RFC: advise against using Proton Mail for Debian work?

2023-11-14 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Hello, Please retain me in CC for all replies. Everyone reading this most likely believes that PGP/GPG is a good thing; Many will advocate for its use-by-default for even unimportant correspondences, because privacy is a right. Meanwhile, everyday usage of encryption normalises it, which is impo

Re: Bug#999493: ITP: pika-backup -- simple backups based on borg

2022-05-23 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Control: noowner -1 Control: retitle -1 RFP: pika-backup -- simple backups based on borg I'm converting this ITP to an RFP because six months have passed without an update. Please feel free to revert to an ITP if The Debian Borg Collective is still working on this package. Reply follows inline:

Re: best practice system setup and some concept ideas - /root (OS) /home (data) re-play changes and and /etc/config after re-install with new distro version?

2021-10-06 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Andrey Rahmatullin writes: > On Wed, Oct 06, 2021 at 12:03:16PM +0200, dude wrote: >> what is the best practice for easy update & dist-upgrade: >> >> 1. in terms of speed and easy of distro updates, it makes sense to separate >> * /root (software (programs) that can be re-downloaded) (on

Re: Future of /usr/bin/which in Debian?

2021-09-21 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Michael Stone writes: > On Tue, Sep 21, 2021 at 09:00:52AM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: >>On Mon, Sep 20, 2021 at 11:02:49AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: >>>It seems to install to /usr/bin/which.gnu, implying that you could >>>upload /usr/bin/which.bsd if you so desire; what's the issue? >> >>I

Re: Reconsider sending ITP bugs to debian-devel: a new list?

2021-06-14 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Thomas Goirand writes: > On 6/12/21 1:06 PM, Marc Haber wrote: >> On Sat, 12 Jun 2021 01:04:21 +0300, Nicholas Guriev >> wrote: >>> For the record, the latest digest of the debian-devel@ list #194 >>> consists of 17 emails. 13 of them are ITP forwards, the remaining 4 >>> emails are about ITP fo

introducing an epoch when reintroducing scala-mode-el to Debian

2020-11-05 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Hi, I've been working with Sławomir Wójcik to reintroduce scala-mode-el to Debian. The version in Buster is: 20111005-2.1, whose source was: svn co http://lampsvn.epfl.ch/svn-repos/scala/scala-tool-support/trunk/src/emacs/ scala-mode https://www.scala-lang.org/old/node/354 The replacement

Bug#973266: ITP: python-moreorless -- wrapper for Python difflib with enhanced "No newline at eof" support

2020-10-27 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas D Steeves Control: block 941054 by -1 * Package name: python-moreorless Version : 0.3.0 Upstream Author : Tim Hatch * URL : https://github.com/thatch/moreorless * License : Expat Programming Lang: Python

Bug#972705: ITP: python-volatile -- small extension for the Python tempfile module

2020-10-22 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas D Steeves Control: block 941054 by -1 * Package name: python-volatile Version : 2.1.0 Upstream Author : Marc Brinkmann * URL : https://github.com/mbr/volatile * License : Expat Programming Lang: Python

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

2020-10-08 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Hi, On Thu., Oct. 8, 2020, 00:30 Nicholas Guriev, wrote: > > On Wed, 2020-10-07 at 19:17 -0400, Jeremy Bicha wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 7, 2020 at 7:15 PM Jeremy Bicha wrote: > > > You should be aware that Ubuntu implemented this idea 2 years ago. > > > > Oh, I misread. Ubuntu used /usr/bin/browse b

Re: Proposal: Allowing access to dmesg for users in group adm

2020-08-18 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Hi, Ansgar writes: > On Mon, 2020-08-17 at 15:50 +1200, Matthew Ruffell wrote: >> I propose that we restrict access to dmesg to users in group 'adm' like so: >> >> 1) CONFIG_SECURITY_DMESG_RESTRICT=y in the kernel. >> 2) Following changes to /bin/dmesg permissions in package 'util-linux' >>

Re: The "which -s" flag

2020-08-14 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Hi, Teemu Likonen writes: > * 2020-08-14 00:55:03+02, Erik Gustafsson wrote: > >> To make my Debian installation compatible with "which -s" I have made a >> merge request for this >> https://salsa.debian.org/debian/debianutils/-/merge_requests/6/diffs > > Reviewed-by: me, a random debian user. >

Re: Bug#962574: ITP: dephell -- project management for Python

2020-07-09 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Hi Scott, devel, and Python team, Nicholas D Steeves writes: > Control: block -1 by 962574 > > Tomlkit seems to be required for self-tests. > Thank you for taking care of tomlkit so quickly! I wish I had more time and energy to make faster progress with DepHell. Today I discovere

Re: DEP-14: renaming master to main?

