Re: New contributor experience

2025-06-04 Thread Charles Plessy
lists in all the languages of the World and ask "Hey, I am a beginner, what can I do that Debian users need?". Have a nice day, Charles -- Charles Plessy Nagahama, Yomitan, Okinawa, Japan Debian Med packaging team http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-

debian/upstream/metadata (Re: git branches vs debian specific git tools (Re: RFC for changes regarding NMU in developers reference)

2025-05-14 Thread Charles Plessy
tadata That's pretty much where we are now. This was done in the pre-Salsa time, and if people get excited about the concept, I guess that Salsa offers new opportunities to play with the concept! Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Nagahama, Yomitan, Okinawa, Japan

Re: ITN procedure?

2025-05-07 Thread Charles Plessy
e a member card in a formal team. When proposed a NMU on my packages, I sometimes ask the person if instead they can push the changes to Salsa and do a team upload instead. Have a nice day, Charles -- Charles Plessy Nagahama, Yomitan, Okinawa, Japan Debian Med packag

Re: Need advice on architecture exclusion when arch: all packages are involved.

2025-04-27 Thread Charles Plessy
ot able to migrate? Have a nice day, Charles -- Charles Plessy Nagahama, Yomitan, Okinawa, Japan Debian Med packaging team http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tooting from home https://framapiaf.org/@charles_plessy - You do not have my permissi

Re: Associating .texi files to the media type text/prs.texi?

2025-04-26 Thread Charles Plessy
pes unless the alternatives have serious drawbacks. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Nagahama, Yomitan, Okinawa, Japan Debian Med packaging team http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tooting from home https://framapiaf.org/@charles_plessy - Yo

Re: Associating .texi files to the media type text/prs.texi?

2025-04-25 Thread Charles Plessy
r application/texinfo to be registered. Now I can update the package (maybe not for Trixie) so that application/texinfo takes over text/x-texinfo. I hope it explains better. Thanks again! Charles -- Charles Plessy Nagahama, Yomitan, Okinawa, Japan Debian Med packaging t

Re: "ftp:" URLs in debian/copyright files

2025-04-25 Thread Charles Plessy
e instead. Maybe this can be added to the package smells? https://trends.debian.net/#smells Have a nice week-end! Charles -- Charles Plessy Nagahama, Yomitan, Okinawa, Japan Debian Med packaging team http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tooting from h

Planning to remove team-based R packages from 32-bit and big-endian architectures.

2025-04-16 Thread Charles Plessy
share the workload. Otherwise I will start the process next week, assuming silent approval. The alternative is to lose a lot of r-cran-* packages from amd64 as well. Have a nice day, Charles -- Charles Plessy Nagahama, Yomitan, Okinawa, Japan Debian Med packaging team

Re: Brief progress report on the Gatway to NEW project.

2025-04-07 Thread Charles Plessy
rcon and to the improvement of the tools. In practice, I did not have time… I'd be more than happy to review a package from whoever adds these CI pipelines to their repo and opens an issue! Have a nice day, Charles -- Charles Plessy Nagahama, Yomitan, Oki

Re: Brief progress report on the Gatway to NEW project.

2025-04-06 Thread Charles Plessy
icient and trusted, that at some point it will become a matter of course to completely switch to that way to screen new packages, and that the waiting time will become just a couple of days maximum in most cases. Have a nice day, Charles -- Charles Plessy Nagahama, Yomita

Brief progress report on the Gatway to NEW project.

2025-04-05 Thread Charles Plessy
can change Debian together! Have a nice week-end! Charles -- Charles Plessy Nagahama, Yomitan, Okinawa, Japan Debian Med packaging team http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tooting from work, https://fediscience.org/@charles_plessy Tooting from home

Re: OpenPGP certificates with SHA-1 issues in Debian keyrings

2025-03-19 Thread Charles Plessy
Hi Guillem, sorry but I am confused... can you explain at a beginner level what is the difference between a certificate and a "key" in the sense it is used in the Developers Reference? Have a nice day, Charles -- Charles Plessy Nagahama, Yomitan, Okinawa, Ja

Re: Revisiting the idea of pre-NEW peer review? (Re: Bits from DPL)

