Bug#1088206: ITP: glow -- Render Markdown on the CLI

2024-11-24 Thread otto
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Otto Kekäläinen * Package name: glow Version : 1.2.0-1 Upstream Author : Charm * URL : https://github.com/charmbracelet/glow * License : Expat Programming Lang: Go Description : Render Markdown on the CLI Glow

Bug#1088208: ITP: golang-github-muesli-mango-pflag -- pflag adapter for mango

2024-11-24 Thread otto
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Otto Kekäläinen * Package name: golang-github-muesli-mango-pflag Version : 0.1.0-1 Upstream Author : Christian Muehlhaeuser * URL : https://github.com/muesli/mango-pflag * License : Expat Programming Lang: Go

Bug#1088207: ITP: golang-github-muesli-mango-cobra -- cobra adapter for mango

2024-11-24 Thread otto
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Otto Kekäläinen * Package name: golang-github-muesli-mango-cobra Version : 1.2.0-1 Upstream Author : Christian Muehlhaeuser * URL : https://github.com/muesli/mango-cobra * License : Expat Programming Lang: Go

Builds that pass locally but fail on sbuild? (Re: Reviving schroot as used by sbuild)

2024-06-27 Thread Otto Kekäläinen
u might want to take a peek at the source code of https://salsa.debian.org/otto/debcraft how it supports both Podman and Docker, and how it generates the 'root.tar.gz' equivalent container automatically based on debian/control and debian/changelog contents, and then runs the actual build as

Re: Vendoring an unmaintained library?

2024-07-03 Thread Otto Kekäläinen
Enriching original email: This is about whether packages transmission-gtk should use embedded copy of libb64 or depend on the outdated Debian package libb64. Upstream for libb64 seems dead and transmission devs have improved their embedded/vendored copy of libb64. Direct link: https://bugs.debia

Re: DD's, Debian Mentors needs you!

2024-07-06 Thread Otto Kekäläinen
Hi! > https://mentors.debian.net/package/uriparser/ > https://mentors.debian.net/package/mailgraph/ This is the same maintainer, I can take this on. > https://mentors.debian.net/package/selint/ I have worked with this maintainer before, I can help him now too. After this Hexwalk still needs a

Re: GR: tag2upload

2024-07-14 Thread Otto Kekäläinen
Hi! On Thu, 4 Jul 2024 at 13:32, Debian Project Secretary - Kurt Roeckx wrote: > A general resolution about tag2upload has been started. Details are at: > https://www.debian.org/vote/2024/vote_002 This GR was published without much context. I at least was much more enlightened after reading the

Request for feedback on draft: DEP-18: Enable true open collaboration on all Debian packages

2024-07-27 Thread Otto Kekäläinen
makes sense, please press the thumbs up button. If you have comments, please share them here or on the draft itself. Thanks, Otto

Re: Request for feedback on draft: DEP-18: Enable true open collaboration on all Debian packages

2024-07-31 Thread Otto Kekäläinen
Hi! > > I have drafted a new DEP at > > https://salsa.debian.org/dep-team/deps/-/merge_requests/8 titled "DEP-18: > > Enable true open collaboration on all Debian packages". > > > > Direct link to raw text: > > https://salsa.debian.org/dep-team/deps/-/raw/798bfa5a1e1609afd4e48ee20aff80a82bcd4a2f/w

Re: Request for feedback on draft: DEP-18: Enable true open collaboration on all Debian packages

2024-07-31 Thread Otto Kekäläinen
o reword "5. Allow changes to be reviewed before uploads to Debian" to be explicit about not prescribing anything too specific. It is up to each team and maintainer to decide what and when to ask for reviews. The main point in DEP-18 is that when you use salsa.debian.org, the code is published as source first, tested with Salsa CI and potentially reviewed instead of just being uploaded directly without any room for collaboration. - Otto

Re: Request for feedback on draft: DEP-18: Enable true open collaboration on all Debian packages

2024-08-02 Thread Otto Kekäläinen
Hi! On Fri, 2 Aug 2024 at 02:27, Andrea Pappacoda wrote: .. > Before a certain way of doing things can be mandated or "warmly > recommended", the technology has to be as flawless as possible - and > today I wouldn't call Salsa "flawless", would you? Issues with > Salsa/GitLab: > > 1. It is so slo

