Re: Status of deb(5) format support in Debian

Hi! On Wed, 2013-07-31 at 22:16:02 +0200, David Kalnischkies wrote: > On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 6:56 PM, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > > Can you expand on the planned remedy and in how "soon" it might arrive? > > That I would be interested in as well. > I know that everyone dreams about a stable AP

Re: Status of deb(5) format support in Debian

On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 06:24:32PM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > Due to bug 718295, and in preparation to add non-gzip compression > support for control.tar, I've tried to get an accurate view of the > current deb(5) format support in software present in Debian. The > resulting table looks pretty b

Re: Status of deb(5) format support in Debian

Hi! On Thu, 2013-08-01 at 09:38:35 +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > On Wed, 31 Jul 2013 18:24:32 +0200 > Guillem Jover wrote: > > Due to bug 718295, and in preparation to add non-gzip compression > > support for control.tar, I've tried to get an accurate view of the > > current deb(5) format support

Work-needing packages report for Aug 2, 2013

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: 487 (new: 0) Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 152 (new: 0) Total number of packages request

Re: Status of deb(5) format support in Debian

Hi! On Thu, 2013-08-01 at 16:40:51 +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 06:24:32PM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > > [...] in preparation to add non-gzip compression support for control.tar > > May I ask why would you want that? See

Re: /etc/hosts and resolving of the local host/domainname - 127.0.0.1 vs. 127.0.1.1

On 2013-07-31 21:01:21 +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: > On 07/31/2013 06:47 PM, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > But this wouldn't necessarily solve the mentioned "problem" > > anyway. > > I'm not sure there's a problem anyway. I'm on the side of Steve, which > is I think the current setup works quite wel

Re: Bug#704594: python-debian: switch ar implementation to python-arpy

Steve Langasek writes: > On Thu, Aug 01, 2013 at 04:47:45PM +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote: >> Package: python-debian >> Version: 0.1.21+nmu2 >> Severity: wishlist >> Control: block -1 by 704594 > >> On Thu, Aug 01, 2013 at 04:19:42PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: >> > Can you please file a bug rep

Re: Status of deb(5) format support in Debian

On Thu, Aug 01, 2013 at 05:21:01PM +0100, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: > On 1 August 2013 16:21, Adam Borowski wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 01, 2013 at 03:52:38PM +0100, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: > >> On 1 August 2013 15:40, Adam Borowski wrote: > >> > On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 06:24:32PM +0200, Guillem Jover w

Re: Status of deb(5) format support in Debian

On 1 August 2013 16:21, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Thu, Aug 01, 2013 at 03:52:38PM +0100, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: >> On 1 August 2013 15:40, Adam Borowski wrote: >> > On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 06:24:32PM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: >> >> [...] in preparation to add non-gzip compression support for c

Re: Status of deb(5) format support in Debian

On Thu, Aug 01, 2013 at 03:52:38PM +0100, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: > On 1 August 2013 15:40, Adam Borowski wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 06:24:32PM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > >> [...] in preparation to add non-gzip compression support for control.tar > > > > May I ask why would you want tha

Re: python-debian: switch ar implementation to python-arpy

On Thu, Aug 01, 2013 at 04:47:45PM +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote: > Package: python-debian > Version: 0.1.21+nmu2 > Severity: wishlist > Control: block -1 by 704594 > On Thu, Aug 01, 2013 at 04:19:42PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > > Can you please file a bug report about that (ideally marking t

Re: [Popcon-developers] Encrypted popcon submissions

On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 10:30:49PM +, brian m. carlson wrote: > On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 03:33:21PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > > GPG=/usr/bin/gpg > > if [ "$ENCRYPT" = "yes" ] && [ -x "$GPG" ]; then > > POPCONGPG="$POPCON.gpg" > > rm -f "$POPCONGPG" > > $GPG --no-default-keyring --keyr

Re: Status of deb(5) format support in Debian

On 1 August 2013 15:40, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 06:24:32PM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: >> [...] in preparation to add non-gzip compression support for control.tar > > May I ask why would you want that? > > There's a lot of extra complexity, incompatibility with existing tool

python-debian: switch ar implementation to python-arpy

Package: python-debian Version: 0.1.21+nmu2 Severity: wishlist Control: block -1 by 704594 On Thu, Aug 01, 2013 at 04:19:42PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > Can you please file a bug report about that (ideally marking the pending > ITPs as blockers for it)? Regarding changing interfaces it wou

Re: Status of deb(5) format support in Debian

On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 06:24:32PM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > [...] in preparation to add non-gzip compression support for control.tar May I ask why would you want that? There's a lot of extra complexity, incompatibility with existing tools, added moving parts... and I'm not aware of any gain.

Re: Bug#717785: ITP: python-termcolor -- ANSII Color formatting for output in terminal

On Donnerstag, 1. August 2013, Darren Salt wrote: > >> Description : ANSII Color formatting for output in terminal > > So, ANSI or ASCII? :) > ASCI, of course. ah, so UTF-7! signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: Status of deb(5) format support in Debian

On Thu, Aug 01, 2013 at 02:18:13PM +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote: > On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 06:56:40PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > > I'm myself guilty of having implemented, back in 2007, python-debian's > > support to manipulate .deb files: the debian.debfile module. It is yet > > another Pyth

Re: Bug#717785: ITP: python-termcolor -- ANSII Color formatting for output in terminal

I demand that Andrew Shadura may or may not have written... > Hello, > On Thu, 25 Jul 2013 13:29:14 +0800 > Thomas Goirand wrote: >> Description : ANSII Color formatting for output in terminal > So, ANSI or ASCII? :) ASCI, of course. -- | _ | Darren Salt, using Debian GNU/Linux (and A

Re: Status of deb(5) format support in Debian

On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 06:56:40PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > I'm myself guilty of having implemented, back in 2007, python-debian's > support to manipulate .deb files: the debian.debfile module. It is yet > another Python implementation of deb(5), because back in the days there > was no li

Re: LXDE is dead in Debian?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 2013-07-31 11:17, Paul Wise wrote: > Once the upstream situation is sorted out they may either get > removed or updated, depending on the name of the project created > from the merge of the two projects. It's very early ofc but as far as I can te

Re: LXDE is dead in Debian?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 2013-07-31 15:02, Thomas Goirand wrote: > My understanding was that Andrew needs to reinstall his server, and > is waiting on someone else to provide that to him. I expect the > issue to be solved during the next debconf. We've opted to put it on

Re: Status of deb(5) format support in Debian

On Wed, 31 Jul 2013 18:24:32 +0200 Guillem Jover wrote: > Hi! > > Due to bug 718295, and in preparation to add non-gzip compression > support for control.tar, I've tried to get an accurate view of the > current deb(5) format support in software present in Debian. The > resulting table looks pret

Re: Requesting DDs who want to help greet new contributors

Hi, On Thu, Aug 01, 2013 at 02:24:43AM -0400, Asheesh Laroia wrote: > > I agree that mentoring is often very effective. I'd like to give some report at DebConf[1] about Mentoring of Month[2]. The report will probably not fill more than 15-20min and the focus of this BoF is rather on "seeking mor

Re: Status of deb(5) format support in Debian

On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 10:16:02PM +0200, David Kalnischkies wrote: > I know that everyone dreams about a stable API for a library, but I believe > that even an unstable library at this point is way better than the status > quo of having other layers like libapt (which is a proof that even if being