2025-03-15 Thread Charles Plessy
On Fri, 2025-03-07 at 09:51 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > I have prepared a stub for a "Gateway to NEW" on Salsa: > > > > https://salsa.debian.org/newgateway-team Le Sun, Mar 09, 2025 at 06:00:55PM +0800, Maytham Alsudany a écrit : > Am I correct in a

Re: Revisiting the idea of pre-NEW peer review? (Re: Bits from DPL)

2025-03-13 Thread Charles Plessy
t message: it is essential that it is easy for everyone to get that right. Have a nice day, Charles -- Charles Plessy Nagahama, Yomitan, Okinawa, Japan Debian Med packaging team http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tooting from home https://framapiaf.org

Re: Revisiting the idea of pre-NEW peer review? (Re: Bits from DPL)

2025-03-11 Thread Charles Plessy
ed and merged by the package maintainer. 6. Once all reviewers thumbs are up, update the table below (with or without MR), and upload to NEW. 7. Once the package leaves the NEW queue, record the outcome in the table below. Surely, please join the tests with lite

Re: Revisiting the idea of pre-NEW peer review? (Re: Bits from DPL)

2025-03-11 Thread Charles Plessy
> On Thu 06 Mar 2025 at 01:21pm +09, Charles Plessy wrote: > > > Around 12 years ago, I proposed a peer-review system to increase the > > quality of > > the packages in the NEW queue. https://wiki.debian.org/CopyrightReview Le Thu, Mar 06, 2025 at 05:41:14PM +08

Re: Change the expectation that emails should wrap at 80 characters

2025-03-09 Thread Charles Plessy
`text/markdown` as the default content type for my emails. Have a nice day, Charles Plessy Nagahama, Yomitan, Okinawa, Japan Debian Med packaging team http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tooting from home https://framapiaf.org/@charles_pl

Re: Revisiting the idea of pre-NEW peer review? (Re: Bits from DPL)

2025-03-07 Thread Charles Plessy
ounter, I am not sure yet), could contain a checklist item about this. By the way, Simon and everybody elese, please feel free to ask for elevated Salsa priviledges as soon as you need and as long as the list of admins does not look already too long to you. Have a nice day, C

Revisiting the idea of pre-NEW peer review? (Re: Bits from DPL)

2025-03-05 Thread Charles Plessy
made. Have a nice day, Charles -- Charles Plessy Nagahama, Yomitan, Okinawa, Japan Debian Med packaging team http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tooting from home https://framapiaf.org/@charles_plessy - You do not have my permission to use

Re: Change the expectation that emails should wrap at 80 characters

2025-03-04 Thread Charles Plessy
nned support (or lack of support) of text/markdown at this point... Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Nagahama, Yomitan, Okinawa, Japan Debian Med packaging team http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tooting from home https://framapiaf.org/@ch

Re: Change the expectation that emails should wrap at 80 characters

2025-02-27 Thread Charles Plessy
. Maybe we can go one step further and just modify the rule about complaining in private to be: If you want to complain to someone that they wrapped or did not wrap their lines, or that the sent you a carbon copy, do it privately. Have a nice day, Charles -- Charles Plessy

Re: Debian Policy 4.7.2.0 released

2025-02-27 Thread Charles Plessy
advices and LLM outputs that summarise the whole of that. Have a nice day, Charles -- Charles Plessy Nagahama, Yomitan, Okinawa, Japan Debian Med packaging team http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tooting from home https://framapiaf.org/@ch

GCC-15 mass bug filing.

2025-02-17 Thread Charles Plessy
ckers, I question if mass bug filings are a tool that makes the best use of our volunteer time? Have a nice day, Charles -- Charles Plessy Nagahama, Yomitan, Okinawa, Japan Debian Med packaging team http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tooting from work,

Re: Do we need a conflict of interest policy?

2025-02-07 Thread Charles Plessy
ant to re-open the case or even send attention to people in particular. Actually, I have been careful to not write names in my email for that very purpose. Have a nice week-end, Charles -- Charles Plessy Nagahama, Yomitan, Okinawa, Japan Debian Med packaging team

Do we need a conflict of interest policy?

