Bug#844196: ITP: ufo-filters -- Set of plugins for ufo-core

2016-11-13 Thread picca
Package: wnpp Owner: picca Severity: wishlist * Package name: ufo-filters Version : 0.11.0 Upstream Author : matthias.vogelges...@kit.edu * URL or Web page : http://ufo.kit.edu/ * License : LGPL-3+ Description : Set of plugins for ufo-core The UFO data processing

Bug#844197: ITP: r-cran-rgeos -- GNU R interface to geometry engine

2016-11-13 Thread Andreas Tille
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andreas Tille * Package name: r-cran-rgeos Version : 0.3-21 Upstream Author : Roger Bivand * URL : https://cran.r-project.org/package=rgeos * License : GPL Programming Lang: GNU R Description : GNU R interface to

Re: More 5 november in the release schedule [and 1 more messages]

2016-11-13 Thread Marc Haber
On Thu, 10 Nov 2016 08:26:46 +0100, Christoph Biedl wrote: >Finally, there's a thing called "trust": I trust the Release Team does >this solely in order to keep the freeze time as short as possible, >everybody hates that time anyway. This trust was created by the very >people behind it, and the wa

Re: More 5 november in the release schedule [and 1 more messages]

2016-11-13 Thread Marc Haber
On Thu, 10 Nov 2016 10:17:57 +0100, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: >And yes, we will give exceptions on a case by case basis, as we have always >done. This will create a third class of packages: The ones that are not important enough to get an exception, which will in turn demotivate package main

Re: Archive changes - indices compression and checksums

2016-11-13 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Sat, Nov 12, 2016 at 01:52:20PM +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote: >Hi > >as started in March[1] we have just adjusted unstable to no longer >generate gzip compressed Packages/Sources files. We plan to wait about a >week before adjusting testing too. > >Additionally we turned off SHA1 checksums for the

Re: More 5 november in the release schedule [and 1 more messages]

2016-11-13 Thread Christoph Biedl
Marc Haber wrote... > This is exactly the problem I have with the current policy: I fail to > see why this measure will shorten the freeze. I don't. But I'd say we'll just watch what's going to happen and resume this discussion once stretch is released. Chri- "somewhen December 2017" stoph

Re: More 5 november in the release schedule

2016-11-13 Thread Marc Haber
On Tue, 8 Nov 2016 11:05:59 +0100, Christian Seiler wrote: >Yes, especially since autoremovals are not instantaneous, but for >packages with rdeps (and the rdeps themselves) will happen at >least 30 days in the future - and you will get an email in time. >(For packages without rdeps it's 15 days.

Re: More 5 november in the release schedule

2016-11-13 Thread Marc Haber
On Thu, 10 Nov 2016 08:36:21 +0100, Ole Streicher wrote: >Wouter Verhelst writes: >> On Tue, Nov 08, 2016 at 11:05:59AM +0100, Christian Seiler wrote: >>> 30 days within the deep freeze should be plenty enough - and as I >>> said: if the problem is more complicated, just talk to the release >>> t

Re: More 5 november in the release schedule

2016-11-13 Thread Marc Haber
On Thu, 10 Nov 2016 07:37:00 +, Niels Thykier wrote: > * As James noted; sending an update to the bug will reset the timer. Did I miss the documentation about this? It does not seem to be in the freeze policy. > * Also, if you do not have time for a given bug, please consider > tagging it

Re: More 5 november in the release schedule

2016-11-13 Thread Marc Haber
On Wed, 9 Nov 2016 14:01:13 +, Ian Jackson wrote: >If it turns out to be a more common problem and there are many >packages affected, then this would mean delays to the stretch release, >indeed. One of my issues is that this new policy means a switch from "we'll release when it's ready" to "

