Re: Fedora 34 Change: Stop Shipping Individual Nodejs Library Packages (Self-Contained)

2020-12-10 Thread Ben Rosser
ckages were orphaned and no one was particularly interested in stepping up to take them over. I ended up taking some of them with the hopes of keeping a few pieces of software alive in the short term, but then another large chunk of nodejs packages were orphaned, no one took them, and, frankly, I gav

Re: Fedora 33 System-Wide Change proposal: Make nano the default editor

2020-06-26 Thread Ben Rosser
On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 12:46 PM Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 12:38:40PM -0400, Ben Rosser wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 12:32 PM Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek > > wrote: > > > > > > On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 01:18:59PM -0400

Re: Fedora 33 System-Wide Change proposal: Make nano the default editor

2020-06-26 Thread Ben Rosser
> usage a bit nicer. 'vi' and 'emacs -nw' don't ask. The -t/--tempfile switch for nano (and pico) does exactly this: https://linux.die.net/man/1/nano Ben Rosser ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe sen

Re: Fedora 33 System-Wide Change proposal: Make nano the default editor

2020-06-26 Thread Ben Rosser
lt was *actively harmful* to vi's chances > in my case. :P Same here, to be honest. Being dropped into vi when I ran some command (I think it was visudo?) was honestly pretty traumatizing as a new Linux user a ~decade ago, and to this day one of the first things I do on

Re: Orphaned packages looking for new maintainers (~200 nodejs packages to be retired in 2 days)

2020-06-23 Thread Ben Rosser
On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 7:23 PM Miro Hrončok wrote: > > On 24. 06. 20 1:10, Miro Hrončok wrote: > > On 24. 06. 20 1:07, Ben Rosser wrote: > >> Some of my nodejs packages are an artifact of a failed attempt to > >> package quassel-webserver [1], which I eventually

Re: Orphaned packages looking for new maintainers (~200 nodejs packages to be retired in 2 days)

2020-06-23 Thread Ben Rosser
On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 6:38 PM Miro Hrončok wrote: > > On 23. 06. 20 21:11, Ben Rosser wrote: > > Thanks Miro, much appreciated! > > You are welocme. > > However, I am afraid I have some bad news. The recent report in > https://churchyard.fedorapeople.org/orphans.tx

Re: Orphaned 215 packages

2020-06-23 Thread Ben Rosser
On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 5:24 PM Stephen Gallagher wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 11:53 AM Ben Rosser wrote: > > > > On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 11:34 AM Sérgio Basto wrote: > > > > > > On Mon, 2020-06-22 at 11:29 -0400, Ben Rosser wrote: > > > > O

Re: Orphaned packages looking for new maintainers (~200 nodejs packages to be retired in 2 days)

2020-06-23 Thread Ben Rosser
guess I'll find out.) > > > > Can I do this via releng ticket or do I need to actually go to each > > page on Pagure and click the button? > > I've done it in bulk. Thanks for talking them. Thanks Miro, much appreciated! Just to add: I've also taken uglify-js

Re: Orphaned packages looking for new maintainers (~200 nodejs packages to be retired in 2 days)

2020-06-23 Thread Ben Rosser
nly wanted to take what I actually needed for mocha and discord-irc. I think this is the complete list; if I'm wrong, I guess I'll find out.) Can I do this via releng ticket or do I need to actually go to each page on Pagure and click the button? Ben Rosser Ben Rosser ___

Re: Orphaned 215 packages

2020-06-22 Thread Ben Rosser
On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 11:34 AM Sérgio Basto wrote: > > On Mon, 2020-06-22 at 11:29 -0400, Ben Rosser wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 3:09 PM Stephen Gallagher < > > sgall...@redhat.com> wrote: > > > The Node.js SIG is very loosely organized. If you are a pack

Re: Orphaned 215 packages

2020-06-22 Thread Ben Rosser
top their retirement? I've gone ahead and taken mocha (running tests will be useful regardless of whether or not we start bundling NPM modules). I haven't yet figured out what I need to take to keep it + my other node packages alive for now, but I'll work through that this eveni

Re: Orphaned 215 packages

2020-06-18 Thread Ben Rosser
On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 12:50 PM Fabio Valentini wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 6:30 PM Ben Rosser wrote: > > > > On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 5:38 PM Jared K. Smith > > wrote: > > > > > > On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 3:41 PM Ben Rosser wrote: > > &

