Re: debian github organization ?

2015-04-18 Thread Neil Williams
On Sat, 18 Apr 2015 06:03:12 +1000 Ben Finney wrote: > Paul Tagliamonte writes: > > > So, yes, it's nonfree. Yes, it's controlled by DDs. No, I don't > > think this should be the Vcs-Git: target. No, I don't think we > > should endorse GitHub. Yes, we need free tools. Yes, we should > > contrib

Re: debian github organization ?

2015-04-18 Thread Neil Williams
On Sat, 18 Apr 2015 00:01:29 +0100 Steve McIntyre wrote: > Ben Finney wrote: > >Paul Tagliamonte writes: > > > >> So, yes, it's nonfree. Yes, it's controlled by DDs. No, I don't > >> think this should be the Vcs-Git: target. No, I don't think we > >> should endorse GitHub. Yes, we need free tool

GitHub “pull request” is proprietary, incompatible with Git ‘request-pull’ (was: debian github organization ?)

2015-04-18 Thread Ben Finney
Russ Allbery writes: > Ben Finney writes: > > Yet it is exactly those lock-in features that is the basis for > > arguments to put special effort into the centralised single point of > > failure. > > > For example, the centralised proprietary GitHub “pull request” is > > presented as a reason to

Bug#782804: ITP: ssr -- Simple Screen Recorder

2015-04-18 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz * Package name: ssr Version : 0.3.3 Upstream Author : Maarten Baert * URL : http://www.maartenbaert.be/simplescreenrecorder/ * License : GPL-3 Programming Lang: C, C++, Shell script Descript

Re: debian github organization ?

2015-04-18 Thread Neil Williams
On Sat, 18 Apr 2015 11:44:34 +1000 Ben Finney wrote: > Russ Allbery writes: > > > Steve McIntyre writes: > > > Agreed - it's really annoying to see everybody clamour for a > > > centralised single point of of failure for git hosting. :-( > > > > Funny, this is why I don't get why people are so

Re: GitHub “pull request” is useful and can be easily integrated'’ (was: debian github organization ?)

2015-04-18 Thread Neil Williams
On Sat, 18 Apr 2015 17:55:17 +1000 Ben Finney wrote: > Russ Allbery writes: > > > Ben Finney writes: > > GitHub's pull request feature is proprietary to GitHub, it can only > work between repositories hosted inside the GitHub silo, and any > project using that feature is thereby locking its w

Bug#782749: general: All browsers except Links2 crash constantly and iceweasel is broken

2015-04-18 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 6:18 PM, Dominik George wrote: > iceweasel is a bit outdated, but existent in wheezy for sparc; Chromium > is not existent for sparc, which cannot be called „broken“. In addition, Debian jessie (to be released next weekend) does not support sparc and the new sparc64 port w

Re: MBF: build Python 3 modules for packages that support it upstream

2015-04-18 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Paul Tagliamonte , 2015-04-17, 20:07: faulthandler This one is is part of stdlib since Python 3.3. cython Already packaged as "cython3". -- Jakub Wilk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@list

Re: debian github organization ?

2015-04-18 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Apr 18, 2015 at 3:50 PM, Neil Williams wrote: > git won the DVCS argument a long time ago. github won the DVCS UI > argument a long time ago - it is clearly the one UI that the > largest number of git contributors actually want to use. Are there any good DFSG-free desktop UIs for git? --

Re: debian github organization ?

2015-04-18 Thread Jérémy Lal
2015-04-18 12:04 GMT+02:00 Paul Wise : > On Sat, Apr 18, 2015 at 3:50 PM, Neil Williams wrote: > > > git won the DVCS argument a long time ago. github won the DVCS UI > > argument a long time ago - it is clearly the one UI that the > > largest number of git contributors actually want to use. > > A

Re: debian github organization ?

2015-04-18 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
On Sat, 18 Apr 2015 12:07:22 Jérémy Lal wrote: > > Are there any good DFSG-free desktop UIs for git? > > gitg is quite good for simple tasks. 0.2.7 is still good but unfortunately upstream ruined newer versions... :( -- Cheers, Dmitry Smirnov. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally s

Re: debian github organization ?

