Bug#748783: ITP: fwts -- FirmWare Test Suite

2024-09-30 Thread Anoop M S
Package: wnpp Followup-For: Bug #748783 Owner: Anoop M S X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, anoo...@disroot.org Hi, I would like to package and maintain fwts for Debian. -- Thanks, Anoop

Bug#1082574: ITP: aquamarine -- Light-weight rendering library for Linux

2024-09-22 Thread Alan M Varghese
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alan M Varghese X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, a...@digistorm.in * Package name: aquamarine Version : 0.4.1 Upstream Contact: vaxerski * URL : https://github.com/hyprwm/aquamarine * License : BSD-3-Clause

Re: Urgent help with upload of netatalk to prevent being autoremoval from testing

2024-06-29 Thread IOhannes m zmölnig
Am 29. Juni 2024 13:32:40 MESZ schrieb Daniel Markstedt : > >Normally I would be more patient, but right now netatalk is slated to get >removed from Trixie testing on July 4th due to one of the bugs >(libgcrypt-config deprecation.) > I cannot offer any action right now (busy IRL as well), but: d

Bug#1073195: ITP: hyprwayland-scanner -- Implementation of wayland-scanner for Hyprland

2024-06-14 Thread Alan M Varghese
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alan M Varghese X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, a...@digistorm.in * Package name: hyprwayland-scanner Version : 0.3.10 Upstream Contact: vaxerski * URL : https://github.com/hyprwm/hyprwayland-scanner * License

Bug#1073158: ITP: hyprutils -- C++ library for utilities used across the Hypr ecosystem

2024-06-13 Thread Alan M Varghese
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alan M Varghese X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, a...@digistorm.in * Package name: hyprutils Version : 0.1.2 Upstream Contact: vaxerski * URL : https://github.com/hyprwm/hyprutils * License : BSD-3-Clause

Bug#1072274: ITP: fcitx5-varnam -- Fcitx5 wrapper for Varnam input method.

2024-05-31 Thread Anoop M S
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Anoop M S X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, anoo...@disroot.org * Package name: fcitx5-varnam Version : 0.0.1 Upstream Contact: Anoop M S * URL : https://github.com/varnamproject/varnam-fcitx5 * License : GPL

Bug#1069659: ITP: rust-lifeguard -- An object pool manager in Rust

2024-04-22 Thread Loren M. Lang
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Loren M. Lang" X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, lor...@north-winds.org * Package name: rust-lifeguard Version : 0.6.1 Upstream Contact: Zack Slayton * URL : https://crates.io/crates/lifeguard

Debian packaging for git-credential-libsecret

2024-04-01 Thread M Hickford
Hi. It'd be great to package Git credential helper git-credential-libsecret in Debian. There's a patch prepared, but it needs the attention of a Debian developer. Is anyone here able to help? https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=878599 Kind regards -M

Bug#1067116: ITP: libhyprcursor -- hyprland cursor format, library and utilities

2024-03-18 Thread Alan M Varghese
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alan M Varghese X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, a...@digistorm.in * Package name: libhyprcursor Version : 0.1.4 Upstream Contact: vaxerski * URL : https://github.com/hyprwm/hyprcursor * License : BSD-3

Re: Bug#1066871: RFS: libhyprlang/0.5.0-1 [ITP] -- Configuration language for Hyprland

2024-03-14 Thread Alan M Varghese
f splitting the    package to increase the required amount of work. Shall we merge our work and co-maintain this? On 3/14/24 14:46, Alan M Varghese wrote: Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-Cc: a...@digistorm.in Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my packa

Bug#1065699: ITP: hyprpaper -- Wallpaper utility for Hyprland

2024-03-08 Thread Alan M Varghese
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alan M Varghese X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, a...@digistorm.in * Package name: hyprpaper Version : 0.6.0 Upstream Contact: vaxerski * URL : https://github.com/hyprwm/hyprpaper * License : BSD-3-Clause

Bug#1065352: ITP: libhyprlang -- Configuration language for Linux applications

2024-03-03 Thread Alan M Varghese
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alan M Varghese X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, a...@digistorm.in * Package name: libhyprlang Version : 0.4.1 Upstream Contact: vaxerski * URL : https://github.com/hyprwm/hyprlang * License : GPL

Re: Another take on package relationship substvars

2024-02-24 Thread IOhannes m zmölnig
Am 24. Februar 2024 11:26:56 MEZ schrieb Bernd Zeimetz : >On Thu, 2024-02-22 at 20:52 +0100, IOhannes m zmölnig wrote: >> >> While I like the idea in general, I wonder how I could override these >> automatic additions. >> I think there are some packages that even demot