Re: Orphaned 215 packages

2020-06-17 Thread Ben Rosser
On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 5:38 PM Jared K. Smith wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 3:41 PM Ben Rosser wrote: >> >> So... this is a lot of node.js packages, and I haven't really seen any >> discussion of this on the lists. And at least some of these are possibly

Re: Orphaned 215 packages

2020-06-16 Thread Ben Rosser
n packages for a node application [1] and its dependencies, and it's increasingly difficult due to old dependencies, even when they're not FTBFS or FTI or orphaned. I don't have the bandwidth to take over all of these, but I'd be willing to join some kind of collective effort to impr

Re: CPE Weekly: 2020-04-04

2020-04-06 Thread Ben Rosser
eriod of time... and nothing I've read in any of these threads so far has helped reassure me that's not the case. Not saying you're wrong that it would be nice to have the ability to poll a broader selection of packagers. But I'm not sure using

Re: Invalid body, keys: sls missing

2020-02-13 Thread Ben Rosser
On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 12:01 PM Jerry James wrote: > > I'm trying to get an f32 branch for a newly created package. Branch > creation has failed twice now with the error in $SUBJECT: > > https://pagure.io/releng/fedora-scm-requests/issue/22127 > > Can I get a human to look at that ticket instead

Unretire unshield

2020-02-07 Thread Ben Rosser
re.io/releng/issue/9236 Thanks in advance, Ben Rosser ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-co

Re: modular protobuf issue (Dec. 6, 2019) recap

2019-12-06 Thread Ben Rosser
of that RPM? (I realize that in this particular case, Igor is on FESCo, and so had the policy been followed more carefully, he would have been aware anyway). Ben Rosser ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email

Re: js-jquery - Re: List of long term FTBFS packages to be retired in February (beta)

2019-12-03 Thread Ben Rosser
On Tue, Dec 3, 2019 at 3:18 AM Tom Hughes wrote: > > Ben Rosser was working on sorting out grunt. In fact I believe he > took the first of those at least. > > Tom > > On 03/12/2019 07:45, Vít Ondruch wrote: > > According to [1], these are the packages which need to

Re: Announcing new anitya integration and de-orphaning process

2019-11-30 Thread Ben Rosser
pkgdb before implementing new features like stream expansion. But in any case, I'm really glad that we do now finally have anitya integration and easy de-orphaning back in pkgdb. Thanks to everyone who made this happen! Ben Rosser ___

Re: EPEL-8 builds

2019-11-07 Thread Ben Rosser
maintainer first: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/GuidelinesAndPolicies#Getting_a_Fedora_package_in_EPEL https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Getting_a_Fedora_package_in_EPEL Ben Rosser ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscrib

Re: Modularity and all the things

2019-10-25 Thread Ben Rosser
ora. We should decide what is and isn't acceptable to modularize, what the rules are and aren't for creating and upgrading streams, and so on. And if we can't figure out a way to square the goals for modularity with the necessary guidelines to not cause major problems in the distri

Re: Modularity and the system-upgrade path

2019-10-13 Thread Ben Rosser
It's certainly true that the loudest and most unhappy voices tend to dominate discussions, but so far I haven't seen many people speak up who are enthusiastic about modularity who aren't also involved in it in some way. Granted, that could well change over time as improvements

Re: Has fedpkg + dist-git replaced rpmbuild for building new/local packages?

2019-10-07 Thread Ben Rosser
ideline compliant) 6. rpmbuild -bs && mock ../SRPMS/foo*.src.rpm until it builds (and is guideline compliant) 7. Upload somewhere when it is ready for review I agree that this might not be the ideal workflow to teach new packagers, but I don't think it is terrible.

