limit on age, but an FTBFS is a serious bug; there are regular automated checks for this (e.g. https://bugs.debian.org/768691 ), but manual reports are also welcome. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact l

Re: Architectures where unaligned access is (not) OK?

2014-11-21 Thread Rebecca N. Palmer
https://wiki.debian.org/ArchitectureSpecificsMemo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/546f3ec4.5030...@zoho.com

Alioth down?

2014-11-19 Thread Rebecca N. Palmer
Anyone else seeing this problem? $ git pull fatal: unable to access 'https://anonscm.debian.org/git/pkg-opencl/beignet.git/': Failed to connect to anonscm.debian.org port 443: Connection refused https://alioth.debian.org/ in a browser gives "can't establish a connection" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: release browser-related packages to stable?

2014-11-11 Thread Rebecca N. Palmer
Has there already been any further discussion about the solution for Xul extensions packaged in Debian? I haven't looked for the official discussion, but extensions have been updated in stable (to a new upstream version if necessary) when a browser update would otherwise break them: see e.g. #74

Should fast-evolving packages be backports-only?

2014-11-11 Thread Rebecca N. Palmer
It has been recently stated [0-1] that backports is enabled by default in Jessie. 1. Does that mean that if pkgX is in jessie-backports but not jessie, "apt-get install pkgX" will install it from -backports? 2. If so, when (if ever) is it appropriate to deliberately invoke that behaviour by

Re: Why not 03 ?

2014-05-30 Thread Rebecca N. Palmer
Bottom line: the vectorisation provided -O3 can provide big speed ups to some scientific programs, but it is ineffective on Debian because by necessity it tells gcc to compile code for lowest common denominator CPU which doesn't have the necessary instructions. Ineffective on i386, but amd64 alw

Where have all the package VCSs gone?

2014-01-25 Thread Rebecca N. Palmer
Do they now require login, or is the server down? simgear$ git pull fatal: unable to access 'https://alioth.debian.org/anonscm/git/collab-maint/simgear.git/': The requested URL returned error: 403 http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/pkg-llvm/emscripten/trunk/: An Exception Has Occurred The roo