Re: Should uncoordinated NMUs unilaterally choose Salsa as the VCS for a package?

2025-03-23 Thread Tobias Frost
Hallo Andreas, (this should probably go to vote as general questions for the candiates, but I'm not having enought time right now to pursue this.) On Thu, Mar 20, 2025 at 03:36:48PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > Hi Robert, > > Am Sat, Mar 15, 2025 at 04:34:09PM -0400 schrieb Roberto C. Sánchez:

Bug#1098719: general: Wellbeing Screen Time doesn't capture data

2025-02-23 Thread Tobias Frost
Control: reassign -1 gnome-shell I think this is a feature of gnome-shell, reassigning the bug. On Sun, Feb 23, 2025 at 11:23:30AM +0100, Oleh wrote: > Package: general > Severity: normal > X-Debbugs-Cc: solomoychen...@gmail.com > > Dear Maintainer, > > I have tried to enable Wellbeing Screen

Re: Bug#1093192: #1093192 "ITS: vtgrab": no uploaders specified?

2025-02-16 Thread Tobias Frost
Am Sun, Feb 16, 2025 at 05:53:37PM +0100 schrieb Chris Hofstaedtler: > On Sun, Feb 16, 2025 at 05:44:34PM +0100, наб wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 16, 2025 at 05:29:26PM +0100, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote: > > > On Sun, Feb 16, 2025 at 05:18:39PM +0100, наб wrote: > > > > Quoting the relevant: > > > > > It i

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

2025-01-24 Thread Tobias Frost
Am Fri, Jan 24, 2025 at 09:16:50AM +0300 schrieb Michael Tokarev: > 24.01.2025 04:06, Otto Kekäläinen wrote: > > 3. "latest" is a misnomer (unlike "main" or "master"). For example, I often > use > "experimental" branch which is more recent than "master", yet the main > development is happeni

Tuning the ITS process (Was:Re: Barriers between packages and other people)

2025-01-06 Thread Tobias Frost
Hi all On Mon, Jan 06, 2025 at 09:19:26AM +0100, Niels Thykier wrote: > Rather than inactive maintainers. For inactive maintainers, we have the ITS > process, which I believe is working (at least better than what we had before > the ITS process). When introducing the process ad Debconf18 in Taiwa

Bug#1091346: ITP: ondelsolver -- Assembly Constraints and Multibody Dynamics code

2024-12-24 Thread Tobias Frost
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Tobias Frost X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: ondelsolver Version : (does not release with version number) Upstream Contact: cont...@ondsel.com * URL : https://github.com/Ondsel-Development

Re: Barriers between packages and other people

2024-12-21 Thread Tobias Frost
On Sat, Dec 21, 2024 at 02:09:28PM +0100, Gioele Barabucci wrote: > On 21/12/24 10:15, Pirate Praveen wrote: > > We could use collab maint list, which was specifically created for this > > https://wiki.debian.org/CollaborativeMaintenance > > Good idea. > > To sum up all suggestions until now: >

Re: Barriers between packages and other people

2024-12-21 Thread Tobias Frost
On Sat, Dec 21, 2024 at 10:11:55AM +0800, Sean Whitton wrote: > Hello, > > On Thu 12 Dec 2024 at 10:43am +01, Gioele Barabucci wrote: > > > an alternative that I was thinking of, is making this "everybody is onboard" > > policy more explicit by having a special email to use for the Maintainer > >

Re: Directory structure suggestion for configuration in /etc

2024-12-20 Thread Tobias Frost
On Thu, Dec 19, 2024 at 08:36:25AM -0600, rhys wrote: > > > > > >> What group of idiots came up with a system where instead of having all of > >> the configs in maximum of two places (/etc | ~/.config) have now spread > >> them out across five completely separate directory trees? > > > > The

Re: Taking over package aiocoap

2024-10-07 Thread Tobias Frost
Am 7. Oktober 2024 16:31:14 UTC schrieb Mazen Neifer : >Hi All, > >The package aiocoap is in bad shape and was asked to be removed. > >I would like to maintain it. Is there any objection? Hi Mazen, aiocap seems to be eligible for package salvaging, see [1] for the suggested process to salvage i

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

2024-08-03 Thread Tobias Frost
On Sat, Aug 03, 2024 at 09:40:51PM +0900, Kentaro Hayashi wrote: > Hi, > > Even though +1 for DEP-18 basically, I think that it might be better > to add an option > to formalize package owner's (single person maintainer) collaboration policy > especially about non-team maintained packages under >

Bug#1068957: ITP: gnome-shell-extension-vertical-workspaces -- A GNOME Shell extension that lets you customize your GNOME Shell UX to suit your workflow, whether you like horizontally or vertically st

