Re: git branches vs debian specific git tools (Re: RFC for changes regarding NMU in developers reference (Was: ITN procedure?)

2025-05-13 Thread Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues
Quoting Andrey Rakhmatullin (2025-05-12 12:29:40) > On Mon, May 12, 2025 at 11:58:45AM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: > >El 12/5/25 a las 9:49, Holger Levsen escribió: > >>I dont want to use git-buildpackage and I don't want a gpb.conf. Please > >>accept > >>this. Thanks. > > > >I also don't like the

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

2025-05-13 Thread Thomas Lange
Hi Holger, hi all, we need the cleanup on the Debian web pages for several reasons, esp. if we want to move from old WML generated web pages to a modern system. We cannot affort the work to migrate all pages we had in the past. That's why I want to concentrate on more important pages and we all kn

Re: ITN procedure - more words, fewer acronyms please?

2025-05-13 Thread Wookey
On 2025-05-12 18:15 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: Whichever conventional name is chosen (one of these or something else), may I request having the bug template spell it out, rather than adding another acronym to the set that Debian contributors are expected to remember? Intent to revamp:

Re: Dropping awk?

2025-05-13 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Mon, 2025-05-12 at 22:52:53 +0200, Simon Josefsson wrote: > Marco d'Itri writes: > > On May 12, Simon Josefsson wrote: > > > Having some mechanism to create package-specific users seems like one > > > useful goal, and I don't understand why each package has to write > > > scripts to invok

Re: Dropping awk?

2025-05-13 Thread Andrea Pappacoda
Hi Ahmad, Il 13 maggio 2025 00:30:09 CEST, Ahmad Khalifa ha scritto: > Relatively new perhaps. Needs a little fiddling to work with debhelper compat > level 13 (needs dh helper called from d/rules). You might want to build-depend on dh-sequence-sysusers instead. This way, you don't need to fid

tag2upload progress report (was Re: Pythonista wanted for help with tag2upload testing)

2025-05-13 Thread Ian Jackson
I wrote: > Hi. It looks like tag2upload is finally moving. We have done at > least one very basic end-to-end test upload of the most simple case, > which was successful. \o/ We have now sent a mail to our beta programme participants, inviting them to try out git-debpush in experimental. Copy o

Re: git branches vs debian specific git tools (Re: RFC for changes regarding NMU in developers reference (Was: ITN procedure?)

2025-05-13 Thread Andrey Rakhmatullin
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Re: git branches vs debian specific git tools (Re: RFC for changes regarding NMU in developers reference (Was: ITN procedure?)

2025-05-13 Thread thomas
On May 13, 2025 16:37, Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues wrote: > > Quoting Andrey Rakhmatullin (2025-05-12 12:29:40) > > On Mon, May 12, 2025 at 11:58:45AM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: > > >El 12/5/25 a las 9:49, Holger Levsen escribió: > > >>I dont want to use git-buildpackage and I don

Re: git branches vs debian specific git tools (Re: RFC for changes regarding NMU in developers reference

2025-05-13 Thread Andrey Rakhmatullin
On Mon, May 12, 2025 at 02:37:18PM -0700, Otto Kekäläinen wrote: Using gbp pq is easy, and it is also backwards compatible with quilt, and automatically uses DEP-3 headers (some of them) -- WBR, wRAR signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Adding Pre-Depends from linux-image packages to linux-base

2025-05-13 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2025-05-04 at 08:28 +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote: [...] > Judging from the code, you are aware that presence of linux-base is not > a given during postrm. In the absence of linux-base, hook execution is > skipped with a message rather than having things fail. Arguably, > uninstalling linux

Re: Upcoming d-i release vs. hard freeze

2025-05-13 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi Simon, [ cc += debian-boot@ for information ] Simon McVittie (2025-05-12): > As a general rule, would you prefer maintainers of udeb-producing > packages to wait for your pre-approval before uploading anything > non-urgent to unstable during this period; or is it OK to upload to > unstable, a