Re: Request for feedback on draft: DEP-18: Enable true open collaboration on all Debian packages

2024-08-02 Thread Otto Kekäläinen
Hi, On Fri, 2 Aug 2024 at 16:27, Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues wrote: > Quoting Otto Kekäläinen (2024-08-02 17:23:51) > > I agree that Salsa is sometimes a bit sluggish > > (https://salsa.debian.org/salsa/support/-/issues/395), > > what kind of hardware do you have? For p

Re: Request for feedback on draft: DEP-18: Enable true open collaboration on all Debian packages

2024-08-03 Thread Otto Kekäläinen
Hi! > I have three feelings. > > > 1. Debian workflows are too fractured. The project would be better if we > asked people to standardize around a single (or a small number) of workflows. > To do so, the workflow would need to be flexible enough to handle the wide > range of technical needs

Re: lintian.debian.org off ?

2024-08-09 Thread Otto Kekäläinen
Hi! On Fri, 9 Aug 2024 at 04:12, Nicolas Peugnet wrote: > > If there is interest in providing a page that only list the tag > > description (without the affected packages), it would be easier to add > > it to the existing UDD page (with an additional parameter for example) > > than to create a se

Salsa connection errors or slowness has improved (Re: Request for feedback on draft: DEP-18)

2024-08-13 Thread Otto Kekäläinen
u probably guessed, I am a heavy user of Salsa, and very grateful to Salsa admin for maintaining it! - Otto

Re: Accepting DEP14?

2024-08-15 Thread Otto Kekäläinen
Yes to finalizing DEP-14 soon, but first I think we need to complete the technical work to have git-buildpackage use DEP-14 branch names by default. I tried implementing it but turned out a bit too involved.. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=829444 Use DEP14 branch layout by defa

debian/gbp.cnf analytics? (Re: Re: Accepting DEP14?)

2024-08-18 Thread Otto Kekäläinen
ad all of them to do stats on what they contain. - Otto

Re: debian/gbp.cnf analytics? (Re: Re: Accepting DEP14?)

2024-08-19 Thread Otto Kekäläinen
Hi! ## How many source packages are in Debian unstable as of today? ± zgrep "^Package: " Sources.gz | wc -l 38199 ## How many source packages have a gbp.conf? ± ls -1 *_gbp.conf | wc -l 13570 (24629 do not have it) ## What is the most popular 'debian-branch'? Note! The Sources.gz used to anal

DEP18 follow-up: What would be the best path to have all top-150 packages use Salsa CI?

2024-08-20 Thread Otto Kekäläinen
Hi! In short: I would very much like to see all top-150 packages run Salsa CI at least once before being uploaded to unstable. What people think is a reasonable way to proceed to reach this goal? Background: We have had several cases recently where an upload to Debian unstable causes widespread

Re: DEP18 follow-up: What would be the best path to have all top-150 packages use Salsa CI?

2024-08-20 Thread Otto Kekäläinen
Hi! > > I would very much like to see all top-150 packages run Salsa CI at > > least once before being uploaded to unstable. What people think is a > > reasonable way to proceed to reach this goal? > Advertise widely and frequently that there is a pool of people which is > happy to help investigat

Re: DEP18 follow-up: What would be the best path to have all top-150 packages use Salsa CI?

2024-08-22 Thread Otto Kekäläinen
nding a working pipeline configuration for these > could improve the situation. Would it also make sense to source I have done that - details visible in my MR history at https://salsa.debian.org/dashboard/merge_requests?scope=all&state=all&author_username=otto&search=%22enable+sa

Re: [Debian-salsa-ci] DEP18 follow-up: What would be the best path to have all top-150 packages use Salsa CI?

