Re: Broken in links in Debian History document - old news removed from www.debian.org

2025-05-31 Thread Thomas Lange
Hi Philipp, hi all, > On Sat, 31 May 2025 15:11:11 +0200, Philipp Kern said: > But to me the weirdest thing is that quite a few complained and there > was no real response rationalizing the decision. You may have missed this email https://lists.debian.org/debian-www/2025/05/msg00022

Re: Broken in links in Debian History document - old news removed from www.debian.org

2025-05-31 Thread Helge Kreutzmann
> > Give yourself a break. > > As far as I could see there was never a reason given beyond the terse > one in [1] and there had been no followup to the various threads about > the content removal. > > While I understand the desire to cleanup webwml, it feels weird t

Re: Broken in links in Debian History document - old news removed from www.debian.org

2025-05-31 Thread Philipp Kern
een no followup to the various threads about the content removal. While I understand the desire to cleanup webwml, it feels weird that we do that to the news content - vs. not showing old news entries in frontpage listings. Usually news archives should be preserved. Now you could say that we could a

Re: Broken in links in Debian History document - old news removed from www.debian.org

2025-05-13 Thread Thomas Lange
he primary source for information (for e.g. all the Debian news) because this will not be deleted although we may lost the translations which were only available on the web pages. In the document all links to gallery.debconf.org are also broken (because we shut down this site), but still the Debian

Re: Broken in links in Debian History document - old news removed from www.debian.org

2025-05-08 Thread Antonio Terceiro
On Thu, May 08, 2025 at 10:33:55PM +0200, Holger Wansing wrote: > I think about removing myself from the debian-www team. > Better no longer be part of it, otherwise people might blame me for such > decisions ... Please don't. Breaking things is unavoidable in complex enough systems, and is OK i

Broken in links in Debian History document - old news removed from www.debian.org

2025-05-08 Thread Holger Wansing
Helge Kreutzmann wrote (Thu, 8 May 2025 17:28:59 +): > Also the Japanese translator found a broken link: > > > About this translation, I found the url on the line # 3498 > > https://www.debian.org/News/2003/20031202 > > the page doesn't exist on the debian.org

Re: Misc Developer News (#60)

2024-12-01 Thread Julien Puydt
Le dimanche 01 décembre 2024 à 11:42 +0100, Paul Gevers a écrit : > Hi, > > On 12/1/24 11:36, Julien Puydt wrote: > >     Can you try: > > > >     sbuild --build-dir=~/Debian/repo --extra-package=~/Debian/repo > > > >     This should save all binary packages to the directory and use > > them in

Re: Misc Developer News (#60)

2024-12-01 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi, On 12/1/24 11:36, Julien Puydt wrote: Can you try: sbuild --build-dir=~/Debian/repo --extra-package=~/Debian/repo This should save all binary packages to the directory and use them in subsequent runs. It doesn't: it fails saying BUILD_DIR doesn't exist. Does it still me

Re: Misc Developer News (#60)

2024-12-01 Thread Julien Puydt
Hi Le dim. 1 déc. 2024, 11:14, Jochen Sprickerhof a écrit : > > Can you try: > > sbuild --build-dir=~/Debian/repo --extra-package=~/Debian/repo > > This should save all binary packages to the directory and use them in > subsequent runs. > It doesn't: it fails saying BUILD_DIR doesn't exist. I

Re: Misc Developer News (#60)

2024-12-01 Thread Jochen Sprickerhof
Hi Julien, * Julien Puydt [2024-12-01 10:59]: My use case isn't with a single package, but with a bunch of them. For example, updating the coq package means about fifty packages in seven stages. That means I compile all packages of one of the stages (sometimes in parallel), move the results to

Re: Misc Developer News (#60)

2024-12-01 Thread Julien Puydt
Hi, Le samedi 23 novembre 2024 à 22:20 +0100, Philipp Kern a écrit : > >  https://wiki.debian.org/sbuild > I tried to update my DD setup to this new kind of sbuild using the above documentation, and there is something I don't manage to replicate from my previous setup. My use case isn't with a

Re: Misc Developer News (#60)

2024-11-27 Thread Soren Stoutner
On Monday, November 25, 2024 4:57:50 PM MST Soren Stoutner wrote: > On Saturday, November 23, 2024 2:20:45 PM MST Philipp Kern wrote: > > Debian buildds are using sbuild with unshare now > > > > > > The wanna-build team switched all buildds to the

Re: Misc Developer News (#60)

2024-11-26 Thread Soren Stoutner
On Tuesday, November 26, 2024 12:27:22 PM MST Andrey Rakhmatullin wrote: > On Tue, Nov 26, 2024 at 12:21:55PM -0700, Soren Stoutner wrote: > > > > # Specify the distribution, -d > > > > $distribution = 'unstable'; > > > > > > Setting this will override the Distribution of the .changes file created

