Re: Limited security support for Go/Rust? Re ssh3

2024-01-19 Thread Adam Borowski
On Mon, Jan 15, 2024 at 10:17:17AM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Sun, Jan 14, 2024 at 04:24:57PM +0100, Simon Josefsson wrote: > > Isn't that what the text refers to? Vendoring and static linking are > > two examples of the same problem that the security team may encounter. > > We accept

Re: Bug#1053165: ITS: nunit

2023-09-29 Thread Adam Borowski
On Thu, Sep 28, 2023 at 03:45:14PM +, Scott Kitterman wrote: > On September 28, 2023 3:22:20 PM UTC, Bastian Germann wrote: > >Okay. What do you suggest for "team maintained" packages where there is > >no active team member? File MIA processes for each of the uploaders? > >And then? The

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

2023-09-19 Thread Adam Borowski
On Tue, Sep 19, 2023 at 11:39:49AM +0200, Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues wrote: > I was about to say that zdebootstrap by Adam Borowski used to be a thing four > years ago but now I see another commit from two days ago so maybe it's still > alive and usable? > > https://git.

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

2023-09-16 Thread Adam Borowski
On Sat, Sep 16, 2023 at 10:31:20AM +0530, Hideki Yamane wrote: > Today I want to propose you to change default compression format in .deb, > {data,control}.tar."xz" to ."zst". > According to https://www.speedtest.net/global-index, broadband bandwidth > in Nicaragua becomes almost 10x > > -

Re: Default font: Transition from DejaVu to Noto

2023-09-14 Thread Adam Borowski
On Wed, Sep 13, 2023 at 09:09:00PM +0200, Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote: > There is a problem with fonts-noto-core, though, as several people have > mentioned already: For non-LCG scripts it provides one font per script. And > there are quite a few of those. So for a user, who wants to actively and >

Re: bookworm+½ needed (Arc GPUs, ...)

2023-09-12 Thread Adam Borowski
On Tue, Sep 12, 2023 at 10:31:17AM -0400, M. Zhou wrote: > 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. Yeah, but that's not a problem for the installer. Nor

Re: Default font: Transition from DejaVu to Noto

2023-09-12 Thread Adam Borowski
On Tue, Sep 12, 2023 at 09:19:26AM +0200, Gioele Barabucci wrote: > On 12/09/23 08:24, Fabian Greffrath wrote: > > the fonts-noto-core package installs a full pack of 268 (!) font files. > > This is discussed in detail in #983291 [1]. > > The issues is not that there are too many files, but that

Re: bookworm+½ needed (Arc GPUs, ...)

2023-09-12 Thread Adam Borowski
On Tue, Sep 12, 2023 at 08:32:17AM +0200, Fabian Greffrath wrote: > > Before we go and bother the relevant folks (or maybe even do part of the > > work ourselves...), could someone name other pieces of hardware that > > would be wanted for Bookworm+½? > > not sure of that's what you mean, but the

bookworm+½ needed (Arc GPUs, ...)

2023-09-11 Thread Adam Borowski
So... If you've watched our Dear Leader's talk, a prominent problem listed was problems with new graphics cards. While he didn't elaborate, I assume it was about Intel Arc -- ie, new DG2 discrete GPUs. And the problem is, proper support didn't hit the kernel until after 6.1. You can kinda-sorta

Re: i386 in the future (was Re: 64-bit time_t transition for 32-bit archs: a proposal)

2023-06-01 Thread Adam Borowski
On Wed, May 31, 2023 at 10:10:56PM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > As someone who owned and happily used an Asus eePC several years ago: very > nice, silent - it also had a flash disk from the earliest days of flash disks. Instead of RasPis as suggested by many in this thread, I'd instead

Re: Using i386 by mistake on 64-bit hardware [was Re: i386 in the future 32-bit archs: a proposal)]

2023-05-20 Thread Adam Borowski
On Sat, May 20, 2023 at 09:15:00AM +0200, Josh Triplett wrote: > How easily could we add 64-bit system detection to the i386 installer, > and a message saying something like: > > "You're installing the i386 architecture on a 64-bit system. While this > will work, this is the last release it'll be

Re: Re-enabling os-prober for live images?