Re: Another take on package relationship substvars

2024-02-22 Thread IOhannes m zmölnig
Am 22. Februar 2024 20:25:32 MEZ schrieb Boyuan Yang : >在 2024-02-22星期四的 19:32 +0100,Niels Thykier写道: >> I think our package helper tooling should just automatically aggregate >> all provided substvars of the format ${*:Depends} and append it the >> Depends field. Rinse and repeat for other relat

Re: Bug#1064082: ITP: golang-github-cheggaaa-pb -- Console progress bar for Golang

2024-02-16 Thread Loren M. Lang
On Sat, Feb 17, 2024 at 02:28:41AM +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: > Hi! > > On Fri, 2024-02-16 at 15:07:55 -0800, Loren M. Lang wrote: > > Package: wnpp > > Severity: wishlist > > Owner: Loren M. Lang > > > * Package name: golang-github-cheggaaa-

Bug#1064082: ITP: golang-github-cheggaaa-pb -- Console progress bar for Golang

2024-02-16 Thread Loren M. Lang
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Loren M. Lang * Package name: golang-github-cheggaaa-pb Version : 3.1.5-1 Upstream Author : Sergey Cherepanov * URL : https://github.com/cheggaaa/pb * License : BSD-3-clause Programming Lang: Go Description

Bug#1064081: ITP: golang-github-cloudflare-cbpfc -- cBPF to C or eBPF compiler

2024-02-16 Thread Loren M. Lang
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Loren M. Lang * Package name: golang-github-cloudflare-cbpfc Version : 0.0~git20231012.992ed75-1 Upstream Author : Cloudflare * URL : https://github.com/cloudflare/cbpfc * License : BSD-3-clause Programming Lang: Go

Bug#1063929: ITP: golang-github-go-quicktest-qt -- Quick helpers for testing Go applications using generics.

2024-02-14 Thread Loren M. Lang
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Loren M. Lang * Package name: golang-github-go-quicktest-qt Version : 1.101.0-1 Upstream Author : * URL : https://github.com/go-quicktest/qt * License : Expat Programming Lang: Go Description : Quick helpers for

Bug#1063442: ITP: tracy -- Real time, nanosecond resolution, remote telemetry, hybrid frame and sampling profiler for games and other applications

2024-02-08 Thread Alan M Varghese
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alan M Varghese X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, a...@digistorm.in * Package name: tracy Version : 0.10.0 Upstream Contact: Bartosz Taudul * URL : https://github.com/wolfpld/tracy * License : BSD-3-Clause

Bug#1062455: ITP: tiv -- Small command-line image viewer using RGB ANSI colors and Unicode block characters to render image

2024-02-01 Thread Loren M. Lang
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Loren M. Lang" X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: tiv Version : 1.2.1 Upstream Author : Aaron Liu , Stefan Haustein * URL : https://github.com/stefanhaustein/TerminalImageViewer

Adding an optional dependency for test suite

2024-01-31 Thread Loren M. Lang
new source package is uploaded? Or it that not normally done on the build server? -- Loren M. Lang lor...@north-winds.org http://www.north-winds.org/ Public Key: http://www.north-winds.org/lorenl_pubkey.asc Fingerprint: 7896 E099 9FC7 9F6C E0ED E103 222D F356 A57A 98FA signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Proper handling of Lintian warnings due to other packages

2024-01-30 Thread Loren M. Lang
to handle this. Should I just ignore it for now and upload anyways since it's only a warning or should I add an override to suppress it as it doesn't seem to be causing any breaking issues at the moment? Have other developers dealt with this warning before? -- Loren M. Lang lor...@

Bug#1061940: ITP: libudis86 -- Disassembler for the x86 and x86-64 class of instructions set

2024-01-30 Thread Alan M Varghese
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alan M Varghese X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, a...@digistorm.in * Package name: libudis86 Version : #5336633 Upstream Contact: https://github.com/canihavesomecoffee/udis86/issues * URL : https://github.com

Bug#1040971: ITP: hyprland -- dynamic tiling Wayland compositor based on wlroots

2024-01-21 Thread Alan M Varghese
Package: wnpp Followup-For: Bug #1040971 Owner: Alan M Varghese X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, a...@digistorm.in * Package name: hyprland Version : 0.34.0 Upstream Contact: vaxerski * URL : https://github.com/hyprwm/Hyprland * License : BSD-3

Bug#1060113: ITP: debgpt -- Chatting LLM with Debian-Specific Knowledge

2024-01-05 Thread M. Zhou
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mo Zhou X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: debgpt Version : ? (CLI not yet stablized) Upstream Contact: me * URL : https://salsa.debian.org/deeplearning-team/debgpt * License : MIT/Expat Program

DebGPT: how LLM can help debian development? demo available.

