Re: Debian choice of upstream tarballs for packaging

2021-08-27 Thread Sean Whitton
e-tar commit", and a single packaging branch becomes enough. > > I very much wish this packaging workflow gained more traction, and the > pristine-tar abomination dies... I agree. I'd like to suggest using 'git deborig' which is much shorter to type :) -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Future of /usr/bin/which in Debian?

2021-08-27 Thread Sean Whitton
NU which package is now in NEW queue: > https://ftp-master.debian.org/new/gnu-which_2.21-1.html > > Having both freebsd which and gnu which in Debian archive is definitely ok. If > you would like, please also upload freebsd-which onto unstable. It's okay, indeed, but please do consider NEW queue workload with things like this -- upload it if you're sure it's going to get used, not just for completeness. -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Debian choice of upstream tarballs for packaging

2021-08-27 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Wed 25 Aug 2021 at 12:00PM +02, Simon Richter wrote: > Hi, > > On 8/25/21 1:21 AM, Sean Whitton wrote: > >> From my point of view, signing git tags is no less well established a >> best practice than signing tarballs -- in fact, to me, it seems *more* >>

Re: Debian choice of upstream tarballs for packaging

2021-08-27 Thread Sean Whitton
ushed, so it's not completely safe. When you 'dgit push-source' or 'dgit push', that history is immutable in that only the service admins can rewrite it. -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Q. What is the best practice about +dfsg and +ds extension?

2021-10-02 Thread Sean Whitton
ebase in its pristine form would violate the Debian > Free Software Guidelines (DFSG), I would use the hint "dfsg"- > > When upstream codebase require repackaging for (only) other reasons than > DFSG compliance I instead use the hint "ds" (as in "derived source&q

tech-ctte: More specific advice regarding merged-/usr and implications of #978636

2021-10-18 Thread Sean Whitton
on rescinds it, whichever is sooner. We intend to rescind this recommendation if mechanisms are developed to avoid the undesired side-effects of moving files from the root filesystem into /usr. For the Technical Committee: -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: thank *you*, team@security.d.o! (was Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 5000-1] openjdk-11 security update)

2021-11-01 Thread Sean Whitton
you very much once more, and not enough, not even close. Oh, well noticed, and indeed -- thank you so much, security team, you are a huge part of making our distribution what it is. -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

New semi-formal ctte role: TC facilitators

2021-11-10 Thread Sean Whitton
` in OFTC - If you prefer, mail a brief summary - To our mailing list (public, archived: `debian-c...@lists.debian.org`) - To our private alias (`debian-ctte-priv...@debian.org`) -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

ITP: loki-database -- Like Prometheus, but for logs.

2021-12-18 Thread Sean Anderson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Sean Anderson" * Package name: loki-database Version : 2.1.0-1 Upstream Author : Grafana Labs * URL : https://github.com/grafana/loki * License : AGPLv3 Programming Lang: Go Description : Like Prome

Bug#1001964: ITP: golang-github-weaveworks-promrus -- Logrus hook to expose Prometheus metrics.

2021-12-19 Thread Sean Anderson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Sean Anderson * Package name: golang-github-weaveworks-promrus Version : 1.2.0-1 Upstream Author : Weaveworks * URL : https://github.com/weaveworks/promrus * License : Apache-2.0 Programming Lang: Go Description

Re: Bug#1001903: ITP: loki-database -- Like Prometheus, but for logs.

2021-12-19 Thread Sean Anderson
On 12/18/21 6:08 PM, Paul Wise wrote: On Sat, 2021-12-18 at 12:20 -0500, Sean Anderson wrote: To: sub...@bugs.debian.org Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian...@lists.debian.org In future, please use X-Debbugs-CC, so that the recipients get your bug numbers too and so they can CC the

Bug#1001982: ITP: golang-github-weaveworks-common -- Libraries used in multiple Weave projects

2021-12-19 Thread Sean Anderson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Sean Anderson * Package name: golang-github-weaveworks-common Version : 0.0~git20211109.0684aab-1 Upstream Author : Weaveworks * URL : https://github.com/weaveworks/common * License : TODO Programming Lang: Go

Bug#1001983: ITP: golang-github-workiva-go-datastructures -- A collection of useful, performant, and threadsafe Go datastructures.

