Re: usrmerge -- plan B?

2018-11-20 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Nov 20, Adam Borowski wrote: If you are seriously concerned with the small issuses caused by the transition to merged-/usr then I have a better proposal. Plan C: just stop supporting non-merged-/usr systems since these problems are caused by having to support both, and there is no real bene

Re: usrmerge -- plan B?

2018-11-20 Thread Domenico Andreoli
On November 20, 2018 9:16:17 PM UTC, Adam Borowski wrote: >Hi! Hi, >Thus, it seems to me that the plan A for usrmerge has serious downsides for >dubious benefits. What about the plan B I described above? My preferred plan B is the one allowing to release Buster on time with most confidence

Bug#914257: ITP: backdrop -- A full-featured content management system

2018-11-20 Thread William Blough
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: William Blough * Package name: backdrop Version : 1.11.2 * URL : http://backdropcms.org/ * License : GPL2+ Programming Lang: PHP Description : A full-featured content management system Backdrop is a fork of Drupal

Re: git vs dfsg tarballs

2018-11-20 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Nov 20, 2018 at 6:50 PM Jonathan Dowland wrote: > It was widely done on alioth (by pulling in upstream branches to git > repos) and I imagine is common on Salsa, too. In practise we are not > applying the DFSG to the content of the VCS, the wiki, or really much > except the archive. I don

Bug#914253: ITP: python-sqlalchemy-migrate -- Database schema migration for SQLAlchemy

2018-11-20 Thread Per Andersson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Per Andersson * Package name: python-sqlalchemy-migrate Version : 0.11.0 Upstream Author : OpenStack * URL : https://pypi.org/project/sqlalchemy-migrate/ * License : MIT/Expat Programming Lang: Python Description

Some help about Emacs for l10n

2018-11-20 Thread MENGUAL Jean-Philippe
Hi To get involved in the l10n team, I use Emacs to translate for Debian. With gettext-el, Revision-Date field is replaced automatically once I save the file. But I would like to fill automatically Language-team and Last-translator too, as well as copyright if possible. I tested various configura

usrmerge -- plan B?

2018-11-20 Thread Adam Borowski
Hi! There's been another large bout of usrmerge issues recently, and a bunch of new problems have been identified. The point of the whole idea has been questioned, as well. Thus, I'd propose holding our horses and thinking a bit. I'd also like to suggest an alternate approach: * let's scrap the

Re: Porting rust

2018-11-20 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Josh Triplett, le lun. 05 nov. 2018 21:02:32 -0800, a ecrit: > Speaking with an upstream Rust hat on in addition to a Debian hat: > what could Rust do to make life easier for porters? After Adrian's announce I tried to have a brief look at the Hurd port. I appreciated a *lot* that the Deb

Bug#914230: ITP: git-imerge -- incremental merge and rebase for git

2018-11-20 Thread James Clarke
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: James Clarke * Package name: git-imerge Version : 1.1.0 Upstream Author : Michael Haggerty * URL : https://github.com/mhagger/git-imerge * License : GPLv2+ Programming Lang: Python Description : incremental merge

Re: Our build system may be broken: /bin vs /usr/bin

2018-11-20 Thread Holger Levsen
On Tue, Nov 20, 2018 at 04:12:01PM +, Simon McVittie wrote: > Please use debootstrap --no-merged-usr explicitly if you want to be able > to exercise the "not merged /usr" code path. I attach an untested patch. thanks, merged and deployed/. (Plus recreation of 200 pbuilder base.tgz's triggered

Re: Our build system may be broken: /bin vs /usr/bin

2018-11-20 Thread Simon McVittie
On Tue, 20 Nov 2018 at 12:16:06 +, Holger Levsen wrote: > from irc: > > < mapreri> I haven't checked, but I think the merged-usr variation is now > broken already. Now that debootstrap in stretch-backports (which is the > version we use) defaults to merged-usr installing that special package

Re: Requesting input for pjproject/asterisk packaging

2018-11-20 Thread Ian Jackson
Marc Haber writes ("Re: Requesting input for pjproject/asterisk packaging"): > b. The multi tarball feature of dpkg-source would be helpful for a > number of other packages, it's about time that someone seriously uses > it. I have been using it for Xen in stretch-security and it all WFM. The runes

Re: Our build system may be broken: /bin vs /usr/bin

2018-11-20 Thread Chris Lamb
[pruning CC] Dirk, > Other than forcing builds through the system is there another way for me to > check in, say, a week or two? Not entirely sure what you mean here. You can certainly reschedule builds at will, but in terms of "checking-in" a fortnight from now… set a date in your calendar? ;)

Re: Our build system may be broken: /bin vs /usr/bin

2018-11-20 Thread Holger Levsen
On Tue, Nov 20, 2018 at 02:35:56AM -0500, Chris Lamb wrote: > > | > … Simon McVittie has actually patched our testing framework to vary > > | > this and this is now live. > > | > https://bugs.debian.org/901473#33 > > Are we sure this is fixed? I think it's broken... from irc: < mapreri> I hav

Re: Our build system may be broken: /bin vs /usr/bin

2018-11-20 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 20 November 2018 at 02:35, Chris Lamb wrote: | Hi Dirk, | | > | > … Simon McVittie has actually patched our testing framework to vary | > | > this and this is now live. | > | > | > | > https://bugs.debian.org/901473#33 | […] | > Are we sure this is fixed? | | It might have taken a while fo

Re: Iptables on Sid

2018-11-20 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 01:11:36PM -0500, Chris Lamb wrote: Ian Jackson wrote: Please see this page about how to report a bug: Actually, I believe this to be already filed as: https://bugs.debian.org/914074 You're right to point out that an important prerequisite step, before filing a bug

Re: git vs dfsg tarballs

2018-11-20 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 08:17:03PM +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote: the main reason for having +dfsg versions is that non-distributable stuff is removed. Distributing these files in a Debian hosted GIT repository would not be workable, would it? It was widely done on alioth (by pulling in upstream