Re: Misc Developer News (#60)

2024-11-26 Thread Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues
Hi Soren, Quoting Soren Stoutner (2024-11-26 20:21:55) > > Setting this will override the Distribution of the .changes file created by > > sbuild with "unstable", ignoring what your package has set. Are you sure > > you want this? > > I would like it to be able to build instead of fail when the c

Re: Misc Developer News (#60)

2024-11-26 Thread Andrey Rakhmatullin
On Tue, Nov 26, 2024 at 12:21:55PM -0700, Soren Stoutner wrote: > > > # Specify the distribution, -d > > > $distribution = 'unstable'; > > > > Setting this will override the Distribution of the .changes file created by > > sbuild with "unstable", ignoring what your package has set. Are you sure yo

Re: Misc Developer News (#60)

2024-11-26 Thread Soren Stoutner
On Tuesday, November 26, 2024 12:23:00 PM MST Soren Stoutner wrote: > On Tuesday, November 26, 2024 3:17:45 AM MST Jochen Sprickerhof wrote: > > Hi Soren, > > > > * Soren Stoutner [2024-11-25 16:57]: > > >I am not able to get the example unshare .sbuildrc to work with piuparts. > > > > > >0m0.0s

Re: Misc Developer News (#60)

2024-11-26 Thread Soren Stoutner
On Tuesday, November 26, 2024 3:17:45 AM MST Jochen Sprickerhof wrote: > Hi Soren, > > * Soren Stoutner [2024-11-25 16:57]: > >I am not able to get the example unshare .sbuildrc to work with piuparts. > > > >0m0.0s DEBUG: Unpacking /home/soren/.cache/sbuild/unstable-amd64.tar.xz into > >/ tmp/tm

Re: Misc Developer News (#60)

2024-11-26 Thread Soren Stoutner
Johannes, On Monday, November 25, 2024 11:37:41 PM MST Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues wrote: > Hi, > > Quoting Soren Stoutner (2024-11-26 01:07:06) > > > I suppose I should note that I have made a few modifications to the example > > file because it wasn’t behaving as expected. Specifically,

Re: Misc Developer News (#60)

2024-11-26 Thread Jochen Sprickerhof
Hi Soren, * Soren Stoutner [2024-11-25 16:57]: I am not able to get the example unshare .sbuildrc to work with piuparts. 0m0.0s DEBUG: Unpacking /home/soren/.cache/sbuild/unstable-amd64.tar.xz into / tmp/tmplbhnn26l 0m0.0s DEBUG: Starting command: ['tar', '-C', '/tmp/tmplbhnn26l', '--auto- com

Re: Misc Developer News (#60)

2024-11-25 Thread Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues
Hi, Quoting Soren Stoutner (2024-11-26 01:07:06) > I suppose I should note that I have made a few modifications to the example > file because it wasn’t behaving as expected. Specifically, I disabled the > mmdebstgrap auto create because otherwise it was ignoring the tarball I had > created in the

Re: Misc Developer News (#60)

2024-11-25 Thread Soren Stoutner
On Monday, November 25, 2024 4:57:50 PM MST Soren Stoutner wrote: > On Saturday, November 23, 2024 2:20:45 PM MST Philipp Kern wrote: > > The news are collected on https://wiki.debian.org/DeveloperNews > > Please contribute short news about your work/plans/subproject. > &g

Re: Misc Developer News (#60)

2024-11-25 Thread Soren Stoutner
On Saturday, November 23, 2024 2:20:45 PM MST Philipp Kern wrote: > The news are collected on https://wiki.debian.org/DeveloperNews > Please contribute short news about your work/plans/subproject. > > In this issue: > > + Debian buildds are using sbuild with unshare now

Re: Misc Developer News (#60)

2024-11-25 Thread Soren Stoutner
On Monday, November 25, 2024 10:37:39 AM MST Chris Hofstaedtler wrote: > > the extension (.tar.xz, .tar.gz or plain .tar, etc). As of May 2024, ZST > > seems to provide the best size/time ratio. It certainly is the fastest on a > > Dell> > > Precision 3800M, 16GB RAM, on an SSD drive (a computer

Re: Misc Developer News (#60)

2024-11-25 Thread Chris Hofstaedtler
* Soren Stoutner [241125 18:30]: > > > In principle, unshare mode can also work with directories. Helmut is > working > > > on something in that direction. But for me personally, one second of > unpack > > > time is not enough of a motivation for me to put time into > > > directory+overlayfs sup

Re: Misc Developer News (#60)