2024-01-02 Thread M. Zhou
Hi folks, Following what has been discussed in d-project in an offtopic subthread, I prepared some demo on imagined use cases to leverage LLMs to help debian development. https://salsa.debian.org/deeplearning-team/debgpt To run the demo, the least requirement is a CUDA GPU with > 6GB memory. You

Bug#1058940: ITP: libaaf -- library for Advanced Authoring Format (AAF) file reading

2023-12-18 Thread IOhannes m zmoelnig
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: IOhannes m zmoelnig X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: libaaf Version : 0.1 Upstream Contact: Adrien Gesta-Fline * URL : https://github.com/agfline/LibAAF * License : GPL2 Programming Lang: C

Re: Signature strength of .dsc

2023-12-08 Thread IOhannes m zmölnig
Am 8. Dezember 2023 18:56:00 MEZ schrieb Simon Josefsson : > >I think that is unfortunate and not sustainable over time: you need to >have access to the public keys to verify old signatures, and for as long >as the old signatures are published we should make a public keyring for >them easily availa

Bug#1056159: ITP: python3-browser-cookie3 -- Python module for extracting cookies from browser

2023-11-17 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Eduardo M Kalinowski X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name    : python3-browser-cookie3   Version : 0.19.1   Upstream Contact: Boris Babic * URL : https://github.com/borisbabic/browser_cookie3/ * License

Re: RFC: advise against using Proton Mail for Debian work?

2023-11-14 Thread M. Zhou
On Tue, 2023-11-14 at 18:40 -0500, Nicholas D Steeves wrote: > > I see three outcomes: > > A) Continue to explain this to new contributors on a one-by-one > basis. > B) Advise against using Proton Mail for Debian work (where?  our > wiki?) > C) Proton Mail begins to do something differently on th

Re: reference Debian package of multiple binaries sharing one man page

2023-11-10 Thread IOhannes m zmölnig
Am 10. November 2023 20:20:35 MEZ schrieb Norwid Behrnd : >Hello, > >I seek a maintained Debian package which provides multiple binaries sharing one >man page in common -- do you know an example? > faust mfh.her.fsr IOhannes

Bug#1055677: ITP: monaspace -- An innovative superfamily of fonts for code

2023-11-09 Thread M. Zhou
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mo Zhou X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: monaspace * URL : https://github.com/githubnext/monaspace/tree/main * License : OFL-1.1 Programming Lang: N/A Description : An innovative superfamily of font

Re: ITP: art/6.1-1 --ASCII art

2023-10-22 Thread IOhannes m zmölnig
Am 23. Oktober 2023 02:33:37 MESZ schrieb Yogeswaran Umasankar : >Package: wnpp >Owner: Yogeswaran Umasankar >Severity: wishlist > >* Package name     : art >   Version          : 6.1-1 >   Upstream contact : Sepand Haghighi > * URL              : https://github.com/sepandhaghighi/art > * Licens

Re: Is there a generic canonical way for a package script to check network connectivity?

2023-10-09 Thread IOhannes m zmölnig
Am 9. Oktober 2023 09:17:07 MESZ schrieb Thomas Goirand : >After many wrong designs, I ended up having a process that pings the service I >need to access to, Unless of course there is some paranoid firewall that considers ICMP malicious and therefore blocks pings. (We had that at university her

Re: [idea]: Switch default compression from "xz" to "zstd" for .deb packages

2023-09-17 Thread M. Zhou
On Sun, 2023-09-17 at 22:16 +0200, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > > I do not think wasting space is any good idea. > > > ## More bandwidth > >  According to https://www.speedtest.net/global-index, broadband > >  bandwidth > >  in Nicaragua becomes almost 10x > > And elsewhere it may have gone up a diff

Re: [idea]: Switch default compression from "xz" to "zstd" for .deb packages

2023-09-16 Thread M. Zhou
Just one comment. Be careful if it bloats up our mirrors. Is there any estimate on the extra space cost for a full debian mirror? If we trade-off the disk space with decompression speed, zstd -19 is not necessarily very fast. I did not benchmark, but it is slow. On Sat, 2023-09-16 at 10:31 +053

Re: bookworm+½ needed (Arc GPUs, ...)