Re: More 5 november in the release schedule

2016-11-13 Thread Marc Haber
On Wed, 9 Nov 2016 19:45:02 +0100, gregor herrmann wrote: >I don't quite understand where all this fuzz about auto-removals >suddenly comes from. The auto-removals exist since Septemer 2013 [0] >and they were also in place for the jessie freeze [1], with the small >difference that now the point-of

Re: More 5 november in the release schedule

2016-11-13 Thread Samuel Thibault
Marc Haber, on Sun 13 Nov 2016 11:30:18 +0100, wrote: > On Wed, 9 Nov 2016 14:01:13 +, Ian Jackson > wrote: > >If it turns out to be a more common problem and there are many > >packages affected, then this would mean delays to the stretch release, > >indeed. > > One of my issues is that this

Re: More 5 november in the release schedule

2016-11-13 Thread Marc Haber
On Sun, 6 Nov 2016 13:06:33 +0200, Lars Wirzenius wrote: >I'm even willing to justify my opinion: Keeping testing in a state >that can be released seems to be the only way in which we can make a >release in a reasonable time frame. We've tried several other >approaches, which haven't worked. The a

Re: More 5 november in the release schedule

2016-11-13 Thread Marc Haber
On Sun, 06 Nov 2016 11:51:36 +, Steve McIntyre wrote: >Releasing Debian is work for all of us, not just the Release Team... So you are actually suggesting that people who are neither on the release team nor maintaining a key package are not working? Greetings Marc -- ---

Bug#844204: ITP: node-grunt-contrib-clean -- Used to clean files and folders in Grunt

2016-11-13 Thread Sruthi Chandran
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Sruthi Chandran X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: node-grunt-contrib-clean Version : 1.0.0 Upstream Author : Grunt Team (http://gruntjs.com/) * URL : https://github.com/gruntjs/grunt-contrib-clean * Lice

Re: missing -dbgsym packages on uploads by maintainer(s)

2016-11-13 Thread Holger Levsen
On Sat, Nov 12, 2016 at 08:51:26AM +0100, Christian Seiler wrote: > Actually, there could be another option: > - by default, throw away all binary debs on uploads /me likes. > - there is a special field in the .changes file (automatically >set by buildds) to tell dak to keep the debs >e

Re: More 5 november in the release schedule

2016-11-13 Thread Samuel Thibault
Marc Haber, on Sun 13 Nov 2016 11:37:13 +0100, wrote: > On Sun, 6 Nov 2016 13:06:33 +0200, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > >I'm even willing to justify my opinion: Keeping testing in a state > >that can be released seems to be the only way in which we can make a > >release in a reasonable time frame. We'v

Re: More 5 november in the release schedule

2016-11-13 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Sun, 2016-11-13 at 11:28 +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > On Thu, 10 Nov 2016 07:37:00 +, Niels Thykier > >""" > >The release managers may make exceptions to these guidelines as they see > >fit. *Such exceptions are not precedents and you should not assume that > >your package has a similar excep

Re: More 5 november in the release schedule

2016-11-13 Thread Samuel Thibault
Marc Haber, on Sun 13 Nov 2016 11:37:54 +0100, wrote: > On Sun, 06 Nov 2016 11:51:36 +, Steve McIntyre > wrote: > >Releasing Debian is work for all of us, not just the Release Team... > > So you are actually suggesting that people who are neither on the > release team nor maintaining a key pa

Re: missing -dbgsym packages on uploads by maintainer(s)

2016-11-13 Thread Mattia Rizzolo
On Sun, Nov 13, 2016 at 10:44:34AM +, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Sat, Nov 12, 2016 at 08:51:26AM +0100, Christian Seiler wrote: > > - there is a special field in the .changes file (automatically > >set by buildds) to tell dak to keep the debs > >e.g. Keep-Binaries: yes > > if the only

Re: More 5 november in the release schedule

2016-11-13 Thread Marc Haber
On Sun, 6 Nov 2016 12:53:42 +0100, Christian Seiler wrote: >And if the problem is complicated, they have other >options: request for help on debian-devel@ and debian-mentors@, >request an exception from the release team to mark a bug as >stretch-ignore in specific cases, request an extension by th

