Bug#1093184: ITP: libpdl-io-idl-perl -- Read IDL(tm) data files into PDL

2025-01-15 Thread Ed J
Package: wnpp Owner: Ed J Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libpdl-io-idl-perl Version : 2.098 Upstream Author : PerlDL Developers * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/PDL-IO-IDL * License

Bug#1093181: ITP: libpdl-transform-color-perl -- Useful color system conversions for PDL

2025-01-15 Thread Ed J
Package: wnpp Owner: Ed J Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libpdl-transform-color-perl Version : 1.007 Upstream Author : Craig DeForest * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/PDL-Transform-Color

Bug#1093182: ITP: libpdl-transform-proj4-perl -- PDL::Transform interface to the PROJ library

2025-01-15 Thread Ed J
Package: wnpp Owner: Ed J Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libpdl-transform-proj4-perl Version : 2.098 Upstream Author : PerlDL Developers * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/PDL-Transform-Pr

Bug#1093180: ITP: libpdl-io-gd-perl -- PDL interface to the GD image library

2025-01-15 Thread Ed J
Package: wnpp Owner: Ed J Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libpdl-io-gd-perl Version : 2.103 Upstream Author : PerlDL Developers * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/PDL-IO-GD * License

Bug#1093179: ITP: libpdl-perldl2-perl -- Simple shell (version 2) for PDL using Devel::REPL

2025-01-15 Thread Ed J
Package: wnpp Owner: Ed J Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libpdl-perldl2-perl Version : 2.002 Upstream Author : Chris Marshall * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/PDL-Perldl2 * License

Bug#1093177: ITP: libpdl-gsl-perl -- PDL interface to the GNU Scientific Library

2025-01-15 Thread Ed J
Package: wnpp Owner: Ed J Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libpdl-gsl-perl Version : 2.101 Upstream Author : PerlDL Developers * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/PDL-GSL * License :

Bug#1093178: ITP: libpdl-io-envi-perl -- Read ENVI data into PDL

2025-01-15 Thread Ed J
Package: wnpp Owner: Ed J Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libpdl-io-envi-perl Version : 2.098 Upstream Author : PerlDL Developers * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/PDL-IO-ENVI * License

Bug#1093176: ITP: libpdl-io-dicom-perl -- Read 16-bit gray level Dicom images into PDL.

2025-01-15 Thread Ed J
Package: wnpp Owner: Ed J Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libpdl-io-dicom-perl Version : 2.098 Upstream Author : PerlDL Developers * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/PDL-IO-Dicom * License

Bug#1093174: ITP: libpdl-graphics-simple-perl -- Simple backend-independent plotting for PDL

2025-01-15 Thread Ed J
Package: wnpp Owner: Ed J Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libpdl-graphics-simple-perl Version : 1.015 Upstream Author : Craig DeForest * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/PDL-Graphics-Simple

Bug#1093172: ITP: libpdl-graphics-colorspace-perl -- PDL implementation of Graphics::ColorObject

2025-01-15 Thread Ed J
Package: wnpp Owner: Ed J Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libpdl-graphics-colorspace-perl Version : 0.204 Upstream Author : Maggie J. Xiong * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/PDL-Graphics-

Re: Removing manpages from libpam-modules to improve multi-arch

2025-01-15 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On 1/16/25 13:22, Russ Allbery wrote: There are various things one can do to try to make the output of a man page generator like that more consistent, but they don't fix the problem, just reduce its frequency, unless Debian sets up to do a fully reproducible build with pinned versions of ev

Bug#1093168: ITP: libpdl-fit-perl -- Fitting functions for PDL.

2025-01-15 Thread Ed J
Package: wnpp Owner: Ed J Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libpdl-fit-perl Version : 2.099 Upstream Author : PerlDL Developers * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/PDL-Fit * License :

Re: Removing manpages from libpam-modules to improve multi-arch

2025-01-15 Thread Russ Allbery
Simon Richter writes: > On 1/16/25 01:43, Sam Hartman wrote: >> For a while we just built the man pages but if any of the docbook tools >> changed between one arch build and another, we'd end up with m-a >> uninstallable packages. > Can this be fixed by removing the "Generator:" comment in the g

Re: Removing manpages from libpam-modules to improve multi-arch

2025-01-15 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On 1/16/25 01:43, Sam Hartman wrote: For a while we just built the man pages but if any of the docbook tools changed between one arch build and another, we'd end up with m-a uninstallable packages. Can this be fixed by removing the "Generator:" comment in the generated manpage, and possi

Re: write the fine manual (was Re: Removing manpages from libpam-modules to improve multi-arch)

2025-01-15 Thread Russ Allbery
"G. Branden Robinson" writes: > 1. podlators/Pod::Man -- a proud exception to some of the > generalizations above. First, it's been around probably longer than > any of these others, maybe by a margin of decades. Second, it was > initially developed by people who seemed to have a g

Re: write the fine manual (was Re: Removing manpages from libpam-modules to improve multi-arch)

