Bug#1101801: ITP: kameleon -- mindful appliance builder

2025-03-31 Thread Vincent Danjean
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Vincent Danjean X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: kameleon Version : 2.10.13 Upstream Contact: pierre.ney...@imag.fr * URL : http://kameleon.imag.fr/ * License : GPL-2+ Programming Lang: ruby

Re: Misconfigured bookworm upgrades

2025-03-02 Thread Vincent Lefevre
unattended upgrader, which is configured to ^^^^^^^^^ only install security updates". ^ Could this be a misconfiguration of unattended-upgrade? -- Vincent Lefèvre - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Pascaline project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)

Re: Misconfigured bookworm upgrades

2025-02-28 Thread Vincent Lefevre
e=${distro_codename}-security,label=Debian-Security"; > > // "o=Debian Backports,n=${distro_codename}-backports,l=Debian > > Backports"; > > So that doesn't look like a bug in unattended-upgrades. -- Vincent Lefèvre - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% acc

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

2025-02-27 Thread Vincent Lefevre
n used nowadays (including as email contents), even when this is not justified. -- Vincent Lefèvre - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Pascaline project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)

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

2025-02-27 Thread Vincent Lefevre
ose the "long line" information also for the other lines, which might not be really important; alternatively, you may define a key binding to toggle the $markers setting). -- Vincent Lefèvre - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Pascaline project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)

Debian Policy 4.7.1.0 and program names

2025-02-20 Thread Vincent Lefevre
e? For instance, https://packages.debian.org/sid/amd64/lam4-dev/filelist has /usr/bin/hcc and https://packages.debian.org/sid/amd64/uhexen2/filelist has /usr/games/hcc and I'm quite sure that the hcc programs have different functionality. -- Vincent Lefèvre - Web: <https://www.vinc17.ne

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

2025-02-16 Thread Vincent Tondellier
egards, Vincent

Re: Filesystem snapshotting in dpkg (was Re: A 2025 NewYear present: make dpkg --force-unsafe-io the default?)

2025-02-13 Thread Vincent Danjean
upgrade (ie I stop them). And I'm ready to handle the consequencies of a rollback. I do not know how this can be done automaticcaly. Regards, Vincent

Re: What is going on with atomics?

2025-02-13 Thread Vincent Danjean
efore). The order is important (libraries are used to resolve missing symbols of *previous* libraries/object files). Be sure to declare your target_link_libraries() after adding all object files/libraries that might need it. For autoconf, it means putting it in LIBS (and not LDFLAGS) Regards, Vincent

Re: Heimdal Bugs re update-alternatives

2025-02-11 Thread Vincent Danjean
tation, either by calling directly the good binary (other name or in an other path), or by configuring the new script to run the explicitly chosen version. An admin would also be able to use the alternative system to choose (system-wide) the default kadmin implementation (with c installed or not) Regards Vincent

Re: wesnoth-1.18_1.18.3-1~bpo12+1_source.changes REJECTED

2024-12-21 Thread Vincent Cheng
ght know what's going on. As it currently stands, I'm blocked from making any future backport uploads for wesnoth-1.18. Does anyone have any ideas? Regards, Vincent [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-games/2024/11/msg4.html [2] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-games/

Re: Debian policy 9.2.1 needs --allow-bad-names

2024-10-05 Thread Vincent Blut
are creating a system user, you do not need to pass the --allow-bad-names to adduser. However, this option is required if you intend to create a non-system user/group name starting with an underscore. > Sincerely, > Joachim Cheers, Vincent signature.asc Description: PGP signature

dpkg-maintscript-helper and usrmerge

2024-09-30 Thread Vincent Bernat
Hey! When a package migrates from /lib to /usr/lib, it seems that dpkg-maintscript-helper gets confused and says that the target path (when trying to turn a directory to symlink for example) is not owned by the (currently installed) package, which is right. Is there a way to make dpkg-maints

Compile to ARM64 with qemu-static

2024-09-21 Thread Vincent Bernat
Hey! I am using qemu-user-static to compile to ARM64 from AMD64. There is a long-time bug with recent versions of QEMU where you would get a segfault: https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/1913 I was using qemu-user-static_7.2+dfsg-7+deb12u5_amd64.deb for quite some time, but recentl

Bug#1079011: ITP: marknote -- Simple markdown note management app.

