Re: Proposal: use /usr/bin/open as an alternative for run-mailcap and others.

2020-10-13 Thread Andrej Shadura
Hi, On Tue, 13 Oct 2020, at 06:53, Noah Meyerhans wrote: > On Fri, Oct 09, 2020 at 12:14:23PM +0200, Stephan Seitz wrote: > > That’s why I need to know the different programs anyway. Why would I go for > > something like open which can only use one program for the file type? > You wouldn't, but

Re: how to add small console application to debian linux distribution?

2020-10-13 Thread Alex Mestiashvili
Hi, it's nice that you want to make the software available for others, but this task is simply way to simple to have a special package for it. The whole thing can be done with a few shell commands, so there is no need for a tool in my opinion. For example a perl oneliner doing the line substit

Re: how to add small console application to debian linux distribution?

2020-10-13 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Hi pe pi and others, Quoting Alex Mestiashvili (2020-10-13 09:54:15) > it's nice that you want to make the software available for others, but > this task is simply way to simple to have a special package for it. > The whole thing can be done with a few shell commands, so there is no > need for

Re: how to add small console application to debian linux distribution?

2020-10-13 Thread pe pi
Hi, it doesnt matter if it is written in c language or perl script or in something else main goal is to make it that simple, how can it be and as a part of linux main install, not as an optional package available in every variants of shell pe pi On 13. 10. 2020 9:54, Alex Mestiashvili wrote:

Archive rebuilds as a service

2020-10-13 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
Hi, FYI: I'm able to run archive rebuilds on a quite regular basis. I do that to find (and file) FTBFS bugs, but it's also possible to test candidate changes in Debian (for example, new versions of compilers, interpreters, or other packages that are common build-depends). If that's useful for you

epoch bump for libtraceevent

2020-10-13 Thread Sudip Mukherjee
Hi All, libtracevent is currently being packaged from the linux kernel source and as such it has the version of '5.8.14-1' same as the kernel. As reported in #971976, the upstream libtraceevent now lives in its own repo and has a version of '1.1.0' So, I will need to add an epoch to the version to

Re: Co-maintaining some packages

2020-10-13 Thread Dmitry Borodaenko
On Fri, Oct 09, 2020 at 09:00:44PM -0500, Brett Gilio wrote: > I am a long term user of Debian GNU/Linux (and a regular contributor to > GNU Guix). I have been using Debian or some other variant of GNU/Linux > for 10+ years, in both professional and personal capacities. I notice > that some package

Re: Co-maintaining some packages

2020-10-13 Thread Dmitry Borodaenko
On Tue, Oct 13, 2020 at 09:52:24AM -0700, Dmitry Borodaenko wrote: > Sounds like your interests are relevant for the Debian Science team [2] > (which is marked dead) and Debian Science Maintainers team [3], getting > in touch with them would be a good place to start. Oops, messed up my references,

Re: Proposal: use /usr/bin/open as an alternative for run-mailcap and others.

2020-10-13 Thread Marvin Renich
* Noah Meyerhans [201013 00:54]: > "open" is a verb commonly used to describe the action of accessing a > file in Linux. You used it yourself above, and it's one of the most > prominent functions in the file API. It seems sensible to provide a > tool that matches the verb most commonly used to d

Re: Proposal: use /usr/bin/open as an alternative for run-mailcap and others.

2020-10-13 Thread Jeremy Bicha
On Tue, Oct 13, 2020 at 1:52 PM Marvin Renich wrote: > > * Noah Meyerhans [201013 00:54]: > > "open" is a verb commonly used to describe the action of accessing a > > file in Linux. You used it yourself above, and it's one of the most > > prominent functions in the file API. It seems sensible t

Help with contacting Ubuntu devs for updating critically broken packages

2020-10-13 Thread Norbert Preining
Hi all (please Cc) is there a way to update hopelessly broken packages in Ubuntu Focal LTS? (packages in question are onedrive and in particular calibre - I refrain from commenting on the reasons behind calibre) Ubuntu seems to pull at arbitrary intervals rather incomplete packages that end up

Re: Help with contacting Ubuntu devs for updating critically broken packages

2020-10-13 Thread Scott Talbert
On Wed, 14 Oct 2020, Norbert Preining wrote: Hi all (please Cc) is there a way to update hopelessly broken packages in Ubuntu Focal LTS? (packages in question are onedrive and in particular calibre - I refrain from commenting on the reasons behind calibre) Ubuntu seems to pull at arbitrary i

Re: Help with contacting Ubuntu devs for updating critically broken packages

2020-10-13 Thread Andreas Rönnquist
On Wed, 14 Oct 2020 07:23:58 +0900, Norbert Preining wrote: >Hi all > >(please Cc) > >is there a way to update hopelessly broken packages in Ubuntu Focal >LTS? > >(packages in question are onedrive and in particular calibre - I >refrain from commenting on the reasons behind calibre) > >Ubuntu seem

Re: Co-maintaining some packages

2020-10-13 Thread Brett Gilio
Dmitry Borodaenko writes: > > Generally speaking, the best way to set up collaborative maintenance for > such packages is to put them up on Salsa [0], for that you'll need to > convert them to Git packaging [1] if they aren't already on it (e.g. > blank VCS field for MLton tells me that it's not)

Re: Help with contacting Ubuntu devs for updating critically broken packages

2020-10-13 Thread Norbert Preining
Hi Scott, hi Andreas, thanks for your answers. On Tue, 13 Oct 2020, Scott Talbert wrote: > better discussed on an Ubuntu mailing list, rather than Debian. I have sent an email to ubuntu-devel with detailed explanations. I hoped for some contact here of a Debian *and* Ubuntu developer with exper

Re: Co-maintaining some packages

2020-10-13 Thread Brett Gilio
Brett Gilio writes: > > Could you explain what "marked dead" means in this context? Is the > Debian Science team different from the Debian Science Maintainers team? > Thank you for clarifying the issue. Update, I see what you mean. The blend mailing list is marked dead. -- Brett M. Gilio http

Re: Co-maintaining some packages

2020-10-13 Thread Brett Gilio
Dmitry Borodaenko writes: > > Oops, messed up my references, above should read: "Debian Science > mailing list (which is marked dead)[2] and Debian Science Maintainers > team [3]" > > [2] https://lists.debian.org/debian-science/ > [3] https://wiki.debian.org/DebianScience It sounds like the Debi

Re: Co-maintaining some packages

2020-10-13 Thread Brett Gilio
Brett Gilio writes: > It sounds like the Debian Science Maintainers team uses > https://alioth.debian.org/, but that URL is not resolving. Update: Ignore this, just a case of an outdated Wiki. :) -- Brett M. Gilio https://brettgilio.com

Re: Help with contacting Ubuntu devs for updating critically broken packages

2020-10-13 Thread Eli Schwartz
Thank you, Norbert, for trying to get this fixed. calibre upstream already had 6 bug reports and counting in just the last week, for an issue: - that was fixed in May - only applicable to people field-testing the python3 transition which was marked as beta and is currently superseded by stable r