2023-09-12 Thread M. Zhou
Intel is also slow in upstreaming their SYCL implementation to LLVM upstream. So that there is still a very far way to go towards the pytorch variant that can use intel ARC GPU. On Mon, 2023-09-11 at 12:47 +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > So... > If you've watched our Dear Leader's talk, a prominent

Re: Default font: Transition from DejaVu to Noto

2023-09-09 Thread M. Zhou
On Sun, 2023-09-10 at 11:23 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Sat, 2023-09-09 at 23:08 +0200, Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote: > > > My personal view is that it is a change in the right direction, and > > I > > have taken a couple of follow-up steps in Debian. There are still > > loose > > ends and more work

Bug#1051520: ITP: python-expecttest -- expect test for python

2023-09-08 Thread M. Zhou
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mo Zhou X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: python-expecttest * URL : https://github.com/ezyang/expecttest/ * License : MIT Programming Lang: (python Description : expect test for python Unit testing

Bug#1050308: ITP: golang-github-seancfoley-bintree -- Golang library Binary trees and tries

2023-08-22 Thread M Hickford
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: M Hickford X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, mirth.hickf...@gmail.com * Package name: golang-github-seancfoley-bintree * URL : https://github.com/seancfoley/bintree * License : Apache2 Programming Lang: Go Description

Bug#1042861: ITP: git-credential-azure -- A Git credential helper for Azure Repos

2023-08-01 Thread M Hickford
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: M Hickford X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, mirth.hickf...@gmail.com * Package name: git-credential-azure Version : 0.1.0 * URL : https://github.com/hickford/git-credential-azure * License : Apache2

Bug#1039471: ITP: golang-github-azuread-microsoft-authentication-library-for-go -- allows you to sign in users or apps with Microsoft identities (Azure AD and Microsoft Accounts) and obtain tokens to

2023-06-26 Thread M Hickford
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: M Hickford X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, mirth.hickf...@gmail.com * Package name: golang-github-azuread-microsoft-authentication-library-for-go Version : 1.0.0 * URL : https://github.com/AzureAD/microsoft

Re: opencl-icd virtual package(s)?

2023-06-17 Thread M. Zhou
On Sun, 2023-06-18 at 10:37 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > [BCCed to OpenCL ICD implementation package maintainers] > > I noticed that some packages have a dep on specific OpenCL ICD > packages, but don't dep on the opencl-icd virtual package(s). > Presumably any of the OpenCL ICDs work for most packag

Bug#1038326: ITP: transformers -- State-of-the-art Machine Learning for JAX, PyTorch and TensorFlow (it ships LLMs)

2023-06-16 Thread M. Zhou
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mo Zhou X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian...@lists.debian.org * Package name: transformers Upstream Contact: HuggingFace * URL : https://github.com/huggingface/transformers * License : Apache-2.0 Description

Bug#1033345: ITP: nvitop -- An interactive NVIDIA-GPU process viewer and beyond

2023-03-22 Thread M. Zhou
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mo Zhou X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: nvitop * URL : https://github.com/XuehaiPan/nvitop * License : Apache-2.0 / GPL-3.0 dual license Programming Lang: Python Description : An interactive NVIDIA

Re: Adding epoch to kworkflow package to correct a wrong upstream version

2023-03-12 Thread IOhannes m zmölnig
Am 12. März 2023 19:13:46 MEZ schrieb Peter Wienemann : >Dear IOhannes, > >On 12.03.23 18:48, IOhannes m zmölnig wrote: >> Could lintian warn when a date based version is used? > >Lintian already does this - see [0]. Ah. Thx. Praise to the lintian maintainers then, and so

Re: Adding epoch to kworkflow package to correct a wrong upstream version

2023-03-12 Thread IOhannes m zmölnig
Am 12. März 2023 15:58:00 MEZ schrieb Simon McVittie : >On Sun, 12 Mar 2023 at 09:15:35 +0100, Tobias Frost wrote: >> >> > Version 20191112-1.2 was created because the upstream had no official >> > release at that time; for this reason, the 20191112-1.2 was created and >> > named based on a date.

Re: Unlock LUKS with login/password

2023-03-11 Thread Timothy M Butterworth
On Wed, Mar 8, 2023 at 11:33 AM Alexey Kuznetsov wrote: > > > On Wed, Mar 8, 2023 at 7:11 PM Adrien CLERC wrote: > >> Le 08/03/2023 à 16:28, Alexey Kuznetsov a écrit : >> >> Hello! >> >> I have an idea about how modern linux should work with encrypted LUKS >> partitions. >> >> Hi, >> >> I'm usin

Grub Password configuration during install

2023-03-04 Thread Timothy M Butterworth
All, Would it be possible to add a section to the installer when Grub is being installed and configured to configure a grub password? Thanks Tim -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Debian - The universal operating system ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://www.debian.org/ ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀

Bug#1031973: ITP: nvidia-cutlass -- CUDA Templates for Linear Algebra Subroutines

2023-02-25 Thread M. Zhou
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mo Zhou X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, pkg-nvidia-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org * Package name: nvidia-cutlass * URL : https://github.com/NVIDIA/cutlass * License : BSD-3-Clause (has to enter contrib due to non-free de

