Re: Bug#699411: ITP: python-statsdpy -- event based statsd implementation

2013-01-30 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 01/31/2013 02:45 PM, Thomas Goirand wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Thomas Goirand > > * Package name: python-statsdpy > Version : 0.0.10 > Upstream Author : Florian Hines > * URL : https://github.com/pandemicsyn/statsdpy > * License : P

Bug#699411: ITP: python-statsdpy -- event based statsd implementation

2013-01-30 Thread Thomas Goirand
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Thomas Goirand * Package name: python-statsdpy Version : 0.0.10 Upstream Author : Florian Hines * URL : https://github.com/pandemicsyn/statsdpy * License : Presumably Apache-2 (currently checking with upstream) Program

Re: Go (golang) packaging, part 2

2013-01-30 Thread Jean-Christophe Dubacq
On 30/01/2013 22:23, Игорь Пашев wrote: > 2013/1/30 Marc Haber : >> On Wed, 30 Jan 2013 16:25:12 +, Steve McIntyre >> wrote: >>> To be fair, it's similar in reverse. Some Debian developers prefer to >>> _not_ install Ruby *at all*. Given how utterly awful the internals of >>> the language impl

Re: Ruby community and Debian

2013-01-30 Thread Antonio Terceiro
On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 09:21:08PM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > Marc Haber zugschlus.de> writes: > > > In my past experience it is the usual case where and upstream and/or > > its community takes at as a personal offense when a user is not using > > the latest and greatest software version[1]

bash readline

2013-01-30 Thread Jack Andrews
hi dd, i really like the readline in bash - it seems bash is "vi complete" in vi mode. now, i haven't looked closely, but i think the good vi mode is a patch on (bash?) readline in debian? in centos, i can't "df;" and delete up to next semicolon. but on ubu^H^H^Hdebian, rlwrap uses the vanilla r

Bug#699403: ITP: xorg-gtest -- X.Org dummy testing environment for Google Test

2013-01-30 Thread Stephen M. Webb
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Stephen M. Webb" -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 * Package name: xorg-gtest Version : 0.7.0 Upstream Author : Peter Hutterer * URL : http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/test/xorg-gtest/ * License : MIT/X

Re: Go (golang) packaging, part 2

2013-01-30 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On 31/01/2013 05:16, Thorsten Glaser wrote: >> On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 11:15 AM, Chow Loong Jin wrote: >> > >>> > > Having multiple package managers which don't know about each other on a > system >>> > > is evil™ (but in some cases, can be managed properly). > Meh, it’s evil, period. > Well, r

Re: Go (golang) packaging, part 2

2013-01-30 Thread Russ Allbery
"Lennart Sorensen" writes: > Absolutely. As a user I have a nice package management system that I > know how to use and which works well. I don't need another one. > It is not the job of a language developer to invent yet another bloody > package distribution and installation system. Just bec

Re: Go (golang) packaging, part 2

2013-01-30 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 09:16:59PM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > Meh, it’s evil, period. Absolutely. As a user I have a nice package management system that I know how to use and which works well. I don't need another one. It is not the job of a language developer to invent yet another bloody

Re: Bug#698656: ITP: adequate -- Debian package quality testing tool

2013-01-30 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Jakub Wilk , 2013-01-21, 22:17: adequate checks quality of installed packages. can it be used on chroots without being installed in the chroot? like adequate --root=/some/chroot mypkg You can't do that currently, and I'm afraid it won't be easy to implement. adequate 0.4 has the --root

Re: Go (golang) packaging, part 2

2013-01-30 Thread Игорь Пашев
2013/1/30 Marc Haber : > On Wed, 30 Jan 2013 16:25:12 +, Steve McIntyre > wrote: >>To be fair, it's similar in reverse. Some Debian developers prefer to >>_not_ install Ruby *at all*. Given how utterly awful the internals of >>the language implementation are, I'd happily support dropping Ruby

Re: Issue 9 (golang) packaging, part 2

2013-01-30 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Russ Allbery debian.org> writes: > Do you think there's something substantial missing from the existing > Debian packaging of Perl modules? I'm quite happy with what Debian is (Oops. Forgot to fix a spelling mistake in the Subject in my first reply. It’s not Go!) (Hello GMane, no I was *not* to

Re: Go (golang) packaging, part 2

2013-01-30 Thread Russ Allbery
Thorsten Glaser writes: > My co-developer (on the MirBSD side) benz has written a script that > almost automates creation of a port (source package) from/for a CPAN: > http://www.slideshare.net/bsiegert/painless-perl-ports-with-cpan2port > (It looks even MacPorts has adopted it!) > Of course, it