Re: More 5 november in the release schedule

2016-11-13 Thread Marc Haber
On Thu, 10 Nov 2016 00:24:20 +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: >What if I did notice, but fixing the bug takes longer than the 15 days >(and I agree that we shouldn't release with that bug, so I agree that >the severity is correct)? > >15 days is a pretty short time for irreversible changes in Debian,

Re: More 5 november in the release schedule [and 1 more messages]

2016-11-13 Thread Marc Haber
On Sun, 13 Nov 2016 11:07:18 +0100, Christoph Biedl wrote: >Marc Haber wrote... > >> This is exactly the problem I have with the current policy: I fail to >> see why this measure will shorten the freeze. > >I don't. But I'd say we'll just watch what's going to happen and resume >this discussion on

Re: More 5 november in the release schedule

2016-11-13 Thread Niels Thykier
Marc Haber: > On Wed, 9 Nov 2016 19:45:02 +0100, gregor herrmann > wrote: >> I don't quite understand where all this fuzz about auto-removals >> suddenly comes from. The auto-removals exist since Septemer 2013 [0] >> and they were also in place for the jessie freeze [1], with the small >> differen

Re: More 5 november in the release schedule

2016-11-13 Thread Marc Haber
On Sun, 13 Nov 2016 11:45:23 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: >Marc Haber, on Sun 13 Nov 2016 11:37:13 +0100, wrote: >> On Sun, 6 Nov 2016 13:06:33 +0200, Lars Wirzenius wrote: >> >I'm even willing to justify my opinion: Keeping testing in a state >> >that can be released seems to be the only way in

Re: More 5 november in the release schedule

2016-11-13 Thread Marc Haber
On Sun, 13 Nov 2016 11:46:36 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: >Marc Haber, on Sun 13 Nov 2016 11:37:54 +0100, wrote: >> On Sun, 06 Nov 2016 11:51:36 +, Steve McIntyre >> wrote: >> >Releasing Debian is work for all of us, not just the Release Team... >> >> So you are actually suggesting that peo

Re: More 5 november in the release schedule

2016-11-13 Thread Marc Haber
On Sun, 13 Nov 2016 10:46:07 +, "Adam D. Barratt" wrote: >On Sun, 2016-11-13 at 11:28 +0100, Marc Haber wrote: >> This is a quite nice opportunity to say something like "you haven't >> been nice enough to us in the past or you have dared to speak up when >> you didn't like what we did, so you'

Re: More 5 november in the release schedule

2016-11-13 Thread Samuel Thibault
Marc Haber, on Sun 13 Nov 2016 11:55:13 +0100, wrote: > On Sun, 13 Nov 2016 11:45:23 +0100, Samuel Thibault > wrote: > >Marc Haber, on Sun 13 Nov 2016 11:37:13 +0100, wrote: > >> On Sun, 6 Nov 2016 13:06:33 +0200, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > >> >I'm even willing to justify my opinion: Keeping testing

Re: More 5 november in the release schedule

2016-11-13 Thread Samuel Thibault
Marc Haber, on Sun 13 Nov 2016 11:56:09 +0100, wrote: > On Sun, 13 Nov 2016 11:46:36 +0100, Samuel Thibault > wrote: > >Marc Haber, on Sun 13 Nov 2016 11:37:54 +0100, wrote: > >> On Sun, 06 Nov 2016 11:51:36 +, Steve McIntyre > >> wrote: > >> >Releasing Debian is work for all of us, not just

Re: Debian Installer Stretch Alpha 8 release

2016-11-13 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Nov 13, Helmut Grohne wrote: > Thus I think that debootstrap should revert to unmerged /usr until > dpkg-shlibdeps has been fixed. Fixing is non-trivial and likely requires > an archive rebuild on several architectures. Not really: dpkg-shlibdeps just needs to be fixed to search for libraries