2021-12-19 Thread Sean Anderson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Sean Anderson * Package name: golang-github-workiva-go-datastructures Version : 1.0.53-1 Upstream Author : Workiva * URL : https://github.com/Workiva/go-datastructures * License : Apache-2.0 Programming Lang: Go

Bug#1001984: ITP: golang-github-joncrlsn-dque -- a fast, embedded, durable queue for Go

2021-12-19 Thread Sean Anderson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Sean Anderson * Package name: golang-github-joncrlsn-dque Version : 2.2.0-1 Upstream Author : Jon Carlson * URL : https://github.com/joncrlsn/dque * License : Expat Programming Lang: Go Description : a fast

Re: Bug#1001982: ITP: golang-github-weaveworks-common -- Libraries used in multiple Weave projects

2021-12-19 Thread Sean Anderson
I forgot to edit the license field. It should be: License: Apache-2.0

Bug#1001985: ITP: golang-github-c2h5oh-datasize -- Golang helpers for data sizes (kilobytes, petabytes), human readable sizes, parsing

2021-12-19 Thread Sean Anderson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Sean Anderson * Package name: golang-github-c2h5oh-datasize Version : 0.0~git20200825.48ed595-1 Upstream Author : Maciej Lisiewski * URL : https://github.com/c2h5oh/datasize * License : Expat Programming Lang: Go

Bug#1001989: ITP: golang-github-grafana-dskit -- Distributed systems kit

2021-12-19 Thread Sean Anderson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Sean Anderson * Package name: golang-github-grafana-dskit Version : 0.0~git20211216.1f49a70-1 Upstream Author : Grafana Labs * URL : https://github.com/grafana/dskit * License : Apache-2.0 Programming Lang: Go

Bug#1002700: ITP: org-contrib -- additional Emacs Lisp libraries for Org-mode

2021-12-27 Thread Sean Whitton
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Sean Whitton X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-emac...@lists.debian.org, s...@debian.org * Package name: org-contrib Version : 0.3 Upstream Author : Bastien Guerry * URL : https://git.sr.ht/~bzg/org-contrib

Re: Legal advice regarding the NEW queue

2022-02-06 Thread Sean Whitton
manual review process, perhaps we have been > overthinking the risks here. Just to note that GitHub let *others* upload things without reviewing, such that they're a communications platform (or whatever the legal term is) not a publisher, but we're a publisher. -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: NEW processing friction

2022-02-06 Thread Sean Whitton
founding ideas. We don't want to let that stuff in. We don't want to let technical bugs in either, but, well. I would like NEW to change so it can be faster, because I agree with you that the current focus on copyright and licensing does not line up with what we as a project really care about. I am not so sure that the character of the archive wouldn't change for the worse if we treated DFSG issues differently, however. -- Sean Whitton

Re: NEW processing friction

2022-02-07 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Mon 07 Feb 2022 at 12:00PM -05, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > On Mon, Feb 07, 2022 at 12:06:24AM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: >> >> When we treat any of the above just like other RC bugs, we are accepting >> a lower likelihood that the bugs will be found, and also

Re: NEW processing friction

2022-03-02 Thread Sean Whitton
y C or C++ projects and these are (i) large, such that d/copyright is more likely to drift simply because of the volume of files; and (ii) often contain embedded code copies with different copyright and licensing. My own NEW experience is that I've consistently found more problems in binNEW packages than anywhere else. -- Sean Whitton

Re: NEW processing friction

2022-03-03 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Thu 03 Mar 2022 at 07:36am +01, Andreas Tille wrote: > Hi Sean, > > Am Wed, Mar 02, 2022 at 08:33:35AM -0700 schrieb Sean Whitton: >> >> I'm sorry to be responding only a month later, but I think there are >> some reasons why binNEW is not the wor

