Categorially refusing to exercise DPL powers (was: ITN procedure?)

2025-05-08 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2025-05-08T09:07:48+0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > I don't believe the DPL should initiate GRs. I also think that when > this GR does happen (and I'm confident it will), someone else will be > DPL. In future DPL campaigns, I encourage the electorate to insist that each candidate disclose which po

Re: ITN procedure?

2025-05-08 Thread Alexandre Detiste
"The information for this listing was last updated on Wed, 22 May 2024." That makes sense because I see m2crypto on this list. Le jeu. 8 mai 2025, 10:38, Holger Levsen a écrit : > > https://qa.debian.org/orphaned.html > >

Re: Categorially refusing to exercise DPL powers (was: ITN procedure?)

2025-05-08 Thread G. Branden Robinson
[follow-ups should probably go to -project; this issue is non-technical] Hi Andreas, Thank you for your prompt follow-up. At 2025-05-08T10:14:57+0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > Am Thu, May 08, 2025 at 02:54:47AM -0500 schrieb G. Branden Robinson: > > At 2025-05-08T09:07:48+0200, Andreas Tille wrote

Re: ITN procedure?

2025-05-08 Thread David Prévot
Hi, On 08/05/2025 10:38, Holger Levsen wrote: IMO it would certainly feel appropriate to use*existing processes* instead of inventing new ones*and* excercising them on the archive immediatly prior to wider discussion. Thanks for expressing in three lines the things that are bothering me in th

Re: ITN procedure?

2025-05-08 Thread Andrey Rakhmatullin
On Thu, May 08, 2025 at 08:06:03AM +, Holger Levsen wrote: I think your reaction to this is a bit harsh. I see this ITN proposal as a way how to handle pacakges that are effectively unmaintained, but where one is not necessarily interested in becoming the maintainer. we have a procedure for

Re: ITN procedure?

2025-05-08 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Andreas Tille (2025-05-08 10:00:10) > Hi Jonas, > > Am Wed, May 07, 2025 at 10:27:03PM +0200 schrieb Jonas Smedegaard: > > > the underlying intent of ITN is to offer > > > support in situations where maintainers, for whatever reason, may no > > > longer have the capacity to care for a pack

Re: ITN procedure?

2025-05-08 Thread Holger Levsen
On Thu, May 08, 2025 at 01:42:34PM +0500, Andrey Rakhmatullin wrote: > On Thu, May 08, 2025 at 08:06:03AM +, Holger Levsen wrote: > > > I think your reaction to this is a bit harsh. I see this ITN proposal as > > > a way how to handle pacakges that are effectively unmaintained, but > > > where

Re: ITN procedure?

2025-05-08 Thread Holger Levsen
On Wed, May 07, 2025 at 07:34:17PM -0300, Antonio Terceiro wrote: > I think your reaction to this is a bit harsh. I see this ITN proposal as > a way how to handle pacakges that are effectively unmaintained, but > where one is not necessarily interested in becoming the maintainer. we have a procedu

Re: ITN procedure?

2025-05-08 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Jonas, Am Wed, May 07, 2025 at 10:27:03PM +0200 schrieb Jonas Smedegaard: > > the underlying intent of ITN is to offer > > support in situations where maintainers, for whatever reason, may no > > longer have the capacity to care for a package, and to do so in a > > respectful and transparent wa

Re: ITN procedure?

2025-05-08 Thread Holger Levsen
On Thu, May 08, 2025 at 10:00:10AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > >From my point of view, orphaning would be a more forceful step--closer > in spirit to a QA upload, as Holger suggested. I prefer a gentler path > that allows space for maintainers to re-engage if they wish. again, orphaning means d

Re: Categorially refusing to exercise DPL powers (was: ITN procedure?)

