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

2025-04-23 Thread Simon Josefsson
Jakub Wilk writes: > * Simon Josefsson , 2025-04-23 10:45: >>https://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/application/texinfo > > The "Published specification" link is: > https://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/manual/texinfo/texinfo.html#Info-Format-Specification &g

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

2025-04-23 Thread Simon Josefsson
Simon Josefsson writes: > Charles Plessy writes: > >> And the situation could be easily reverted by somebody declaring >> `text/texinfo` to the IANA. > > I did so now. There was a bunch of discussion back and forth with IANA and eventually application/texinf

Re: Dropping awk?

2025-04-20 Thread Simon McVittie
On Sun, 20 Apr 2025 at 12:48:08 +0200, Simon Josefsson wrote: has anyone considered if Debian should have official containers without apt and dpkg? What would those containers be useful for? I would have expected that in any use-case for a container without apt and dpkg, what you would really

Re: Dropping awk?

2025-04-20 Thread Simon Josefsson
you want to have installed (which is usually not necessary), so something like this should be possible. /Simon signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: POSIX sh compatibility (Re: Dropping awk?)

2025-04-19 Thread Simon Josefsson
mization pattern -- it is often combined with replacing copyleft software with non-copyleft implementations (GPL -> LGPL/MIT) -- but I can't deny that I find minimal containers really useful. /Simon signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Dropping awk?

2025-04-17 Thread Simon Josefsson
sible to drop 'mawk' from the set of default tools in trixie? If not, what are the blockers? What is the method to find out what the blockers are? /Simon signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: MBF: Packages which break with nocheck

2025-04-16 Thread Simon McVittie
On Wed, 16 Apr 2025 at 19:59:47 +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: I wish reproducible-builds people would activate DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck for the second build https://bugs.debian.org/786644 smcv

Re: MBF: Packages which break with nocheck

2025-04-16 Thread Simon McVittie
On Wed, 16 Apr 2025 at 18:40:00 +0200, Paul Gevers wrote: In one of the reports I read this: """ * When a package is built with the nocheck profile, it means: - DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck (the tests should be skipped during the build) - DEB_BUILD_PROFILES=nocheck (Build-Depends marked are not

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

2025-04-16 Thread Simon McVittie
On Wed, 16 Apr 2025 at 23:04:47 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: If you need one of the team-maintained r-cran-* packages on a 32-bit or on a big endian architectures, which are not supported upstream, please contact me on the debian-r list and let's see how we can share the workload. It might be b

Re: Bug#1094969: git linked with OpenSSL

2025-04-16 Thread Simon Josefsson
Henrik Ahlgren writes: > Simon Josefsson writes: > >> I think the idea behind the "proprietary system library" GPL exception >> is to make it possible to distribute GPL binaries linked to non-free >> system libraries on systems where that is pretty much unavoi

Re: Bug#1094969: git linked with OpenSSL

2025-04-15 Thread Simon Josefsson
Michael Stone writes: > On Tue, Apr 15, 2025 at 03:38:38PM +0200, Simon Josefsson wrote: >>I believe that is a fairly new (~5 years?) approach within Debian. >>Debian used to treat OpenSSL incompatible with GPLv2 and that all code >>that link to OpenSSL has to have a GPL+Ope

Re: Bug#1094969: git linked with OpenSSL

2025-04-15 Thread Simon Josefsson
ith GPLv2 and that all code that link to OpenSSL has to have a GPL+OpenSSL exception. Does anyone recall how and when this decision was made? Licensing wrt to libcurl and OpenSSL has been discussed before: https://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2004/08/msg00221.html /Simon signature.asc Descrip

Re: Bug#1094969: git linked with OpenSSL

2025-04-14 Thread Simon Josefsson
. I believe it would be better to work with rights holders to work out problems rather than to ignore requests and throw legal arguments at them. /Simon signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: MBF: Packages which break with nocheck

2025-04-13 Thread Simon McVittie
On Sun, 13 Apr 2025 at 13:22:21 +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: After building all the archive (trixie/sid) with nocheck, I only found 33 new packages which fail to build with nocheck that were not reported before. Admittedly a little bit more than I expected, but certainly not "hundreds" as some pe

Bug#1102652: ITP: golang-github-robinus2-golang-moving-average -- Moving average implementation for Go