2024-04-14 Thread Tobias Frost
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Tobias Frost X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: gnome-shell-extension-vertical-workspaces Version : (tbd, likely a git snapshot) Upstream Contact: GdH * URL : https://github.com/G-dH/vertical-workspaces

Re: Wolfram Research Debian Package Submission

2024-01-13 Thread Tobias Frost
Control: tags 1032150 wontfix Hello Blake, (Dropping several mails from CC, as those are the wrong adressees for the topic; Adding the ITP bug though, as the discussion should happen there.) On Fri, Jan 12, 2024 at 09:42:18AM -0600, Blake Gilbert wrote: > Hello, > > My name is Blake Gilbert an

Re: reference Debian package of multiple binaries sharing one man page

2023-11-10 Thread Tobias Frost
On Fri, Nov 10, 2023 at 08:20:35PM +0100, Norwid Behrnd wrote: > Hello, > > I seek a maintained Debian package which provides multiple binaries sharing > one > man page in common -- do you know an example? devscripts - it links debchange.1 to dch.1 via debian/links (dh_link) $grep -r dch debia

Re: Hyphens in man pages

2023-10-23 Thread Tobias Frost
Am 24. Oktober 2023 03:43:29 UTC schrieb Paul Wise : >BTW: as a Debian member, you have access to a gratis subscription: > >https://wiki.debian.org/MemberBenefits#LWN AFAIK this is no longer available.

Re: Bug#1053165: ITS: nunit

2023-09-28 Thread Tobias Frost
Hi Bastian, I'd just want to chime in and confirm what David wrote aleady. When we wrote the ITS procedure during Debconf Tawain, it was an explicitly designed that way, that it must not be a way to fast-orphan packages, bypassing the processes we have for that. This was intentional engineered tha

Re: what about package for my simple program

2023-08-03 Thread Tobias Frost
Hi Oleg, debian-devel is the wrong mailing list for your topic, may I re-suggest to move this thread to the debian-mentors mailing list, which is more appropiate. (I've set the Reply-To Header to hint your MUA accordingly.) (For d-mentors readers, the original thread on debian-devel is starting a

Re: Adding epoch to kworkflow package to correct a wrong upstream version

2023-03-12 Thread Tobias Frost
On Sat, Mar 11, 2023 at 06:35:39PM -0700, Rodrigo Siqueira wrote: > Hi, > > While working on a new version of the kworkflow package > (https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/kworkflow), we noticed that the current > version is 20191112-1.2, and the latest upstream version is 0.6.2. > Version 20191112-1.2

Re: SONAME bumps (transitions) always via experimental

2023-01-06 Thread Tobias Frost
On Thu, Jan 05, 2023 at 02:29:42PM +0100, Sebastian Ramacher wrote: > > From recent memory and assuming there are no issues with d/copyright, > binary-NEW uploads to experimental have been processed swiftly. This is also my experience that binary-NEW uploads for library SONAME bumps are handled v

Bug#1024542: general: Add Budgie-Desktop to the software selection menu list

2022-11-21 Thread Tobias Frost
On Mon, Nov 21, 2022 at 04:31:45PM +0900, Green wrote: > Package: general > Severity: normal > > Dear Maintainers, > > I have filed a bug report, but I got a reply that it was posted at the wrong > section. The bug (#1024529) has been closed because it was assigned to the wrong package, as Cyr

Re: libc6-dev have unmet dependencies in stable-bullseye

2022-11-01 Thread Tobias Frost
On Mon, Oct 31, 2022 at 04:42:00PM +0100, Markus wrote: > Hi, > > Thank you for your answer. > > > If you used debootstrap or mmdebstrap to create your own chroot or > > container that only includes bullseye, and not bullseye-security or > > bullseye-updates, then you would get libc6 (= 2.31-13+d

Re: wxWidgets update & opencpn.

2022-10-28 Thread Tobias Frost
Hi Alec, On Fri, Oct 28, 2022 at 10:15:49AM +0200, Alec Leamas wrote: > Dear list, > > I'm maintaining the opencpn and libwxsvg packages. They both depend on > wxWidgets which now is updated to version 3.2 in testing. Hence, I have two > bugs [1], [2] requesting an update of my packages. > > The

Re: Firmware GR result - what happens next?

2022-10-13 Thread Tobias Frost
On Thu, Oct 13, 2022 at 05:08:57PM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: > On Thu, Oct 06, 2022 at 05:13:22PM +0200, Tobias Frost wrote: > > Maybe and idea would to do something like isa-support does for e.g > > sseX-support > > on CPUs that does not have that feature: It fails on

Re: Firmware GR result - what happens next?

