Bug#951307: ITP: smartdns -- local DNS server to obtain the fastest IP for the best experience

2020-02-14 Thread Mo Zhou
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mo Zhou * Package name: smartdns * URL : https://github.com/pymumu/smartdns/releases * License : GPL-3+ Programming Lang: C Description : local DNS server to obtain the fastest IP for the best experience The package is alr

Re: Heads up: persistent journal has been enabled in systemd

2020-02-14 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Wednesday, 5 February 2020 22:40:29 CET Dmitry Smirnov wrote: > There are log readers like "lnav" and "multitail" that will become useless > without traditional log files. "lnav" tails multiple logs by default and > IMHO provides a very useful interface. multitail provides -l option to read log

Can Debian packaging changes require a CLA?

2020-02-14 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
Can a Debian Package Maintainer require CLA for accepting packaging changes and distro patches to be uploaded into Debian itself? (case in point, debian maintainer & upstream wear the same hat, and maintain upstream code & packaging on github.com, under a company org with a CLA bot, rejecting debi

Re: Can Debian packaging changes require a CLA?

2020-02-14 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Fri, Feb 14, 2020 at 03:46:18PM +, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote: > Can a Debian Package Maintainer require CLA for accepting packaging > changes and distro patches to be uploaded into Debian itself? > > (case in point, debian maintainer & upstream wear the same hat, and > maintain upstream cod

Re: Can Debian packaging changes require a CLA?

2020-02-14 Thread Scott Kitterman
On February 14, 2020 3:46:18 PM UTC, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote: >Can a Debian Package Maintainer require CLA for accepting packaging >changes and distro patches to be uploaded into Debian itself? > >(case in point, debian maintainer & upstream wear the same hat, and >maintain upstream code & p

Re: Y2038 - best way forward in Debian?

2020-02-14 Thread John Goerzen
On Tue, Feb 04 2020, Steve McIntyre wrote: > Arnd scanned the library packages in the Debian archive and identified > that about one third of our library packages would need rebuilding > (and tracking) to make a (recursive) transition. We can see two > different possible routes to follow: > > A F

Re: Can Debian packaging changes require a CLA?

2020-02-14 Thread Florian Weimer
* Scott Kitterman: > On February 14, 2020 3:46:18 PM UTC, Dimitri John Ledkov > wrote: >>Can a Debian Package Maintainer require CLA for accepting packaging >>changes and distro patches to be uploaded into Debian itself? >> >>(case in point, debian maintainer & upstream wear the same hat, and >>

Re: Can Debian packaging changes require a CLA?

2020-02-14 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Fri, Feb 14, 2020 at 06:38:00PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: > It would also make the package unmaintainable if the > original packer loses interest, so the package would not be suitable > for inclusion in a stable release. Can you explain why do you think so? If a new maintainer wants to use a

Re: Y2038 - best way forward in Debian?

2020-02-14 Thread Alan Corey
What if we define an epoch to be 50 years and the epoch number becomes part of how the computer keeps track of the date. Something similar is done in astronomy I think, star charts always have an epoch. So epoch 0 was 1970, epoch 1 is 2000, epoch 2 is 2050. Then we can keep a time_t at 32 bits.

Re: Can Debian packaging changes require a CLA?

2020-02-14 Thread Florian Weimer
* Andrey Rahmatullin: > On Fri, Feb 14, 2020 at 06:38:00PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: >> It would also make the package unmaintainable if the >> original packer loses interest, so the package would not be suitable >> for inclusion in a stable release. > Can you explain why do you think so? > If

Bug#951346: ITP: paraglob -- library for matching strings against a large list of patterns (Zeek)

2020-02-14 Thread Hilko Bengen
Package: wnpp Owner: Hilko Bengen Severity: wishlist * Package name: paraglob Version : 0.4 Upstream Author : Corelight Inc. * URL or Web page : https://github.com/zeek/paraglob * License : BSD-3-clause, LGPL-3+ Description : library for matching strings against a la

Re: Can Debian packaging changes require a CLA?

2020-02-14 Thread Sam Hartman
In this instance, I'd submit a patch to the bts and see what happens. --Sam

Re: Can Debian packaging changes require a CLA?

2020-02-14 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 2/14/20 4:46 PM, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote: > Can a Debian Package Maintainer require CLA for accepting packaging > changes and distro patches to be uploaded into Debian itself? you can always fork the current packaging and upload/NMU it. Send patches to the BTS or open an issue in github, poin

Re: Y2038 - best way forward in Debian?

2020-02-14 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On February 14, 2020 7:45:30 PM UTC, Alan Corey wrote: >What if we define an epoch to be 50 years and the epoch number becomes >part of how the computer keeps track of the date. Something similar >is done in astronomy I think, star charts always have an epoch. So >epoch 0 was 1970, epoch 1 is