Re: Problems to find sponsors (Was: Bits from DPL)

2024-12-09 Thread Mechtilde Stehmann
Hello Phil, Am 10.12.24 um 06:49 schrieb Phil Wyett: On Mon, 2024-12-09 at 15:58 -0800, Xiyue Deng wrote: Hi Sam, Sam Hartman writes: As a none DD I do basic build testing and validation of packages and their files in-order to bring them up to a minimum standard for a DD to then look at.

Re: Problems to find sponsors (Was: Bits from DPL)

2024-12-09 Thread Phil Wyett
On Tue, 2024-12-10 at 02:12 +0500, Andrey Rakhmatullin wrote: > On Mon, Dec 09, 2024 at 02:02:30PM -0700, Sam Hartman wrote: > > >> It would be great to have a group of DDs that are willing to > > >> regularly check for RFS bugs / mentors.d.n and offer sponsorship > > > > Andrey> Sure.

Re: Problems to find sponsors (Was: Bits from DPL)

2024-12-09 Thread Phil Wyett
On Mon, 2024-12-09 at 15:58 -0800, Xiyue Deng wrote: > Hi Sam, > > Sam Hartman writes: > > > > > > > > "Andrey" == Andrey Rakhmatullin writes: > > > > Andrey> On Wed, Dec 04, 2024 at 03:30:23PM -0800, Xiyue Deng wrote: > > >> It would be great to have a group of DDs that are willing to

Re: Problems to find sponsors (Was: Bits from DPL)

2024-12-09 Thread Xiyue Deng
Hi Sam, Sam Hartman writes: >> "Andrey" == Andrey Rakhmatullin writes: > > Andrey> On Wed, Dec 04, 2024 at 03:30:23PM -0800, Xiyue Deng wrote: > >> It would be great to have a group of DDs that are willing to > >> regularly check for RFS bugs / mentors.d.n and offer sponsorship

Re: Simpler git workflow for packaging with upstreamless repositories

2024-12-09 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Sat 07 Dec 2024 at 05:50pm GMT, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Sat, Dec 07, 2024 at 10:39:43PM +0500, Andrey Rakhmatullin wrote: >> No, there is clearly no consensus on unifying any workflows. Everyone >> thinks their workflow is superior and canneeds to stay. > > I agree with the first sent

Re: Simpler git workflow for packaging with upstreamless repositories

2024-12-09 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Sat Dec 7, 2024 at 5:39 PM GMT, Andrey Rakhmatullin wrote: No, there is clearly no consensus on unifying any workflows. Everyone thinks their workflow is superior and canneeds to stay. I'm more optimistic than this. I don't think we'll ever reach *one* workflow, but I think there may be a s

Re: Problems to find sponsors (Was: Bits from DPL)

2024-12-09 Thread Andrey Rakhmatullin
On Mon, Dec 09, 2024 at 02:02:30PM -0700, Sam Hartman wrote: > >> It would be great to have a group of DDs that are willing to > >> regularly check for RFS bugs / mentors.d.n and offer sponsorship > > Andrey> Sure. This is true since the beginning of the RFS process, > Andrey> and

Re: Problems to find sponsors (Was: Bits from DPL)

2024-12-09 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Andrey" == Andrey Rakhmatullin writes: Andrey> On Wed, Dec 04, 2024 at 03:30:23PM -0800, Xiyue Deng wrote: >> It would be great to have a group of DDs that are willing to >> regularly check for RFS bugs / mentors.d.n and offer sponsorship Andrey> Sure. This is true since t

Re: Building with many cores without OOM

2024-12-09 Thread sre4ever
Hi, Let me plop in right into this discussion with no general solution and more things to think about. For the context I'm packaging Java things, and Java has historically been notoriously bad at guessing how much memory it could actually use on a given system. I'm not sure things are much be

Re: Musings about Usernames in adduser and Debian

2024-12-09 Thread Marc Haber
On Mon, 9 Dec 2024 18:08:33 +0100, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote: >I echo Alejandro's concerns. We should stop having the flag >completely, not encourage using it. I violently disagree. But I have to accept this. >IOW: if we move towards better character support, we need to do that >by allowing it al

Re: Musings about Usernames in adduser and Debian

2024-12-09 Thread Marc Haber
On Mon, 9 Dec 2024 18:04:52 +0100, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote: >This was never on the table, and shadow upstream might even drop the >entire "support" for having bad names. Just for the record, I consider this a kneejerk reaction that moves the world backwards. It's sad. -- --

Bug#1089602: ITP: nsnotifyd -- promply run a command on DNS zone changes

2024-12-09 Thread Daniel Gröber
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Daniel Gröber X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, d...@darkboxed.org, d...@dotat.at * Package name: nsnotifyd Version : 2.3 Upstream Contact: Tony Finch * URL : https://dotat.at/prog/nsnotifyd/ * License : 0BSD

Re: Bits from DPL / Feedback on attracting newcomers

2024-12-09 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, Am Wed, Dec 04, 2024 at 11:18:23AM -0700 schrieb Soren Stoutner: > Robert, Thanks a lot to Robert to ask here on the list and sorry for my delayed answer. I had to catch up with real life but since the question was originally to me in person I feel the need to finally get involved into the t

Re: Musings about Usernames in adduser and Debian

2024-12-09 Thread Chris Hofstaedtler
* Marc Haber [241205 18:06]: > P.S.: Sadly, this has gotten less than positive coverage on LWN. I > apologize for the harm this discussion has done. Marc, my thank you for collecting the info on the wiki, and starting this discussion. I'm sorry I was not able to participate more. However, I reje

Re: Musings about Usernames in adduser and Debian

2024-12-09 Thread Chris Hofstaedtler
* Marc Haber [241203 22:06]: > On Tue, Dec 03, 2024 at 08:41:06PM +0100, Étienne Mollier wrote: > > Marc Haber, on 2024-12-03: > > > I'll probably deprecate --allow-bad-names in favor of something that > > > doesn't use the word "bad" (suggestions appreciated). Otoh, adduser in > > > the Red Hat W

Re: Musings about Usernames in adduser and Debian

2024-12-09 Thread Chris Hofstaedtler
* Ben Kallus [241208 21:35]: > I second calling it "allow-unsafe-names" This was never on the table, and shadow upstream might even drop the entire "support" for having bad names. > for the following reasons: [..] > 2. There's a path traversal bug in useradd (but not adduser) that can > be tri

Re: Problems to find sponsors

2024-12-09 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, Am Thu, Dec 05, 2024 at 08:03:36AM -0600 schrieb rhys: > >>> When I was regularly monitoring ITPs, I noticed that newcomers often > >>> struggle to "find friends" (i.e., sponsors). In my opinion, what we need > >>> is someone to guide sponsees to the appropriate team, Salsa group, or > >>> sim

Bug#1089597: ITP: golang-k8s-component-helpers -- High-level helpers for Kubernetes components

2024-12-09 Thread William . Lyu
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: William Lyu * Package name: golang-k8s-component-helpers Version : 0.31.3-1 Upstream Author : Kubernetes * URL : https://github.com/kubernetes/component-helpers * License : Apache-2.0 Programming Lang: Go Description

Re: Building with many cores without OOM

2024-12-09 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Thu, 2024-12-05 at 09:23:24 +0100, Helmut Grohne wrote: > On Wed, Dec 04, 2024 at 02:03:29PM +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: > > On Thu, 2024-11-28 at 10:54:37 +0100, Helmut Grohne wrote: > > > For one thing, I propose extending debhelper to provide > > > --min-ram-per-parallel-core as that see