Re: Re: Bug#1052004: libcbor: requires source-only upload to transition

2023-09-16 Thread Steve Robbins
It would be lovely to get this enabled! It's a pain point for me also, on occasion. -Steve

Re: Is there a mip64el machine available for debugging?

2022-08-21 Thread Steve Robbins
Oh. I did use Eller -- but the architecture is listed as mipsel. I need mips64el On August 21, 2022 10:54:44 p.m. CDT, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote: >On 8/22/22 05:36, Steven Robbins wrote: >> The list at https://db.debian.org/machines.cgi suggests all available >> machines >> are "buildd" an

autoremovals a month early?

2019-07-22 Thread Steve Robbins
What gives? Saturday: digikam 4:5.9.0-1 is marked for autoremoval from testing on 2019-08-26 Sunday: digikam REMOVED from testing -S --- Begin Message --- FYI: The status of the digikam source package in Debian's testing distribution has changed. Previous version: 4:5.9.0-1 Current version

Re: gbp import-orig initially defeated me [but now I've won]

2018-10-02 Thread Steve Robbins
Hi, Thanks to all! I have gotten past the issue and created a build now. On Tuesday, October 2, 2018 6:59:54 AM CDT Ian Jackson wrote: > I think you should not set any of these options. I disagree with the > discussion in that article surrounding the suggestion to use > core.autocrlf=input.

Re: gbp import-orig has defeated me

2018-10-01 Thread Steve Robbins
On Monday, October 1, 2018 10:35:01 PM CDT Shengjing Zhu wrote: > I think you have configured your git to auto convert the line ending > when commit. > > In the pristine-tar tarball, > $ file googletest-release-1.8.1/googlemock/msvc/2005/gmock.sln > googletest-release-1.8.1/googlemock/msvc/2005/g

gbp import-orig has defeated me

2018-10-01 Thread Steve Robbins
Hi, I would like to update the googletest salsa repo [1] with upstream 1.8.1. So I downloaded the tarball and ran "gbp import-orig" on it. That appeared to work, but "gbp buildpackage" fails with dpkg-source: error: aborting due to unexpected upstream changes ... from the diffs, my guess i

Removal philosophy

2018-04-21 Thread Steve Robbins
On Saturday, April 21, 2018 4:05:27 PM CDT Jeremy Bicha wrote: > But I think if we had that philosophy, we > wouldn't ever remove anything until identified security concerns force > it out. I don't see anything wrong with that philosophy. Assuming someone is willing to maintain a package and it i

Re: Help: gpb buildpackage no longer builds

2018-04-08 Thread Steve Robbins
On Sunday, April 8, 2018 1:36:50 PM CDT Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: > Which version of debhelper are you building with? 11.2 > The cmake support was > recently broken and just fixed in debhelper 11.2.1, so make sure you get > that. Thanks for the tip! I'll upgrade and try again. -Steve s

Help: gpb buildpackage no longer builds

2018-04-08 Thread Steve Robbins
In the last upload of googletest -- December 2016 -- I successfully used "gbp buildpackage". Today, with zero changes, it fails to actually do the build: it skips from configuration to running tests. The rules file [1] is, I think, pretty simple: there are overrides for dh_auto_configure , _t

Re: Finding all projects on salsa to which I contribute

2018-03-10 Thread Steve Robbins
Thanks James. But I think your suggestion will lead me to the projects one at a time. I'm looking for a view on salsa of all such projects. On March 10, 2018 5:31:10 PM EST, James McCoy wrote: >On Sat, Mar 10, 2018 at 04:30:56PM -0500, Steve Robbins wrote: >> Is there a b

Finding all projects on salsa to which I contribute

2018-03-10 Thread Steve Robbins
Is there a button or query that will show all projects that list me as uploader? I'm looking for the same list I get on the PTS packages overview page. Thanks Steve -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.