2023-03-06 Thread Adam Borowski
On Mon, Mar 06, 2023 at 02:38:53PM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: > j...@debian.org wrote: > >Since the grub 2.06 upload, os-prober is now disabled by default. This > >means that other operating systems are no longer detected and added to > >grub by default in Debian 12. > >I haven't followed

Re: Please, minimize your build chroots

2023-01-28 Thread Adam Borowski
On Sat, Jan 28, 2023 at 01:59:40PM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote: > El 28/1/23 a las 12:50, Andreas Henriksson escribió: > > > Claiming there's no point to free software when the problem is simply > > that you are using an *unsupported* setup?!?! > > Unsupported by whom? What is supported or

Re: depends-on-obsolete-package lsb-base

2023-01-18 Thread Adam Borowski
On Wed, Jan 18, 2023 at 08:19:15AM -0800, Otto Kekäläinen wrote: > Lintian just started erroring on 'depends-on-obsolete-package > lsb-base' on many of my packages yesterday. It's a very low priority cleanup; the Depends is redundant but harmless. > There are no new uploads of lsb-base recently

Re: setting sysctl net.ipv4.ping_group_range

2023-01-02 Thread Adam Borowski
On Tue, Jan 03, 2023 at 12:43:31AM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Jan 02, Noah Meyerhans wrote: > > I'm entirely happy to reassign this request to systemd and have the > > setting applied more broadly. > Some options: > - conflict with systemd < version_with_the_new_default > - wait for a full

Re: Bug#1026087: ITP: distribution-gpg-keys -- GPG keys by various Linux distributions

2022-12-15 Thread Adam Borowski
On Thu, Dec 15, 2022 at 03:12:21PM +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: > On Wed, 2022-12-14 at 15:27:18 +0100, Juri Grabowski wrote: > > * Package name: distribution-gpg-keys > > Upstream Author : Miroslav Suchý > > * URL : https://github.com/xsuchy/distribution-gpg-keys/ > >

Re: Bug#1026087: ITP: distribution-gpg-keys -- GPG keys by various Linux distributions

2022-12-14 Thread Adam Borowski
On Wed, Dec 14, 2022 at 03:27:18PM +0100, Juri Grabowski wrote: > * Package name: distribution-gpg-keys > Upstream Author : Miroslav Suchý > * URL : https://github.com/xsuchy/distribution-gpg-keys/ > Description : GPG keys by various Linux distributions > > used by

Bug#1023305: ITP: zst -- CLI tool for zstd (and other) compression

2022-11-01 Thread Adam Borowski
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Adam Borowski X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: zst Version : not released yet Upstream Author : yours truly * URL : https://github.com/kilobyte/zst Programming Lang: C Description : CLI tool

Re: FTBS bugs -- MBF?

2022-10-03 Thread Adam Borowski
On Sun, Oct 02, 2022 at 01:06:31PM +0200, Mattia Rizzolo wrote: > On Sun, Oct 02, 2022 at 10:57:11AM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: > > > Packages that only build Architecture: all binary packages tend to use > > > Build-Depends-Indep. > > > > Policy is quite clear about that being a bug. I think a

Re: packages expected to fail on some archs

2022-10-03 Thread Adam Borowski
On Tue, Sep 27, 2022 at 12:23:57AM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote: > 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 > -

Re: FTBS bugs -- MBF?

2022-10-02 Thread Adam Borowski
On Sun, Oct 02, 2022 at 09:51:52PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > On 02/10/22 at 04:23 +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > > I did another _source_ rebuild of the archive -- checking if every package > > is capable of repacking its source. Ie, if you can unpack it, (possibly > > mo

Re: FTBS bugs -- MBF?

2022-10-02 Thread Adam Borowski
On Sun, Oct 02, 2022 at 08:40:04AM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > On 02/10/22 at 04:23 +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > > I did another _source_ rebuild of the archive -- checking if every package > > is capable of repacking its source. Ie, if you can unpack it, (possibly > > mo

FTBS bugs -- MBF?

2022-10-01 Thread Adam Borowski
Nǐmen hǎo! I did another _source_ rebuild of the archive -- checking if every package is capable of repacking its source. Ie, if you can unpack it, (possibly modify), and pack again. Putting aside packages that are broken in other ways as well (B-Depends non-installable, FTBFS or a RC bug),

Re: R³ by default: not for bookworm

2022-09-21 Thread Adam Borowski
On Sun, Sep 18, 2022 at 03:58:57AM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > On Sun, 2022-09-18 at 03:39:43 +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > > A few packages had a value of R³ other than "no" / "binary-targets", > > these are deprecated now; bugs filed. > > Deprecated by

Re: transition to usrmerge to start around 2022-09-15 (next Thursday)

2022-09-17 Thread Adam Borowski
On Sat, Sep 17, 2022 at 02:30:45AM +0100, Luca Boccassi wrote: > Unless any new issue pops up, I'll upload i-s-h to unstable to start > the transition tomorrow evening. ... and you ignored anything you don't like, and uploaded ANYWAY. Despite even the GR talk, which you folks _explicitely