Re: NEW processing friction

2022-03-03 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Thu 03 Mar 2022 at 08:44PM +01, Andreas Tille wrote: > Am Thu, Mar 03, 2022 at 09:57:26AM -0700 schrieb Sean Whitton: >> > PS: I'm currently considering writing up some summary of the bunch >> > of threads that was born out of my initial mail. >> >

Re: proposed MBF: packages still using source format 1.0

2022-03-08 Thread Sean Whitton
hree categories seems like the change > with the biggest potential to benefit Debian, since it's a direct > simplification of the number of ways packages are maintained in the > archive. The packages without any patch system feel a bit less > interesting. Very much agreed. -- Sean Whitton

Re: proposed MBF: packages still using source format 1.0

2022-03-08 Thread Sean Whitton
commits, rather than files under d/patches. -- Sean Whitton

Re: proposed MBF: packages still using source format 1.0

2022-03-09 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Wed 09 Mar 2022 at 01:08pm +01, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > On 08/03/22 at 17:33 -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: >> Lucas, as I've had a lot to do with these git workflows and have >> probably done the most work documenting them, I can help with any >> specific fol

Re: proposed MBF: packages still using source format 1.0

2022-03-13 Thread Sean Whitton
to say about native vs. non-native. > Changes not representable by diff is what Sean is talking about here: > >> Ian has some cases where something that is representable in git is not >> representable using 3.0 (quilt) but is representable using 1.0. I don't >> have those cas

Re: proposed MBF: packages still using source format 1.0

2022-03-13 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Wed 09 Mar 2022 at 05:15PM +01, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > On 09/03/22 at 08:52 -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: >> On Wed 09 Mar 2022 at 01:08pm +01, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: >> > Also, how would that work with packages that combine direct changes to >> > upstream, a

Re: proposed MBF: packages still using source format 1.0

2022-03-15 Thread Sean Whitton
eria was too loose. It looks like the query didn't do quite what was intended, indeed: src:userv-utils is maintained in git but a bug was filed. Before I go ahead and close the bug, would you mind confirming this was an error rather than a disagreement about what counts as VCS-maintained? Thanks. -- Sean Whitton

Re: proposed MBF: packages still using source format 1.0

2022-03-28 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Tue 15 Mar 2022 at 11:46AM +01, Julien Cristau wrote: > On Sun, Mar 13, 2022 at 02:58:31PM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: >> Hello, >> >> On Wed 09 Mar 2022 at 05:15PM +01, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: >> >> > On 09/03/22 at 08:52 -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: >

Re: proposed MBF: packages still using source format 1.0

2022-03-28 Thread Sean Whitton
m (no patch serie, no VCS history). I don't think that it's > something desirable. > (if the packages had declared a VCS, they would have joined cachefilesd, > userv-utils, and vde2 in the "native package with a Debian revision > maintained in a VCS" category.) Th

Re: proposed MBF: packages still using source format 1.0

2022-03-29 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Tue 29 Mar 2022 at 08:50AM +02, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > On 28/03/22 at 16:03 -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: >> Hello, >> >> On Tue 15 Mar 2022 at 06:26PM +01, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: >> >> > On 15/03/22 at 15:36 +, Ian Jackson wrote: >> >&g

Re: Bug#1001903: ITP: loki-database -- Like Prometheus, but for logs.

2022-03-31 Thread Sean Anderson
el: github.com/lann/builder etcd: github.com/form3tech-oss/jwt-go #github.com/grpc-ecosystem/go-grpc-middleware/logging/settable go.opentelemetry.io/contrib/instrumentation/google.golang.org/grpc/otelgrpc #go.opentelemetry.io/otel -gopkg.in/natefinch/lumberjack.v2 github.com/cockroachdb/datadriven github.com/etcd-io/gofail/runtime I can make an effort to submit the ones I have packaged, but I haven't worked on this for a bit (as other projects took priority) --Sean

Re: Bug#1001903: ITP: loki-database -- Like Prometheus, but for logs.

