Re: Making Debian ports less burdensome

2016-02-26 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 8:04 AM, Steven Chamberlain wrote: > As far as the dashboard goes, I've started out with: > https://kfreebsd.eu/dashboards/ports/ Seems like that should be moved here: https://buildd.debian.org/status/ > I want to add pages per-arch that list the packages that FTBFS, Al

Re: Making Debian ports less burdensome

2016-02-26 Thread Paul Wise
Some thoughts after reading the thread: I would have thought porters would be following the buildd/piuparts/CI pages for their port (where available) and thus would not need to be notified about arch-specific FTBFS or testing issues. If porters are relying on package maintainers or some automation

RE: Debian package on Windows

2016-02-26 Thread Eric Mittelette
Thanks you for your response, much appreciated Very useful information we are going to digest... eric From: Josh Max [mailto:joshu...@hotmail.com] Sent: Monday, February 22, 2016 11:38 AM To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Cc: Eric Mittelette ; j...@debian.org Subject: RE: Debian package on Window

RE: Debian package on Windows

2016-02-26 Thread Eric Mittelette
Thanks you very much for your response, that make sense... let us refine our thinking on that Keep you posted eric -Original Message- From: paul.is.w...@gmail.com [mailto:paul.is.w...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Paul Wise Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2016 4:20 AM To: debian-devel@lists.debi

Re: Making Debian ports less burdensome

2016-02-26 Thread Steven Chamberlain
Steven Chamberlain wrote: > I envisage some kind of a scoreboard, graphs, or those weather symbols > we all love to see. As far as the dashboard goes, I've started out with: https://kfreebsd.eu/dashboards/ports/ I want to add pages per-arch that list the packages that FTBFS, one-per-line, showing

RE: Debian package on Windows

2016-02-26 Thread Eric Mittelette
Hi Simon, Thanks you very much for your comments and information. We are digesting it and will come back later on these eric -Original Message- From: Simon Richter [mailto:s...@debian.org] Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2016 9:27 AM To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org; Eric Mittelette Subj

Re: Making Debian ports less burdensome

2016-02-26 Thread Steven Chamberlain
Ian Jackson wrote: > Sorry to be discouraging, but I don't think this is the right > approach. That's ok, I'm happy to be talked out of the auto-removals part. > [...] I definitely don't want to see us routinely dropping packages > from an arch, without anyone having taken a decision about whethe

Re: Making Debian ports less burdensome

2016-02-26 Thread Bas Wijnen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 09:02:48PM +, Steven Chamberlain wrote: > > Removing the package from the breaking port is an option, and it > > should be easy to trigger, but it should not be automatic. If we make > > the process easy and the mainta

Re: How to deal with "assets" packages shadowing real upstream

2016-02-26 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Hi Antonio, Quoting Antonio Terceiro (2016-02-26 21:47:03) > On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 07:59:29PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: >> Do we favor tracking the true upstreams when packaging for Debian? >> >> Concretely I need¹ a javascript library for server-side use, but the >> maintainer considers i

Re: Making Debian ports less burdensome

2016-02-26 Thread Ian Jackson
Steven Chamberlain writes ("Re: Making Debian ports less burdensome"): > I think the testing autoremoval thing started out the same way, it > merely reported long-standing RC bugs, but removal was manual in the > beginning. > > Okay, perhaps I should start working on: > > * A report of out-of-d

Bug#816038: ITP: mapbox-variant -- Alternative to boost::variant for C++11

2016-02-26 Thread Bas Couwenberg
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Bas Couwenberg * Package name: mapbox-variant Version : 1.1.0 Upstream Author : MapBox (https://github.com/mapbox/variant/issues) * URL : https://github.com/mapbox/variant * License : BSD-3-Clause Programming Lang: C++

Bug#816036: ITP: git-arr -- git repository browser that can generate static HTML

2016-02-26 Thread Jeremías Casteglione
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Jeremías Casteglione" * Package name: git-arr Version : 0.14 Upstream Author : Alberto Bertogli * URL : http://blitiri.com.ar/p/git-arr/ * License : MIT Programming Lang: Python Description : git repository brows

Re: Making Debian ports less burdensome

2016-02-26 Thread Steven Chamberlain
Hi, Bas Wijnen: > Removing the package from the breaking port is an option, and it > should be easy to trigger, but it should not be automatic. If we make > the process easy and the maintainer doesn't do it (and also doesn't > fix the bug), I think it is reasonable to auto-remove the package from

Re: How to deal with "assets" packages shadowing real upstream

2016-02-26 Thread Antonio Terceiro
On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 07:59:29PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Hi, > > Do we favor tracking the true upstreams when packaging for Debian? > > Concretely I need¹ a javascript library for server-side use, but the > maintainer considers it adequate² to package that project only > browser-opti

Re: How to deal with "assets" packages shadowing real upstream

2016-02-26 Thread Bas Wijnen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 07:59:29PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Do we favor tracking the true upstreams when packaging for Debian? There was some discussion about this on the list recently, but this is a question that didn't really come up, A

How to deal with "assets" packages shadowing real upstream

2016-02-26 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Hi, Do we favor tracking the true upstreams when packaging for Debian? Concretely I need¹ a javascript library for server-side use, but the maintainer considers it adequate² to package that project only browser-optimized. I personally feel it is a bug to not track the true upstream of a proje

Re: Making Debian ports less burdensome

2016-02-26 Thread Bas Wijnen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I like your suggestions in general, but am a bit worried about the results of this: On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 05:41:57PM +, Steven Chamberlain wrote: > * If left unfixed, the bugs should trigger an auto-removal from > unstable so that the

Bug#816005: ITP: python-positional -- enforce positional or key-word arguments

2016-02-26 Thread Thomas Goirand
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Thomas Goirand * Package name: python-positional Version : 1.0.1 Upstream Author : Morgan Fainberg * URL : https://github.com/morganfainberg/positional * License : Apache-2.0 Programming Lang: Python Description

Bug#816003: ITP: kss-node -- living style guide generator from KSS markup

2016-02-26 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jonas Smedegaard -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: kss-node Version : 2.4.0 Upstream Author : John Albin Wilkins * URL : https://kss-node.github.io/kss-node/ * License : Expat or GPL-2 Prog

Re: Bug#815980: tracker.debian.org: All packages have uscan issues

2016-02-26 Thread James Cowgill
Control: reassign -1 qa.debian.org Control: retitle -1 UDD: upstream watch file checker is broken with devscripts 2.16.1 On Fri, 2016-02-26 at 11:45 +0100, Vincent Danjean wrote: > Package: tracker.debian.org > Severity: normal > >   Hi, > >   In the PTS, all packages I currently look at displa

Bug#815980: tracker.debian.org: All packages have uscan issues

2016-02-26 Thread Vincent Danjean
Package: tracker.debian.org Severity: normal Hi, In the PTS, all packages I currently look at display the following "action needed" item: * Problems while searching for a new upstream version When looking at the details, it seems to be a connectivity problem (and I checked for a few packag

Bug#815972: ITP: python-nameparser -- module for parsing human names into their in individual components

2016-02-26 Thread Edward Betts
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Edward Betts * Package name: python-nameparser Version : 0.3.11 Upstream Author : Derek Gulbranson * URL : https://github.com/derek73/python-nameparser * License : LGPL-2.1+ Programming Lang: Python Description :