2022-10-06 Thread Tobias Frost
On Thu, Oct 06, 2022 at 05:03:20PM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: > On Thu, Oct 6, 2022 at 15:45:25 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > > > On Wed, Oct 05, 2022 at 10:11:27PM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: > > >On Sun, Oct 02, 2022 at 08:21:31PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > > >> On Sun, Oct 02, 2022 at

Re: packages expected to fail on some archs

2022-09-12 Thread Tobias Frost
On Mon, Sep 12, 2022 at 05:11:46PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Hello, > > Tobias Frost, le lun. 12 sept. 2022 16:08:08 +0200, a ecrit: > > The problem is that if you want to exclude an arch explicitly, you have to > > list all archs you want to build it on. IOW, I

Re: packages expected to fail on some archs

2022-09-12 Thread Tobias Frost
On Sun, Sep 11, 2022 at 11:07:13PM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Sun, Sep 11, 2022 at 05:08:57PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > >... > > The issue we see is that some DDs end up setting a hardcoded list in > > the "Architecture" field, rather than just letting builds keep failing > > on these arc

Re: Epoch for node-markdown-it

2022-08-20 Thread Tobias Frost
On Fri, Aug 19, 2022 at 10:00:58PM +0530, Nilesh Patra wrote: > On Fri, Aug 19, 2022 at 09:51:14PM +0530, Nilesh Patra wrote: > > > As Jonas said, an epoch cannot be undone, +really can, regardless when > > > this is going to happen. > > > > I think ignoring when it happens is not the right way t

Bug#1016962: ITP: swift-im -- C++ library for implementing XMPP applications

2022-08-10 Thread Tobias Frost
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Tobias Frost X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: swift-im Version : 5.0~alpha2 Upstream Author : Kevin Smith * URL : https://swift.im * License : GPL3 Programming Lang: C++ Description : C

Bug#1016726: ITP: libcommuni -- A cross-platform IRC framework written with Qt

2022-08-06 Thread Tobias Frost
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Tobias Frost X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: libcommuni Version : 3.7.0 Upstream Author : The Communi Project * URL : https://communi.github.io/ * License : BSD-3-clause Programming Lang: C

Epoch bump for gnome-shell-extension-autohidetopbar

2022-03-28 Thread Tobias Frost
Dear -devel, gnome-shell-extension-autohidetopbar is currently packaged with a date/name version, eg. 20209, unfortunatly without a leading 0~... I recently agreed [1] with upstream to tag their releases to match the version as on extensions.gnome.org as this has been source of confusion for

Re: Lost package?

2022-01-06 Thread Tobias Frost
On Thu, Jan 06, 2022 at 03:43:22PM +0100, Alec Leamas wrote: > Dear list, > > I had a bullseye backport of opencpn uploaded to the backports-new queue > before Christmas (thanks, Tobi). This is the first backport I've done. > > This morning the queue seems to be processed, it is (was) empty. But

Re: Remove packages from NEW queue?

2021-11-18 Thread Tobias Frost
Am 18. November 2021 10:30:37 MEZ schrieb Stephan Lachnit : >I tried to remove a package from NEW with `dcut rm package.deb`, `dcut >rm package.changes` and `dcut cancel package.changes`, but nothing >worked. >Is there even a way to remove a package from NEW? > >Regards, >Stephan > ask FTP Master

Re: Re: sbuild/schroot: need to get .deb files internally downloaded as package dependencies

2021-10-28 Thread Tobias Frost
On Thu, Oct 28, 2021 at 07:11:05PM +0300, Uladzimir Bely wrote: > Thanks for the answer > > > You have not explained why you don't want to use a caching proxy like apt- > cacher-ng. > > The question appeared while developing for Isar, a tool build create debian- > based distro for embedded system

Bug#996556: ITP: gnome-shell-extension-vertical-overview -- GNOME shell extension for vertical stacked workspaces

2021-10-15 Thread Tobias Frost
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Tobias Frost X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: gnome-shell-extension-vertical-overview Version : 8 Upstream Author : Rens Althuis * URL : https://github.com/RensAlthuis/vertical-overview * License

Re: Q: Use https for {deb,security}.debian.org by default

2021-08-21 Thread Tobias Frost
On Sat, Aug 21, 2021 at 10:40:32AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Fri, Aug 20, 2021 at 07:20:22PM +, Jeremy Stanley wrote: > > Yes transparent proxies or overridden DNS lookups could be used to > > direct deb.debian.org and security.debian.org to your alternative > > location, > > I've bee

Bug#982087: ITP: timg -- terminal image and video viewer

2021-02-06 Thread Tobias Frost
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Tobias Frost X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: timg Version : 0.9.9 Upstream Author : Henner Zeller * URL : https://github.com/hzeller/timg * License : GPL-2 Programming Lang: C

Re: Making Debian available

2021-01-25 Thread Tobias Frost
Am Sun, Jan 24, 2021 at 07:28:07PM +0100 schrieb Philipp Kern: > On 24.01.21 17:08, John Scott wrote: > > Changing the firmware on an EEPROM is far less practical for the user or > > manufacturer (they're on similar footing), and if it's not electronically > > erasable, it's merely an object that

