Re: Bug#863361: dgit-user(7): replace apt-get build-deps with mk-build-deps
On Fri, May 26, 2017 at 03:33:17PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Emilio Pozuelo Monfort writes ("Re: A proposal for a tool to build local
> testing debs"):
> > Or you can just do
> >
> > $ sudo apt-get build-dep ./
[…]
> Probably we should recommend --no-install-recommends.
I would recommend not to recommend it because apt follows the general
recommendation of not recommending the installation of recommendations
of build-dependencies by default for all recommended Debian releases.
Recommended summary: Already the default since 2011.
Recommending everyone to have a wonderful day,
David Kalnischkies
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Bug#863572: ITP: wallpaperdownloader -- Download, manage and change your favorite wallpapers from the Internet
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: =?utf-8?b?RWxveSBHYXJjw61hIEFsbWFkw6lu?= * Package name: wallpaperdownloader Version : 2.7 Upstream Author : Eloy García Almadén * URL : https://bitbucket.org/eloy_garcia_pca/wallpaperdownloader * License : GPL-3 Programming Lang: Java Description : Download, manage and change your favorite wallpapers from the Internet WallpaperDownloader is a GUI Java-based application for downloading, managing and setting wallpapers from different sources. Currently there are five providers implemented. It allows the user to define keywords in order to download those wallpapers which fit the search terms. Users can bookmark their favorite wallpapers too, delete those who don't want to keep and move them to another location. It implements a background changer to change automatically the wallpaper in 1,5,10,30 or 60 minutes. It currently support a lot of Desktop Environments including Plasma 5, GNOME Shell, Unity, XFCE and MATE. Additional information - I think this package is useful for people who likes wallpapers and loves to download, manage and change them automatically using a GUI and using their own keywords. I use it on a daily basis and a lot of people is currently using it because it is published in the Ubuntu Store (as a snap package: https://uappexplorer.com/app/wallpaperdownloader.egarcia) and in AUR for Arch Linux (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/wallpaperdownloader/). There are some other packages providing the same functionality (as Variety for example), but I think WallpaperDownloader is the only one which allows the user to define exactly the search terms to find their favorite wallpapers. - WallpaperDownloader is currently under development and new features are included in every release. This is the Wiki of the project, so you can check all the history, versions, features and more: https://bitbucket.org/eloy_garcia_pca/wallpaperdownloader/wiki/Home Thanks!
Bug#863593: ITP: golang-github-chai2010-gettext-go -- GNU gettext for Go
X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, pkg-go-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Tim Potter * Package name: golang-github-chai2010-gettext-go Version : 0.0~git20160711.0.c6fed77-1 Upstream Author : chai2010 * URL : https://github.com/chai2010/gettext-go * License : BSD-3-clause Programming Lang: Go Description : GNU gettext for Go This library implements the interface of the GNU gettext library for Go. Use the SetLocale and BindTextdomain functions to add internationalization and localization features to your Go application using translation files. signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail
Re: Mitigating the problem of limited security support
On 2017-05-27 23:49, Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote: > The "browser exception" applies to Chromium and Firefox, which are > standalone packages (sans a few addons breaking), but unless webkit > provides a long term branch with API stability guarantees, that's > not a workable. "Rebase to a new 2.x branch every six months and let's > hope that it doesn't break any rdeps" is not a workable solution. webkit2gtk does guarantee API stability. "We support each major Debian version until one year after the release of the next major version." https://trac.webkit.org/wiki/WebKitGTK/DependenciesPolicy I'm actually writing this e-mail from a web-based e-mail client using the latest stable release of webkit2gtk (2.16.13) that I just built for Debian jessie (which ships 2.6.2). What webkit2gtk cannot guarantee is zero regressions between stable releases, and there have been a couple of annoying ones. So yes, it can happen that updating webkit2gtk breaks an rdep (#855103). Unfortunately it can also happen that NOT updating webkit2gtk breaks an rdep (#862156). The good news is that the first kind of problems are detected and fixed immediately, so waiting a couple of weeks before uploading the releases to debian-security could be an option (is that what Ubuntu does?). Berto
Re: Mitigating the problem of limited security support
On Sun, May 28, 2017 at 7:19 PM, Alberto Garcia wrote: > The good news is that the first kind of problems are detected and > fixed immediately, so waiting a couple of weeks before uploading > the releases to debian-security could be an option (is that what > Ubuntu does?). For the past 9 months, the development version of Ubuntu tests the beta versions of the new major webkit2gtk release (for instance Zesty tested the 2.15.90 releases). This has been useful in catching regressions before they ever hit a stable webkit2gtk release. If a webkit2gtk release fixes publicized CVEs, the release is now pushed as a security update into Ubuntu Stable Releases fairly quickly. Thanks, Jeremy Bicha
