Bug#978600: Substantial increase in pseudo-Essential due to libnsl2 and libtirpc3 (and dependencies)

2020-12-28 Thread Josh Triplett
Package: libpam-modules Version: 1.4.0-1 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: j...@joshtriplett.org, debian-devel@lists.debian.org The new pam 1.4.0 has switched pam_unix from libnsl.so.1 (in libc6) to libnsl2 and libtirpc3, which brings those packages into the pseudo-Essential set. This is a rather sub

Re: Package dependency versions and consistency

2020-12-28 Thread Josh Triplett
Simon McVittie wrote: > On Sat, 26 Dec 2020 at 14:55:17 -0800, Josh Triplett wrote: > > I'm talking about packaging xyz 1.3.1 and 2.0.1, as separate xyz-1 and > > xyz-2 packages, and allowing the use of both in build dependencies. > > This is not all that rare even for C/C++ code, as exemplified by

Re: /usr/bin/open now in use through the alternatives system.

2020-12-28 Thread Holger Levsen
On Mon, Dec 28, 2020 at 01:22:16AM +, Holger Levsen wrote: > I agree, an "open" program should ask to the server what the media type of the > URL is, and pass it to the default program able to handle it. I also wish it were that simple. -- cheers, Holger ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ hol

Re: /usr/bin/open now in use through the alternatives system.

2020-12-28 Thread Josh Triplett
Stig Sandbeck Mathisen wrote: >>> Le Sat, Oct 10, 2020 at 04:27:17AM +0900, Charles Plessy a écrit : Since `eog http://example.com/image.png` will open the image, shouldn't an "open" program ask to the server what the media type of the URL is, and pass it to the default program able

Re: Disabling automatic upgrades on Sid by default?

2020-12-28 Thread Lyndon Brown
On Mon, 2020-12-28 at 14:09 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Sun, Dec 27, 2020 at 10:58:10PM +, Lyndon Brown wrote: > > ... > > The problem with using testing as a rolling distro is that the > > package > > migration process often causes big delays that can block upgrades > > that > > include sec

Re: Package dependency versions and consistency

2020-12-28 Thread Josh Triplett
On Mon, Dec 28, 2020 at 03:20:35PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Sat, Dec 26, 2020 at 02:55:17PM -0800, Josh Triplett wrote: > >... > > If you want to package abc version 1.2.3, and among many other things, > > abc depends on xyz version 2.1.4, and xyz has a new version 3.0.1 now, > > it makes sen

Re: /usr/bin/open now in use through the alternatives system.

2020-12-28 Thread Stig Sandbeck Mathisen
Charles Plessy writes: > I went ahead and uploaded to Sid mime-support version 3.68, which > provides /usr/bin/open as a symbolic link to /usr/bin/run-mailcap > using the alternatives system, at a priority of 30. I welcome other > alternatives. This is good news. Thank you. :) I've used "open

Bug#978556: ITP: netr -- Display network interface throughput in terminal

2020-12-28 Thread Edward Neville
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Edward Neville * Package name: netr Version : 0.1.3 Upstream Author : Ed Neville * URL : http://www.usenix.org.uk/content/net.html * License : GPL Programming Lang: Rust Description : Display network interface th

Re: Disabling automatic upgrades on Sid by default?

2020-12-28 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Mon, Dec 28, 2020 at 02:09:55PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > The internet is full of people who "envision" things, and who claim it > "would surely not be burdensome" if other people would do the actual > work for them. > > If you want this to happen, it is you who will have to implement and

Re: Package dependency versions and consistency

2020-12-28 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sat, Dec 26, 2020 at 02:55:17PM -0800, Josh Triplett wrote: >... > If you want to package abc version 1.2.3, and among many other things, > abc depends on xyz version 2.1.4, and xyz has a new version 3.0.1 now, > it makes sense to work with the upstream of abc, sending them a patch to > migrate

Re: Disabling automatic upgrades on Sid by default?

2020-12-28 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sun, Dec 27, 2020 at 10:58:10PM +, Lyndon Brown wrote: >... > The problem with using testing as a rolling distro is that the package > migration process often causes big delays that can block upgrades that > include security fixes, making use of testing alone thus a big security > risk. Deb

Re: Disabling automatic upgrades on Sid by default?

2020-12-28 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 28 dec 20, 06:46:51, Paul Wise wrote: > On Sun, Dec 27, 2020 at 10:58 PM Lyndon Brown wrote: > > > The problem with using testing as a rolling distro > > Your mail reminded me about Constantly Usable Testing: > > https://cut.debian.net/ Or "bob": https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/20

Re: Disabling automatic upgrades on Sid by default?

2020-12-28 Thread Jonathan Carter
On 2020/12/28 01:04, Sean Whitton wrote: >> I think Debian stable users should enable automatic upgrades (IIRC >> that is the case now). Debian unstable/testing users should probably >> only enable safe upgrades that don't remove packages. > > I'm pretty sure it's not default because the security t

Re: Disabling automatic upgrades on Sid by default?

2020-12-28 Thread Nicholas Guriev
On Вс, 2020-12-27 at 22:58 +, Lyndon Brown wrote: > As I envision it, we could have "rolling" and maybe "rolling-unstable" > (or "rolling-testing") with continual upgrades typically going directly > into "rolling", or with a 0-day migration from "rolling-unstable", with > the purpose of "rollin

Re: one more, i am still fed up

2020-12-28 Thread Marc Haber
On Sun, 27 Dec 2020 21:57:17 +0100, Richard wrote: >I for now do not deny or admit officially. Marc, are you someone with >authority? No, I am just probably the last one on this list who is not ignoring you. Not ignoring you was a mistake. Fixed now. I apologize for paying and attention. -- ---

Bug#978506: ITP: golang-github-go-playground-validator-v10 -- Go library for struct and field validation

2020-12-28 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Cyril Brulebois * Package name: golang-github-go-playground-validator-v10 Version : 10.4.1-1 Upstream Author : Go Playgound * URL : https://github.com/go-playground/validator * License : Expat Programming Lang: Go Des

Bug#978504: ITP: golang-github-go-playground-assert-v2 -- basic assertion library for Go

2020-12-28 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Cyril Brulebois * Package name: golang-github-go-playground-assert-v2 Version : 2.0.1-1 Upstream Author : Go Playgound * URL : https://github.com/go-playground/assert * License : Expat Programming Lang: Go Description