2024-08-23 Thread Otto Kekäläinen
Hi! > And is this web page authoratative? Or just a false search positive? > > https://salsa.debian.org/salsa-ci-team/pipeline#basic-use > > It doesn't mention the "salsa" command at all, but maybe that isn't > the right web page. This goes back to my observation that it would be > helpful i

Re: DEP18 follow-up: Salsa CI vs Debusine

2024-08-25 Thread Otto Kekäläinen
Hi Helmut! > > Let me suggest that there are more ways to do this. Freexian is putting > > a ton of effort into https://debusine.debian.net. It can do much of the > > same tasks as salsa-ci already (with less flexibility). Extending it to > > act as an upload-proxy that forwards your upload to the

Re: Validating tarballs against git repositories

2024-08-26 Thread Otto Kekäläinen
On Tue, 2 Apr 2024 at 17:19, Jeremy Stanley wrote: > On 2024-04-02 16:44:54 -0700 (-0700), Russ Allbery wrote: > [...] > > I think a shallow clone of depth 1 is sufficient, although that's not > > sufficient to get the correct version number from Git in all cases. > [...] > > Some tools (python3-re

DEP-18: Git and GitLab usage in other Linux distros (Re: Representing Debian Metadata in Git)

2024-08-26 Thread Otto Kekäläinen
some kind of formal sign-offs from at least two people before upload. Initially, perhaps only for the top-150 packages. But before we can institute review workflows, we need to have more unification around the version control and basic packaging workflows. - Otto

DEP-18 discussion summary (Re: Request for feedback on draft: DEP-18: Enable true open collaboration on all Debian packages)

2024-08-27 Thread Otto Kekäläinen
hauer Marin Rodrigues, Andrea Pappacoda, and Gioele Barabucci, complained about Salsa/GitLab being slow or unreliable at times, which deterred contribution. Improvements to performance and uptime were seen as important. In response, Otto Kekäläinen noted that the Salsa admins had posted about upcoming

Re: Request for feedback on draft: DEP-18: Enable true open collaboration on all Debian packages

2024-08-30 Thread Otto Kekäläinen
Hi! > NOTE: The following idea might be out-of-scope in DEP-18, but specific > use-case to improve > collaboration in Debian, IMHO. > > Here is just an idea: put collaboration policy metadata in debian/control. > (The following idea assumes that non-maintainer DD tend to hesitate to > commit/merge

Re: Request for feedback on draft: DEP-18: Enable true open collaboration on all Debian packages

2024-09-01 Thread Otto Kekäläinen
e proposal. I will notify when published. - Otto

Re: lintian.debian.org off ?

2024-09-02 Thread Otto Kekäläinen
Lab CI pipeline and do occasional code reviews, if you want to consider hosting the code at https://salsa.debian.org/lintian, Debian's official code hosting and collaboration platform. It can be instead of or in parallel with your GitHub repository. - Otto

Re: DEP-18 discussion summary (Re: Request for feedback on draft: DEP-18: Enable true open collaboration on all Debian packages)

2024-09-03 Thread Otto Kekäläinen
Hi! > Hi Otto, > Until recently I generally found Salsa response to be adequate, > but for the last couple of days it has been so > excruciatingly slow as to be almost unusable. > > > In response, Otto Kekäläinen noted that the Salsa admins > > had posted about upc

Re: lintian.debian.org off ?

2024-09-04 Thread Otto Kekäläinen
, in particular in this case as it is a legit and working implementation to produce renewed contents for lintian.debian.org. - Otto

DpartialMirror (was Re: [ANNOUNCE] debian-multimirror)

2004-11-01 Thread Otto Wyss
> On Wed, 29 Sep 2004, Pedro Larroy wrote: > > As a long standing debmirror user and with the knowledge that there is a > debpartial-mirror project which is very actively developed I just wonder > if people have to much spare time to invent one wheel after an other. > Sorry for the late reply but

Synching mirrors and clients (was: Re: apt-proxy v2 and rsync)

2004-11-04 Thread Otto Wyss
> > Can anyone explain why rsync is no longer considered an appropriate > > method for fetching Packages files? > > IIRC the problem is that rsync is quite CPU-heavy on the servers, so while > the mirrors have the (network) resources to feed downloads to 100s of > users, they don't have the (CPU)

Re: Synching mirrors and clients (was: Re: apt-proxy v2 and rsync)

2004-11-05 Thread Otto Wyss
> > > IIRC the problem is that rsync is quite CPU-heavy on the servers, so while > > > the mirrors have the (network) resources to feed downloads to 100s of > > > users, they don't have the (CPU) resources for a few dozen rsyncs. > > > > Why do you keep on saying this without providing _any_ figur

Re: New stable version after Sarge

2005-01-04 Thread Otto Wyss
Tim Cutts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Seriously. There's just no way you're going to change the way Debian > > makes releases, or rather, doesn't. It's too big, and there are just > > too damn many people involved, many of whom simply don't care about > > releases. As long as we maintain our cu