2025-02-07 Thread Charles Plessy
ipled. --- Have a nice day, Charles -- Charles Plessy Nagahama, Yomitan, Okinawa, Japan Debian Med packaging team http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tooting from home https://framapiaf.org/@charles_plessy - You do not have my permissio

Associating .texi files to the media type text/prs.texi?

2025-02-03 Thread Charles Plessy
text editor. And the situation could be easily reverted by somebody declaring `text/texinfo` to the IANA. So please let me know if you think that something would really break if I would associate text/prs.texi to texi files. Have a nice day, Charles -- Charles Plessy

Re: DEP-14: Default branch name 'debian/latest' objections?

2025-01-27 Thread Charles Plessy
Hello everybody, How about debian/default or debian/devel? The good thing with these names is that they are friendly to tab-completion, as the finger on the letter d does not have to move. Have a nice day, -- Charles

Re: Proposal: Optional `Priority: optional` and changed `Section` fall-back

2024-12-15 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sun, Dec 15, 2024 at 09:27:06AM +0100, Niels Thykier a écrit : > We would like [...] that `dpkg` provides defaults [...] if the fields > are omitted from `debian/control`, you get `Priority: optional` and > `Section: unknown` as default in all artifacts (`.dsc`, `.changes`, > and in the `.deb`).

Re: Bits from DPL / Feedback on attracting newcomers

2024-12-12 Thread Charles Plessy
> On Wed, Dec 11, 2024 at 09:29:08PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > Last time I had to write a removal request I asked ChatGPT and it worked > > well! Le Wed, Dec 11, 2024 at 02:29:08PM +, Holger Levsen a écrit : > > is this debian-devel@ or -curiosa@? (&scnr) Hi

Re: Bits from DPL / Feedback on attracting newcomers

2024-12-11 Thread Charles Plessy
hrough hoops when > possible. With enough practice, anyone could jump through a hoop as well. Last time I had to write a removal request I asked ChatGPT and it worked well! -- Charles Plessy Nagahama, Yomitan, Okinawa, Japan Debian Med packaging team http://www.d

Re: Bits from DPL / Feedback on attracting newcomers

2024-12-10 Thread Charles Plessy
t is less guarateed that an email is really being delivered after being sent. Have a nice day, Charles -- Charles Plessy Nagahama, Yomitan, Okinawa, Japan Debian Med packaging team http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tooting from home https://

Re: Musings about Usernames in adduser and Debian

2024-12-10 Thread Charles Plessy
, Charles -- Charles Plessy Nagahama, Yomitan, Okinawa, Japan Debian Med packaging team http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tooting from home https://framapiaf.org/@charles_plessy - You do not have my permission to use this email to train an AI -

Re: The advantages of splitting /bin and /usr/bin, and /sbin and /usr/sbin outweigh the disadvantages

2024-12-02 Thread Charles Plessy
-- Charles Plessy Nagahama, Yomitan, Okinawa, Japan Debian Med packaging team http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tooting from work, https://fediscience.org/@charles_plessy Tooting from home, https://framapiaf.org/@charles_plessy

Re: DEP-0, DEP0 or DEP 0?

2024-11-30 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sat, Nov 30, 2024 at 09:49:34AM +0100, Iustin Pop a écrit : > "DEP 8" is not easily searchable. Interestingly, on DuckDuckGo, https://dep-team.pages.debian.net/deps/dep8/ ranks 3rd when I search with DEP-8, but it ranks 2nd when I search with DEP 8! Have a nice week-end, Charles

Re: Things learned from the expeirment (Re: Debian Monthly [debian-devel]: AI News Report 2024/10

2024-11-15 Thread Charles Plessy
Hi Mo, thanks again for your posts, I was just thinking that the debian-mentors list could be a good target for summarisation too: it is high traffic, email subject lines are focused on what to upload, but discussions are focused on problem-solving, thus some intersting tips & trick will be easy

Re: Python 3.13 addition as a supported Python version started

2024-11-13 Thread Charles Plessy
c. leverage AI to send patches upstream by themselves and free us from that burden. Bonne soirée, -- Charles Plessy Nagahama, Yomitan, Okinawa, Japan Debian Med packaging team http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tooting from work, https://fediscien