Re: Defining the future of the packager workflow in Fedora

2019-10-07 Thread Ben Rosser
Pagure showed that information too. If nothing else, it would save me a click or two when trying to check if a package is up to date. > Trying to improve the package review process is something that has been in my > radar for a while now but n

Re: Unretire nodejs-gaze

2019-10-02 Thread Ben Rosser
w request if >> we can get this unretired before the deadline. > > > It looks like this has been un-retired, so I'll go ahead and try to push an > updated build to rawhide just as soon as the Koji outage is over. Oops, I missed that you had requested a re-review. Thanks! L

Re: Defining the future of the packager workflow in Fedora

2019-10-02 Thread Ben Rosser
On Wed, Oct 2, 2019 at 8:17 PM Ben Rosser wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 2, 2019 at 1:59 PM Pierre-Yves Chibon wrote: > > There are regularly people complaining on this very list about how hard > > packaging has become. So here is a thread trying to see if you can come up > &

Re: Defining the future of the packager workflow in Fedora

2019-10-02 Thread Ben Rosser
n than it is the first thing most new contributors will interact with, so perhaps it is in our interest to make it as pleasant as possible. Ben Rosser ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lis

Unretire nodejs-gaze

2019-10-01 Thread Ben Rosser
tired just under eight weeks ago for being FTBFS-- on 2019-08-08. Hopefully it still is within the deadline for not requiring rereview (that's eight weeks on Thursday)! I'll submit a releng ticket, and am notifying devel as requested by the policy. S

Re: Defining the future of the packager workflow in Fedora

2019-09-26 Thread Ben Rosser
On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 5:29 PM Pierre-Yves Chibon wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 04:46:32PM +0200, Ben Rosser wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 4:29 PM Pierre-Yves Chibon > > wrote: > > > There is a clear initial rejection of a PR-only contribution model. I >

Re: Defining the future of the packager workflow in Fedora

2019-09-26 Thread Ben Rosser
a bad idea and won't improve things. We need to keep the simple/everyday use cases in mind here. I like that I can build a Fedora package with just a specfile-- essentially, a bit of metadata about how to build and install a package-- and don't need to

Re: Defining the future of the packager workflow in Fedora

2019-09-26 Thread Ben Rosser
the use case of the "ordinary packager", not the "expert packager". And I think that's packages with limited divergence from upstream (only a few patches) that only one, _maybe_ two, people regularly touch. Ben Rosser ___ devel mai

Review swap

2019-09-17 Thread Ben Rosser
Hi all, Is anyone interested in a review swap for a Python(-ish) package? cocotb: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1747574 Happy to review anything in exchange. Cheers, Ben Rosser ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To

Re: University people in Fedora: Education/University SIG

2019-08-30 Thread Ben Rosser
Gs/Education > [2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/University Hi Timothée, I think this is a great initiative! Maybe it's a bit early to ask, but I'm curious what sort of projects you see a SIG focusing on? (If grad students would be welcome here too, I might be interested. :) ) C

Re: Orphaned packages looking for new maintainers

2019-08-27 Thread Ben Rosser
mizdebsk, orphan 3 weeks ago ... > reflections orphan 4 weeks ago I have one Java package that requires both of these... although I'm sure if I take them I'll wind up needing to take more of the Java stack too. I guess I'll t

Unretiring some nodejs packages

2019-08-26 Thread Ben Rosser
e required. Still, the policy requires an announcement on this list, so here it is. :) Cheers, Ben Rosser ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Condu

Re: Orphaning js-jquery

2019-04-26 Thread Ben Rosser
a group* should prepare and submit an objective proposal describing what they want to work on. Ben Rosser ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: http

Re: Reviewing a package with an rpmfusion dependency

2019-03-18 Thread Ben Rosser
ut I think the difficulty is that you can't rely on ffmpeg being provided by RPM Fusion, because users could have a non-RPM-Fusion repository on their system that provides ffmpeg, so if could be dangerous to make assumptions about what the "ffmpeg" package actually is? Cheers

Re: /etc/yum.repos.d -> /etc/distro.repos.d

2019-03-13 Thread Ben Rosser
the change, but it's not clear to me that there is one beyond a desire to get away from using the name "yum". Ben Rosser ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.o

Re: Organizing a "packager experience" objective and working group

2019-01-14 Thread Ben Rosser
could then be deleted from copr once the package gets approved (or removed if the review is closed WONTFIX, or something). Ben Rosser ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Organizing a "packager experience" objective and working group

2019-01-14 Thread Ben Rosser
nd like a good idea? (Maybe #fedora-packaging, if it is not in use? Or maybe #fedora-packaging-qol or something instead.) Cheers, Ben Rosser ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fe

Unretiring rtv

2019-01-10 Thread Ben Rosser
stream releases which built just fine with Python 3.7-- upstream still seems to be active. I've submitted a new review here (and also built the package in copr): https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1665303 Happy to exchange a review swap.

