Re: General resolution: non-free firmware

2022-08-27 Thread Phil Morrell
On Sun, Aug 28, 2022 at 12:56:43AM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > Debian Project Secretary - Kurt Roeckx dixit: > > >it are available at: https://www.debian.org/vote/2022/vote_003 > > Is there support for something like A but not enabled by default? > That is, you have to actively select a

Saturation of the FTP Team's available bandwidth processing NEW

2022-08-26 Thread Phil Morrell
On Wed Aug 24 23:20:30 BST 2022, Sean Whitton wrote: > I'm afraid I cannot respond to a message of this length. As I > mentioned previously, all the ftpteam really have the bandwidth to do > is process what's in NEW. * This is more concerning than its indirect effect on uploader motivation *

Re: Legal advice regarding the NEW queue

2022-02-03 Thread Phil Morrell
On Thu, Feb 03, 2022 at 09:43:16AM -0500, Scott Kitterman wrote: > I am a member of the FTP Team and have been participating, at least a bit, in > this thread. I am not, however, speaking for the team. Hello Scott, thank you for taking the time to follow this thread, there are two very specific

Re: Automated copyright reviews using REUSE/SPDX as alternative to DEP-5

2022-01-28 Thread Phil Morrell
On Thu, Jan 27, 2022 at 11:27:45AM +0100, Stephan Lachnit wrote: > On Thu, Jan 27, 2022 at 12:39 AM Phil Morrell wrote: > > > > TLDR: I think REUSE.software is a bad idea that is worse than what > > Debian already invented with Machine-readable debian/copyright file. I >

Re: Services offered by Debian should be dogfooding the real packages on DSA hosts.

2022-01-26 Thread Phil Morrell
On Wed, Jan 26, 2022 at 01:35:51PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Tue, 25 Jan 2022, Phil Morrell wrote: > > I have raised https://salsa.debian.org/debian/grow-your-ideas/-/issues/15 > > Thanks for this, but this issue like a few others that have been filed do > describe

Re: Automated copyright reviews using REUSE/SPDX as alternative to DEP-5

2022-01-26 Thread Phil Morrell
https://matija.suklje.name/how-and-why-to-properly-write-copyright-statements-in-your-code TLDR: I think REUSE.software is a bad idea that is worse than what Debian already invented with Machine-readable debian/copyright file. I guess if upstream uses it, there's no reason not to ignore that as a

Services offered by Debian should be dogfooding the real packages on DSA hosts.

2022-01-25 Thread Phil Morrell
On Mon, Jan 24, 2022 at 10:31:01AM +0100, Sébastien Delafond wrote: > > As part of an upcoming survey that we are preparing, we plan to ask > Debian developers to rank, by order of importance, the most popular > ideas of improvements for Debian. > > That's where you come into play: it would be

Re: Back to the topic of changed binary named

2022-01-25 Thread Phil Morrell
On Tue, Jan 25, 2022 at 10:50:01AM +0100, Stephan Lachnit wrote: > On Mon, Jan 24, 2022 at 8:15 AM Andreas Tille wrote: > > > > However, my point was that I want to know what policy ftpmaster applies > > to new binary names and to focus on this topic. I really want to know > > that policy of

Re: Are libraries with bumped SONAME subject of inspection of ftpmaster or not

2022-01-25 Thread Phil Morrell
On Mon, Jan 24, 2022 at 01:49:19PM -0500, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote: > On Mon, Jan 24, 2022 at 08:15:30AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > > > > its surely an interesting topic how to avoid binary name changes and its > > also interesting to discuss ABI changes and workarounds. > > > > However, my

Re: Bundling

2021-09-30 Thread Phil Morrell
On Thu, Sep 30, 2021 at 10:24:01AM +0200, Alec Leamas wrote: > Just for the record: the issue about packaging wxWidgets 3.1 has already > been discussed with the maintainer: > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=919903 Hi Alec, I get the impression there that the maintainer is

task-laptop: please recommend automatic apt proxying

2021-09-15 Thread Phil Morrell
Package: task-laptop Version: 3.53 Severity: wishlist I'm not sure on the difference between auto-apt-proxy and squid-deb-proxy-client. Avahi is already pulled in by task-laptop. On Fri, Sep 10, 2021 at 09:33:56AM +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote: > On Wed, Sep 08, 2021 at 07:12:18PM -0400, Michael