2025-05-08 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Branden, Am Thu, May 08, 2025 at 02:54:47AM -0500 schrieb G. Branden Robinson: > At 2025-05-08T09:07:48+0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > > I don't believe the DPL should initiate GRs. I also think that when ^ > > this GR does happen (and I'm confident it will), someone else will b

Re: ITN procedure?

2025-05-08 Thread Holger Levsen
On Thu, May 08, 2025 at 10:26:08AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > > again, orphaning means doing a QA upload. a gentler path would be an NMU. > > again, I don't why we need a new process here. > Orphaning is something typically done by the maintainer themselves[1]. that is true and it's also true t

Re: ITN procedure?

2025-05-08 Thread Andrey Rakhmatullin
On Thu, May 08, 2025 at 08:46:35AM +, Holger Levsen wrote: > > I think your reaction to this is a bit harsh. I see this ITN proposal as > > a way how to handle pacakges that are effectively unmaintained, but > > where one is not necessarily interested in becoming the maintainer. > we have a p

Re: Intend To Orphan (ITO) procedure?

2025-05-08 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Andreas Tille (2025-05-08 10:26:08) > Hi Holger, > > Am Thu, May 08, 2025 at 08:07:35AM + schrieb Holger Levsen: > > On Thu, May 08, 2025 at 10:00:10AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > > > >From my point of view, orphaning would be a more forceful step--closer > > > in spirit to a QA uplo

Re: ITN procedure?

2025-05-08 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Holger, Am Thu, May 08, 2025 at 08:07:35AM + schrieb Holger Levsen: > On Thu, May 08, 2025 at 10:00:10AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > > >From my point of view, orphaning would be a more forceful step--closer > > in spirit to a QA upload, as Holger suggested. I prefer a gentler path > > tha

Re: ITN procedure?

2025-05-08 Thread thomas
On May 8, 2025 04:27, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > What do you want those numbers to tell us? That there is nothing > invasive about your experimental method and therefore no need to invent > new acronyms because NMU is a perfectly fine descriptor, or that your > method has show efficiency or t

Re: ITN procedure?

2025-05-08 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting tho...@goirand.fr (2025-05-08 13:30:17) > > > On May 8, 2025 04:27, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > > What do you want those numbers to tell us? That there is nothing > > > invasive about your experimental method and therefore no need to invent > > > new acronyms because NMU is a perfectl

Re: DEP-14: Default branch name 'debian/latest' objections?

2025-05-08 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, Jan 23, 2025 at 05:06:04PM -0800, Otto Kekäläinen wrote: > Hi! > > Current https://dep-team.pages.debian.net/deps/dep14/ states that the > default Debian branch name is 'debian/latest': > > > In Debian this means that uploads to unstable and experimental should be > > prepared either in

Re: ITN procedure?

2025-05-08 Thread thomas
On May 8, 2025 19:46, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > Yes, I am quite aware of the appreciation from some maintainers of the > contributions made by Andreas - my criticism is another which goes > beyond appreciative maintainers. I do believe that Andreas' > experiment *also* aims to go beyo

Re: Intend To Orphan (ITO) procedure?

2025-05-08 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Jonas, Am Thu, May 08, 2025 at 11:22:44AM +0200 schrieb Jonas Smedegaard: > Quoting Andreas Tille (2025-05-08 10:26:08) > > Orphaning is something typically done by the maintainer themselves[1]. > > If someone else does it unilaterally, wouldn't that come closer to a > > hijack? There's precede

Re: ITN procedure?

2025-05-08 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Joost, Am Thu, May 08, 2025 at 05:49:41AM +0200 schrieb Joost van Baal-Ilić: > I'm with Jonas and h01ger here: I don't think the benefits of the current > ITM-prodedure are bigger than the bad side effects. And even more people > voiced this opinion, e.g. @ https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMentor

Re: ITN procedure?