R³ by default: not for bookworm

2022-09-17 Thread Adam Borowski
Hi! A few months ago I ran a test rebuild of packages that lack Rules-Requires-Root settings. Alas, I've forgotten to post the results, doing so now. A few packages had a value of R³ other than "no" / "binary-targets", these are deprecated now; bugs filed. This leaves three states: "no",

Re: transition to usrmerge to start around 2022-09-15 (next Thursday)

2022-09-15 Thread Adam Borowski
On Thu, Sep 15, 2022 at 10:57:52PM +0100, Luca Boccassi wrote: > On Sat, 2022-09-10 at 15:37 +0200, Ansgar wrote: > > the transition to usrmerge as described in [1] is planned to start > > around 2022-09-15 (next Thursday). > I have just come back home from LPC so did not have much time > today,

Bug#1019703: ITP: inkscape-silhouette -- inkscape extension to drive a Silhouette plotter

2022-09-13 Thread Adam Borowski
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Adam Borowski X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: inkscape-silhouette Version : 1.26+ Upstream Author : Juergen Weigert and contributors * URL : https://github.com/fablabnbg/inkscape-silhouette * License

Re: Switch default from PulseAudio to PipeWire (and WirePlumber) for audio

2022-09-08 Thread Adam Borowski
On Thu, Sep 08, 2022 at 05:58:25PM +0200, Dylan Aïssi wrote: > I have been asked several times regarding when Debian will switch its default > sound server from PulseAudio to PipeWire without having an official answer. > Thus, I suppose it's the right time to start a discussion about that. If

Re: Idea: autopkgtest on big-endian for 'Architecture: all' packages to catch endian bugs

2022-08-28 Thread Adam Borowski
On Sun, Aug 28, 2022 at 04:56:26PM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > Didier 'OdyX' Raboud dixit: > >If these tests are run at build-time, errors halt the build and that provides > > That may not be enough, though; there are cases where the build > architecture determines artefact endianness (e.g.

…/doc …/log: .gz → .zst

2022-08-19 Thread Adam Borowski
Meow! Because of the trimming changelogs discussion, I just wondered whether it'd be beneficial to switch compression from .gz to .zst (gzip to zstd). Numbers I got from the desktop I sit at: * du of a copy of /usr/share/doc 366692 * rm ! -name "*.gz" 194184 * decompress 656852 * repack as zstd

Re: Changing the epoch of widelands package

2022-08-16 Thread Adam Borowski
On Tue, Aug 16, 2022 at 02:26:27PM +0200, Martin Quinson wrote: > as per policy 5.6.12, I'm seeking for a consensus for upgrading the epoch of > the > widelands package. The version currently in Debian is 1:21-2, corresponding to > the upstream build21.  > > Last year, upstream released their

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

2022-07-20 Thread Adam Borowski
On Tue, Jul 19, 2022 at 05:43:35PM -0600, Sam Hartman wrote: > > "Guillem" == Guillem Jover writes: > Guillem> Hi! There's been talk about switching away from > Guillem> netkit-telnet and netkit-telnetd as the default > Guillem> implementations for some time now, and replacing

Re: enabling LTO by default is vastly inappropriate (was Re: Bug#1015386: dietlibc: ftbfs with LTO (link time optimization) enabled)

2022-07-19 Thread Adam Borowski
On Tue, Jul 19, 2022 at 05:15:32PM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > Matthias Klose dixit: > >The goal is to enable this optimization by default in an upcoming > >Debian release in dpkg-buildflags for 64bit architectures. The goal > >is to get this package to build with link time optimizations, or

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

2022-07-19 Thread Adam Borowski
On Tue, Jul 19, 2022 at 06:08:16PM +0200, Andrej Shadura wrote: > On Tue, 19 Jul 2022, at 16:57, Adam Borowski wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 19, 2022 at 01:48:17PM +0200, Andrej Shadura wrote: > >> Take Misha/Miša/Миша or Petya/Peťa/Петя. In Russian tradition, these are > >>

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

2022-07-19 Thread Adam Borowski
On Tue, Jul 19, 2022 at 01:48:17PM +0200, Andrej Shadura wrote: > No need to go that far. > Andrea in Germany is traditionally a woman’s name, Andrea in Italy is a > masculine name. How can we tell if a certain specific Andrea is named > according to the German (Czech, Slovak etc) tradition (and

Re: Bug#1015269: ITP: gnome-shell-extension-runcat -- desktop icon for showing CPU usage with cats

