Re: Bug#847749: ITP: node-user-home -- Get the path to the user home directory

2016-12-12 Thread Sruthi Chandran
On 12/12/2016 12:40 AM, Christian Seiler wrote: > I've attached a git patch against your current packaging (you can > use git am to apply it) that does just this. I've tried building > it in sbuild -d unstable and it works - and the tests pass. > > Hope that helps. Thanks!!! That helped. signatu

Bug#847835: ITP: libchi-memoize-perl -- memoization implementation backed by CHI

2016-12-12 Thread Christopher Hoskin
Package: wnpp Owner: Christopher Hoskin Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libchi-memoize-perl Version : 0.07 Upstream Author : Jonathan Swartz * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/CHI-Memoize *

Re: Release impact of introducing a new archive section?

2016-12-12 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 5:22 AM, Josh Triplett wrote: > If we can get every package to handle this entirely at runtime, then > ideally I'd suggest archive metadata downloaded by apt. That would have > the advantage of automatically handling new sections, including for > third-party archives. Pac

Bug#847910: ITP: node-path-root -- Get the root of a posix or windows filepath

2016-12-12 Thread Paolo Greppi
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Paolo Greppi X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: node-path-root Version : 0.1.1 Upstream Author : Jon Schlinkert (https://github.com/jonschlinkert) * URL : https://github.com/jonschlinkert/path-root * Lice

Bug#847911: ITP: node-parse-filepath -- parses a filepath into an object.

2016-12-12 Thread Paolo Greppi
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Paolo Greppi X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: node-parse-filepath Version : 1.0.1 Upstream Author : Jon Schlinkert (https://github.com/jonschlinkert) * URL : https://github.com/jonschlinkert/parse-filep

Re: Bug#847809: ITP: tcvt -- multicolumn virtual terminal

2016-12-12 Thread Adrien CLERC
Le 11/12/2016 à 23:39, Ferenc Wágner a écrit : > * Package name: tcvt > Version : git snapshot 82c24e2 > Upstream Author : Helmut Grohne > * URL : http://subdivi.de/~helmut/tcvt/ >From the main page: Multibyte encodings such as utf8 are not supported, because Python is

Bug#847913: ITP: node-fined -- Find a file given a declaration of locations

2016-12-12 Thread Paolo Greppi
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Paolo Greppi X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: node-fined Version : 1.0.2 Upstream Author : JS CLI Team (https://github.com/js-cli) * URL : https://github.com/js-cli/fined#readme * License : Expa

Bug#847916: ITP: node-liftoff -- Launch your command line tool with ease

2016-12-12 Thread Paolo Greppi
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Paolo Greppi X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: node-liftoff Version : 2.3.0 Upstream Author : Tyler Kellen (http://goingslowly.com/) * URL : https://github.com/js-cli/js-liftoff * License : Expat

Re: Auto-detecting -dev package dependences from pkg-config

2016-12-12 Thread Andreas Henriksson
Hello Josh Triplett, Manually handling the dependencies of -dev packages often leads to mistakes. Automating this similar to how you describe has multiple times surfaced where I'm involved (and I guess also in other places). Unfortunately noone has volunteered to actually implement it. Thanks for

Re: armel after Stretch (was: Summary of the ARM ports BoF at DC16)

2016-12-12 Thread Timo Jyrinki
2016-12-09 0:12 GMT+02:00 Christoph Biedl : > Same here. My Dockstars (orion5x/kirkwood) still work like a charm and > it gives a bad feeling having to trash them some day just because > there's no support any more. > > On the other hand, they face another problem I guess is typical for > that gene

Re: Bug#847809: ITP: tcvt -- multicolumn virtual terminal

2016-12-12 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 11:20:33AM +0100, Adrien CLERC wrote: > >From the main page: > Multibyte encodings such as utf8 are not supported, because Python is buggy. > > Is that still an issue? I highly doubt that a terminal application that > doesn't support UTF8 is useful nowadays. I would agree,

Re: Bug#847749: ITP: node-user-home -- Get the path to the user home directory

2016-12-12 Thread Fernando Toledo
El 11/12/16 a las 08:28, Sruthi Chandran escribió: >> Package: wnpp >> Severity: wishlist >> Owner: Sruthi Chandran >> X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org >> >> * Package name: node-user-home >> Version : 2.0.0 >> Upstream Author : Sindre Sorhus >> (sindresorhus.com) >> *

Re: What happened to the idea of using migrations and coordinated uploads when updating packages that has many reverse dependencies?

