Re: Proposition: Simlify the Installation

2019-06-24 Thread Andy Simpkins
There has been a lot of descension over the past couple of weeks about DI and what it could do to be better. I think it is important that I join that debate with a couple of requirements for any replacement / enhancement: (1)  Must work on all architectures supported by Debian (2)  Must work

Re: Survey: git packaging practices / repository format

2019-06-24 Thread Ian Jackson
Theodore Ts'o writes ("Re: Survey: git packaging practices / repository format"): > On Fri, Jun 21, 2019 at 05:59:52PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > > How do you update to a new upstream version while preserving your > > delta queue ? Just git merge with an upstream seems like it might > > work som

Re: Realizing Good Ideas with Debian Money

2019-06-24 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 6/2/19 3:39 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Fri, 2019-05-31 at 21:04 +, Luca Filipozzi wrote: > [...] >> However, without an HPE donation or discount, we are much more likely to >> follow a less expensive approach: pairs of 2U servers with local >> storage, etc. Still not cheap but not multipl

Content Rating System in Debian

2019-06-24 Thread Bagas Sanjaya
Hello Debian Developers, Debian provides more than 51000 packages. From those packages, some are appropriate for every ages, and some others are only for specific age groups for some reasons. In order to inform to users, especially parents, about potentially objectionable content in Debian pac

Re: Content Rating System in Debian

2019-06-24 Thread Russ Allbery
Bagas Sanjaya writes: > Based on above, what are your opinions/thoughts/positions about Content > Rating System in Debian? It sounds like a whole ton of work to get a useful amount of coverage (not to mention bothering upstreams with questionnaires that I suspect many of them would find irritati

getting rid of "testing"

2019-06-24 Thread Ansgar
Hi, what do people think about getting rid of current suite names ("stable", "testing", "unstable") for most purposes? We already recommend using codenames instead as those don't change their meaning when a new release happens. Related to that I would like to be able to write something like d

Re: Re: Content Rating System in Debian

2019-06-24 Thread Bagas Sanjaya
Russ Allbery: It sounds like a whole ton of work to get a useful amount of coverage (not to mention bothering upstreams with questionnaires that I suspect many of them would find irritating -- I certainly would with my upstream hat on), and I'm not clear on the benefit. Do you have some reason t

Re: getting rid of "testing"

2019-06-24 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 08:08:22AM +0200, Ansgar wrote: > Hi, > > what do people think about getting rid of current suite names ("stable", > "testing", "unstable") for most purposes? We already recommend using > codenames instead as those don't change their meaning when a new release > happens. A

Re: getting rid of "testing"

2019-06-24 Thread Bagas Sanjaya
what do people think about getting rid of current suite names ("stable", "testing", "unstable") for most purposes? We already recommend using codenames instead as those don't change their meaning when a new release happens. Hi Ansgar, Regarding suite names (stable, testing, and unstable), ther