t; solution I could and should upload it.
That is indeed a totally reasonable approach.
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onsistent as possible across architectures, and don't just
reach for the 'disable' button. For someone on a particular arch that
is the same as the 'remove from archive' button in effect.
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7;neat' epochless versions forevermore for all those
future users when everyone has forgotten about this cock-up.
Ultimately you are the maintainer so it's up to you.
From what you have said, I think I'd epoch in this case, unless I
thought the current set of users could be considered
erything - even the
packages that were just uploaded as tarballs. And explicitly _doesn't_
remove the archive VCS interface. And it supports all the git-based
workflows. (someone should probably tell IWJ this conversation is
occuring as he's taken a bit intererest in it, but no longer
? Like I say, dgit is so close, but exactly the opposite of
what I need.
> > But let's not try to "fix" a problem by introducing a rule that is, at
> > best, affecting something only very weakly related to the problem that
> > we are trying to solve.
>
> I would be happy to talk about rules that might help solving problems
> (as well as droping rules that are creating barriers).
Me too. Please let us improve the culture around NMUs, collaboration and fixes
without making people (OK, duffers like me) change all their tooling.
I am all for more Matrix over IRC though - that's a genuine
improvement (and they are easy to bridge).
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failed to make any progress despite reading wiki pages and
man pages and blogs. I just realised that I didn't understand how it
worked or what the tradeoffs were, so couldn't really make sensible
decisions about what I should do. I suspect I'm not the only one who
is quite vague
depend of curl are not building on armel/armhf.
We are well aware that this is broken and blocking lots of
things. Co-ordinate efforts on the #debian-arm channel.
There are plenty of other loops to unbung too.
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oups/distros/softwares
are following fuse development more closely and thus have already got
'wrong' binaries.
A soname bump is probably your best bet, but if no-one even noticed
this for a year then maybe it's not that bad and just reverting will
suffice? (And send everyon
stable ABI/dynamic linking problem.
I guess it might be time for another go to see if we can get some traction.
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on't support anything like as many
architectures.
If it only done for security issues, rather than routinely, then that
shouldn't be that much extra load (does anyone have any idea how much
extra building we are talking about? Is it trivial, or huge?)
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> Unfortunately, eller is down
Eller had to move hosting provider at short notice. It is now racked
again but needs network configuration for new location. It will
hopefully re-appear by end-Monday.
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are just told to 'use the right one' will do so,
and I thought it worth pointing out that that's not correct). Info for
your average maintainer needs to go one step back and say "use stringA
in this circumstance and stringB in this circumstance. . The reason why it matter
it
(and it's kind of annoying because it interrupts the install/upgrade
process). And this only works for well-maintained packages that
actually update Debian.NEWS, not barely-maintained/unmaintained
packages. I guess you might get the info from the replacing, as
opposed to replaced package,
correct binary builds (although I do think it should clean enough to
make correct sources too in general).
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#x27;t really exist.
It does exist. It's broken far too often and it affects actual
developers using debian tools. It's supposed to work.
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workflows) everything 'just
works'. So it's easy to justify in terms of maintenance effort IMHO.
The only maintenance load comes if/when upstream move things around.
I have never tried Helmut's suggestion of removing this stuff in the
clean target. It does seem to me that removing it from the tarball
makes a lot more sense than cleaning it later.
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lt reliably from git/VCS - the old debian stuff is
bust'. Better would be a new git-only dpkg format of some sort with a
new set of expectations. But that's quite a big piece of work.
Just to be clear I don't want any of that. I want the existing tooling
and packaging to work the way p
bringing up because whilst the existing
'i386' arch has to choose one ABI or another, nothing stops us from
having both variants in the archive if we want them enough.
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of issues and options. It is much appreciated.
I agree with the two consensus proposals Helmut put in the email at
the top of this thread (that DEP17 is a good representation of the
issues and that putting the files in the canonical locations is the
long-term endpoint of this transition).
Wook
; > mind before applying it?
>
> Note that I'm not the one driving this change (I'll start a separate
> thread for -fstack-clash-protection in the next days), but the original
> request was from Wookey.
