Re: About Package Maintenance

2024-04-08 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On 4/9/24 01:48, Marc Haber wrote: Otoh, I am fully aware of the "you can't force a volunteer to do things", knowing that I myself would be the first one to violently oppose a decision that I don't like while - at the same time - being mad at some core package maintainers who have forced th

Re: Silent hijacking and stripping records from changelog

2024-04-08 Thread James McCoy
On Mon, Apr 08, 2024 at 10:21:49PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > ...and about moving on: Can you please also clarify if you understand > "moving on" as reverting to me maintaining the package that you > accidentally hijacked, or if you instead understand it as you (on bhalf > of the Rust team) n

Bug#1068677: ITP: emacs-activities -- Save/restore sets of windows, tabs/frames, and their buffers in Emacs

2024-04-08 Thread Xiyue Deng
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Xiyue Deng * Package name: emacs-activities Version : 0.7 Upstream Author : Adam Porter * URL or Web page : https://github.com/alphapapa/activities.el * License : GPL-3 Programming lang: Emacs Lisp Description : Save/restore

Re: finally end single-person maintainership

2024-04-08 Thread Luca Boccassi
On Mon, 8 Apr 2024 at 23:23, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > > On 17194 March 1977, Luca Boccassi wrote: > >> Simple packages need someone who is responsible and responsive for > >> them > >> in the long run and know there history much more than needing > >> sporadic > >> contributions. > > ...right up unt

Re: finally end single-person maintainership

2024-04-08 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 17194 March 1977, Luca Boccassi wrote: Simple packages need someone who is responsible and responsive for them in the long run and know there history much more than needing sporadic contributions. ...right up until the point where that "bus factor of 1" moves on/changes priorities/changes j

Re: finally end single-person maintainership

2024-04-08 Thread Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues
Quoting Bill Allombert (2024-04-08 23:49:05) > Le Sun, Apr 07, 2024 at 11:37:47PM +0200, Gioele Barabucci a écrit : > > On 07/04/24 23:11, Bill Allombert wrote: > > > > What is your opinion about pushing logtool to Salsa? > > > > > > Not speaking for logtool obviously, but maintaining simple packa

Re: finally end single-person maintainership

2024-04-08 Thread Luca Boccassi
On Mon, 8 Apr 2024 at 22:49, Bill Allombert wrote: > > Le Sun, Apr 07, 2024 at 11:37:47PM +0200, Gioele Barabucci a écrit : > > On 07/04/24 23:11, Bill Allombert wrote: > > > > What is your opinion about pushing logtool to Salsa? > > > > > > Not speaking for logtool obviously, but maintaining simp

Re: finally end single-person maintainership

2024-04-08 Thread Bill Allombert
Le Sun, Apr 07, 2024 at 11:37:47PM +0200, Gioele Barabucci a écrit : > On 07/04/24 23:11, Bill Allombert wrote: > > > What is your opinion about pushing logtool to Salsa? > > > > Not speaking for logtool obviously, but maintaining simple packages on > > salsa is > > just useless bureaucracy. > >

Bug#1068669: ITP: golang-github-mitchellh-hashstructure -- Get hash values for arbitrary values in Go (golang).

2024-04-08 Thread Arthur Diniz
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Arthur Diniz * Package name: golang-github-mitchellh-hashstructure-v2 Version : 2.0.2-1 Upstream Author : Mitchell Hashimoto * URL : https://github.com/mitchellh/hashstructure * License : Expat Programming Lang: Go De

Re: Silent hijacking and stripping records from changelog

2024-04-08 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Hi Alexander and James, Quoting Alexander Kjäll (2024-04-08 16:42:22) > I'll second what James wrote, this was done by mistake by me as our > tooling didn't discover your package and I'm sorry for the extra work > it caused. Thanks for clarifying that it was an accident. Accidents happen. Let's

Re: About Package Maintenance (was: Question to all candidates: What are your technical goals)

2024-04-08 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Monday, April 8, 2024 12:48:13 PM EDT Marc Haber wrote: > > > "we replace exim with postfix as the default MTA", > > > > A, this question always makes me wonder: If our default MTA is exim > > why do I have such a hard time to find documents about exim in wiki.d.o > > while there is always

About Package Maintenance (was: Question to all candidates: What are your technical goals)

