Re: RFC: Switch default from netkit-telnet(d) to inetutils-telnet(d)

On Sat, Jul 16, 2022 at 10:19 PM Guillem Jover wrote: > Hi! > > There's been talk about switching away from netkit-telnet and > netkit-telnetd as the default implementations for some time now, > and replacing them with the ones from inetutils, which is a maintained > project and does see releases

Bug#1015173: ITP: pwncat -- reverse shell handler with all netcat features

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Marcos Talau X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: pwncat Version : 0.1.2 Upstream Author : cytopia * URL : https://pwncat.org * License : Expat Programming Lang: Pytho

RFC: Switch default from netkit-telnet(d) to inetutils-telnet(d)

Hi! There's been talk about switching away from netkit-telnet and netkit-telnetd as the default implementations for some time now, and replacing them with the ones from inetutils, which is a maintained project and does see releases (even though with a long cadence). This has been discussed someho

Re: Bug#1014908: ITP: gender-guesser -- Guess the gender from first name

On Sat, Jul 16, 2022 at 10:54:10PM +0200, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: > Le samedi, 16 juillet 2022, 19.36:17 h CEST Adrian Bunk a écrit : > > What tools did you use to generate this data? > > > > The irony is that your "fight" requires exactly the tools you want to > > condemn, and data Debian sho

Re: Bug#1014908: ITP: gender-guesser -- Guess the gender from first name

Le samedi, 16 juillet 2022, 19.36:17 h CEST Adrian Bunk a écrit : > What tools did you use to generate this data? > > The irony is that your "fight" requires exactly the tools you want to > condemn, and data Debian should better not collect at all. It does not. The whole argument is "gender-guess

Bug#1015152: ITP: mir-eval -- Common metrics for common audio/music processing tasks

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Josenilson Ferreira da Silva X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, nilsonfsi...@hotmail.com * Package name: mir_eval Version : 0.7.0 Upstream Author : Name Colin Raffel * URL : https://github.com/craffel/mir_eval * Licens

Re: Bug#1014908: ITP: gender-guesser -- Guess the gender from first name

On Fri, Jul 15, 2022 at 07:10:55PM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Fri, Jul 15, 2022 at 07:05:09PM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote: >... > > Debian is not a project that fights for trans people or fights for > > denazification or fights for whatever other non-technical topics > > individual contribut

Re: Bug#1014908: ITP: gender-guesser -- Guess the gender from first name

On Sat, Jul 16, 2022 at 10:05:59AM +, Stefano Rivera wrote: > I think it's our business, as a community, and as conference organisers, > to try to increase the diversity at our events. To me, that means > increasing speaker diversity, primarily. Attendee diversity won't change > unless the spea

Please fix or triage RC bugs

Dear all, Please help keeping the upcoming bookworm freeze short by fixing or triaging RC bugs in key packages [1] before the freeze starts on 12 January 2023 [2]. As you are very likely aware, Debian releases when it's ready. One of the most important criteria is the number of RC bugs. To draw

Bug#1015022: ITP: rust-crdts -- practical, serializable, thoroughly tested CRDTs

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jonas Smedegaard X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 * Package name: rust-crdts Version : 7.1.0 Upstream Author : David Rusu , Tyler Neely * URL : https://github.com/rust

Re: Bug#1014908: ITP: gender-guesser -- Guess the gender from first name

Hi debian-devel (2022.07.16_09:12:16_+) > I guess we should expose this in our conference statistics. We care > about it. And in the future, we will: https://salsa.debian.org/debconf-team/public/websites/wafer-debconf/-/merge_requests/150 SR -- Stefano Rivera http://tumbleweed.org.za/ +

Re: Bug#1014908: ITP: gender-guesser -- Guess the gender from first name

First, by all means, if you want to develop, package and maintain this app in keeping with the quality standards a Linux distro like Debian demands, go to it. Having said that, it sounds like one of the goofiest things I have heard of recently, and I can not see ever having a use for it. But t