Re: FTP Policy Development

2018-03-07 Thread Steve Robbins
anual. On March 7, 2018 7:03:54 PM EST, Gunnar Wolf wrote: >Steve Robbins dijo [Sat, Mar 03, 2018 at 01:15:35PM -0600]: >> (...) >> To me, one of the puzzling aspects is why the FTP policy work has >been so >> secretive. The release team has a mailing list, tech committee ha

Re: Updated proposal for improving the FTP NEW process

2018-03-07 Thread Steve Robbins
I think the suggestion of randomized spot checking is meant to replace - not add - to the present system of checking that penalizes uploads of existing source but new binaries. So human resources should not be the issue. I would imagine that the packages currently being selected are not arbitr

Re: Updated proposal for improving the FTP NEW process

2018-03-07 Thread Steve Robbins
> >On Tue, Mar 06, 2018 at 10:22:22AM -0600, Steve Robbins wrote: >> Or: change the mechanism to avoid a trip through NEW for simple cases >that Chris outlined: new binary or soname bump. Reserve NEW for truly >new things. > >Can you describe an algorithm that can destingu

Re: Updated proposal for improving the FTP NEW process

2018-03-06 Thread Steve Robbins
Or: change the mechanism to avoid a trip through NEW for simple cases that Chris outlined: new binary or soname bump. Reserve NEW for truly new things. On March 5, 2018 9:00:06 AM CST, "W. Martin Borgert" wrote: >Quoting Chris Lamb : >>> In many cases, there is an issue open about the new bina

FTP Policy Development

2018-03-03 Thread Steve Robbins
On Friday, March 2, 2018 11:07:39 PM CST Scott Kitterman wrote: > On Friday, March 02, 2018 09:44:04 PM Steve Robbins wrote: > > On Thursday, March 1, 2018 6:15:08 AM CST Ian Jackson wrote: > > > But when a submitter disagrees with a REJECT, and asks for a review, > > >

Re: A proposal for improving transparency of the FTP NEW process

2018-03-02 Thread Steve Robbins
On Friday, March 2, 2018 6:15:54 AM CST Lars Wirzenius wrote: > I'm not involved with the ftp master team in any way, except I > occasionally make them do work by uploading things that go to thew NEW > queue. In the past decade ago, the NEW processing has almost always > been fast, and when it has

A proposal for improving efficiency of the FTP NEW process

2018-03-02 Thread Steve Robbins
On Friday, March 2, 2018 6:00:57 AM CST Gert Wollny wrote: > I'd like to make a proposal how > transparency and also the interaction from non ftp-master members to > review packages could be improved. I have an orthogonal proposal to enhance efficiency: stop re-examining each new SOVERSION of a

Re: [Pkg-javascript-devel] three.js_80+dfsg2-2_amd64.changes REJECTED

2018-03-02 Thread Steve Robbins
On Thursday, March 1, 2018 6:15:08 AM CST Ian Jackson wrote: > But when a submitter disagrees with a REJECT, and asks for a review, > IMO submitter is entitled to a longer explanation, and there should > explicitly be an opportunity for other ftpmasters to agree or dissent. That would be nice. I

Re: Why do we list individual copyright holders?

2018-01-02 Thread Steve Robbins
On Sunday, December 31, 2017 8:42:29 PM CST Stuart Prescott wrote: > Vincent Bernat wrote: > > Lintian is full of opinions. For example, I often get: > > > > W: python-pysnmp4-doc: extra-license-file > > usr/share/doc/python-pysnmp4-doc/html/_sources/license.txt > > That is not an opinion, it is

Re: Has Copyright summarizing outlived its usefulness?

2017-12-15 Thread Steve Robbins
Ben Finney writes: > Simon McVittie writes: > > On Wed, 13 Dec 2017 at 23:10:51 +1100, Ben Finney wrote: > > > expecting to find “complete copyright holder information” such > > > that we can be confident it *is* complete, solely in the upstream source > > > is a folly, in my experience. > > > >

Re: Has Copyright summarizing outlived its usefulness?

2017-12-12 Thread Steve Robbins
On Sunday, December 10, 2017 11:11:20 PM CST gregor herrmann wrote: > On Sun, 10 Dec 2017 12:44:52 -0600, Steve Robbins wrote: > > However, the consensus voiced in this thread (as was the case of the same > > in 2016) is that while license summarizing (which can include, if the

Re: Has Copyright summarizing outlived its usefulness?

2017-12-12 Thread Steve Robbins
On Sunday, December 10, 2017 8:09:16 PM CST Chris Lamb wrote: > I would also point out that regardless of the merits of some particular > interpretation, if a perceived violation of it was potentially discovered, > it does not seem a terribly logical defense that "it is been like that > for some t

Re: Has Copyright summarizing outlived its usefulness?

2017-12-10 Thread Steve Robbins
On Sunday, December 10, 2017 8:09:16 PM CST Chris Lamb wrote: > However, I just wanted to add that whilst I can understand the frustration > of your package being rejected after spending some time in NEW, it would > be unfair to characterise that as "leaving" or neglecting it. Attributing > malice

Re: Has Copyright summarizing outlived its usefulness?