2022-03-31 Thread Sean Anderson
On 3/31/22 8:36 PM, Antoine Beaupré wrote: On 2022-03-31 18:55:44, Sean Anderson wrote: Hi Antoine, On 3/31/22 10:19 AM, Antoine Beaupré wrote: On 2022-03-31 10:06:40, Antoine Beaupré wrote: [...] I've packaged around 20 dependencies so far. Impressive! Good job! I have yet to s

Re: Bug#1001903: ITP: loki-database -- Like Prometheus, but for logs.

2022-03-31 Thread Sean Anderson
On 3/31/22 9:05 PM, Antoine Beaupré wrote: On 2022-03-31 20:54:32, Sean Anderson wrote: On 3/31/22 8:36 PM, Antoine Beaupré wrote: [...] Basically I looked at this and thought "OK that's 20 or so first order deps, I can do this" and then I discovered that several of these had

Re: Bug#1001903: ITP: loki-database -- Like Prometheus, but for logs.

2022-03-31 Thread Sean Anderson
On 3/31/22 9:21 PM, Antoine Beaupré wrote: On 2022-03-31 21:15:21, Sean Anderson wrote: OK, I uploaded a package to https://salsa.debian.org/go-team/packages/golang-github-c2h5oh-datasize/ Can you have a quick look at it? I used dh-make-golang, but if there's anything I need to tweak I&#

Bug#1008769: ITP: golang-github-joncrlsn-dque -- dque is a fast, embedded, durable queue for Go

2022-03-31 Thread Sean Anderson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Sean Anderson * Package name: golang-github-joncrlsn-dque Version : 2.2.0-1 Upstream Author : Jon Carlson * URL : https://github.com/joncrlsn/dque * License : Expat Programming Lang: Go Description : dque is a

Epoch for cl-anaphora

2022-03-31 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, I took over upstream maintenance of this package recently and started tagging releases again. The most recent release is 0.9.8. But the Debian package version is 20210111.gitab5f07e-1. So I would like to bump the epoch to go back to using upstream versions. Thanks! -- Sean Whitton

Re: secnet_0.6.2_multi.changes REJECTED

2022-04-23 Thread Sean Whitton
its input) - and that all only in the case > where a second package in Debian uses subdirmk. > > It seemed me best to me to defer this work until subdirmk becomes more > widely used. Cool. Just wanted to raise the question. -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: feedback for NEW packages: switch to using the BTS?

2022-04-30 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Sat 30 Apr 2022 at 07:44AM +08, Paul Wise wrote: > It also means the ftpmasters can file separate bugs for each problem, > rather than combining them all into one mail. This would really slow things down; I don't think we could work that way. -- Sean Whitton si

Re: feedback for NEW packages: switch to using the BTS?

2022-05-18 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Sun 01 May 2022 at 07:52am +08, Paul Wise wrote: > On Sat, 2022-04-30 at 14:20 -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: > >> This would really slow things down; >> I don't think we could work that way. > > Using separate bug reports or not would of course be up to th

Re: Bug#1014908: ITP: gender-guesser -- Guess the gender from first name

2022-07-14 Thread Sean Whitton
> I > have to wait with my upload to NEW after filing the ITP? No, in fact they're not even required. The Haskell team doesn't post them, for example. -- Sean Whitton

Re: Bug#1014908: ITP: gender-guesser -- Guess the gender from first name

2022-07-14 Thread Sean Whitton
t then I think > that's a total waste of time - it's following a guideline blindly > without understanding the reason for it. Definitely. -- Sean Whitton

Bug#1015723: ITP: ement-el -- Matrix client for Emacs

2022-07-19 Thread Sean Whitton
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Sean Whitton X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-emac...@lists.debian.org * Package name: ement-el Version : 0~git... Upstream Author : Adam Porter * URL : https://github.com/alphapapa/ement.el * License