Bug#1031972: ITP: nvidia-cudnn-frontend -- c++ wrapper for the cudnn backend API

2023-02-25 Thread M. Zhou
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mo Zhou X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, pkg-nvidia-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org * Package name: nvidia-cudnn-frontend * URL : https://github.com/NVIDIA/cudnn-frontend * License : MIT (but will enter contrib due to non-

Bug#1031565: ITP: nvidia-nccl -- Optimized primitives for collective multi-GPU communication

2023-02-18 Thread M. Zhou
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mo Zhou X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, pkg-nvidia-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org * Package name: nvidia-nccl * URL : https://github.com/NVIDIA/nccl * License : BSD-3-Clause but has to enter non-free. Programming Lang:

Bug#1030189: Let regular users know need to put non-free-firmware in sources.list

2023-02-01 Thread IOhannes m zmölnig
Am 1. Februar 2023 01:30:10 MEZ schrieb Dan Jacobson : >So he must do Google Search. Do you think this problem only affects make users? mfh.her.fsr IOhannes

Re: Populating non-free firmware?

2022-12-24 Thread Timothy M Butterworth
On Sat, Dec 24, 2022 at 12:15 PM M. Zhou wrote: > On Sat, 2022-12-24 at 11:44 +0200, Jonathan Carter wrote: > > > > The non-free-firmware [component] has been created, but so far it > > only > > contains the rasbpi-firmware package. > > Please ensure to in

Re: Populating non-free firmware?

2022-12-24 Thread M. Zhou
On Sat, 2022-12-24 at 11:44 +0200, Jonathan Carter wrote: > > The non-free-firmware [component] has been created, but so far it > only > contains the rasbpi-firmware package. Please ensure to include the packages for wifi cards, especially the iwlwifi since I don't use desktop pc. One of the mo

Re: looking for debian friendly web app technology

2022-12-15 Thread Timothy M Butterworth
On Thu, Dec 15, 2022 at 8:51 AM Alastair McKinstry < alastair.mckins...@sceal.ie> wrote: > Hi, > > Is Qt6-base not in testing, for bookworm? I've an app (metview) that I > switched over Qt5->Qt6, should I move it back? > > Bookworm currently has Qt 6.3.1 and 6.4.0 packaged. > regards > > Alasta

Re: looking for debian friendly web app technology

2022-12-13 Thread Timothy M Butterworth
On Tue, Dec 13, 2022 at 12:51 AM Imre Nagy wrote: > Hi, > > What do we think about "accessibility" in this thread? The MSAA like > helping for visually challenged, or the global avaiblity (and > acceptance) of QT? > > As of Qt 5.15, (and Qt 6.4.x lately) you do not have to make the hard > choice

Re: TMPDIR behaviour in maintainer scripts [was: Re: Bug#1023778: mysql-server-8.0: fails to restart on upgrade with libpam-tmpdir]

2022-11-10 Thread brian m. carlson
nce, this was an invocation from `sudo aptitude` as part of a normal package upgrade, which I think is a relatively common situation to be in. Possibly also an initscript helper which enables developers to do the right thing automatically, or a flag to start-stop-daemon, or other tooling would be bene

Re: Comments on proposing NEW queue improvement (Re: Current NEW review process saps developer motivation

2022-08-27 Thread M. Zhou
On Sat, 2022-08-27 at 09:50 +0200, Gard Spreemann wrote: > > contributing work. In some sense, contributing to Debian becomes > mostly > about waiting. (Sure, there is something to be said about extremely > short, fragmented attention spans being unhealthy – but some > contributions are naturally

Comments on proposing NEW queue improvement (Re: Current NEW review process saps developer motivation

2022-08-26 Thread M. Zhou
To be honest, in terms of volunteered reviewing work, waiting for several months is not something new. In academia, it may take several months to years to get a journal paper response. I've ever tried to think of possible ways to improve the process, but several observations eventually changed my

Re: Automatic trimming of changelogs in binary packages

2022-08-18 Thread M. Zhou
On Thu, 2022-08-18 at 21:18 +0200, Gioele Barabucci wrote: > * The `--no-trim` option allows package maintainers that want to ship > the whole changelog a way to do so. > > * The full changelogs are preserved in the source packages and thus > available via `apt changelog` and similar mechanisms.

