Re: "Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?"

[Philipp Kern]

On 08.06.2017 20:52, Steven Chamberlain wrote:
> Some versions of Ubuntu (at least trusty, xenial) have the added
> "feature" to keep older kernel versions when installing new ones.  It
> kind of makes sense to keep at least the previous one (in case of a
> regression), but keeping every new patch-version is too much.

From running Ubuntu in production: It's very helpful if you can rollback
an update (be it security or general) you have just received at the boot
screen. In stable Debian almost never bumps the ABI version and hence
you don't have that option. At the same time Debian's ABI guarantees are
weaker: I had to reboot many times to insert an on-disk in-tree kernel
module into the running kernel just because the on-disk version was
updated. So I think Ubuntu does this better[*].

Ubuntu has a way of pruning old kernel versions at least with Xenial and
up (VersionedKernelPackages in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/01autoremove). For
Trusty (and Precise and Lucid) we wrote our own tooling to deal with
this issue.

Kind regards
Philipp Kern

[*] Ubuntu doesn't bump the ABI on *every* new version, just the ones
changing the ABI. In reality this is still very frequently and hence you
achieve a rollback mechanism through it.



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Bug#864541: ITP: magithub -- Magit interfaces for GitHub

[Matteo F. Vescovi]

Package: wnpp
Owner: Matteo F. Vescovi 
Severity: wishlist

* Package name: magithub
  Version : 0.1.2
  Upstream Author : Sean Allred
* URL or Web page : https://github.com/vermiculus/magithub
* License : GPL-3+
  Description : Magit interfaces for GitHub

Magithub is an interface to GitHub using the `hub' utility.

Integrated into Magit workflows, Magithub allows very easy,
very basic GitHub repository management.
Supported actions include:

- pushing brand-new local repositories up to GitHub
- creating forks of existing repositories
- submitting pull requests upstream
- viewing and creating issues
.
Press `H' in the status buffer to get started -- happy hacking!

I intend to work on this package under the pkg-emacsen team.


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Matteo F. Vescovi


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Bug#864542: ITP: tryton-modules-stock-shipment-measurements -- Stock Shipment Measurements Module for the Tryton Application Platform

[Mathias Behrle]

X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Debian Tryton Maintainers 

* Package name: tryton-modules-stock-shipment-measurements
  Version : 4.4.0
  Upstream Author : Tryton project (www.tryton.org)
* URL : http://downloads.tryton.org/4.4/
* License : GPL-3+
  Programming Lang: Python
  Description : Tryton Application Platform (Stock Shipment Measurements 
Module)
  Tryton is a high-level general purpose application platform. It is
  the base of a complete business solution as well as a comprehensive health
  and hospital information system (GNUHealth).
  .
  This module adds weight and volume on shipments and packages.
 


This package is a dependency for other base module published by the Tryton
project. 

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Bug#864559: ITP: shaarli -- Personal, minimalist, super-fast and no-database bookmarking service

[James Valleroy]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: James Valleroy 

* Package name: shaarli
  Version : 0.9.0
  Upstream Author : Sébastien Sauvage 
* URL : https://github.com/shaarli/Shaarli
* License : zlib/libpng
  Programming Lang: PHP
  Description : Personal, minimalist, super-fast and no-database 
bookmarking service

Saving simple links should not be a complicated heavy thing. Shaarli
is simple, but it does the job and does it well. And your data is not
hosted on a foreign server, but on your server.

I would like to add this package for FreedomBox. I plan to maintain it
within the freedombox-pkg-team.

Bug#864567: ITP: arduino-reference-en -- English reference documentation for Arduino IDE

[Geert Stappers]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Geert Stappers 

* Package name: arduino-reference-en
  Version : 1.6.6.3
  Upstream Author : Arduino CC 
* URL : https://github.com/arduino/reference-en
* License : Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported
  Programming Lang: asciidoc
  Description : English reference documentation for Arduino IDE

The upstream build system of Arduino IDE  ( Debian package 'arduino' )
does during build a fetch of https://downloads.arduino.cc/reference-1.6.6-3.zip

This package is for getting the reference in a separate package.

Will be maintaint in Alioth (succesor) collab-maint.


Cheers
Geert Stappers
DD

Bug#864570: ITP: mapbox-geometry -- Generic C++ interfaces for geometry types, collections, and features

[Bas Couwenberg]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Bas Couwenberg 

* Package name: mapbox-geometry
  Version : 0.9.1
  Upstream Author : Mapbox (https://github.com/mapbox/geometry.hpp/issues)
* URL : https://github.com/mapbox/geometry.hpp
* License : ISC
  Programming Lang: C++
  Description : Generic C++ interfaces for geometry types, collections, and 
features

geometry.hpp provides header-only, generic C++ interfaces for geometry
types, geometry collections, and features.

These types are designed to be easy to parse and serialize to GeoJSON.

They should also be a robust and high performance container for data
processing and conversion.


This package is required for the recent upstream releases of
mapnik-vector-tile, and will be maintained in the Debian GIS team
alongside mapnik-vector-tile.

Bug#864571: ITP: mapbox-wagyu -- Wagyu Geometry Processing Library

[Bas Couwenberg]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Bas Couwenberg 

* Package name: mapbox-wagyu
  Version : 0.4.2
  Upstream Author : Mapbox (https://github.com/mapbox/wagyu/issues)
* URL : https://github.com/mapbox/wagyu
* License : BSL-1.0
  Programming Lang: C++
  Description : Wagyu Geometry Processing Library

Wagyu is a general library for the following basic geometric operations:

 - Union
 - Intersection
 - Difference
 - XOR

The output geometry from each of these operations is guaranteed to be
valid and simple as per the OGC.


This package is required for the recent upstream releases of
mapnik-vector-tile, and will be maintained in the Debian GIS team
alongside mapnik-vector-tile.