Re: How much data load is acceptable in debian/ dir and upstream

2020-09-17 Thread Tobias Frost
On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 04:55:41PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > > Provided that license and copyright of the data in question is OK > is there any size limit for data to be stored under debian/? my 2 cents: debian/ should not be used for much data: It will be duplicated by the upload of eve

Re: How much data load is acceptable in debian/ dir and upstream (Was: edtsurf_0.2009-7_amd64.changes REJECTED)

2020-09-14 Thread Tobias Frost
On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 03:32:54PM -0500, Richard Laager wrote: > >> Don't forget to mention the copyright information. > > > > In principle yes, but these data are not copyrightable as far as I know. > > Nilesh has mentioned the origin of data in debian/tests/README to > > provide a reference.

Re: Building Debian source packages reproducibly (was: Re: [RFC] Proposal for new source format)

2019-10-29 Thread Tobias Frost
Hi Ian, On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 05:53:00PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: (...) > For example, you would not be able to do this: >git clone salsa:something >cd something >make some straightforward change >git tag# } [1] >git push # } > Instead you would have to download the

Re: tag2upload service architecture and risk assessment - draft v2

2019-08-27 Thread Tobias Frost
On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 05:04:06PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Scott Kitterman writes: > > > As an example, I recall concerns about there not being an uploader > > signature on the source anymore, so we would lose the ability to verify > > from the archive who was responsible for the upload. >

Re: Question about embedded Lua

2019-07-25 Thread Tobias Frost
Hi Kyle, On Thu, Jul 25, 2019 at 10:27:42AM -0400, Kyle Edwards wrote: > Hi all, > > As per Debian policy, programs and libraries are generally not allowed > to embed their own copies of libraries that are present in another > package, in order to avoid duplication of code and to enable security

Re: Packaging Games with In-App Purchases

2019-07-14 Thread Tobias Frost
On Sun, Jul 14, 2019 at 08:50:54AM -0400, Sam Hartman wrote: > >>>>> "Tobias" == Tobias Frost writes: > > Tobias> Well, if it is GPL3, you can patch out the > Tobias> real-money-purchasing thing, I guess, can't you? > > Tobias&g

Re: Packaging Games with In-App Purchases

2019-07-14 Thread Tobias Frost
On Sun, Jul 14, 2019 at 12:37:52PM +0700, Bagas Sanjaya wrote: > Hello, > > Let's imagine that I will package a city-building game titled > makaecity. Can you share a link? My $searchengine vodoo failed on me... The game is licensed under GPL(v3), but it has virtual > currency which can be purc

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

2019-06-29 Thread Tobias Frost
On Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 03:38:48PM -0400, Boyuan Yang wrote: > Dear -devel list, > > (Please forward this email to proper mailing lists if there's other lists that > this email would suit in better.) > > I noticed that for all bug reports that orphan a package in Debian, a semi- > standard paragr

Re: Suspending Offer to Reimburse Expenses for Attending Future Bug Squashing Parties

2019-06-08 Thread Tobias Frost
On Fri, Jun 07, 2019 at 11:10:12PM +, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Wed, Jun 05, 2019 at 09:19:03AM -0400, Sam Hartman wrote: > > Handling reimbursements for BSPs has significantly crossed my threshhold > > for not being fun with our current procedures. We absolutely should > > reimburse developer

Re: Cdbs Features

2019-05-14 Thread Tobias Frost
On Tue, May 14, 2019 at 05:35:21AM -0700, Mo Zhou wrote: > Hi, > > On 2019-05-14 07:59, IOhannes m zmölnig wrote: > > i've migrated many of my packages from cdbs to dh, but there's one > > feature which cdbs sports and which i miss strongly (at least: the last > > time i checked) in dh (so much, t

Re: Let's start salvaging packages!

2018-09-25 Thread Tobias Frost
Hallo everyone, The yesteday uploaded Developer's Reference has now got a chapter about "Package Salvaging". [1] So, package salvaging is now implemented and ready to be used, and whenever you find some package in need, you can now consider to salvage it for the benefit of Debian and our users.

Re: Let's start salvaging packages! -- disucssion phase closing soon.

2018-09-09 Thread Tobias Frost
Hi, Merge-request for developers-reference is now available: https://salsa.debian.org/debian/developers-reference/merge_requests/5 Kudos to all who helped me making this possible! -- tobi signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Let's start salvaging packages! -- disucssion phase closing soon.

2018-09-03 Thread Tobias Frost
On Mon, Sep 03, 2018 at 08:17:24AM -0300, David Bremner wrote: > Tobias Frost writes: > > > > > The split was actually thought to be a feature [1] :) > > It was to make the process itself less normative about the actual > > (concrete) figures/criterias, but

Re: Let's start salvaging packages! -- disucssion phase closing soon.