Re: Ruby community and Debian

2013-01-30 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Marc Haber zugschlus.de> writes: > In my past experience it is the usual case where and upstream and/or > its community takes at as a personal offense when a user is not using > the latest and greatest software version[1] and does not understand I think the Ruby case involved more: “What, you’r

Re: Go (golang) packaging, part 2

2013-01-30 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Paul Wise debian.org> writes: > On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 11:15 AM, Chow Loong Jin wrote: > > > Having multiple package managers which don't know about each other on a system > > is evil™ (but in some cases, can be managed properly). Meh, it’s evil, period. > Some integration between dpkg and d

Re: Go (golang) packaging, part 2

2013-01-30 Thread Marc Haber
On Wed, 30 Jan 2013 16:25:12 +, Steve McIntyre wrote: >To be fair, it's similar in reverse. Some Debian developers prefer to >_not_ install Ruby *at all*. Given how utterly awful the internals of >the language implementation are, I'd happily support dropping Ruby >from Debian altogether. Maybe

Re: Bootstrappable Debian - proposal of needed changes

2013-01-30 Thread Wookey
+++ Ian Jackson [2013-01-16 13:50 +]: > * The concrete syntax in build-depends should not use < > but rather >reuse the architecture qualification syntax. I have just been told of a specific reason to avoid using '< >' : DEP-11 proposes to use '< >' for Component metadata in binary packa

Re: Bootstrappable Debian - proposal of needed changes

2013-01-30 Thread Wookey
+++ Michael Biebl [2013-01-25 15:31 +0100]: > Hi, > > looking over your proposal, I was missing a few things (sorry if this > was mentioned in one of the replies, I've only skimmed over the thread). > > a/ It's good practice to explicitly enable/disable features via > configure switches, to have

Re: Go (golang) packaging, part 2

2013-01-30 Thread Steve McIntyre
Marcelo wrote: > > This situation gets so messy, that some Ruby developers prefer > to _not_ install ruby via dpkg at all. And they get mad when > something in the dependency chain pulls Ruby into the system. To be fair, it's similar in reverse. Some Debian developers prefer to _not_ install Ruby

Re: HBA QLogic en Debian

2013-01-30 Thread Tony Peña
tranquilo.. metele sin lio esta en el non-free aqui se usa . es el paquete firmware-qlogic saludos El 30 de enero de 2013 10:42, andres cespedes escribió: > Buenos días a tod@s, > > Quisiera consultar con todos ustedes si alguno ha llegado a implementar > Tarjetas HBA QLogic en Debian Stabl

Fwd: HBA QLogic en Debian

2013-01-30 Thread Tony Peña
tranquilo.. metele sin lio esta en el non-free aqui se usa . es el paquete firmware-qlogic saludos El 30 de enero de 2013 10:42, andres cespedes escribió: Buenos días a tod@s, > > Quisiera consultar con todos ustedes si alguno ha llegado a implementar > Tarjetas HBA QLogic en Debian Stable

Re: Go (golang) packaging, part 2

2013-01-30 Thread Michael Stapelberg
Hi Hilko, Hilko Bengen writes: > I drew a different conclusion from Ian's messages the thread you > mentioned (see the quotes below). Apparently, one *can* build shared > libraries using gccgo, but they are not currently usable using dlopen(). > My impression was that this means that regular use

Bug#699347: ITP: stdsyslog -- tool to log a program's output to the system log

2013-01-30 Thread Peter Pentchev
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Peter Pentchev * Package name: stdsyslog Version : 0.02 Upstream Author : Peter Pentchev * URL : http://devel.ringlet.net/sysutils/stdsyslog/ * License : BSD-2 Programming Lang: C Description : tool to log a prog

Ruby community and Debian (was: Go (golang) packaging, part 2)

2013-01-30 Thread Marc Haber
On Tue, 29 Jan 2013 22:57:03 +0100, Michael Stapelberg wrote: >Wouter Verhelst writes: >> "consistency across multiple platforms" has been claimed as a benefit >> for allowing "gem update --system" to replace half of the ruby binary >> package, amongst other things. It wasn't a good argument then

Re: Go (golang) packaging, part 2

2013-01-30 Thread Hilko Bengen
* Wouter Verhelst: > On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 08:25:38AM +0100, Michael Stapelberg wrote: >> Hi Hilko, >> >> Hilko Bengen writes: >> > This is a pity for those of us who don't really subscribe to "get >> > everything from github as needed" model of distributing software. >> Yes, but at the same t

Re: Go (golang) packaging, part 2

2013-01-30 Thread Hilko Bengen
* Michael Stapelberg: > Hilko Bengen writes: >> This is a pity for those of us who don't really subscribe to "get >> everything from github as needed" model of distributing software. > Yes, but at the same time, it makes Go much more consistent across > multiple platforms. Apparently, upstream's

Re: Go (golang) packaging, part 2

2013-01-30 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 09:22:12AM +0100, Michael Stapelberg wrote: > > 3. Software packages from Apt cannot declare dependencies against > > language-specific packages, for the same reasons highlighted in > > #1. > Irrelevant argument in our case, as outlined earlier in the > discussion.