2024-11-25 Thread Soren Stoutner
On Sunday, November 24, 2024 7:06:06 PM MST Sean Whitton wrote: > On Sun 24 Nov 2024 at 07:53am +01, Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Quoting Sean Whitton (2024-11-24 01:23:24) > > > >> This is interesting. One concern I have is speed -- isn't it always slower > >> to hav

Re: Misc Developer News (#60)

2024-11-25 Thread Emanuele Rocca
Hi, On 2024-11-24 08:23, Sean Whitton wrote: > This is interesting. One concern I have is speed -- isn't it always > slower to have to unpack a tarball before the build instead of having a > chroot under /srv/chroot that's always unpacked? Other than the speed of tarball unpacking, which as Joha

Re: Misc Developer News (#60)

2024-11-24 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Sun 24 Nov 2024 at 07:53am +01, Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues wrote: > Hi, > > Quoting Sean Whitton (2024-11-24 01:23:24) >> This is interesting. One concern I have is speed -- isn't it always slower >> to have to unpack a tarball before the build instead of having a chroot under >>

Re: Misc Developer News (#60)

2024-11-24 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Nov 24, Sean Whitton wrote: > This is interesting. One concern I have is speed -- isn't it always > slower to have to unpack a tarball before the build instead of having a > chroot under /srv/chroot that's always unpacked? People who feel this is a problem can try my super fast fork of pbuild

Re: Misc Developer News (#60)

2024-11-23 Thread Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues
Hi, Quoting Sean Whitton (2024-11-24 01:23:24) > This is interesting. One concern I have is speed -- isn't it always slower > to have to unpack a tarball before the build instead of having a chroot under > /srv/chroot that's always unpacked? that is correct. Unpacking a tarball takes time. Havin

Re: Misc Developer News (#60)

2024-11-23 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Sat 23 Nov 2024 at 10:20pm +01, Philipp Kern wrote: > sbuild chroot manager for unshare backend users > --- > > After installing sbuild 0.87.0 or later from unstable, you can now build > packages without any additional setup. With an empty ~

Re: Things learned from the expeirment (Re: Debian Monthly [debian-devel]: AI News Report 2024/10

2024-11-16 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 17414 March 1977, Mo Zhou wrote: 1. Let LLM answer the NM templates (maybe with debian policy or debian developer reference in context) and see the percentage of questions that can be answered correctly. Even if I don't do it, maybe new DD applicants will. And those who actually do this sho

Re: Things learned from the expeirment (Re: Debian Monthly [debian-devel]: AI News Report 2024/10

2024-11-15 Thread Charles Plessy
Hi Mo, thanks again for your posts, I was just thinking that the debian-mentors list could be a good target for summarisation too: it is high traffic, email subject lines are focused on what to upload, but discussions are focused on problem-solving, thus some intersting tips & trick will be easy

Things learned from the expeirment (Re: Debian Monthly [debian-devel]: AI News Report 2024/10

2024-11-15 Thread Mo Zhou
Hi folks, On 11/9/24 01:26, DebGPT wrote: This is an experiment, by letting LLM go through all 369 emails from debian-devel on Oct. I received lots of feedbacks from the experiments, from positive ones to negative ones. It wasn't discouraging to see negative feedbacks since that is usually wha

Re: Debian Monthly [debian-devel]: AI News Report 2024/10

2024-11-15 Thread Steve McIntyre
lu...@debian.org wrote: > >While hallucinating too much, LLMs can still correctly >teach me how to use urwid (which I could never understand by going >through their tutorial many times...). >That leads to the `debgpt config` TUI configuration wizard. > >Any suggestion on a place where I can safely

Re: Debian Monthly [debian-devel]: AI News Report 2024/10

2024-11-14 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Sun 10 Nov 2024 at 08:24am GMT, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Sun, Nov 10, 2024 at 08:48:21AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: >> Our mailing lists were a ground-breaking technological avance in the >> past that would open Debian to the whole World, but now are they not >> working exactly again

Re: Debian Monthly : AI News Report 2024/10

2024-11-10 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2024-11-10T11:21:43+, Richard Lewis wrote: > > The tone can change: http://paste.debian.net/1335055/ > > LLMs are being improved rapidly over time. > > > > I guess it's due to some potential safety issues so that LLM uses a > > dull corporate tone by default. > > I think it's slightly misdi

Re: Debian Monthly [debian-devel]: AI News Report 2024/10

2024-11-10 Thread Tiago Bortoletto Vaz
Hi, On Sun, Nov 10, 2024 at 08:24:19AM GMT, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Sun, Nov 10, 2024 at 08:48:21AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > Our mailing lists were a ground-breaking technological avance in the > > past that would open Debian to the whole World, but now are they not > > working exactly a