2024-08-18 Thread Vincent Pinon
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Vincent Pinon X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: marknote Version : 1.3.0 Upstream Contact: Mathis Brüchert * URL : https://invent.kde.org/office/marknote * License : GPL Programming Lang: C

Re: ifupdown maintenance

2024-07-10 Thread Vincent Bernat
On 2024-07-07 15:56, Daniel Gröber wrote: From where I'm sitting ifupdown2 is completely out of the question as *the* Debian ifupdown since it doesn't even support *basic* IPv6 use-cases like DHCPv6. Upstream community seems nonexistant since this is software by a corp for a corp where communit

Bug#1073282: ITP: golang-github-charlievieth-fastwalk -- Fast directory traversal for Golang

2024-06-15 Thread Vincent Blut
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Vincent Blut * Package name: golang-github-charlievieth-fastwalk Version : 1.0.3-1 Upstream Author : Charlie Vieth * URL : https://github.com/charlievieth/fastwalk * License : Expat Programming Lang: Go Description

Re: Y2038-safe replacements for utmp/wtmp and lastlog

2024-05-31 Thread Vincent Lefevre
logout, boot with shutdown, etc. Still it > seems to me some information, e.g. exit_status, are still missing. The host names are also dropped. I've never seen an exit status. But the wtmp(5) man page says "not used by Linux init(1)". -- Vincent Lefèvre - Web: <https://w

Re: Bug#1068017: Y2038-safe replacements for utmp/wtmp and lastlog

2024-05-31 Thread Vincent Lefevre
er another name (e.g. last-legacy) instead of dropping it entirely, in particular because some programs still write to the old wtmp (which has no issues until 2038). -- Vincent Lefèvre - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/>

Re: Y2038-safe replacements for utmp/wtmp and lastlog

2024-05-30 Thread Vincent Lefevre
dresses and the host names with "last" (I don't know whether there's a better way to get full information). -- Vincent Lefèvre - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - compute

Re: salsa web server broken?

2024-05-24 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2024-05-24 11:51:15 +0200, Alexander Wirt wrote: > Am Fri, May 24, 2024 at 11:23:44AM +0200 schrieb Vincent Lefevre: > > Is the salsa web server broken? > > > > The display of https://salsa.debian.org/python-team/packages/fail2ban > > is completely wrong, and https:/

salsa web server broken?

2024-05-24 Thread Vincent Lefevre
Is the salsa web server broken? The display of https://salsa.debian.org/python-team/packages/fail2ban is completely wrong, and https://salsa.debian.org/ gives an error 500 "We're sorry. Something went wrong on our end.". -- Vincent Lefèvre - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net

Re: Validating tarballs against git repositories

2024-04-01 Thread Vincent Bernat
On 2024-04-01 12:44, Bastian Blank wrote: So in the end you still need to manually review all the stuff that the tarball contains extra to the git. And for that I don't see that it actually gives some helping hands and makes it easier. So I really don't see how this makes the problem in hand a

Firmwares (was Re: Bits from the DPL)

2024-04-01 Thread Vincent Bernat
On 2024-04-01 18:05, Jonathan Carter wrote: The included firmware contributed to Debian 12 being a huge success, but it wasn't the only factor. Unfortunately, the shipped firmwares are now almost a year old, including for unstable. I am following the progress since quite a few years and I hav

Re: Policy: should libraries depend on services (daemons) that they can speak to?

2024-03-06 Thread Vincent Lefevre
t; > Correct. This is tracked as bug#742977 Bug#742977 is about whether to mark installed packages as auto-installed or not. It is not about Recommends. -- Vincent Lefèvre - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Wor

Re: Policy: should libraries depend on services (daemons) that they can speak to?