Re: Debian mirror scripts

2005-01-31 Thread Otto Wyss
Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sure? Anyway DpartialMirror "http://dpartialmirror.sourceforge.net/"; > > can. > > > A note of caution: > > | 2004-04-03 (wyo) Since Debian does not change its policy to add > | adequate support for rsync'ing package mirrors, I don't actively >

Re: Debian mirror scripts

2005-01-31 Thread Otto Wyss
Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Otto Wyss) writes: > > > Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> > Sure? Anyway DpartialMirror "http://dpartialmirror.sourceforge.net/"; > >> > c

Re: Debian mirror scripts

2005-02-03 Thread Otto Wyss
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > > Why there isn't there already a rsync method for apt is probably a > > mystery nobody ever will solve. > > It is not wanted due to rsync causing excessive server load. > That is simply not true. This statement is repeated all the time but nobody ever was able to

Re: Debian mirror scripts

2005-02-03 Thread Otto Wyss
Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Otto Wyss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > reply (that is what I get roughly) to the server would waste 75 hours > on waiting for the initial three-way handshake for a connect. And > another 50 hours for the round-robin

Restoring lost keymap

2005-03-14 Thread Otto Wyss
Sorry if I ask here but nobody in debia-users seems to know an answer. During installation of console-tools a few weeks ago I lost the keymap of my swiss-german keyboard in the console. As typical console-tools doesn't have a man page and it's documentation is useless. Does anybody know how to re

Re: Debian mirror scripts

2005-01-30 Thread Otto Wyss
> Tried to work around this with a simple script that merges my > packages into the local mirror and regenerates everything as > needed. But sadly this doesn't seem to be perfect :-( The installer > just doesn't want to get some of these packages, even if the md5's > are correct. Switching from htt

Re: Debian mirror scripts

2005-01-30 Thread Otto Wyss
Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Debmirror is purely a mirror tool. It will download the Meta files > just like any other file. > > You can easily switch between mirror of equal contents but not create > Packages files reflecting what is locally available. > Sure? Anyway Dpartia

Package distribution, a concept for a modern package distribution

2005-06-24 Thread Otto Wyss
Since around last October, I've considered to make my concept for a modern package distribution public but I wanted to wait until Debian/sarge was released which is now the case. And since the Debconf5 in Helsinki is just around the corner it's about the right time. The concept is based on an LDAP

Re: Package distribution, a concept for a modern package distribution

2005-06-26 Thread Otto Wyss
> On Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 06:14:46PM +0200, Otto Wyss wrote: > > The concept is based on an LDAP server (or simiar) as a replacement for > > the Packages file and on a P2P network for package distribution (see > > http://wyodesktop.sourceforge.net/index.php?page=pkgdist.ht

/sbin/halt always changes its access rights

2005-01-18 Thread Otto Wyss
I've set the s attrtibute of halt since on my desktop any user may stop the system. But about each second month or so it's set back to it's original rights probably by a package upgrade. Is there a way to keep the access rights or any better way to handle these kind of problems. O. Wyss -- Devel

Identical packages have different size/md5sum in stable/unstable (i.e. perspic-texts)

2000-08-21 Thread Wyss, Otto
Sorry, I don't know if this is the right group for this kind of message. I've discovered that serveral identical packages in stable and unstable does have different size/md5sum listed in the corresponding "Packages.gz" files. I.e. "perspic-texts_1.4.6.deb" in "binary-all/misc" on a debian mirror a

RFC: Changing the Packages files

2000-12-27 Thread Otto Wyss
With the introduction of the packages pool, I'm going to propose the following change to the Packages files: 1. The filename tells what the Packages files contains: Packages files should be independent of the their location, therefor the name has to reflect their contents, i.e. "Packages-$

Solving the compression dilema when rsync-ing Debian versions

2001-01-07 Thread Otto Wyss
It's commonly agreed that compression does prevent rsync from profit of older versions of packages when synchronizing Debian mirrors. All the discussion about fixing rsync to solve this, even trough a deb-plugin is IMHO not the right way. Rsync's task is to synchronize files without knowing what's

Re: Solving the compression dilema when rsync-ing Debian versions

2001-01-08 Thread Otto Wyss
>> So why not solve the compression problem at the root? Why not try to >> change the compression in a way so it does produce a compressed result >> with the same (or similar) difference rate as the source? > >Are you going to hack at *every* different kind of file format that you >might ever want

Re: Solving the compression dilema when rsync-ing Debian versions

2001-01-09 Thread Otto Wyss
> > gzip --compress-like=old-foo foo > > > > where foo will be compressed as old-foo was or as aquivalent as > > possible. Gzip does not need to know anything about foo except how it > > was compressed. The switch "--compress-like" could be added to any > > compression algorithmus (bzip?)