2018-09-02 Thread Tobias Frost
Dear all, so, I think we are now ready to proceed in the topic of the salaving process... The changes on the text on the etherpad and wiki were mostly only of editorial nature, like spelling, grammar and wiki syntax fixes and rewordings to make it less awkyard for native speakers. Again, thanks t

Re: Let's start salvaging packages! -- draft text now available

2018-08-31 Thread Tobias Frost
On Fri, Aug 31, 2018 at 03:23:53PM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Sun, Aug 19, 2018 at 06:06:47PM +0200, Tobias Frost wrote: > > [2] https://wiki.debian.org/PackageSalvaging > > Please consider adding a content license to this page. See the bottom of > [1] for an example

Re: Let's start salvaging packages! -- disucssion phase closing soon.

2018-08-30 Thread Tobias Frost
Hi David, On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 10:43:01PM -0300, David Bremner wrote: > Tobias Frost writes: > > > Hallo everyone, > > > > This is a gentle reminder regarding the Salvaging Process discussion! > > > > For all of those, who did not yet have read the proposa

Re: Let's start salvaging packages! -- draft text now available

2018-08-29 Thread Tobias Frost
Subject: developers-reference: Announcement for adding "Package Salvaging" process to dev-ref Source: developers-reference Severity: normal Dear dev-ref maintainers, as you've probably saw on -dev, I'm currently working to implement the Package Salvaging process. The discussion is still ongoing

Re: Let's start salvaging packages! -- disucssion phase closing soon.

2018-08-27 Thread Tobias Frost
1st. Many have already edited and tweaked the proposed text to correct typos and weird (for non native speakers) formulations, which is a very good thing. A BIG THANKS for that! Cheers, -- tobi On Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 03:05:57PM +0200, Tobias Frost wrote: > Dear fellow Debinites, > > ma

Let's start salvaging packages! -- draft text now available

2018-08-20 Thread Tobias Frost
age from Tobias Frost - Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2018 18:06:47 +0200 From: Tobias Frost To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Subject: Let's start salvaging packages! -- draft text now available User-Agent: Mutt/1.10.1 (2018-07-13) Dear -devel, as announced earlier, I have together with worked

Let's start salvaging packages! -- draft text now available

2018-08-19 Thread Tobias Frost
Dear -devel, as announced earlier, I have together with worked on the text for the salvaging process. You can find the texts here: Titanpad [1] for dev-ref and the accompanying Wikipage [2]. Credits to Pierre-Elliott Bécue, as he wrote the first draft and thereby helped me a lot. For the timeline

Re: Let's start salvaging packages! -- let's start working on the text.

2018-08-15 Thread Tobias Frost
On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 07:39:24AM +0100, Chris Lamb wrote: > Dear Tobias, > > > [1] https://pad.riseup.net/p/debian-salvaging-packages-keep > > Thanks for moving forward with your proposal. I'll have a poke at the > Etherpad in the upcoming days or so. > > Whilst you outline a plan of sorts, do

Re: Let's start salvaging packages! -- let's start working on the text.

2018-08-12 Thread Tobias Frost
Dear -devel, seems so as the discussion is more quiet than I've anticipated... So as an optimist, I'm assuming this is because the proposal has kind of rough consensus, so I will plan now for the next steps. The discussion can and should of course continue, especially as it is vacation time atm.

Re: Let's start salvaging packages -- Summary of the BoF Session.

2018-08-05 Thread Tobias Frost
On Sun, Aug 05, 2018 at 01:20:47PM +, Scott Kitterman wrote: > > > On August 5, 2018 7:41:41 AM UTC, Tobias Frost wrote: > > > >Yes, the TC has the power to decide ultimately about maintainership > >when > >there is an dispute and if involved parties fail

Re: Let's start salvaging packages -- Summary of the BoF Session.

2018-08-05 Thread Tobias Frost
On Sun, Aug 05, 2018 at 02:47:58PM +, Scott Kitterman wrote: > > > On August 5, 2018 2:17:04 PM UTC, Adam Borowski wrote: > >On Sun, Aug 05, 2018 at 01:20:47PM +, Scott Kitterman wrote: > >> Package 'salvaging' is about an involuntary change of maintainer > >involving > >> someone who is

Re: Let's start salvaging packages -- Summary of the BoF Session.

2018-08-05 Thread Tobias Frost
On Sun, Aug 05, 2018 at 06:50:28AM +, Scott Kitterman wrote: > > Since it's explicitly in the Debian constitution that the TC is the > decider of package maintainership, how does a dev-ref change overcome > that? > Yes, the TC has the power to decide ultimately about maintainership when ther

Let's start salvaging packages -- Summary of the BoF Session.

