Re: Reconsidering Debian’s Inclusion of Non-Free Firmware - A Call for Discussion

2025-03-11 Thread Simon Josefsson
Aurélien COUDERC writes: > Le 10 mars 2025 11:56:28 GMT+01:00, Simon Josefsson a > écrit : > >>https://www.gnu.org/distros/optionally-free-not-enough.html >> >>https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/install-fest-devil.html > > … of course … that's where the cor

Re: Revisiting the idea of pre-NEW peer review? (Re: Bits from DPL)

2025-03-12 Thread Simon Josefsson
Maytham Alsudany writes: >> 2. The package maintainer opens an issue with _Review_ template (shall we >> just make it default?). Salsa ID pings in the issue can be useful for >> exchanging reviews. >> >> 3. Once the checklist is clear, the maintainer uses the create merge >> requ

Re: Upstreams with "official" tarballs differing from their git

2025-02-16 Thread Simon Josefsson
Julien Puydt writes: > If you use autotools, you start with configure.ac and .in files. If > upstream prepared the tree (as they generally do), you also get a > libtool/configure, etc. From this, you can run ./configure && make && > make install ; that will do substitutions in the .in files. And

Bug#1096137: ITP: golang-github-landlock-lsm-go-landlock -- A Go library for the Linux Landlock sandboxing feature

2025-02-16 Thread Simon Josefsson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Simon Josefsson * Package name: golang-github-landlock-lsm-go-landlock Version : 0.0~git20241014.479ddab-1 Upstream Author : Landlock * URL : https://github.com/landlock-lsm/go-landlock * License : Expat Programming

Bug#1098766: ITP: golang-github-smallstep-pkcs7 -- PKCS #7 / Cryptographic Message Syntax

2025-02-23 Thread Simon Josefsson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Simon Josefsson * Package name: golang-github-smallstep-pkcs7 Version : 0.2.1-1 Upstream Author : Smallstep * URL : https://github.com/smallstep/pkcs7 * License : Expat Programming Lang: Go Description : PKCS #7

Bug#1101318: ITP: golang-github-awnumar-memguard -- Secure software enclave for storage of sensitive information in memory.

2025-03-25 Thread Simon Josefsson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Simon Josefsson * Package name: golang-github-awnumar-memguard Version : 0.22.5-1 Upstream Author : Awn * URL : https://github.com/awnumar/memguard * License : Apache-2.0 Programming Lang: Go Description : Secure

Bug#1101317: ITP: golang-github-awnumar-memcall -- Cross-platform wrapper for memory-related system calls

2025-03-25 Thread Simon Josefsson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Simon Josefsson * Package name: golang-github-awnumar-memcall Version : 0.4.0-1 Upstream Author : Awn * URL : https://github.com/awnumar/memcall * License : Apache-2.0 Programming Lang: Go Description : Cross

Re: Bug#1101376: ITP: package-assembler -- CLI tool to create necessary files for a Debian package

2025-03-27 Thread Simon Josefsson
"Jonathan Dowland" writes: > On Wed Mar 26, 2025 at 7:12 PM GMT, Alexandre Detiste wrote: >> Please stop this series of troll packages. > > I think characterising this as trolling is unfair. +1 > Clearly this is not suitable for inclusion in Debian, but, what isn't > clear is Luka's intent. It

Re: FTBFS when /bin is before /usr/bin in PATH?

2025-05-07 Thread Simon Josefsson
Matthias Urlichs writes: > On 07.05.25 12:00, Santiago Vila wrote: >> For example, some configure script might look in >> the PATH and decide that sh is in /usr/bin and ship shell scripts >> as #!/usr/bin/sh. > > That's not a problem, because today's default (according to my > /etc/login.defs) is

Re: FTBFS when /bin is before /usr/bin in PATH?

2025-05-07 Thread Simon Josefsson
Simon McVittie writes: > On Wed, 07 May 2025 at 14:40:01 +0200, Simon Josefsson wrote: >>I think we should give up on /usr/games and move those >>executables to /usr/bin, renaming any binaries that conflict. > > This seems somewhat off-topic for a discussion of FTBFS - I

Re: FTBFS when /bin is before /usr/bin in PATH?

2025-05-07 Thread Simon Josefsson
Santiago Vila writes: > El 7/5/25 a las 10:39, Matthias Urlichs escribió: >> On 06.05.25 13:31, Ahmad Khalifa wrote: >>> Fedora doesn't set /bin anymore in the $PATH >> IMHO we should follow that practice, post-Trixie. > > I disagree that we should do that. > > AFAIK, the usr-merge was not about

Re: Dropping awk?

2025-05-12 Thread Simon Josefsson
Bill Allombert writes: > 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 s

Re: FTBFS when /bin is before /usr/bin in PATH?

2025-05-07 Thread Simon Josefsson
Vincent Lefevre writes: > On 2025-05-07 18:18:25 +0200, Simon Josefsson wrote: >> Vincent Lefevre writes: >> >> > On 2025-05-07 14:40:01 +0200, Simon Josefsson wrote: >> >> I think a reasonable conservative system policy is PATH=/usr/bin and >> >&g

Re: FTBFS when /bin is before /usr/bin in PATH?

2025-05-07 Thread Simon Josefsson
Santiago Vila writes: > El 7/5/25 a las 21:44, Simon McVittie escribió: >> That's not clear. Different developers have different > interpretations of what "packages must build successfully from source" > means - as a minimum they need to be buildable on our official > buildds, but the more differ

Re: Dropping awk?

2025-05-12 Thread Simon Josefsson
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 invoke 'adduser' and deal with a

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

2025-05-14 Thread Simon Josefsson
PICCA Frederic-Emmanuel writes: >> There is the Source field in d/copyright where you can put a git remote >> URL. Maybe that usage should go into DEP-14 ? > > So we have upstream informations in > > d/copyright > d/control (git url of our VCS). > d/watch (in git mode) > d/upstream/metadata (wha

Re: Dropping awk?

2025-05-14 Thread Simon Josefsson
Holger Levsen writes: > On Wed, May 14, 2025 at 09:30:25AM +0200, Simon Josefsson wrote: >> Are there any guarantees on semantics for package removals? Will the >> user/group be removed from /etc/{passwd,group} or not? Will it remove >> the home directory? What happens

Re: Dropping awk?

2025-05-14 Thread Simon Josefsson
Andrea Pappacoda writes: > 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 inst

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