Re: Solving the compression dilema when rsync-ing Debian versions

2001-01-09 Thread Otto Wyss
> > gzip --compress-like=old-foo foo > > AFAIK thats NOT possible with gzip. Same with bzip2. > Why not. > I wish it where that simple. > I'm not saying it's simple, I'm saying it's possible. I'm not a compression speciallist but from the theory there is nothing which prevents this

Re: Solving the compression dilema when rsync-ing Debian versions

2001-01-10 Thread Otto Wyss
>>> > gzip --compress-like=old-foo foo > >gzip creates a dictionary (that gets realy large) of strings that are >used and encodes references to them. At the start the dictionary is >empty, so the first char is pretty much unencoded and inserted into >the dictionary. The next char is encoded usi

Re: A success story with apt and rsync

2003-07-31 Thread Otto Wyss
> From time to time the question arises on different forums whether it is > possible to efficiently use rsync with apt-get. Recently there has been a > thread here on debian-devel and it was also mentioned in Debian Weekly News > June 24th, 2003. However, I only saw different small parts of a huge

GCC for kernel compilation

2003-08-07 Thread Otto Wyss
I just upgraded to the current Sarge and also got GCC 3.3. It seems this version can't compile all the drivers in kernel 2.4.21. Which version should I use? And how do I set this version (Environment variable?) without deinstalling GCC 3.3? O. Wyss -- See "http://wxguide.sourceforge.net/"; for

Building kernel with framebuffer support (was: Re: GCC for kernel compilation)

2003-08-08 Thread Otto Wyss
I know I'm getting off topic but I don't know a better place to ask and this subject might be interesting of other developers as well. > On Fri, 8 Aug 2003 04:14, Otto Wyss wrote: > > I just upgraded to the current Sarge and also got GCC 3.3. It seems this > > vers

Bug#54138: Immense, gains, in germany.

2007-04-24 Thread Brice otto
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Bug#25837: It's Natalia. Hi It's Natalia. We can be friend.

2007-11-29 Thread jeffy otto
Hello My name is Natalia. how are you? I find your profile and e-mail on a site of acquaintances. I want to find the more friend and my love. If you is real are interested, answer to me and we can begin our acquaintance. A little about me. I was born 30 DEC 1979. I work as the manager in the insura

Re: Package libc6-dev depends on linux-kernel-headers

2003-11-03 Thread Otto Wyss
Sorry this message go to the poster instead of the list. > > > There have always been some kernel headers in libc6-dev, they've just > > > been split out into a separate package now. Several of these headers > > > are referenced by headers provided by glibc which would break those > > > headers i

Re: rename linux-kernel-headers to system-headers

2003-11-07 Thread Otto Wyss
> On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 10:45:32AM +, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 07:55:03PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote: > > > > > What not rename linux-kernel-headers to simple system-headers-linux? > > > This will prevent confused users (or: lazy to read the description users) > >

Library packages and their use

2003-11-10 Thread Otto Wyss
The discussion about the libc6-dev package and its headers let me to the impression that the Debian package structure isn't optimal for libraries. If anyone wants to build his own version of a package (i.e. libwxgtk2.4) he has to get all the dependent underlying dev packages as well. This is a long

Sarge-i386-1.iso via jigdo-lite

2003-11-10 Thread Otto Wyss
Currently there seems to be a problem with the Sarge-i386-1.jigdo file. I tried to build/download a new CD but it complains 57 files where missing. Even getting the .jigdo/.template files again or choosing another mirror didn't help. The script can only be stopped so I don't know how to proceed fur

Re: window manager recomendation

2003-11-13 Thread Otto Wyss
> Hello, > > Hoping this won't turn into a flame war, I am looking for > recommendations for a window manager. I tried quiet a few but none seem > to fit the bill yet. > I don't know if XFCE fits all your requirements but since it's not only a window manager but a light weight desktop I like it.

