Bug#1004169: ITP: golang-github-liamg-clinch -- Go library for interactive CLI applications

2022-01-21 Thread Nobuhiro Iwamatsu
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nobuhiro Iwamatsu * Package name: golang-github-liamg-clinch Version : 1.5.6 Upstream Author : Liam Galvin * URL : https://github.com/liamg/clinch * License : public domain Programming Lang: Go Description : Go li

Re: Lottery NEW queue (Re: Are libraries with bumped SONAME subject of inspection of ftpmaster or not

2022-01-21 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, 2022-01-21 at 13:55 -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > Can we have better automated tooling, either in Lintian, or in when > source packages are rebuilt, that can take care of this? > > The other thing that's perhaps considering here is that unfortunately, > there are some upstreams that are e

Re: Lottery NEW queue

2022-01-21 Thread gregor herrmann
On Fri, 21 Jan 2022 13:41:05 -0500, Scott Kitterman wrote: > On Friday, January 21, 2022 1:33:07 PM EST Adam Borowski wrote: > > Stealing a binary does not go through NEW. > It does. Binary is new to that source so there is no existing override. If this is correct, dak / the override system must

Bug#1004152: ITP: malt -- sequence alignment and analysis tool to process sequencing data

2022-01-21 Thread Pierre Gruet
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Debian-med team X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-...@lists.debian.org * Package name: malt Version : 0.5.2 Upstream Author : Daniel Huson * URL : https://github.com/danielhuson/malt * License : GPL-3+

Re: Lottery NEW queue (Re: Are libraries with bumped SONAME subject of inspection of ftpmaster or not

2022-01-21 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 01:28:54PM -0500, Scott Kitterman wrote: > > 1. When the SO name changes and the binary package name is adjusted > accordingly, it is not super rare for the maintainer to mess something up in > the renaming and end up with an empty binary package, which does no one any

Re: Lottery NEW queue (Re: Are libraries with bumped SONAME subject of inspection of ftpmaster or not

2022-01-21 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Friday, January 21, 2022 1:33:07 PM EST Adam Borowski wrote: > On Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 01:28:54PM -0500, Scott Kitterman wrote: > > 2. New binary package "steals" binary from another source. This is > > sometimes OK. Sometimes it's accidental. It could also be malicious (I > > don't remember

Re: Lottery NEW queue (Re: Are libraries with bumped SONAME subject of inspection of ftpmaster or not

2022-01-21 Thread Adam Borowski
On Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 01:28:54PM -0500, Scott Kitterman wrote: > 2. New binary package "steals" binary from another source. This is > sometimes > OK. Sometimes it's accidental. It could also be malicious (I don't remember > if I've every actually seen this done for an intentional "steal" o

Re: Lottery NEW queue (Re: Are libraries with bumped SONAME subject of inspection of ftpmaster or not

2022-01-21 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Friday, January 21, 2022 12:19:12 PM EST Andreas Tille wrote: > Hi Mo, > > Am Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 09:51:12AM -0500 schrieb M. Zhou: > > I'd rather propose choice C. Because I to some extent understand > > both sides who support either A or B. I maintain bulky C++ packages, > > and I also had a

Re: Lottery NEW queue (Re: Are libraries with bumped SONAME subject of inspection of ftpmaster or not

2022-01-21 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi, I'm not involved in ftp-master, but... On 21-01-2022 18:19, Andreas Tille wrote: Am Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 09:51:12AM -0500 schrieb M. Zhou: I'd rather propose choice C. Because I to some extent understand both sides who support either A or B. I maintain bulky C++ packages, and I also had a

Re: Lottery NEW queue (Re: Are libraries with bumped SONAME subject of inspection of ftpmaster or not

2022-01-21 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Mo, Am Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 09:51:12AM -0500 schrieb M. Zhou: > I'd rather propose choice C. Because I to some extent understand > both sides who support either A or B. I maintain bulky C++ packages, > and I also had a little experience reviewing packages on behalf of > ftp-team. > > A -- Some

Lottery NEW queue (Re: Are libraries with bumped SONAME subject of inspection of ftpmaster or not

2022-01-21 Thread M. Zhou
Hi Andreas, Thank you for mentioning this. Your post inspired me to came up a new choice. On Fri, 2022-01-21 at 11:33 +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > > This recently happed for me in the case of onetbb (which was not > uploaded by myself - so I'm not even asking for myself while other > packages o

Re: build-depend on autoconf-archive and rm convenience copy in orig.tar.gz?

2022-01-21 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2022-01-19 11:03:15 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Jonas Smedegaard writes: > > > Thanks for elaborating. > > > The concern is not licensing, but maintenance. It is covered in Debian > > Policy ยง 4.13: > > https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-source.html#embedded-code-copies > >

Are libraries with bumped SONAME subject of inspection of ftpmaster or not

2022-01-21 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, if a source package in Debian creates a new binary package name it has to pass the new queue. If I understand this posting from last year[1] correctly (people in CC who were in CC of that posting) this is just because nobody has written some kind of "auto-approver" for dak. Usually the "soci