Bug#1015724: ITP: plz-el -- HTTP library for Emacs

2022-07-19 Thread Sean Whitton
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Sean Whitton X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-emac...@lists.debian.org * Package name: plz-el Version : 0.2 Upstream Author : Adam Porter * URL : https://github.com/alphapapa/plz.el * License : GPL-3

Bug#1015725: ITP: taxy-el -- Programmable taxonomical grouping for arbitrary objects for Emacs

2022-07-19 Thread Sean Whitton
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Sean Whitton X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-emac...@lists.debian.org * Package name: taxy-el Version : 0.9 Upstream Author : Adam Porter * URL : https://github.com/alphapapa/taxy.el * License : GPL

Bug#1015726: ITP: emacs-svg-lib -- SVG tags, progress bars & icons for Emacs

2022-07-19 Thread Sean Whitton
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Sean Whitton X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-emac...@lists.debian.org * Package name: emacs-svg-lib Version : 0.2.5 Upstream Author : Nicolas P. Rougier * URL : https://github.com/rougier/svg-lib * License

Bug#1015727: ITP: taxy-magit-section-el -- View Taxy structs in a Magit Section buffer

2022-07-19 Thread Sean Whitton
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Sean Whitton X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-emac...@lists.debian.org * Package name: taxy-magit-section-el Version : 0.9.1 Upstream Author : Adam Porter * URL : https://github.com/alphapapa/taxy.el branch

Bug#1015729: ITP: org-make-toc -- automatic tables of contents for Org files

2022-07-19 Thread Sean Whitton
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Sean Whitton X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-emac...@lists.debian.org * Package name: org-make-toc Version : 0.5 Upstream Author : Adam Porter * URL : https://github.com/alphapapa/org-make-toc * License

Re: Automatic trimming of changelogs in binary packages

2022-08-21 Thread Sean Whitton
aration of orig.tar and diff.gz/whatever has this covered? -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Epoch for node-markdown-it

2022-08-21 Thread Sean Whitton
asily get a conflict between the old and the new one. > > I'd replace 'easily' with 'theoretically in rare cases' but I can see how > this is a valid point, sometimes. > > Thanks for the feedback. Epochs make it easier to accidentally violate Policy 3.2.2. -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Need a buildd build after trip through NEW -- best practice?

2022-08-25 Thread Sean Whitton
debian/changelog -m"..." dgit push-source done The advantage being that it's git workflow-agnostic, so perhaps more more useful to have that in devscripts. -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Current NEW review process saps developer motivation

2022-08-27 Thread Sean Whitton
bly have been better just to say, "make some judgements about what's in its preferred form for modification, explain it in d/copyright, if you're doing so in the spirit of the DFSG then the ftpteam will probably agree." It's sort of like the "no detailed design work" for the TC. -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Comments on proposing NEW queue improvement (Re: Current NEW review process saps developer motivation

2022-08-27 Thread Sean Whitton
cient -- not enough feedback on trainee reviews -- because there aren't enough team members. The usual compounding effect. -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Comments on proposing NEW queue improvement (Re: Current NEW review process saps developer motivation

2022-08-28 Thread Sean Whitton
t; SOVERSION bumps should pass new we need some code that implements this. > So we also need someone to volunteer for this. I think we still want the binary package namespace checking? I.e., a GR just saying "ftpteam should not do a full licensing/copyright check for packages in binNEW

Re: Comments on proposing NEW queue improvement (Re: Current NEW review process saps developer motivation

2022-09-02 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Fri 02 Sep 2022 at 12:31PM +01, Ian Jackson wrote: > Sean Whitton writes ("Re: Comments on proposing NEW queue improvement (Re: > Current NEW review process saps developer motivation"): >> On Sat 27 Aug 2022 at 04:22PM +02, Vincent Bernat wrote: >> > I

Re: Bug email is not getting to me

2022-09-30 Thread Sean Whitton
This > is the fix that Mailman mostly uses, and it seems to work (I've had this > problem with multiple mailing lists I run and turning on this message > mangling has fixed it). But of course someone has to find time to > implement this. ARC is meant to be an alternative to this, ev

