Re: Proposed MBF: Removal of libfreetype6-dev (causing FTBFS)

2023-08-19 Thread Diederik de Haas
[please CC me as I'm not subscribed to debian-devel] On Mon, 17 Jul 2023 at 21:45:13 +1000, Hugh McMaster wrote: > On Mon, 17 Jul 2023 at 00:07, Simon McVittie wrote: > > On Sun, 16 Jul 2023 at 22:38:20 +1000, Hugh McMaster wrote: > > > Currently, there are 219 build-dependencies and 29 (direct) >

Re: Proposed MBF: Removal of libfreetype6-dev (causing FTBFS)

2023-08-19 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2023-08-19 10:03 +0200, Diederik de Haas wrote: > [please CC me as I'm not subscribed to debian-devel] > > On Mon, 17 Jul 2023 at 21:45:13 +1000, Hugh McMaster wrote: >> On Mon, 17 Jul 2023 at 00:07, Simon McVittie wrote: >> > On Sun, 16 Jul 2023 at 22:38:20 +1000, Hugh McMaster wrote: >> > > C

Re: Proposed MBF: Removal of libfreetype6-dev (causing FTBFS)

2023-08-19 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2023-08-19 Diederik de Haas wrote: > [please CC me as I'm not subscribed to debian-devel] > On Mon, 17 Jul 2023 at 21:45:13 +1000, Hugh McMaster wrote: > > On Mon, 17 Jul 2023 at 00:07, Simon McVittie wrote: > > > On Sun, 16 Jul 2023 at 22:38:20 +1000, Hugh McMaster wrote: > > > > Currently, t

Re: Activity of the libvirt team?

2023-08-19 Thread Guido Günther
Hi, On Mon, Aug 14, 2023 at 05:03:19PM +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote: > On Mon, Aug 14, 2023 at 01:37:23PM +0200, Lee Garrett wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I've packaged rhsrvany [0], which I'd like to maintain under the umbrella of > > the libvirt team. I've tried to join the salsa team on salsa [1]. Bu

Re: Proposed MBF: Removal of libfreetype6-dev (causing FTBFS)

2023-08-19 Thread Diederik de Haas
On Saturday, 19 August 2023 10:54:20 CEST Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2023-08-19 10:03 +0200, Diederik de Haas wrote: > > [please CC me as I'm not subscribed to debian-devel] > > > > On Mon, 17 Jul 2023 at 21:45:13 +1000, Hugh McMaster wrote: > >> On Mon, 17 Jul 2023 at 00:07, Simon McVittie wrote: >

Re: Proposed MBF: Removal of libfreetype6-dev (causing FTBFS)

2023-08-19 Thread Diederik de Haas
On Saturday, 19 August 2023 11:14:02 CEST Andreas Metzler wrote: > > What is the recommended/appropriate way to deal with such issues? > > The agreed reached was not "let's ignore it, lintian has been warning > about it". Instead a way forward that /should/ have avoided any breakage > (versioned p

Re: Activity of the libvirt team?

2023-08-19 Thread Andrea Bolognani
On Sat, Aug 19, 2023 at 11:25:42AM +0200, Guido Günther wrote: > On Mon, Aug 14, 2023 at 05:03:19PM +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 14, 2023 at 01:37:23PM +0200, Lee Garrett wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I've packaged rhsrvany [0], which I'd like to maintain under the umbrella > > >

Re: Activity of the libvirt team?

2023-08-19 Thread Guido Günther
Hi, On Sat, Aug 19, 2023 at 04:17:11PM +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote: > On Sat, Aug 19, 2023 at 11:25:42AM +0200, Guido Günther wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 14, 2023 at 05:03:19PM +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote: > > > On Mon, Aug 14, 2023 at 01:37:23PM +0200, Lee Garrett wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > > > >

Re: Activity of the libvirt team?

2023-08-19 Thread Andrea Bolognani
On Sat, Aug 19, 2023 at 05:54:11PM +0200, Guido Günther wrote: > On Sat, Aug 19, 2023 at 04:17:11PM +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 19, 2023 at 11:25:42AM +0200, Guido Günther wrote: > > > Andrea, I've bumped your privileges so things don't block on me. > > > > Looks like you've mad

Re: Questionable Package Present in Debian: fortune-mod

2023-08-19 Thread Dominik George
>The mission you have chosen for yourself, then, is to identify all those >things in the Debian distribution that are not constitutive of an >operating system. That is a major part of the work of a Debian Developer, and the ftp-master team. Packages are evaluated for eligibility to enter the dist

Re: Questionable Package Present in Debian: fortune-mod

2023-08-19 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sat, Aug 19, 2023 at 07:11:11PM +0200, Dominik George wrote: > >The mission you have chosen for yourself, then, is to identify all those > >things in the Debian distribution that are not constitutive of an > >operating system. > > That is a major part of the work of a Debian Developer, and the

Re: Questionable Package Present in Debian: fortune-mod

2023-08-19 Thread Paul R. Tagliamonte
On Sat, Aug 19, 2023 at 2:29 PM Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > The reasons why the FTP masters might reject a package from the archive > are public [0]. Nowhere on the list is there an entry that says > "somebody doesn't like this package" or "it has stuff that might offend > someone" as a valid rea

Re: Questionable Package Present in Debian: fortune-mod

2023-08-19 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sat, Aug 19, 2023 at 02:35:18PM -0400, Paul R. Tagliamonte wrote: > On Sat, Aug 19, 2023 at 2:29 PM Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > The reasons why the FTP masters might reject a package from the archive > > are public [0]. Nowhere on the list is there an entry that says > > "somebody doesn't li

Re: Questionable Package Present in Debian: fortune-mod

2023-08-19 Thread Marvin Renich
* Dominik George [230818 17:52]: > Debian is not ..., it is an operating system. This is simply and blatantly incorrect. Debian is a distribution. It includes an operating system and many, many application packages that different people find useful or interesting. The vast majority of packages

/usr-merge status update + next steps

2023-08-19 Thread Helmut Grohne
Hi, Yeah, I know we have too many /usr-merge discussions. Still, there is reason to continue posting. My last summary/status was https://lists.debian.org/20230712133438.ga935...@subdivi.de from July 12th and I'm giving an update of what happened since then here and explain how I want to move forwa