2022-07-18 Thread Adam Borowski
On Mon, Jul 18, 2022 at 05:33:00PM +0100, Shannon wrote: > Package Name: gnome-shell-extension-runcat > Version: 18 > Upstream Author: Sergei Kolesnikov > Description:desktop icon for showing CPU usage with cats > RunCat provides a key-frame animation to the GNOME Shell top bar. > Animation

Re: A mail relay server for Debian Members is live

2022-07-17 Thread Adam Borowski
On Sun, Jul 17, 2022 at 10:35:21AM +0200, Ansgar wrote: > On Sun, 2022-07-17 at 10:02 +0200, Mattia Rizzolo wrote: > > At this point, what about SPF?  Ignoring potential whitelists on mail > > receivers, I think using this service doesn't provide extra > > advantages than signing on our own

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

2022-07-14 Thread Adam Borowski
On Thu, Jul 14, 2022 at 08:14:13AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Edward Betts writes: > > > I've been writing some code to work out the gender balance of speakers > > at a conference. It parses the pentabarf XML of the schedule and feeds > > the speaker names to this module. > > > Here's the

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

2022-07-14 Thread Adam Borowski
On Thu, Jul 14, 2022 at 04:05:35PM +0200, Jeremy Bicha wrote: > > > >* Package name: gender-guesser > Debian has a Diversity Statement [1] which says that Debian welcomes > people regardless of how they identify themselves. Trans people and > non-binary people face a lot of discrimination,

Re: enabling link time optimizations in package builds

2022-07-02 Thread Adam Borowski
On Fri, Jun 17, 2022 at 12:40:34PM +0300, Nicholas Guriev wrote: > LTO significantly increase memory requirements for buildd machines. Do we > have > enough RAM and swap on each build server? > > > Link time optimizations are also at least turned on in other distros like > > Fedora, OpenSuse

Re: enabling link time optimizations in package builds

2022-07-01 Thread Adam Borowski
On Fri, Jul 01, 2022 at 07:52:16PM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Fri, Jun 17, 2022 at 10:18:43AM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: > > The proposal is to turn on LTO by default on most 64bit release > > architectures. > > By what factor does -ffat-lto-objects increase disk space usage during >

Re: how to convey package porting details?

2022-06-06 Thread Adam Borowski
On Mon, Jun 06, 2022 at 10:47:38AM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Jun 06, Paul Wise wrote: > > > There are lots of packages that need porting to every new architecture > > that comes along. There are others that don't require porting but > > benefit in some way from porting to some aspect of

Bug#1012050: ITP: alpine-chroot-install -- bootstrap Alpine Linux into a chroot

2022-05-29 Thread Adam Borowski
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Adam Borowski X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: alpine-chroot-install Version : 0.13.3 Upstream Author : Jakub Kirutka * URL : https://github.com/alpinelinux/alpine-chroot-install * License

Bug#1011230: ITP: miniasync -- library for asynchronous programming in C

2022-05-18 Thread Adam Borowski
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Adam Borowski X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: miniasync Version : 0.1.0~rc1 Upstream Author : Intel * URL : https://github.com/pmem/miniasync * License : BSD-3 Programming Lang: C

Re: Firmware: Scope of non-free-firmware

2022-05-11 Thread Adam Borowski
On Wed, May 11, 2022 at 09:48:56AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > The only exception is things like firmware-sof-signed, which is libre > firmware except the binaries are built and signed by Intel, so Debian > can't build the firmware binaries ourselves, unless the approach taken > with the Secure Boot

Re: isa-support -- exit strategy?

2022-04-06 Thread Adam Borowski
On Sun, Apr 03, 2022 at 02:17:15PM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Fri, Mar 25, 2022 at 11:34:17PM +0100, Adam Borowski wrote: > > * while a hard Depends: works for leafy packages, on a library it > > disallows having alternate implementations that don't need the > > lib

Re: What to do with merged /usr and dpkg-fsys-usrunmess

2022-04-06 Thread Adam Borowski
On Wed, Apr 06, 2022 at 12:03:55PM +0200, Krzysztof Sobiecki wrote: > Hi, > I saw warning and it advised me to use dpkg-fsys-usrunmess: > But now I see: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1008486 > And even without that there are problems with that tool: >

isa-support -- exit strategy?