Re: Debian Monthly [debian-devel]: AI News Report 2024/10

2024-11-09 Thread Charles Plessy
Thanks a lot Mo for this exciting experiment! And having two ex-DPLs pressing the big red stop button is not necessarly a bad sign in an ageing project. Often you will see ideas rejected in a very dismissive if not insulting way (for example source-only uploads or HTTPS URLs in /etc/apt/sources.l

Re: RFC: "Recommended bloat", and how to possibly fix it

2024-11-06 Thread Charles Plessy
python packages when trying to use some filters. The Suggests field in Debian is not very useful at the moment, but there is a straightforward way to repurpose it. And apt-get already has an --install-suggests option. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Nagahama, Yomitan

Re: Most optimal way to import NMU into existing git-builpackage repository?

2024-10-25 Thread Charles Plessy
> > "the archive is the truth" > "git is the truth" Maybe you can rephrase it to "the archive is the present and git is the future". For instance if a NMU is obsoleted by a new upstream release, you can ignore the NMU and continue from your latest upload. Have a nice day, Charles

Re: Will i386 released for Trixie and if no can we stop working on it now?

2024-10-14 Thread Charles Plessy
than changing 500 packages and filling 500 removal bugs by hand? Have a nice day, Charles -- Charles Plessy Nagahama, Yomitan, Okinawa, Japan Debian Med packaging team http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tooting from home https://framapia

Re: Will i386 released for Trixie and if no can we stop working on it now?

2024-10-13 Thread Charles Plessy
email to a bot somewhere with a list of packages, and voilà, they are removed seamlessly and we can focus on other tasks? Have a nice day Chares -- Charles Plessy Nagahama, Yomitan, Okinawa, Japan Debian Med packaging team http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med T

Will i386 released for Trixie and if no can we stop working on it now?

2024-10-13 Thread Charles Plessy
gle operation instead of filling plenty of bugs and modifying plenty of debian/control files? Life is too short to spend our time on doing that. Have a nice day, Charles -- Charles Plessy Nagahama, Yomitan, Okinawa, Japan Debian Med packaging team http://www.deb

Re: Supporting alternative zlib implementations

2024-09-24 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Tue, Sep 24, 2024 at 03:58:10PM +0200, Mark Brown a écrit : > >zlib-ng: https://github.com/zlib-ng/zlib-ng Hi Mark, just out of curiosity, would the carbon footprint of Debian be lower or higher after replacing zlib with zlib-ng? Have a nice day, Charles -- Charles

Re: sensible languages for younger contributors (was Re: lintian.debian.org off ?)

2024-09-22 Thread Charles Plessy
lus everything available under debian.org… Cheers, Charles -- Charles Plessy Nagahama, Yomitan, Okinawa, Japan Debian Med packaging team http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tooting from work, https://fediscience.org/@charles_plessy Tooting from h

Re: DEP5 and spdx shortname of license

2024-09-08 Thread Charles Plessy
and many other projects. About saying MIT instead of Expat, I fully [1] agree [2]. 1: https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2010/08/msg00109.html 2: https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2011/12/msg00034.html Have a nice day, Charles -- Charles Plessy Nagahama,

Re: Bits from DPL

2024-09-04 Thread Charles Plessy
chitecture-specific removals can not be done under this pattern, but maybe it could be automated that anything depending on architecture-is-64-bit gets removed from i386, armel and armhf for instance? Have a nice day, Charles -- Charles Plessy Nagahama, Yomitan, Okinawa, Japan

Re: Removing more packages from unstable

2024-08-20 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Tue, Aug 20, 2024 at 07:28:52AM +0200, Helmut Grohne a écrit : > > please allow me to open a can of worms. Package removal from unstable. Hi all, I think that package removal from Unstable, total or partial (for instance, 32-bit architectures) should be an automated self-sevice system for lea

Re: Request for feedback on draft: DEP-18: Enable true open collaboration on all Debian packages

2024-08-03 Thread Charles Plessy
e, one problem I have with NMUs in team-maintained package is that they often bypass Salsa… Would it make sense to add to the DEP a request that NMUs are started from and pushed to the default branch? Have a nice week-end, Charles -- Charles Plessy Nagahama, Yomitan, Oki

Re: Request for feedback on draft: DEP-18: Enable true open collaboration on all Debian packages

2024-08-01 Thread Charles Plessy
y. Would there be a way to get Salsa upload and tag the package if the CI tests pass and the changelog signals a release? Or does somebody has a script which can screen a Salsa group for ready uploads, and run clone && buildpackage && dput automatically ? Cheers, Ch

Re: Tool to build Debian packages not requiring root in containers ?