Re: Sunsetting sso.debian.org

2022-10-16 Thread Sean Whitton
a > proper sunset announce to debian-devel-announce. Thank you for the notification. At the present time, I believe this will break DDs logging into tracker.debian.org. I recently had to mess around with client certificates in order to login there and subscribe to a new package. -- Sean Whitton

Re: SONAME bumps (transitions) always via experimental

2023-01-06 Thread Sean Whitton
g too much into that? The scripts prioritise binary-NEW over source-NEW by default, though I override this with a shell alias myself. We don't pay attention to unstable vs. experimental. -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Reducing allowed Vcs for packaging?

2023-02-26 Thread Sean Whitton
don't we just fix all those packacges, instead of changing any documents? Is there anyone who actually wants to introduce new packages not using git? I'm not so sure. -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Reducing allowed Vcs for packaging?

2023-03-01 Thread Sean Whitton
all connected with the (legitimate) issues with git-debrebase you describe. -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Reducing allowed Vcs for packaging?

2023-03-01 Thread Sean Whitton
les you upload. This is a matter of perspective. The fact that dak doesn't store git histories and send them out to mirrors is an implementation detail, to me. salsa and dgit-repos are both just as significant Debian archives, even if they're not what we refer to when we write "Debian archive". -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: src:developers-reference, call for patches, bug fixes & translations

2023-03-24 Thread Sean Whitton
slated messages, 26 fuzzy translations, 457 > untranslated messages. > Stats for ru: 870 translated messages, 44 fuzzy translations, 460 > untranslated messages. I hope you won't mind me noting here that we'd also like to see Policy translated. We've got all the infra, but not too much interest in working on it so far. -- Sean Whitton

Re: Reducing allowed Vcs for packaging?

2023-03-26 Thread Sean Whitton
n preferred forms for modification and binary packages, so that we know we have the former for every one of the latter. dgit-repos and dak's archive of source packages both serve this purpose. -- Sean Whitton

Re: Reducing allowed Vcs for packaging?

2023-03-26 Thread Sean Whitton
y doesn't include version control. But the preferred form for modifying a *project* arguably does. -- Sean Whitton

Bug#940904: ITP: libiterator-simple-perl -- Simple iterator and utilities

2019-09-21 Thread Sean Whitton
Package: wnpp Owner: Sean Whitton Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libiterator-simple-perl Version : 0.07 Upstream Author : Rintaro Ishizaki * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/Iterator

Re: Bits from the DPL (August 2019)

2019-10-01 Thread Sean Whitton
separate your detailed, narrative descriptions of how discussions went from what you took away from the discussions. You could either drop the former, or put it in a "read this if you want more details" section. -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Bits from the DPL (August 2019)

2019-10-02 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Tue 01 Oct 2019 at 12:22PM -04, Sam Hartman wrote: >>>>>> "Sean" == Sean Whitton writes: > > Sean> You might separate your detailed, narrative descriptions of > Sean> how discussions went from what you took away from the >

Re: Discussion tooling (was: Bits from the DPL (August 2019))

2019-10-02 Thread Sean Whitton
following the good old rules in marking > subthreads > when they are going offtopic. Finally the scheduling of the different topics > led partly to the fact that only quite few members could participate. This > will > be a constant problem in a project of volunteers and I think we will

Re: Discussion tooling (was: Bits from the DPL (August 2019))

2019-10-06 Thread Sean Whitton
7;s responsible for us communicating less effectively. When I say that's it's not a technical problem, I just mean that it seems like a problem we can't program our way out of. -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [RFC] Proposal for new source format

2019-10-22 Thread Sean Whitton
27;re now thinking of the work in the terms that you used -- trying to it possible to interact with the archive using only gittish workflows and gittish ways of thinking. -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: domain-specific names for source packages