2020-07-04 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Hi Otto, Thank you for providing an alternative voice in this discourse. Otto Kekäläinen writes: > Hello! > > Just my 2 cents: I hope Debian would not rush to any changes here. > Lets just stay neutral for now. The subject seems very US-centric and > there is a risk that it is creating division

Re: Bug#962574: ITP: dephell -- project management for Python

2020-06-13 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Control: block -1 by 962574 Tomlkit seems to be required for self-tests. On Wed, 10 Jun 2020 at 01:03, Scott Kitterman wrote: > On Wednesday, June 10, 2020 12:49:01 AM EDT Nicholas D Steeves wrote: > > Package: wnpp > > Severity: wishlist > > Owner: Nicholas D Steeves

Bug#962574: ITP: dephell -- project management for Python

2020-06-09 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas D Steeves Package name: dephell Version : 0.8.3 Upstream Author : Gram URL : http://www.example.org/ License : MIT (declared, but probably Expat) Programming Lang: Python Description : project management for

Re: trends.debian.net updated [request for additional groups/plots…inc. salvaged pkgs]

2020-04-13 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Hi Jonas and -devel, Jonas Smedegaard writes: > Quoting Mattia Rizzolo (2020-04-11 17:20:48) >> On Sat, Apr 11, 2020 at 11:10:48AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: >> > On Fri, Apr 03, 2020 at 10:41:55PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: >> > > https://trends.debian.net/ was just updated (with data unti

Re: OpenLiteSpeed Build Script Violating Debian Upstream Guide

2020-03-07 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Hi Bagas, Andrey Rahmatullin writes: > On Sat, Mar 07, 2020 at 03:47:56PM +0700, Bagas Sanjaya wrote: >> > Packages must be self-contained, using only their contents and the Debian >> > repo during the build process. There are multiple technical and >> > non-technical reasons for this requiremen

Bug#953128: ITP: persist-el -- persist variables across Emacs Sessions

2020-03-04 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas D Steeves Control: block 947017 by -1 Package name: persist-el Version : 0.4 Upstream Author : Phillip Lord URL : https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/persist.html License : GPL-3+ Programming Lang: elisp Description

Re: pager and upgrades

2020-02-26 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Hi Russell, Russell Coker writes: > I just upgraded a Buster system to today's unstable and got the below. I > think this should be regarded as a bug, but what is it a bug in? dpkg? > > Configuration file '/etc/smartd.conf' > ==> Modified (by you or by a script) since installation. > ==> Pa

Bug#945329: ITP: emacs-websocket -- Emacs WebSocket client and server

2019-11-22 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas D Steeves Control: block 909336 by -1 Package name: emacs-websocket Version : 1.10+17.g491a60b-1 (declares 1.12, but untagged) Upstream Author : Andrew Hyatt URL : https://github.com/ahyatt/emacs-websocket License

RE:GPU-ready (with free driver) buildd/CI/porterbox?

2019-11-19 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
PICCA Frederic-Emmanuel writes: >> That is mostly upstream's job -- ICD packagers should just verify that the >> package still runs "Hello World" on their hardware, i.e. the ICD >> integration works, and then we assume that it works. > > ok, so in that case it would be nice to provide a computer

Bug#944986: ITP: emacs-wgrep -- edit multiple files simultaneously in Emacs using grep buffers--pattern editing

2019-11-17 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas D Steeves Control: tag + moreinfo Package name: emacs-wgrep Version : 2.3.0 Upstream Author : Masahiro Hayashi URL : https://github.com/mhayashi1120/Emacs-wgrep License : GPL-3+ Programming Lang: Emacs LISP