Re: Finding rough consensus on level of vendoring for large upstreams

2021-09-15 Thread Phil Morrell
Thanks to Adrian and pabs for their corrections on documenting security support, and there wasn't too much objection to the summary, more to the sad state of affairs that leads to it and a bit of clarification. I believe all the major points have cc'd 907051, so would like to encourage someone

Re: Epoch bump request for ksh

2021-09-10 Thread Phil Morrell
On Fri, Sep 10, 2021 at 07:37:55PM +0530, Anuradha Weeraman wrote: > ksh93u+m was a reboot attempt by Martijn Dekker et al. to build upon > the last stable 93u+ release (not on v2020, apart from some cherry > picked patches). This work has been taking place for over a year at this > point, with

Re: Epoch bump request for ksh

2021-09-10 Thread Phil Morrell
On Fri, Sep 10, 2021 at 05:18:13PM +0530, Anuradha Weeraman wrote: > As a result of a revert of v2020 of ksh last year, the current version > on sid for ksh is as follows: > > 2020.0.0+really93u+20120801-10 > > With the next upgrade, we're looking to move to the 93u+m community > maintained

Re: Finding rough consensus on level of vendoring for large upstreams

2021-09-02 Thread Phil Morrell
ever #907051 also wanted more background on _why_ one might choose one way or the other, so please do elaborate on this if you can. > Quoting Phil Morrell (2021-09-03 00:38:35) > > 5. Where only a small number of unrelated projects are bundled, they > >SHOULD be uploaded as sepa

Re: Finding rough consensus on level of vendoring for large upstreams

2021-09-02 Thread Phil Morrell
On Fri, Sep 03, 2021 at 01:03:35AM +0200, Jérémy Lal wrote: > - should a package debian/control list bundled dependencies to make > sure to avoid duplications ? Maybe? I noted in my final paragraph that Fedora has a mechanism for this that we don't, but perhaps Provides is sufficient. > - when a

Finding rough consensus on level of vendoring for large upstreams

2021-09-02 Thread Phil Morrell
Over this last year there seems to have been a noticeable divergence of maintainer opinion, on what has become known as vendoring, from a strict reading of [policy 4.13]. I think it's notable that the heading is [Embedded] copies and was [Convenience] copies since its inception, thankfully I found

Re: next steps after usrunmess

2021-08-27 Thread Phil Morrell
On Fri, Aug 27, 2021 at 07:34:06PM +0200, Bastien ROUCARIES wrote: > Le ven. 27 août 2021 à 17:20, Theodore Ts'o a écrit : > > On Fri, Aug 27, 2021 at 03:39:57AM +0100, Phil Morrell wrote: > > > > - reverting the changes in deboostrap in sid, bullseye (and ideally >

next steps after usrunmess

2021-08-26 Thread Phil Morrell
On Thu, Aug 26, 2021 at 02:56:21AM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > On Sun, 2021-08-22 at 09:18:25 +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: > > Afaict we have still no idea on how to move on. > > > > 1 I think you agree that there is a significant number of usrmerged Debian > > installations out there. > >

Re: Debian choice of upstream tarballs for packaging

2021-08-25 Thread Phil Morrell
On Wed, Aug 25, 2021 at 04:35:51PM +0200, Simon Richter wrote: > > I wrote this many times, but I don't see why we should use any "upstream > > tarball" when the Git repository itself contains the tarball with: > > > git archive --prefix=$(DEBPKGNAME)-$(VERSION)/ $(GIT_TAG) \ > > | xz

Re: Debian choice of upstream tarballs for packaging

2021-08-24 Thread Phil Morrell
On Tue, Aug 24, 2021 at 04:21:50PM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: > On Wed 18 Aug 2021 at 10:10AM +02, Simon Josefsson wrote: > > Signing tarballs is the current > > established best practice -- moving to VCS builds needs a set of new > > schemes to be established and deployed, and I don't see any