Installing kernel-image-2.4.22

2003-11-16 Thread Otto Wyss
I tried to upgrade the 2.2 kernel from Woody to 2.4.22 and installed kernel-image-2.4.22. During installation a large text but barely interpretable text about initrd.img is shown. Why can't the install make a fully correct lilo.conf by itself? Besides the text is wrong instead of "initrd=initrd.img

Howto reconfigure alsa-modules-2.4.22-1-k6

2003-11-17 Thread Otto Wyss
I've installed alsa-modules-2.4.22-1-k6 but made a mistake when selecting the driver. So I tried dpkg-reconfigure alsa-modules-2.4.22-1-k6 but this doesn't show the driver list again! Okay getting dselect out, purge the package and install it again. But now the list isn't shown either. How do

Re: Howto reconfigure alsa-modules-2.4.22-1-k6

2003-11-18 Thread Otto Wyss
> Otto Wyss dijo: > > dpkg-reconfigure alsa-modules-2.4.22-1-k6 > > > > but this doesn't show the driver list again! Okay getting dselect out, > > purge the package and install it again. But now the list isn't shown > > either. How do I get the dri

Re: Howto reconfigure alsa-modules-2.4.22-1-k6

2003-11-18 Thread Otto Wyss
> > depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in > > /lib/modules/2.4.22-1-k6/alsa/snd-pdaudiocf.o > > depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in > > /lib/modules/2.4.22-1-k6/alsa/snd-vx-cs.o > > depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in > > /lib/modules/2.4.22-1-k6/alsa/snd-vxp440.o > > depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in > >

Re: Porting Xconfigurator to Debian!

2002-12-05 Thread Otto Wyss
> Install discover, read-edid and mdetect before you install X, and you're > set. > mdetect hopefully doesn't choke on an USB-mouse anymore! O. Wyss

Re: Referring what kernel-images to build to the technical committee?

2001-04-27 Thread Otto Wyss
>In fact, most of the options could be auto-detected from >/proc/cpuinfo. > >It could also be useful as a hardware tester at install time: >"Would you like to test your hardware (and get a kernel custom >build for your hardware at the same time)? This process will >potentially take a long time."

Debian non-free mirror? Where are they?

2002-01-10 Thread Otto Wyss
I considered to include Debian non-free into my synchronisation scripts (see "http://dpartialmirror.sourceforge.net/";) but I couldn't find any mirror nor any information about. Where is non-free located? O. Wyss

Description to man pages

2002-04-03 Thread Otto Wyss
Since I hated to start dselect again and again just to read a package description I wrote a script "dsc2man" which creates appropriate man pages for each package. To minimize possible conflicts with other names it creates man pages in section 6 (games!). Of course this can be configured in the co

Re: Description to man pages

2002-04-04 Thread Otto Wyss
> dpkg -s > This doesn't show the package description! O. Wyss -- Author of "Debian partial mirror synch script" ("http://dpartialmirror.sourceforge.net/";) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Description to man pages

2002-04-04 Thread Otto Wyss
> > To minimize possible conflicts with other names it creates man pages in > > section 6 (games!). Of course this can be configured in the config file. > > I'd rather like to know which is a better place for it. > > Use a subsection. For instance, somepackage(1dsc) goes in > $(mandir)/man1/somepa

Re: Description to man pages

2002-04-04 Thread Otto Wyss
> Is it better than `apt-cache show foo` ? > No if you are a power user, otherwise yes. Beside not everbody has apt-cache installed. O. Wyss -- Author of "Debian partial mirror synch script" ("http://dpartialmirror.sourceforge.net/";) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a su

Re: Description to man pages

2002-04-06 Thread Otto Wyss
> On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 11:03:53PM +0200, Otto Wyss wrote: > > I've now choosen "7dsc" since packages aren't commands. > > How about something more descriptive than "dsc"? Say, "package", > "pkg", or "deb" (in my

Re: Rsyncable GZIP (was Re: Package metadata server)

2002-04-06 Thread Otto Wyss
> > Some questions that need to be asked: > > Howmany of our mirrors are rsyncable? > How much load can the servers handle? > How much more load does rsync do than a fast http server like tux? > Please show use any figures first before you assert this. I know rsync imposes some load for the compu

Re: Rsyncable GZIP (was Re: Package metadata server)

2002-04-07 Thread Otto Wyss
> A large mirror in Australia does provide an rsync server to access debian > packages. When redhat 7.0 came out so many people tried to rsync it at the > same time, the machine promptly fell over. > What amazes me is that nobody is able or willing to provide any figures. So I guess no provider o

Re: Description to man pages

2002-04-09 Thread Otto Wyss
> On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 10:01:16AM +0200, Otto Wyss wrote: > > The best would be if "man would bring up a list of man pages > > with a choose facility when more than one page exists. Maybe this change > > in behavior could be set through an environment variable.