2019-10-22 Thread Sean Whitton
; > to src:developers-reference welcome. That document's source is now > ReStructureText, not SGML anymore, btw. Jonas' proposal is quite cut-and-dry and so maybe we could put it in Policy instead of dev-ref. (dev-ref might usefully contain more general guidelines about the namespace.) -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [RFC] Proposal for new source format

2019-10-23 Thread Sean Whitton
t; fn=e2fsprogs-${ver}.tar.gz > > git archive --prefix=e2fsprogs-${ver}/ ${commit} | gzip -9n > $fn > echo "Generated $fn" > > Note that most of the hair is in deciding what *name* the source tar > file. Just for the benefit of those that might not know, this is imple

Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 4549-1] firefox-esr security update

2019-10-25 Thread Sean Whitton
work are needed (to provide the new Rust-based toolchain > needed by ESR68). Packages will be made available when those are sorted out. Many thanks for all the work that is needed to make this big ESR updates happen in stable and oldstable. It's important for Debian stable's usefulnes

Re: [RFC] Proposal for new source format

2019-10-27 Thread Sean Whitton
e changes is the > BTS. Now that's potentially changing with Salsa. I don't really mind > monitoring multiple input formats, but some people will. I think that README.source is a fine place for this sort of information. -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [RFC] Proposal for new source format

2019-10-30 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello Helmut, On Mon 28 Oct 2019 at 09:35PM +01, Helmut Grohne wrote: > On Sun, Oct 27, 2019 at 10:11:22AM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: >> On Sat 26 Oct 2019 at 04:24PM -07, Russ Allbery wrote: >> > Hm, that's an interesting thought. I do generally include that sort of

Re: Building Debian source packages reproducibly (was: Re: [RFC] Proposal for new source format)

2019-10-30 Thread Sean Whitton
… > > I wonder how someone should test their packages when they do > not build it locally. > And if they do (as they should), the advantages you line > out are simply not there. > If you use `dpkg-buildpackage -b` to do your local tests, then the advantage of not having to go near any source packages remains. -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Integration with systemd

2019-10-30 Thread Sean Whitton
ut five > years; if it weren't for Sean, it would have stalled entirely. We still > don't have good documentation of triggers in Policy, and I think there are > major gaps in the documentation of multi-arch. :( My working assumption is that the problem of not having enoug

Re: RFC: How about using MRs to communicate the diffs for NMUs with an MR

2019-10-31 Thread Sean Whitton
This is the least disruptive change. -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [RFC] Proposal for new source format

2019-10-31 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Thu 31 Oct 2019 at 11:59AM +00, Ian Jackson wrote: > Well, that's fair enough as far as it goes. But I think we could do > better. > > It would be possible to imagine some service that works like this: > [...] This would be cool! -- Sean Whitton signature.

Re: Summary: Git Packaging Round 2

2019-11-06 Thread Sean Whitton
se say that too) I read almost all the mail from the discussion and when I read your summary I did not think that anything was incorrect. HTH! -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Usage of DEP5

2019-11-08 Thread Sean Whitton
ree with this assessment. DEP-5 is the fastest way to write a d/copyright in some cases, but in others it is not. Part of this is that DEP-5 somewhat encourages people to include more detail than is needed. I think we should be optimising for reduced contributor time spent on this task. -- Sean W

Re: Usage of DEP5

2019-11-12 Thread Sean Whitton
ed at people with no reasons to prefer either who are wondering which to use. -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Usage of DEP5

2019-11-14 Thread Sean Whitton
tion of Policy, but usage of salsa is not going in a document with anything like the normative weight of Policy. Anyway, seems that we agree. Thanks! -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Modern best practice packaging tutorial?