2022-03-25 Thread Adam Borowski
Hi! While packages are allowed to not support entire architectures outright, there's a problem when some code requires a feature that is not present in the arch's baseline. Effectively, this punishes an arch for keeping compatibility. The package's maintainers are then required to conform to the

Re: proposed MBF: packages still using source format 1.0

2022-03-15 Thread Adam Borowski
On Tue, Mar 15, 2022 at 10:46:10AM +, Ian Jackson wrote: > Ian Jackson writes ("Re: proposed MBF: packages still using source format > 1.0"): > > But I see now that the MBF has gone ahead anyway. > For example, consider a package maintained by a sponsee of mine: > > Debian is not upstream,

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

2022-03-07 Thread Adam Borowski
On Mon, Mar 07, 2022 at 05:50:43PM +0100, Stephen Kitt wrote: > * Package name: lumin > Version : 1.0.0 > * URL : https://github.com/johnkerl/lumin > Description : pattern match highlighter > > lumin highlights matches to a specified pattern (string or regular >

Re: proposed MBF: packages still using source format 1.0

2022-03-07 Thread Adam Borowski
On Mon, Mar 07, 2022 at 05:35:43PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Sun, Mar 06, 2022 at 09:25:45PM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > Wouter Verhelst > >aspic > >logtool > > Yeah, no. These will be reduced to "wishlist" and probably tagged > "wontfix". Both of these packages have no

Re: MBF: valgrind-if-available

2022-02-26 Thread Adam Borowski
On Sun, Feb 27, 2022 at 01:40:48AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Sun, 2022-02-20 at 22:43 +0100, Adam Borowski wrote: > > if which valgrind >/dev/null; then > > This should use "command -v", not which, I think? No, and the recent debacle revealed enough reas

Re: MBF: valgrind-if-available

2022-02-20 Thread Adam Borowski
On Sun, Feb 20, 2022 at 04:32:43PM -0500, Jeremy Bicha wrote: > On Sun, Feb 20, 2022 at 1:46 PM Adam Borowski wrote: > > The correct answer currently is: > > [amd64 arm64 armhf i386 mips64el mipsel ppc64el s390x powerpc ppc64] > > but it keeps changing, and you don't wan

MBF: valgrind-if-available

2022-02-20 Thread Adam Borowski
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Re: Bug#1005324: ITP: valgrind-if-available -- dependency package to pull in Valgrind if it's available

2022-02-11 Thread Adam Borowski
On Fri, Feb 11, 2022 at 10:58:26AM +0100, Ansgar wrote: > On Fri, 2022-02-11 at 10:37 +0100, Adam Borowski wrote: > >  This metapackage installs Valgrind on architectures where it is > > available. > >  As the list of archs where Valgrind works changes quite often, >

Bug#1005324: ITP: valgrind-if-available -- dependency package to pull in Valgrind if it's available

2022-02-11 Thread Adam Borowski
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Adam Borowski X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: valgrind-if-available Description : dependency package to pull in Valgrind if it's available This metapackage installs Valgrind on architectures where it is available

LESS copyright, not more!

2022-02-08 Thread Adam Borowski
Guys, once again we had a complaint about forcing people to waste their time on copyright matters then wait months or years for review of said matters -- just for the discussion degenerate into a proposal to bring even MORE copyright into our life! > - What is REUSE? > The REUSE specification [1]

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

2022-01-26 Thread Adam Borowski
On Tue, Jan 25, 2022 at 09:38:01PM +0100, Vincent Bernat wrote: > For me, the copyright check is just a bad excuse. People upload > non-distributable stuff everywhere and it seems the world continue to go > round. What amount of non-distributable packages is stopped by the NEW > queue? > > I

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

2022-01-26 Thread Adam Borowski
On Wed, Jan 26, 2022 at 10:44:37AM +0100, Gard Spreemann wrote: > Jonas Smedegaard writes: > > Quoting Vincent Bernat (2022-01-25 21:38:01) > >> I didn't comment at first because I thought someone else would raise > >> the idea. But it seems people still like the idea of a NEW queue. Not > >>

Bug#1004287: ITP: rapidcheck -- C++ framework for property based testing

2022-01-24 Thread Adam Borowski
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Adam Borowski X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: rapidcheck * URL : https://github.com/emil-e/rapidcheck * License : BSD-2 Programming Lang: C++ Description : C++ framework for property based testing

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

2022-01-21 Thread Adam Borowski
On Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 01:28:54PM -0500, Scott Kitterman wrote: > 2. New binary package "steals" binary from another source. This is > sometimes > OK. Sometimes it's accidental. It could also be malicious (I don't remember > if I've every actually seen this done for an intentional "steal"

Re: etc/resolvconf/update-libc.d/ equivalent for systemd-resolved

2021-12-29 Thread Adam Borowski
On Wed, Dec 29, 2021 at 04:35:22PM -0500, Scott Kitterman wrote: > The postfix package ships a script in /etc/resolvconf/update-libc.d/ to > restart > postfix when resolv.conf is updated. As far as I know, that still works if > the > resolvconf package is installed, but if not (i.e. Debian

Re: Search content (.h files) of all (-dev) packages?

