Bug#999897: ITP: qt6-virtualkeyboard -- Qt 6 Virtual Keyboard module

2021-11-18 Thread Patrick Franz
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Patrick Franz X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, delta...@debian.org, debian-qt-...@lists.debian.org * Package name: qt6-virtualkeyboard Version : 6.2.1 Upstream Author : The Qt Company Ltd. * URL : https://www.qt.io/d

Bug#999898: ITP: qt6-wayland -- Qt 6 Wayland module

2021-11-18 Thread Patrick Franz
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Patrick Franz X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, delta...@debian.org, debian-qt-...@lists.debian.org * Package name: qt6-wayland Version : 6.2.1 Upstream Author : The Qt Company Ltd. * URL : https://www.qt.io/developer

Remove packages from NEW queue?

2021-11-18 Thread Stephan Lachnit
I tried to remove a package from NEW with `dcut rm package.deb`, `dcut rm package.changes` and `dcut cancel package.changes`, but nothing worked. Is there even a way to remove a package from NEW? Regards, Stephan

Re: Remove packages from NEW queue?

2021-11-18 Thread Tobias Frost
Am 18. November 2021 10:30:37 MEZ schrieb Stephan Lachnit : >I tried to remove a package from NEW with `dcut rm package.deb`, `dcut >rm package.changes` and `dcut cancel package.changes`, but nothing >worked. >Is there even a way to remove a package from NEW? > >Regards, >Stephan > ask FTP Master

Re: Remove packages from NEW queue?

2021-11-18 Thread Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues
Quoting Tobias Frost (2021-11-18 10:38:40) > (speculatinng on the why you want it rejected: if you want to replace it with > e.g. a newer version, you can just upload the new version) slightly related question: if I upload a new version to NEW, will the Age of the package be reset? I'm asking bec

Re: merged-/usr transition: debconf or not?

2021-11-18 Thread Bjørn Mork
Michael Biebl writes: > Am 17.11.2021 um 19:57 schrieb Sam Hartman: >> The question is whether we ever get to a place where people can update >> files in a package currently installed to /bin/foo and instead install >> them to /usr/bin/foo. >> We have a consensus that dpkg bugs make that a bad ide

Re: Remove packages from NEW queue?

2021-11-18 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues (2021-11-18 11:26:44) > Quoting Tobias Frost (2021-11-18 10:38:40) > > (speculatinng on the why you want it rejected: if you want to replace it > > with e.g. a newer version, you can just upload the new version) > > slightly related question: if I upload a

Consequences of the NEW queue's length [Was: Remove packages from NEW queue?]

2021-11-18 Thread Gard Spreemann
Hi all. Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues writes: > slightly related question: if I upload a new version to NEW, will the Age of > the package be reset? I'm asking because my package has been in NEW for four > months already and I'd like to avoid loosing that place by an upload of a new > upstrea

Re: Consequences of the NEW queue's length [Was: Remove packages from NEW queue?]

2021-11-18 Thread Alec Leamas
Hi list, On 18/11/2021 11:51, Gard Spreemann wrote: Apologies in advance if this is something that has been discussed a lot in the past. I'd be very interested in being pointed in the right direction in that case! No need to apologize... searching the the devel archives on "NEW queue" reveal

Re: merged-/usr transition: debconf or not?

2021-11-18 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Nov 18, Zack Weinberg wrote: > And, as it has proven to be a genuinely critical problem, it is also their No, it has not. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: merged-/usr transition: debconf or not?

2021-11-18 Thread Luca Boccassi
On Thu, 2021-11-18 at 13:09 +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Nov 18, Zack Weinberg wrote: > > > And, as it has proven to be a genuinely critical problem, it is also their > No, it has not. Indeed - it seems to me there's a convenient tendency to forget that this is not something new that has neve

Re: Consequences of the NEW queue's length [Was: Remove packages from NEW queue?]

2021-11-18 Thread Stephan Lachnit
On Thu, Nov 18, 2021 at 11:52 AM Gard Spreemann wrote: > > Every time I see stories like this, I wonder what the consequences of > the NEW queue's current workings are. This is *not* criticism of the > heroic work of the FTP Masters, nor is it criticism of the objectives > they have in processing

Re: Consequences of the NEW queue's length [Was: Remove packages from NEW queue?]

