Re: Proposal: Repository for fast-paced package backports

2018-12-25 Thread Pirate Praveen
On 2018, ഡിസംബർ 26 2:16:07 AM IST, Dominik George wrote: >Heisann, alle sammen, > >as announced in the recent thread about maintaining, I hereby propose a >repository that allows making “backports” of packages available to >users >of the stable distribution, if those packages cannot be maintai

Bug#917320: ITP: ruby-kitchen-docker -- Docker Driver for Test Kitchen

2018-12-25 Thread Mathieu Parent
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mathieu Parent * Package name: ruby-kitchen-docker Version : 2.7.0 Upstream Author : Sean Porter, ... * URL : https://github.com/test-kitchen/kitchen-docker * License : Apache-2.0 Programming Lang: Ruby Description

Testing init.d script

2018-12-25 Thread Kip Warner
Hey list, I wasn't sure which other Debian mailing list might be more appropriate, but lsb-discuss appeared to be defunct since 2002. My package has an LSB friendly init.d script it distributes to manage the daemon it ships as a system service. I'd like to use it during unit testing so the daemon

Re: Proposal: Repository for fast-paced package backports

2018-12-25 Thread Dominik George
> - no need to keep a volatile package out of testing Oh, and yes. Having a package in testing means it will be supported for a stable lifecycle - a full contradiction to volatile! -nik

Re: Proposal: Repository for fast-paced package backports

2018-12-25 Thread Dominik George
Hi, >I would, however, completely separate it from backports. I.e. > > - separate NEW queue > - different suffix > - no need to keep a volatile package out of testing > >Why? > > - volatile is a different beast from backports, this should be > very clear to both package maintainers and our users

Re: Proposal: Repository for fast-paced package backports

2018-12-25 Thread W. Martin Borgert
Hi all, I like the idea of having a volatile archive and I agree with almost all what Dominik wrote about the motivation. I would, however, completely separate it from backports. I.e. - separate NEW queue - different suffix - no need to keep a volatile package out of testing Why? - volatil

Re: Proposal: Repository for fast-paced package backports

2018-12-25 Thread Dominik George
>Just to make things a bit clearer for people who may not have followed >some of the discussions on d-bp-users lately: the point is to be able >to >support fast-moving software with not-so-fast moving dependencies; >the dependencies may easily be backported without too large a burden >(their versio

Re: Proposal: Repository for fast-paced package backports

2018-12-25 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Tue, Dec 25, 2018 at 11:52:07PM +0100, Dominik George wrote: > Hi, > > >having read the whole Gitlab discussion, I still don't get how/why the > >new repository depends or relates to backports. Instead it could be > >self-contained, except for stuff already available in stable. Couldn't > >you

Re: Policy and procedures issue: init package hijacked via hostile NMU (declined by maintainers)

2018-12-25 Thread Ian Jackson
Andreas Henriksson writes ("Re: Policy and procedures issue: init package hijacked via hostile NMU (declined by maintainers)"): > I have only seen a limited amount of Dmitrys work, but my impression > is that he's not someone who should be trusted with unrestricted > uploading privileges. I think

Re: Bug#915407: libpam-systemd: please add a virtual package "logind" to allow alternatives

2018-12-25 Thread Adam Borowski
On Mon, Dec 24, 2018 at 05:37:56PM -0300, Felipe Sateler wrote: > On Sat, Dec 22, 2018 at 5:33 PM Adam Borowski wrote: > > Could you please either take this patch or propose a different approach? > > I have received no feedback other than a brief unconclusive remark on IRC. > > Sorry for the radi

Re: Proposal: Repository for fast-paced package backports

2018-12-25 Thread Dominik George
Hi, I like the general direction, but there are some aspects of your >proposal >which should be improved. Thanks! >> Other ideas: fastlane, unsupported > >Or maybe something like "fastpaced", after all this repo would not be >unsupported at all, the very point is to provide actual support after

Re: Proposal: Repository for fast-paced package backports

2018-12-25 Thread Micha Lenk
Hi all, having read the whole Gitlab discussion, I still don't get how/why the new repository depends or relates to backports. Instead it could be self-contained, except for stuff already available in stable. Couldn't you roll the new repository entirely independent of any backports? Even if yo

