Re: Musings about Usernames in adduser and Debian

2024-12-13 Thread sre4ever
Hi, Le 2024-12-13 13:38, IOhannes m zmölnig a écrit : and *of course* all usernames have been normalized to lowercase ASCII. I just took a look at some reasonably recent government-issued IDs and it turns out the French ones normalized my name to uppercase whatever-some-clerk-had-on-their-t

Re: Bits from DPL / Feedback on attracting newcomers

2024-12-11 Thread sre4ever
Le 2024-12-11 15:04, Pirate Praveen a écrit : Many firewalls (for example in offices) also block almost every port other than 80 or 443. So it'd still be valuable to have a web based reportbug interface. Well, usually they just block everything including ports 80 and 443, often one has to u

Re: Bits from DPL / Feedback on attracting newcomers

2024-12-11 Thread sre4ever
Le 2024-12-11 15:00, Alec Leamas a écrit : Well, "some places" includes basically all home users, at least in Sweden where I live. This is not about ISPs blocking "some traffic", they only block outgoing smtp traffic on default ports. The reasons are obvious. Did you try to connect using TC

Re: Bits from DPL / Feedback on attracting newcomers

2024-12-11 Thread sre4ever
Le 2024-12-11 13:52, Pirate Praveen a écrit : reportbug can talk SMTP directly, is that not enough for you? without configuring an smtp server? If I run reportbug and clicks submit, does it send mail without any extra configurations? It does, and that works for me (though maybe not from some

Re: Building with many cores without OOM

2024-12-09 Thread sre4ever
Hi, Let me plop in right into this discussion with no general solution and more things to think about. For the context I'm packaging Java things, and Java has historically been notoriously bad at guessing how much memory it could actually use on a given system. I'm not sure things are much be

Re: Should l10n packages be Recommends or Suggests?

2024-12-05 Thread sre4ever
Hi, Le 2024-12-05 16:43, Theodore Ts'o a écrit : Given recent discussions about depends vs recommends vs suggests inflation, I'm thinking about down-prioritizing e2fsprogs-l10n from recommends to suggests. Thoughts, comments? There are existing task- and task--desktop metapackages, but curr

Re: Simpler git workflow for packaging with upstreamless repositories

2024-11-29 Thread sre4ever
Le 2024-11-29 18:35, Jonas Smedegaard a écrit : Quoting sre4e...@free.fr (2024-11-29 16:57:23) opened 15 years and a few days ago. Great that you took "filing a bugreport" to imply checking first if the issue was already reported. Well, the point I wanted to make here was more about the spec

Re: Simpler git workflow for packaging with upstreamless repositories

2024-11-29 Thread sre4ever
Le 2024-11-29 10:58, Simon Josefsson a écrit : The only record of this is indirectly with the maintainer signing the *.changes file during package upload. But that is weak (only successfully uploaded packages are protected, not work-in-progress) and not widely audited (*.changes files aren't

Re: Simpler git workflow for packaging with upstreamless repositories

2024-11-29 Thread sre4ever
Le 2024-11-29 15:12, Jonas Smedegaard a écrit : Quoting sre4e...@free.fr (2024-11-29 13:29:05) Would it be possible to make it the default when there is already an existing `pristine-tar` branch in the repo being worked on? Please consider filing that as a bugreport against bit-buildpackage -

Re: Simpler git workflow for packaging with upstreamless repositories

2024-11-29 Thread sre4ever
Hi, Le 2024-11-29 03:17, Otto Kekäläinen a écrit : but right now I warmly recommend people use 'pristine-tar = True' in their gbp.confs. Would it be possible to make it the default when there is already an existing `pristine-tar` branch in the repo being worked on? Cheers, -- Julien Pliss

Re: Upstream tarball hashes: debian/upstream/*SUMS

2024-11-28 Thread sre4ever
Hi, Le 2024-11-28 11:28, Alec Leamas a écrit : Personally, the few packages I maintain are mostly repacked. Isn't there also value in storing the hash of the repacked tarball, the thing actually used? Not much value, as both the hash and the data would be stored at the same place (git repo

Re: Simpler git workflow for packaging with upstreamless repositories

2024-11-27 Thread sre4ever
Hi Johannes, Le 2024-11-22 12:45, Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues a écrit : That's what I'm doing. But that works with tarballs not with upstream as git. If upstream (deliberately, so this will not change) has DSFG-non-free content in it, then I should not copy that into a git packaging repo t