2025-04-11 Thread Simon Josefsson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Simon Josefsson * Package name: golang-github-robinus2-golang-moving-average Version : 1.0.0-1 Upstream Author : Robin Verlangen * URL : https://github.com/RobinUS2/golang-moving-average * License : Apache-2.0

Bug#1102649: ITP: golang-github-globocom-go-buffer -- Asynchronous data buffer for Go applications

2025-04-11 Thread Simon Josefsson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Simon Josefsson * Package name: golang-github-globocom-go-buffer Version : 2.0.0-1 Upstream Author : Globo.com * URL : https://github.com/globocom/go-buffer * License : Expat Programming Lang: Go Description

Bug#1102648: ITP: golang-github-transparency-dev-trillian-tessera -- library for building tile-based transparency logs (tlogs)

2025-04-11 Thread Simon Josefsson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Simon Josefsson * Package name: golang-github-transparency-dev-trillian-tessera Version : 0.1.1-1 Upstream Author : The Tessera authors * URL : https://github.com/transparency-dev/trillian-tessera * License : Apache-2.0

Bug#1102645: ITP: golang-github-transparency-dev-formats -- reusable formats related to transparency logs

2025-04-11 Thread Simon Josefsson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Simon Josefsson * Package name: golang-github-transparency-dev-formats Version : 0.0~git20250403.313b830-1 Upstream Author : Google LLC * URL : https://github.com/transparency-dev/formats * License : Apache-2.0

Bug#1102291: ITP: lib1305 -- microlibrary for the Poly1305 one-time authenticator

2025-04-10 Thread Simon Josefsson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Simon Josefsson * Package name: lib1305 Version : 20250407 Upstream Author : Kaushik Nath, Daniel J. Bernstein, et al * URL : https://lib1305.cr.yp.to/ * License : public domain Programming Lang: C Description

Re: Proposal: drop libcrypt-dev dependency from libc6-dev

2025-04-10 Thread Simon McVittie
On Thu, 10 Apr 2025 at 07:37:32 +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote: how about libc6-dev stops depending on libcrypt-dev? I think this is a good idea for early in the forky cycle. I also investigated all apt-cache rdepends libcrypt1. That results in 151 source packages. ... * steam-installer This

Re: new archive signing keys for Debian 13/trixie

2025-04-06 Thread Simon Josefsson
xternally held keys, what are the legal terms we use the keys under? What insight into key transparency questions do we have? What of those can we make public? How do they restrict what we are allowed to do? /Simon > These keys will *NOT* be put into use immediately; they have been

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

2025-04-05 Thread Simon Josefsson
get, chances are lower that it doesn't contain serious mistakes. If you want to join the NEW team and do reviews there instead, I would be equally happy. /Simon signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#1102169: ITP: landrun -- run any process in a secure unprivileged Landlock sandbox

2025-04-05 Thread Simon Josefsson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Simon Josefsson * Package name: landrun Version : 0.1.15-1 Upstream Author : Armin ranjbar * URL : https://github.com/zouuup/landrun * License : Expat Programming Lang: Go Description : Run any process in a

Bug#1101894: ITP: log-go -- Sigsum Transparency Log server implementation in Go

2025-04-05 Thread Simon Josefsson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Simon Josefsson * Package name: log-go Version : 0.15.2-1 Upstream Author : Sigsum * URL : https://git.glasklar.is/sigsum/core/log-go/ * License : BSD-2-Clause Programming Lang: Go Description : Sigsum

Bug#1101311: ITP: golang-github-openpubkey-openpubkey -- Reference implementation of OpenPubkey

2025-04-05 Thread Simon Josefsson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Simon Josefsson * Package name: golang-github-openpubkey-openpubkey Version : 0.7.3-1 Upstream Author : EthanHeilman, jonnystoten, et al * URL : https://github.com/openpubkey/openpubkey * License : Apache-2.0

Re: popularity-contest and gpg

2025-03-27 Thread Simon Josefsson
Jeremy Stanley writes: > On 2025-03-27 20:57:52 +0100 (+0100), Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: >> [Simon Josefsson] >> > Why does it need to encrypt data? >> >> To protect the users privacy. >> >> > Can't we just send telemetry over https like every