2021-11-11 Thread Adam Borowski
On Thu, Nov 11, 2021 at 04:27:47PM +0100, Alexander Traud wrote: > Question: Exists an (easy) way to 'grep' all headers files of all packages in > Debian? Codesearch indexes 퐬퐨퐮퐫퐜퐞 packages, it sounds like you want binaries. wget http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/sid/main/Contents-amd64.gz apt

Re: merged-/usr transition: debconf or not?

2021-11-10 Thread Adam Borowski
On Wed, Nov 10, 2021 at 07:01:15PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Nov 10, Sam Hartman wrote: > > > I'm sorry, but I think the only way in which that horse is dead is that > > no one has proposed patches to dpkg. > Indeed, because the sides of this argument are like three people (one of > them

Re: Q. What is the best practice about +dfsg and +ds extension?

2021-10-02 Thread Adam Borowski
On Sat, Oct 02, 2021 at 03:12:04PM +0200, Timo Röhling wrote: > * Jonas Smedegaard [2021-10-02 15:03]: > > I use ~ (tilde) as delimiter when possible, to make room for an eventual > > later release with the issues fixed, without needing ugly versioning or > > being forced to wait for a later

Re: partman, growlight, discoverable partitions, and fun

2021-09-26 Thread Adam Borowski
On Sun, Sep 26, 2021 at 01:41:18AM -0400, nick black wrote: > Marco d'Itri left as an exercise for the reader: > > And the preseeding syntax is as powerful as it is inconvenient. > > Implementing support for more partition formats, if missing, should be > > rather easy. > > But which ones do we

Bug#994958: ITP: critnib -- ordered map data structure with lock-free reads

2021-09-23 Thread Adam Borowski
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Adam Borowski X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: critnib Version : 1.0 Upstream Author : yours truly * URL : https://github.com/kilobyte/critnib * License : BSD-3 Programming Lang: C

a[uto]p[kg]t[ests] on non-any (was: Re: say hello to our studious bookworm)

2021-08-15 Thread Adam Borowski
On Sun, Aug 15, 2021 at 12:02:00AM +0100, Jonathan Wiltshire wrote: > Following the release of bullseye, we can confirm that autopkgtests (when > provided) will continue to be considered across all architectures for > migration to bookworm. In other words, the tests need to succeed on all >

Re: ARM architectures

2021-06-05 Thread Adam Borowski
On Sat, Jun 05, 2021 at 03:04:45PM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > Any of the boards from pine64.org should do and as far as I know have > quite good support (i.e. there are Debian Installer images for them) and > all are 64 bit ;) +1 to pine64 gear. > The PINE A64+ (2 GB RAM) is very stable

Re: perl necessary for debootstrap, why?

2021-06-05 Thread Adam Borowski
On Sat, Jun 05, 2021 at 10:03:55AM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > On Fri, 4 Jun 2021 21:54:16 +0200, RhineDevil > wrote: > >I've looked up /usr/share/debootstrap/functions and I've seen some perl code > >What does this code do exactly and why wasn't it translated to shell? > Writing it in shell

Re: Would you please share me any information about which version of Debian supports NVDIMM?

2021-05-27 Thread Adam Borowski
On Thu, May 27, 2021 at 06:31:42AM +, Yuhua Zou wrote: > Dear All, > I assume Debian have supported NVDIMM from the following links: > https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2016/12/msg00330.html > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=829257 > > I can install package

Re: Bug#988864: ITP: emacs-doom-themes -- opinionated pack of modern Emacs color-themes

2021-05-20 Thread Adam Borowski
On Thu, May 20, 2021 at 08:01:24AM -0700, Raúl Benencia wrote: > * Package name: emacs-doom-themes > * URL : https://github.com/hlissner/emacs-doom-themes > Description : opinionated pack of modern Emacs color-themes > > DOOM Themes is an opinionated UI plugin and pack of

Bug#987235: ITP: pcm -- tools for Intel-specific processor performance and energy metrics

2021-04-20 Thread Adam Borowski
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Adam Borowski X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: pcm Upstream Author : Intel * URL : https://github.com/opcm/pcm/ * License : BSD-3 Programming Lang: C++ Description : tools for Intel-specific

Re: Bug#986382: DPL Jonathan Carter's passport number is ****909

2021-04-04 Thread Adam Borowski
On Sun, Apr 04, 2021 at 09:22:16PM +0200, crazy.mo...@lavache.com wrote: > We are contributors to Debian > > The contribution of every one of us makes the name Debian respectable > We can't allow a crazy woman who slept with a past project leader to hijack Go away, FakeMikee. We know what your