Re: Debian Monthly : AI News Report 2024/10

2024-11-10 Thread Richard Lewis
Mo Zhou writes: > The tone can change: http://paste.debian.net/1335055/ > LLMs are being improved rapidly over time. > > I guess it's due to some potential safety issues so that LLM uses a dull > corporate tone by default. I think it's slightly misdiagnosed here. to me, it comes accross as "tedi

Re: Debian Monthly [debian-devel]: AI News Report 2024/10

2024-11-10 Thread Holger Levsen
On Sun, Nov 10, 2024 at 08:48:21AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > Our mailing lists were a ground-breaking technological avance in the > past that would open Debian to the whole World, but now are they not > working exactly against that? first: citation needed. second: summaries written by applie

Re: Debian Monthly [debian-devel]: AI News Report 2024/10

2024-11-09 Thread Mo Zhou
-generated news on the main mailing lists leads to a "pollution effect" -- LLM will grab its report from the last month If I don't mention it... What do people do when there is a long thread on debian-devel, debian-project, debian-private or the like? Well, what I do is that I che

Re: Debian Monthly [debian-devel]: AI News Report 2024/10

2024-11-09 Thread Charles Plessy
Thanks a lot Mo for this exciting experiment! And having two ex-DPLs pressing the big red stop button is not necessarly a bad sign in an ageing project. Often you will see ideas rejected in a very dismissive if not insulting way (for example source-only uploads or HTTPS URLs in /etc/apt/sources.l

Re: Debian Monthly [debian-devel]: AI News Report 2024/10

2024-11-09 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2024-11-09T14:46:45-0800, Mo Zhou wrote: > The tone can change: http://paste.debian.net/1335055/ I recognize a different style there... > LLMs are being improved rapidly over time. ...but I'm not sure I would call the new example an improvement. With all those exclamation marks it seems more

Re: Debian Monthly [debian-devel]: AI News Report 2024/10

2024-11-09 Thread Mo Zhou
The tone can change: http://paste.debian.net/1335055/ LLMs are being improved rapidly over time. I guess it's due to some potential safety issues so that LLM uses a dull corporate tone by default. Those models should have been trained on different tones, as long as we instruct it to use them. On

Re: Debian Monthly [debian-devel]: AI News Report 2024/10

2024-11-09 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2024-11-09T21:44:40+, Steve McIntyre wrote: > Please, no further. We don't need hallucinated summaries on our > lists. If you want to publish them, publish them somewhere separately > IMHO. Oh, good--since it's not a CoC violation to express an unflattering opinion of this experiment, did a

Re: Debian Monthly [debian-devel]: AI News Report 2024/10

2024-11-09 Thread Steve McIntyre
lu...@debian.org wrote: >I just realized that the news report could be more useful if it cites >the information source. Here we go: > >debgpt -Hx ldo:debian-devel/2024/10 -a 'write a news report based on the >provided information. Cover as many topics as possible. You may expa

Re: Debian Monthly [debian-devel]: AI News Report 2024/10

2024-11-09 Thread Serafeim (Serafi) Zanikolas
On Sat Nov 9, 2024 at 10:00 PM CET, Mo Zhou wrote: > I just realized that the news report could be more useful if it cites > the information source. Here we go: thanks! the links are really key, given the known hallucination issues of LLMs signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Debian Monthly [debian-devel]: AI News Report 2024/10

2024-11-09 Thread Mo Zhou
I just realized that the news report could be more useful if it cites the information source. Here we go: debgpt -Hx ldo:debian-devel/2024/10 -a 'write a news report based on the provided information. Cover as many topics as possible. You may expand a little bit on important matter. in

Re: Debian Monthly [debian-devel]: AI News Report 2024/10

2024-11-09 Thread Mo Zhou
The LLM I used to produce that exact news report was gpt-4o-mini, from openai. ChatGPT is the name of openai's LLM web interface and its underlying LLM model name could change. It took roughly 3 minutes to perform the bulk API calls. That said, I basically implemented support for all com

Re: Debian Monthly [debian-devel]: AI News Report 2024/10

2024-11-09 Thread Jeremy Stanley
On 2024-11-09 14:19:53 +0100 (+0100), PICCA Frederic-Emmanuel wrote: > is it via ChatGPT or an llm self hosted ? [...] It's DebGPT: https://salsa.debian.org/deeplearning-team/debgpt -- Jeremy Stanley signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Debian Monthly [debian-devel]: AI News Report 2024/10

2024-11-09 Thread PICCA Frederic-Emmanuel
: > Hello Lumin, > > El sáb, 9 nov 2024 a las 10:27, DebGPT () escribió: >> >> This is an experiment, by letting LLM go through all 369 emails from >> debian-devel on Oct. The command for producing the news report >> is included below. Use debgpt's git HEAD if you w