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

2021-08-21 Thread Phil Morrell
On Sat, Aug 21, 2021 at 10:40:32AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Fri, Aug 20, 2021 at 07:20:22PM +, Jeremy Stanley wrote: > > Yes transparent proxies or overridden DNS lookups could be used to > > direct deb.debian.org and security.debian.org to your alternative > > location, > > I've

Re: please document why a package has been dropped from Testing/Bullseye

2021-05-11 Thread Phil Morrell
On Mon, May 10, 2021 at 06:23:34AM -0500, Michael Lustfield wrote: > On Sun, 9 May 2021 07:30:04 +0200 > Harald Dunkel wrote: > > > > https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=rsnapshot doesn't tell, so I > > wonder > > what is the recommended way to find out why rsnapshot (or any other

Re: Who to contact about removing package from upcoming 11 release?

2021-05-03 Thread Phil Morrell
On Mon, May 03, 2021 at 11:18:04AM -0300, Kurt Fitzner wrote: > When the maintainers are unresponsive, I'm not sure the escalation process. > > - #926253 /usr/share/postfixadmin/lib/../templates_c does not exist on new > installation (Since Debian 9) > > The concern I have with this remaining in

Re: Changed Github download URLs are affecting lots of existing watch files

2021-03-26 Thread Phil Morrell
On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 11:43:27PM +0100, Yadd wrote: > Le 26/03/2021 à 22:38, Andreas Tille a écrit : > > I just learned that what was formerly something like > > > > .*/archive/ > > > > became now > > > > .*/archive/refs/tags/ > > > > This breaks at least all Debian Med packages

Re: libgcc-s1 buster -> bullseye upgrade issues

2021-02-14 Thread Phil Morrell
l failing to reproduce it with current buster/bullseye. I have just re-run the upgrade with the addition of libreoffice installed and it completed without issue. I didn't close/downgrade the bug in case I was missing something, so please can you re-test your upgrade and confirm it's fixed? -- Phil Mo

Re: devscripts: wrap-and-sort should default to -ast

2021-02-10 Thread Phil Morrell
On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 11:47:12AM +, Phil Morrell wrote: > To make that work as a default, there would need to be something like an > --short-preferred-unless-existing-indent sorry, going by the current default, that should be --align-preferred-unless-existing-short signatu

Re: devscripts: wrap-and-sort should default to -ast

2021-02-10 Thread Phil Morrell
On Tue, Feb 09, 2021 at 08:49:51PM +0100, Thomas Goirand wrote: > On 2/9/21 7:40 PM, Russ Allbery wrote: > > Jonas Smedegaard writes: > >> Let's see if Debian can agree on a single normalization of 822-ish > >> files. For starters, I disagree that "wrap-and-sort -a" is a suitable > >>

Re: Package broke in stable due to old API. Fix in stable or backports?

2021-01-09 Thread Phil Morrell
On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 12:15:22AM +0800, Yao Wei wrote: > There should be many existing cases, that external service the stable > package is using deprecates the old API, which in turn breaks the > package. Do we have documented conventions that where the fixed package > should be uploaded to:

Re: NEW queue almost empty

2020-11-07 Thread Phil Morrell
ive emails previously reported on or at least raise the ratio of appreciation. -- Phil Morrell signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Lenovo discount portal update (and a few other things)

2020-09-03 Thread Phil Morrell
On Thu, Sep 03, 2020 at 03:18:21PM -0400, Mark Pearson wrote: > On 9/2/2020 9:18 PM, Paul Wise wrote: > > Many of the Debian membership benefits (link above) also apply to > > Debian Maintainers (folks who are not members but can do unsupervised > > uploads of particular packages) and Debian

Re: Pimp your shell - Debian developer tips?