2024-04-08 Thread Marc Haber
This is the continuation of a thread from debian-vote, that originated from a question about technical goals to the DPL candidates (https://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2024/04/msg4.html). I will try to quote generously to deliver context. On Thu, Apr 04, 2024 at 12:38:34PM +0200, Andreas Til

Re: Debian Policy 4.7.0.0 released

2024-04-08 Thread Maycon Antônio
Please cancel my name from this list, thank you. On Sun, 7 Apr 2024 at 12:32, Sean Whitton wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > I just pushed version 4.7.0.0 of the Debian Policy Manual and related > documents to sid. Below you will find the significant normative changes > from the previously-announce

Re: Silent hijacking and stripping records from changelog

2024-04-08 Thread Alexander Kjäll
Hi Jonas I'll second what James wrote, this was done by mistake by me as our tooling didn't discover your package and I'm sorry for the extra work it caused. It would indeed be nice if we could collect all rust packaging efforts together, that would reduce the risk of mistakes like these. best r

Re: finally end single-person maintainership

2024-04-08 Thread Simon Richter
Hi Julien, On 4/8/24 22:45, Julien Puydt wrote: I only use salsa's git. That begs two questions: - What do I miss by not using the web interface? > - What does that web interface have that people don't like? It's a normal GitLab install. For anything that is a normal software project (like d

Re: finally end single-person maintainership

2024-04-08 Thread Fabio Fantoni
Il 08/04/2024 15:45, Julien Puydt ha scritto: Hi Le lun. 8 avr. 2024, 14:45, Simon Richter a écrit : The web interface presented by salsa also does not have the necessary data<->metadata filters to provide an actual insight into what is really happening in the repository. It'

Re: finally end single-person maintainership

2024-04-08 Thread Julien Puydt
Hi Le lun. 8 avr. 2024, 14:45, Simon Richter a écrit : > The web interface presented by salsa also does not have the necessary > data<->metadata filters to provide an actual insight into what is really > happening in the repository. > It's been several times already some people complain about s

Re: syslog-ng: identified for time_t transition but no ABI in shlibs

2024-04-08 Thread Attila Szalay
Ok. I re-checked the patch and realized that I checked the only wrong module (the only one which is arch all and not any). So my apologies for the fuzz and will apply the patch with the appropriate changes. But here my original reply too: I admit that I joined late to this conversation. But my c

Re: finally end single-person maintainership

2024-04-08 Thread Andrey Rakhmatullin
On Mon, Apr 08, 2024 at 09:44:55PM +0900, Simon Richter wrote: > > I don't mind what other people do, but I worry that conversations like > > this seem to take the new thing as so self-evidently better that > > no-one can reasonably complain about them being made a > > requirement. Well, we don't a

Re: finally end single-person maintainership

2024-04-08 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On 4/8/24 05:42, Wookey wrote: I don't mind what other people do, but I worry that conversations like this seem to take the new thing as so self-evidently better that no-one can reasonably complain about them being made a requirement. Well, we don't all think it's better, and I wouldn't enj

Re: Bug#1068479 cynically closed by Rene Engelhard (Re: Bug#1068479: libreoffice-writer: space between paragraphs missing in spacing and indentation)

2024-04-08 Thread Marvin Renich
* José Luis González [240407 15:00]: > reopen 1068479 > thanks > > Hi all, > > Rene Engelhard seems to be a worse case even than Ricardo Mones. Take a > look at my recent bug reports to libreoffice-writer and his replies. > > In this one: > > > Am 06.04.24 um 11:03 schrieb Rene Engelhard: > >

Re: Silent hijacking and stripping records from changelog

2024-04-08 Thread James McCoy
On Sun, Apr 07, 2024 at 09:58:10PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > And when you do hijack packages²³, then please be respectful and give > credit, by preserving/reviving past contributions in the changelog file. As the person who uploaded rust-lazy-regex-proc-macros, I wasn't aware the crate alre

Re: finally end single-person maintainership

2024-04-08 Thread Steve McIntyre
Bill Alombert wrote: >On Sun, Apr 07, 2024 at 04:04:18PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: >> Hi Wouter, >> >> Am Sun, Apr 07, 2024 at 03:31:43PM +0200 schrieb Wouter Verhelst: >> > [Feel free to quote any part of this email which I wrote outside of this >> > mailinglist] >> >> OK, moving the discussio