-all driver packages

2017-06-12 Thread Rebecca N. Palmer
Anthony DeRobertis wrote: The only thing I've seen is Recommends: cpu-microcode-all | cpu-microcode and having a cpu-microcode-all package that Depends on both, and having the two real package Provides cpu-microcode. If I remember correctly, Xorg did this at one point for video drivers (may

xvi patch to generate UDEB for Debian-Installer

2017-06-12 Thread Jose R R
Niltze [Hello]- If anyone finds it useful, of course, attached please find a patch to generate a small xvi UDEB -- suitable for embedding in d-i. from git: < https://github.com/martinwguy/xvi > Best Professional Regards -- Jose R R http://metztli.it ---

Bug#864689: ITP: node-read-only-stream -- wrap a readable/writable stream to be read-only

2017-06-12 Thread Bastien ROUCARIÈS
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: ro...@debian.org X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: node-read-only-stream Version : 2.0.0 Upstream Author : James Halliday (http://substack.net) * URL : https://github.com/substack/read-only-stream * Lice

Re: Too many Recommends (in particular on mail-transport-agent)

2017-06-12 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 12 Jun 2017, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: > Of course—for the under 100K being saved here, only Rube Goldberg would > approve. It is a bit less than 1MiB saved on an AMD system when you purge intel-microcode, but even that is likely to not be considered worth the cost of the extra (empty) cpu

Re: Too many Recommends (in particular on mail-transport-agent)

2017-06-12 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Fri, Jun 09, 2017 at 03:21:25PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Fri, 2017-06-09 at 03:02 -0400, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: > [...] > > firmware-linux Recommends: amd64-microcode > > firmware-linux-nonfree Recommends: amd64-microcode > > > > This machine has an Intel CPU. It should probably

Bug#864653: ITP: node-stream-http -- Streaming http in the browser

2017-06-12 Thread Bastien ROUCARIES
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: ro...@debian.org X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: node-stream-http Version : 2.7.1 Upstream Author : John Hiesey * URL : https://github.com/jhiesey/stream-http#readme * License : Expat Programm

Bug#864646: ITP: golang-github-dcso-bloom -- highly efficient Bloom filter library for Go

2017-06-12 Thread Sascha Steinbiss
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Sascha Steinbiss * Package name: golang-github-dcso-bloom Version : 0.0~git20170609.0.48c97c2-1 Upstream Author : DCSO GmbH * URL : https://github.com/DCSO/bloom * License : BSD-3-clause Programming Lang: Go Descripti

Recommends-If-Manual: ?

2017-06-12 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> Russ Allbery writes: > Ivan Shmakov writes: > Adam Borowski writes: >>> libtasn1-doc: libtasn1-6-dev >>> * TRANSITIVELY BAD: probably useful if you do TASN (whatever it is), >>> pulled in by a very-widespread library (gnutls) >> That’s Abstract Syntax Notation One (or ASN.1)