2024-05-08 Thread Charles Plessy
oot access, and I want to do that with user privileges only. Have a nice day, Charles -- Charles Plessy Nagahama, Yomitan, Okinawa, Japan Debian Med packaging team http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tooting from home https://framapiaf.org/@charl

Re: Tool to build Debian packages not requiring root in containers ?

2024-05-07 Thread Charles Plessy
t from the Release team. (And to rebuild all of them if in the meantime the contents of Unstable have changed significantly). Have a nice day, Charles -- Charles Plessy Nagahama, Yomitan, Okinawa, Japan Debian Med packaging team http://www.debian.org/devel/debia

Tool to build Debian packages not requiring root in containers ?

2024-05-07 Thread Charles Plessy
package ? Have a nice day, Charles -- Charles Plessy Nagahama, Yomitan, Okinawa, Japan Debian Med packaging team http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tooting from work, https://fediscience.org/@charles_plessy Tooting from home, https

Re: Can we distribute pre-built locales to speed up image generation?

2023-08-01 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Tue, Aug 01, 2023 at 03:18:18PM +0530, Nilesh Patra a écrit : > > https://micronews.debian.org/2023/1686751737.html Thanks ! I was using sid but just switched to fasttrack thanks to your message. Cheers, -- Charles

Re: Can we distribute pre-built locales to speed up image generation?

2023-08-01 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Tue, Aug 01, 2023 at 11:56:28AM +0200, PICCA Frederic-Emmanuel a écrit : > > I sthere a maliling list where we can speak about these singuarity/apptainer > applications ? I wouln't mind debian-hpc@l.d.o, but I do not know about the opinion of the other subscribers? Cheers

[solved] Re: Can we distribute pre-built locales to speed up image generation?

2023-08-01 Thread Charles Plessy
t; locales-all has Installed-Size: 227M, I don't know why that differs so > much from your estimate. I was reporting the size of the Singularity image, which must be compressed in some way. A minimal image containing the hello package and locales-all is ~90M. Cheers, C

Can we distribute pre-built locales to speed up image generation?

2023-08-01 Thread Charles Plessy
provide pre-built locales again, either in a separate package or in one of the system images that we distribute, in the interest of embracing language diversity. It has been a long time I have not posted here, and I am not subscribed at the moment. Please CC me! Have a nice day, Charles -- Charles

Re: Firmware GR result - what happens next?

2022-10-02 Thread Charles Plessy
27;non-free-firmware' at the same time for a release or two ? Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Nagahama, Yomitan, Okinawa, Japan Tooting from work, https://mastodon.technology/@charles_plessy Tooting from home, https://framapiaf.org/@charles_plessy

text/javascript to replace application/javascript

2022-03-21 Thread Charles Plessy
-- Charles Plessy Nagahama, Yomitan, Okinawa, Japan Tooting from work, https://mastodon.technology/@charles_plessy Tooting from home, https://framapiaf.org/@charles_plessy signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Is /etc/mime.types used for anything else than associating file suffixes and media types ?

2022-03-21 Thread Charles Plessy
that half of its contents, and the updates to it, may be not useful. I am curious if some of you know other uses of this file. Have a nice day, Charles (maintainer of the `media-types` and `mailcap` packages) -- Charles Plessy Nagahama, Yomitan, Okinawa, Japan Tooting

Alternative aliases for print, see, edit and compose ?