2017-12-10 Thread Steve Robbins
Hi Ian, As a preface to my comments: I am *only* complaining about collecting copyright notices. I agree that collecting together a comprehensive license statement(s) is necessary. The caveats of Russ Alberry [1] aside, these are two distinct tasks in my eyes. [1] https://lists.debian.org/de

Re: Has Copyright summarizing outlived its usefulness?

2017-12-06 Thread Steve Robbins
On Thursday, November 30, 2017 11:26:31 AM CST Simon McVittie wrote: > On Wed, 29 Nov 2017 at 23:46:00 -0600, Steve Robbins wrote: > > On Tuesday, November 28, 2017 9:00:10 AM CST Chris Lamb wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > Sorry for the rejection but &qu

Why do we list individual copyright holders?

2017-12-06 Thread Steve Robbins
On Wednesday, November 29, 2017 11:46:00 PM CST Steve Robbins wrote: > On Tuesday, November 28, 2017 9:00:10 AM CST Chris Lamb wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Sorry for the rejection but "Copyright: See individual source files" > > unfortunatley does not meet th

Has Copyright summarizing outlived its usefulness?

2017-11-29 Thread Steve Robbins
On Tuesday, November 28, 2017 9:00:10 AM CST Chris Lamb wrote: > Hi, > > Sorry for the rejection but "Copyright: See individual source files" > unfortunatley does not meet the high standards we strive for within Debian. That is odd. It has been accepted for over 16 years. What has changed?

Re: Windows viruses in Debian email packages [from Misc Developer News (#44)]

2017-08-05 Thread Steve Robbins
On Friday, August 4, 2017 12:35:04 PM CDT Paul Wise wrote: > Windows viruses in Debian email packages > > > Sometimes[6] upstreams of email related packages include live Windows > viruses/malware in their test corpus, either by accident or on purpose, >

Re: Reasons for keeping Coin3D (libcoin20) at version 1.0.4?

2006-10-06 Thread Steve Robbins
Quoting Gunnar Wolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Gunnar Wolf dijo [Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 03:29:30PM -0500]: Hi, (...) GAH! Sorry... Please ignore this mail. I felt I researched thoroughly on coin's status, didn't it? Well, yes, but I didn't pay attention that there are two different source packages:

What's the status of webmin?

2001-01-03 Thread Steve Robbins
Hello, What's up with webmin? In the archives of debian-devel, I see at least three threads that started with a message from someone proposing to package webmin, and quickly followed by Jaldhar H. Vyas claiming that he is working on it. However, I can't find webmin at packages.debian.org. In J

d-d digest

2000-09-11 Thread Steve Robbins
Hi, I've not received anything via debian-devel-digest since Friday, yet there are new messages visible via the web. Can someone check if the digesting mechanism is broken? -S -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: apt-move problem

2000-09-07 Thread Steve Robbins
On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > My current problem with apt-move is that it wants to delete every > single deb file I have (instead of only those that have never > versions on hand). Also, it makes completely empty Packages.gz > files for me. I dunno about the first, but I have se

Re: RFC: GUI tools for common Debian admin tasks

2000-09-07 Thread Steve Robbins
Frederic, I think that easier config is a worthy goal. I have long mused about how to teach a single tool about the myriad config files. But I'm too lazy to actually write one. On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Frederic Peters wrote: > Seth Cohn wrote : > > >So, yes, why reinvent the wheel, if there are all

Re: My recent bug's and continuing effort to debconf-ize Debian

2000-09-02 Thread Steve Robbins
On Fri, 1 Sep 2000, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > c) *eventually* there will be a debconf server(right word?) which network > admins can install. This will have the answers stored in it and then when > boxes need to know an asnwer, they query debconf and it queries the server. > This way, you can

Re: RBL report..

2000-03-26 Thread Steve Robbins
On Sun, 26 Mar 2000, Michael Neuffer wrote: > * Jason Gunthorpe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [000326 08:45]: > >[...] > >ORBS - 314 > > Comparing connections it is found that 3970 out of 40236 connection > > attempts would have been blocked. This can be roughly considered to be > > 3970 emails bl

Re: apt-get cron job

2000-03-22 Thread Steve Robbins
On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, Peter Cordes wrote: > Any suggestions/comments? I'd be surprised if I'm the first person to > think of this, but I didn't see anything that suggested it anywhere. One suggestion: for some people, it makes sense to use the `apt-move' package after downloading the .debs. Apt