2016-12-12 Thread Ian Jackson
Pirate Praveen writes ("Re: What happened to the idea of using migrations and coordinated uploads when updating packages that has many reverse dependencies?"): > On ചൊവ്വ 06 ഡിസംബര്‍ 2016 01:26 രാവിലെ, Paul Gevers wrote: > > Sorry, and to prevent further damage, I'll not touch existing JavaScript

Re: Bug#847749: ITP: node-user-home -- Get the path to the user home directory

2016-12-12 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 11:56:53AM -0300, Fernando Toledo wrote: > A package to get user home path ? > The world is dying... We've had a number of discussions about nodejs's approach to what is a suitable library/package size. Can we please not have that again? -- I want to build worthwhile thin

Re: Bug#847749: ITP: node-user-home -- Get the path to the user home directory

2016-12-12 Thread Holger Levsen
On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 04:08:15PM +0100, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 11:56:53AM -0300, Fernando Toledo wrote: > > A package to get user home path ? > > The world is dying... > We've had a number of discussions about nodejs's approach to what is a > suitable library/package size

Bug#847949: ITP: brother-inkjet-dcpj952n -- printer driver for Brother Inkjet printers

2016-12-12 Thread Roger Shimizu
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Roger Shimizu X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, rogershim...@gmail.com * Package name: brother-inkjet-dcpj952n Version : 3.0.0-2 Upstream Author : Brother. Industries, Ltd. * URL : http://support.brother.co.jp/j/b/dow

Bug#847952: ITP: lua-sandbox-extensions -- Extension sandboxes and modules for the lua sandbox project

2016-12-12 Thread Sophie Brun
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Sophie Brun * Package name: lua-sandbox-extensions Version : 0~git20161128 Upstream Author : Mike Trinkala * URL : https://github.com/mozilla-services/lua_sandbox_extensions * License : MPL-2.0 Programming Lang: C, lua

Re: Bug#847749: ITP: node-user-home -- Get the path to the user home directory

2016-12-12 Thread Christian Seiler
On 12/12/2016 04:22 PM, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 04:08:15PM +0100, Lars Wirzenius wrote: >> On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 11:56:53AM -0300, Fernando Toledo wrote: >>> A package to get user home path ? >>> The world is dying... >> We've had a number of discussions about nodejs's appr

Re: im-config and systemd --user (was: Mass bug filing: use and misuse of dbus-launch)

2016-12-12 Thread Simon McVittie
Sorry for the long delay to this response; it got pre-empted by something more urgent, and then I forgot about it. On Sun, 18 Sep 2016 at 22:19:38 +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > So listing im-config in MBF seems to be FALSE POSITIVE if it is only > based on this string in the comment. Yes, looks like

Re: What happened to the idea of using migrations and coordinated uploads when updating packages that has many reverse dependencies?

2016-12-12 Thread Antonio Terceiro
On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 12:38:47PM +0530, Pirate Praveen wrote: > 1. When handling fragile languages (javascript, ruby, go and possibly > more), I think that this view of "fragile languages" is very misleading, and perhaps a little dangerous. There are no fragile languages, but fragile projects. Y

Re: MIA maintainers and RC-buggy packages

2016-12-12 Thread Michael Meskes
> Did you document your attempts so people willing to help have a point > to start from? No, and all the blame for that goes to me. BTW the same holds for all of my other packages, I'm more than willing to accept help/co-maintainership. Thanks for the patch. Michael -- Michael Meskes Michael

Re: Auto-detecting -dev package dependences from pkg-config

2016-12-12 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello Josh, On Sun, Dec 11, 2016 at 09:48:17PM -0800, Josh Triplett wrote: > dpkg-shlibdeps automatically generates Depends on library packages > corresponding to any libraries pulled in by the linker for the binaries > in a package. However, library -dev packages still have to manually > specify

Re: Auto-detecting -dev package dependences from pkg-config

2016-12-12 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 10:10:57AM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: > > dpkg-shlibdeps automatically generates Depends on library packages > > corresponding to any libraries pulled in by the linker for the binaries > > in a package. However, library -dev packages still have to manually > > specify Depen