> Personally I think now at the beginning of the new development
pendent of the 'should the i386 ABI
switch along with other 32-bit ABIs'.
Switching or not (so long as the fairly small subset of the distro we
use keeps working) would not affect our usage of the device, for example.
So if we could try and consider these questions separately, that would
le/fix it for
everything though. A rebuild check of affected libraries to see how
much work this adds would be a good idea.
I'll add this info the the wiki and do some tests.
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open router hardware that can actually run the fancy
scriptage/setup needed then everything can be in one box, but not this
year).
Removing the installer to stop supporting _new_ installs is probably
fair enough but I don't think we can yet say there are no reasonable
use cases for old i386 h
be great if you could add relevant info to the wiki page:
https://wiki.debian.org/ReleaseGoals/64bit-time#Known_Issues
Similarly, if anyone else knows of actual or potential issues, that
page would be a great place to document them, or add tests we can run
to check things are still working as expected.
27; (a workaround) is to make any packages which appear as the
arch-all intermediaries in dep-chains to be made arch-any so that
chain is not broken. We can either do that for all packages in an
ecosystem, or just for ones that actually exhibit this problem. Doing
it for all is safer.
HTH
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oaded our buildds. Such a thing
may be more tractable these days in terms of available build resources
on most arches, but it's still a very big deal, and this change
certainly doesn't warrant it.
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On 2022-10-25 16:10 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Oct 2022 at 15:34:26 +0100, Wookey wrote:
> > These are hardware features (new instructions) that 'tag' pointers and
> > branch targets to make it much harder for malicious code to implement
> > ROP (retur
t it is changing the defaults.
Like all dpkg-buildflags it can easily be disabled for a particular
package and there is a kernel option to turn it off on a particular
machine if issues are encountered (and no doubt we will find a couple).
I hope that all makes sense.
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> a per-architecture symlinks in arch-specific packages.
I would like to understand how the cross stuff works with this
personalities thing, but it may be a while before I get round to
it. Again I shall assume that you know what you are doing :-)
If Helmut is happy then I'm sure it'
rework IMHO to get rid
of this very unhelpful (and not at all necessary) characteristic. I
did consider doing the work needed to fix this but didn't have the
bandwidth/enthusiasm at the time. Maybe someone has fixed this in the
nearly a decade since I looked in to it and the point is moot? B
a bit (away from AI, towards core arch activities and my
personal packages). I'm not sure how much of my current test hardware
I'll get to keep...
I am a DD (since 2000)
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great. Having the
store and-forward done by someone else (unless you want to still do it
yourself) is nice.
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ial packages, but not not very useful for trivial ones.
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er path in debian
has been /var/www/html/ for decades so I'd use that, but you might
have reasons to make it /var/www/shiny-server instead if you want
shiny-server to be co-installable with other web-servers, and serve different
stuff?
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ve debian package'?
I thought the whole point of debian native packages was that there was
no 'upstream' and it was only for debian so you _are_ in control of
the source, the versioning and the releases? As soon as that stops
being true then should one not shift to making it a
Linux-drops-Windows-Red-Hat-into-airlock
Or at least was in 2013/4.
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singly anachronistic as the rest of the software ecosystem seems
to accelerate around us (not entirely a good thing, of course). Who
needs quality when you can have updates, eh?
The combination of binary uploads for NEW and source-only uploads for
the archive proper also seems a tad clunky.
Woo
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though as people have pointed out
complete rewrites are not really NMU material and we should follow the
salvage process.
Well done for getting those boring old packages into better shape (again).
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e (or even
properly know what they are) to my collection of responsibilities, but
I can spend work time on helping get this going so I don't mind
mucking in on some packaging work.
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t stands,
if you don't already know, it tells you nothing more than 'this
program does analysis of data', which is a little too general.
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not) and
> let it stay there until wxWidgets 3.2 is out?
Yes. This is what I'd do for the time being. That way you are not
committed to this path where you might end up maintaining (or not
maintaining, just hoping for the best on!) an unstable wxwidgets
version for several years.
Wookey
On 2021-09-20 04:48 +, Clint Adams wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 19, 2021 at 05:32:04PM +0100, Wookey wrote:
> > I must admit that I have no idea why replacing such a longstanding
> > utility is deemed necessary.
