Re: [RFC] Binary packages containing the source

2010-10-06 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Goswin von Brederlow , 2010-09-22, 11:39: apt-get install linux-2.6:src where "src" is just another architecture (at least for the user interface). apt-get install foo:src should then install the source and also all Build-Depends(-Indep) of the source. Besides packages Build-Depending on sou

Re: [RFC] Binary packages containing the source

2010-09-22 Thread Ian Jackson
Matt Zagrabelny writes ("Re: [RFC] Binary packages containing the source"): > On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 12:35 PM, Ian Jackson > wrote: > > No :-).  Perhaps "ls" rather than "Ls" would have been more correct. > > I'm not sure of the correct rule

Re: [RFC] Binary packages containing the source

2010-09-22 Thread Don Armstrong
On Wed, 22 Sep 2010, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Call it "source" if you like. The point was that the arch follows the > package name. It's interesting that this is exactly backwards from the way the BTS does it. [Source packages are src:foopkg.] Don Armstrong -- [The] JK-88 [coffee] percola

Re: [RFC] Binary packages containing the source

2010-09-22 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 12:35 PM, Ian Jackson wrote: > Brett Parker writes ("Re: [RFC] Binary packages containing the source"): >> On 22 Sep 12:47, Ian Jackson wrote: >> > Julien Cristau writes ("Re: [RFC] Binary packages containing the source"): &g

Re: [RFC] Binary packages containing the source

2010-09-22 Thread Ian Jackson
Brett Parker writes ("Re: [RFC] Binary packages containing the source"): > On 22 Sep 12:47, Ian Jackson wrote: > > Julien Cristau writes ("Re: [RFC] Binary packages containing the source"): > > > Why do people hate vowels so much? > > > > Bcs f y

Re: [RFC] Binary packages containing the source

2010-09-22 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Julien Cristau writes: > On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 11:39:01 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > >> Going by what multiarch proposed and apt already supports that should be >> >> apt-get install linux-2.6:src >> >> where "src" is just another architecture (at least for the user >> interface). >>

Re: [RFC] Binary packages containing the source

2010-09-22 Thread Brett Parker
On 22 Sep 12:47, Ian Jackson wrote: > Julien Cristau writes ("Re: [RFC] Binary packages containing the source"): > > Why do people hate vowels so much? > > Bcs f y lv thm t y cn wrt ncmprhnsbl gbbrsh mch mr ffctvly. L

Re: [RFC] Binary packages containing the source

2010-09-22 Thread Ian Jackson
Julien Cristau writes ("Re: [RFC] Binary packages containing the source"): > Why do people hate vowels so much? Bcs f y lv thm t y cn wrt ncmprhnsbl gbbrsh mch mr ffctvly. Ls y sv smll mnt f typng. Ian. (sorry) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org w

Re: [RFC] Binary packages containing the source

2010-09-22 Thread Julien Cristau
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 11:39:01 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Going by what multiarch proposed and apt already supports that should be > > apt-get install linux-2.6:src > > where "src" is just another architecture (at least for the user > interface). > Why do people hate vowels so much?

Re: [RFC] Binary packages containing the source

2010-09-22 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Hector Oron writes: > Dear developers, > > ABSTRACT > How to enable in some special cases a way to allow one source > package have multiple maintainers within Debian archive. It might be better to say they have different flavours which should (out of practicallity) or must be build on their ow

Re: [RFC] Binary packages containing the source

2010-09-22 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Josselin Mouette writes: > Le jeudi 16 septembre 2010 à 03:08 +0200, Jakub Wilk a écrit : >> * Hector Oron , 2010-09-15, 21:26: >> > c) allow build depends on source packages, which it is probably a worst >> > idea. >> >> On the contrary, I think that allowing source packages to be installab

Re: [RFC] Binary packages containing the source

2010-09-16 Thread Stéphane Glondu
Le 16/09/2010 09:22, Josselin Mouette a écrit : > I agree this is a cleaner solution, but how do you ensure there are > sources (deb-src) referenced in the sources.list ? You don't need to. The package would be reported as uninstallable. Some message suggesting to add deb-src lines to sources.list

Re: [RFC] Binary packages containing the source

2010-09-16 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 09:22:57AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Plus, these packages would (in the current state of affairs) lack a > description. On this topic, we have our friend #555743. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 z...@{upsilon.cc,pps.juss

Re: [RFC] Binary packages containing the source

2010-09-16 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeudi 16 septembre 2010 à 03:08 +0200, Jakub Wilk a écrit : > * Hector Oron , 2010-09-15, 21:26: > > c) allow build depends on source packages, which it is probably a worst > > idea. > > On the contrary, I think that allowing source packages to be installable > in the same way as binary pack

Re: [RFC] Binary packages containing the source

2010-09-15 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Hector Oron , 2010-09-15, 21:26: c) allow build depends on source packages, which it is probably a worst idea. On the contrary, I think that allowing source packages to be installable in the same way as binary packages is an excellent idea. Imagine you can do: apt-get install src:linux-2

[RFC] Binary packages containing the source

2010-09-15 Thread Hector Oron
Dear developers, ABSTRACT How to enable in some special cases a way to allow one source package have multiple maintainers within Debian archive. RATIONALE There are already a number of packages in the archive which ship sources in a binary package, in some cases this is very useful, so withou