Re: s390x architecture status?

2024-10-31 Thread Alberto Garcia
On Mon, Oct 28, 2024 at 10:24:04AM +0100, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote: > b) various packages already ignore s390x (gnome? others?) WebKitGTK still builds in s390x, but the Skia graphics library does not support big-endian machines so if the Cairo backend is ever dropped then we probably won't be able

Re: 64-bit time_t transition in progress

2024-02-06 Thread Alberto Garcia
On Sun, Feb 04, 2024 at 11:05:46PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > In fact, none of the t64 binaries currently being uploaded > to experimental have the final ABI either, we're just using > experimental to clear binary NEW. I was having a look at two of the packages that I maintain that have t64 bi

Re: build profile proposal: nogir (second try)

2024-01-24 Thread Alberto Garcia
On Wed, Jan 17, 2024 at 10:00:35PM +, Simon McVittie wrote: > Here is the draft text that I added to the GObject-Introspection > mini-policy in 1.78.1-11: Hi, thanks for the explanation. A couple of questions about this: - Are packages that ship gobject-introspection files supposed to have

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

2022-05-27 Thread Alberto Garcia
On Fri, May 27, 2022 at 02:18:10AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > In this case you need the portal in order to have access to the > > font settings: > IMHO, such explanations could be useful to users, who may wonder why > xdg-desktop-portal-gtk is recommended or why some features are not > avail

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

2022-05-26 Thread Alberto Garcia
On Fri, May 27, 2022 at 01:03:57AM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > It was actually due to a problem in Evolution that we made WebKitGTK > > depend on xdg-desktop-portal (later downgraded to a recommendation): > > > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1845743 > > https://bugs.webkit.or

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

2022-05-26 Thread Alberto Garcia
On Thu, May 26, 2022 at 10:09:32PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > It looks like that's happening because atril depends on > > WebKitGTK, a relatively complete web browser engine, which uses > > xdg-desktop-portal to invoke per-user services across a sandbox > > boundary (so that it can provide

Bug#949476: ITP: cog -- Simple web browser based on WPE WebKit

2020-01-21 Thread Alberto Garcia
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alberto Garcia * Package name: cog Version : 0.4.0 Upstream Author : The WPE WebKit Team * URL : https://wpewebkit.org/ * License : MIT/Expat Programming Lang: C Description : Simple web browser based on WPE

Bug#930117: ITP: wpebackend-fdo -- WPE backend for FreeDesktop.org

2019-06-07 Thread Alberto Garcia
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alberto Garcia * Package name: wpebackend-fdo Version : 1.3.0 Upstream Author : The WPE WebKit Team * URL : https://wpewebkit.org/ * License : 2-clause BSD and Expat Programming Lang: C++ Description : WPE

Bug#930116: ITP: libwpe -- Base library for the WPE WebKit port

2019-06-07 Thread Alberto Garcia
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alberto Garcia * Package name: libwpe Version : 1.3.0 Upstream Author : The WPE WebKit Team * URL : https://wpewebkit.org/ * License : 2-clause BSD Programming Lang: C Description : Base library for the WPE

Bug#930053: ITP: wpewebkit -- Web content engine for embedded devices

2019-06-06 Thread Alberto Garcia
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alberto Garcia * Package name: wpewebkit Version : 2.24.2 Upstream Author : The WPE WebKit Team * URL : http://www.wpewebkit.org/ * License : mixed LGPL and BSD Programming Lang: C, C++ Description : Web content

Re: How does one include the original upstream signature?

2017-08-04 Thread Alberto Garcia
On Fri, Aug 04, 2017 at 09:27:14AM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > I'm getting the following lintian error message: > > E: e2fsprogs changes: orig-tarball-missing-upstream-signature > e2fsprogs_1.43.5.orig.tar.gz > > ... but I can't figure out how to get the changes file to include the > original

Re: Mitigating the problem of limited security support

2017-05-29 Thread Alberto Garcia
On Sun, May 28, 2017 at 09:32:23PM -0400, Jeremy Bicha wrote: > > The good news is that the first kind of problems are detected and > > fixed immediately, so waiting a couple of weeks before uploading > > the releases to debian-security could be an option (is that what > > Ubuntu does?). > > For t

Re: Mitigating the problem of limited security support

2017-05-28 Thread Alberto Garcia
On 2017-05-27 23:49, Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote: > The "browser exception" applies to Chromium and Firefox, which are > standalone packages (sans a few addons breaking), but unless webkit > provides a long term branch with API stability guarantees, that's > not a workable. "Rebase to a new 2.x branch

Re: Bug#825821: ITP: neomutt -- NeoMutt is a place to gather all the patches against Mutt.