Re: popularity-contest and gpg

2025-03-27 Thread Simon Josefsson
icies and transparency mechanisms in place, but the Debian PGP keys we have none of that. Which approach results in better outcome is probably a subjective opinion. /Simon signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Bug#1101376: ITP: package-assembler -- CLI tool to create necessary files for a Debian package

2025-03-27 Thread Simon Josefsson
Nicolas Peugnet writes: > On 27/03/2025 13:50, Simon Josefsson wrote: >> I've found the 'dh-make-golang make' tool incredibly useful to quickly >> get a suitable debian/* template for a project. I would find a similar >> tool that isn't Go-specific whi

Re: Bug#1101376: ITP: package-assembler -- CLI tool to create necessary files for a Debian package

2025-03-27 Thread Simon Josefsson
t Go-specific which would could an upstream tarball and/or a URL to a homepage and attempt to create a debian/* template a missing tool to faciliate Debian package creation. /Simon signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#1101362: ITP: golang-github-google-go-tspi -- TPM TSPI bindings for golang

2025-03-26 Thread Simon Josefsson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Simon Josefsson * Package name: golang-github-google-go-tspi Version : 0.3.0-1 Upstream Author : Google * URL : https://github.com/google/go-tspi * License : Apache-2.0 Programming Lang: Go Description : TSPI

Bug#1101318: ITP: golang-github-awnumar-memguard -- Secure software enclave for storage of sensitive information in memory.

2025-03-25 Thread Simon Josefsson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Simon Josefsson * Package name: golang-github-awnumar-memguard Version : 0.22.5-1 Upstream Author : Awn * URL : https://github.com/awnumar/memguard * License : Apache-2.0 Programming Lang: Go Description : Secure

Bug#1101317: ITP: golang-github-awnumar-memcall -- Cross-platform wrapper for memory-related system calls

2025-03-25 Thread Simon Josefsson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Simon Josefsson * Package name: golang-github-awnumar-memcall Version : 0.4.0-1 Upstream Author : Awn * URL : https://github.com/awnumar/memcall * License : Apache-2.0 Programming Lang: Go Description : Cross

Bug#1101312: ITP: golang-filippo-bigmod -- constant-time library for big integers modulo a prime

2025-03-25 Thread Simon Josefsson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Simon Josefsson * Package name: golang-filippo-bigmod Version : 0.0.3-1 Upstream Author : Filippo Valsorda * URL : https://github.com/FiloSottile/bigmod * License : BSD-3-clause Programming Lang: Go Description

Bug#1101310: ITP: opkssh -- opkssh (OpenPubkey SSH)

2025-03-25 Thread Simon Josefsson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Simon Josefsson * Package name: opkssh Version : 0.3.0-1 Upstream Author : * URL : https://github.com/openpubkey/opkssh * License : Apache-2.0 Programming Lang: Go Description : opkssh (OpenPubkey SSH) opkssh

Re: Bug#1101076: ITP: rsync -- rsync in Go! implements client and server, which can send or receive files (upload, download, all directions supported)

2025-03-22 Thread Simon McVittie
On Sat, 22 Mar 2025 at 21:50:00 +, Samuel Henrique wrote: * Package name: rsync This is going to need a different name, unless you are aiming for it to completely replace and supersede the original (samba.org) rsync. Upstream seems to call their main executable gokr-rsync, which seem

Bug#1101009: ITP: python-freezegun -- allow Python tests to travel through time via datetime

2025-03-21 Thread Simon Josefsson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Simon Josefsson X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-pyt...@lists.debian.org * Package name: python-freezegun Version : 1.5.1 Upstream Author : Steve Pulec * URL : https://github.com/spulec/freezegun/ * License

Bug#1100754: ITP: golang-github-tink-crypto-tink-go-awskms -- Extension to Tink Go that provides AWS KMS integration

2025-03-18 Thread Simon Josefsson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Simon Josefsson * Package name: golang-github-tink-crypto-tink-go-awskms Version : 2.1.0-1 Upstream Author : Tink Cryptography Library * URL : https://github.com/tink-crypto/tink-go-awskms * License : Apache-2.0

Bug#1100752: ITP: golang-github-tink-crypto-tink-go -- Go implementation of Tink

2025-03-18 Thread Simon Josefsson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Simon Josefsson * Package name: golang-github-tink-crypto-tink-go Version : 2.3.0-1 Upstream Author : Tink Cryptography Library * URL : https://github.com/tink-crypto/tink-go * License : Apache-2.0 Programming Lang: Go