2024-03-05 Thread Vincent Lefevre
t... except by the Debian installer! This is inconsistent. So, in the present case, uuid-runtime wasn't installed by default, though libuuid1 was installed and had a "Recommends: uuid-runtime". But with the 64-bit time_t transition, libuuid1 got replaced by libuuid1t64 a f

Re: On merging bin and sbin

2024-03-05 Thread Vincent Lefevre
y the end user / admin). -- Vincent Lefèvre - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)

possible issues with downgrading and *.md5sums (was: Bug#1065022: libglib2.0-0t64: t64 transition breaks the systems)

2024-03-05 Thread Vincent Lefevre
I thought that the presence of /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.md5sums would be sufficient to detect issues. So, what's the point of these files? [1] https://wiki.debian.org/MaintainerScripts -- Vincent Lefèvre - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http

Re: usrmerge breaks POSIX

2024-02-15 Thread Vincent Lefevre
ere are no issues with aliases pathnames in this case. -- Vincent Lefèvre - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)

Re: usrmerge breaks POSIX

2024-02-15 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2024-02-15 16:17:58 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Vincent Lefevre writes: > > On 2024-02-15 14:14:46 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > > >> and pkexec is essentially a type of sudo and should be unavailable to > >> anyone who is using a restricted shell. > >

Re: usrmerge breaks POSIX

2024-02-15 Thread Vincent Lefevre
a restricted shell, the user may set $SHELL to a non-restricted shell. Moreover, /etc/shells also contains restricted shells. -- Vincent Lefèvre - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)

Re: usrmerge breaks POSIX

2024-02-15 Thread Vincent Lefevre
o the path from passwd(5), which hopefully > is from shells(5). login(1) is not the only way to start a shell. -- Vincent Lefèvre - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)

Re: usrmerge breaks POSIX

2024-02-15 Thread Vincent Lefevre
irement on what pathnames $SHELL may contain (in the case a same shell can be referenced by several pathnames, e.g. due to the /bin -> /usr/bin symbolic link) is not acceptable. Hence my post about this. -- Vincent Lefèvre - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML -

Re: usrmerge breaks POSIX

2024-02-15 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2024-02-15 16:59:28 +, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Thu, Feb 15, 2024 at 10:08:11AM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > Not for mksh. > > so the subject should be "mksh is broken with usrmerge"? No, because my bug report about mksh was closed because it is not

Re: usrmerge breaks POSIX

2024-02-15 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2024-02-15 09:39:51 +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > On Thu, 15 Feb 2024 00:05:36 +0100, Vincent Lefevre > wrote: > >This is invalid. See > > > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=817168 > > That doesnt answer the question asked, it is a bug from 20

Re: usrmerge breaks POSIX

2024-02-15 Thread Vincent Lefevre
/shells on my > system contains both the /usr/bin and the /bin paths, so I'm still at a > complete loss. Not for mksh. -- Vincent Lefèvre - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)

Re: usrmerge breaks POSIX

2024-02-14 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2024-02-14 10:41:44 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Vincent Lefevre writes: > > > POSIX says: > > > SHELL This variable shall represent a pathname of the user's > > preferred command language interpreter. If this interpreter > >

Re: usrmerge breaks POSIX

2024-02-14 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2024-02-14 19:46:58 +0100, Ansgar 🙀 wrote: > Hi Vincent, > > On Wed, 2024-02-14 at 18:20 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > POSIX says: > > > >   SHELL   This variable shall represent a pathname of the user's > >   preferred command lan

usrmerge breaks POSIX

2024-02-14 Thread Vincent Lefevre
give by the realpath command. -- Vincent Lefèvre - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)

Re: inability to resolve localhost to 127.0.0.1 in IPv6-only environments

2023-12-01 Thread Vincent Bernat
On 2023-12-01 12:30, Simon McVittie wrote: This does not prevent to have 127.0.0.1. I don't think this is a good use of time to fix builds broken because there is no IPv4 loopback. This is the same kind of artificial conditions as the 1-core builders. Unfortunately, no, it's a bit more complicat