Organizing a "packager experience" objective and working group

2019-01-10 Thread Ben Rosser
interested in helping out, please feel free to add your own thoughts as well. Sincerely, Ben Rosser [1] https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/FYNU7W6KQQWA65JWVPUFDHKUP3RX6EKR/ [2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Objectives/Packager_Experience __

Re: How to avoid re-generating Pagure API keys all the time?

2018-12-13 Thread Ben Rosser
7;t think it is going to happen on its own without some sort of organization to make it happen, and to try and organize/focus the work. I don't know if that organization requires an Objective to make happen, but I think it would be nice to enshrine this as one of our medium-term goals. Cheers,

Re: How to avoid re-generating Pagure API keys all the time?

2018-12-12 Thread Ben Rosser
On Tue, Dec 11, 2018 at 4:07 PM Till Maas wrote: > > Hi Ben, > > On Tue, Dec 11, 2018 at 11:42:51AM +0100, Ben Rosser wrote: > > > I don't know. I feel like we could do a lot to improve the experience > > of packaging by investing time into fixing these sorts of m

Re: How to avoid re-generating Pagure API keys all the time?

2018-12-11 Thread Ben Rosser
I am complaining on the devel list and not actually doing anything to help, so I guess I'm part of the problem too). Ben Rosser ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedo

Re: How to avoid re-generating Pagure API keys all the time?

2018-12-10 Thread Ben Rosser
there was an opposition to the idea, there just wasn't enough time or person-power to do it: https://pagure.io/pagure/issue/2549 Ben Rosser ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedo

Re: Packaging FOSS that requires MATLab at runtime

2018-12-04 Thread Ben Rosser
thread from September, for instance: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/FZZVKXUOW3TNUNX2JV2JGPUWFFGS3V3C/#426PWWHO6FVWBQSC6PP2D5HIKBONY6UE Ben Rosser ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To

Re: Fedora Lifecycles: imagine longer-term possibilities

2018-11-14 Thread Ben Rosser
On Wed, Nov 14, 2018 at 6:04 PM Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > > On Wed, 14 Nov 2018 at 16:03, Ben Rosser wrote: > > > > On Wed, Nov 14, 2018 at 2:55 PM Stephen John Smoogen > > wrote: > > > From what I have talked with in the past.. 3 years is their bare >

Re: Fedora Lifecycles: imagine longer-term possibilities

2018-11-14 Thread Ben Rosser
et shipped on laptops than Fedora. Instead of working on a new "Fedora LTS" for this usage case, would time be better spent improving EPEL and CentOS for the desktop/laptop use case? I'd always thought of CentOS/RHEL as "Fedora LTS" anyway, to be honest. Ben Rosser _

Re: Ursa Major (modules in buildroot) enablement

2018-11-09 Thread Ben Rosser
very well to add default streams of modules to the buildroot automatically-- I think that makes sense, if it can be done in a way that's transparent to end users and packagers. But-- unless I'm missing something obvious-- this isn't enough, unless every

Re: Orphaning several packages.

2018-10-23 Thread Ben Rosser
at this briefly a while ago-- it seems to me like verilog-mode is now part of emacs-common: $ rpm -qf /usr/share/emacs/26.1/lisp/progmodes/verilog-mode.elc emacs-common-26.1-3.fc28.x86_64 Is the stand-alone emacs-verilog-mode package necessary anymore, or can it just be re

Re: Fedora should replace mailing lists with Discourse

2018-10-19 Thread Ben Rosser
advocating the change seem unwilling to acknowledge this, or have dismissed it as people who aren't willing to move with the times, or as just "hyperbole". Ben Rosser ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Fedora should replace mailing lists with Discourse

2018-10-16 Thread Ben Rosser
quire switching one list over and seeing how well it works (and it sounded like the Council was considering doing this with council-discuss, which is probably a good first step). Ben Rosser ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscr

Re: Fedora should replace mailing lists with Discourse

2018-10-16 Thread Ben Rosser
ide change proposal, and I think generally similar policies should be applied when considering major changes to the distribution's infrastructure. And the mailing lists are definitely an important part of the distribution's infrastructure. Ben Rosser