Re: More 5 november in the release schedule

2016-11-13 Thread Holger Levsen
On Sun, Nov 13, 2016 at 11:55:13AM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > This means that we didn't to this with squeeze, wheezy and jessie. we did this for jessie. the fact that you were not paying attention doesnt change reality. -- cheers, Holger signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Debian Installer Stretch Alpha 8 release

2016-11-13 Thread Samuel Thibault
Marco d'Itri, on Sun 13 Nov 2016 12:04:07 +0100, wrote: > On Nov 13, Helmut Grohne wrote: > > Thus I think that debootstrap should revert to unmerged /usr until > > dpkg-shlibdeps has been fixed. Fixing is non-trivial and likely requires > > an archive rebuild on several architectures. > Not reall

Re: More 5 november in the release schedule

2016-11-13 Thread Samuel Thibault
Marc Haber, on Sun 13 Nov 2016 11:48:06 +0100, wrote: > I'd rather have a badly maintained package than none. That's probably the real point where people differ. To me, releasing in Debian means some given level of quality. Samuel

Re: More 5 november in the release schedule

2016-11-13 Thread Marc Haber
On Sun, 13 Nov 2016 12:11:06 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: >Marc Haber, on Sun 13 Nov 2016 11:48:06 +0100, wrote: >> I'd rather have a badly maintained package than none. > >That's probably the real point where people differ. > >To me, releasing in Debian means some given level of quality. Yes. B

Re: More 5 november in the release schedule

2016-11-13 Thread Steve McIntyre
Marc Haber whined: >On Thu, 10 Nov 2016 07:37:00 +, Niels Thykier > >>""" >>The release managers may make exceptions to these guidelines as they see >>fit. *Such exceptions are not precedents and you should not assume that >>your package has a similar exception*. Please talk to us if you need

Re: More 5 november in the release schedule

2016-11-13 Thread Samuel Thibault
Marc Haber, on Sun 13 Nov 2016 12:16:46 +0100, wrote: > But we currently treat "does not build at all" or "eats my entire > ~ on installation" the same way like "leaves an idle directory in > /var/lib after an > install-purge-reinstall-old-version-update-remove-reinstall-purge > cycle". Don't conf

Re: More 5 november in the release schedule

2016-11-13 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Marc Haber > On Thu, 10 Nov 2016 00:24:20 +0100, Wouter Verhelst > wrote: > > >If the release team is willing to consider exceptions when > >the automated machinery was jumping the gun a little, however, then > >okay, I think it might be a good idea to try this out. > > If you only get an ex

Re: More 5 november in the release schedule

2016-11-13 Thread Holger Levsen
On Sun, Nov 13, 2016 at 12:16:46PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > Yes. But we currently treat "does not build at all" or "eats my entire > ~ on installation" the same way like "leaves an idle directory in > /var/lib after an > install-purge-reinstall-old-version-update-remove-reinstall-purge > cycle".

Re: More 5 november in the release schedule

2016-11-13 Thread Samuel Thibault
Samuel Thibault, on Sun 13 Nov 2016 12:25:33 +0100, wrote: > Marc Haber, on Sun 13 Nov 2016 12:16:46 +0100, wrote: > > But we currently treat "does not build at all" or "eats my entire > > ~ on installation" the same way like "leaves an idle directory in > > /var/lib after an > > install-purge-rein

Re: Browserified files and DFSG

2016-11-13 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 14490 March 1977, Pirate Praveen wrote: >> I have referred this to CTTE >> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=830978 > grunt is now available in main, a big part of this issue is resolved, Thanks for that work to all who did it. -- bye, Joerg

