Bug#1051401: marked as done (general: PATH variable definition in debian 12)

Your message dated Tue, 19 Sep 2023 08:35:05 +0200 (CEST) with message-id <10e42929-f4db-dc2d-ea8-cb9a8cfaf...@sourcepole.ch> and subject line closing bug report has caused the Debian Bug report #1051401, regarding general: PATH variable definition in debian 12 to be marked as done. This means tha

Re: [idea]: Switch default compression from "xz" to "zstd" for .deb packages

On 9/16/23 07:01, Hideki Yamane wrote: * So, if we change {data,control}.tar file format in .deb from xz to zst, we can reduce package installation time than ever since less decompression time. It saves our lifetime a bit :) * Downside: package file size is a bit larger than now, but enoug

Bug#1052224: ITP: libalien-base-modulebuild-perl -- subclass of Module::Build for building Alien:: modules and their libraries

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Francesco Paolo Lovergine X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libalien-base-modulebuild-perl Version : 1.17 Upstream Contact: Joel A Berger * URL : https://metacpan.org/relea

Re: [idea]: Switch default compression from "xz" to "zstd" for .deb packages

Hi, Quoting Thomas Goirand (2023-09-19 09:50:45) > I'm not sure if we should switch to zstd, or if xz will do the work, though > I'd be delighted if the dpkg performances could be improved. I'm spending all > of my days installing server, sometimes with 1.5 TB of RAM and 128 core (AMD > Epyc...),

Bug#1052225: ITP: greenbone-feed-sync -- script for syncing the Greenbone Community Feed

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Sophie Brun User: de...@kali.org Usertags: origin-kali X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-security-to...@lists.debian.org, sop...@offensive-security.com * Package name: greenbone-feed-sync Version : 23.8.0 Upstream Contact:

Re: Bug#885698: What licenses should be included in /usr/share/common-licenses?

Hopefully I'm not too late and I hope I won't make any ('dumb') mistakes as I'm not as well-versed in licenses and packaging as other participants. On Sunday, 10 September 2023 18:16:07 CEST Russ Allbery wrote: > > * The license is DFSG-free. > > * Exactly the same license wording is used by all

Re: [idea]: Switch default compression from "xz" to "zstd" for .deb packages

On Tue, Sep 19, 2023 at 11:39:49AM +0200, Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues wrote: > I was about to say that zdebootstrap by Adam Borowski used to be a thing four > years ago but now I see another commit from two days ago so maybe it's still > alive and usable? > > https://git.sr.ht/~kilobyte/zdeb

Bug#1052240: ITP: pontos -- collection of utilities, tools, classes and functions for Greenbone Networks

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Sophie Brun User: de...@kali.org Usertags: origin-kali X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-security-to...@lists.debian.org, sop...@offensive-security.com * Package name: pontos Version : 23.9.0 Upstream Contact: Greenbone AG

Bug#1052244: ITP: python-colorful -- Python module for terminal string styling

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Sophie Brun User: de...@kali.org Usertags: origin-kali X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, sop...@offensive-security.com * Package name: python-colorful Version : 0.5.5 Upstream Contact: Timo Furrer * URL : https://gith

Bug#1052246: ITP: node-vdom-to-html -- Node.js library to turn virtual-dom nodes into HTML

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Yadd X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: node-vdom-to-html Version : 2.3.1 Upstream Contact: Nathan Tran * URL : https://github.com/nthtran/vdom-to-html * License : Expat Programming Lang: JavaS

Bug#1052262: ITP: obs-time-source -- Plugin for OBS Studio that displays current date and time

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Joao Eriberto Mota Filho X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, Krystian Chachuła * Package name: obs-time-source Version : 0.1 Upstream Contact: Krystian Chachuła <~krystianch/public-in...@lists.sr.ht> * URL : https://o

Bug#1052276: ITP: jbig2enc -- encoder for JBIG2

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jonas Smedegaard X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 * Package name: jbig2enc Version : 0.29 Upstream Contact: https://github.com/agl/jbig2enc/issues * URL : https://github

Bug#1052280: ITP: erlang-hex -- Package manager for the Erlang ecosystem

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: John Lines X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, j...@paladyn.org * Package name: erlang-hex Version : 2.0.5 * URL : https://github.com/hexpm/hex * License : Apache-2.0 Programming Lang: Elixir Description :

Bug#1052291: ITP: r-cran-writexl -- GNU R package for export Excel xlsx format

Package: wnpp Owner: Dirk Eddelbuettel Severity: wishlist * Package name: r-cran-writexl Version : 1.4.2 Upstream Author : Jeroen Ooms * URL or Web page : https://cran.r-project.org/package=writexl * License : BSD-2 Description : GNU R package to write xlsx file

allow missing description fields and empty long descriptions for Rust/etc packages?

Hi all, I have noticed that almost all Rust packages in Debian have boilerplate long descriptions that aren't very useful to Debian users. The only useful info is the crate name, but that is also in the package name. As far as I know they inherit this property from the upstream Rust crates, which

Bug#1052297: ITP: node-heya-globalize -- Convert JavaScript files using UMD or AMD global

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Josenilson Ferreira da Silva X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, nilsonfsi...@hotmail.com * Package name: node-heya-globalize Version : 1.2.1 Upstream Contact: Eugene Lazutkin * URL : https://github.com/heya/globalize *

Re: allow missing description fields and empty long descriptions for Rust/etc packages?

Quoting Paul Wise (2023-09-20 04:10:58) > I have noticed that almost all Rust packages in Debian have boilerplate > long descriptions that aren't very useful to Debian users. The only > useful info is the crate name, but that is also in the package name. > > As far as I know they inherit this prop

Re: allow missing description fields and empty long descriptions for Rust/etc packages?

Hi Le mer. 20 sept. 2023, 04:11, Paul Wise a écrit : > > So I would like to suggest Debian relax our requirements around binary > package descriptions, especially for Rust binary packages. > > Does anyone object to this change? > Yes, definitely. I know it is a pain to write those texts, but t

Bug#1052301: ITP: node-stdlib -- Standard library for JavaScript and Node.js

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Yadd X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: node-stdlib Version : 0.0.96 Upstream Contact: The Stdlib Authors * URL : https://github.com/stdlib-js/s