Re: virtualbox, backports, and fasttrack

[Lucas Nussbaum]

Hi,

On 02/10/19 at 23:23 +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote:
> > Given that backports are a no-go, I hope that
> > http://fasttrack.debian.net/ will make quick progress and turn into an
> > official service soon.
> 
> basically a good idea, but
> - what are your requirements for packages that are being uploaded there?
> - how do you want to avoid that this service becomes a mess? who removes
> packages when, who makes sure maintainers actually take care of what
> they upload? how are bugs being reported? What about security issues?

To clarify: I'm not involved in fasttrack myself.

Lucas

Bug#941657: ITP: python-lark-parser -- Parsing library for Python

[Peter Wienemann]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Peter Wienemann 

  Package name: python-lark-parser
  Version : 0.7.7
  Upstream Author : Erez Shinan 
  URL : https://github.com/lark-parser/lark
  License : MIT
  Programming Lang: Python
  Description : Parsing library for Python

lark-parser is a parsing library for Python which allows to parse any
context-free grammar. It has implemented the following parsing
algorithms: Earley, LALR(1) and CYK.

lark-parser has become a dependency of the Charliecloud package
since version 0.10 and is thus needed to bump the Charliecloud
version.

This package will be team-maintained by the Debian Python Modules
Team.

Bug#941666: ITP: vega-datasets -- Collection of datasets used in Vega and Vega-Lite examples

[Santiago Ruano Rincón]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: "Santiago Ruano Rincón" 

* Package name: vega-datasets
  Version : 0.7
  Upstream Author : Jake Vanderplas
* URL : https://github.com/altair-viz/vega_datasets
* License : MIT and others.
  Programming Lang: Python
  Description : Python package for offline access to vega datasets

This is a collection of datasets used in vega examples.

This is required to build altair (See ITP bug https://bugs.debian.org/941599),
especially to run the test suite.

Similar to altair, it would be great to maintain it within the Python
Modules Team.


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Work-needing packages report for Oct 4, 2019

[wnpp]

The following is a listing of packages for which help has been requested
through the WNPP (Work-Needing and Prospective Packages) system in the
last week.

Total number of orphaned packages: 1279 (new: 2)
Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 252 (new: 0)
Total number of packages requested help for: 54 (new: 0)

Please refer to https://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ for more information.



The following packages have been orphaned:

   big-cursor (#941303), orphaned 5 days ago
 Description: larger mouse cursors for X
 Installations reported by Popcon: 197
 Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/941303

   tstools (#941602), orphaned yesterday
 Description: set of tools for reporting on and manipulating MPEG
   data
 Installations reported by Popcon: 132
 Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/941602

1277 older packages have been omitted from this listing, see
https://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/orphaned for a complete list.



No new packages have been given up for adoption, but a total of 252 packages
are awaiting adoption.  See https://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/rfa_bypackage
for a complete list.



For the following packages help is requested:

   autopkgtest (#846328), requested 1037 days ago
 Description: automatic as-installed testing for Debian packages
 Reverse Depends: debci-worker
 Installations reported by Popcon: 1165
 Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/846328

   balsa (#642906), requested 2930 days ago
 Description: An e-mail client for GNOME
 Installations reported by Popcon: 706
 Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/642906

   broadcom-sta (#886599), requested 633 days ago (non-free)
 Description: Broadcom STA Wireless driver (non-free)
 Installations reported by Popcon: 1802
 Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/886599

   cargo (#860116), requested 905 days ago
 Description: Rust package manager
 Reverse Depends: dh-cargo
 Installations reported by Popcon: 1252
 Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/860116

   cyrus-sasl2 (#799864), requested 1471 days ago
 Description: authentication abstraction library
 Reverse Depends: 389-ds-base adcli autofs-ldap
   cairo-dock-mail-plug-in claws-mail claws-mail-acpi-notifier
   claws-mail-address-keeper claws-mail-archiver-plugin
   claws-mail-attach-remover claws-mail-attach-warner (107 more
   omitted)
 Installations reported by Popcon: 201578
 Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/799864

   dee (#831388), requested 1175 days ago
 Description: model to synchronize mutiple instances over DBus
 Reverse Depends: dee-tools gir1.2-dee-1.0 libdee-dev zeitgeist-core
 Installations reported by Popcon: 44670
 Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/831388

   developers-reference (#759995), requested 1860 days ago
 Description: guidelines and information for Debian developers
 Installations reported by Popcon: 8261
 Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/759995

   devscripts (#800413), requested 1465 days ago
 Description: scripts to make the life of a Debian Package maintainer
   easier
 Reverse Depends: apt-build apt-listdifferences aptfs arriero
   brz-debian customdeb debci debian-builder debmake debpear (30 more
   omitted)
 Installations reported by Popcon: 12113
 Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/800413

   docker.io (#908868), requested 383 days ago
 Description: Linux container runtime
 Reverse Depends: golang-docker-dev
   golang-github-containers-storage-dev
   golang-github-fsouza-go-dockerclient-dev
   golang-github-google-cadvisor-dev
   golang-github-samalba-dockerclient-dev kubernetes-node subuser
   whalebuilder
 Installations reported by Popcon: 2308
 Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/908868

   ed (#886643), requested 633 days ago
 Description: classic UNIX line editor
 Reverse Depends: apt-cacher libdebbugs-perl opensmtpd sn
 Installations reported by Popcon: 16401
 Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/886643

   ejabberd (#767874), requested 1795 days ago
 Description: distributed, fault-tolerant Jabber/XMPP server written
   in Erlang
 Reverse Depends: ejabberd-contrib ejabberd-mod-cron
   ejabberd-mod-default-contacts ejabberd-mod-default-rooms
   ejabberd-mod-deny-omemo ejabberd-mod-filter ejabberd-mod-grafite
   ejabberd-mod-log-chat ejabberd-mod-logsession ejabberd-mod-logxml
   (10 more omitted)
 Installations reported by Popcon: 443
 Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/767874

   fbcat (#565156), requested 3550 days ago
 Description: framebuffer grabber
 Installations reported by Popcon: 186
 Bug Report UR

Bug#941708: ITP: nextcloud-server -- Nextcloud folder synchronization tool (server)

[Antonio Russo]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org

 * Package name: nextcloud-server
   Version : 0.1.7
   Upstream Author : Antonio Russo 
 * URL : https://gitlab.com/aerusso/nextcloud-server-deb
 * License : AGPL
 * Vcs : https://gitlab.com/aerusso/nextcloud-server-deb
   Section : net
   Description : Nextcloud folder synchronization tool (server)

Nextcloud is an increasingly popular software package.  A first-class
integration of Nextcloud into Debian is desirable, but represents
a significant challenge because upstream development is unlikely to
produce long-cycled supported releases compatible with the Debian
release cycle.

This packaging sidesteps that issue by providing version-independent
tools to download, install, configure, update, and manage the server.
Although unconventional, such tools are not unheard of in Debian [1,2].

The current version is suitable for beta testing, and should eventually
reach maturity compatible with Debian stable.

Thank you,
Antonio Russo

[1] ttf-mscorefonts-installer
[2] libdvd-pkg