2019-11-19 Thread Sean Whitton
upstreams (still uscan or are we doing something fancy with branches?) > for new packages? If you are interested in trying something a bit more experimental there is dgit-maint-debrebase(7). -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Namespaces for Lintian Tags

2019-11-20 Thread Sean Whitton
le, I would request obsolete-national-encoding@debian/copyright rather than national-encoding@debian/copyright. -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

janitor.debian.net & Standards-Version

2019-12-04 Thread Sean Whitton
looking at the diff. Thanks again! [1] https://janitor.debian.net/lintian-fixes/ -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: difficulty in understanding options in init-system-GR

2019-12-07 Thread Sean Whitton
d a blog post defending options D+H.[2] Ian is also working on a voting guide of his own atm but it's not yet posted. [1] https://hartmans.livejournal.com/99642.html [2] https://diziet.dreamwidth.org/3482.html -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: watch files and .gitattributes export-ignore

2019-12-12 Thread Sean Whitton
en the export-ignore will be overridden automatically for you. Just type `git deborig` after creating a new changelog entry with the new upstream version number. -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Best practices for Debian developers who are also upstreams?

2020-02-08 Thread Sean Whitton
ebian -1 changelog and upstream changelog, and git commit both + for git-remote-gcrypt they're actually the same file but that's for historical reasons - git tag -s 1.2 - git deborig - sbuild and upload - start a 1.3-1 debian changelog entry and a 1.3 upstream changelog entry, and commit those -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Best practices for Debian developers who are also upstreams?

2020-02-09 Thread Sean Whitton
ng a reproducible > build anymore. Lintian even complains about spelling mistakes. Such QA > items are not Debian specific – all code everywhere should be without > spelling mistakes, all programs should stay reproducible if they now > are so etc. Right. My sbuild-prerelease a

Re: call for ftpmaster's transparency

2020-02-09 Thread Sean Whitton
+ An idea I have would help to bring transparency to the process... > ^ it's missing an interest requirement :( One key problem with the current workflow is that it makes it very difficult to avoid reviewing identical files more than once. That would be a big improvement. -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: call for ftpmaster's transparency

2020-02-15 Thread Sean Whitton
find it overly effortful. > Also you never know how long your package will stay in the NEW queue and > during this time lack of ITP could affect developers priorities. Well, I always look at the current NEW queue before packaging something. -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: moving mg from salsa to github?

2020-02-15 Thread Sean Whitton
ch. For example if you want to upload the most recent commit at the time of writing, git remote add -f upstream https://github.com/hboetes/mg git tag -s upstream/0+git20200215.1.3992db3 3992db3 git merge upstream/0+git20200215.1.3992db3 dch -v0+git20200215.1.3992db3-1 New upstream release. -

Re: moving mg from salsa to github?

2020-02-15 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Sat 15 Feb 2020 at 06:45PM -07, Sean Whitton wrote: > git remote add -f upstream https://github.com/hboetes/mg > git tag -s upstream/0+git20200215.1.3992db3 3992db3 > git merge upstream/0+git20200215.1.3992db3 > dch -v0+git20200215.1.3992db3-1 New upstream release. ... a

Bug#952810: RFH: ebib -- BibTeX database manager for Emacs

2020-02-29 Thread Sean Whitton
e and manage .bib-files, all within Emacs. It supports @string and @preamble definitions, multi-line field values, searching, and integration with Emacs' (La)TeX mode. -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: janitor.debian.net & Standards-Version

2020-02-29 Thread Sean Whitton
end Janitor's work with std-ver to do more than the sort of completely verifiable updates described above, I would be grateful if you'd share your plans with debian-policy@lists before implementing them; we may have something useful to say. Thank you for thinking carefully about std-ver, and once again for your work on the Janitor project! -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: RFC: Standardizing source package artifacts build paths

2020-03-09 Thread Sean Whitton
hidden directory is to reduce clutter and stomping over any > > Love the hidden directory. Fair enough, but what do you think about the counterarguments that have been raised? What's good about having it hidden? Thanks. -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: FTP Team -- call for volunteers

2020-03-14 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello Neil, On Sat 14 Mar 2020 at 09:18PM +00, Neil McGovern wrote: > Hi debian-project and ftpmaster folks, CCing ftpmaster@. > On Sat, Mar 14, 2020 at 01:37:59PM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: >> - cope well with flames in response to your decisions > >> - after train

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