Re: Metapackage dependencies: "Depends" or "Recommends"?

On Sat, 01 Aug 2015 08:55:03 +1000, Russell Stuart wrote: >For my servers it's different. The inherent ambiguity of Debian >dependency system that libapt tries hide becomes intolerable, meaning I >don't want something to just choose between the possibilities on my >behalf, I want to be informed s

Re: Metapackage dependencies: "Depends" or "Recommends"?

On Thu, 2015-07-30 at 08:57 +0200, David Kalnischkies wrote: > This example makes it quite obvious that your requirements are "keep > a minimal set of packages installed" while the requirement of libapt's > autoremove is "suggest only packages for removal which are completely > safe to remove". If

Bug#794279: ITP: r-bioc-genefilter -- methods for filtering genes from microarray experiments

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andreas Tille * Package name: r-bioc-genefilter Version : 1.50.0 Upstream Author : R. Gentleman, V. Carey, W. Huber, F. Hahne * URL : http://bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/genefilter.html * License : Artisti

Bug#794251: ITP: mycli -- CLI for MySQL/MariaDB with syntax highlighting and completion

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Lennart Weller * Package name: mycli Version : 1.0.1 Upstream Author : Amjith Ramanujam * URL : http://mycli.net * License : BSD-3-clause Programming Lang: Python Description : CLI for MySQL/MariaDB with syntax h

Bug#794250: ITP: pgcli -- CLI for PostgreSQL with syntax highlighting and completion

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Lennart Weller * Package name: pgcli Version : 0.18.0 Upstream Author : Amjith Ramanujam * URL : http://pgcli.com/ * License : BSD-3-clause Programming Lang: Python Description : CLI for PostgreSQL with syntax hi

Bug#794245: ITP: fonts-monoid -- open source coding font with bitmap-like sharpness

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Vasudev Kamath * Package name: fonts-monoid Version : 0.60 Upstream Author : Andreas Larsen * URL : http://larsenwork.com/monoid/ * License : MIT/OFL 1.1 Programming Lang: font Description : open source coding fon

Re: Ad-hoc survey of existing Debian git integration tools

Ian Jackson writes ("Ad-hoc survey of existing Debian git integration tools"): > I would like to think some more about the workflows of the existing > tools people are using to work with Debian and git, so that I can > provide good guidance for how these tools work with dgit (and perhaps > send fea

Re: Ad-hoc survey of existing Debian git integration tools

Guido Günther writes: > Having patches applied with 3.0(quilt) calls out for sync problems > between your git tree and debian/patches/. This can be mitigated with > --single-debian-patch --auto-commit but that's not what most people mean > when talking about 3.0(quilt) - and it kind of defeats it's

Re: Metapackage dependencies: "Depends" or "Recommends"?

* Neil Williams [150729 03:30]: > I'd still use Depends in the metapackage. e.g. foo-server has lots of > strict dependencies without which is simply won't install or start. > foo-client has less dependencies and a few Recommends because the > client can work for a range of usecases and not everyo

Bug#794211: ITP: libmemory-usage-perl -- Determine actual memory usage of Perl programs

Package: wnpp Owner: intrigeri Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libmemory-usage-perl Version : 0.201 Upstream Author : Dave O'Neill * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/Memory-Usage * License

Re: Ad-hoc survey of existing Debian git integration tools

Hi Ian, On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 03:51:59PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: [..snip..] > I don't think the number of git-based workflows is going to decrease. > I'm hoping (betting!) that the proportion of packages whose git > maintainers' git workflows involve strange[1] git trees will go down. > > [1]