Re: Clarification for broken packages in IPv6-only environments

2023-12-01 Thread Vincent Bernat
On 2023-11-30 22:42, Dale Richards wrote: I recently submitted a patch for uvloop that was FTBFS on IPv6-only builds (#1024079) and it really didn't take very long. While building/running in IPv6-only environments is not currently mandated in the Policy it's a fairly safe bet that it could/should

Re: Clarification for broken packages in IPv6-only environments

2023-12-01 Thread Vincent Bernat
On 2023-11-30 21:38, Paul Tagliamonte wrote: Now I would like to know if being able to run in an IPv6-only environment is a must have feature for any debian package? I run an IPv6 only LAN on my home network, where I use `jool`, and `dns64-prefix`+`unbound` to interoperate with legacy IP space

mutt removed from testing while the bug was closed (fixed)

2023-10-25 Thread Vincent Lefevre
Closes: #1051563). - CVE-2023-4874 ("Null pointer dereference when viewing a specially crafted email). - CVE-2023-4875 ("Null pointer dereference when composing from a specially crafted draft message"). [...] -- Vincent Lefèvre - Web: <https://www.vinc17.

Re: mutt removed from testing while the bug was closed (fixed)

2023-10-25 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2023-10-26 02:03:49 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > Hi, > > I've seen on https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/mutt that mutt was > removed from testing on 2023-10-25, with a link to > > https://tracker.debian.org/news/1473564/mutt-removed-from-t

Re: RFC/MBF: Dropping support for ifupdown hook scripts from network-manager package

2023-09-27 Thread Vincent Blut
> have no functional equivalent in NM or would actually conflict with builtin > functionality of NM. > > > So, the remaining list of packages which I plan to do a MBF for is: > aoetools > auto6to4 > avahi-autoipd > bind9 > chrony As you rightfully stated higher up, chrony already includes native NM-dispatcher scripts so you can remove it from the list of affected packages. Cheers, Vincent signature.asc Description: PGP signature

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

2023-09-15 Thread Vincent Bernat
On 2023-09-15 21:04, Sebastian Ramacher wrote: Source: libcbor Version: 0.10.2-1 Severity: serious X-Debbugs-Cc: sramac...@debian.org https://qa.debian.org/excuses.php?package=libcbor Issues preventing migration: Not built on buildd: arch amd64 binaries uploaded by bernat Not built o

Re: Potential MBF: packages failing to build twice in a row

2023-08-16 Thread Vincent Lefevre
that if the source has been modified, it may be possible that the second build succeeds but is incorrect. I suppose that you need to check that both builds are identical. -- Vincent Lefèvre - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)

Re: Potential MBF: packages failing to build twice in a row

2023-08-13 Thread Vincent Lefevre
s manual documents how to install and use the Multiple Precision Floating-Point Reliable Library, version 4.2.0. -- Vincent Lefèvre - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)

Re: Potential MBF: packages failing to build twice in a row

2023-08-13 Thread Vincent Bernat
On 2023-08-10 14:38, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: On 08/08/23 at 10:26 +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote: Are we ready to call for consensus on dropping the requirement that `debian/rules clean; dpkg-source -b` shall work or is anyone interested in sending lots of patches for this? My reading of the discuss

nvidia-graphics-drivers-legacy-390xx uploaded 8 days ago but not yet installed

2023-08-11 Thread Vincent Lefevre
at happens? -- Vincent Lefèvre - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)

Re: Potential MBF: packages failing to build twice in a row

2023-08-05 Thread Vincent Bernat
On 2023-08-05 17:06, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: Should we give up on requiring a 'clean' target that works? After all, when 17% of packages are failing, it means that many maintainers don't depend on it in their workflow. Yes, please, this does not make sense anymore to enforce such a rule when it

Re: proposal: dhcpcd-base as standard DHCP client starting with Trixie

2023-07-11 Thread Vincent Bernat
On 2023-07-12 07:54, Gioele Barabucci wrote: 1) It's an extra layer. [...] 2) It's a layer that you cannot ignore when editing the config. [...] I'd also add 3) It requires Python and various Python libraries. At least the CLI tool does. In some circumstances installing Python and a bunch

Re: [Pkg-opencl-devel] opencl-icd virtual package(s)?