Re: Debian Monthly [debian-devel]: AI News Report 2024/10

2024-11-09 Thread Hector Oron
Hello Lumin, El sáb, 9 nov 2024 a las 10:27, DebGPT () escribió: > > This is an experiment, by letting LLM go through all 369 emails from > debian-devel on Oct. The command for producing the news report > is included below. Use debgpt's git HEAD if you want to try. First time I

Debian Monthly [debian-devel]: AI News Report 2024/10

2024-11-09 Thread DebGPT
This is an experiment, by letting LLM go through all 369 emails from debian-devel on Oct. The command for producing the news report is included below. Use debgpt's git HEAD if you want to try. THE FOLLOWING CONTAI

Re: Misc Developer News (#59)

2023-11-22 Thread Donald Norwood
Hi Paul, Original Message Subject: Re: Misc Developer News (#59) From: Paul Gevers To: Donald Norwood , Philipp Kern Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Date: 11/22/2023 More likely you need to do this signing of the mail differently. d-d-a is picky on accepting messages

Re: Misc Developer News (#59)

2023-11-22 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi, On 22-11-2023 12:21, Donald Norwood wrote: The new attempt is a fresh email to d-d-a via cut and paste from the original email with the 1 correction that was needed. The email for some reason seems to be in d-d-a and d-d limbo, so I think we await the next cron run. More likely you need

Re: Misc Developer News (#59)

2023-11-22 Thread Donald Norwood
Hi Philipp! Original Message Subject: Re: Misc Developer News (#59) From: Philipp Kern To: Donald Norwood Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Date: 11/22/2023 Hi Donald, On 2023-11-22 03:17, Donald Norwood wrote: The news are collected on https://wiki.debian.org

Re: Misc Developer News (#59)

2023-11-22 Thread Philipp Kern
Hi Donald, On 2023-11-22 03:17, Donald Norwood wrote: The news are collected on https://wiki.debian.org/DeveloperNews Please contribute short news about your work/plans/subproject. Thanks for posting this, but it looks like you crafted this email as a reply, which means it got automatically

Misc Developer News (#59)

2023-11-21 Thread Donald Norwood
The news are collected on https://wiki.debian.org/DeveloperNews Please contribute short news about your work/plans/subproject. In this issue: + britney option enabled to look at tests.reproducible-builds.org + reportbug and ftp.d.o/release.d.o/wnpp pseudo-packages + non-free-firmware is now

Re: Misc Developer News (#58)

2022-12-01 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, 2022-12-01 at 11:42 +0100, Bastian Venthur wrote: > I wonder if there's an easy fix here, like a new version of anacron that > adds a check for this particular issue, offering to fix it during > upgrade of the package. It is hard to tell the difference between an affected system and one

Re: Misc Developer News (#58)

2022-12-01 Thread Bastian Venthur
On 01.12.22 10:03, Paul Wise wrote: On Fri, 2022-11-25 at 12:46 +0100, Bastian Venthur wrote: On 21.11.22 00:18, Paul Wise wrote: anacron might be disabled if 2.3-33 was ever installed [...] I'm having trouble assessing the severity of the situation. Is more or less everyone affected who uses

Re: Misc Developer News (#58)

2022-12-01 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, 2022-11-25 at 12:46 +0100, Bastian Venthur wrote: > On 21.11.22 00:18, Paul Wise wrote: > > anacron might be disabled if 2.3-33 was ever installed > [...] > I'm having trouble assessing the severity of the situation. Is more or > less everyone affected who uses unstable? If yes, how do we

Re: Misc Developer News (#58)

2022-11-25 Thread Bastian Venthur
On 21.11.22 00:18, Paul Wise wrote: [...] anacron might be disabled if 2.3-33 was ever installed -- If you run Debian testing/unstable and ever installed anacron 2.3-33 on a systemd based system, then anacron will no longer be enabled and t

Re: Misc Developer News (#58)

2022-11-24 Thread Marian Brockerhoff
remove me from the email list please regards, On Mon, Nov 21, 2022 at 12:19 AM Paul Wise wrote: > The news are collected on https://wiki.debian.org/DeveloperNews > Please contribute short news about your work/plans/subproject. > > In this issue: > + anacron might be disable

Re: Re: Re: facility to access the NEWS content

2021-12-18 Thread Patrice Duroux
RL base on the package name for instance. First I have build a script that tries to picture the situation in Debian based on some parameters (here release="sid" and archs="all amd64"): changelog=30189 NEWS=2409 other=12799 changelog.Debian=59702 missing=5374 debs=65076 udebs=40

Re: Re: facility to access the NEWS content

2021-12-16 Thread gregor herrmann
trends.debian.net/ while > also providing a command line tool to get this NEWS content about a package > (whatever if it the one providing this content or a «relative», based on the > same source package). I'm not sure what you are really after, but maybe this helps: grml's z