2025-05-08 Thread Phil Wyett
On Wed, 2025-05-07 at 23:17 -0700, Otto Kekäläinen wrote: > Hi! > > I think Soren and Antonio summarized what I am thinking as well. If > there are seemingly unmaintained packages and we have people who are > willing to take care of them and update/refresh them by doing > something between a small

Re: Dropping awk?

2025-05-08 Thread Bill Allombert
Le Sun, Apr 20, 2025 at 11:22:04PM +0500, Andrey Rakhmatullin a écrit : > On Sun, Apr 20, 2025 at 06:25:53PM +0100, Josh Triplett wrote: > > What I'm suggesting here is that if every individual package that needs > > awk has a Depends on it (via a package that allows switching > > implementations),

Re: Intend To Orphan (ITO) procedure?

2025-05-08 Thread Andreas Tille
Am Thu, May 08, 2025 at 09:35:35PM +0800 schrieb tho...@goirand.fr: > How about a BoF on strong package ownership in Brest? I have registered such a BoF and want to prepend it by a Sprint in DebCamp. See you there Andreas. -- https://fam-tille.de

Re: Intend To Orphan (ITO) procedure?

2025-05-08 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2025-05-08 Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Quoting Andreas Tille (2025-05-08 10:26:08) > > Would it feel more appropriate if I called it ITO (Intent to Orphan) > > instead of ITN and use the 21 days waiting period + upload to > > delayed=10? > Yes, that helps tremendously. > That makes is clear th

Re: Intend To Orphan (ITO) procedure?

2025-05-08 Thread thomas
On May 8, 2025 20:25, Andreas Tille wrote: > > Hi Jonas, > > Am Thu, May 08, 2025 at 11:22:44AM +0200 schrieb Jonas Smedegaard: > > Quoting Andreas Tille (2025-05-08 10:26:08) > > > Orphaning is something typically done by the maintainer themselves[1]. > > > If someone else does it un

Re: ITN procedure?

2025-05-08 Thread Bálint Réczey
Hi, Holger Levsen ezt írta (időpont: 2025. máj. 8., Cs, 10:38): > > On Thu, May 08, 2025 at 10:26:08AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > > > again, orphaning means doing a QA upload. a gentler path would be an NMU. > > > again, I don't why we need a new process here. > > Orphaning is something typica

Re: Intend To Orphan (ITO) procedure?

2025-05-08 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, Am Thu, May 08, 2025 at 06:48:33PM +0200 schrieb Andreas Metzler: > It > just hides the fact that they are unmaintained and makes it therefore > harder to find stuff that should be orphaned and/or removed. Just a short comment: In the Bug of the Day effort the majority of packages will be mov

How should Debian CI handle autopkgtests that require more than three hours

2025-05-08 Thread Soren Stoutner
Every once in a while there is a package that requires more than three hours to run autopkgtest. One example is pyinstaller-hooks-contrib. https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/pyinstaller-hooks-contrib On amd64, armhf, and i386, the tests currently take slightly less than 3 hours. But on arm64, the

Re: ITN procedure?

2025-05-08 Thread Holger Levsen
On Thu, May 08, 2025 at 08:24:57PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > The developers-reference has this sentence: > > Fixing cosmetic issues or changing the packaging style in NMUs is > > discouraged. > > Maybe it could be changed to: > > Using NMUs to make changes that are likely to be non-consensua

Re: Intend To Orphan (ITO) procedure?

2025-05-08 Thread Holger Levsen
On Thu, May 08, 2025 at 09:01:54PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > Just a short comment: In the Bug of the Day effort the majority of > packages will be moved into team maintenance using the ITS procedure or > packages removed via (pre-)removal bugs. fwiw, I think that's great. Thank you! -- chee

Re: ITN procedure?

2025-05-08 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 08/05/25 at 16:56 +0200, Bálint Réczey wrote: > I agree with using existing processes and I also appreciate Andreas' > initiative to improve the state of long-neglected packages. > > I believe the ITN name is a bit redundant, since our NMU process with > an upload to a delayed queue already sig

Re: Categorially refusing to exercise DPL powers (was: ITN procedure?)