2025-01-15 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Hi Jonathan, At 2025-01-15T22:01:28+, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Wed Jan 15, 2025 at 9:42 PM GMT, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > > As someone who has a bit of a preoccupation with man pages > > You've reminded me that you presented 'Write the Fine Manual' in 2005, > (possibly at DebConf?). I

write the fine manual (was Re: Removing manpages from libpam-modules to improve multi-arch)

2025-01-15 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Wed Jan 15, 2025 at 9:42 PM GMT, G. Branden Robinson wrote: As someone who has a bit of a preoccupation with man pages You've reminded me that you presented 'Write the Fine Manual' in 2005, (possibly at DebConf?). I thought it was a really good slide-deck, but it's either unavailable or at

Re: Removing manpages from libpam-modules to improve multi-arch

2025-01-15 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2025-01-15T14:09:03-0700, Sam Hartman wrote: > > "G" == G Branden Robinson writes: > G> Don't we have dpkg filters for this sort of use case? > > I honestly can't tell from your message which position you are > supporting, which I do find somewhat frustrating when I'm trying to > get f

Re: Removing manpages from libpam-modules to improve multi-arch

2025-01-15 Thread Russ Allbery
Sam Hartman writes: > My proposal is to move the man pages into libpam-doc. I'm not actually > convinced that normal Debian users need man pages for all the pam > modules on all Debian systems, and a suggests relationship should be > sufficient. If people really want to maintain the current level

Re: Removing manpages from libpam-modules to improve multi-arch

2025-01-15 Thread Sam Hartman
> "G" == G Branden Robinson writes: G> At 2025-01-15T12:45:22-0700, Sam Hartman wrote: Marvin> I have on a number of occasions used these man pages, and Marvin> having them installed locally is very helpful. I would Marvin> rather have the man pages installed without the addi

Re: New Delegation: tag2upload delegates

2025-01-15 Thread Thorsten Glaser
On Wed, 15 Jan 2025, Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues wrote: >Quoting Thorsten Glaser (2025-01-15 00:50:55) >> There should be something in this that says that they need to do so >> in a way that matches ftpmaster policies. > >Do we really need to explicitly codify "please work well together with

Re: Removing manpages from libpam-modules to improve multi-arch

2025-01-15 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2025-01-15T12:45:22-0700, Sam Hartman wrote: > Marvin> I have on a number of occasions used these man pages, and > Marvin> having them installed locally is very helpful. I would > Marvin> rather have the man pages installed without the additional > Marvin> documentation in libpa

Re: New Delegation: tag2upload delegates

2025-01-15 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2025-01-15T20:25:04+0100, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > On Wed, 15 Jan 2025, Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues wrote: > >Quoting Thorsten Glaser (2025-01-15 00:50:55) > >> There should be something in this that says that they need to do so > >> in a way that matches ftpmaster policies. > > > >Do we re

Re: Removing manpages from libpam-modules to improve multi-arch

2025-01-15 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Marvin" == Marvin Renich writes: Marvin> I have on a number of occasions used these man pages, and Marvin> having them installed locally is very helpful. I would Marvin> rather have the man pages installed without the additional Marvin> documentation in libpam-doc. Why n

Re: Removing manpages from libpam-modules to improve multi-arch

2025-01-15 Thread Marvin Renich
* Sam Hartman [250115 11:44]: > > TL;DR: I propose move man pages out of a multi-arch: same package into a > arch all package. Asking for any downsides and usrmerge review. > > My proposal is to move the man pages into libpam-doc. > I'm not actually convinced that normal Debian users need man pa

Re: Let's make 2025 a year when code reviews became common in Debian

2025-01-15 Thread Gioele Barabucci
On 15/01/25 15:19, Andreas Tille wrote: I'm not sure that these packages are on BTS only because the associated packages have no Git/salsa repo. The BTS is our prefered form of reporting issues. Adding an MR and linking to it as a patch as you did in [1] is perfect and as a maintainer (who has

Documentation field? (Was: Removing manpages from libpam-modules to improve multi-arch)

2025-01-15 Thread Gioele Barabucci
On 15/01/25 17:43, Sam Hartman wrote: My proposal is to move the man pages into libpam-doc. I'm not actually convinced that normal Debian users need man pages for all the pam modules on all Debian systems, and a suggests relationship should be sufficient. Unrelated to the question at hand, but

Removing manpages from libpam-modules to improve multi-arch

2025-01-15 Thread Sam Hartman
TL;DR: I propose move man pages out of a multi-arch: same package into a arch all package. Asking for any downsides and usrmerge review. I'm in the process of packaging pam 1.7.0. Upstream has moved from autotools to meson and in the process has streamlined their release tarballs to remove all or

Re: wiki.d.o on a git-backed engine

2025-01-15 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Wed Jan 15, 2025 at 12:37 AM GMT, Kunal Mehta wrote: Agreed 100%, the openness for editing is really what makes wikis shine. It can be hard to accept, with many of us firmly set in Git's pre-approval style PR/MR workflows, to allow anyone with an account, to just change anything, but that em

Re: Let's make 2025 a year when code reviews became common in Debian

2025-01-15 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Gioele, Am Wed, Jan 15, 2025 at 08:55:51AM +0100 schrieb Gioele Barabucci: > On 14/01/25 23:14, Otto Kekäläinen wrote: > > Numerous people are posting Merge Requests on Salsa. Please help review > > them! > > Could we do the same for BTS patches? > > There are ~5000 patches that have been si