2021-11-18 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Thu, Nov 18, 2021 at 02:52:56PM +0100, Stephan Lachnit wrote: > I don't know if that has been proposed before, but how about waiving > the NEW queue requirement for experimental packages as a start? > [...] Since packages in experimental will never land in any > official release, I think droppin

Re: Consequences of the NEW queue's length [Was: Remove packages from NEW queue?]

2021-11-18 Thread Stephan Lachnit
On Thu, Nov 18, 2021 at 3:28 PM Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 18, 2021 at 02:52:56PM +0100, Stephan Lachnit wrote: > > I don't know if that has been proposed before, but how about waiving > > the NEW queue requirement for experimental packages as a start? > > [...] Since packages in ex

Re: Consequences of the NEW queue's length [Was: Remove packages from NEW queue?]

2021-11-18 Thread Luca Boccassi
On Thu, 2021-11-18 at 19:28 +0500, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > On Thu, Nov 18, 2021 at 02:52:56PM +0100, Stephan Lachnit wrote: > > I don't know if that has been proposed before, but how about waiving > > the NEW queue requirement for experimental packages as a start? > > [...] Since packages in ex

Re: Consequences of the NEW queue's length [Was: Remove packages from NEW queue?]

2021-11-18 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On 11/18/21 4:08 PM, Stephan Lachnit wrote: I guess this raises the (maybe already answered) question if the additional license QA from NEW is for the end-product (i.e. Debian stable) or for the servers that run the Debian infrastructure, which of course includes experimental. The latter.

Re: Consequences of the NEW queue's length [Was: Remove packages from NEW queue?]

2021-11-18 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Thu, Nov 18, 2021 at 04:08:23PM +0100, Stephan Lachnit wrote: > > > I don't know if that has been proposed before, but how about waiving > > > the NEW queue requirement for experimental packages as a start? > > > [...] Since packages in experimental will never land in any > > > official release,

Re: Consequences of the NEW queue's length [Was: Remove packages from NEW queue?]

2021-11-18 Thread Stephan Lachnit
On Thu, Nov 18, 2021 at 4:16 PM Simon Richter wrote: > > On 11/18/21 4:08 PM, Stephan Lachnit wrote: > > > I guess this raises the (maybe already answered) question if the > > additional license QA from NEW is for the end-product (i.e. Debian > > stable) or for the servers that run the Debian infr

Bug#1000154: ITP: ruby-rantly -- Ruby Imperative Random Data Generator and Quickcheck

2021-11-18 Thread Antonio Terceiro
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Antonio Terceiro X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: ruby-rantly Version : 2.0.0 Upstream Author : Ana María Martínez Gómez, Howard Yeh, Anthony Bargnesi, Eric Bischoff * URL : https://github.com/rantly-

Re: Consequences of the NEW queue's length [Was: Remove packages from NEW queue?]

2021-11-18 Thread Simon McVittie
On Thu, 18 Nov 2021 at 19:28:28 +0500, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > On Thu, Nov 18, 2021 at 02:52:56PM +0100, Stephan Lachnit wrote: > > I don't know if that has been proposed before, but how about waiving > > the NEW queue requirement for experimental packages as a start? > > [...] Since packages i

Re: Consequences of the NEW queue's length [Was: Remove packages from NEW queue?]

2021-11-18 Thread Philip Hands
Stephan Lachnit writes: > On Thu, Nov 18, 2021 at 4:16 PM Simon Richter wrote: >> >> On 11/18/21 4:08 PM, Stephan Lachnit wrote: >> >> > I guess this raises the (maybe already answered) question if the >> > additional license QA from NEW is for the end-product (i.e. Debian >> > stable) or for th

Bug#1000164: ITP: qt6-webchannel -- Qt 6 WebChannel module

2021-11-18 Thread Patrick Franz
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Patrick Franz X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, delta...@debian.org, debian-qt-...@lists.debian.org * Package name: qt6-webchannel Version : 6.2.1 Upstream Author : The Qt Company Ltd. * URL : https://www.qt.io/develo

Bug#1000166: ITP: qt6-webengine -- Qt 6 WebEngine module

2021-11-18 Thread Patrick Franz
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Patrick Franz X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, delta...@debian.org, debian-qt-...@lists.debian.org * Package name: qt6-webengine Version : 6.2.1 Upstream Author : The Qt Company Ltd. * URL : https://www.qt.io/develop

Re: merged-/usr transition: debconf or not?