Re: Re: facility to access the NEWS content

2021-12-15 Thread Patrice Duroux
Hi, So maybe too much ambitious but let's see what I can get regarding what is actually available in Debian and if I can dress something up at least like a new track for Debian QA in a similar section to https://trends.debian.net/ while also providing a command line tool to get this NEWS co

Re: facility to access the NEWS content

2021-12-13 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, 2021-12-13 at 19:55 +0100, Patrice Duroux wrote: > Packages may provide a NEWS (or any other name, compressed or not, etc.) file Since that is an upstream file, it is not standard across all Debian package upstreams, including the name, file type and contents. Different subsets

facility to access the NEWS content

2021-12-13 Thread Patrice Duroux
Hi, I do not known if this is the right list to address this, if it has been already discussed and so it can be considered as noise. ;-) Packages may provide a NEWS (or any other name, compressed or not, etc.) file that may be part of the «main» package (like in hwloc vs. libhwloc15 for

Re: Steam Deck: good news for Linux gaming, bad news for Debian :(

2021-08-16 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sat, Aug 14, 2021 at 07:48:06AM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > Backports is not analogous to the concepts Timothy was presenting. It's > *one* repository, not a system where people (not just Debian maintainers) > can create repos. extrepo tries to help there, and now that bullseye is released

Re: git workflows (was: Steam Deck: good news for Linux gaming, bad news for Debian :()

2021-08-14 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Sat 14 Aug 2021 at 07:55AM +01, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Thu, Aug 12, 2021 at 03:31:02PM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: >> For example, there are those of us who think that the downsides of the >> combination of 3.0 (quilt) and patches stored unapplied in git are >> significant, and so

Re: Steam Deck: good news for Linux gaming, bad news for Debian :(

2021-08-14 Thread Moritz Mühlenhoff
Jonathan Dowland schrieb: >> Amarok was removed as it required the obsolete Qt 4 library. Now that >> upstream has finally ported it to Qt5, it could be reintroduced to >> Debian. > > That's an interesting way of presenting the situation. Amarok was > removed because we aggressively removed Qt4, d

Re: git workflows (was: Steam Deck: good news for Linux gaming, bad news for Debian :()

2021-08-13 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Thu, Aug 12, 2021 at 03:31:02PM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: > For example, there are those of us who think that the downsides of the > combination of 3.0 (quilt) and patches stored unapplied in git are > significant, and so we have made attempts to provide alternatives, such > as git-debrebase.

Re: Steam Deck: good news for Linux gaming, bad news for Debian :(

2021-08-13 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Thu, Aug 12, 2021 at 04:42:51AM +, Paul Wise wrote: > On Thu, Aug 12, 2021 at 3:22 AM Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > > > Debian is missing KDE's Amarok music manager. > > Amarok was removed as it required the obsolete Qt 4 library. Now that > upstream has finally ported it to Qt5, it could

git workflows (was: Steam Deck: good news for Linux gaming, bad news for Debian :()

2021-08-12 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello Romain, others, On Thu 12 Aug 2021 at 02:06PM +02, Romain Porte wrote: > I think this is a major point. I am a new Debian contributor after a > good time of ArchLinux PKGBUILD writing. I find Debian technically > superior on the packaging side, and would not trade it for PKGBUILD. But > the

Re: Steam Deck: good news for Linux gaming, bad news for Debian :(

2021-08-12 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Andreas Tille (2021-08-12 23:06:47) > On Thu, Aug 12, 2021 at 02:06:37PM +0200, Romain Porte wrote: > > Maintainers like their freedoms, but enforcing some tools at some > > point could make it easier for everyone to contribute and not > > relearn the packaging process for every package,

Re: Steam Deck: good news for Linux gaming, bad news for Debian :(

2021-08-12 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, On Thu, Aug 12, 2021 at 02:06:37PM +0200, Romain Porte wrote: > > Looking at Arch, one workflow, one way to package, one init system, etc. > > Looking at Fedora, one workflow, one way to package, one init system. > > I think this is a major point. I am a new Debian contributor after a > good

Re: Steam Deck: good news for Linux gaming, bad news for Debian :(

2021-08-12 Thread Romain Porte
Hi, 11/08/2021 16:08, Vincent Bernat : > I think we have more systemic issues. I am quite impressed how Nix/NixOS > is able to pull so many packages and modules with so few people. But > they use only one workflow, one way to package, one init system, etc. > Looking at Arch, one workflow, one way

