Re: Should tasks be considered harmful?

2017-12-08 Thread Jonathan Dowland
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Bug#883900: ITP: golang-github-prometheus-tsdb --

2017-12-08 Thread Martin Ferrari
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Martín Ferrari * Package name: golang-github-prometheus-tsdb Version : 0.0~git20171208.e103f21-1 Upstream Author : Prometheus * URL : https://github.com/prometheus/tsdb * License : Apache-2.0 Programming Lang: Go Desc

Bug#883898: ITP: golang-github-mwitkow-go-conntrack -- Go middleware for net.Conn tracking (Prometheus/trace)

2017-12-08 Thread Martin Ferrari
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Martín Ferrari * Package name: golang-github-mwitkow-go-conntrack Version : 0.0~git20161129.cc309e4-1 Upstream Author : Michal Witkowski * URL : https://github.com/mwitkow/go-conntrack * License : Apache-2.0 Programming

Bug#883887: ITP: journalwatch -- Simple log monitoring utility for the systemd journal

2017-12-08 Thread Ralf Jung
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ralf Jung * Package name: journalwatch Version : 1.1.0 Upstream Author : Florian Bruhin * URL : https://github.com/The-Compiler/journalwatch * License : GPL-3.0 Programming Lang: Python Description : Simple log m

Re: Should tasks be considered harmful?

2017-12-08 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Sun, 2017-12-03 at 23:43 +0100, Bjørn Mork wrote: > tl;dr: Desktop tasks have unexpected (from the user point of view) > side > effects due to dependencies. This can be considered harmful since the > installer task selection can easily can trick a user into installing > a > "substandard" system.

Re: Should tasks be considered harmful?

2017-12-08 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Sun, 2017-12-03 at 23:43 +0100, Bjørn Mork wrote: > tl;dr: Desktop tasks have unexpected (from the user point of view) > side > effects due to dependencies. This can be considered harmful since the > installer task selection can easily can trick a user into installing > a > "substandard" system.

Re: Which files should go in ‘/usr/share/common-licenses/’?

2017-12-08 Thread Jeremy Bicha
On Thu, Dec 7, 2017 at 11:18 PM, Russ Allbery wrote: > +1. I'd love some guidance on this. I'm not convinced that our current > Policy approach is best here. Let me ping about https://bugs.debian.org/859649 which is much simpler than the other CC bug it was (erroneously?) marked a duplicate of

Re: custom packages and schroot workflow

2017-12-08 Thread Frédéric Bonnard
Hi Emilio, On Fri, 8 Dec 2017 14:01:54 +0100, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: > On 08/12/17 11:02, Frédéric Bonnard wrote: > > Hi, > > being new to the Debian schroot setup on Debian machines, I tried > > debugging some package. I found the crash happening in a library pulled > > as a runtime depe

Re: custom packages and schroot workflow

2017-12-08 Thread Emilio Pozuelo Monfort
On 08/12/17 11:02, Frédéric Bonnard wrote: > Hi, > being new to the Debian schroot setup on Debian machines, I tried > debugging some package. I found the crash happening in a library pulled > as a runtime dependency. > My idea was to recompile that library with some debug enabled and install > tho

custom packages and schroot workflow

2017-12-08 Thread Frédéric Bonnard
Hi, being new to the Debian schroot setup on Debian machines, I tried debugging some package. I found the crash happening in a library pulled as a runtime dependency. My idea was to recompile that library with some debug enabled and install those custom .deb's within the current schroot, to rerun t

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2017-12-08 Thread Wong, Naomi
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Re: Which files should go in ‘/usr/share/common-licenses/’? (was: Has Copyright summarizing outlived its usefulness?)

2017-12-08 Thread W. Martin Borgert
Quoting Ben Finney : If I understand correctly, the justification of putting a file there must include that it is overwhelmingly more likely to save *storage space* overall (by reducing the space in a corresponding number of ‘/usr/share/doc/…/copyright’ files), especially on machines that have lo

Re: Has Copyright summarizing outlived its usefulness?

2017-12-08 Thread W. Martin Borgert
Quoting Markus Koschany : Why don't we add all DFSG-free licenses to /usr/share/common-licenses or /usr/share/free-licenses instead? It would save a lot of developer and maintenance time ... IMHO using links and references is just common sense and reduces unnecessary make work. +1 with "all D