2016-05-30 Thread Alberto Garcia
(I forgot to Cc debian-devel in my previous e-mail) > > >NeoMutt is a sophisticated text-based Mail User Agent > > >supporting MIME, GPG, PGP and threading. > > >. > > >NeoMutt was created when Richard Russon (FlatCap) took all > > >the old Mutt patches, sorted through them, fi

Re: Keysigning in Toronto?

2016-03-13 Thread Alberto Garcia
On Sun, Mar 13, 2016 at 04:32:59PM +0100, Andrea Bolognani wrote: > > Are there Debian Developers who happen to be travelling to > > Toronto, Canada this spring and who would be up to meet briefly > > for GPG key signing? > > The KVM Forum[1] will take place in Toronto this August, maybe some > o

Re: how to remove libsystemd0 from a live-running debian desktop system

2015-02-17 Thread Alberto Garcia
On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 01:54:35AM +, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > you have the right to choose whether the situation that you are > complicit in is something that you find acceptable or whether you do > not. i leave it entirely to you to decide. As a matter of fact we have already d

Re: multi-arch and non-multi-arch gobject introspection in Debian and derivatives

2014-11-26 Thread Alberto Garcia
On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 10:11:02AM +, Mike Gabriel wrote: > My proposal for the interim phase (however long that might be) > is to provide symlinks in gir1.2-* packages that provide correct > functionalities in Debian and downstream distros (such as described > above), as well. > > /usr/lib/g

Bug#766611: ITP: megatools -- Command-line client for the Mega cloud storage service

2014-10-24 Thread Alberto Garcia
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alberto Garcia * Package name: megatools Version : 1.9.93 Upstream Author : Ondřej Jirman * URL : http://megatools.megous.com * License : GPL-2+ with OpenSSL exception Programming Lang: C Description : Command

Re: Bug#729660: ITP: xemacs21 -- highly customizable text editor

2013-11-15 Thread Alberto Garcia
On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 12:02:18PM +, Mark Brown wrote: > * Package name: xemacs21 > Version : 21.4.22 Wasn't this removed just one month ago? http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=725883 Berto -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org wit

Re: Replacing unrar-free with unar wrapper

2013-09-25 Thread Alberto Garcia
On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 04:30:59PM +0200, Dominik George wrote: > I found that the unar command from theunarchiver, which is even > recommended by the FSF [3], can handle multipart, modern RAR > archives just fine, only the command-line is incompatible to > unrar-free and unrar-nonfree [4]. Not d

Re: Proposed mass bug filing: Removal of automake1.4, automake1.9, automake1.10 and automake1.11

2013-06-02 Thread Alberto Garcia
On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 02:38:48AM -0400, Eric Dorland wrote: > We've accumulated a lot of automake packages in main and since > we're at the very beginning of the jessie release cycle I'd like > to propose a mass bug filing to remove all the current automake > packages in unstable (automake1.13 i

Re: Bug#707601: ITP: debmake -- helper script to make the Debian source package

2013-05-13 Thread Alberto Garcia
On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 12:36:39AM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: > > The debmake command invoked in the upstream source tree without > > any option can generate template files which is good enough to > > create a single arch=any Debian binary package for local use. > This sounds almost exactly

Re: epoch fix?

2013-05-08 Thread Alberto Garcia
On Tue, May 07, 2013 at 05:22:25PM -0500, Peter Samuelson wrote: > [Matt Zagrabelny] > > I've grepped the d-d list, but didn't find any threads regarding > > fixing epochs in package versions. > > This does come up occasionally. I was unaware of this thing and I'm sure I'm overlooking something,

Bug#646028: ITP: meiga -- Light and easy content server for your desktop

2011-10-20 Thread Alberto Garcia
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alberto Garcia * Package name: meiga Version : 0.4.0 Upstream Author : Enrique Ocaña González * URL : http://meiga.igalia.com/ * License : GPLv2 Programming Lang: Vala, C, Bash Description : Light and easy

Bug#641445: ITP: filetea -- Web-based file sharing system

2011-09-13 Thread Alberto Garcia
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alberto Garcia * Package name: filetea Version : 0.1.2 Upstream Author : Eduardo Lima Mitev * URL : http://gitorious.org/filetea/filetea * License : AGPLv3 Programming Lang: C, Javascript Description : Web

Bug#641444: ITP: event-dance -- Peer-to-peer inter-process communication library

2011-09-13 Thread Alberto Garcia
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alberto Garcia * Package name: event-dance Version : 0.1.8 Upstream Author : Eduardo Lima Mitev * URL : http://gitorious.org/eventdance/eventdance * License : LGPLv3 Programming Lang: C Description : Peer-to