2023-06-18 Thread Vincent Danjean
Le 18/06/2023 à 08:28, Rebecca N. Palmer a écrit : On 18/06/2023 03:37, Paul Wise wrote: Presumably any of the OpenCL ICDs work for most packages? For most OpenCL-using *packages* but not most *hardware*.  (Except for pocl-opencl-icd, which works nearly everywhere but is slow.) Perhaps ther

Bug#1033343: ITP: libstoragedisplay-perl -- Collect and display storages on Linux machines

2023-03-22 Thread Vincent Danjean
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Vincent Danjean X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: libstoragedisplay-perl Version : 1.2.3 Upstream Contact: Vincent Danjean * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/StorageDisplay * License

Re: Please, minimize your build chroots

2023-01-28 Thread Vincent Bernat
On 2023-01-28 13:59, Adrian Bunk wrote: I am not saying that trying to force maintainers to spend time on such issues by making them release critical is better, but you are also creating extra work and frustration for the people who are doing QA work in Debian. It also pushes some maintainers t

Re: Please, minimize your build chroots

2023-01-28 Thread Vincent Bernat
On 2023-01-28 00:20, Santiago Vila wrote: Release Policy exists as a canonical list of what should be RC and > what not, and it's intended to avoid stupid discussions like this one. Extending build-essential is easier than asking many people to do pointless work to satisfy a set of non-existi

Bug#1021750: general: the nodelalloc mount option should be used by default for ext4 in /etc/fstab

2022-10-14 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2022-10-14 12:44:25 +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Oct 14, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > > This is not "the Debian FAQ" but "the DPKG FAQ", which has been known to > > > recommend awful things in the past. > > But it is still considered

Bug#1021750: general: the nodelalloc mount option should be used by default for ext4 in /etc/fstab

2022-10-14 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2022-10-14 11:59:09 +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Oct 14, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > > The /etc/fstab file is created using by default ext4 with just > > the errors=remount-ro option. However, the Debian FAQ recommends > > the nodelalloc mount option to avoi

Bug#1021750: general: the nodelalloc mount option should be used by default for ext4 in /etc/fstab

2022-10-13 Thread Vincent Lefevre
be used by default for btrfs and ext4. -- Vincent Lefèvre - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)

Re: Switch default from PulseAudio to PipeWire (and WirePlumber) for audio

2022-09-29 Thread Vincent Bernat
On 2022-09-29 15:01, Michael Stone wrote: On Wed, Sep 28, 2022 at 09:02:15PM -0600, Sam Hartman wrote: * Finally, I can use bluetooth on linux with reasonably good audio  quality! Aren't they both using the same backend? ldac/aptx weren't in pulseaudio for a long time, but they are now. Or is

Re: Switch default from PulseAudio to PipeWire (and WirePlumber) for audio

2022-09-19 Thread Vincent Lefevre
o headphones when connected (which is an issue for those who use both speakers and headphones and want to automatically switch between them). The upstream bug https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/wireplumber/-/issues/267 is still open and users are still reporting problems. There is no such

Re: Switch default from PulseAudio to PipeWire (and WirePlumber) for audio

2022-09-09 Thread Vincent Bernat
On 2022-09-09 04:51, Paul Wise wrote: On Thu, 2022-09-08 at 17:58 +0200, Dylan Aïssi wrote: I have been asked several times regarding when Debian will switch its default sound server from PulseAudio to PipeWire without having an official answer. Thus, I suppose it's the right time to start a di

Re: transition announcement: gsfonts + gsfonts-x11 -> fonts-urw-base35

2022-09-03 Thread Vincent Lefevre
ave the following recommendations unresolved: libmagickcore-6.q16-6 recommends gsfonts xpdf recommends gsfonts-x11 xscreensaver recommends gsfonts-x11 | xfonts-100dpi from aptitude. -- Vincent Lefèvre - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog:

Re: Comments on proposing NEW queue improvement (Re: Current NEW review process saps developer motivation