Re: Modularity is still confusing

2018-10-10 Thread Ben Rosser
t of the reason I haven't tried it is because I'm not sure if it will actually be better... I guess it would be nice to read a sort of "modularity for the skeptical contributor" document or article that answers questions like this. Ben Rosser ___

Re: Orphaning some Java packages

2018-09-24 Thread Ben Rosser
packages out there that aren't in modules, or don't necessarily need to be in modules-- unless parts of the distribution start becoming module-only. (Maybe this discussion belongs in a new thread, but I think it's important). Ben Rosser ___

Re: fedora-package purpose and future

2018-09-04 Thread Ben Rosser
ols So I would guess that many packagers have followed this advice and have it installed on their systems. I certainly do. Ben Rosser ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproje

Re: Automating Package Review (Was: fedora-review -- do we have a maintainer?)

2018-08-16 Thread Ben Rosser
esults to the packager, I bet we would catch a lot of the licensing/bundling problems. Anyway, I really like this idea. Maybe we should still require quasi-manual reviews for new contributors as part of the sponsorship process, though? Ben Rosser ___ deve

Re: Packages which use the BuildRoot: directive

2018-07-11 Thread Ben Rosser
lves; some external body or person should need to sign off on it first. And as Matthew said, perhaps a requirement for approving this arrangement could be that the packager in question agrees to respect changes in dist-git (or automatically opened Pagure pull requests, or whatever) made by other

Re: Packages which use the BuildRoot: directive

2018-07-11 Thread Ben Rosser
d to require someone's approval (FESCo? FPC?) to maintain a package outside of Fedora dist-git. Then at least the number of such packages could be hopefully kept low. Ben Rosser ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe sen

Re: Fedora Elections May 2018 - Voting period of FESCo elections has started

2018-06-08 Thread Ben Rosser
arning to use the new infrastructure, which is making it really hard for packagers to stay up to speed. It doesn't help that this stuff isn't always communicated clearly.) Ben Rosser [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Join_the_package_collect

Re: F29 System Wide Change: Hide the grub menu

2018-05-31 Thread Ben Rosser
On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 7:29 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Thu, 2018-05-31 at 19:19 -0400, Ben Rosser wrote: >> So, back to the topic of this thread: while I don't think this choice >> belongs in the installer, I do think there should be detailed >> instructions some

Re: F29 System Wide Change: Hide the grub menu

2018-05-31 Thread Ben Rosser
urned up a blog post or two, an ask.fp.o post, a couple forum threads, and a Stack Exchange post as the first few results, which makes me believe it's not currently well explained anywhere in our documentation? Perhaps that should be fixed, regardless whatever the outcome of this change discussi

Re: Status of OwnCloud/NextCloud

2018-04-03 Thread Ben Rosser
n an older version. (I'd be happy to remake it from scratch on a new NextCloud installation, though. I figured I would probably have to do that anyway at some point). Ben Rosser ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsu

Re: Avoiding Jargon: dist-git

2018-03-24 Thread Ben Rosser
s onto describe technical details about dist-git and then includes a "user's guide", which is helpful... if you are a user trying to set up infrastructure. It's not very relevant to a packager trying to learn their way around things. Ben Rosser ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: [ACTION NEEDED] Missing BuildRequires: gcc/gcc-c++

2018-02-20 Thread Ben Rosser
ocgen tilp2 Ben Rosser ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Clean up your spec files

2018-02-08 Thread Ben Rosser
sure it's worth it for a single line. Well... personally, it's pretty annoying to have to remove this from every spec I generate using rpmdev-newspec. It also gives the impression that the newspec-generated specs might be outdated in other respects too. I don't know how ot

Re: Review swaps

2018-02-06 Thread Ben Rosser
On Tue, Feb 6, 2018 at 1:09 PM, Robert-André Mauchin wrote: > Hello, > > I have a handful of packages that I'd like to be reviewed. I'm available for > any reviews you want in exchange (to the best of my ability). Hello, I'm happy to take ddgr and QEverCloud. Are you willing to review the follow