Re: RFC: Switch default from netkit-telnet(d) to inetutils-telnet(d)

2022-07-16 Thread Timothy M Butterworth
On Sat, Jul 16, 2022 at 10:19 PM Guillem Jover wrote: > Hi! > > There's been talk about switching away from netkit-telnet and > netkit-telnetd as the default implementations for some time now, > and replacing them with the ones from inetutils, which is a maintained > project and does see releases

Bug#1014661: ITP: lodepng -- LodePNG is a PNG image decoder and encoder

2022-07-09 Thread M. Zhou
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mo Zhou X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: lodepng Version : git master Upstream Author : Lode Vandevenne * URL : https://lodev.org/lodepng/ * License : Zlib Programming Lang: C Description

Re: needs suggestion on LuaJit's IBM architecture dilemma

2022-06-09 Thread M. Zhou
e it does work > with lua. > Also I see that the autopkgtest of knot-resolver still fails on > ppc64el. > > F. > > On Thu, 19 May 2022 22:14:01 -0400 "M. Zhou" wrote: > > On Thu, 2022-05-19 at 16:30 +0200, Frédéric Bonnard wrote: > > > Hi, >

Re: How to handle packages which build themselves with bazel?

2022-06-08 Thread M. Zhou
Hi David, Debian has a group of people working on bazel packaging. https://lists.debian.org/debian-bazel/2022/06/threads.html And bazel itself has been a years-long pain for tensorflow packaging. I'm not following the updates for bazel packaging, but you may browse the packaging work of the corre

Re: how to convey package porting details?

2022-06-05 Thread M. Zhou
I like this idea. I would personally recommend adding negative priority as well. You know, it is completely meaningless to port some high performance scientific computing software to archs like armel... Meanwhile, different packages varies in the difficulty to port as well. A software that heavily

Bug#1011667: ITP: mujoco -- A general purpose physics simulator.

2022-05-25 Thread M. Zhou
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mo Zhou X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: mujoco Version : 2.2.0 Upstream Author : DeepMind * URL : https://mujoco.org/ * License : Apache-2.0 Programming Lang: C Description : A general

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

2022-05-24 Thread M. Zhou
I wonder why an irrelevant package suddenly triggered autoremoval of a very large portion of packages from testing. https://udd.debian.org/cgi-bin/autoremovals.cgi Searched for keyword nvidia-graphics-drivers-tesla-470, and I got 68866 entries. There must be something wrong. https://bugs.debian.o

Bug#1011460: ITP: gnome-shell-extension-flypie -- an innovative marking menu written as a GNOME Shell extension

2022-05-23 Thread M. Zhou
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mo Zhou X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: gnome-shell-extension-flypie Upstream Author : Simon Schneegans * URL : https://github.com/Schneegans/Fly-Pie * License : MIT/X Programming Lang: Javascript De

Re: needs suggestion on LuaJit's IBM architecture dilemma

2022-05-19 Thread M. Zhou
On Thu, 2022-05-19 at 16:30 +0200, Frédéric Bonnard wrote: > Hi, > > I've followed luajit closely since 2015 on ppc64el as a porter > without enough knowledge to port it, but trying to ease on the > packaging/Debian side (being both IBMer/DD). > That port has been a mixed effort between a code bou

Re: needs suggestion on LuaJit's IBM architecture dilemma

2022-05-19 Thread M. Zhou
Hi Dipack, I filed an ITP bug for luajit2 and will look into it. Thank you! On Mon, 2022-05-16 at 16:22 +, Dipak Zope1 wrote: > Hello all, > It'd be better to switch to luajit2 if it is possible. We can see > right now the main issue with luajit project is no response from > upstream of LuaJI

Bug#1011320: ITP: luajit2 -- OpenResty's Branch of LuaJIT 2

2022-05-19 Thread M. Zhou
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mo Zhou X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: luajit2 * URL : https://github.com/openresty/luajit2 * License : MIT/X Description : OpenResty's Branch of LuaJIT 2 I'm going to remove ppc64el support from s

needs suggestion on LuaJit's IBM architecture dilemma

2022-05-11 Thread M. Zhou
Hi folks, I learned in disappointment after becoming LuaJit uploader that the LuaJit upstream behaves uncooperatively especially for IBM architectures [1]. IIUC, the upstream has no intention to care about IBM architectures (ppc64el, s390x). The current ppc64el support on stable is done through c

bullseye-updates does not have a Release file

2022-05-07 Thread Timothy M Butterworth
When I run sudo apt update I receive the following error messages: Err:5 http://security.debian.org/debian-security bullseye-updates Release 404 Not Found [IP: 2a04:4e42:77::644 80] *E: *The repository 'http://security.debian.org/debian-security bullseye-updates Release' does not have a Release

Re: Firmware - what are we going to do about it?