2022-03-20 Thread Charles Plessy
their own alternatives ? - Are there objections ? - What would be the interface ? For the `open` command, the interface is minimal: the file to open as argument, and the rest is unspecified. Have a nice day, Charles -- Charles Plessy Nagahama, Yomitan

Another big update of /etc/mime.types

2022-01-23 Thread Charles Plessy
ed model/vnd.sap.vds 841728d Added model/e57. e1f3159 Added model/vnd.pytha.pyox with only pyox file extensio because pyo is used by Python. -- Charles Plessy Sun, 23 Jan 2022 18:34:58 +0900 -- Charles Plessy Nagahama, Yomitan, Okinawa, Japan Debian Me

mime.types vs mime/globs (was Re: Shall we serve scripts as application or as text?)

2021-08-30 Thread Charles Plessy
subtypes. If you write an application for a system where you can be sure that this information is available, use it ! Cheers, Charles -- Charles Plessy Nagahama, Yomitan, Okinawa, Japan Tooting from work, https://mastodon.technology/@charles_plessy

Shall we serve scripts as application or as text?

2021-08-28 Thread Charles Plessy
ers, I would like to hear if some of you see a potential problem with that. Have a nice Sunday! Charles -- Charles Plessy Nagahama, Yomitan, Okinawa, Japan Tooting from work, https://mastodon.technology/@charles_plessy Tooting from home, h

Re: Added hundreds of media types to /etc/mime.types

2021-01-15 Thread Charles Plessy
me.types` file with upper-case file extension, so I think that their presence is not a regression, although I agree that it might be a problem. I propose to resolve that in the next release. Have a nice day, Charles -- Charles Plessy Nagahama, Yomitan, Okinawa, Japan

Re: Added hundreds of media types to /etc/mime.types

2021-01-08 Thread Charles Plessy
that /usr/share/lighttpd/create-mime.conf.pl already has a section for resolving such conflicts, so I think that the best solution is to implement a choice in this script. If this is too close to the freeze, I can temporarly remove `sdf` for `application/vnd.stardivision.math` and re-add it late

Added hundreds of media types to /etc/mime.types

2021-01-06 Thread Charles Plessy
deprecated mime types in favor of the IANA-registered version. In case of problems, please feel free to ask me to comment some lines or NMU if you feel some urgency. Have a nice day, Charles -- Charles Plessy Nagahama, Yomitan, Okinawa, Japan Debian Med packaging team

/usr/bin/open now in use through the alternatives system.

2020-12-27 Thread Charles Plessy
a specific one. Given the lack of answer to my previous email (quoted below), I have not implemented URL support in /usr/bin/run-mailcap. > Le Sat, Oct 10, 2020 at 04:27:17AM +0900, Charles Plessy a écrit : > > > > May I ask you for extra information on how important is it to s

Please test the split of mime-support into media-types and mailcap, in Experimental now.

2020-10-27 Thread Charles Plessy
testing the packages in Experimental before I upload them to Unstable in a week or two. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Nagahama, Yomitan, Okinawa, Japan Tooting from work, https://mastodon.technology/@charles_plessy Tooting from home, https

Re: Proposal: use /usr/bin/open as an alternative for run-mailcap and others.

2020-10-27 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sat, Oct 10, 2020 at 04:27:17AM +0900, Charles Plessy a écrit : > > May I ask you for extra information on how important is it to support > URLs, and if anything beyond file:/, http:// and https:// would need > to be supported ? ... > Also, can you give me a pointer to an expl

Re: Proposal: use /usr/bin/open as an alternative for run-mailcap and others.

2020-10-09 Thread Charles Plessy
Thanks you Simon, Jérémie and everybody for your feedback. > On Thu, 08 Oct 2020 at 05:54:27 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > /bin/open has been kindly freed a couple years ago (#732796) and I would > > like to propose to repurpose it as a standard command for opening files, >

Proposal: use /usr/bin/open as an alternative for run-mailcap and others.