Re: net-snmp, cmake, mc unresponsive packagers

2018-01-30 Thread Ben Rosser
esponses on the pull request you linked within the last week, including from the maintainer 5 days ago. I'm not sure how this qualifies as "unresponsive"? https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/net-snmp/pull-request/2#comment-3999 Ben Rosser _

Re: Package Question

2018-01-08 Thread Ben Rosser
On Mon, Jan 8, 2018 at 12:58 PM, Rob Crittenden wrote: > Florian Weimer wrote: >> On 01/08/2018 06:21 PM, Steve Dickson wrote: >>> Is it a problem for a package to pull from two different >>> upstream tar balls? Basically have >>> >>> Source0:http://server.com/package1/package1.tar >>> Source1:htt

Re: Mass rebuilds update

2017-10-23 Thread Ben Rosser
7;s not clear to me why; as far as I knew, they both passed the mass rebuild. Or, rather, the binutils mass rebuild: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_27_Binutils_Mass_Rebuild. I haven't touched the packages since then. I'd be interested to know if this has happened to any of the other pac

Re: Mass rebuilds update

2017-10-23 Thread Ben Rosser
https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=23320 https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=23342 This makes me slightly dubious about the rest of the list. Ben Rosser ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Kernel 4.13 rebase plans

2017-09-22 Thread Ben Rosser
tential concern under the rug with the "taking the distro hostage" comment, which I think is an overly excitable way to phrase a legitimate concern. Ben Rosser ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Sailing to others seas

2017-09-20 Thread Ben Rosser
d this; I'd be happy to take it. > In rpmfusion (free): > > * openmw -- Unofficial open source engine re-implementation of the game > Morrowind ( master f26 f25 f24 ) I would be happy to take this one too. I've requested ACLs via RPM Fusion pkgd

Re: story of kerberos

2017-09-06 Thread Ben Rosser
on my system in order to interact with the different parts of the packaging plumbing. It seems to me that in an ideal world it would only require one mechanism to interact with all these services. That mechanism doesn't need to be Kerberos, bu

Re: [modularity] Modules and AppStream

2017-08-25 Thread Ben Rosser
e for modularity-- on a short timescale in a half-baked manner (as you said) is an example of how it's all too easy *for* it to happen. Respectfully, this does not inspire confidence in how well the rollout of modularity across the entire distribution will go. Ben Rosser ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: f27 branch of retired package (was: pkgdb created branch 'f27' for the 'rpms/varnish-agent' package)

2017-08-16 Thread Ben Rosser
? > > I'm not sure where I should file a bug. > > Thanks, > Dridi The same thing happened to me for my recently retired packages. When I inquired on IRC yesterday, I was told to file a bug against infra, so I did here: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/issue/6256. Ben Ross

Re: Council Elections - July/August 2017 - Result announcement

2017-08-15 Thread Ben Rosser
or at least giving a brief statement about your goals for the position, should be a *requirement* for running for an elected position in the project. Ben Rosser ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Introduction/looking for a sponsorship

2017-08-06 Thread Ben Rosser
ge to need the change process, but it should be discussed) making rename into an alternative. [1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22577767/get-the-perl-rename-utility-instead-of-the-built-in-rename [2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Alternatives Ben Rosser __

Re: Introduction/looking for a sponsorship

2017-08-06 Thread Ben Rosser
e interested in submitting prename to the review queue in addition to your other packages, I would be happy to take the review. I see you've already been sponsored, which is great! Ben Rosser ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedor

Re: Pagure over dist-git: what changes?

2017-08-06 Thread Ben Rosser
gration!-- but the lack of one seems like an annoying but small regression. Ben Rosser ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Two more concrete ideas for what a once-yearly+update schedule would look like

2017-07-31 Thread Ben Rosser
dea - care to propose it on the pull request yourself > since it was your idea? This is the line where an "or self.type is > newpackage" would go: > > https://github.com/fedora-infra/bodhi/pull/1678/files#diff-6406e7faaf25263056c68009517cf66dR2376 Certainly; I've left a

Re: Two more concrete ideas for what a once-yearly+update schedule would look like

2017-07-31 Thread Ben Rosser
someone from flagging their bodhi update as "newpackage" when it's not, in fact, a new package to bypass the batching, but this seems like something that should be easy to do. Thanks, Ben Rosser ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Approved packages that never get imported?