Re: DEP17 /usr-move: most mitigations (M18) for aliased diversions (P3) are broken

2025-01-15 Thread Helmut Grohne
On Wed, Jan 08, 2025 at 03:21:43PM +0100, Helmut Grohne wrote: codesearching DEP17.*M18 (and a few other patterns) suggest the > following packages needing an update: > * bfh-metapackages Open #1092955. I first got it wrong and then sent another update. > * clonezilla Open #1093135. Though th

Re: New Delegation: tag2upload delegates

2025-01-15 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, All delegates have to co-ordinate with each other. There’s no special need for this delegation to make reference to others, as josch says. -- Sean Whitton Please excuse top-posting and brevity. I am writing to you from a mobile phone. > On 15 Jan 2025, at 07:47, Andreas Tille wrote: >

Re: Project-wide LLM budget for helping people

2025-01-15 Thread Helmut Grohne
Hi Mo, before going into criticizing things, I would like to thank you for your continued work in the AI space. In particular, your way of classifying models into different degrees of freedom demonstrates how much you care about Debian's values. I see that your focus is on enabling users and that'

Re: DEP17 /usr-move: most mitigations (M18) for aliased diversions (P3) are broken

2025-01-15 Thread Helmut Grohne
On Wed, Jan 08, 2025 at 03:21:42PM +0100, Helmut Grohne wrote: > Since I was failing to get this right earlier, I figured I could as well > write some tests. As a result, I'm attaching a shell script. It > constructs a few demo packages and attempts a hopefully exhaustive > combination of using the

Bug#1093128: ITP: rust-cargo-vendor-filterer -- `cargo vendor`, but with filtering for platforms and more

2025-01-15 Thread Julian Andres Klode
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Julian Andres Klode X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-r...@lists.debian.org * Package name: rust-cargo-vendor-filterer Version : 0.5.16 Upstream Contact: GitHub issue tracker lol * URL : https://github.com/coreos

Re: wiki.d.o on a git-backed engine

2025-01-15 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Chris Hofstaedtler (2025-01-15 11:44:19) > * Jonas Smedegaard [250115 11:40]: > > Quoting Andrej Shadura (2025-01-15 11:24:31) > > > Hello, > > > > > > On Tue, 14 Jan 2025, at 18:01, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > > >> >> >Then let's move to the tinker team mailinglist: > > > >> >> >https://

Re: wiki.d.o on a git-backed engine

2025-01-15 Thread Chris Hofstaedtler
* Jonas Smedegaard [250115 11:40]: > Quoting Andrej Shadura (2025-01-15 11:24:31) > > Hello, > > > > On Tue, 14 Jan 2025, at 18:01, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > >> >> >Then let's move to the tinker team mailinglist: > > >> >> >https://alioth-lists.debian.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/blend-tinker-d

Re: wiki.d.o on a git-backed engine

2025-01-15 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Andrej Shadura (2025-01-15 11:24:31) > Hello, > > On Tue, 14 Jan 2025, at 18:01, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > >> >> >Then let's move to the tinker team mailinglist: > >> >> >https://alioth-lists.debian.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/blend-tinker-devel > > > No, but that my proposal for discuss

Re: wiki.d.o on a git-backed engine

2025-01-15 Thread Andrej Shadura
Hello, On Tue, 14 Jan 2025, at 18:01, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: >> >> >Then let's move to the tinker team mailinglist: >> >> >https://alioth-lists.debian.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/blend-tinker-devel > No, but that my proposal for discussion place was so out of this earth > that you felt the need

Re: New Delegation: tag2upload delegates

2025-01-15 Thread Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues
Quoting Thorsten Glaser (2025-01-15 00:50:55) > There should be something in this that says that they need to do so in a way > that matches ftpmaster policies. Do we really need to explicitly codify "please work well together with your fellow DDs" in the task description of delegates? I think tha

Re: Let's make 2025 a year when code reviews became common in Debian

2025-01-15 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, Am Wed, Jan 15, 2025 at 09:01:33AM +0100 schrieb Gioele Barabucci: > Indeed, archiving the project [1], as suggested by Chris, seems a more > sensible course of action. Everything remains available, but users are given > a clear indication of the status of the repository. > > [1] > https://d

Re: Let's make 2025 a year when code reviews became common in Debian

2025-01-15 Thread Gioele Barabucci
On 14/01/25 23:14, Otto Kekäläinen wrote: Numerous people are posting Merge Requests on Salsa. Please help review them! Could we do the same for BTS patches? There are ~5000 patches that have been sitting in the BTS for years, some trivial (examples from my own: [1,2]), others less so. Most o

Re: Let's make 2025 a year when code reviews became common in Debian

2025-01-15 Thread Gioele Barabucci
On 15/01/25 08:43, Andreas Tille wrote: However, I would support the idea of bulk closing MRs and complete repositories *if* the package has been removed from Debian for the same reason we bulk close their bug reports. I tend to keep the repository for several reasons: * Users might like to