Re: Call for participation in tag2upload closed beta

2025-03-18 Thread Simon Josefsson
bian.org/testing/dgit/dgit-maint-gbp.7.en.html#UPLOADING I'm doing this on a laptop running Trisquel aramo (Ubuntu 22.04 clone) with plenty of packages installed from Guix, including GnuPG, git and even dpkg. I was positively surprised dgit didn't blow up, good job! /Simon signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Call for participation in tag2upload closed beta

2025-03-18 Thread Simon Josefsson
ball for this > -- please give one of those a try. It worked, thank you! For reference: dgit --gbp push-source --quilt=baredebian+tarball --deliberately-not-fast-forward How do I make the next upload using tag2upload? /Simon signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Call for participation in tag2upload closed beta

2025-03-18 Thread Simon Josefsson
mes. Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no/[fingerprint])? /Simon signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#1100812: ITP: golang-github-smallstep-scep -- Go SCEP server

2025-03-18 Thread Simon Josefsson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Simon Josefsson * Package name: golang-github-smallstep-scep Version : 0.0~git20250221.171a5fa-1 Upstream Author : Smallstep * URL : https://github.com/smallstep/scep * License : Expat Programming Lang: Go

Bug#1100761: ITP: golang-github-tink-crypto-tink-go-gcpkms -- Extension to Tink Go that provides Google Cloud KMS integration

2025-03-18 Thread Simon Josefsson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Simon Josefsson * Package name: golang-github-tink-crypto-tink-go-gcpkms Version : 2.2.0-1 Upstream Author : Tink Cryptography Library * URL : https://github.com/tink-crypto/tink-go-gcpkms * License : Apache-2.0

Re: Bug#1100571: ITP: mgmt -- next generation config management

2025-03-15 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On 3/15/25 22:58, Thomas Goirand wrote: Description : next generation config management [...] Can you reword the description so that it reads less like an advertisement? "next generation", compared to what? Simon OpenPGP_0xEBF67A846AABE354.asc Description: Open

Re: Call for participation in tag2upload closed beta

2025-03-15 Thread Simon Josefsson
imple 'dpkg -i' of 12.9 worked now, and I was able to run 'dgit build' in my existing libntlm git clone. I haven't been using dgit before this, but maybe this is sufficient to count me as a dgit user. Packages (for example): libntlm, cppi, git2cl, guile-fibers /Simon

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

2025-03-12 Thread Simon Josefsson
same checks as those that happen in the NEW > queue"). +1 -- that is the responsibility of the main Salsa pipeline, I think. > Let me know how I can help! I enjoy reviewing copyright files, so if any > arise, please send them my way :) I hope that we can find some problem to fix in the `litetlog` packaging when I submit it, arguing for the awesomeness of this effort :) /Simon signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Reconsidering Debian’s Inclusion of Non-Free Firmware - A Call for Discussion

2025-03-11 Thread Simon Richter
especially companies that use our volunteer time without compensation -- we're the *free* software community, not the *gratis* software community. Simon

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

2025-03-11 Thread Simon Josefsson
thread, and the newgateway-team homepages, but I still don't understand how you think the process should work. Could we test the process by reviewing 'litetlog'? https://salsa.debian.org/go-team/packages/litetlog/ It is already in NEW queue, but maybe more eyes on it will catch mist

Re: Reconsidering Debian’s Inclusion of Non-Free Firmware - A Call for Discussion

2025-03-11 Thread Simon Josefsson
Aurélien COUDERC writes: > Le 10 mars 2025 11:56:28 GMT+01:00, Simon Josefsson a > écrit : > >>https://www.gnu.org/distros/optionally-free-not-enough.html >> >>https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/install-fest-devil.html > > … of course … that's where the cor

General Questions about Translations and what a package maintainer has to do

2025-03-11 Thread Simon Richter
it to remove(!) locations on checkout and restore them from the pot file on commit, that solves the majority of conflicts.    Simon

Re: Reconsidering Debian’s Inclusion of Non-Free Firmware - A Call for Discussion

2025-03-11 Thread Simon Josefsson
in that one's own opinion is best as to try to >> prevent other people from making their own decisions by hiding even the >> existence of a mechanism to install debian on their machine. >> > > Simon, > > > Do know that is OK that there are differences in view, o

