Re: Experimental ddeb support in debhelper and lintian (Was: Re: -dbg packages; are they actually useful?)

2015-06-11 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
On Monday 20 April 2015 12:46 PM, David Kalnischkies wrote: > That can be very quickly quite a set of packages. apt ~23, apititude > ~40, mpv (similar to mplayer) ~159, kate (KDEs "notepad") ~465. [0] > That can be tuned by excluding non-libraries, but that has its own > drawbacks (private librar

Re: Experimental ddeb support in debhelper and lintian

2015-05-14 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 4 avril 2015 10:54 +0200, Niels Thykier  : > * There is an experimental branch for debhelper to generate these >automatically available. >- Requires a "export DH_BUILD_DDEBS=1" to trigger the code path >- It applies to *all* compat levels. >- Trying to get the reproducible tea

Re: Experimental ddeb support in debhelper and lintian (Was: Re: -dbg packages; are they actually useful?)

2015-05-14 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2015-05-02 13:46, David Kalnischkies wrote: > On Fri, May 01, 2015 at 11:46:42PM +0200, Niels Thykier wrote: >> […] ddeb support […] > > +1. \o/ > > >>- apt now properly handles the "pkg:arch" dependency. > > [...] > > I would revert the revert as this is potentially causing more troubl

Re: Experimental ddeb support in debhelper and lintian (Was: Re: -dbg packages; are they actually useful?)

2015-05-14 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2015-04-19 19:10, David Kalnischkies wrote: > On Sat, Apr 04, 2015 at 10:54:09AM +0200, Niels Thykier wrote: >> The resulting debs are installable with dpkg -i ( \o/ ). I have not >> tried anything fancy like setting up a local APT mirror and tried to >> convince APT do install it. > > I did a

Re: Experimental ddeb support in debhelper and lintian

2015-05-14 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2015-04-12 05:31, Paul Wise wrote: > On Sat, Apr 11, 2015 at 3:20 PM, Niels Thykier wrote: > >> As noted on IRC, mentors.debian.net / debexpo will probably need to be >> updated too (at least if we go the "ddebs" route). > > debexpo needs a rewrite to a non-deprecated framework so support for

Re: Experimental ddeb support in debhelper and lintian (Was: Re: -dbg packages; are they actually useful?)

2015-05-14 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2015-05-03 18:58, Guillem Jover wrote: > Hi! > > On Tue, 2015-04-07 at 22:11:18 +0200, Niels Thykier wrote: >> A) Use ".deb" (i.e. the regular extension) with a new "section". > > Is there any problem with using the existing "debug" section? Or is > the different section used to distinguish

Re: Experimental ddeb support in debhelper and lintian (Was: Re: -dbg packages; are they actually useful?)

2015-05-03 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Tue, 2015-04-07 at 22:11:18 +0200, Niels Thykier wrote: > A) Use ".deb" (i.e. the regular extension) with a new "section". Is there any problem with using the existing "debug" section? Or is the different section used to distinguish that these are autogenerated perhaps? > B) Use ".dde

Re: Experimental ddeb support in debhelper and lintian (Was: Re: -dbg packages; are they actually useful?)

2015-05-03 Thread David Kalnischkies
On Sat, May 02, 2015 at 09:07:56AM -0400, James McCoy wrote: > On Sat, May 02, 2015 at 01:46:25PM +0200, David Kalnischkies wrote: > > (aka: I don't see why a debug > > package has to depend on the package it provides symbols for at all. If > > any the relation should be 'Enhances'…). > > The inte

Re: Experimental ddeb support in debhelper and lintian (Was: Re: -dbg packages; are they actually useful?)

2015-05-02 Thread James McCoy
On Sat, May 02, 2015 at 01:46:25PM +0200, David Kalnischkies wrote: > (aka: I don't see why a debug > package has to depend on the package it provides symbols for at all. If > any the relation should be 'Enhances'…). The intention is to ensure the debug symbols came from the same build as the bina

Re: Experimental ddeb support in debhelper and lintian (Was: Re: -dbg packages; are they actually useful?)

2015-05-02 Thread David Kalnischkies
On Fri, May 01, 2015 at 11:46:42PM +0200, Niels Thykier wrote: > […] ddeb support […] +1. \o/ >- apt now properly handles the "pkg:arch" dependency. For different values of "properly" – apt isn't the only thing involved here, you have to consider the reaction of dpkg and dose as well and th

Re: Experimental ddeb support in debhelper and lintian (Was: Re: -dbg packages; are they actually useful?)

2015-05-01 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2015-04-04 10:54, Niels Thykier wrote: > On 2015-04-04 09:54, Josselin Mouette wrote: >> Le jeudi 02 avril 2015 à 19:37 +0200, Esokrates a écrit : >>> Hi, >>> >>> I am particularly interested in automatic debug packages, as the current >>> situation is pretty messy imho. I found >>> https://w

Re: Experimental ddeb support in debhelper and lintian (Was: Re: -dbg packages; are they actually useful?)

2015-04-20 Thread David Kalnischkies
On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 09:50:00AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 1:10 AM, David Kalnischkies wrote: > > > I would presume most derivatives aren't using it either > > Most derivatives appear to use reprepro but there is one using apt-ftparchive > > https://wiki.debian.org/De

Re: Experimental ddeb support in debhelper and lintian (Was: Re: -dbg packages; are they actually useful?)