Re: Archive changes - indices compression and checksums

2016-11-13 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 14490 March 1977, Steve McIntyre wrote: >>as started in March[1] we have just adjusted unstable to no longer >>generate gzip compressed Packages/Sources files. We plan to wait about a >>week before adjusting testing too. >>Additionally we turned off SHA1 checksums for the (In)Release files for

Re: More 5 november in the release schedule

2016-11-13 Thread Ole Streicher
Marc Haber writes: > I would feel a lot less uncomfortable if the teams who are using > automated tools to auto-file RC bugs for third-rate policy violations > which will auto-remove a (99,99% of the cases) perfectly working > package from testing in a time where a maintainer would probably not >

Bug#844215: ITP: libpod-weaver-section-support-perl -- Add a SUPPORT section to your POD

2016-11-13 Thread Dominique Dumont
Package: wnpp Owner: Dominique Dumont Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libpod-weaver-section-support-perl Version : 1.007 Upstream Author : Apocalypse * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/Pod-

Re: More 5 november in the release schedule [and 1 more messages]

2016-11-13 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sun, 13 Nov 2016 10:29:13 +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > On Thu, 10 Nov 2016 08:26:46 +0100, Christoph Biedl > wrote: > >Finally, there's a thing called "trust": I trust the Release Team does > >this solely in order to keep the freeze time as short as possible, > >everybody hates that time anyway.

Bug#844219: ITP: libpod-elemental-transformer-list-perl -- module to transform :list regions into =over/=back

2016-11-13 Thread Dominique Dumont
Package: wnpp Owner: Dominique Dumont Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libpod-elemental-transformer-list-perl Version : 0.102000 Upstream Author : Ricardo SIGNES * URL : https://metacpan.org/r

Re: Debian Installer Stretch Alpha 8 release

2016-11-13 Thread Guillem Jover
Control: clone 843073 -1 Control: reassign -1 debootstrap 1.0.85 Control: retitle -1 debootstrap: Please revert merged-/usr by default as it breaks builds Control: severity -1 serious Control: affects -1 dpkg-dev Control: severity 843073 wishlist Control: block 810499 by 843073 Control: severity 8

Bug#844222: ITP: slic3r-prusa -- G-code generator for 3D printers

2016-11-13 Thread Chow Loong Jin
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Chow Loong Jin * Package name: slic3r-prusa Version : 1.31.4 Upstream Author : Vojtech Bubnik * URL : https://github.com/prusa3d/slic3r * License : GPL Programming Lang: Perl, C++ Description : G-code generator f

Bug#844223: ITP: libwww-shorten-github-perl -- shorten GitHub URLs using GitHub's URL shortener

2016-11-13 Thread Dominique Dumont
Package: wnpp Owner: Dominique Dumont Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libwww-shorten-github-perl Version : 0.1.7 Upstream Author : James Aitken * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/WWW-Shorte

Bug#844229: ITP: node-chroma-js -- JavaScript library for color conversions

2016-11-13 Thread Ross Gammon
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ross Gammon * Package name: node-chroma-js Version : 1.2.1 Upstream Author : Gregor Aisch * URL : https://github.com/gka/chroma.js * License : BSD-3 Programming Lang: JavaScript Description : JavaScript library fo

Bug#844230: ITP: node-husl -- Human-friendly HSL

2016-11-13 Thread Ross Gammon
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ross Gammon * Package name: node-husl Version : 6.0.1 Upstream Author : Alexei Boronine * URL : http://www.husl-colors.org * License : Expat Programming Lang: JavaScript Description : Human-friendly HSL HUSL is

Re: libc recently more aggressive about pthread locks in stable ?