2018-08-04 Thread Tobias Frost
Hello everyone, tl;dr: at the BoF the proposal seems to be uncontroversial at the session. So we will go forward with discussing it and propose a patch to e.g dev-ref (if we're still aiming for dev-ref then) Generally, the people at the BoF seemed to be supportive of the proposal, but a few thin

Re: Let's start salvaging packages!

2018-08-03 Thread Tobias Frost
Dear all, The BoF has happened, thanks for your participation and all your valuable input! Thanks to the Video Team, the BoF recording is now available at [1], and the html version of the gobby document can be found by following [2]. I did not yet find the time to condense the input from the BoF

Re: Let's start salvaging packages!

2018-07-29 Thread Tobias Frost
On Mon, 2018-07-30 at 03:25 +0100, Chris Lamb wrote: > Dear Tobi, > > > There will be a BoF at DebConf18 Thursday, August 2nd 11:00 in Room > > Xueshan [a] > > for dicussion and fine tuning. (We will likely have video > > coverage.) > > > > I'm sending out our proposal draft already now so you wi

Let's start salvaging packages!

2018-07-29 Thread Tobias Frost
Dear fellow Debinites, tl;dr: Let's bring the package salvage process discussed some years earlier to life! There will be a BoF at DebConf18 Thursday, August 2nd 11:00 in Room Xueshan [a] for dicussion and fine tuning. (We will likely have video coverage.) I'm sending out our proposal draft alre

Re: Lucas Kanashiro and Athos Ribeiro hijack my package

2018-04-16 Thread Tobias Frost
On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 03:29:32PM +0800, Rolf Leggewie wrote: > On 16.04.2018 14:28, Tobias Frost wrote: > > > On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 08:28:08AM +0800, Rolf Leggewie wrote: > >> https://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-maint/gjots2.git > > You know that collab-main

Re: Lucas Kanashiro and Athos Ribeiro salvaged my package

2018-04-16 Thread Tobias Frost
Am 16. April 2018 09:43:10 MESZ schrieb Andreas Tille : >Hi, > >On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 09:10:34AM +0200, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: >> Scott Kitterman writes: >> > Personally, I think people should be more annoyed at the people >doing >> > the hijacking than the one they did it to. >> >> I thought t

Re: Lucas Kanashiro and Athos Ribeiro hijack my package

2018-04-15 Thread Tobias Frost
On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 08:28:08AM +0800, Rolf Leggewie wrote: PS: I'm seeing that you move all your packages to github. Please do not do that, please prefer free services hosted by Debian over non-free ones. Thanks for considering.

Re: Lucas Kanashiro and Athos Ribeiro hijack my package

2018-04-15 Thread Tobias Frost
On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 08:28:08AM +0800, Rolf Leggewie wrote: > https://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-maint/gjots2.git You know that collab-maint stands for "Collaborative Maintaince"? IMHO by placing it into collab-maint, everyone is allowed / suggested to work on those packages. If you d

Re: Spam targeting nnn-done@bugs.d.o

2018-02-21 Thread Tobias Frost
On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 06:31:46PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2018-02-21 17:48 +0100, Georg Faerber wrote: > > Apart from restricting access to the BTS (which I think nobody really > wants), the answer is to train the spam filters. In fact, I am quite > surprised that the current spam wave

Re: Spam targeting nnn-done@bugs.d.o

2018-02-21 Thread Tobias Frost
opped in a filter for these messages on Saturday; I personally > haven't seen any since I dropped in the filter, but I haven't been > watching all of the bugs. > > On Wed, 21 Feb 2018, Tobias Frost wrote: > > How's about for starting blocking attachment that are kind

Re: Why do we list individual copyright holders?

2018-01-03 Thread Tobias Frost
On Tue, Jan 02, 2018 at 10:51:56PM +0100, Markus Koschany wrote: > Am 02.01.2018 um 21:57 schrieb Tollef Fog Heen: > > ]] Markus Koschany > > [...] > > Also, the Standards-Version header is only recommended to be included, > > it's not mandatory. If its existence offends you so much and you have

Re: salsa.debian.org (git.debian.org replacement) going into beta

2017-12-27 Thread Tobias Frost
On Tue, Dec 26, 2017 at 02:48:50PM +0100, Mattia Rizzolo wrote: > On Tue, Dec 26, 2017 at 02:45:38PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > > The time before the last time I asked about tracker, the answer was > > that this was not yet possible due to old lintian doing automated > > rejects on ftpmaster. > >

Re: [Pkg-ace-devel] Status of the ACE package | Is the ACE team still active ?