Re: Debian's problems, Debian's future

2002-04-09 Thread Otto Wyss
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2001/debian-devel-200111/msg00757.html Thanks for this pointer. My debiansynch script never runs into problem "1. rsync -r" since it always does single file transfers. And for problem "2. rsync of near identical files" it's not astonishing using a high cpu l

Re: rsync and debian -- summary of issues

2002-04-12 Thread Otto Wyss
> > 3.1 Compressed files cannot be differenced > > I recall seeing some work done to determine how much savings you could > expect if you used xdeltas of the uncompressed data. This would be the > best result you could expect from gzip --rsyncable. I recall the numbers > were disapointing, it was

Re: rsync and debian -- summary of issues

2002-04-13 Thread Otto Wyss
> > http://rsync.samba.org/rsync-and-debian/ > > > > I'd appreciate comments. > This is certainly a very informative page. I'd appreciate if the CPU load problem could be solved somehow. IMO the versioning patch from Paul Russell is not the right approach since this is Debian specific and has

Rsync and single file transfer

2002-04-13 Thread Otto Wyss
Most of the scripts/methods I've seen which downloads Debian packages with rsync do only single file transfer. IMO this must be much more server friendly than a multi file transfer (no filelist). Is it possible run a rsync server with anonymous login but restricted to single file transfer next to

Packages still in Potato

2002-04-17 Thread Otto Wyss
IMO each package should at least once per release upload a status report. Also there was ample time for the transition of each package to the pool. These are the reason behind the mailing to each maintainer of packages still in Potato. While most of the answers I got were positive, there were some

Re: Bug#745135: RFS: mariadb-10.0/10.0.10-1 [ITP] -- Latest version of worlds most popular non-Oracle database

2014-07-30 Thread Otto Kekäläinen
Thanks for your interest in the package. I am the submitter and I haven't gotten any feedback so far on the package, so I assume it is simply waiting for somebody to have time to review it. It is almost identical to the current mariadb-5.5 package in Debian, so there shouldn't be any actual issues

Re: [debian-mysql] Will we see MariaDB in Jessie?

2013-05-06 Thread Otto Kekäläinen
Hello, 2013/5/6 Thomas Goirand : > I wonder what the plans of the MySQL maintainers are concerning MySQL vs > MariaDB. Famously, Fedora made the switch. What will happen in Debian? > What kind of transition would this mean? Would it be a drop-in > replacement like Monty is pretending, or would it

Re: [debian-mysql] Will we see MariaDB in Jessie?

2013-05-06 Thread Otto Kekäläinen
2013/5/6 Steven Ayre : > Having a policy on how such packages can coexist could then allow > other options to also be added cleanly (MySQL Cluster, Percona, Galera > etc). I've done my best to package MariaDB following best practices on Debian control files and conflict/replace rules. So I am conf

Re: Bug#732878: Add MariaDB as an alternative dependency

2013-12-26 Thread Otto Kekäläinen
2013/12/25 Thomas Goirand : > Don't you think it would be more reasonable if the mariadb-client > contained a Provides: mysql-client, rather than changing each and every > software dependency in Debian? Currently the package contains "Provides: virtual-mysql-server" but I guess this needs to be re

Re: Bug#732878: Add MariaDB as an alternative dependency

2013-12-30 Thread Otto Kekäläinen
Hello, 2013/12/25 Thomas Goirand : > Don't you think it would be more reasonable if the mariadb-client > contained a Provides: mysql-client, rather than changing each and every > software dependency in Debian? > > Adding debian-devel@, as I think it should be discussed more broadly. We discussed