2016-11-13 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 12/11/16 at 18:51 -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > Lucas, > > Thanks for trying a build run with TSX enabled. > > On Sat, 12 Nov 2016, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > I did an archive rebuild on Amazon EC2 using m4.16xlarge instances, that > > use a CPU with TSX enabled. > > What microco

Re: More 5 november in the release schedule

2016-11-13 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On Sun, Nov 13, 2016 at 11:23:24AM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: > FTAOD: I thank the release team for their tireless work on making each > Debian release better than the last. We keep on adding more and more > software and making things harder and harder to stabilise and release, > and I 100% suppo

Bug#844251: ITP: elpa-ido-ubiquitous -- use ido (nearly) everywhere

2016-11-13 Thread Lev Lamberov
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Lev Lamberov * Package name: elpa-ido-ubiquitous Version : 3.14 Upstream Author : Ryan C. Thompson * URL : https://github.com/DarwinAwardWinner/ido-ubiquitous * License : GPL-3+ Programming Lang: Emacs Lisp Descripti

Re: More 5 november in the release schedule [and 1 more messages]

2016-11-13 Thread Marc Haber
On Sun, 13 Nov 2016 15:43:26 +0100, gregor herrmann wrote: >On Sun, 13 Nov 2016 10:29:13 +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > >> On Thu, 10 Nov 2016 08:26:46 +0100, Christoph Biedl >> wrote: >> >Finally, there's a thing called "trust": I trust the Release Team does >> >this solely in order to keep the free

Does debconf-set-selections automatically deletes values from debconf database once they are used?

2016-11-13 Thread Yuri Kanivetsky
Hi, Not sure if it's okay to ask about it here. But I asked on #debian-user, and never get the reply. One of these days, I made, say, unattended install of different version of mysql. And the main concern is about putting passwords in debconf database (if they are left there or not). But also I'm

Bug#844259: ITP: r-cran-rentrez -- GNU R interface to the NCBI's EUtils API

2016-11-13 Thread Andreas Tille
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andreas Tille * Package name: r-cran-rentrez Version : 1.0.4 Upstream Author : David Winter * URL : https://cran.r-project.org/package=rentrez * License : MIT Programming Lang: GNU R Description : GNU R interface

Re: OpenSSL 1.1.0

2016-11-13 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Hi, so whats your suggestions to solve issues like I have with open-vm-tools: Most build-dependencies switch to 1.1.0 - but one (libxml-security-c-dev) sticks with 1.0, as far as I've seen in the bts because shibboleth won't be able to use 1.1.0. Not shipping open-vm-tools is not an option, as it

debian/compat and debian/control debhelper dependency

2016-11-13 Thread Jérémy Lal
Aren't the two redundant ? Jérémy

Re: debian/compat and debian/control debhelper dependency

2016-11-13 Thread Sean Whitton
Dear Jérémy, On Sun, Nov 13, 2016 at 11:53:36PM +0100, Jérémy Lal wrote: > Aren't the two redundant ? Not always, no. debhelper compat 10 was available before debhelper version 10 was released. -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Does debconf-set-selections automatically deletes values from debconf database once they are used?

2016-11-13 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Nov 13, 2016 at 10:56:32PM +0200, Yuri Kanivetsky wrote: > # sudo debconf-set-selections <<< "mysql-community-server > mysql-community-server/remove-data-dir boolean true" > > # echo GET mysql-community-server/remove-data-dir | debconf-communicate > 0 true > > # apt purge

Re: debian/compat and debian/control debhelper dependency

2016-11-13 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Nov 13, 2016 at 03:59:07PM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: > On Sun, Nov 13, 2016 at 11:53:36PM +0100, Jérémy Lal wrote: > > Aren't the two redundant ? > > Not always, no. > > debhelper compat 10 was available before debhelper version 10 was > released. And even aside from that, one sometimes

Re: missing -dbgsym packages on uploads by maintainer(s)

2016-11-13 Thread Johannes Schauer
Hi, Quoting Mattia Rizzolo (2016-11-13 11:48:02) > On Sun, Nov 13, 2016 at 10:44:34AM +, Holger Levsen wrote: > > if the only valid usecase of binary uploads is bootstraping an arch (which > > I'm not sure is the only valid use case, but I cannot come up with another > > right now…), I think w