Re: Go (golang) packaging, part 2

2013-01-30 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 8:07 PM, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 04:52:33PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: >> On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 7:55 PM, Iustin Pop wrote: >> > So, take this as an example of another language which doesn't do shared >> > linking but for which libraries are still p

Re: Go (golang) packaging, part 2

2013-01-30 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 04:52:33PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 7:55 PM, Iustin Pop wrote: > > So, take this as an example of another language which doesn't do shared > > linking but for which libraries are still packaged in Debian. FWIW, OCaml is another such example. > Do a

Re: No native packages?

2013-01-30 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 01/30/2013 04:38 PM, Ian Campbell wrote: > Also, I wonder if it is possible to arrange that having unpacked a git > format source package that the remotes for debian and upstream are > already prepopulated in the repo such that "git remotes update" would > fetch all of the missing history withou

Haskell and Built-Using (Was: Go (golang) packaging, part 2)

2013-01-30 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, Am Mittwoch, den 30.01.2013, 16:52 +0800 schrieb Paul Wise: > On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 7:55 PM, Iustin Pop wrote: > > I would add one thing here: Haskell/GHC also (currently) doesn't create > > shared libraries, and instead builds the program statically, but the > > Debian Haskell group still t

Re: Go (golang) packaging, part 2

2013-01-30 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Michael Stapelberg > I am not familiar with the Ruby situation, I only know that many Ruby > developers seem to be very angry at Debian people. Is there a summary of > the events that I could read? Debian's rubygems package installed gems to a directory not in $PATH, meaning most documentatio

Re: No native packages?

2013-01-30 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 01/28/2013 08:59 PM, Gergely Nagy wrote: > In my opinion, a native package is the wrong choice when your only > arguments for it is convenience. > > That's not a strong argument To the contrary, I think that convenience of one or another format is the *only* argument. What you've listed as

Re: No native packages?

2013-01-30 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 01/29/2013 08:29 AM, Russ Allbery wrote: > Benjamin Drung writes: > >> Other distributions gain from your extra work. Image the opposite. You >> want to package a software that is only available in a downstream >> distribution (e.g. Ubuntu or Linux Mint). Do you prefer to have a >> non-native f

Re: Go (golang) packaging, part 2

2013-01-30 Thread Thibaut Paumard
Le 30/01/2013 09:55, Paul Wise a écrit : > On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 11:15 AM, Chow Loong Jin wrote: > >> Having multiple package managers which don't know about each other on a >> system >> is evil™ (but in some cases, can be managed properly). > > Some integration between dpkg and domain-specifi

Re: Go (golang) packaging, part 2

2013-01-30 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 11:15 AM, Chow Loong Jin wrote: > Having multiple package managers which don't know about each other on a system > is evil™ (but in some cases, can be managed properly). Some integration between dpkg and domain-specific package managers could be useful. With DEP-11, we cou

Re: Go (golang) packaging, part 2

2013-01-30 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 7:55 PM, Iustin Pop wrote: > I would add one thing here: Haskell/GHC also (currently) doesn't create > shared libraries, and instead builds the program statically, but the > Debian Haskell group still tries to package as best as they can the > development libraries, for all

Re: No native packages?

2013-01-30 Thread Ian Campbell
On Wed, 2013-01-30 at 17:58 +1100, Joey Hess wrote: > Julien Cristau wrote: > > > Maybe I forgot the answer, but at least in terms of git and the dpkg > > > 3.0 (git) format, why can't we simply make use of shallow cloning? > > > > At which point you have lost all the advantages of shipping the >

Re: Go (golang) packaging, part 2

2013-01-30 Thread Michael Stapelberg
Hi Chow, Chow Loong Jin writes: > 1. If software that depends on native packages is installed using "go get" > or whatever other language-specific package manager, e.g. pip for Python > or > gem for Ruby is installed, there is no way to declare a dependency on > those. For example,