Re: Concerns about infrastructure for Alioth replacement

On Mon, 16 Oct 2017, Francesco Poli wrote: > Hello, > I am a Debian contributor (and Alioth user). > > First off, I think that [replacing] Alioth with something more > maintainable is a good thing to do and I am grateful to the people who > are working hard to make this happen. > > [replacing]:

Re: Concerns about infrastructure for Alioth replacement

> I would say that this issue with the Debian packages of GitLab should > be addressed by helping the Debian Ruby Extras Maintainers to improve > the Debian packages and to keep them more up-to-date. Francesco, great idea, go ahead. You would be most welcome to help with Debian Ruby Extra packagin

Concerns about infrastructure for Alioth replacement

Hello, I am a Debian contributor (and Alioth user). First off, I think that [replacing] Alioth with something more maintainable is a good thing to do and I am grateful to the people who are working hard to make this happen. [replacing]:

Bug#878676: ITP: r-cran-forcats -- GNU R package for working with categorical variables (factors)

Package: wnpp Owner: Dirk Eddelbuettel Severity: wishlist * Package name: r-cran-forcats Version : 0.2.0 Upstream Author : Hadley Wickham * URL or Web page : https://github.com/tidyverse/forcats * License : GPL-3 Description : GNU R package for working with categori

Bug#878675: ITP: r-cran-readr -- GNU R package to read rectangular text data

Package: wnpp Owner: Dirk Eddelbuettel Severity: wishlist * Package name: r-cran-readr Version : 1.1.1 Upstream Author : Hadley Wickham, Jim Hester, Romain Francois * URL or Web page : https://github.com/tidyverse/readr * License : GPL (>= 2) Description : GNU R pac

Bug#878673: ITP: sdl-kitchensink -- FFmpeg and SDL2 based library for audio and video playback

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Didier 'OdyX' Raboud Package name: sdl-kitchensink Version : 0.0.7 Upstream Author : Tuomas Virtanen URL : https://github.com/katajakasa/SDL_kitchensink License : MIT Programming Lang: C Description : FFmpeg and SDL2 bas

Re: [BUMP] r-cran-readstata13 had five weeks in NEW queue for two uploads

On 15 October 2017 at 15:10, Chris Lamb wrote: | Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: | | > Checking the file now and ... he _is_ in the debian/copyright | | In that case, I'll just add "only human" and (possibly) "overworked" | along with my previous description of the ftpteam as "very busy". No worries.

Re: [BUMP] r-cran-readstata13 had five weeks in NEW queue for two uploads

Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > Checking the file now and ... he _is_ in the debian/copyright In that case, I'll just add "only human" and (possibly) "overworked" along with my previous description of the ftpteam as "very busy". > Again, if _we_ (as packagers) could see the output of your linters th

Re: [BUMP] r-cran-readstata13 had five weeks in NEW queue for two uploads

Chris, On 15 October 2017 at 00:04, Chris Lamb wrote: | [Drpopping -release from CC, they are busy enough] | | Dirk, | | > [Thomas Lumley] is not listed in DESCRIPTION | | He has a copyright attribution in R/read.R IIRC but there may be other | instances and other copyright holders. You would

Re: MBF: please drop transitional dummy package foo (if they were part of two releases or more)

On Sun, Oct 15, 2017 at 10:21:59AM +, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Sun, Oct 15, 2017 at 10:49:37AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > >parted (U) > > This is blocked on reverse-dependencies. I've filed: > > https://bugs.debian.org/878626 > > https://bugs.debian.org/878627 > > https://bugs.d

Re: MBF: please drop transitional dummy package foo (if they were part of two releases or more)

On Sun, Oct 15, 2017 at 8:09 AM, Michael Stone wrote: > It does make backports easier. More than one generation back, though, the > value diminishes rapidly. If the transitional package was added late to stretch, it will probably still be needed in Ubuntu until Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. Thanks, Jeremy B

Re: MBF: please drop transitional dummy package foo (if they were part of two releases or more)

On Sun, Oct 15, 2017 at 10:49:37AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: I'm currently undecided whether I think it's useful to file wishlist bugs against transitional dummy packages which only are that since stretch. What do you think? I probably wouldn't bother. Although the project doesn't formally su

Bug#878641: ITP: argagg -- Argument Aggregator - Simple C++11 command line argument parser

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Didier 'OdyX' Raboud Package name: argagg Version : 0.4.6 Upstream Author : Viet The Nguyen URL : https://github.com/vietjtnguyen/argagg License : MIT Programming Lang: C++ Description : Argument Aggregator - Simple C++1

Re: MBF: please drop transitional dummy package foo (if they were part of two releases or more)

On Sun, Oct 15, 2017 at 10:49:37AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > I probably wouldn't bother. Although the project doesn't formally > support skip-upgrades, a fair few maintainers probably do so informally. yeah, I following the assumption that upgrades are not skipped. > > Probably it's more usef

Re: MBF: please drop transitional dummy package foo (if they were part of two releases or more)

On Sat, Oct 14, 2017 at 09:27:25PM +, Holger Levsen wrote: > I'm doing an small mass bug filing against obsolete transitional packages > which are at least marked "dummy transitional" since the jessie release, > though many of them existed already in wheezy. I think it's rather undoubtful > tho

Re: [BUMP] r-cran-readstata13 had five weeks in NEW queue for two uploads

On Sat, Oct 14, 2017 at 05:15:39PM -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > On 14 October 2017 at 22:00, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > | On Sat, 2017-10-14 at 12:59 -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > | > Bumping this as my mail to ftpmaster went unanswered. > | > > | > Could someone please remind me who to ask