Bug#628746: ITP: opense-basic -- Free software ROM for the Sinclair ZX Spectrum

2011-05-31 Thread Alberto Garcia
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alberto Garcia * Package name: opense-basic Version : 3.03 Upstream Author : Andrew Owen * URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/sebasic/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: Assembler (Z80) Description : Free

Bug#608203: ITP: fuse-emulator -- The Free Unix Spectrum Emulator

2010-12-28 Thread Alberto Garcia
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alberto Garcia * Package name: fuse-emulator Version : 1.0.0 Upstream Author : Philip Kendall * URL : http://fuse-emulator.sourceforge.net/ * License : GPL2 Programming Lang: C Description : The Free Unix

Bug#608202: ITP: fuse-emulator-utils -- ZX Spectrum emulator library - Utilities

2010-12-28 Thread Alberto Garcia
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alberto Garcia * Package name: fuse-emulator-utils Version : 1.0.0 Upstream Author : Philip Kendall * URL : http://fuse-emulator.sourceforge.net/ * License : GPL2 Programming Lang: C Description : ZX Spectrum

Bug#608200: ITP: libspectrum -- ZX Spectrum emulator library

2010-12-28 Thread Alberto Garcia
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alberto Garcia * Package name: libspectrum Version : 1.0.0 Upstream Author : Philip Kendall * URL : http://fuse-emulator.sourceforge.net/libspectrum.php * License : GPL2 Programming Lang: C Description : ZX

Bug#607889: ITP: frogr -- Flickr Remote Organizer for GNOME

2010-12-23 Thread Alberto Garcia
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alberto Garcia Package name: frogr Version : 0.3 Upstream Author : Mario Sanchez Prada URL : http://code.google.com/p/frogr/ License : GPL-3 / LGPL-3 Programming Lang: C Description : Flickr Remote

Re: cc vs gcc

2009-06-24 Thread Alberto Garcia
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 04:45:26PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > All uploaded packages should always be build with the same compiler, > the debian default gcc, unless a specific compiler is specified in > rules. > > So I would say using cc is wrong. Moreover, in the case of C++ (also ment

Re: xcdroast does no longer work with wodim: Who to blame?

2009-02-27 Thread Alberto Garcia
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 06:48:01AM -0600, William Pitcock wrote: > > > > There definitely _is_ a major legal problem with the fork. > > > Please provide specific details, rather than vaguely defined > > > "major problems". > > Read the related entry in the Debian bugtracking system before > > aski

Re: Considerations for lilo removal

2008-06-18 Thread Alberto Garcia
On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 11:19:03AM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: > > We still very regularly get installation reports where people use > > lilo rather than grub, so it must still have a fairly significant > > user base. I would say that the activity on the bug report shows > > the same. > > OTOH, are

Re: Bug#464169: ITP: vagalume -- A GTK+-based Last.fm client

2008-02-07 Thread Alberto Garcia
On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 05:45:42AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: > Saying that something is GTK-based is probably meaningful for the > average geek. It means nothing for the average user. This is what I > call jargon. > > Our package descriptions should help all users to answer the simple > que

Re: Bug#464169: ITP: vagalume -- A GTK+-based Last.fm client

2008-02-06 Thread Alberto Garcia
On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 05:57:21PM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: > > > "graphical GTK+-based client for Last.fm media service" > > Is it necessary to say it's graphical provided that it's based on > > GTK+? > "GTK+" is jargon..:-) Then we'd need to change quite a few package descriptions :-) $

Re: Bug#464169: ITP: vagalume -- A GTK+-based Last.fm client

2008-02-06 Thread Alberto Garcia
On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 09:59:30AM +0100, Alberto Garcia wrote: > > Also drop the leading article, of course > > "graphical GTK+-based client for Last.fm media service" > > Is it necessary to say it's graphical provided that it's based on > GTK+? >

Re: Bug#464169: ITP: vagalume -- A GTK+-based Last.fm client

2008-02-06 Thread Alberto Garcia
On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 06:56:05AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: > > Description : A GTK+-based Last.fm client > > "Last.fm" isn't really clear for anybody. I suggest using a more > generic description and somehow say this is related to audio/media > playing. Well, you're right, I should

Bug#464169: ITP: vagalume -- A GTK+-based Last.fm client

2008-02-05 Thread Alberto Garcia
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alberto Garcia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: vagalume Version : 0.5 Upstream Author : Alberto Garcia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://people.igalia.com/berto/ * License : GPL 3 Programming Lang: C