2020-06-11 Thread Phil Morrell
On Jo, 04 iun 20, 10:13:06, Michael Shuler wrote: > For many years, I have taken a different approach; use the default and add > only a few minor changes. Each stable update, I use /etc/skel/.bashrc and > edit/add in my little bits. for config in ~/.config/bash/*; do source "$config"; done

Re: Salsa update: no more "-guest" and more

2020-04-26 Thread Phil Morrell
On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 12:31:42AM +0200, Gard Spreemann wrote: > > Bernd Zeimetz writes: > > Actually I think 2FA should be enforced for everybody. > > Even debian.org related passwords might get lost. > > Right, but what's the threat model here? For some of us, losing the > Salsa password is

Re: Proposal: Repository for fast-paced package backports

2019-07-28 Thread Phil Morrell
On Tue, Jan 01, 2019 at 05:49:37PM +0530, Pirate Praveen wrote: > I think STS (Short term support) will fit nicely with LTS. If there is > no serious objections, I'd go with this. As debconf is finishing, though I don't know if either of you attended this year, has there been any progress on this

Re: anti-tarball clause and GPL

2019-07-28 Thread Phil Morrell
(debian-devel following Holger's advice, guessing all authors are subscribed) On Thu, Jul 25, 2019 at 10:43:12PM -0300, Yao Wei (魏銘廷) wrote: > What if, one of the upstream authors consider it violating GPL _without_ the > clause? I mean, it could happen. Indeed, and I'd argue this is already

Re: Challenge from Julia's non-standard vendored openblas"64_"

2019-07-28 Thread Phil Morrell
to change their widely-spread practice. Even when that's the case, it's usually still worth reporting the issue upstream, so they know the pain they're introducing to potential users. All the best from an outsider, and thank you for tackling difficult interoperability decisions in Debian. -- Phil Morrell (emorrp1) signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: duprkit User Repository

2019-04-08 Thread Phil Morrell
by with a `cat debian/{watch,control,rules}`? -- Phil Morrell signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [Idea] Debian User Repository? (Not simply mimicing AUR)

2019-04-07 Thread Phil Morrell
rapping some automated trust without increasing contribution friction too much: https://dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/articles/guru-a-new-model-of-contributing-to-gentoo.html#user-access-and-workflow -- Phil Morrell signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Bug#926076: goxkcdpwgen -- xkcd style password generator library and cli tool

2019-03-31 Thread Phil Morrell
racker.debian.org/pkg/diceware https://github.com/ulif/diceware#usage -- Phil Morrell signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Accepted play.it 2.11.0-1 (source) into unstable

2019-02-01 Thread Phil Morrell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2019 10:51:22 + Source: play.it Architecture: source Version: 2.11.0-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Debian Games Team Changed-By: Phil Morrell Changes: play.it (2.11.0-1) unstable; urgency

Accepted corsix-th 0.62-2 (source) into unstable

2019-01-31 Thread Phil Morrell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2019 21:04:00 + Source: corsix-th Architecture: source Version: 0.62-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Debian Games Team Changed-By: Phil Morrell Closes: 919083 Changes: corsix-th (0.62-2

Re: salsa.debian.org: merge requests and such

2018-11-10 Thread Phil Morrell
On Sat, Nov 10, 2018 at 10:36:53AM -0200, Herbert Fortes wrote: > On 09/11/2018 20:26, Colin Watson wrote: > > I guessed that the particular commit was > > https://salsa.debian.org/debian/pcre2/commit/6c14b51ddfc45604fd805bcadc810d437f09a30f. > > (The same developer has also been doing a number of

Accepted play.it 2.10.3-1 (source) into unstable

2018-10-14 Thread Phil Morrell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2018 19:29:21 +0100 Source: play.it Binary: play.it Architecture: source Version: 2.10.3-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Debian Games Team Changed-By: Phil Morrell Description: play.it

Bug#909798: ITP: ryzomcore -- science-fantasy MMORPG engine

2018-09-28 Thread Phil Morrell
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Phil Morrell * Package name: ryzomcore Version : 3.4.0 Upstream Author : Winch Gate Property Ltd. * URL : http://www.ryzomcore.com/ * License : AGPL3+, CC-BY-SA, GPL-2 Programming Lang: C++, Lua Description

Accepted play.it 2.10.0-1 (source) into unstable

2018-08-18 Thread Phil Morrell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2018 16:39:45 +0100 Source: play.it Binary: play.it Architecture: source Version: 2.10.0-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Debian Games Team Changed-By: Phil Morrell Description: play.it