Re: Reconsidering Debian’s Inclusion of Non-Free Firmware - A Call for Discussion

2025-03-11 Thread Simon Josefsson
Philip Hands writes: > Hi Simon, > > Simon Josefsson writes: > >> While this may be fine to you it is not fine to me, and it is fine to >> disagree on that. > > If there were a method of building images that did not touch the > non-free components, I presume tha

Re: Reconsidering Debian’s Inclusion of Non-Free Firmware - A Call for Discussion

2025-03-10 Thread Simon Richter
nferior because you need to live with all the flaws they have -- and a large part of that is that the free software community is not apologizing for the experiences users have with closed-source drivers. Simon

Re: Reconsidering Debian’s Inclusion of Non-Free Firmware - A Call for Discussion

2025-03-10 Thread Simon Josefsson
to that the arguments for free software exists but not everyone is convinced by those arguments and instead prefer proprietary software. /Simon signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: NEW review & revision process (or lack thereof) (Re: Growing new FTP-masters (Re: Bits from DPL))

2025-03-10 Thread Simon Josefsson
ange ftp-master's private review process but to have this public pre-review process to smoothen the process a bit. /Simon signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Reconsidering Debian’s Inclusion of Non-Free Firmware - A Call for Discussion

2025-03-09 Thread Simon Josefsson
Ansgar 🙀 writes: > Hi, > > On Sun, 2025-03-09 at 15:58 +0100, Simon Josefsson wrote: >> Ansgar 🙀 writes: >> >> > Hi, >> > >> > On Sun, 2025-03-09 at 14:19 +0100, Simon Josefsson wrote: >> > > Our experience seems to differ, I now

Re: Reconsidering Debian’s Inclusion of Non-Free Firmware - A Call for Discussion

2025-03-09 Thread Simon Josefsson
"Andrew M.A. Cater" writes: > On Sun, Mar 09, 2025 at 03:58:59PM +0100, Simon Josefsson wrote: >> >> Agreed. However none of that hardware require me to load non-free >> firmware from my operating system, which is my point. That situation is >> sufficient

Re: Reconsidering Debian’s Inclusion of Non-Free Firmware - A Call for Discussion

2025-03-09 Thread Simon Josefsson
Ansgar 🙀 writes: > Hi, > > On Sun, 2025-03-09 at 14:19 +0100, Simon Josefsson wrote: >> Our experience seems to differ, I now run Trisquel and Guix on many of >> my home and machines and servers.  For my uses they all work without >> non-free firmware.  You ha

Re: Growing new FTP-masters (Re: Bits from DPL)

2025-03-09 Thread Simon McVittie
On Sun, 09 Mar 2025 at 19:32:32 +0800, Sean Whitton wrote: IMO it is the maintainer's responsibility to ensure that NEW+unstable together is always all installable, if you see what I mean. Do I assume correctly that this principle can be weakened for experimental-NEW? As a general principle

Re: Reconsidering Debian’s Inclusion of Non-Free Firmware - A Call for Discussion

2025-03-09 Thread Simon Josefsson
Matthias Urlichs writes: > On 08.03.25 21:09, Simon Josefsson wrote: >> I read this outcome as fairly clear message that, no, Debian does not >> want to provide a second set of installer images, and is not interested >> in contributions to make them. > > Another way t

Re: Growing new FTP-masters (Re: Bits from DPL)

2025-03-09 Thread Simon Josefsson
Sean Whitton writes: > Hello, > > On Sun 09 Mar 2025 at 12:17pm +01, Simon Josefsson wrote: > >> Sean Whitton writes: >> >>> The docs are public: https://salsa.debian.org/ftp-team/manpages >> >> Those are helpful even for me as uploading packa

Re: Growing new FTP-masters (Re: Bits from DPL)

2025-03-09 Thread Simon Josefsson
ike "we don't want to forbid it but it causes us more work so please don't do it" is perfectly fine too. Writing that down helps people do the right thing. The question has come up two times for me when sponsoring new Go package uploads. /Simon signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Reconsidering Debian’s Inclusion of Non-Free Firmware - A Call for Discussion

2025-03-08 Thread Simon Josefsson
Aurélien COUDERC writes: > Le 8 mars 2025 21:09:00 GMT+01:00, Simon Josefsson a > écrit : > >>I read this outcome as fairly clear message that, no, Debian does not >>want to provide a second set of installer images, and is not interested >>in contributions to make