2017-09-03 Thread Tobias Frost
Hallo Johnny, On Sun, Sep 03, 2017 at 09:11:32AM +0200, Johnny Willemsen wrote: > Hi, > > When there is someone that could assist me in doing it the first time I am > interested in packaging ACE. I > already upload the release to various places and adding debian should > not be a problem, but so

Re: Bug#856139: certspotter: long description advertises *unused* commercial service

2017-08-10 Thread Tobias Frost
Am Donnerstag, den 10.08.2017, 12:45 +0200 schrieb Philipp Kern: > The only crucial sentence might be this one from §2.2.2 in the > policy: > > "The contrib archive area contains supplemental packages intended to > work with the Debian distribution, but which require software outside > of > the di

Re: Bug#798476: Returning to the requirement that Uploaders: contain humans

2017-08-03 Thread Tobias Frost
Am Donnerstag, den 03.08.2017, 12:44 -0400 schrieb Sean Whitton: > Hello Tobias, > > Thank you for writing about this bug from the MIA team's perspective, > which is very relevant to resolving this. > > On Thu, Aug 03, 2017 at 08:44:36AM +0200, Tobias Frost wrote: > &g

Re: Bug#798476: Returning to the requirement that Uploaders: contain humans

2017-08-03 Thread Tobias Frost
Am 2. August 2017 23:48:15 MESZ schrieb Sean Whitton : >Hello, > >Here is an updated diff for this bug, against the docbook version of >the policy manual. > >I've also included a purely informative change which emphasises that >packages that are team maintained in name only should be orphaned >prop

Re: Bug#791828: dput-ng: Please make coinstallable with dput

2017-01-03 Thread Tobias Frost
Am Montag, den 02.01.2017, 10:16 +1100 schrieb Ben Finney: > On 08-Jul-2015, Tobias Frost wrote: > > > I'd love to use both dput and dput-ng without the need of > > installing > > the version I'd use next.. > > As discussed briefly in the thread from 20

Re: dput: Call for feedback: What should change? What should stay the same?

2016-12-30 Thread Tobias Frost
ese >questions. I'd like to see #791828 fixed and make it possible to habe dput and dput-ng installed the same time. -- Tobias Frost GPG fingerprint: 13C9 04F0 CE08 5E7C 3630 7985 DECF 849A A635 7FB7

Re: DEP 8: Gathering Django usage analytics

2016-11-18 Thread Tobias Frost
On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 08:54:08AM +1100, Brian May wrote: > Lars Wirzenius writes: > > > If I understand this correctly, Django wants to gather usage > > statistics from installed Django instances, in a way that they say > > respects user privacy (though I failed to understand how, given a > > q

Re: [MBF]: json_checker testsuite, likely licensed "Good not Evil"

2016-10-12 Thread Tobias Frost
Thanks Bastien! Am 12. Oktober 2016 14:56:23 MESZ, schrieb Bastien ROUCARIES : >Fixed in lintian. > >Lintian will tag these files > >Thanks > >On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 10:50 PM, Tobias Frost wrote: >> Am Montag, den 10.10.2016, 21:48 +0200 schrieb Bastien ROUCARIES: &g

Re: [MBF]: json_checker testsuite, likely licensed "Good not Evil"

2016-10-10 Thread Tobias Frost
Am Montag, den 10.10.2016, 21:48 +0200 schrieb Bastien ROUCARIES: > On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 8:30 PM, Tobias Frost > wrote: > > Dear Developers, > > > > while packaging an updated version of one of my packages which > > included > > now rapidjson I became aware

[MBF]: json_checker testsuite, likely licensed "Good not Evil"

2016-10-10 Thread Tobias Frost
Dear Developers,  while packaging an updated version of one of my packages which included now rapidjson I became aware that this library includes the test suite  date of http://json.org/JSON_checker/. While there is no license on the testsuite.zip, json_checker is licensed by json.org with the inf

Re: Standards-Version field should be deprecated

2016-09-08 Thread Tobias Frost
On Thu, Sep 08, 2016 at 06:37:33PM +0200, Markus Koschany wrote: > > On 08.09.2016 17:39, Russ Allbery wrote: > > > > Markus Koschany writes: > > > > > > > > I have written a macro to update the Standards-Version field > > > because it > > > is such a boring task. Declaring compliance with the

Re: Policy 12.3: should I rename?