Re: Steam Deck: good news for Linux gaming, bad news for Debian :(

2021-08-12 Thread Pirate Praveen
2021, ഓഗസ്റ്റ് 12 8:51:55 AM IST, Timothy M Butterworth ൽ എഴുതി >I am fine with Debian's release cycle but It would be nice to see more >packages. For example Debian is missing KDE's Amarok music manager. I >am happy to see Debian 11 gained KDE Elisa music manager. I am sad to >see that Virtual

Re: Steam Deck: good news for Linux gaming, bad news for Debian :(

2021-08-11 Thread Paul Wise
g/amarok https://tracker.debian.org/news/1055955/removed-290-2-from-unstable/ https://bugs.debian.org/935022 https://amarok.kde.org/en/node/890 https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/ch05.html#reintroducing-pkgs > VirtualBox is not available on Debian 11. VirtualBox is not suitable

Re: Steam Deck: good news for Linux gaming, bad news for Debian :(

2021-08-11 Thread Timothy M Butterworth
I am fine with Debian's release cycle but It would be nice to see more packages. For example Debian is missing KDE's Amarok music manager. I am happy to see Debian 11 gained KDE Elisa music manager. I am sad to see that VirtualBox is not available on Debian 11. I had to jerry-rig it using the Ubunt

Re: Steam Deck: good news for Linux gaming, bad news for Debian :(

2021-08-11 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Wed, Aug 11, 2021 at 04:08:13PM +0200, Vincent Bernat wrote: > I think we have more systemic issues. I am quite impressed how Nix/NixOS > is able to pull so many packages and modules with so few people. But > they use only one workflow, one way to package, one init system, etc. > Looking at Arch

Re: Steam Deck: good news for Linux gaming, bad news for Debian :(

2021-08-11 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 11 August 2021 11:27 +02, Steffen Möller: > I have no exact idea what to change, though. A rolling Debian would be > cool, yes, but also a bit late when compared with environments that > Conda offers or the ease that comes with multiple installations of conda > to e.g. avoid name conflicts. If

Re: Steam Deck: good news for Linux gaming, bad news for Debian :(

2021-08-11 Thread Steffen Möller
On 11.08.21 08:46, Marc Haber wrote: On Wed, 11 Aug 2021 01:09:29 -0400, Calum McConnell wrote: On Wed, 2021-08-11 at 00:51 +, Paul Wise wrote: On Tue, Aug 10, 2021 at 5:38 PM Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: "So, Arch Linux, one of the main reasons, there's a couple, but the main reason is t

Re: Steam Deck: good news for Linux gaming, bad news for Debian :(

2021-08-10 Thread Marc Haber
On Wed, 11 Aug 2021 01:09:29 -0400, Calum McConnell wrote: >On Wed, 2021-08-11 at 00:51 +, Paul Wise wrote: >> On Tue, Aug 10, 2021 at 5:38 PM Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: >> >> > "So, Arch Linux, one of the main reasons, there's a couple, but the >> > main >> > reason is the rolling updates of

Re: Steam Deck: good news for Linux gaming, bad news for Debian :(

2021-08-10 Thread Calum McConnell
On Wed, 2021-08-11 at 00:51 +, Paul Wise wrote: > On Tue, Aug 10, 2021 at 5:38 PM Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > > > "So, Arch Linux, one of the main reasons, there's a couple, but the > > main > > reason is the rolling updates of Arch allows us to have more rapid > > development for SteamOS 3.0,

Re: Steam Deck: good news for Linux gaming, bad news for Debian :(

2021-08-10 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Aug 10, 2021 at 5:38 PM Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > "So, Arch Linux, one of the main reasons, there's a couple, but the main > reason is the rolling updates of Arch allows us to have more rapid > development for SteamOS 3.0," says Yang. "We were making a bunch of > updates and changes to s

Re: Steam Deck: good news for Linux gaming, bad news for Debian :(

2021-08-10 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Tue, Aug 10, 2021 at 01:31:12PM -0400, Sandro Tosi wrote: > > I think it would be quite nice to hear from Valve or some of the Debian > > folks who work(ed) with them, about the reasons for the rebase. With no > > ill will, just to understand what the problems were and if we can learn > > someth

Re: Steam Deck: good news for Linux gaming, bad news for Debian :(

2021-08-10 Thread Sandro Tosi
> I think it would be quite nice to hear from Valve or some of the Debian > folks who work(ed) with them, about the reasons for the rebase. With no > ill will, just to understand what the problems were and if we can learn > something from them. https://www.pcgamer.com/this-is-why-valve-is-switchin

Re: Steam Deck: good news for Linux gaming, bad news for Debian?

2021-07-19 Thread Samuel Henrique
Hello Simon, That's an awesome reply, thank you very much for having the time to write all of this and adding the links, I have found the Steam runtime bit particularly interesting. > (Disclosure: I work for Collabora, and I'm currently working on the > Steam Runtime.) If you're ever feeling lik

Re: Steam Deck: good news for Linux gaming, bad news for Debian?