Re: Bug#1014908: ITP: gender-guesser -- Guess the gender from first name

Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: >On Thu, Jul 14, 2022 at 11:14:43AM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> >> Do you have a real use for this package? > >Why in the world is that even a relevant question? There are plenty of >packages in the archive which are useful to essentially nobody apart >from the main

Re: Bug#1014908: ITP: gender-guesser -- Guess the gender from first name

Hi Holger (2022.07.16_09:42:56_+) > but why? how is gender relevant for participating in DebConf as > a whole? (i can see how it could be relevant for some events, but > not for the whole conference.) It's not. It's for statistics, as we say when we collect it. I think it's our business, as a

Re: Bug#1014908: ITP: gender-guesser -- Guess the gender from first name

Edward wrote: >Steve McIntyre wrote: >> >> Oh, not *another* package that tries to guess things from names. >> >> Do you have a real use for this package? There are a *lot* of issues >> in this area, and mis-gendering people is not something to risk >> lightly... > >I can add a warning to the pa

Re: Bug#1014908: ITP: gender-guesser -- Guess the gender from first name

Adrian Bunk wrote: >On Thu, Jul 14, 2022 at 04:05:35PM +0200, Jeremy Bicha wrote: >>... >> Debian has a Diversity Statement [1] which says that Debian welcomes >> people regardless of how they identify themselves. Trans people and >> non-binary people face a lot of discrimination, harrassment and >

Re: Bug#1014908: ITP: gender-guesser -- Guess the gender from first name

Steve McIntyre wrote... > IMHO there are 2 points to an ITP: > > * to save effort in case two people might be working on the same >package And having such a lock is a good thing. > * to invite discussion on debian-devel / elsewhere Which might include reactions like: * There is already a

Bug#1015017: ITP: libnet-amazon-signature-v4-perl -- module for the Amazon Web Services signature version 4

Package: wnpp Owner: gregor herrmann Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libnet-amazon-signature-v4-perl Version : 0.21 Upstream Author : Dan Book * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/Net-Amazon-

Re: Bug#1014908: ITP: gender-guesser -- Guess the gender from first name

On Sat, Jul 16, 2022 at 09:12:16AM +, Stefano Rivera wrote: > If you're asking about DebConf 22, we have that information: [...] > I guess we should expose this in our conference statistics. We care > about it. but why? how is gender relevant for participating in DebConf as a whole? (i can s

Re: Bug#1014908: ITP: gender-guesser -- Guess the gender from first name

Quoting Enrico Zini (2022-07-16 10:17:11) > On Thu, Jul 14, 2022 at 12:43:16PM +0100, Edward Betts wrote: > > > I've been writing some code to work out the gender balance of speakers at a > > conference. It parses the pentabarf XML of the schedule and feeds the > > speaker > > names to this modul

Re: Bug#1014908: ITP: gender-guesser -- Guess the gender from first name

Hi Enrico (2022.07.16_08:17:11_+) > I think the right way to get the statistics you're looking for would be > to ask speakers to state their own identity on pentabarf, so that > statistics are based on self-determination, rather than external > overrides of it. If you're asking about DebConf 2

Re: Bug#1014908: ITP: gender-guesser -- Guess the gender from first name

On Thu, Jul 14, 2022 at 12:43:16PM +0100, Edward Betts wrote: > I've been writing some code to work out the gender balance of speakers at a > conference. It parses the pentabarf XML of the schedule and feeds the speaker > names to this module. > > Here's the results for Debconf 22. > > 72 speake

Re: Bug#1014908: ITP: gender-guesser -- Guess the gender from first name

On Sat, 2022-07-16 at 08:51 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > Are you actually somehow claiming that Debian's core values include > bad treatment of Jews and those other groups? Seriously, WTF? We had project members supporting antisemitic groups on project lists and DebConf events, for example in di

Re: Bug#1014908: ITP: gender-guesser -- Guess the gender from first name

Adam Borowski wrote: >On Thu, Jul 14, 2022 at 04:05:35PM +0200, Jeremy Bicha wrote: >> > > >* Package name: gender-guesser > >> Debian has a Diversity Statement [1] which says that Debian welcomes >> people regardless of how they identify themselves. Trans people and >> non-binary people face a