2022-08-27 Thread Vincent Bernat
On 2022-08-27 15:53, M. Zhou wrote: That's why I still hope ftp team to recruit more people. This is a very direct and constructive way to speed up everything. More volunteers = higher bandwidth. Recruiting more people doesn't seem to have a serious disadvantage. It does not seem to work. Eith

Re: Bug#1017716: ITP: muon-meson -- Meson-compatible build system

2022-08-19 Thread Vincent Bernat
On 2022-08-19 23:14, Andrea Pappacoda wrote: Would alternatives really be that bad? What if the current /usr/bin/muon was moved to /usr/bin/muon-kde, muon-build was installed to /usr/bin/muon-build and /usr/bin/muon was shared between the two packages? What issues could it cause? I don't thi

Re: A mail relay server for Debian Members is live

2022-07-25 Thread Vincent Bernat
On 2022-07-16 23:49, Pierre-Elliott Bécue wrote: In the past months, it's been clear that sending mails from an @debian.org address to some mail providers, including GMail, has become harder and harder. While user DKIM feature (documented on [0]) can help, we thought providing a relay server for

Bug#1015204: ITP: sunpy-sphinx-theme -- Sphinx theme for SunPy and its affiliated packages

2022-07-17 Thread Vincent Prat
Package: wnpp X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Owner: Vincent Prat Severity: wishlist * Package name    : sunpy-sphinx-theme   Version : 1.2.32   Upstream Author : SunPy developers * URL : https://github.com/sunpy/sunpy-sphinx-theme * License : BSD-2

Re: A mail relay server for Debian Members is live

2022-07-17 Thread Vincent Bernat
On 2022-07-17 10:29, Dominik George wrote: tl;dr: DKIM-signed mail is verifiable, but only the headers; the body can be tampered with That's not true. The body is always part of the signature (in a strict or relaxed way). > The Signer/Verifier MUST compute two hashes: one over the body of

Re: Bug#1014908: ITP: gender-guesser -- Guess the gender from first name

2022-07-14 Thread Vincent Bernat
On 2022-07-14 17:14, Russ Allbery wrote: (Also, due to the limitations and history of naming conventions, the software is inherently trying to map into a gender binary, which if one is attempting to capture self-identification is likely to be unhelpful for many populations, such as ones with lots

Re: Bug#1013132: ITP: BabaSSL -- BabaSSL is a base library for modern cryptography and communication security protocols.

2022-06-30 Thread Vincent Bernat
On 6/30/22 16:16, Sam Hartman wrote: However there are some other features from the ITP: -Support NTLS (formal GM dual-certificate protocol) handshake processing, according to GB/T 38636-2020 TLCP -QUIC API support Is it compatible with QuicTLS, which is another fork of OpenSSL? Some

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

2022-05-31 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2022-05-31 14:55:44 +0500, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > On Tue, May 31, 2022 at 11:43:06AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > Indeed, this is what happened with pipewire 0.3.39-1, as I can see > > in my dpkg logs and the changelog: > > > > * Change priority order bet

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

2022-05-31 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2022-05-31 11:43:06 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > Anyway, when I upgraded the vlc package two weeks ago, this had the > effect that PulseAudio was no longer used as the sound server (for > both vlc and ogg123), though pipewire was already installed (due to > a Recommends from lib

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

2022-05-31 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2022-05-31 14:04:18 +0500, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > On Tue, May 31, 2022 at 10:55:55AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > > > a) pipewire package enables pipewire service by default > > > > > > Indeed, but pipewire service doesn't take control of audi

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

2022-05-31 Thread Vincent Lefevre
s: #995116, #996994, #997859) But pipewire-bin still has: Recommends: dbus-user-session, pipewire-media-session | wireplumber, rtkit -- Vincent Lefèvre - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)

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

2022-05-30 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2022-05-28 10:41:34 +0200, Sebastian Ramacher wrote: > On 2022-05-28 01:27:13 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > On 2022-05-27 12:34:26 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: [...] > > > That's needed for Bluetooth audio, *if* you are using Pipewire for audio, > > > whic

