Re: Removal of linux-base from jessie-backports broke Xen upstream CI

2019-02-14 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On February 13, 2019 4:07:45 PM UTC, Ansgar wrote: >More importantly Jessie has reached end-of-life[1]. Please do not >expect related suites (such as -security, -backports, -proposed- >updates, -updates) to continue working after this. -security and -updates are part of the LTS sources.list o

Re: Removal of linux-base from jessie-backports broke Xen upstream CI

2019-02-14 Thread Rhonda D'Vine
Hi, On 2/13/19 1:09 PM, Ian Jackson wrote: > I would like to recount a situation. I'm not sure where, if anywhere, > the root bug(s) lie, but I am inclined to say that a big part of the > problem was a change to the contents of jessie-backports. I would be > interested to hear what the backp

Bug#922292: ITP: social-app-webpy -- Web.py component of the python-social-auth ecosystem

2019-02-14 Thread W. Martin Borgert
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "W. Martin Borgert" * Package name: social-app-webpy Version : 1.0.0 Upstream Author : Matías Aguirre * URL : https://pypi.python.org/pypi/social-auth-app-django * License : BSD-3 Programming Lang: Python Description

Bug#922294: ITP: social-examples -- collection of examples implementations of the python-social-auth ecosystem

2019-02-14 Thread W. Martin Borgert
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "W. Martin Borgert" * Package name: social-examples Version : n/a Upstream Author : Matías Aguirre * URL : https://github.com/python-social-auth/social-examples * License : BSD-3 Programming Lang: Python Description

Re: Removal of linux-base from jessie-backports broke Xen upstream CI

2019-02-14 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Rhonda" == Rhonda D'Vine writes: >> installer image to have the jessie-backports kernel and modules, >> but that is not relevant to this tale.) Rhonda> I don't really follow - you now can get rid of that special Rhonda> casing (which had to be added specifically) and red

Re: Removal of linux-base from jessie-backports broke Xen upstream CI

2019-02-14 Thread Ian Jackson
Firstly, thanks for taking the time to read what I wrote. (Thanks also for Sam for his helpful perspective.) Stepping back a bit, and firmly putting my `user' hat on: My aim was to share my experience, because I guess the point of jessie-backports (and of much of what we do in Debian) is to hel

Bug#922335: ITP: convertdate -- Converts between Gregorian dates and other calendar

2019-02-14 Thread Antoine Beaupre
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Antoine Beaupre * Package name: convertdate Version : 2.1.3 Upstream Author : Neil Freeman * URL : https://github.com/fitnr/convertdate/ * License : MIT/Expat? Programming Lang: Python Description : Converts betwe

Bug#922353: ITP: socket-activate -- Run a socket-activated daemon with minimal dependencies

2019-02-14 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Daniel Kahn Gillmor * Package name: socket-activate Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : Daniel Kahn Gillmor * URL : https://gitlab.com/dkg/socket-activate * License : GPL Programming Lang: Python Description : Run a s

Re: Removal of linux-base from jessie-backports broke Xen upstream CI

2019-02-14 Thread Hans van Kranenburg
Hi, Here's a few extra of my cents (buy yourself some ice cream from it). I'm not going to touch the subject of why packages should or should not be removed in particular cases, but I'd like to add some feedback from a point of view of another user who wants to end up with the same result, Jessie

Work-needing packages report for Feb 15, 2019

2019-02-14 Thread wnpp
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: 1392 (new: 5) Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 158 (new: 2) Total number of packages reques

Bug#922366: ITP: blur-network-gui -- A graphical frontend to the Blur Network wallet. BLUR is an experimental, privacy-focused cryptocurrency.

2019-02-14 Thread who-biz
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: who-biz Package name: Blur Network GUI Wallet Version : 0.1.8.3 Upstream Author : The Blur Network URL : https://www.blur.cash License : BSD Programming Lang: Qt, C++ Description : A graphical frontend to t

Re: Bug#922353: ITP: socket-activate -- Run a socket-activated daemon with minimal dependencies

2019-02-14 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Thu, 2019-02-14 at 17:36:31 -0500, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Daniel Kahn Gillmor > > * Package name: socket-activate > Version : 0.1 > Upstream Author : Daniel Kahn Gillmor > * URL : https://gitlab.com/dkg/socket-a

Re: Removal of linux-base from jessie-backports broke Xen upstream CI

2019-02-14 Thread Alexander Wirt
On Thu, 14 Feb 2019, Ian Jackson wrote: > Firstly, thanks for taking the time to read what I wrote. (Thanks > also for Sam for his helpful perspective.) > > > Stepping back a bit, and firmly putting my `user' hat on: > > My aim was to share my experience, because I guess the point of > jessie-