2021-11-18 Thread Zack Weinberg
Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Nov 18, Zack Weinberg wrote: >> as it has proven to be a genuinely critical problem > No, it has not. In the previous long thread on debian-devel on this subject, someone posted a step-by-step recipe to reproduce a phenomenon where a file that has been moved (in its pac

Re: Bug#1000000: fixed in phast 1.6+dfsg-2

2021-11-18 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Thu, Nov 18, 2021 at 05:12:10PM +0100, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote: >... > For the Debian package you could drop use_debian_packaged_libpcre.patch and > use the embedded copy to not block the prce3 removal in Debian. As a general comment, this would be a lot worse than keeping pcre3. If any co

Re: merged-/usr transition: debconf or not?

2021-11-18 Thread Zack Weinberg
Luca Bocassi wrote: ... > [merged /usr] is the default. It has been the > default for multiple releases of multiple distributions. All Ubuntu > installations that were not using this default are now forcibly > converted upon upgrade to 21.10. > > And yet nobody has actually seen [the file disappear

Bug#1000167: ITP: qt6-websockets -- Qt 6 WebSockets module

2021-11-18 Thread Patrick Franz
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Patrick Franz X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, delta...@debian.org, debian-qt-...@lists.debian.org * Package name: qt6-websockets Version : 6.2.1 Upstream Author : The Qt Company Ltd. * URL : https://www.qt.io/develo

Bug#1000168: ITP: qt6-webview -- Qt 6 WebView module

2021-11-18 Thread Patrick Franz
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Patrick Franz X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, delta...@debian.org, debian-qt-...@lists.debian.org * Package name: qt6-webview Version : 6.2.1 Upstream Author : The Qt Company Ltd. * URL : https://www.qt.io/developer

Work-needing packages report for Nov 19, 2021

2021-11-18 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: 1260 (new: 5) Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 188 (new: 0) Total number of packages reques

Re: merged-/usr transition: debconf or not?

2021-11-18 Thread Luca Boccassi
On Thu, 2021-11-18 at 16:23 -0500, Zack Weinberg wrote: Luca Bocassi wrote: ... > [merged /usr] is the default. It has been the > default for multiple releases of multiple distributions. All Ubuntu > installations that were not using this default are now forcibly > converted upon upgrade to 21.10.

Re: merged-/usr transition: debconf or not?

2021-11-18 Thread The Wanderer
On 2021-11-18 at 20:06, Luca Boccassi wrote: > On Thu, 2021-11-18 at 16:23 -0500, Zack Weinberg wrote: > >> Luca Bocassi wrote: >>> [merged /usr] is the default. It has been the default for >>> multiple releases of multiple distributions. All Ubuntu >>> installations that were not using this def

Re: Consequences of the NEW queue's length [Was: Remove packages from NEW queue?]

2021-11-18 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, 2021-11-18 at 19:32 +0100, Philip Hands wrote: > There is also the issue of cryptographic software, and the laws > regarding its export from the USA, which Debian deals with by treating > every package as though it _might_ at some point incorporate some > crypto, and therefore registering

Re: merged-/usr transition: debconf or not?

2021-11-18 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Nov 18, Zack Weinberg wrote: > Are you seriously claiming that that phenomenon is not a severity:critical > bug? I am seriously claming that whatever you are referring to, if true, is such a contrived example that does not actually happen in real life (or at least, it does not happen frequen

Re: Bug#1000000: fixed in phast 1.6+dfsg-2

2021-11-18 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, Am Thu, Nov 18, 2021 at 11:12:12PM +0200 schrieb Adrian Bunk: > On Thu, Nov 18, 2021 at 05:12:10PM +0100, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote: > >... > > For the Debian package you could drop use_debian_packaged_libpcre.patch and > > use the embedded copy to not block the prce3 removal in Debian. > >