2016-07-24 Thread Tobias Frost
Am Samstag, den 23.07.2016, 22:59 +0200 schrieb Tollef Fog Heen: > ]] Jonas Smedegaard  > > > Quoting Tollef Fog Heen (2016-07-23 18:58:37) > > > ]] Geert Stappers  > > > > > > > FWIW I agree with both '"main package "should have > > > > documentation' and  > > > > 'additional documentation in se

Re: MBF Announcement: Transition libpng12 -> libpng16

2016-04-06 Thread Tobias Frost
Hallo -devel, Note that libpng1.6 is now in sid, so the libpng 1.6 transition has finally started.  To keep the transition short, please keep an eye on packages; of course we will also do NMUs when neeeded. The transistion tracker is here: https://release.debian.org/transitions/html/libpng1.6.ht

Re: hdparm needs a new maintainer

2016-03-01 Thread Tobias Frost
Am Dienstag, den 01.03.2016, 19:57 +0100 schrieb Alex Mestiashvili: > On 03/01/2016 06:11 PM, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > Hello, > > > > On Tue, 01 Mar 2016, Alex Mestiashvili wrote: > > > As there are at least 3 persons ( including me :) ) interesting > > > in the > > > package, I think it will be

Re: MBF Announcement: Transition libpng12 -> libpng16

2016-01-12 Thread Tobias Frost
> On Mon, Jan 04, 2016 at 12:02:00PM +0100, Tobias Frost wrote: >> we are currently planning to start the transition of libpng. > > Is there a repository with packages rebuilt against libpng16? Some > dependency chains are massive, such as the gtk/gdk/... which makes > testi

Re: support for merged /usr in Debian

2016-01-08 Thread Tobias Frost
Am Freitag, den 08.01.2016, 09:14 -0800 schrieb Nikolaus Rath: >  > Debian is developed by its developers, not by its users. Do you have > any > evidence (other than your opinion) that loss of users would cause > loss > of development work? Our priorities are our users and free software We will

Re: MBF Announcement: Transition libpng12 -> libpng16

2016-01-08 Thread Tobias Frost
Dear Debian-devel, The preparation for the transition are going pretty much good. In the meantime the bugs have been filed and there are already many fixes uploaded. MANY THANKS for all of you. I'm also rebuilding newly uploaded packages to keep libpng.sviech.de somehow up to date.   Of course,

Re: Rudy Godoy MIA?

2016-01-07 Thread Tobias Frost
Am Donnerstag, den 07.01.2016, 10:23 +0100 schrieb Pedretti Fabio: > Hi, I tried to contact debian developer Rudy Godoy but I got no > reply. A > package he maintains, torcs, is in need of an update since some > years. > > As explained here: > https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-referenc

Re: MBF Announcement: Transition libpng12 -> libpng16

2016-01-06 Thread Tobias Frost
Am Mittwoch, den 06.01.2016, 01:27 +0100 schrieb Samuel Thibault: > Rene Engelhard, on Tue 05 Jan 2016 22:15:31 +0100, wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 05, 2016 at 09:58:03PM +0100, Rene Engelhard wrote: > > > On Tue, Jan 05, 2016 at 09:50:58PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > > > Rene Engelhard, on Tue 05

Re: MBF Announcement: Transition libpng12 -> libpng16

2016-01-04 Thread Tobias Frost
Am Montag, den 04.01.2016, 12:02 +0100 schrieb Tobias Frost: For those want to test against libpng1.6:  Note that the libpn16 package in experimental does NOT Provide libpng- dev at the moment. As I've hacked something together for my rebuild, you can grab the dsc here:  https://libpng.svie

Re: MBF Announcement: Transition libpng12 -> libpng16

2016-01-04 Thread Tobias Frost
Hi Sebastien, Am Montag, den 04.01.2016, 12:00 + schrieb Bastien Roucaries: > >  > Add also bug to package using embeded libpng 1.6 like texlive ? Thanks for the hint, I frankly forgot to check for code copies. Yes, I guess the security team would be happy to drop embedded code copies or at

MBF Announcement: Transition libpng12 -> libpng16

2016-01-04 Thread Tobias Frost
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Bug#804621: ITP: liblightify -- library to control OSRAM LIGHTIFY products

2015-12-05 Thread Tobias Frost
Package: wnpp Followup-For: Bug #804621 Owner: Tobias Frost Package is now in NEW. Tobi

Bug#805651: ITA: avrdude -- software for programming Atmel AVR microcontrollers

2015-11-24 Thread Tobias Frost
Package: wnpp Followup-For: Bug #805651 Owner: Tobias Frost Hi Milan, if you'd like to have a Co-Maintainer for avrdude, please feel free to ping me. Tobi

Bug#804621: ITP: liblightify -- library to control OSRAM LIGHTIFY products

2015-11-09 Thread Tobias Frost
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Tobias Frost * Package name: liblightify Version : 0 Upstream Author : Tobias Frost * URL : https://github.com/coldtobi/liblightify * License : BSD Programming Lang: C and C++ Description : library to control

Re: Bug#799748: ITP: ember -- 3D client framework for the WorldForge project

2015-09-22 Thread Tobias Frost
Am Dienstag, den 22.09.2015, 08:19 +0100 schrieb Simon McVittie: > On 22/09/15 06:22, Olek Wojnar wrote: > > This package is being reintroduced into Debian. It was previously > > maintained > > by the Games Team and will continue to be maintained that way. It > > was removed > > by Bugs #797418,

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