Bug#944704: ITP: org-html-themes -- export Emacs Org mode files into awesome HTML in 2 minutes or less

2019-11-13 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas D Steeves * Package name: org-html-themes Version : 1.0.0 Upstream Author : * URL : https://github.com/fniessen/org-html-themes * License : GPL-3+ Programming Lang: Org_style_markdown, HTML, CSS, js vs

Re: [confirmation] Summary: Git Packaging Round 2 [plus weak vs strong team ownership question/proposal]

2019-11-06 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Hi, I confirm the summary seems fair and reasonable with one question/proposal (see below in line). Sam Hartman writes: > * Exploring what current social conventions are around pushing to other > people's repositories in the debian group on salsa and documenting > them. This is more about

Re: Summary: Git Packaging Round 2 [comments by 11/05/2019]

2019-11-05 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Richard Laager writes: > This all looks very good. > > Presumably the repository / Salsa project name should match the source > package name? If so, that might be good to note, at least as the > default. > I'm curious what other people think about this point, because it could cause a lot of chur

[What happened to CUT?] Re: Debian and our frenemies of containers and userland repos

2019-10-05 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Bernd Zeimetz writes: > I'm wondering if there is something Debian can do to be even more > successful in the container world. Like regular releases of a container > base image from testing. The amount of packages that needed for that is > limited, the number of RC bugs is probably low enough mos

Re: Debian and our frenemies of containers and userland repos

2019-10-05 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Bernd Zeimetz writes: > On 10/5/19 3:31 AM, Paul Wise wrote: >> On Fri, Oct 4, 2019 at 10:49 PM Enrico Weigelt wrote: >>> On 24.07.19 08:17, Marc Haber wrote: >>> Do we have a build technology that uses containers instead of chroots yet? >>> AFAIK sbuild has had this support for a whil

Bug#941627: ITP: grub-btrfs -- provides grub entries for btrfs snapshots (boot environments/restore points)

2019-10-02 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas D Steeves Control: block -1 by #840248 Package name: grub-btrfs Version : 4.1 Upstream Author : Antynea URL : https://github.com/Antynea/grub-btrfs License : GPL-3+ Programming Lang: bash Description : GRUB

Re: Discussion tooling (was: Bits from the DPL (August 2019))

2019-10-02 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Samuel Henrique writes: > On Wed, 2 Oct 2019 at 10:48, Mathias Behrle wrote: > >> ...BTW no discussion tool can help in automating >> separate discussion threads when the topic changes. >> > > They can, I think reddit and hackernews are good at this. > That's the "tree-like" structure that I men

Re: Mozilla Firefox DoH to CloudFlare by default (for US users)?

2019-09-27 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Wouter Verhelst writes: > On Sun, Sep 08, 2019 at 11:17:13PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: >> On Sep 08, Ondřej Surý wrote: >> >> > I would rather see an explicit statement. I would be very surprised >> > with Debian’s usual stance regarding the users’ privacy that we would >> > not consider thi

Re: Bug#849703: ITP: ansible-doc -- Documentation for Ansible

2019-09-26 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Hi everyone, I'm closing this ansible-doc ITP bug because it appears to obsolesced most recently by: ansible (2.7.5+dfsg-1) unstable; urgency=medium * New upstream release - fix for CVE-2018-16876 (Closes: #916102) * Remove any loading of external resources from the docs * Only symlink

Bug#941054: ITP: python-bowler -- safe code refactoring for modern Python projects

2019-09-23 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas D Steeves Package name: python-bowler Version : x.y.z Upstream Author : © Facebook, John Reese URL : https://github.com/facebookincubator/Bowler License : Expat Programming Lang: Python Description : safe code

Bug#936033: ITP: pyprof2calltree -- visualise Python cProfile data with this kcachegrind converter

2019-08-29 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas D Steeves Package name: pyprof2calltree Version : 1.4.4 Upstream Author : Peter Waller URL : https://github.com/pwaller/pyprof2calltree License : Expat, MIT, or custom-permissive (needs verification) Programming

Re: Bug#932103: RFP: fuidshift -- remap a filesystem tree to shift one set of UID/GID ranges to another