Re: Reconsidering Debian’s Inclusion of Non-Free Firmware - A Call for Discussion

2025-03-08 Thread Simon Josefsson
Ubuntu packages and maintain a debian-installer fork). /Simon signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Reconsidering Debian’s Inclusion of Non-Free Firmware - A Call for Discussion

2025-03-08 Thread Simon Josefsson
Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues writes: > Hi, > > Quoting Simon Josefsson (2025-03-08 13:43:26) >> My point was that there is no reasonable way to gain confidence about >> security properties of any piece of non-free microcode. Everyone can now >> produce AMD m

Re: Reconsidering Debian’s Inclusion of Non-Free Firmware - A Call for Discussion

2025-03-08 Thread Simon Josefsson
Bill Allombert writes: > Le Fri, Mar 07, 2025 at 07:33:53PM +0100, Simon Josefsson a écrit : >> pan...@disroot.org writes: >> >> > I urge Debian to rethink its decision to officially include non-free >> > firmware and correct the social contract. Instead of

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

2025-03-08 Thread Simon Josefsson
eam/pipeline/-/issues/395 The difference of having a 'include' statement in debian/salsa-ci.yml is not that different from adding some 'variables:' to enable a lrc-job, so it is not critical to add it to the standard pipeline. Maybe if more people start to use it we gain

Re: Reconsidering Debian’s Inclusion of Non-Free Firmware - A Call for Discussion

2025-03-07 Thread Simon Josefsson
firmware is not available. My perception is that the Debian developer community rejected this, and I'm not sure people are ready to reconsider just yet (the trend seems to be the opposite way). Fortunately there are good libre alternatives in Trisquel and Guix available for recommendation m

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

2025-03-07 Thread Simon Josefsson
happens, and it doesn't always handle Autotools projects with a lot of generated files with complex licenses well. /Simon include: - https://salsa.debian.org/salsa-ci-team/pipeline/raw/master/recipes/debian.yml - https://salsa.debian.org/debian/licenserecon/raw/main/d

Re: Processing times for the NEW queue (was Re: Bits from DPL)

2025-03-07 Thread Simon Josefsson
detours to avoid that level crossing, as > they'd rather add five minutes for certain to their trip than roll the > dice for an unlucky quarter hour. Yay, thanks for this analogy! It helps to explain that not everything is captured by simple statistics. /Simon signature.asc Description: PGP signature

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

2025-03-07 Thread Simon McVittie
On Fri, 07 Mar 2025 at 13:27:54 +0530, Pirate Praveen wrote: > On 7/3/25 12:29 AM, Otto Kekäläinen wrote: > > > Around 12 years ago, I proposed a peer-review system to increase the > > > quality of > > > the packages in the NEW queue. https://wiki.debian.org/CopyrightReview > > For packages that

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

2025-03-06 Thread Simon Josefsson
ood to write down some of the finer rules on some aspects of debian/copyright, such as how to deal with public domain contributions, vendored stuff where there is a known copyright holder but not mentioned in any file, how to deal with non-free DCO-like statements, etc. /Simon > > - a Sals

Bug#1099423: RFP: plutosvg -- Tiny SVG rendering library in C

2025-03-03 Thread Simon McVittie
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-devel-ga...@lists.debian.org, libsdl3-...@packages.debian.org Control: affects -1 + src:libsdl3-ttf * Package name: plutosvg Version : 0.0.6 (as of 2025-03-03) Upstream Contact: Samuel Ugochukwu *

Bug#1099422: RFP: plutovg -- Tiny 2D vector graphics library in C

2025-03-03 Thread Simon McVittie
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-devel-ga...@lists.debian.org, libsdl3-...@packages.debian.org Control: affects -1 + src:libsdl3-ttf * Package name: plutovg Version : 0.0.13 (as of 2025-03-03) Upstream Contact: Samuel Ugochukwu *

Re: Misconfigured bookworm upgrades

2025-02-28 Thread Simon Richter
at is also broken. I'd probably reassign to apt :> Simon

Bug#1099068: RFH: ostree -- content-addressed filesystem for operating system binaries