Re: a proper-unix meta package (Re: Proposal: plocate as standard for bookworm)

2021-02-10 Thread Adam Borowski
On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 12:21:36PM +, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 01:05:04PM +0100, Bjørn Mork wrote: > > I happen to disagree. To me this is yet another step away from being a > > proper Unix system - to something else. Which would be fine if it moved > > us forward. > >

Re: Fixed release dates are hurting quality

2021-02-07 Thread Adam Borowski
On Sun, Feb 07, 2021 at 10:20:19AM -0400, David Bremner wrote: > John Paul Adrian Glaubitz writes: > > > It shouldn't be enough for a package to have its worst bugs fixed like > > FTBFS or > > crashes when it gets shipped with a release. Packages that are being > > shipped with > > a release

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

2020-12-01 Thread Adam Borowski
On Tue, Dec 01, 2020 at 12:28:38PM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: > On Tue, Dec 01, 2020 at 10:56:28AM +, Simon McVittie wrote: > > Possible solutions: > > > > - Change at least 622 packages so they have something more like > > Depends: foo-data (>= ${source:Version}), foo-data (<< > >

Re: Proposed changes to sbuild and debootstrap

2020-11-30 Thread Adam Borowski
On Sun, Nov 29, 2020 at 08:33:22PM +0100, RhineDevil wrote: > As now sbuild and debootstrap manage chroots on per-suite basis, they rely > on scripts present in /usr/share/debootstrap/scripts. > This poses a problem, as suite names from different distros may > occasionally overlap, as happened

Re: pcre2 10.35 uploaded to experimental

2020-11-27 Thread Adam Borowski
On Fri, Nov 27, 2020 at 09:56:45AM +, Matthew Vernon wrote: > I've uploaded 10.35-1 of pcre2 to experimental; I'll upload -2 to unstable > next weekend if there aren't any show-stoppers in the mean time. I've rebuilt+autopkgtested all direct dependencies (indirect are universe), no

Re: Bug#975510: ITP: deepin-wallpapers -- ​DDE wallpapers

2020-11-22 Thread Adam Borowski
On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 01:08:15PM +0800, hufeng wrote: > * Package name    : deepin-wallpapers >   Version : 1.6.14 >   Upstream Author : amazingfate > * URL : https://github.com/linuxdeepin/deepin-wallpapers >   License : GPL-3+ It doesn't look like GPL-3+ to me:

Re: move to merged-usr-only?

2020-11-20 Thread Adam Borowski
On Fri, Nov 20, 2020 at 09:35:42AM +0100, Ansgar wrote: > I would like to propose to plan to move to support merged-usr-only over > the following releases. The motivation is bugs like [1] where upstream > developers just use `/usr/bin/rm` (or other binaries, or user scripts > using /usr/bin/bash,

Re: NEW queue almost empty

2020-11-02 Thread Adam Borowski
On Mon, Nov 02, 2020 at 10:56:57PM +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > On 15940 March 1977, Christian Kastner wrote: > > The NEW queue length is down a single digit, from ~500 not all too long > > ago. That's an amazing effort by ftp-master that must have consumed a > > *lot* of energy. > > It consumed

Re: Bug#972443: ITP: rotp -- Remnants of the Precursors game

2020-10-18 Thread Adam Borowski
On Sun, Oct 18, 2020 at 11:56:23AM -0400, Joseph Nahmias wrote: > * Package name: rotp > Version : 1.13b > Upstream Author : Ray Fowler > * Homepage: https://rayfowler.itch.io/remnants-of-the-precursors > * Source Code : https://github.com/rayfowler/rotp-public > *

Re: Splitting mime-support into mailcap and media-types (Re: Bug#964850: ITP: mailcap -- Debian's mailcap system, and support programs)

2020-10-05 Thread Adam Borowski
On Mon, Oct 05, 2020 at 01:52:19PM +1000, Jai Flack wrote: > Forgive me if this is an ignorant question but isn't mailcap missing > dependencies? If I build, then install all three and then ask apt about > mailcap's dependencies it gives: [...] > But the script it installs clearly depends on

Bug#971512: ITP: rpma -- remote pmem access library

2020-09-30 Thread Adam Borowski
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Adam Borowski X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: rpma Version : 0.9 Upstream Author : Intel * URL : https://github.com/pmem/rpma * License : BSD-3 Programming Lang: C Description : remote