2019-08-11 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Hi, On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 01:55:06AM +0200, Vincent Tondellier wrote: > On Tuesday 16 July 2019 23:11:24 Florian Weimer wrote: > > * Nicholas D. Steeves: > > > Package name: fuidshift > > > Version : 3.0 > > > Upstream Author : Name > >

Re: Uninformative hyperlink in O: (package orphaning) bug reports

2019-07-09 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
To everyone who is working on this problem, thank you :-) On Tue, Jul 09, 2019 at 10:38:14AM +0200, Michael Kesper wrote: > Hi again, > > On 09.07.19 09:17, Michael Kesper wrote: > > I think this is still starting a little bit negative, maybe like this? > > > > If nobody adopts this package it w

Bug#926296: RFP: pulseeffects -- DSP effects for Pulseaudio applications

2019-04-02 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas D Steeves Package name: pulseeffects Version : 4.5.8 Upstream Author : Vladimir Sadovnikov * Primary copyright holder Wellington Wallace * Upstream contact URL

Bug#919133: ITP: python-css-parser -- CSS related utilities (parsing, serialisation, etc) for Python

2019-01-12 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas D Steeves Package name: python-css-parser Version : 1.0.4 Upstream Author : Kovid Goyal (maintainer of fork), Christof Hoeke (orig) URL : https://github.com/ebook-utils/css-parser License : LGPL-3.0 and Apache 2.0

Re: deduplicating jquery/

2019-01-07 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Dear Java Team, Do you have any suggestions for working with the following?: (please reply to -devel) On Sun, Jan 06, 2019 at 10:34:50PM +0100, Rene Engelhard wrote: > On Sat, Jan 05, 2019 at 09:20:34PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Sean Whitton, le sam. 05 janv. 2019 19:48:35 +, a ecrit:

Re: autopkgtest coupled with sbuild different from what is run on buildd?

2019-01-02 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Hi Joseph, On Wed, Jan 02, 2019 at 12:53:32PM -0800, Joseph Herlant wrote: > Hi guys, > > With one of my package (cmph), when I added debci tests, locally > running autopkgtests using --run-autopkgtests in gbh that uses sbuild, > I have no problem but when it runs on debci, it seems to miss packa

Re: announcing backport script designed to reduce potential human errors

2018-10-22 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Fixed debian-de...@debian.org -> debian-devel@lists.debian.org so that people who reply won't have to do this to avoid bounced emails. Sorry for the mistake! Hi James, On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 07:16:51PM -0400, James McCoy wrote: > On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 05:33:06PM -0400, Nichola

Bug#909133: ITP: auto-dictionary-el -- automatic dictionary switcher for Emacs spell checking

2018-09-18 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas D Steeves Package name: auto-dictionary-el Version : 1.1 Upstream Author : Nikolaj Schumacher URL : https://wiki.debian.org/EmacsenTeam/Team License : GPL-2+ Programming Lang: elisp Description : automatic

Re: Updating the policy for conflicting binaries names ? [was: Re: Re: New package netgen-lvs with binary /usr/bin/netgen - already taken]

2018-09-12 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 12:31:40AM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 09:18:13PM +0100, Chris Lamb wrote: > > Dear Adrian, > > Dear Chris, > > > > This is fake news. > > > > Please try and avoid casual use of this term on Debian lists. > > > > Whilst I understand your meaning a

Bug#906259: ITP: smartparens -- auto insertion, wrapping, and navigation of ()s, delimiters, and tags for Emacs

2018-08-16 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas D Steeves Package name: smartparens Version : 1.11.0 Upstream Author : URL : https://github.com/Fuco1/smartparens License : GPL-3+ Programming Lang: elisp Description : auto insertion, wrapping, and navigation

Bug#905755: ITP: emacs-theme-gruvbox -- retro groove colour scheme for Emacs

2018-08-08 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas D Steeves Package name: emacs-theme-gruvbox Version : 1.26.0 Upstream Author : Jason Milkins URL : https://github.com/greduan/emacs-theme-gruvbox/ License : MIT Programming Lang: elisp Description : retro

Bug#902398: ITP: csv-mode-el -- Emacs major mode for editing comma/char separated values

2018-06-25 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas D Steeves Control: block 495989 by -1 Package name: csv-mode-el Version : 1.7 Upstream Author : "Francis J. Wright" URL : https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/csv-mode.html License : GPL-3+ Programming L