2025-02-27 Thread Simon McVittie
Package: wnpp Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: ost...@packages.debian.org, debian-devel@lists.debian.org, sjo...@debian.org, m...@debian.org Control: affects -1 + src:ostree I request assistance with maintaining the ostree package. (Other Uploaders cc'd.) Package description: libostree provides

Salsa CI job 'missing-breaks' to be enabled by default starting March 1st

2025-02-25 Thread Simon Richter
taken to not build a Replaces loop, something that Conflicts nicely avoids. Also, unversioned Breaks, Conflicts and Replaces should give a warning at least.    Simon

Bug#1098766: ITP: golang-github-smallstep-pkcs7 -- PKCS #7 / Cryptographic Message Syntax

2025-02-23 Thread Simon Josefsson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Simon Josefsson * Package name: golang-github-smallstep-pkcs7 Version : 0.2.1-1 Upstream Author : Smallstep * URL : https://github.com/smallstep/pkcs7 * License : Expat Programming Lang: Go Description : PKCS #7

Re: Advice for directory to symlink transition

2025-02-20 Thread Simon Richter
older packages). Simon

Re: Upstreams with "official" tarballs differing from their git

2025-02-18 Thread Simon Richter
me correlation between "upstream's git does not contain any unredistributable files or vendored dependencies" and "upstream ships a usable source tarball", so precisely the cases where git is the only upstream we have are the cases where that is least useful to us) Simon

Bug#1096137: ITP: golang-github-landlock-lsm-go-landlock -- A Go library for the Linux Landlock sandboxing feature

2025-02-16 Thread Simon Josefsson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Simon Josefsson * Package name: golang-github-landlock-lsm-go-landlock Version : 0.0~git20241014.479ddab-1 Upstream Author : Landlock * URL : https://github.com/landlock-lsm/go-landlock * License : Expat Programming

Re: Upstreams with "official" tarballs differing from their git

2025-02-16 Thread Simon Josefsson
proach. Look at 'inetutils' in Debian for an example. Another is to manually prepare a 'rm' list of files to remove in debian/rules, or to use debian/copyright Files-Excluded; to remove all generated autotools files. /Simon signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: ostree (was: Filesystem snapshotting in dpkg)

2025-02-15 Thread Simon McVittie
On Sat, 15 Feb 2025 at 21:08:03 +0100, Christian Kastner wrote: > On 2024-12-28 15:21, Guillem Jover wrote: > > In this case (filesystem snapshotting), I do think dpkg is (currently at > > least) really the wrong place, for at least the following reasons: > > I read somewhere that Fedora can do fu

Re: What is going on with atomics?

2025-02-11 Thread Simon Richter
ence from my code to libXext and avoid unloading libXext before my program exits. The --push-state logic is more useful for sending upstream. Simon

Re: What is going on with atomics?

2025-02-11 Thread Simon Richter
d: unrecognized option '--push-flags' You probably meant --push-state and --pop-state instead? Yes, indeed. Simon

Bug#1095753: ITP: golang-github-apache-arrow -- toolbox for data interchange and in-memory analytics

2025-02-11 Thread Simon Josefsson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Simon Josefsson * Package name: golang-github-apache-arrow Version : 17.0.0-1 Upstream Author : The Apache Software Foundation * URL : https://github.com/apache/arrow * License : Apache-2.0 Programming Lang: Go

Re: cinnamon and VNC/RDP/remote access

2025-02-08 Thread Simon McVittie
On Sat, 08 Feb 2025 at 14:18:28 +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Wed, Feb 05, 2025 at 12:44:31PM +0100, Fabio Fantoni wrote: > > For now I know that I should remove vino from the recommended ones but I > > don't know exactly which remote access system would be best to replace it > > with. Sinc

Bug#1095312: ITP: golang-github-anacrolix-sync -- sync package clone that provides pprof debugging of sync.Mutex to help with diagnosing deadlocks.

2025-02-06 Thread Simon Josefsson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Simon Josefsson * Package name: golang-github-anacrolix-sync Version : 0.5.3-1 Upstream Author : Matt Joiner * URL : https://github.com/anacrolix/sync * License : MPL-2.0 Programming Lang: Go Description : sync

Bug#1095311: ITP: golang-github-anacrolix-chansync -- Channel semaphore syncing (Go library)

2025-02-06 Thread Simon Josefsson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Simon Josefsson * Package name: golang-github-anacrolix-chansync Version : 0.6.0-1 Upstream Author : Matt Joiner * URL : https://github.com/anacrolix/chansync * License : Expat Programming Lang: Go Description

Bug#1095310: ITP: litetlog -- A collection of liteweight transparency logging tools, compatible with the Sigsum and Omniwitness ecosystems.

