Bug#928372: ITP: golang-github-anacrolix-dms-dev -- a UPnP DLNA Digital Media Server that includes basic video transcoding

2019-05-02 Thread Drew Parsons
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Drew Parsons * Package name: golang-github-anacrolix-dms-dev Version : 1.0.0 Upstream Author : Matt Joiner * URL : https://github.com/anacrolix/dms * License : BSD Programming Lang: Go Description : a UPnP DLNA D

Work-needing packages report for May 3, 2019

2019-05-02 Thread wnpp
The following is a listing of packages for which help has been requested through the WNPP (Work-Needing and Prospective Packages) system in the last week. Total number of orphaned packages: 1400 (new: 0) Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 162 (new: 1) Total number of packages reques

Re: Preferred git branch structure when upstream moves from tarballs to git

2019-05-02 Thread Ian Jackson
Ben Hutchings writes ("Re: Preferred git branch structure when upstream moves from tarballs to git"): > On Thu, 2019-05-02 at 11:23 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > > Sorry for shouting, but, really. It is kind of frustrating to have > > designed and implemented and deployed a complex piece of softwar

Re: Preferred git branch structure when upstream moves from tarballs to git

2019-05-02 Thread Russ Allbery
Ansgar writes: > On Thu, 2019-05-02 at 09:15 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >> I'm confused. I'm a happy user of dgit and don't have to think about >> any of those things as part of using dgit. I choose to use branches, >> but I certainly wouldn't have to, and merging, multiple remotes, and so >> f

Re: Preferred git branch structure when upstream moves from tarballs to git

2019-05-02 Thread Ansgar
On Thu, 2019-05-02 at 09:15 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Ansgar writes: > > > Having to know about branches, merging, dealing with multiple remotes, > > ... *is* an entry barrier compared to not having to know about it. Now > > you have to teach people that before you even get to how to write a

Re: Preferred git branch structure when upstream moves from tarballs to git

2019-05-02 Thread Russ Allbery
Ansgar writes: > Having to know about branches, merging, dealing with multiple remotes, > ... *is* an entry barrier compared to not having to know about it. Now > you have to teach people that before you even get to how to write a > build recipe. I'm confused. I'm a happy user of dgit and don'

Re: Preferred git branch structure when upstream moves from tarballs to git

2019-05-02 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, 2019-05-02 at 11:23 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: [...] > Sorry for shouting, but, really. It is kind of frustrating to have > designed and implemented and deployed a complex piece of software > which solves a lot of problems, and constantly hear people > - proposing solutions which do not ad

Bug#928341: ITP: golang-github-renekroon-ttlcache -- An in-memory string-interface{} map with various expiration options for golang

2019-05-02 Thread Sascha Steinbiss
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Sascha Steinbiss * Package name: golang-github-renekroon-ttlcache Version : 1.4.0+git20190429.e7780e9-1 Upstream Author : Rene Kroon * URL : https://github.com/ReneKroon/ttlcache * License : MIT Programming Lang: Go D

UPC-Chello

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Re: Preferred git branch structure when upstream moves from tarballs to git

2019-05-02 Thread Ansgar
On Thu, 2019-05-02 at 13:45 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > Ansgar Burchardt writes ("Re: Preferred git branch structure when > upstream moves from tarballs to git"): > > On Tue, 2019-04-30 at 16:00 -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: > > > As a package maintainer, if you don't keep the whole source package in

Re: Preferred git branch structure when upstream moves from tarballs to git

2019-05-02 Thread Ian Jackson
Ansgar Burchardt writes ("Re: Preferred git branch structure when upstream moves from tarballs to git"): > On Tue, 2019-04-30 at 16:00 -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: > > As a package maintainer, if you don't keep the whole source package in > > git, you're giving up on a lot of the power of git. > >

Re: Preferred git branch structure when upstream moves from tarballs to git

2019-05-02 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
On Tue, 2019-04-30 at 16:00 -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: > > On Tue 30 Apr 2019 at 08:05AM +02, Ansgar wrote: > > > As an example: to update to a new upstream release, I ideally just have > > to drop the new upstream tarball, update d/changelog and am done. > > Compare with [1] which is much more c

Re: Preferred git branch structure when upstream moves from tarballs to git

2019-05-02 Thread Gard Spreemann
My initial question resulted in a lot of useful advice and opinions, and spurred quite an interesting discussion. Thanks to everyone who contributed, and apologies for not contributing myself.

Re: Preferred git branch structure when upstream moves from tarballs to git

2019-05-02 Thread Ian Jackson
Philipp Kern writes ("Re: Preferred git branch structure when upstream moves from tarballs to git"): > On 5/2/2019 7:11 AM, Ben Finney wrote: > > Conversely, I think it does a disservice to downstream users to mix in > > Debian packaging changes with upstream changes. The separation is useful > >