Re: epoch bump for babl and gegl libraries

2020-08-17 Thread Adam Borowski
On Mon, Aug 17, 2020 at 10:21:37AM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: > The GNOME team intend to add an epoch to the babl and gegl libraries, > so I'm checking for consensus (Debian Policy §5.6.12.1). As usual with > epochs, this is a bad situation that I am trying to mitigate as much as > possible,

Re: libgtk-3-0 dependency closure no longer includes librsvg2-common ∴ no more svg rendering

2020-08-06 Thread Adam Borowski
On Thu, Aug 06, 2020 at 10:45:25AM +0100, Jaime wrote: > A recent change (1) to adwaita-icon-theme's debian/control.in altered > adwaita-icon-theme's relationship with librsvg2-common from a > "depends" to a "recommends". > libgtk-3-0's dependency closure *used* to include librsvg2-common via >

Re: DEP-14: renaming master to main?

2020-06-24 Thread Adam Borowski
On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 11:40:47AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > Not really. The master/slave metaphor prompted me to think about this > sort of thing more and give it a higher priority, that's all. I still > think we'd be better off using a different name. So use a different metaphor. For git,

Re: Pimp your shell - Debian developer tips?

2020-05-27 Thread Adam Borowski
On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 10:06:29PM +0300, Otto Kekäläinen wrote: > Hello! > > 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

Re: Temporary(?) bundling of code that may not warrant its own package

2020-05-21 Thread Adam Borowski
On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 09:54:56PM +0100, Wookey wrote: > I think that is ultimately up to you as the maintainer. If it's really > important to get the new version uploaded, then yeah do that first, > but otherwise just leave it at the current version, do the new > library, then upload new version

Re: Mass bug filing: dependencies on GTK 2

2020-04-29 Thread Adam Borowski
On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 06:37:50PM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: > On Wed, 29 Apr 2020 at 18:04:41 +0200, Mattia Rizzolo wrote: > > I think you should > > file the bugs at severity:minor, given the amount of involved packages, > > and the fact that you state we might not be able to remove gtk2 in

Re: trends.debian.net updated

2020-04-14 Thread Adam Borowski
On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 05:36:37PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Tue, 2020-04-14 at 13:12 +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > Perhaps, but it is *also* documented that an upload just to bump the > > Standards-Version is severely frowned upon. If there is no other reason > > to upload in 7 years,

Re: trends.debian.net updated

2020-04-04 Thread Adam Borowski
On Sat, Apr 04, 2020 at 09:37:16AM +0200, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote: > On 4/4/20 9:28 AM, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > On 04/04/20 at 08:09 +0200, Paul Gevers wrote: > >>> I keep wondering if we should make an effort to remove from testing > >>> packages whose packaging 'style' is clearly outdated,

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

2020-03-25 Thread Adam Borowski
On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 03:32:20PM +0100, Tomas Pospisek wrote: > On 25.03.20 15:19, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 03:14:41PM +0100, Tomas Pospisek wrote: > >> On 25.03.20 14:43, Christian Kastner wrote: > >> > >>> This is not to say that licensing is an unimportant issue

MBF? ftbs

2020-03-22 Thread Adam Borowski
Hi! There's a bunch of packages that fail to repack their sources. That is, "dpkg-buildpackage -S" fails in a clean environment. I've tested the entire archive, invoking: sbuild -s --source-only-changes --no-arch-all --no-arch-any The list below includes all packages which fail the repack

Re: trimming changelogs

2020-03-19 Thread Adam Borowski
On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 08:58:57PM -0400, Boyuan Yang wrote: > 在 2020-03-20星期五的 00:50 +0100,Adam Borowski写道: > > [trimming changelogs] > > > > On the other hand, changelogs are valuable. Unlike some folks on IRC > > I wouldn't want to tightly trim al

trimming changelogs

2020-03-19 Thread Adam Borowski
Hi! In the rush for cutting away small bits of minbase, it looks like we forgot a big pile of junk: /usr/share/doc/ On strict minbase (rather than prio:important which really matters), the docs take 11MB. And of that, 8MB are files named changelog.* -- which fails to include eg. bash's: 112K

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

2020-03-19 Thread Adam Borowski
On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 11:34:10AM +0500, Lev Lamberov wrote: > Ср 18 мар 2020 @ 18:52 Adam Borowski : > > > Alas, our ed is basically: > > #!/bin/sh > > while read x;do echo '?';done > > That's not true. The ed package in the Debian archive is full GNU ed. I'm n

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

2020-03-18 Thread Adam Borowski
On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 01:38:34PM -0400, Peter Silva wrote: > On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 12:40 PM Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote: > > I've always considered /bin/ed the most basic system administration > > tool, since it doesn't require a working terminal or termcap entry. > > It works even if you are

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