2015-04-19 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 1:10 AM, David Kalnischkies wrote: > I would presume most derivatives aren't using it either Most derivatives appear to use reprepro but there is one using apt-ftparchive https://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/CensusFull https://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/Census/Lihuen >

Re: Experimental ddeb support in debhelper and lintian (Was: Re: -dbg packages; are they actually useful?)

2015-04-19 Thread David Kalnischkies
On Sat, Apr 04, 2015 at 10:54:09AM +0200, Niels Thykier wrote: > The resulting debs are installable with dpkg -i ( \o/ ). I have not > tried anything fancy like setting up a local APT mirror and tried to > convince APT do install it. I did and apt works with ddeb just fine, meaning it can happily

Re: Experimental ddeb support in debhelper and lintian

2015-04-11 Thread Johannes Schauer
Hi, Quoting Niels Thykier (2015-04-11 09:20:36) > On 2015-04-11 07:14, Niels Thykier wrote: > > [...] > > > >> Stretch is a two year time frame though, which makes me kinda sad. Thanks > >> for you effort though, keep up the amazing work! If I understand > >> correctly, if > >> it would have b

Re: Experimental ddeb support in debhelper and lintian

2015-04-11 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Apr 11, 2015 at 3:20 PM, Niels Thykier wrote: > As noted on IRC, mentors.debian.net / debexpo will probably need to be > updated too (at least if we go the "ddebs" route). debexpo needs a rewrite to a non-deprecated framework so support for ddebs is probably a long way off. Support for dd

Re: Experimental ddeb support in debhelper and lintian

2015-04-11 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2015-04-11 07:14, Niels Thykier wrote: > [...] > >> Stretch is a two year time frame though, which makes me kinda sad. Thanks >> for you effort though, keep up the amazing work! If I understand correctly, >> if >> it would have been something for stretch, either A or B would have been >> de

Re: Experimental ddeb support in debhelper and lintian (Was: Re: -dbg packages; are they actually useful?)

2015-04-10 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2015-04-09 09:25, Esokrates wrote: > On Tuesday, April 07, 2015 10:11:18 PM Niels Thykier wrote: >> [...] > > So mostly that is more a decision making (political) problem, than a > technical > one. It is not entirely clear to me that we any have (major) political issues IRT ddebs. People ge

Re: Experimental ddeb support in debhelper and lintian (Was: Re: -dbg packages; are they actually useful?)

2015-04-09 Thread Esokrates
On Thursday, April 09, 2015 09:25:44 AM Esokrates wrote: > So mostly that is more a decision making (political) problem, than a > technical one. Stretch is a two year time frame though, which makes me > kinda sad. Thanks for you effort though, keep up the amazing work! If I > understand correctly,

Re: Experimental ddeb support in debhelper and lintian (Was: Re: -dbg packages; are they actually useful?)

2015-04-09 Thread Esokrates
On Tuesday, April 07, 2015 10:11:18 PM Niels Thykier wrote: > On 2015-04-07 21:10, Niels Thykier wrote: > > On 2015-04-04 12:58, Esokrates wrote: > >> On Saturday, April 04, 2015 10:54:09 AM Niels Thykier wrote: > >> > >> [...] > >> > >> I know predictions are hard, but is there a plan to get thi

Re: Experimental ddeb support in debhelper and lintian (Was: Re: -dbg packages; are they actually useful?)

2015-04-07 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2015-04-07 21:10, Niels Thykier wrote: > On 2015-04-04 12:58, Esokrates wrote: >> On Saturday, April 04, 2015 10:54:09 AM Niels Thykier wrote: >> >> [...] >> >> I know predictions are hard, but is there a plan to get things done for the >> next release (Stretch)? >> > > At this point, there i

Re: Experimental ddeb support in debhelper and lintian (Was: Re: -dbg packages; are they actually useful?)

2015-04-07 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2015-04-04 12:58, Esokrates wrote: > On Saturday, April 04, 2015 10:54:09 AM Niels Thykier wrote: >> [...] >>- Trying to get the reproducible team to try it out to see if it >> regresses anything (incl. reproducible builds) > > I guess the ddeb's are meant to be reproducible too? >

Re: Experimental ddeb support in debhelper and lintian (Was: Re: -dbg packages; are they actually useful?)

2015-04-04 Thread Esokrates
On Saturday, April 04, 2015 10:54:09 AM Niels Thykier wrote: > > Last time I checked, dak was still missing code to handle the > > generated .ddeb files. > > > > Cheers, > > And it *still* does! But there are a few things that have changed! > > * There is an experimental branch for debhelper

Experimental ddeb support in debhelper and lintian (Was: Re: -dbg packages; are they actually useful?)

2015-04-04 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2015-04-04 09:54, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le jeudi 02 avril 2015 à 19:37 +0200, Esokrates a écrit : >> Hi, >> >> I am particularly interested in automatic debug packages, as the current >> situation is pretty messy imho. I found >> https://wiki.debian.org/AutomaticDebugPackages. >> Does any