2025-02-06 Thread Simon Josefsson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Simon Josefsson * Package name: litetlog Version : 0.4.2-1 Upstream Author : Filippo Valsorda * URL : https://github.com/FiloSottile/litetlog * License : ISC Programming Lang: Go Description : A collection of

Bug#1095307: ITP: golang-github-crawshaw-iox -- Go I/O utilities

2025-02-06 Thread Simon Josefsson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Simon Josefsson * Package name: golang-github-crawshaw-iox Version : 0.0~git20181124.c51c3df-1 Upstream Author : David Crawshaw * URL : https://github.com/crawshaw/iox * License : ISC Programming Lang: Go Description

Bug#1095308: ITP: golang-github-crawshaw-sqlite -- Go SQLite3 driver

2025-02-06 Thread Simon Josefsson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Simon Josefsson * Package name: golang-github-crawshaw-sqlite Version : 0.3.2-1 Upstream Author : David Crawshaw * URL : https://github.com/crawshaw/sqlite * License : ISC Programming Lang: Go Description : Go

Bug#1095271: ITP: golang-github-foxboron-go-uefi -- Linux UEFI library written in pure Go.

2025-02-06 Thread Simon Josefsson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Simon Josefsson * Package name: golang-github-foxboron-go-uefi Version : 0.0~git20241219.19dc140-1 Upstream Author : Morten Linderud * URL : https://github.com/Foxboron/go-uefi * License : Expat Programming Lang: Go

Bug#1095205: ITP: golang-gitlab-gitlab-org-api-client-go -- GitLab API client enabling Go programs to interact with GitLab

2025-02-05 Thread Simon Josefsson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Simon Josefsson * Package name: golang-gitlab-gitlab-org-api-client-go Version : 0.122.0-1 Upstream Author : GitLab, Sander van Harmelen, et al * URL : https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/api/client-go * License : Apache-2.0

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

2025-02-03 Thread Simon Josefsson
Charles Plessy writes: > And the situation could be easily reverted by somebody declaring > `text/texinfo` to the IANA. I did so now. /Simon signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#1095081: RFP: libsdl3-shadercross -- Shader format translation library for SDL

2025-02-03 Thread Simon McVittie
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Control: block -1 by 1095077 X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-devel-ga...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libsdl3-shadercross Version : 3~git20250202 Upstream Contact: Sam Lantinga / SDL team * URL : https://github.co

Bug#1095077: RFP: directxshadercompiler -- compile High-Level Shader Language (HLSL) programs into DirectX Intermediate Language (DXIL) representation

2025-02-03 Thread Simon McVittie
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debia...@lists.debian.org, debian-devel-ga...@lists.debian.org * Package name: directxshadercompiler Version : 2024-07-31 Upstream Contact: Microsoft * URL : https://github.com/microsoft/Dire

Re: Future of i386,In debian-ports?

2025-02-03 Thread Simon McVittie
On Sun, 02 Feb 2025 at 14:18:53 -0300, Leo Historias wrote: > As we know, I386 is dropped from Debian Ports  starting with Trixie i386 is not being dropped from Debian in trixie. What *is* being dropped (has already been dropped) is the ability to run i386 as a completely independent, bootable ar

Re: Invalid check in debian/patches

2025-02-01 Thread Simon McVittie
On Sat, 01 Feb 2025 at 13:13:32 +0100, Abou Al Montacir wrote: > Bug-Upstream: https://gitlab.com/freepascal.org/lazarus/lazarus/-/issues/41378 I believe the intended DEP-3 syntax for this is: Bug: https://gitlab.com/freepascal.org/lazarus/lazarus/-/issues/41378 so using that instead of Bug-Upst

Bug#1094810: ITP: golang-go4-unsafe-assume-no-moving-gc -- declare Go code that play unsafe GC games

2025-01-31 Thread Simon Josefsson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Simon Josefsson X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian...@lists.debian.org * Package name: golang-go4-unsafe-assume-no-moving-gc Version : 0.0~git20231121.b99613f-1 Upstream Author : Brad Fitzpatrick * URL : https

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