Re: Auto-detecting -dev package dependences from pkg-config

2016-12-12 Thread Josh Triplett
On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 10:10:57AM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: > Hello Josh, > > On Sun, Dec 11, 2016 at 09:48:17PM -0800, Josh Triplett wrote: > > dpkg-shlibdeps automatically generates Depends on library packages > > corresponding to any libraries pulled in by the linker for the binaries > > in a

Re: Bug#847749: ITP: node-user-home -- Get the path to the user home directory

2016-12-12 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 05:13:38PM +0100, Christian Seiler wrote: > It's even funnier: the complaint here is actually fruitless, > because I have actually helped Sruthi to patch out the usage of > node-user-home from node-v8flags - it's now in the NEW queue: > https://ftp-master.debian.org/new/node

terminals w/o UTF8 support (was Re: Bug#847809: ITP: tcvt -- multicolumn virtual terminal)

2016-12-12 Thread Adam Borowski
On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 11:20:33AM +0100, Adrien CLERC wrote: > Multibyte encodings such as utf8 are not supported > > Is that still an issue? I highly doubt that a terminal application that > doesn't support UTF8 is useful nowadays. Right. This reminds me of a 2011 debian-devel thread: Me: } I

Re: What happened to the idea of using migrations and coordinated uploads when updating packages that has many reverse dependencies?

2016-12-12 Thread Pirate Praveen
On തിങ്കള്‍ 12 ഡിസംബര്‍ 2016 08:29 വൈകു, Ian Jackson wrote: > This is quite a checklist. Frankly, in Paul's position, I probably > wouldn't have thought of such a list and if I had I would have > concluded that the problem was too hard, and go and spend my effort > somewhere else. > > What would

Re: What happened to the idea of using migrations and coordinated uploads when updating packages that has many reverse dependencies?

2016-12-12 Thread Pirate Praveen
On തിങ്കള്‍ 12 ഡിസംബര്‍ 2016 10:03 വൈകു, Antonio Terceiro wrote: > On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 12:38:47PM +0530, Pirate Praveen wrote: >> 1. When handling fragile languages (javascript, ruby, go and possibly >> more), > > I think that this view of "fragile languages" is very misleading, and > perhaps

Re: terminals w/o UTF8 support (was Re: Bug#847809: ITP: tcvt -- multicolumn virtual terminal)

2016-12-12 Thread George Gensure
tl;dr: I'm on board. popcon doesn't cover rclock, transition shouldn't drop it. Worry about the number of rxvt-ml's out there for non-ascii compatible encodings. On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 12:42 PM, Adam Borowski wrote: > I'd like to propose one migration: > let's replace "rxvt" and "rxvt-unicode

Re: terminals w/o UTF8 support (was Re: Bug#847809: ITP: tcvt -- multicolumn virtual terminal)

2016-12-12 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 12 décembre 2016 18:42 +0100, Adam Borowski  : > Why -unicode, that's obvious. Here's why -256color: thanks to a misdesign, > there's no way to detect 256 color support nor the used palette and trying > to use it when not supported results in visual breakage. Isn't that possible with terminfo

Re: terminals w/o UTF8 support (was Re: Bug#847809: ITP: tcvt -- multicolumn virtual terminal)

2016-12-12 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 12 décembre 2016 20:51 +0100, Vincent Bernat  : >> Why -unicode, that's obvious. Here's why -256color: thanks to a misdesign, >> there's no way to detect 256 color support nor the used palette and trying >> to use it when not supported results in visual breakage. > > Isn't that possible with t

Re: What happened to the idea of using migrations and coordinated uploads when updating packages that has many reverse dependencies?

2016-12-12 Thread Vincent Danjean
Le 12/12/2016 à 19:02, Pirate Praveen a écrit : > Updating a library is a difficult task compared to packaging new > libraries or applications. With all the explanations in this thread, its logical. But it the reverse of what I experimented in nearly all parts of Debian I've been involved (C/Perl/

Re: What happened to the idea of using migrations and coordinated uploads when updating packages that has many reverse dependencies?

2016-12-12 Thread Pirate Praveen
On 2016, ഡിസംബർ 13 1:48:33 AM IST, Vincent Danjean wrote: > I suppose these communities (js, nodejs, ...) do not generally have >test suites for their libraries... Node packages usually have tests, for most packages we have test suites packaged already (mocha, tap, chai), but still many test