Re: DEP 15: Reserved namespace for DD-approved non-maintainer changes

Sean Whitton writes: > I am hereby reserving DEP number 15 for my draft DEP, "Reserved > namespaces for DD-approved non-maintainer changes". > > I'd like to suggest discussing this DEP on d-devel (which is the > Reply-to for this e-mail). The canonical DEP text is at >

Bug#864408: ITP: dehydrated-dnspython-hook -- dehydrated dns-01 challenge response support

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: =?utf-8?q?IOhannes_m_zm=C3=B6lnig_=28Debian/GNU=29?= * Package name: dehydrated-dnspython-hook Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : Elizabeth Ferdman * URL : https://github.com/eferdman/dnspython-hook * License : GPL-3 Pro

Re: DEP 15: Reserved namespace for DD-approved non-maintainer changes

Hi Sean, Am 2017-06-07 22:56, schrieb Sean Whitton: I am hereby reserving DEP number 15 for my draft DEP, "Reserved namespaces for DD-approved non-maintainer changes". I'd like to suggest discussing this DEP on d-devel (which is the Reply-to for this e-mail). The canonical DEP text is at

Bug#864428: RFS: bitfield/0.6.3-1 [ITP #864358]

Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: wishlist Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "bitfield" * Package name : bitfield Version : 0.6.3-1 Upstream Author : Vitalie Ciubotaru (me) * URL : https://github.com/ciubotaru/bitfield * License : GPLv3+ Section : libs It buil

Re: Switch default installation image link?

On Tue, Jun 06, 2017 at 01:01:29PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >[ Note Reply-To: set to d-devel ] > >Hey, > >For a number of years, we've been linking to the amd64/i386 netinst >installer image from the front page. I think it's time to just switch >that to just an amd64 image for stretch now. The

Re: Too many Recommends (in particular on mail-transport-agent)

Quoting Christian Seiler (2017-06-07 15:26:35) > - You install package A, which Recommends: B, but you don't > want B, notice that at the time, and either remove B > afterwards, or install A with --no-install-recommends. But > then you install package C at a later point in time, which

Re: Too many Recommends (in particular on mail-transport-agent)

Am 2017-06-08 16:07, schrieb Johannes Schauer: Quoting Christian Seiler (2017-06-07 15:26:35) - You install package A, which Recommends: B, but you don't want B, notice that at the time, and either remove B afterwards, or install A with --no-install-recommends. But then you install

Re: Too many Recommends (in particular on mail-transport-agent)

On Wed, Jun 07, 2017 at 03:26:35PM +0200, Christian Seiler wrote: >... > - You install package A, which Recommends: B, but you don't >want B, notice that at the time, and either remove B >afterwards, or install A with --no-install-recommends. But >then you install package C at a later

Re: Too many Recommends (in particular on mail-transport-agent)

On Jun 08 2017, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Wed, Jun 07, 2017 at 03:26:35PM +0200, Christian Seiler wrote: >>... >> - You install package A, which Recommends: B, but you don't >>want B, notice that at the time, and either remove B >>afterwards, or install A with --no-install-recommends. But >

Re: "Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?"

I would certainly reiterate this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14003253 Some versions of Ubuntu (at least trusty, xenial) have the added "feature" to keep older kernel versions when installing new ones. It kind of makes sense to keep at least the previous one (in case of a regression), bu

Bug#864454: ITP: ghub-el -- Minuscule client for the Github API

Package: wnpp Owner: Matteo F. Vescovi Severity: wishlist * Package name: ghub-el Version : 1.2.0 Upstream Author : Jonas Bernoulli * URL or Web page : https://github.com/tarsius/ghub * License : GPL-3+ Description : Minuscule client for the Github API I intend to w

Re: "Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?"

On Thu, 2017-06-08 at 19:52 +0100, Steven Chamberlain wrote: > I would certainly reiterate this: > https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14003253 > > Some versions of Ubuntu (at least trusty, xenial) have the added > "feature" to keep older kernel versions when installing new ones.  It > kind of ma

Work-needing packages report for Jun 9, 2017

The following is a listing of packages for which help has been requested through the WNPP (Work-Needing and Prospective Packages) system in the last week. Total number of orphaned packages: 1071 (new: 1) Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 171 (new: 1) Total number of packages reques

Re: DEP 15: Reserved namespace for DD-approved non-maintainer changes

]] Sean Whitton > Per the DEP: > > > it is very useful for a maintainer to know that a change has been > > approved by someone who has been trusted by the project with the > > technical ability to NMU the package > > This would be much more cumbersome to achieve with PRs. I'm not sure why this