Re: On doing 3000 no-source-change source-only uploads in January 2021
On Thu, Dec 31, 2020 at 02:16:23PM +0100, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: >... > Although the high number of packages makes me wonder, if at least a > quick MIA check of the maintainers is warranted, or - if those packages > are needed in bullseye at all. >... Maintainership status is a very poor indicator whether users might need a package. Some obscure stuff is well maintained, like m68k and Hurd being among our architectures with the most active maintainers. It is very hard and high effort for people who are not already active in Debian development to get a change into Debian or take responsibility for a package. Debian is not a welcoming place for new contributors. A normal user won't even notice that an important package is missing before bullseye is stable. > Bernd cu Adrian
Re: On doing 3000 no-source-change source-only uploads in January 2021
On 2021-01-04 at 04:27, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Thu, Dec 31, 2020 at 02:16:23PM +0100, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > >> Although the high number of packages makes me wonder, if at least a >> quick MIA check of the maintainers is warranted, or - if those packages >> are needed in bullseye at all. > > Maintainership status is a very poor indicator whether users might need > a package. > > Some obscure stuff is well maintained, like m68k and Hurd being among > our architectures with the most active maintainers. > > It is very hard and high effort for people who are not already active in > Debian development to get a change into Debian or take responsibility > for a package. Debian is not a welcoming place for new contributors. > > A normal user won't even notice that an important package is missing > before bullseye is stable. As a demonstrating example of this last point: I track testing, rather than stable, and subscribe to debian-devel, and therefore am not even a "normal" user in this sense. A package I use regularly (moosic) was removed from testing back in November of 2019, and from unstable back in April of 2020. I didn't notice anything until October or November of 2020 (when the Python 3 transition tried to remove the package from my computer), and didn't realize that what I had noticed meant the package had been removed from the archive - even testing, much less unstable - until December of 2020. I've adopted it upstream (it had been abandoned by its original author back in 2011) and fixed the issues which had led to its removal, and its Debian maintainer - who hadn't noticed the removal from unstable either, until looking at it again after I provided a new upstream version - has agreed to handle the packaging again, but it's not at all clear whether it'll be ready and make it through NEW again ahead of the release freeze. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Bug#979236: ITP: golang-github-nxadm-tail -- Go package for reading from continuously updated files
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Cyril Brulebois * Package name: golang-github-nxadm-tail Version : 1.4.5-1 Upstream Author : * URL : https://github.com/nxadm/tail * License : Expat Programming Lang: Go Description : Go package for reading from continuously updated files This package emulates the features of the tail program. It comes with full support for truncation/deletion detection, as it is designed to work with log rotation tools. Part of the crowdsec packaging effort: https://lists.debian.org/debian-go/2020/12/msg00019.html Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois -- Debian Consultant @ DEBAMAX -- https://debamax.com/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Bug#979240: ITP: arduino-ctags -- Arduino fork of exuberant ctags
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Debian Electronics Team X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, pkg-electronics-de...@alioth-lists.debian.net * Package name: arduino-ctags Version : 5.8-arduino11 Upstream Author : Arduino (https://www.arduino.cc) * URL : https://github.com/arduino/ctags * License : GPL-2.0 Programming Lang: C, HTML, Roff, Makefile, M4, Vala Description : Arduino fork of exuberant ctags This package is actually a mix of exuberant ctags and anjuta-tags. The package 'arduino-builder' depends on these tags to be able to successfully compile Arduino sketches. It will be maintained within the Electronics team.
Bug#979241: ITP: cawbird -- GTK Twitter client
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Arnaud Ferraris X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, arnaud.ferra...@gmail.com * Package name: cawbird Version : 1.3.1 Upstream Author : IBBoard * URL : https://github.com/IBBoard/cawbird * License : GPL Programming Lang: C, Vala Description : GTK Twitter client Cawbird is a fork of the Corebird Twitter client from Baedert, which became unsupported after Twitter disabled the streaming API. Cawbird works with the new APIs and includes a few fixes and modifications that have historically been patched in to IBBoard's custom Corebird build on his personal Open Build Service account.
Bug#979251: ITP: golang-github-netflix-go-expect -- expect-like golang library to automate terminal/console interactions
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Cyril Brulebois * Package name: golang-github-netflix-go-expect Version : 0.0~git20201125.85d881c-1 Upstream Author : Netflix, Inc. * URL : https://github.com/Netflix/go-expect * License : Apache-2.0 Programming Lang: Go Description : expect-like golang library to automate terminal/console interactions This package provides an expect-like interface to automate control of applications. It is unlike expect in that it does not spawn or manage process lifecycle. This package only focuses on expecting output and sending input through its pseudoterminal. Part of the crowdsec packaging effort: https://lists.debian.org/debian-go/2020/12/msg00019.html Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois -- Debian Consultant @ DEBAMAX -- https://debamax.com/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Bug#979262: ITP: golang-github-hinshun-vt10x -- vt10x terminal emulation backend
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Cyril Brulebois * Package name: golang-github-hinshun-vt10x Version : 0.0~git20180809.d55458d-1 Upstream Author : Edgar Lee * URL : https://github.com/hinshun/vt10x * License : Expat Programming Lang: Go Description : vt10x terminal emulation backend This package is a vt10x terminal emulation backend, influenced largely by st, rxvt, xterm, and iTerm as reference. It can be used for terminal muxing, as a terminal emulation frontend, or wherever terminal emulation is needed. Part of the crowdsec packaging effort: https://lists.debian.org/debian-go/2020/12/msg00019.html Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois -- Debian Consultant @ DEBAMAX -- https://debamax.com/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Bug#979271: ITP: golang-github-alecaivazis-survey -- golang library for building interactive prompts
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Cyril Brulebois * Package name: golang-github-alecaivazis-survey Version : 2.2.7-1 Upstream Author : Alec Aivazis * URL : https://github.com/AlecAivazis/survey * License : Expat Programming Lang: Go Description : golang library for building interactive prompts This library helps build interactive prompts. It features: - Various types of prompt (input, multiline, password, confirmation, select, multiselect, editor) - Filtering options - Keeping the filter alive - Validation - Help text - Updating icons - Custom types . Testing can be performed via the go-expect package. Part of the crowdsec packaging effort: https://lists.debian.org/debian-go/2020/12/msg00019.html Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois -- Debian Consultant @ DEBAMAX -- https://debamax.com/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Bug#979239: ITP: node-toggle-selection -- Toggle current selected content in browser
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Abraham Raji X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name : node-toggle-selection Version : 1.0.6 Upstream Author : sudodoki (sudodoki.name) * URL : https://github.com/sudodoki/toggle-selection#readme * License : Expat Programming Lang: JavaScript Description : Toggle current selected content in browser Simple module exposing function that deselects current browser selection and returns function that restores selection. . Node.js is an event-based server-side JavaScript engine. This package is required for gitlab. I am part of the Debian JS team and with their help I will package and maintain this module. Abraham Raji -- Mea navis aëricumbens anguillis abundat.