2022-04-23 Thread Timothy M Butterworth
On Sat, Apr 23, 2022 at 4:50 PM Paul van der Vlis wrote: > Op 23-04-2022 om 16:10 schreef Andrey Rahmatullin: > > On Sat, Apr 23, 2022 at 03:13:29PM +0200, Paul van der Vlis wrote: > >>> I see several possible options that the images team can choose from > here. > >>> However, several of these op

Re: Firmware - what are we going to do about it?

2022-04-22 Thread IOhannes m zmölnig
Am 22. April 2022 07:18:50 MESZ schrieb Andreas Tille : >Am Thu, Apr 21, 2022 at 10:12:19AM -0700 schrieb Russ Allbery: >> >> I've been a Debian Developer for quite some time and can usually manage to >> figure out most tasks like this, and providing separate firmware to the >> installer has compl

Re: Firmware - what are we going to do about it?

2022-04-19 Thread Timothy M Butterworth
> > My laptop requires the non-free binary blobs for WiFi, AMD GPU and HDMI > Sound. I think making the non-free images easier to find is a good idea. I > didn't know they even existed until I got this new laptop and nothing was > working with the regular installer. Placing the non-free and non-fre

Re: Is there room for improvement in our collaboration model?

2022-04-15 Thread M. Zhou
On Fri, 2022-04-15 at 14:24 +0200, Luca Boccassi wrote: > > > > I think this will also improve newcomer's contributing experience. > > This proposal is also filed at > > https://salsa.debian.org/debian/grow-your-ideas/-/issues/34 > > What about doing something even simpler - rather than having ad

Is there room for improvement in our collaboration model?

2022-04-14 Thread M. Zhou
Hi, I just noted this problem recently. Our model for team collaboration (specifically for package maintenance) is somewhat primitive. We are volunteers. Nobody can continuously maintain a package for decades like a machine. Currently our practice for accepting other people's help involves: (1)

Re: Debian doesn't have a "core team", should it? can it?

2022-04-10 Thread M. Zhou
Hi, "Core team" is already ambiguous enough. I'd suggest leave it alone and do not try to define it. Attempts to define it are likely lead to nowhere other than a definition hell. Unless there is such need in Debian constitution, I think Debian should not try to do that. The intention of that po

Bug#1008626: RFH: qiskit-aer

2022-03-29 Thread Diego M. Rodriguez
relationship with (also RFH-ed) qiskit-terra, and ideally help would also be needed with the latter (potentially expanding to other qiskit-related packages). Best, --- Diego M. Rodriguez

Bug#1008625: RFH: qiskit-terra

2022-03-29 Thread Diego M. Rodriguez
package also has a strong relationship with (also RFH-ed) qiskit-aer, and ideally help would also be needed with the latter (potentially expanding to other future qiskit-related packages). Best, --- Diego M. Rodriguez

Re: isa-support -- exit strategy?

2022-03-26 Thread M. Zhou
On Sat, 2022-03-26 at 11:42 +0100, Stephan Lachnit wrote: > On Sat, Mar 26, 2022 at 2:36 AM M. Zhou wrote: > > > > Indeed supporting number crunching programs on ancient > > hardware is not meaningful, but the demand on Debian's > > support for number crunch

Re: isa-support -- exit strategy?

2022-03-25 Thread M. Zhou
Hi Adam, I think the problems that apt/dpkg are trying to deal with is already complicated enough, and the architecture specific code are still not significant enough to introduce change there. Indeed supporting number crunching programs on ancient hardware is not meaningful, but the demand on De

Re: Bug#1006885: ITP: lumin -- pattern match highlighter

2022-03-08 Thread M. Zhou
Meh... an interesting package name. On Mon, 2022-03-07 at 20:29 +0100, Vincent Bernat wrote: >  ❦  7 March 2022 18:33 +01, Adam Borowski: > > > > lumin highlights matches to a specified pattern (string or > > > regular > > > expression) in files, using color. This is similar to grep with > > > co

Re: Seeking consensus for some changes in adduser

2022-03-08 Thread Timothy M Butterworth
On Tue, Mar 8, 2022 at 6:18 PM Richard Laager wrote: > > On 3/8/22 10:49, Marc Haber wrote: > > (1) > > #202943, #202944, #398793, #442627, #782001 > > The bug reporters are requesting the default for DIR_MODE to be changed > > from 0755 to 0700, making home directories readable for the user only.

Bug#1006296: ITP: git-credential-libsecret -- Git helper for accessing credentials via libsecret.

2022-02-22 Thread M Hickford
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: M Hickford X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, mirth.hickf...@gmail.com * Package name: git-credential-libsecret * URL : https://github.com/git/git/commits/master/contrib/credential/libsecret/git-credential-libsecret.c * License

Re: Rakudo has a transition tracker and then what ?