>
> Maybe this riddle will help.
>
> Imagine that you
recommended.
Have a plain which back is much easier than fixing the build mess.
I must admit that I have no idea why replacing such a longstanding
utility is deemed necessary.
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mention the 'B' dependency), let that build, then upload B and (once
built OK) upload a full A.
Sometimes people use 'foo-bootstrap' package names so that the
minimal and full versions of a package can be distinguished.
HTH
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On 2021-08-11 14:08 +0200, Hans wrote:
> And best: It is all GPL licensed,
It's all free software, but many licences are used, not just the GPL.
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ng is to update xfce-notes-plugin to use it?
Assuming that's not too difficult I don't mind doing some work to get
it back in a ship-able state.
Or it there something else that is still around that does the same job
as the notes plugin? It's quite unusual in the way it wo
lease version is a
significant feature for a platform like theirs, and it wouldn't be
hard to keep the old URLs working for a couple of years to allow a
smooth switch to a specified long-term interface.
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On 2021-02-18 16:00 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> Wookey,
>
> > Description : Enhanced Qfuture (Qt) interface
> >
> > AsyncFuture is designed to enhance the QFuture function, removing..
>
> Maybe this should be prefixed with qt- since i
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emergency x86 box has been stuffed in until I work out what's wrong
with it/replace it.
> * Are you testing/patching d-i for the port(s)?
Yes. Added multiple console support for last release.
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case can
someone reply so they are in the bug report. Cheers.
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roof level, unless an impressive
level of enthusiasm is collected and applied.
I have just set up a small server yesterday in order to experiment with this
stuff (setting up matrix-synapse initially, but jangouts and BBB are also of
interest, although neither are packaged).
So yes, kno
investigation and work is needed to progress
that. One outcome of the meeting was to reject all the pending
packages as new uploads will be needed whatever path is eventually
chosen.
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On 2020-08-19 07:47 +0200, Geert Stappers wrote:
>
>
> Please, pretty please, make `debcheckout ` possible
'dgit checkout ' is possible.
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uploaded within say 4 weeks. If NEW takes longer than that,
then upload the new-version-with-bundle at that point.
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On 2020-05-20 13:42 +0200, Gard Spreemann wrote:
>
> Wookey writes:
> Is there any community consensus on putting the bundling in place
> temporarily while the separate package is held up in NEW? Being the
> maintainer of both, I would be able to quickly react to the separate
&
#x27;d
just package it. A headers-only library is relatively quick and easy to do.
> I
> would track the bundling as a bug and act on it when/if a separate
> package enters Debian.
Would you necessarily notice when another package using this
dependency enters the archive?
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should go to
debian, not upstream, although of course not many people read docs so
that won't work as well as one might like.
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convinced by the argument that we shouldn't try at all in this case.
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I'd like it even more if we always had zile.
Just a thought (I'm _really_ not trying to start a vi/emacs argument,
but perhaps it is inevitable). If you've never heard of it, I suggest
you give it a try. v. handy.
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es of course take more time and work then
just stuffing yet another embedded 3rd party library into the source.
Ideally upstreams would be doing this work, but many leave it to
distros to tidy up their mess (and incorporate their laziness into
build systems which just adds more bodging to undo).
W
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the
results, particularly from the POV of someone who has primarily
'patches, quilt and tarballs' workflows, but can use git if
necessary.
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which is apparently the new thing. Nor firewalld - perhaps it
would do what I want?
For those too young to know, ipmasq basically does(did - removed in
2009!) what the script on this page does for you:
https://debian-administration.org/article/23/Setting_up_a_simple_Debian_gateway
Woo
nsible
for modern screens.
Most of the rest of what said sounded fairly sensible to me too,
although I'm not familiar with all the details (and have never noticed a
need for a dark theme). Nicer defaults for screenspace and fonts
definitely sounds like a good idea. You probably need to pe
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oning scheme (increasingly common in my
experience), it's smart to use 0~$date so you can look smug and switch
to (newer) versions if/when they adopt them without needed an epoch.
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ed) and making the
deb nearly twice as big (540K vs 300K). This does seem pretty
ridiculous.