Re: Bug#900286: ITP: spm -- simple password manager

2018-05-29 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
On Mon, May 28, 2018 at 07:46:59PM +0200, Jakub Wilk wrote: > * Paride Legovini , 2018-05-28, 17:33: > > spm is a single fully POSIX shell compliant script [...] > > In Debian the script will be installed as 'spm.sh' > > That would be against Policy §10.4. > Please talk to upstream about choosing

Bug#898238: ITP: remarkable-editor -- a fully featured markdown editor

2018-05-08 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas D Steeves Package name: remarkable-editor Version : 1.87 Upstream Author : Jamie McGowan URL : https://remarkableapp.github.io/linux.html License : MIT Programming Lang: Python Description : a fully featured

Re: Please do not drop Python 2 modules

2018-04-24 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 12:29:54AM +0200, Thomas Goirand wrote: > On 04/21/2018 11:19 PM, Scott Kitterman wrote: > > Since we are supporting Python2 in the next release, there is no value> in > > dumping python-* packages now. Unlike many areas of the archive, > > Python packages are actively used

Bug#893983: ITP: all-the-icons-el -- library for inserting developer icons in Emacs

2018-03-24 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas D Steeves Control: block 872873 by -1 Package name: all-the-icons-el Version : 2.6.4 Upstream Author : Dominic Charlesworth URL : https://github.com/domtronn/all-the-icons.el License : MIT Programming Lang: lisp

Bug#884575: ITP: syncthingtray -- a tray applet, plasmoid, and Dolphin integration for Syncthing

2017-12-16 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas D Steeves Control: tags -1 + moreinfo Package name: syncthingtray Version : 0.7.1 Upstream Author : Martchus URL : https://github.com/Martchus/syncthingtray License : GPL-2+ Programming Lang: C++ and QML

Bug#884337: ITP: kio-gdrive -- KIO Slave to access Google Drive

2017-12-13 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas D Steeves Package name: kio-gdrive Version : 1.2.1 Upstream Author : Name URL : http://www.example.org/ License : GPL-2+ Programming Lang: C++ Description : KIO Slave to access Google Drive KIO GDrive is a KIO

Bug#883075: ITP: memleax -- debug a running process for memoy leaks without recompiling or restarting

2017-11-29 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas D Steeves Package name: memleax Version : 1.0.3 Upstream Author : WuBingzheng URL : https://github.com/WuBingzheng/memleax License : GPL-2 Programming Lang: C Description : debug a running process for memoy

Bug#880606: ITP: imenu-list -- show the current Emacs buffer's imenu entries in a separate window

2017-11-02 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas D Steeves Control: block 828154 by -1 * Package name: imenu-list Version : 0.8 Upstream Author : Bar Magal * URL : https://github.com/bmag/imenu-list * License : GPL-3+ Programming Lang: elisp Description

Bug#879877: ITP: olivetti-mode -- simple Emacs minor mode for a nice writing environment

2017-10-26 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas D Steeves * Package name: olivetti-mode Version : 1.5.8 Upstream Author : Paul Rankin * URL : https://github.com/rnkn/olivetti * License : GPL-3+ Programming Lang: elisp Description : simple Emacs minor

Re: Concerns about infrastructure for Alioth replacement

2017-10-17 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
CCing the Javascript Team. Original post on debian-devel, see: Message-Id: <20171016001558.a9c2e92f9155e844f43ce...@paranoici.org> Or alternatively: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2017/10/msg00262.html On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 11:32:55PM +0200, Alexander Wirt wrote: > On Tue, 17 Oct 2017,

Bug#877755: ITP: moinmoin-mode -- emacs major mode to edit MoinMoin wiki pages

2017-10-04 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas D Steeves Control: tags -1 moreinfo * Package name: moinmoin-mode Version : 2006.04.15 Upstream Author : Toshiyuki Takahashi * URL : https://github.com/tototoshi/moinmoin-mode * License : GPL Programming

Bug#875724: ITP: elpa-commander -- Command line parsing for Emacs

2017-09-13 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas D Steeves Control: block 875722 by -1 * Package name: elpa-commander Version : 0.7.0 Upstream Author : Johan Andersson * URL : https://github.com/rejeep/commander.el * License : GPL-3+ Programming Lang

