Re: Possible DEP proposal - contribution preferences

2021-02-10 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Niels Thykier (2021-02-10 17:35:36) > Russ Allbery: > > Jonas Smedegaard writes: > > > >> Let's see if Debian can agree on a single normalization of 822-ish > >> files. For starters, I disagree that "wrap-and-sort -a" is a > >> suitable normalization, as that will involve re-indentatio

Re: Possible DEP proposal - contribution preferences

2021-02-10 Thread Niels Thykier
Russ Allbery: > Jonas Smedegaard writes: > >> Let's see if Debian can agree on a single normalization of 822-ish >> files. For starters, I disagree that "wrap-and-sort -a" is a suitable >> normalization, as that will involve re-indentation when keys change. >> Instead, I propose this as starting

Re: Possible DEP proposal - contribution preferences

2021-02-09 Thread Jelmer Vernooij
On Mon, Feb 08, 2021 at 10:29:13PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Tue, 02 Feb 2021, Jelmer Vernooij wrote: > > One of the things that I've been wondering about is whether it would make > > sense to have a configuration file in Debian packages that allows > > maintainers to specify preferences fo

Re: Possible DEP proposal - contribution preferences

2021-02-09 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Thomas Goirand (2021-02-09 20:48:12) > On 2/9/21 6:21 PM, Mattia Rizzolo wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 02, 2021 at 01:55:19PM +, Jelmer Vernooij wrote: > >> * Whether or not contributors can feel free to reformat > >>files (e.g. wrap-and-sort -a -v). > >>("allow-reformatting" in lintia

Re: Possible DEP proposal - contribution preferences

2021-02-09 Thread Russ Allbery
Thomas Goirand writes: > On 2/9/21 7:40 PM, Russ Allbery wrote: >> I've been using wrap-and-sort -ast on all of my packages for a while, with >> much the same justification. >> My recollection is that the relevant Config::Model model has a slightly >> different preferred normalization form? Tho

Re: Possible DEP proposal - contribution preferences

2021-02-09 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 2/9/21 7:40 PM, Russ Allbery wrote: > Jonas Smedegaard writes: > >> Let's see if Debian can agree on a single normalization of 822-ish >> files. For starters, I disagree that "wrap-and-sort -a" is a suitable >> normalization, as that will involve re-indentation when keys change. >> Instead, I

Re: Possible DEP proposal - contribution preferences

2021-02-09 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 2/9/21 6:21 PM, Mattia Rizzolo wrote: > On Tue, Feb 02, 2021 at 01:55:19PM +, Jelmer Vernooij wrote: >> * Whether or not contributors can feel free to reformat >>files (e.g. wrap-and-sort -a -v). >>("allow-reformatting" in lintian-brush.conf) > > On this, please also read https://bu

Re: Possible DEP proposal - contribution preferences

2021-02-09 Thread Mattia Rizzolo
On Tue, Feb 09, 2021 at 10:40:39AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Jonas Smedegaard writes: > > > Let's see if Debian can agree on a single normalization of 822-ish > > files. For starters, I disagree that "wrap-and-sort -a" is a suitable > > normalization, as that will involve re-indentation when

Re: Possible DEP proposal - contribution preferences

2021-02-09 Thread Russ Allbery
Jonas Smedegaard writes: > Let's see if Debian can agree on a single normalization of 822-ish > files. For starters, I disagree that "wrap-and-sort -a" is a suitable > normalization, as that will involve re-indentation when keys change. > Instead, I propose this as starting point: > wrap-and-

Re: Possible DEP proposal - contribution preferences

2021-02-09 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Mattia Rizzolo (2021-02-09 18:21:46) > On Tue, Feb 02, 2021 at 01:55:19PM +, Jelmer Vernooij wrote: > > * Whether or not contributors can feel free to reformat > >files (e.g. wrap-and-sort -a -v). > >("allow-reformatting" in lintian-brush.conf) > > On this, please also read htt

Re: Possible DEP proposal - contribution preferences

2021-02-09 Thread Mattia Rizzolo
On Tue, Feb 02, 2021 at 01:55:19PM +, Jelmer Vernooij wrote: > * Whether or not contributors can feel free to reformat >files (e.g. wrap-and-sort -a -v). >("allow-reformatting" in lintian-brush.conf) On this, please also read https://bugs.debian.org/895570#13 tl;dr: I honestly believe

Re: Possible DEP proposal - contribution preferences

2021-02-08 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi Jelmer, On Tue, 02 Feb 2021, Jelmer Vernooij wrote: > One of the things that I've been wondering about is whether it would make > sense to have a configuration file in Debian packages that allows > maintainers to specify preferences for contributions. At the > moment, this is not a well-formed p

Re: Possible DEP proposal - contribution preferences

2021-02-03 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Tue, Feb 02, 2021 at 09:57:11PM +0100, Philipp Kern wrote: > On 2021-02-02 16:48, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > A debhelper compat bump is a breaking change that must not be done > > without the maintainer verifying that it didn't introduce any > > regression. > > > > This is the whole point of compat

Re: Possible DEP proposal - contribution preferences

2021-02-02 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 2/2/21 4:48 PM, Adrian Bunk wrote: > A debhelper compat bump is a breaking change that must not be done > without the maintainer verifying that it didn't introduce any > regression. > > This is the whole point of compat levels. > > Unfortunately there is a lack of recognition how many bugs

Re: Possible DEP proposal - contribution preferences

2021-02-02 Thread Philipp Kern
On 2021-02-02 16:48, Adrian Bunk wrote: A debhelper compat bump is a breaking change that must not be done without the maintainer verifying that it didn't introduce any regression. This is the whole point of compat levels. Unfortunately there is a lack of recognition how many bugs are introduce

Re: Possible DEP proposal - contribution preferences

2021-02-02 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Tue, Feb 02, 2021 at 01:55:19PM +, Jelmer Vernooij wrote: > One of the things that I've been wondering about is whether it would make > sense to have a configuration file in Debian packages that allows > maintainers to specify preferences for contributions. >... What kind of contributions ex

Possible DEP proposal - contribution preferences

2021-02-02 Thread Jelmer Vernooij
One of the things that I've been wondering about is whether it would make sense to have a configuration file in Debian packages that allows maintainers to specify preferences for contributions. At the moment, this is not a well-formed proposal yet - but I'm curious as to your thoughts. lintian-bru