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pstream and the DFSG is normally defined by
'Files-Excluded' in the copyright file and compression/name
transformations in the watch file. It is for my packages, anyway.
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available.
I think it's worth investing some effort in determining how practical
these routes are, and the above is something I think is within my
capabilities. I'm not overflowing with tuits, but I do think this is
important so I'm prepared to spend some cycles on it.
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> El viernes, 23 de noviembre de 2018 12:26:49 -03 Wookey escribió:
> >
> > My main desktop is now an arm64 machine with an nvidia PCI graphics
> > card. These are fairly new (and currently expensive), but
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to switch between GL and
GLES). Possibly that work never actually got done, just talked out.
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s, if there are some, like adding updated copyright information. This
> way you also have a place to discuss the issue.
This seems sensible to me.
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years?
Yes a yearly ping is not a big deal, but multiplied by the number of
organisations one is a member of, such annual makework is quite
tiresome, and years go surprisingly quickly once you are over about
35. A bit less often than that will be better IMHO.
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moment.
So yeah, some clarification in order I think, and an explanation of use-cases.
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On 2018-07-22 13:14 -0400, Geoffrey Thomas wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Jul 2018, Wookey wrote:
>
> > I think they're funny, which I think is what was intended by
> > upstream. I enjoy a gratuitous boob-or-handjob mention as much as the
> > next 14 year old.
>
> As
on much beyond the benefits of free software, and
providing useful software in Debian is a good thing for all our
downstreams to choose from.
So yes, I'd leave it in, whilst encouraging upstream to reduce the
laddishness, because that is offputting for quite a lot of people, and
is just no l
it is a real issue for people setting up
their own CI infra. One day I may have the tuits to improve things in
this area (I plan to start retiring soon, which might help, or may
simply introduce different distractions :-)
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On 2018-04-17 12:27 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 12:49:36PM +0100, Wookey wrote:
> > On 2018-04-17 13:15 +0800, Rolf Leggewie wrote:
>
> > > the ticket now does
> > > serve a purpose in documenting publicly why there was no upload to
>
t; > https://sourceforge.net/p/gjots2/bugs/
Someone new to this can't tell from this message or that list of 20 bugs
(none of which obvisouly have your name on), what it is about the
package which is so buggy that a new version cannot be uploaded.
It would help if you actually explained the i
Also, not only do the ftp-masters generally respond quickly - they
also do a thorough job. Twice in the last year I have had things I
missed pointed out, which is excellent - that's the whole point of the
process, and I strive to do better in future.
So yes, thanks FTP-masters - I really do appre
On 2018-04-03 18:55 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> You want debian-changelog-mode in dpkg-dev-el.
ooh, that's improved my life significantly!
cheers. How many years have I been missing this trick?
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changelog it always indents the
bullet-list by a whole tab, not two spaces and I have to put it
back. It's very annoying. So there is a mode I can use which will
presumably stop this annoying behviour? where does it come from/what
is it called?
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On 2018-02-12 14:11 +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> Quoting Colin Watson (2018-02-12 13:18:04)
> > On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 12:09:50PM +0000, Wookey wrote:
> > > I'd have done the same as Simon. The main advantage is that it makes
> > > the tarball free software,
all free software, which we generally don't get any leeway
about (although in this case I presume we have in fact been shipping a
bit of non-free code for years? so continuing to do so is not making
things worse).
Wookey
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* Package name: horizon-eda
Version : 0.2018-02
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* URL : https://github.com/carrotIndustries/horizon
* License : GPL-3
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On 2018-01-09 15:07 +0100, Johannes Schauer wrote:
> Quoting Wookey (2018-01-09 06:03:26)
> > On 2018-01-08 20:36 -0500, Michael Stone wrote:
> > > How, then, would you tell by looking at the package name+version which
> > > kind
> > > of package you hav
ething like this is that it
lets you upstream patches (which change dependencies) in a reasonably
clean way.
Clearly a downstream distro can instead maintain patches, but we
encourage upstreaming in general and this mechanism allows that.
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his is abuse of that mechanism. An architecture is an ABI and life is
complicated enough without adding baggage to that concept.
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