Bug#875722: ITP: ert-runner -- Opinionated Ert testing workflow

2017-09-13 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas D Steeves Control: block 825980 by -1 * Package name: ert-runner Version : 0.7.0 Upstream Author : Jorgen Schaefer * URL : http://github.com/rejeep/ert-runner.el * License : GPL-3+ Programming Lang: Elisp

Bug#872873: ITP: emacs-neotree -- Emacs directory tree plugin like NerdTree for Vim

2017-08-21 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas D Steeves * Package name: emacs-neotree Version : 0.5.2 Upstream Author : Aborn Jiang * URL : https://github.com/jaypei/emacs-neotree * License : GPL-3+ Programming Lang: lisp Description : Emacs

Re: Call for volunteers: FTP Team

2017-08-17 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
On Fri, Aug 18, 2017 at 12:04:26AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Thu, 17 Aug 2017, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > > On 14767 March 1977, Jonathan Carter wrote: > > >> it has been quite a while since the last call for volunteers, so here is > > >> an update: Yeah, we still need people, and

P.S. Re: Debian 9 in a VM with Proxmox 5 system

2017-07-09 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
P.S. That cheat sheet isn't nearly as nice...as I'd like it to be I wish it was a compact printable two or three column reference with net-tools commands in bold and the short-form iw equivalent underneath. eg: 'ip -r r' is more or less equivalent to 'route' signature.asc Description: Digital si

Re: Debian 9 in a VM with Proxmox 5 system

2017-07-09 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Hi Maximilian! On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 01:07:47AM +0200, Maximilian Althaus wrote: > > but when I type > route in the commend line debian say that this command is not found, but > when I used Debian 8.8 jessie with the netinst-img without network access > this commend worked. WHY??

Bug#866053: ITP: emacs-ivy-doc -- documentation for emacs' Incremental Vertical completYon

2017-06-26 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas D Steeves * Package name: emacs-ivy-doc Version : 0.9.1-1 Upstream Author : Oleh Krehel * URL : https://github.com/abo-abo/swiper * License : GFDL Programming Lang: Markdown and TeX Description

Re: Bug#863799: ITP: redtick -- tiny pomodoro timer for Emacs

2017-06-13 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 09:48:32PM +0100, Sean Whitton wrote: > On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 04:40:56PM +0200, Carsten Leonhardt wrote: > > I'm curious to see the long description, as I don't see the > > relationship between tomatoes and timers. > > Sure! > > Description: tiny pomodoro timer for Emacs

Bug#864393: ITP: elpa-rich-minority -- Clean-up and beautify the list of minor-modes in Emacs' mode-line

2017-06-07 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas D Steeves Package name: elpa-rich-minority Version : 1.0.1 Upstream Author : Artur Malabarba URL : https://github.com/Malabarba/rich-minority License : GPL2+ Programming Lang: Lisp Description : Clean-up and

Re: Too many Recommends (in particular on mail-transport-agent)

2017-05-31 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
On 31 May 2017 at 13:53, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 11:31:43AM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: >> On Wed, 31 May 2017 at 11:32:29 +1200, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: >> > Trust is not transitive. Perhaps Recommends should not be either? >> >> Recommends are for the relationship "want

Re: Too many Recommends (in particular on mail-transport-agent)

2017-05-31 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
On 30 May 2017 at 07:57, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > Hi, > > my impression is that too many packages use Recommends that should > really be Suggests. As a random example: installing dracut as a > initramfs provider will pull in exim4... (dracut-core Recommends: mdadm > which Recommends: default-mta

Bug#862933: ITP: gmailfeed -- A plasmoid for notification and listing unread emails from your Gmail inbox

2017-05-18 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas D Steeves * Package name: gmailfeed Version : 1.1 Upstream Author : Anthony Vital * URL : https://github.com/anthon38/gmailfeed * License : GPL-3 Programming Lang: C++ Description : A plasmoid for the

Re: When do we update the homepage to a modern design? (was Re: Moving away from (unsupportable) FusionForge on Alioth)