2020-10-07 Thread Charles Plessy
t; of /usr/bin/open as having a single argument only, which is a path to a file or a directory. This would give the opportunity for other packages such as xdg-utils to provide /usr/bin/open if they wish so. I welcome your comments; please CC me as I am not subscribed. Have a nice day, Charles -

Splitting mime-support into mailcap and media-types (Re: Bug#964850: ITP: mailcap -- Debian's mailcap system, and support programs)

2020-10-04 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sat, Jul 11, 2020 at 01:48:55PM +0900, Charles Plessy a écrit : > > I plan to split the mime-support package into "mailcap" (this WNPP bug) > that will provide the mailcap system, optionally, and "media-types" > (ITP later), which will provide /etc/mime.types (P

Bug#964850: ITP: mailcap -- Debian's mailcap system, and support programs

2020-07-10 Thread Charles Plessy
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Charles Plessy * Package name: mailcap Version : 3.65 Upstream Author : the authors of the current mime-support package * URL : Will be hosted on Salsa * License : Public domain Programming Lang: Perl Description

Making mailcap optional ?

2019-08-14 Thread Charles Plessy
a day or two to let your thoughts mature). Have a nice day, Charles -- Charles Plessy Akano, Uruma, Okinawa, Japan

Re: tag2upload (git-debpush) service architecture - draft

2019-08-03 Thread Charles Plessy
? Have a nice day, Charles -- Charles Plessy Akano, Uruma, Okinawa, Japan Debian Med packaging team http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tooting from work, https://mastodon.technology/@charles_plessy Tooting from home, https

Re: Proposal: Repository for fast-paced package backports

2019-01-02 Thread Charles Plessy
eds") for solving your own problem :) Have a nice day, Charles -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan Debian Med packaging team http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tooting from work, https://mastodon.technology/@charles_plessy Tootin

Re: AppStream / DEP-11 support now available in the Debian archive

2015-12-14 Thread Charles Plessy
Hi Matthias, congratulation for this release ! In the upstream-metadata project (https://wiki.debian.org/UpstreamMetadata) we document some information, some of which is redundant with what is now found in AppStream, and some of which is not. For example, we document bibliographic reference to t

Re: tracker.debian.org replaces packages.qa.debian.org for email subscriptions

2015-12-09 Thread Charles Plessy
rnée, (Please Cc me; I am not subscribed to -devel currently.) Charles -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan

Re: Bug#787571: How about transferring /etc/mime.types from mime-support to base-files.

2015-06-04 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Wed, Jun 03, 2015 at 01:04:26AM +0200, Santiago Vila a écrit : > > To summarize: Because this would imply a change in the essentialness > of the file, I don't think it would be a good idea. Thanks for the quick and precise answer. I agree. Have a nice day, Charles --

Bug#787571: How about transferring /etc/mime.types from mime-support to base-files.

2015-06-02 Thread Charles Plessy
lt;https://bugs.debian.org/786889>. Alternatively, we could ship this file in base-files, since it is among these traditional Unix files that one always expects to be available. But it has frequent updates, to it may be extra work for you. What do you think about this ? Have a nice day, -- Cha

Bug#786889: ITP: media-types -- List of media types associated to file suffixes

2015-05-26 Thread Charles Plessy
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Charles Plessy Package name: media-types Version : 2.1.44 Upstream Author : Mostly Ville Skyttä , for Fedora URL : https://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/mailcap.git/tree/mime.types License : Public domain

Let's abandon debian-devel.

2014-11-10 Thread Charles Plessy
r effect they have when feasting on debian-devel or debian-vote. Let's make our project stronger by reducing thr attack surface for troublemakers. Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Is it harmless to associate more file extensions to application/octet-stream ?

2014-11-09 Thread Charles Plessy
ms. Currently the only suffix is "bin". With search engines I have not found evidence of a problem, but if you know one, please let me know. Have a nice Sunday, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a su

Re: so long and thanks for all the fish

2014-11-07 Thread Charles Plessy
Hi Joey, among all the Debian developers you have been one of the most inspiring to me. I hope that you will keep your blog syndicated on planet.debian.org ! Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: dgit and git-dpm

2014-10-29 Thread Charles Plessy
on this list, you would have no Debian project to contribute to. Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20141030032519.gh5...@falafel.plessy.net

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-13 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 02:21:45PM +0200, Thorsten Glaser a écrit : > > … but even then, am drowned by the masses. No, you are drowning the masses under your emails, that is different. -- Charles -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe

Re: Fwd: bash exorcism experiment ('bug' 762923 & 763012)

2014-10-07 Thread Charles Plessy
from which you had ample time to get over. On this mailing list, you went as far as calling for murder, and regularly insulting others. I hope that next time you will get at the very least banned from posting on this list for a few weeks. Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, htt

Re: versions / suffixes in experimental

2014-09-25 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 11:15:46AM +0200, Daniel Pocock a écrit : > On 25/09/14 10:00, Neil Williams wrote: > > On Thu, 25 Sep 2014 09:42:42 +0200 > > Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > > >> Quoting Daniel Pocock (2014-09-25 09:16:46) > >>> I have a package, version 2.2.5-5 in unstable and testing > >>>

Re: Trimming priority:standard

2014-09-23 Thread Charles Plessy
SSD (but again, on SSD I run more recently installed systems where I am sure that I never used hdparm). Anyway, the point I want to make is that we should trust Ralf when he reports that full disk load slows his machine despite cron jobs using ionice, although this is probably a corner case. Ha

Bug#762412: ITP: paraclu -- Parametric clustering of genomic and transcriptomic features

2014-09-21 Thread Charles Plessy
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Charles Plessy * Package name: paraclu Version : 9 Upstream Author : Martin C. Frith * URL : http://www.cbrc.jp/paraclu/ * License : GPL-3+ Programming Lang: C++ Description : Parametric clustering of genomic and

Re: 2 months and no upload for pkg

2014-09-06 Thread Charles Plessy
ng only licence compliance checks and approval of new Free licenses to the queue, and transferring the checks for DFSG compliance (missing source files, non-free licenses, ...) and quality in general to another stage of package production. Have a nice week-end, -- Charles Plessy -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: Possible abuse of dpkg-deb -z9 for xz compressed binary packages

2014-09-05 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Fri, Sep 05, 2014 at 11:13:40AM +0200, Thorsten Glaser a écrit : > > So please, do not outright dismiss scenarios you personally > cannot imagine. Please consider that your comments on the limited imagination of others can be felt as deliberately offensive. Cheers, -- Charl

Re: bits from the DPL -- mid-April to mid-August 2014

2014-08-26 Thread Charles Plessy
> good idea, see point 3 here: > > https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/06/eff-and-bitcoin Hi Santiago, The EFF changed its mind two years later. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/05/eff-will-accept-bitcoins-support-digital-liberty Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi

Re: Standardizing the layout of git packaging repositories

2014-08-24 Thread Charles Plessy
you do not need to oppose the standardisation of the use of pristine-tar, because it will not affect you. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.o

Re: Reverting to GNOME for jessie's default desktop

2014-08-21 Thread Charles Plessy
c with the proprietary Radeon drivers. Have a nice week-end, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140822053755.gb28...@falafel.plessy.net

Re: Bug#758124: Documenting the Testsuite field in the Policy.

2014-08-19 Thread Charles Plessy
> > Le Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 09:36:50PM +0900, Charles Plessy a écrit : > > > > > > Here is a patch to update the Policy accordingly. Do you have comments ? > On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 07:44:19AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > > > Anybody wanting to se

Re: Bug#758124: Documenting the Testsuite field in the Policy.

2014-08-18 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 09:36:50PM +0900, Charles Plessy a écrit : > Package: debian-policy > Version: 3.9.5 > Severity: wishlist > > Hi Guillem and everybody, > > thanks for adding direct support for the Testsuite field in Dpkg. > > Here is a patch to update the

Re: Standardizing the layout of git packaging repositories

2014-08-18 Thread Charles Plessy
! So seems that I have been confused by packages.debian.org (#703237). Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: h

Re: Replacement of SAMtools 0.19 by SAMtools 1.0.

2014-08-18 Thread Charles Plessy
tsjdk, so I guess that they work together and that the fix in HTSJDK will eventually propagate to Picard ? Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.d

Re: Standardizing the layout of git packaging repositories

2014-08-17 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 09:00:57AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog a écrit : > > debian/unstable also doesn't follow / because unstable's > codename is sid. And I really mean that is a better choice than > (e.g. unstable, testing, stable). Hi all, for suites that are never released, I think that it is

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