Accepted corsix-th 0.62-1 (source) into unstable

2018-08-13 Thread Phil Morrell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2018 14:59:23 +0100 Source: corsix-th Binary: corsix-th corsix-th-data Architecture: source Version: 0.62-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Debian Games Team Changed-By: Phil Morrell Description

Accepted play.it 2.9.1-1 (source) into unstable

2018-07-24 Thread Phil Morrell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2018 00:16:06 +0100 Source: play.it Binary: play.it Architecture: source Version: 2.9.1-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Debian Games Team Changed-By: Phil Morrell Description: play.it

Accepted play.it 2.9.0-1 (source all) into unstable, unstable

2018-06-26 Thread Phil Morrell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2018 07:01:53 +0100 Source: play.it Binary: play.it Architecture: source all Version: 2.9.0-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Debian Games Team Changed-By: Phil Morrell Description: play.it

Accepted scorched3d 44+dfsg-2 (source) into unstable

2018-06-10 Thread Phil Morrell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2018 23:30:28 +0100 Source: scorched3d Binary: scorched3d scorched3d-data Architecture: source Version: 44+dfsg-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Debian Games Team Changed-By: Phil Morrell

Bug#900867: ITP: firefox-syncserver -- Firefox Sync storage and token server

2018-06-05 Thread Phil Morrell
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Phil Morrell * Package name: firefox-syncserver Version : 1.8.0 Upstream Author : Mozilla Corporation * URL : https://github.com/mozilla-services/syncserver * License : MPL-2.0 Programming Lang: Python 2 Description

Re: path to gitlab upstream

2018-05-30 Thread Phil Morrell
dinated under "GNOME List of Issues & Priorities" [43566]. Perhaps Debian should also have an open issue for requests from DDs, at the moment I can only find relevant issues by searching for "salsa". -- Phil Morrell (emorrp1) [43566]: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/43566 signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Accepted corsix-th 0.61-1 (source) into unstable

2018-01-12 Thread Phil Morrell
org> Changed-By: Phil Morrell <deb...@emorrp1.name> Description: corsix-th - Open source clone of Theme Hospital corsix-th-data - Open source clone of Theme Hospital (data package) Changes: corsix-th (0.61-1) unstable; urgency=medium . [ Alexandre Detiste ] * New upstream

Accepted sqldeveloper-package 0.2.4+nmu1 (source) into unstable

2017-10-25 Thread Phil Morrell
hanged-By: Phil Morrell <deb...@emorrp1.name> Description: sqldeveloper-package - Oracle SQL Developer Debian package builder Closes: 868673 Changes: sqldeveloper-package (0.2.4+nmu1) unstable; urgency=medium . * Non-maintainer upload. * Add required '--' before debian/rules target (Clo

Accepted corsix-th 0.60-2 (source) into unstable

2016-11-15 Thread Phil Morrell
org> Changed-By: Phil Morrell <deb...@emorrp1.name> Description: corsix-th - Open source clone of Theme Hospital corsix-th-data - Open source clone of Theme Hospital (data package) Changes: corsix-th (0.60-2) unstable; urgency=medium . * remove obsolete rnc.pp copyright comment.

Accepted corsix-th 0.60-1 (source) into unstable

2016-06-23 Thread Phil Morrell
org> Changed-By: Phil Morrell <deb...@emorrp1.name> Description: corsix-th - Open source clone of Theme Hospital corsix-th-data - Open source clone of Theme Hospital (data package) Changes: corsix-th (0.60-1) unstable; urgency=medium . [ Alexandre Detiste ] * New upstream release.

Accepted corsix-th 0.50-2 (source) into unstable

2016-04-18 Thread Phil Morrell
org> Changed-By: Phil Morrell <deb...@emorrp1.name> Description: corsix-th - Open source clone of Theme Hospital corsix-th-data - Open source clone of Theme Hospital (data package) Closes: 821415 Changes: corsix-th (0.50-2) unstable; urgency=medium . * backport upstream patch to build