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

2022-05-27 Thread Vincent Lefevre
ecause xdg-desktop-portal depends on libpipewire-0.3-0, which recommends pipewire. The advantage would be that packages just depending on libpipewire-0.3-0 would not pull pipewire. So, this would solve the pipewire issue in some cases. Said otherwise, this would not change anything for xdg-d

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

2022-05-26 Thread Vincent Lefevre
mmends got broken, but this is unnoticed by the user). That could be some file under the /usr/share/doc/libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37 directory. -- Vincent Lefèvre - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)

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

2022-05-26 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2022-05-26 20:08:22 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: > On Thu, 26 May 2022 at 17:21:27 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > Here, this could be > > > > Recommends: pipewire | pulseaudio > > Those are not interchangeable. > > pipewire started as a multiplexer

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

2022-05-26 Thread Vincent Lefevre
violates > Debian Policy definition of "Recommends") or "critical" (breaks > other software). But I think to sort this out will require the sound > server maintainers to come up with a way for the user specify which > sound server to use, and then have a metapackage

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

2022-05-17 Thread Vincent Lefevre
age B and package B recommends package C, and if it happens that A needs C, then package A should also depend on or recommend C. And what about upgrades? Should Recommends be checked only for manually installed packages? -- Vincent Lefèvre - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessi

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

2022-05-15 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2022-05-16 00:56:03 +0200, Sebastian Ramacher wrote: > On 2022-05-16 00:40:25 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > The vlc package now uses a Recommends (vlc-plugin-pipewire) to force > > users to use pipewire instead of pulseaudio (which broke the use of > > VLC, but also a

use of Recommends by vlc to force users to use pipewire

2022-05-15 Thread Vincent Lefevre
, even via a meta-package like vlc. Shouldn't there be something in the policy about that? -- Vincent Lefèvre - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)

Re: Firmware: Scope of non-free-firmware

2022-05-10 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 10 May 2022 14:30 -06, Sam Hartman: > 2) We value being able to build from source when we can. We value > being able to have reproducible builds when we can. We don't want to > take steps backward in those areas in order to get hardware working > better. Is there any firmware that would match

Re: rebuild of rpcbind (and other packages?) due to old debhelper bug 993316

2022-04-08 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2022-04-08 18:55:14 +0500, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > On Fri, Apr 08, 2022 at 03:22:07PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > Bug 993316 was fixed on 23 September 2021. Any reason why rpcbind > > hasn't been rebuilt yet? > Was anything done for that to happen? Because

rebuild of rpcbind (and other packages?) due to old debhelper bug 993316

2022-04-08 Thread Vincent Lefevre
.service -> rpcbind.service i.e. without the "/usr". Bug 993316 was fixed on 23 September 2021. Any reason why rpcbind hasn't been rebuilt yet? I don't know whether there are other affected packages. [*] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=993316 -- Vincent Lefè

Re: Seeking consensus for some changes in adduser

2022-03-10 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 10 March 2022 11:34 -05, Michael Stone: On systems that don't use usergroups for all/some users, doesn't this change make all files writable by other users by default? That would seem like a very unsecure change on upgrades (or as a default). >>> >>> AFAIK systems that don't use

Re: Seeking consensus for some changes in adduser

2022-03-10 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 10 March 2022 11:21 +01, Philip Hands: >> On systems that don't use usergroups for all/some users, doesn't this >> change make all files writable by other users by default? That would >> seem like a very unsecure change on upgrades (or as a default). > > AFAIK systems that don't use usergroups

Re: Bug#1006885: ITP: lumin -- pattern match highlighter

2022-03-07 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 7 March 2022 18:33 +01, Adam Borowski: >> lumin highlights matches to a specified pattern (string or regular >> expression) in files, using color. This is similar to grep with >> colorized output, but it outputs all lines in the given files, not >> only matching lines. > > .--[ ~/bin/hl ]

Re: chromium: Update to version 94.0.4606.61 (security-fixes)

2022-02-14 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 14 February 2022 22:39 +01, Jonas Smedegaard: > I am trying hard to read good faith into your last sentence above, but > have quite some difficulty reading as anything but you describing > unbundling as inevitably leading to disaster. That's how you should read it. > Maybe my point was uncl

Re: chromium: Update to version 94.0.4606.61 (security-fixes)

2022-02-14 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 14 February 2022 10:56 +01, Jonas Smedegaard: >> I've finally give up and am just using ALL the bundled node packages: >> https://salsa.debian.org/chromium-team/chromium/-/commit/a418d219f0217d6398a01c30035d35c42f7a76f1 >> > >> It's not ideal, but at least with this we'll match all of the nod

Re: Unplanned freeze?