2025-05-08 Thread Gunnar Wolf
G. Branden Robinson dijo [Thu, May 08, 2025 at 03:49:08AM -0500]: > > this GR does happen (and I'm confident it will), someone else will be > > DPL. > > In future DPL campaigns, I encourage the electorate to insist that each > candidate disclose which powers of the office they categorically refus

Re: ITN procedure?

2025-05-08 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 08/05/25 at 18:50 +, Bill Allombert wrote: > Le Thu, May 08, 2025 at 08:24:57PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum a écrit : > > On 08/05/25 at 16:56 +0200, Bálint Réczey wrote: > > > I agree with using existing processes and I also appreciate Andreas' > > > initiative to improve the state of long-neglec

Broken in links in Debian History document - old news removed from www.debian.org

2025-05-08 Thread Holger Wansing
Helge Kreutzmann wrote (Thu, 8 May 2025 17:28:59 +): > Also the Japanese translator found a broken link: > > > About this translation, I found the url on the line # 3498 > > https://www.debian.org/News/2003/20031202 > > the page doesn't exist on the debian.org H. This is not the only

Re: How should Debian CI handle autopkgtests that require more than three hours

2025-05-08 Thread Soren Stoutner
On Thursday, May 8, 2025 4:41:16 PM Mountain Standard Time Antonio Terceiro wrote: > We could allow longer timeouts on a per-package basis and on maintainer > request, like we handle having packages tested with KVM instead of > containers. > > This would need the code to actually support this to

Re: How should Debian CI handle autopkgtests that require more than three hours

2025-05-08 Thread Antonio Terceiro
On Thu, May 08, 2025 at 11:38:35AM -0700, Soren Stoutner wrote: > I have two questions. > > 1. Is there a way to override the 3 hour time limit for Debian CI for a > particular package? No. > 2. Would there be objections to reconsidering the 3 hour default time limit > for all packages? We

Re: Broken in links in Debian History document - old news removed from www.debian.org

2025-05-08 Thread Antonio Terceiro
On Thu, May 08, 2025 at 10:33:55PM +0200, Holger Wansing wrote: > I think about removing myself from the debian-www team. > Better no longer be part of it, otherwise people might blame me for such > decisions ... Please don't. Breaking things is unavoidable in complex enough systems, and is OK i

Re: ITN procedure?

2025-05-08 Thread debian-devel
Hi, 在 2025/5/9 02:24, Lucas Nussbaum 写道: > On 08/05/25 at 16:56 +0200, Bálint Réczey wrote: >> I agree with using existing processes and I also appreciate Andreas' >> initiative to improve the state of long-neglected packages. >> >> I believe the ITN name is a bit redundant, since our NMU process

Re: ITN procedure?

2025-05-08 Thread Andreas Tille
Am Thu, May 08, 2025 at 09:56:47PM +0200 schrieb Lucas Nussbaum: > > The point of this sentence is to define what is non-consensual in the > > first place. Changing the packaging style means the NMU diff will be > > difficult to review. > > It don't think that it's about the ability to review the

Re: How should Debian CI handle autopkgtests that require more than three hours

2025-05-08 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi, On 09-05-2025 03:28, Soren Stoutner wrote: On Thursday, May 8, 2025 4:41:16 PM Mountain Standard Time Antonio Terceiro wrote: We could allow longer timeouts on a per-package basis and on maintainer request, like we handle having packages tested with KVM instead of containers. This would ne

Re: ITN procedure?

2025-05-08 Thread Bill Allombert
Le Thu, May 08, 2025 at 08:24:57PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum a écrit : > On 08/05/25 at 16:56 +0200, Bálint Réczey wrote: > > I agree with using existing processes and I also appreciate Andreas' > > initiative to improve the state of long-neglected packages. > > > > I believe the ITN name is a bit red