Re: Bug#732878: Add MariaDB as an alternative dependency

2014-01-17 Thread Otto Kekäläinen
2013/12/30 Otto Kekäläinen : > We discussed this on the pkg-maint-mysql list and the recommended policy is > now: > > All packages that at the moment depend directly on mysql-client should > instead have something like: > > Depends: the-one-they-tested-with | virtual-mysql-

Re: The future of MariaDB

2015-05-10 Thread Otto Kekäläinen
omes from the mariadb-10.0 source package is a drop-in replacement, and I am glad to help with any issues you have regarding those packages. Regards, Otto -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contac

Re: Debian CI pipeline for Developers

2018-11-10 Thread Otto Kekäläinen
y MariaDB repos at https://salsa.debian.org/mariadb-team since August, and it has been great. I have also got Merge Requests on Salsa where the contributor has used the same CI test as well. I warmly recommend everybody to adopt this in their workflow! - Otto

Help request: Contribute to MariaDB 10.3 in Debian efforts

2019-01-03 Thread Otto Kekäläinen
are a few ones tagged newcomer friendly as well! Build status in Debian (for porters!): https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=mariadb-10.3 Please pick something that is close to your expertise and help out if you can! :) - Otto -- News about my work at https://twitter.com/ottokekalainen

Re: Help request: Contribute to MariaDB 10.3 in Debian efforts

2019-03-04 Thread Otto Kekäläinen
Hello fellow Debian Developers and those who want to be one! MariaDB is a big package and it needs help. I've updated the list of newcomer friendly bugs in mariadb-10.3:https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?repeatmerged=no&src=mariadb-10.3 Perfect for anybody who wants to learn Debian pa

Seeking hardening flag / blhc expoert

2019-04-05 Thread Otto Kekäläinen
Hello! Is there any hardening flag / cmake expert around who could help me get the hardening flags perfect in MariaDB 10.3? Current state of build logs issues: https://qa.debian.org/bls/packages/m/mariadb-10.3.html The blhc tool currently outputs this: $ blhc --debian --line-numbers --color ${W

Re: Seeking hardening flag / blhc expoert

2019-04-05 Thread Otto Kekäläinen
Hello! > > Is there any hardening flag / cmake expert around who could help me > > get the hardening flags perfect in MariaDB 10.3? > Start with https://wiki.debian.org/Hardening#Notes_for_packages_using_CMake I've read this section many times over but I don't get it. A workaround is presented bu

Re: Seeking hardening flag / blhc expoert

2019-04-05 Thread Otto Kekäläinen
So apparently the 'D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2' is in CPPFLAGS (not read by cmake) but not in CXXFLAGS (read by cmake)[1]. So maybe I should define? CXXFLAGS=$(CXXFLAGS) $(CPPFLAGS) This is the current state of mysqld, should I be happy with this or is it relevant that all functions are protected? harden

Re: Seeking hardening flag / blhc expoert

2019-04-08 Thread Otto Kekäläinen
Hello! Thanks everybody for the pointers. I fixed it now with: Subject: [PATCH] Ensure cmake builds also apply CPPFLAGS flags for hardening to fully work --- debian/rules | 5 + 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules index 3a16f8bfa..2e7536b9c 100755 ---

Re: lintian.debian.org off ?

2023-09-24 Thread Otto Kekäläinen
> > > Host lintian.debian.org not found: 3(NXDOMAIN) > > > > > > is this expected ? > > > > Yes, it is replaced by the UDD interface: > > > > https://wiki.debian.org/Services/lintian.debian.org > > https://udd.debian.org/lintian/ Could we please have a HTTP 301 redirect from lintian.debian.org to

Salsa-CI featured on GitLab.com blog

2023-09-24 Thread Otto Kekäläinen
being the main drivers of https://salsa.debian.org/salsa-ci-team/pipeline since 2018. - Otto

Re: lintian.debian.org off ?

2023-09-25 Thread Otto Kekäläinen
> > > > Host lintian.debian.org not found: 3(NXDOMAIN) > > > > > > > > is this expected ? > > > > > > Yes, it is replaced by the UDD interface: > > > > > > https://wiki.debian.org/Services/lintian.debian.org The page above links to two bug reports but I can't find any actual information about *why

Re: lintian.debian.org off ?

2023-09-26 Thread Otto Kekäläinen
a URL to share to them. Perhaps I could implement that later in the year. - Otto

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