Re: Proposal: Repository for fast-paced package backports

2018-12-25 Thread Dominik George
Hi, >having read the whole Gitlab discussion, I still don't get how/why the >new repository depends or relates to backports. Instead it could be >self-contained, except for stuff already available in stable. Couldn't >you roll the new repository entirely independent of any backports? Even >if you

Bug#917305: ITP: dictzip-java -- DictZip library for Java

2018-12-25 Thread Andrej Shadura
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andrej Shadura -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 * Package name: dictzip-java Version : 0.8.2 Upstream Author : Hiroshi Miura * URL : https://github.com/dictzip/dictzip-java * License : GPL-2+ with Classpat

Re: Proposal: Repository for fast-paced package backports

2018-12-25 Thread Dominik George
> In short: This proposal addresses the exact concerns you raised before > )although I am not the person you expressed them towards). Well, sure, I was involved in that thread, but only in the way that I announced a proposal (this one). Not in any of the stuff concerning adding something to -backp

Re: Proposal: Repository for fast-paced package backports

2018-12-25 Thread Dominik George
On Tue, Dec 25, 2018 at 10:11:43PM +0100, Alexander Wirt wrote: > https://lists.debian.org/debian-backports/2018/12/msg00028.html > > This wasn't about gitlab. Oh. I must have misread the "gitlab" in the subject, along withthe mail being sent to the gitlab maintainer, a gitlab bugreport in the B

Re: Proposal: Repository for fast-paced package backports

2018-12-25 Thread Alexander Wirt
On Tue, 25 Dec 2018, Dominik George wrote: > > We already told you to build your own repo. > > You should probably start with identifying the senders of mail > correctly ☺. I am not the gitlab maintainer (and will never be). https://lists.debian.org/debian-backports/2018/12/msg00028.html This wa

Re: Proposal: Repository for fast-paced package backports

2018-12-25 Thread Dominik George
> We already told you to build your own repo. You should probably start with identifying the senders of mail correctly ☺. I am not the gitlab maintainer (and will never be). > Imho you should start the same way backports started - outside of > debian. > Prove that it works and integrate into Debi

Re: Proposal: Repository for fast-paced package backports

2018-12-25 Thread Alexander Wirt
On Tue, 25 Dec 2018, Dominik George wrote: > Heisann, alle sammen, > > as announced in the recent thread about maintaining, I hereby propose a > repository that allows making “backports” of packages available to users > of the stable distribution, if those packages cannot be maintained in > testi

Proposal: Repository for fast-paced package backports

2018-12-25 Thread Dominik George
Heisann, alle sammen, as announced in the recent thread about maintaining, I hereby propose a repository that allows making “backports” of packages available to users of the stable distribution, if those packages cannot be maintained in testing and backported in the usual way. If you are intereste

Re: fuse -> fuse3

2018-12-25 Thread Theodore Y. Ts'o
On Fri, Dec 21, 2018 at 11:03:34PM +0100, Oibaf wrote: > The package fuse3 is available since awhile in sid/buster. > Their users however are still using old fuse (v2), e.g. sshfs-fuse. > According to this: > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=912528 > fuse3 is not co-installable wit

Bug#917282: ITP: lz4json -- unpack lz4json files, usually generated by Mozilla programs

2018-12-25 Thread Adam Borowski
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Adam Borowski * Package name: lz4json Version : ? Upstream Author : Andi Kleen * URL : https://github.com/andikleen/lz4json * License : BSD-2 ish Programming Lang: C Description : unpack lz4json files, usually gen

Bug#917281: ITP: ruby-kitchen-salt -- salt provisioner for test-kitchen

2018-12-25 Thread Mathieu Parent
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mathieu Parent * Package name: ruby-kitchen-salt Version : 0.4.0 Upstream Author : SaltStack Inc * URL : https://github.com/saltstack/kitchen-salt * License : MIT Programming Lang: Ruby Description : salt provisi