2022-02-04 Thread M. Zhou
wrote: > On 2022-02-03 17:58:24, M. Zhou wrote: > > @dod: It looks that we have to change the Architecture: of raku-* > > packages into any (instead of "all") because there is no binnmu > > for Arch:all package. Then upon each time we bump the rakudo API > > ve

Re: Rakudo has a transition tracker and then what ?

2022-02-03 Thread M. Zhou
@dod: It looks that we have to change the Architecture: of raku-* packages into any (instead of "all") because there is no binnmu for Arch:all package. Then upon each time we bump the rakudo API version, we just need to file a regular transition bug to the release team and trigger the rebuild. On

Re: Legal advice regarding the NEW queue

2022-02-02 Thread M. Zhou
On Wed, 2022-02-02 at 13:44 +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > Hi Wookey, > > Am Tue, Feb 01, 2022 at 02:07:21PM + schrieb Wookey: > > Has anyone on the actual FTP team responded to this thread yet? > > (sorry, I can't remember who that is currently) > > > > Either on Andreas's original simple que

Lottery NEW queue (Re: Are libraries with bumped SONAME subject of inspection of ftpmaster or not

2022-01-21 Thread M. Zhou
Hi Andreas, Thank you for mentioning this. Your post inspired me to came up a new choice. On Fri, 2022-01-21 at 11:33 +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > > This recently happed for me in the case of onetbb (which was not > uploaded by myself - so I'm not even asking for myself while other > packages o

Re: ROCm installation

2022-01-12 Thread M. Zhou
On Wed, 2022-01-12 at 21:06 +0100, Maxime Chambonnet wrote: > > > Headers and libraries should installed under the standard path, > > so that the compiler and linker should be able to find them without > > additional flags. Just install all stuff to /usr should be enough. > Currently for example r

Re: ROCm installation

2022-01-12 Thread M. Zhou
Hi, Thanks for the updates. On Wed, 2022-01-12 at 18:14 +0100, Maxime Chambonnet wrote: "Native" Debian packages are starting to cover a significant portion of the stack [2], and it would be great to figure out the installation topic The word "native" is ambiguous to a portion of developers as i

Bug#1001894: ITP: spacecadetpinball -- Decompilation and port of "3D Pinball for Windows - Space Cadet"

2021-12-18 Thread Lucy M
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Lucy M X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, lucylikesyourf...@gmail.com * Package name: spacecadetpinball Version : 2.0 Upstream Author : Andrey Muzychenko * URL : https://github.com/k4zmu2a/SpaceCadetPinball * License

Re: Bug#992692: general: Use https for {deb,security}.debian.org by default

2021-09-08 Thread Timothy M Butterworth
All, I am against automatically setting HTTPS. Their should be an option in the installer to set or unset HTTPS while configuring the mirror! I like a lot of folks am on a metered internet connection with a UTM proxy firewall. I have multiple computers that need patched and only having to download

Re: testing for rootfs vs. /usr reproducibility regressions

2021-08-21 Thread Timothy M Butterworth
On 8/21/21, Andy Smith wrote: > Hi Tim, > > On Fri, Aug 20, 2021 at 05:29:54PM -0400, Timothy M Butterworth wrote: >> I have a new-be question, what is the point of merged-usr? > > I put "debian merged-usr" into my favourite search engine and the &g

Re: Debian 11 Bullseye Setup Problems Error Report

2021-08-20 Thread Timothy M Butterworth
I have been using Debian 11 since Alpha 1 release. I installed with non-free live DVD using the calamaris installer. I have it installed on three systems one Intel Celeron, one Intel i5 and one AMD Ryzen 7. I give the installer a 5 star rating although I would like to see some improvements made to

Re: testing for rootfs vs. /usr reproducibility regressions

2021-08-20 Thread Timothy M Butterworth
All, Sorry I am a little late to this party so I have a new-be question, what is the point of merged-usr? It seems like a lot of work for a little reward, as the packages already work. Is there a legitimate benefit for changing all these file paths that I am missing? Thanks Tim

Debian package manager privilege escalation attack

2021-08-11 Thread Timothy M Butterworth
All, I just ran across this article https://blog.ikuamike.io/posts/2021/package_managers_privesc/ I tested the attacks on Debian 11 and they work successfully giving me a root shell prompt. Tim

Re: Steam Deck: good news for Linux gaming, bad news for Debian :(

2021-08-11 Thread Timothy M Butterworth
I am fine with Debian's release cycle but It would be nice to see more packages. For example Debian is missing KDE's Amarok music manager. I am happy to see Debian 11 gained KDE Elisa music manager. I am sad to see that VirtualBox is not available on Debian 11. I had to jerry-rig it using the Ubunt

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