2021-07-19 Thread Simon McVittie
(Disclosure: I work for Collabora, and I'm currently working on the Steam Runtime.) On Sat, 17 Jul 2021 at 13:48:32 +0100, Samuel Henrique wrote: > As some of you already seem, we have very good news for the Linux > gaming community, although somewhat bad for Debian:

Re: Steam Deck: good news for Linux gaming, bad news for Debian :(

2021-07-19 Thread Simon McVittie
On Mon, 19 Jul 2021 at 02:25:16 +, Paul Wise wrote: > BTW, the Valve Arch Linux overlay thing appears to be here: > > https://repo.steampowered.com/arch/valveaur/ FYI, that's an overlay for "upstream" Arch, for Arch users who want to try out Mesa and kernel patches that are not yet mainline -

Re: Steam Deck: good news for Linux gaming, bad news for Debian :(

2021-07-18 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Jul 18, 2021 at 8:30 AM Hanno 'Rince' Wagner wrote: > On Sun, 18 Jul 2021, Paul Wise wrote: > > > Valve have said that this will be an open device that any OS can be > > installed on, just like on PCs, they even mentioned Windows so > > presumably it will be able to run Debian amd64 too if

Re: Steam Deck: good news for Linux gaming, bad news for Debian :(

2021-07-17 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Jul 17, 2021 at 12:49 PM Samuel Henrique wrote: > The Steam Deck is a portable gaming device, running SteamOS, to be > released later this year. ... > SteamOS used to be based on Debian, and Valve seems to have decided to > go with Arch instead (great news for Arch, don&#x

Re: Steam Deck: good news for Linux gaming, bad news for Debian :(

2021-07-17 Thread Thaddeus H. Black
On Sat, Jul 17, 2021 at 01:48:32PM +0100, Samuel Henrique wrote: > SteamOS used to be based on Debian, and Valve seems to have decided to > go with Arch instead (great news for Arch, don't get me wrong). > > The reasons for the switch have not been publicized, but I think we&#x

Re: Steam Deck: good news for Linux gaming, bad news for Debian :(

2021-07-17 Thread Luca Boccassi
On Sat, 2021-07-17 at 13:48 +0100, Samuel Henrique wrote: > Hello d-devel, > > As some of you already seem, we have very good news for the Linux > gaming community, although somewhat bad for Debian: > https://www.steamdeck.com > > The Steam Deck is a portable gaming device

Re: Steam Deck: good news for Linux gaming, bad news for Debian :(

2021-07-17 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Sat, Jul 17, 2021 at 01:48:32PM +0100, Samuel Henrique wrote: > that we don't fulfill the needs of a lot of desktop users It is known, as we don't even provide an official installer ISO that makes their hardware usable. > So here's my wish that someday we can have a Debian semi-rolling > relea

Steam Deck: good news for Linux gaming, bad news for Debian :(

2021-07-17 Thread Samuel Henrique
Hello d-devel, As some of you already seem, we have very good news for the Linux gaming community, although somewhat bad for Debian: https://www.steamdeck.com The Steam Deck is a portable gaming device, running SteamOS, to be released later this year. Review video from 2kliksphilip: Valve Steam

[NEWS]: Ludovic Courtès

2021-04-07 Thread Katarina Rostova
https://gnu.support/richard-stallman/Ludovic-Court%C3%A8s-Guix-is-accusing-Stallman-of-Thoughtcrime-on-his-own-domain-GNU-org.html

Re: Salsa CI news

2020-02-23 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Feb 10, 2020 at 6:18 AM Dmitry Smirnov wrote: > On Saturday, 8 February 2020 1:49:20 PM AEDT Paul Wise wrote: > > There is one attribute of how Debian does things that clashes with > > being able to do this; service maintainers need to be able to update > > code on a different schedule to D

Re: News about the debhelper toolchain

2020-02-10 Thread Niels Thykier
Hideki Yamane: > On Mon, 10 Feb 2020 21:37:05 +0100 > Niels Thykier wrote: >> Remember to *remove* "--with python3" from d/rules as well. An explicit >> "--with python3" will cause issues with Build-Depends-Indep and other >> conditional usage (e.g. build-profiles). > > And does lintian warns it

Re: News about the debhelper toolchain

2020-02-10 Thread Hideki Yamane
On Mon, 10 Feb 2020 21:37:05 +0100 Niels Thykier wrote: > Remember to *remove* "--with python3" from d/rules as well. An explicit > "--with python3" will cause issues with Build-Depends-Indep and other > conditional usage (e.g. build-profiles). And does lintian warns it? -- Regards, Hideki

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