2015-04-18 Thread Jérémy Lal
2015-04-18 12:16 GMT+02:00 Dmitry Smirnov : > On Sat, 18 Apr 2015 12:07:22 Jérémy Lal wrote: > > > Are there any good DFSG-free desktop UIs for git? > > > > gitg is quite good for simple tasks. > > 0.2.7 is still good but unfortunately upstream ruined newer versions... :( I guess it's a matter o

Re: debian github organization ?

2015-04-18 Thread Neil Williams
On Sat, 18 Apr 2015 18:04:40 +0800 Paul Wise wrote: > On Sat, Apr 18, 2015 at 3:50 PM, Neil Williams wrote: > > > git won the DVCS argument a long time ago. github won the DVCS UI > > argument a long time ago - it is clearly the one UI that the > > largest number of git contributors actually wan

Re: debian github organization ?

2015-04-18 Thread Zlatan Todoric
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 04/18/2015 01:09 PM, Neil Williams wrote: > On Sat, 18 Apr 2015 18:04:40 +0800 Paul Wise > wrote: > >> On Sat, Apr 18, 2015 at 3:50 PM, Neil Williams wrote: >> >>> git won the DVCS argument a long time ago. github won the DVCS >>> UI argument

Re: GitHub “pull request” is proprietary, incompatible with Git ‘request-pull’ (was: debian github organization ?)

2015-04-18 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Sat, Apr 18, 2015 at 05:55:17PM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > > Sometimes I wonder if people think free software is so fragile that if > > anyone who works on it ever touches non-free software, everything we > > built will crumble. I think our community and ecosystem is a lot more > > robust than t

Re: [py3porters-devel] MBF: build Python 3 modules for packages that support it upstream

2015-04-18 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Sat, Apr 18, 2015 at 10:38:10AM +0200, Jakub Wilk wrote: > * Paul Tagliamonte , 2015-04-17, 20:07: > > faulthandler > > This one is is part of stdlib since Python 3.3. > > > cython > > Already packaged as "cython3". Perfect, thanks jwilk! I'll remove those from the list :) (I actually kne

Re: MBF: build Python 3 modules for packages that support it upstream

2015-04-18 Thread Mathias Behrle
* Paul Tagliamonte: " Re: MBF: build Python 3 modules for packages that support it upstream" (Fri, 17 Apr 2015 20:07:38 -0400): > On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 06:50:11PM -0400, Paul Tagliamonte wrote: > > Severity will be wishlist. Target is the next release / sid after Jessie > > release. > > > Dr

Re: Bits from the dpkg project: 1.17.x series, general news

2015-04-18 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, this: Am Samstag, den 18.04.2015, 21:27 +0200 schrieb Guillem Jover: > * Add support for versioned Provides [!]: > - Packages can provide a specific version, “virtual (= 1.0)” which will > be honored, previously it would just be accepted when parsing. > - Non-versioned virtual packag

dose3 support for versioned provides (was: Re: Bits from the dpkg project: 1.17.x series, general news)

2015-04-18 Thread Johannes Schauer
Hi, Quoting Joachim Breitner (2015-04-18 22:24:20) > is great. I assume that support for this needs to be added to more tools > and infrastructure. Any estimate as to when can we start using this > feature in packages uploaded to Debian unstable? for source packages that require versioned virtual

Re: GitHub “pull request” is proprietary, incompatible with Git ‘request-pull’ (was: debian github organization ?)

2015-04-18 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Apr 18, 2015 at 10:04 PM, Paul Tagliamonte wrote: > Everyone's willing to make tradeoffs on our freedom. It's what tradeoffs > we make, that's the question. To those of you who are willing to use github for Debian related things, it would be great if you could: Mirror the repositories to

Re: debian github organization ?

2015-04-18 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, 2015-04-18 at 12:07 +0200, Jérémy Lal wrote: > gitg is quite good for simple tasks. I'm guessing it isn't good enough to be a replacement for the github web UI though and that there is no equivalent free software desktop UI. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise signature.a