Re: Question about source tarballs for packaging

2021-10-18 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, 2021-10-10 at 21:40 +, Joshua Peisach wrote: > I'm packaging the V programming language for Debian. However, V is  bit > weird at the moment. It's not really ready for stable production/use. > so for a while it will live in experimental. Currently the way building > it works is that th

Re: tech-ctte: More specific advice regarding merged-/usr and implications of #978636

2021-10-18 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Oct 18, Sean Whitton wrote: Thank you: this is great work and, even if it requires maintaining support for unmerged systems for yet another release, I fully agree with the results. > - Debian contributors who are interested in merged-/usr are invited to > implement a straightforward migra

tech-ctte: More specific advice regarding merged-/usr and implications of #978636

2021-10-18 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Wed 15 Sep 2021 at 11:46AM +01, Simon McVittie wrote: > As discussed in our last meeting, I think we should issue more specific > advice about merged-/usr, and in particular about what #978636 means for > maintainers right now. With five votes cast in favour of the text by Simon, Niko,

Re: Debian's branches and release model

2021-10-18 Thread Simon McVittie
On Mon, 18 Oct 2021 at 12:29:55 -0400, Peter Hoist wrote: > So the question is, why not cut a release branch every two years, and at the > same time keep the unstable/testing alive? We have this conversation about once a year. Essentially, the freeze makes sure that the versions we are proposing t

Debian's branches and release model

2021-10-18 Thread Peter Hoist
Hi, I am enjoying Debian's testing branch as a reasonably stable and up-to-date 'rolling' release, and I have to say it satisfies all my desires, almost. The one thing that bothers me is that every two years, the unstable/testing branches are frozen to certain extent because of the stable releases

Bug#996769: ITP: fs-uae-launcher -- Launcher and configuration program for FS-UAE

2021-10-18 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: fs-uae-launcher Version : 3.0.5 Upstream Author : Frode Solheim * URL : https://fs-uae.net/ * License : GPL-2+ Programming Lang: Pyt

Bug#996768: ITP: fs-uae-arcade -- Fullscreen game browser for FS-UAE

2021-10-18 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: fs-uae-arcade Version : 3.0.5 Upstream Author : Frode Solheim * URL : https://fs-uae.net/ * License : GPL-2+ Programming Lang: Pytho

Bug#996762: ITP: precious -- one code quality tool to rule them all

2021-10-18 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jonas Smedegaard X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 * Package name: precious Version : 0.1.2 Upstream Author : Dave Rolsky * URL : https://github.com/houseabsolute/precio