Re: Making Debian available, non-free promotor

2021-01-27 Thread Geert Stappers
On Thu, Jan 28, 2021 at 09:44:36AM +0200, Jonathan Carter wrote: > On 2021/01/28 01:49, Daniel S. wrote: > > The hope would be that, after collecting a 5 figure sum has been > > donated, paid developers work on freeing the most common firmware(s). > > If that was enough to free up firmware, we'd p

Re: Making Debian available, non-free promotor

2021-01-27 Thread Jonathan Carter
On 2021/01/28 01:49, Daniel S. wrote: > The hope would be that, after collecting a 5 figure sum has been > donated, paid developers work on freeing the most common firmware(s). If that was enough to free up firmware, we'd probably have figured out a way to pay that right away without even spending

Re: Making Debian available, non-free promotor

2021-01-27 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Thu, Jan 28, 2021 at 12:49:43AM +0100, Daniel S. wrote: > * Consider donating $25 to our __free-WiFi-fund__ to free your adapter > firmware What fund? > This gives visibility to the actual problem and the only true solution. What true solution? > It works towards a future, where the free image

Re: dovecot-antispam rebuild (or is there a way to automatically rebuild a package)

2021-01-27 Thread Antonio Russo
On 1/27/21 12:58 AM, Sebastian Ramacher wrote: > > For step 2 someone needs to request a binNMU > > reportbug release.debian.org -> binNMU > > See also https://wiki.debian.org/binNMU > > Best > Thank you (for the info, and processing the binNMU)! Antonio OpenPGP_0xB01C53D5DED4A4EE.asc Desc

Re: Making Debian available, non-free promotor

2021-01-27 Thread Daniel S.
I'd like to propose a solution that helps both, the user and Debian: Add a message like this on the downloads page: ## NOTE: This image does not provide unfree WiFi firmware. If you have a WiFi adapter, it will most likely not work. (__learn more__) * Consider using __this__ image

Bug#981217: ITP: golang-github-phpdave11-gofpdf -- A PDF document generator with high level support for text, drawing and images

2021-01-27 Thread Felix Yan
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Felix Yan * Package name: golang-github-phpdave11-gofpdf Version : 1.4.2-1 Upstream Author : Dave Barnes * URL : https://github.com/phpdave11/gofpdf * License : Expat Programming Lang: Go Description : A PDF docum

Re: About lintian

2021-01-27 Thread gregor herrmann
On Wed, 27 Jan 2021 14:20:06 +0100, Dominique Dumont wrote: > On Thursday, 21 January 2021 23:18:07 CET Felix Lechner wrote: > > While we often change tag names (or combine tags etc.), the majority > > of the renames people talk about seems to stem from two bug reports by > > third parties asking

Re: Help required to determine why some packages are being installed

2021-01-27 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues (2021-01-27 16:53:50) > Quoting Jonas Smedegaard (2021-01-27 16:15:17) > > I suspect that's not really the case - that instead apt tools might > > pick at random. > > no, apt does not pick at random. The apt solver prefers the first > alternative. With t

Re: Help required to determine why some packages are being installed

2021-01-27 Thread Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues
Hi, Quoting Jonas Smedegaard (2021-01-27 16:15:17) > I suspect that's not really the case - that instead apt tools might pick at > random. no, apt does not pick at random. The apt solver prefers the first alternative. > It is my understanding that build daemons _ignore_ secondary entries > exact

Re: Help required to determine why some packages are being installed

2021-01-27 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer (2021-01-27 15:09:41) > So most packages now have an alternative dependency like libqt5gui5 > (>= 5.x) | libqt5gui5-gles (>= 5.x). The strange thing is that *some* > users upgrading from stable or reinstalling packages [1] get the -gles > variant inste

Help required to determine why some packages are being installed

2021-01-27 Thread Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
Hi! tl;dr: we the Qt maintainers need help to find out why some users upgrading from stable / reinstalling packages get libqt5quick5-gles instead of libqt5quick5. Long story: some months ago my team mate Dmitry Shachnev managed to get two flavours of Qt: the normal one with OpenGL support and the

Re: About lintian

2021-01-27 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, Jan 27, 2021 at 02:20:06PM +0100, Dominique Dumont wrote: > On Thursday, 21 January 2021 23:18:07 CET Felix Lechner wrote: > > While we often change tag names (or combine tags etc.), the majority > > of the renames people talk about seems to stem from two bug reports by > > third parties as

Re: About lintian

2021-01-27 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Thursday, 21 January 2021 23:18:07 CET Felix Lechner wrote: > While we often change tag names (or combine tags etc.), the majority > of the renames people talk about seems to stem from two bug reports by > third parties asking that we make tag names more consistent (bug > numbers are available,

Bug#981189: ITP: node-protobufjs -- pure JavaScript Protocol Buffers implementation

2021-01-27 Thread Jirawat I.
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jirawat Iamsamang X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: node-protobufjs Version : 6.10.2 Upstream Author : Daniel Wirtz * URL : https://protobufjs.github.io/protobuf.js/ * License : BSD-3-Clause P

Re: Bug#981113: ITP: root -- open-source data analysis framework

2021-01-27 Thread Mattia Rizzolo
On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 04:59:48PM +0100, Christoph Biedl wrote: > Julien Cristau wrote... > > > On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 04:34:14PM +0100, Stephan Lachnit wrote: > > > * Package name: root > > [...] > > > > > > I want to maintain ROOT in the science team. ROOT was already in Debian as > > > `

Bug#981176: RFP: doas -- minimal replacement for sudo

2021-01-27 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: doas Version : 6.8 Upstream Author : Duncan Overbruck znc others * URL : https://github.com/Duncaen/OpenDoas * License : bsd Programming Lang: c Description : mi

Re: strange BD-Uninstallable

2021-01-27 Thread Russell Coker
On Wednesday, 27 January 2021 1:40:56 AM AEDT Russell Coker wrote: > https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=libselinux > > libselinux isn't being built on ia64, it says "BD-Uninstallable (Extra- > Depends: python3-all-dev (>= 3.8.6-1))". > > https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=