2017-07-19 Thread Ben Rosser
On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 9:40 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > The story with this package (and I think there were some others) is > that they are required for 'opam' which is a source-based OCaml > packaging tool (think: Perl and the ‘cpan’ command). Jon Ludlam > turned up wanting to get opam into

Approved packages that never get imported?

2017-07-18 Thread Ben Rosser
roviding these packages (https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/jonludlam/opam/) about a year ago and never heard back, so... technically I guess I could proceed with the non-responsive maintainer policy. But is that the right thing to do? Thanks in advance, Ben Rosser

Re: F27 System Wide Change: Graphical Applications as Flatpaks

2017-07-16 Thread Ben Rosser
latpaks over RPMs, that doesn't particularly bother me. So I have no issue with this particular change. But I felt like I should chime in here because this change thread has turned (as any discussion on flatpak seems to) into a general discussion o

Re: Review swaps

2017-07-03 Thread Ben Rosser
On Mon, Jul 3, 2017 at 7:01 PM, Sandro Mani wrote: > Hi Ben > > I'm happy to take the first two in exchange for > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1461368 > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1465676 > > which are simple C/C++ MinGW packages. Deal? > > Thanks > Sandro Taken

Review swaps

2017-07-03 Thread Ben Rosser
ow_bug.cgi?id=1426962 nodejs-simple-markdown - Javascript markdown parsing, made simple: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1463821 nodejs-irc-colors - Color and formatting for irc made easy: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1463797

Re: Fedora Modules & Fedora 27 Server Edition (Changes)

2017-06-26 Thread Ben Rosser
Many of the packages I maintain are essentially one-offs that I'm not convinced will ever belong in a specific module-- where would things like this end up? Ben Rosser ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Review Swaps: (mostly) very simple golang packages

2017-03-14 Thread Ben Rosser
a.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1411962 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1411961 Ben Rosser ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org

License change in quasselc

2017-01-20 Thread Ben Rosser
uthor and still compatible with the new license, as quassel-irssi is the only Fedora package depending on quasselc at this time. Ben Rosser [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:Main?rd=Licensing#License_Changes [2] https://github.com/phhusson/QuasselC/c

Re: Applications with AppData and not visible in the software center

2017-01-05 Thread Ben Rosser
estingly, it seems that "appstream-util validate-relax --nonet" doesn't seem to care. It happily validates tilp2's appstream information [2], which is why I never noticed this at the time. I would think that "referenced desktop file doesn't exist on system" shoul

Re: Proposal: Rethink Fedora multilib support

2017-01-05 Thread Ben Rosser
ike it or not, users, myself included, install nonfree software like Steam on systems and generally expect it to continue working from release to release. Ben Rosser ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Rawhide aarch64: gcc bus error

2016-11-30 Thread Ben Rosser
i build fired in response to (among a few other things) a glibc upgrade, I wonder if this is a glibc bug on aarch64? Ben Rosser ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org

Review swaps

2016-11-22 Thread Ben Rosser
* nodejs-int64-buffer: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1397620 * nodejs-qtdatastream: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1397621 (depends on nodejs-int64-buffer) Ben Rosser ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To

Re: F26 Self Contained Change: Module Build Service

2016-11-07 Thread Ben Rosser
current developers" writeup somewhere? (by which I mean "Fedora developers" in general). Ben Rosser [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Modularity ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Review Swaps

2016-09-16 Thread Ben Rosser
nd - Frontend for the ResultsDB > * https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1346245 > > Thanks, > > Tim > Taken resultsdb_frontend, any chance you could look at hddfancontrol? ( https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1373666). Thanks, Ben Rosser ___

Re: Please unpush FEDORA-2016-7776983633 on all releases or drop support for libjasper

2016-09-14 Thread Ben Rosser
), and new packages have theoretically just been tested by both the maintainer (when packaging them) and the reviewer (when reviewing them), so there is likely less need for further testing than there would be for other updates. And also, it should be significantly less likely for a new package to bre

Re: How to package a Git repository

2016-09-09 Thread Ben Rosser
t sources. Sets _builddir to current working directory. Skips handling of -n and untar in the %setup and the deletion of the buildSubdir." This might be helpful, if the current working directory is the root of the git repository. I think it's a relatively new option-- I seem to r

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