2017-05-15 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 02:17:40AM +0200, Stéphane Aulery wrote: > > Yes, Debian is a community like another, and a community is build > with shared principles. Design isn't principle, it is just a shameful > exploitation of the idea of beauty, serving a precise purpose which > is not a shared pri

Bug#861687: ITP: visual-fill-column -- An Emacs mode that wraps visual-line-mode buffers at fill-column

2017-05-02 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas D Steeves Control: block 861124 by -1 * Package name: visual-fill-column Version : 1.9 Upstream Author : Joost Kremers * URL : https://github.com/joostkremers/visual-fill-column * License : GPL-3

Bug#861340: ITP: elpa-poetry -- Poetry writing aids for Emacs

2017-04-27 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas D Steeves * Package name: elpa-poetry Version : 0.14 Upstream Author : Bob Newell * URL : http://www.bobnewell.net/filez/poetry.el * License : GPL3+ Programming Lang: Elisp Description : Poetry writing

Re: Hiding library packages from apt searches by default? (was: Re: Worthless node-* package descriptions in ITPs)

2017-01-05 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
On Fri, Jan 06, 2017 at 10:01:38AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 9:32 PM, Christian Seiler wrote: > > > Could we maybe hide library packages from apt searches by default? > > This is going to have unintended consequences; for example, if we base > it on Debian Section fields, lib

Re: Plasma 5.8 LTS in debian 9(Stretch)

2016-10-04 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
On 4 October 2016 at 16:40, Simon Quigley wrote: > On 10/04/2016 03:16 PM, Bradley Robert Baago wrote: >> Hello, >> >> Quick question. Will the new plasma LTS release make it into the next stable? >> I think it would be a mistake if it did not. >> > Looping in the related people. > > AFAIR from di

Proposed documentation, please comment! [was Re: Bug#838919: debian-installer: please calculate swap parition according to max RAM...]

2016-09-29 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 02:51:24PM +0300, Martin-Éric Racine wrote: > 2016-09-29 14:15 GMT+03:00 Ben Hutchings : > > On Wed, 2016-09-28 at 16:20 +0300, Martin-Éric Racine wrote: > > [...] > >> The thing is, right now, the user has two choices: > >> > >> 1) Trust d-i to make the right choices once,

Re: Debian does not have customers

2016-09-16 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 02:19:00PM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > "Jeremy T. Bouse" writes: > > > I'll start off by saying I haven't read the whole thread and only > > caught this because of the subject line change. > > I direct you to Russ's message in this thread that explains exactly why > “c

Re: Thinking about a "jessie and a half" release

2016-09-08 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
On Tue, Sep 06, 2016 at 11:27:49PM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > There's something I've been pondering for a while, along with some > > other folks - it might be useful to do a "jessie and a half" release, > > similarly to what we did in the etch days. That's *basically* just > > like a normal j

Re: Thinking about a "jessie and a half" release

2016-07-12 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Hi Jeffrey, On 12 July 2016 at 09:28, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > I think it would benefit more than Skylake users. The last few > processors are missing support. Below is from a Core i5-5300U (5th > gen) and a 3.19.0-64-generic kernel. > > ** > > $ dmesg | egrep -i '(error|failed)' > ... >

Re: Thinking about a "jessie and a half" release

2016-07-08 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
On 4 July 2016 at 18:38, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Mon, 2016-07-04 at 16:01 -0400, Nicholas D Steeves wrote: > [...] > [...] >> So for radeon hardware enablement, there is 1) the proprietary driver > > fglrx is dead upstream and removed from unstable. (It's still

Re: Thinking about a "jessie and a half" release

2016-07-08 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
On 5 July 2016 at 08:40, Samuel Henrique wrote: > > 2016-07-05 7:43 GMT-03:00 Jose R R : >> >> We're getting to the point where there's a fairly pressing need for >> arm64 - the more useful hardware is starting to get a wider distribution >> and we don't really have anything for people who want to

Re: Thinking about a "jessie and a half" release

2016-07-04 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
On 4 July 2016 at 09:12, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Hi, > > Steve McIntyre (2016-07-04): >> There's something I've been pondering for a while, along with some >> other folks - it might be useful to do a "jessie and a half" release, >> similarly to what we did in the etch days. That's *basically* ju