Outreachy December - March round!

2018-09-27 Thread Paul Wise
Forwarded Message From: Molly de Blanc To: debian-wo...@lists.debian.org Subject: Outreachy December - March round! It's that time of the year again: Outreachy December - March application round! Outreachy is a project that provides three-month internships for people underr

Work-needing packages report for Sep 28, 2018

2018-09-27 Thread 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: 1299 (new: 2) Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 168 (new: 0) Total number of packages reques

Re: epoch bump request for gnome-calculator

2018-09-27 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 12:49:38 +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Wed, 26 Sep 2018, Jeremy Bicha wrote: > > So is it appropriate to bump an epoch in Debian to match an important > > downstream's epoch? > Yes. Precisely because there is collaboration between both sides on those > packages. [..] I a

Bug#909760: ITP: eclipse-platform-team -- Platform Team Repository Integration Framework

2018-09-27 Thread Jochen Sprickerhof
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jochen Sprickerhof * Package name: eclipse-platform-team Version : 4.7.3 Upstream Author : Eclipse Foundation, Inc. * URL : https://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/platform-team/ * License : EPL-1.0 Programming Lang: Java Des

Re: New software for Debian

2018-09-27 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 8:50 PM eamanu15 wrote: > I think that you have to package it or search a contributor/mantainer to > package it. The canonical guide for new package maintainers is here: https://mentors.debian.net/intro-maintainers -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise

Re: New software for Debian

2018-09-27 Thread eamanu15
Hi Tommi, I think that you have to package it or search a contributor/mantainer to package it. Regards! El jue., 27 de sep. de 2018 a la(s) 09:30, Tommi Höynälänmaa ( tommi.hoynalan...@gmail.com) escribió: > Hi > > I would like to include the following software to Debian testing or > stable di

New software for Debian

2018-09-27 Thread Tommi Höynälänmaa
Hi I would like to include the following software to Debian testing or stable distribution: - Theme-D programming language - Theme-D-Gnome library See pages   http://www.iki.fi/tohoyn/theme-d/   http://www.iki.fi/tohoyn/theme-d/theme-d-gnome.html What should I do? - Tommi Höynälänma

Re: epoch bump request for gnome-calculator

2018-09-27 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 11:41:02PM -0400, Jeremy Bicha wrote: > I appreciate your thinking of possible solutions, but my understanding > is that Canonical isn't investing in any more Launchpad work than is > necessary. This overstates the case a bit. It's true that we don't have a large number of

Re: epoch bump request for gnome-calculator

2018-09-27 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 09:32:31AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 9:48 PM Jeremy Bicha wrote: > > So is it appropriate to bump an epoch in Debian to match an important > > downstream's epoch? > > An alternative might be for Launchpad to allow whitelisted downgrades > of source p

Re: epoch bump request for gnome-calculator

2018-09-27 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Wed, 26 Sep 2018, Jeremy Bicha wrote: > So is it appropriate to bump an epoch in Debian to match an important > downstream's epoch? Yes. Precisely because there is collaboration between both sides on those packages. The attitude "we don't care of mistakes made by derivatives" is counter-produc

Re: Question regarding patching in 4.9 kernel

2018-09-27 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 02:28:35AM +, Harish Venkatraman wrote: > Hi Ben, > > I am trying to manually back port to Linux 4.9 since in the link I don’t see > a patch provided for 4.9 version. The last version that has this patch is > 4.11, wanted to know if back port of this patch is support

Re: Question regarding patching in 4.9 kernel

2018-09-27 Thread Harish Venkatraman
Hi Ben, I am trying to manually back port to Linux 4.9 since in the link I don’t see a patch provided for 4.9 version. The last version that has this patch is 4.11, wanted to know if back port of this patch is supported on Linux 4.9 or this patch is supported only from 4.11? Sent from my iPho