Re: Firmware: Scope of non-free-firmware

2022-05-15 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, 2022-05-15 at 20:53 +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > I see what you mean.  But nothing of that actually enables the use of a > particular hardware. Enabling the use of particular hardware is a subset of the actual goal; enabling more people to use Debian at all, which the non-firmware items

Re: Project to improve Debian support model

2022-05-15 Thread Ben Finney
Howdy Katy, Katy Tolsen <2ndlifek...@gmail.com> writes: > I've started a project with the aim to improve Debian's support model > […] I see that in the intervening time, the project repository has moved away from GitHub (thank you!) and to this URL: https://git.fosscommunity.in/kathryntolse

Re: use of Recommends by vlc to force users to use pipewire

2022-05-15 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2022-05-16 00:56:03 +0200, Sebastian Ramacher wrote: > On 2022-05-16 00:40:25 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > The vlc package now uses a Recommends (vlc-plugin-pipewire) to force > > users to use pipewire instead of pulseaudio (which broke the use of > > VLC, but also apparently ogg123 with th

Re: use of Recommends by vlc to force users to use pipewire

2022-05-15 Thread Sebastian Ramacher
On 2022-05-16 00:40:25 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > The vlc package now uses a Recommends (vlc-plugin-pipewire) to force > users to use pipewire instead of pulseaudio (which broke the use of > VLC, but also apparently ogg123 with the alsa device). IMHO, this is > a bad use of Recommends. It is n

use of Recommends by vlc to force users to use pipewire

2022-05-15 Thread Vincent Lefevre
The vlc package now uses a Recommends (vlc-plugin-pipewire) to force users to use pipewire instead of pulseaudio (which broke the use of VLC, but also apparently ogg123 with the alsa device). IMHO, this is a bad use of Recommends. It is not up to applications to choose what sound server to use, eve

Re: Firmware: Scope of non-free-firmware

2022-05-15 Thread Bastian Blank
Moin On Tue, May 10, 2022 at 02:30:04PM -0600, Sam Hartman wrote: > Build Dependencies > == > > As a consequence of options 2-4, non-free-firmware would typically need > to be enabled whenever non-free is enabled. I don't understand why this is the case? Option 2 just needs non-

Bug#1011029: ITP: librust-resource-proof-dev -- resource proof for decentralised network nodes

2022-05-15 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jonas Smedegaard X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 * Package name: librust-resource-proof-dev Version : 1.0.38 Upstream Author : MaidSafe.net limited * URL : https://gith

Bug#1011017: ITP: golang-github-stefanberger-go-pkcs11uri -- (cd .Temporary) Golang pkcs11 URI library

2022-05-15 Thread Reinhard Tartler
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Reinhard Tartler * Package name: golang-github-stefanberger-go-pkcs11uri Version : 0.0~git20201008.78d3cae-1 Upstream Author : Stefan Berger * URL : https://github.com/stefanberger/go-pkcs11uri * License : Apache-2.0 Pr