2022-01-28 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 28 January 2022 22:52 +01, Sebastian Ramacher: >> > http://bugs.debian.org/1004272 >> > I agree that it should have been announced somewhere in addition to the >> > #debian-devel topic. >> >> Running unstable, are we at risk having problems? Are the packages >> updated in the last few days bei

Re: Unplanned freeze?

2022-01-28 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 28 January 2022 12:34 +05, Andrey Rahmatullin: > http://bugs.debian.org/1004272 > I agree that it should have been announced somewhere in addition to the > #debian-devel topic. Running unstable, are we at risk having problems? Are the packages updated in the last few days being rebuilt? -- Ma

Re: Cloud team plans for cloud-hosted mirrors

2022-01-26 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 26 January 2022 10:04 +01, Marc Haber: >>> Are the IP ranges of the Cloud Providers registered that badly that >>> deb.debian.org wouldn't reliably point to the mirrors inside the >>> provider's infrastructure? Or are the cloud providers' mirrors >>> differnet from what we expect from a Debian

Re: Lottery NEW queue (Re: Are libraries with bumped SONAME subject of inspection of ftpmaster or not

2022-01-25 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 25 January 2022 21:51 +01, Jonas Smedegaard: >> I didn't comment at first because I thought someone else would raise >> the idea. But it seems people still like the idea of a NEW queue. Not >> me. The NEW queue is a hindrance. > > For the record, I don't "like" the NEW queue. > > I don't like

Re: Lottery NEW queue (Re: Are libraries with bumped SONAME subject of inspection of ftpmaster or not

2022-01-25 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 21 January 2022 09:51 -05, M. Zhou: > I'd rather propose choice C. Because I to some extent understand > both sides who support either A or B. I maintain bulky C++ packages, > and I also had a little experience reviewing packages on behalf of > ftp-team. I didn't comment at first because I tho

Re: build-depend on autoconf-archive and rm convenience copy in orig.tar.gz?

2022-01-21 Thread Vincent Lefevre
copy with your package is how it is intended to be used. FYI, this is what we now do in GNU MPFR (there's only one file), after we got a failure due to the upgrade to Autoconf 2.71: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=985458 -- Vincent Lefèvre - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/>

Re: ungoogled-chromium?

2021-12-07 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 7 December 2021 23:35 GMT, Simon McVittie: > I believe what Vincent meant is that the generic non-Flatpak binaries > provided by the "Ungoogled Chromium" project are compiled on unknown > machines and require trusting their submitters, whereas the Flatpak > binaries p

Re: ungoogled-chromium?

2021-12-07 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 7 December 2021 21:46 +01, Mathias Behrle: >> (I have been running an ungoogled-chromium for a while (ca. a year >> ago?), however at that time their chrome wasn't extremely stable so I >> gave up again. Does anybody have experience using it recently?) > > (Using chromium only as fallback br

Re: Bug#993938: git-delta: A viewer for git and diff output

2021-10-19 Thread Vincent Blut
ystemd (via /run/systemd/system) > > LSM: AppArmor: enabled > > > > Versions of packages git-delta depends on: > > ii libc6 2.32-2 > > ii libgcc-s1 11.2.0-4 > > ii zlib1g 1:1.2.11.dfsg-2 > > > > git-delta recommends no packages. > > >

Increasing epoch of libgraphblas5?

2021-10-16 Thread Vincent Prat
. Best regards, Vincent [1] https://github.com/GraphBLAS/python-suitesparse-graphblas [2] https://github.com/DrTimothyAldenDavis/GraphBLAS [3] https://github.com/DrTimothyAldenDavis/SuiteSparse

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