Re: Looking for ideas for merging a micro package...

2013-09-06 Thread David Kalnischkies
On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 9:41 AM, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > In fact, I even demoted it from Recommends to Suggests on a package > because many people still run with install-recommends=true and it > was not strictly needed. Thanks for fixing a bug in your package. Just don't blame other people for yo

Re: Looking for ideas for merging a micro package...

2013-09-06 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Neil McGovern debian.org> writes: > > > > I absolutely do not want to see anything related to ruby on my > > > > systems. > > SC#4 and not forcing bad things on users. > Fantastic. In that case I propose we remove mksh from the archive as >From my system ≠ from the archive. I don’t say everyon

Re: Looking for ideas for merging a micro package...

2013-09-05 Thread Neil McGovern
On Thu, Sep 05, 2013 at 02:18:40PM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > Philipp Kern debian.org> writes: > > > > I absolutely do not want to see anything related to ruby on my > > > systems. > > > > How is that relevant for Debian? > > SC#4 and not forcing bad things on users. > Fantastic. In that

Re: Looking for ideas for merging a micro package...

2013-09-05 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Philipp Kern debian.org> writes: > > I absolutely do not want to see anything related to ruby on my > > systems. > > How is that relevant for Debian? SC#4 and not forcing bad things on users. bye, //mirabilos (at work) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: Looking for ideas for merging a micro package...

2013-09-04 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Peter Samuelson dixit: >> I absolutely do not want to see anything related to ruby on my >> systems. > >Why? Is this just an emotional reaction, or is it the 13 MB of >dependencies, or something else? Something else, mostly technical, the rest personal. >I wonder if anyone feels the same way ab

Re: Looking for ideas for merging a micro package...

2013-09-04 Thread Philipp Kern
On Wed, Sep 04, 2013 at 01:16:12PM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > Benjamin Drung debian.org> writes: > > devscript had only Perl and Shell scripts initially, but then gained > > Python scripts. I don't see any reason to not accept ruby script. ruby > > would pull in another ~ 13 MB of storage, bu

Re: Looking for ideas for merging a micro package...

2013-09-04 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Sep 04, 2013 at 01:02:35PM -0500, Peter Samuelson wrote: > [Thorsten Glaser] > > I absolutely do not want to see anything related to ruby on my > > systems. > Why? Is this just an emotional reaction, or is it the 13 MB of > dependencies, or something else? > I wonder if anyone feels the

Re: Looking for ideas for merging a micro package...

2013-09-04 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Thorsten Glaser] > I absolutely do not want to see anything related to ruby on my > systems. Why? Is this just an emotional reaction, or is it the 13 MB of dependencies, or something else? I wonder if anyone feels the same way about, say, libraries written in FORTRAN, or binaries linked agains

Re: Looking for ideas for merging a micro package...

2013-09-04 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Benjamin Drung debian.org> writes: > devscript had only Perl and Shell scripts initially, but then gained > Python scripts. I don't see any reason to not accept ruby script. ruby > would pull in another ~ 13 MB of storage, but devscripts targets > developer machines. I absolutely do not want to

Re: Looking for ideas for merging a micro package...

2013-09-04 Thread Benjamin Drung
Am Dienstag, den 03.09.2013, 22:18 -0700 schrieb Russ Allbery: > tony mancill writes: > > > Thank you for pointing this out. I just recently uploaded a script, > > splitpatch, that I argued should be accepted as-is (i.e. as a "micro > > package") because of the dependency on ruby. > > > Given t

Re: Looking for ideas for merging a micro package...

2013-09-03 Thread Russ Allbery
tony mancill writes: > Thank you for pointing this out. I just recently uploaded a script, > splitpatch, that I argued should be accepted as-is (i.e. as a "micro > package") because of the dependency on ruby. > Given that ruby is becoming more popular for scripting, what do folks > think about

Re: Looking for ideas for merging a micro package...

2013-09-03 Thread tony mancill
On 09/03/2013 02:17 PM, Russ Allbery wrote: > Vincent Danjean writes: > >> The fact is that the FTP team comment was correct: it is really a small >> package. So, my question was really open (I do not know every package in >> Debian), in case someone has a useful suggestion (that does not involve

Re: Looking for ideas for merging a micro package...

2013-09-03 Thread Russ Allbery
Vincent Danjean writes: > The fact is that the FTP team comment was correct: it is really a small > package. So, my question was really open (I do not know every package in > Debian), in case someone has a useful suggestion (that does not involve > to rewrite the script). moreutils is another po

Re: Looking for ideas for merging a micro package...

2013-09-03 Thread Vincent Danjean
Le 03/09/2013 14:50, Paul Tagliamonte a écrit : > On Tue, Sep 03, 2013 at 02:31:35PM +0200, Vincent Danjean wrote: >> So, I'm looking for a package that would accept this ruby script >> (I will probably ask linux-util anyway if nobody has other suggestions) >> and I will keep it in my perso repos

Re: Looking for ideas for merging a micro package...

2013-09-03 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Tue, Sep 03, 2013 at 02:31:35PM +0200, Vincent Danjean wrote: > Le 03/09/2013 11:52, Paul Wise a écrit : > > On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 10:51 AM, Vincent Danjean wrote: > > > >> Never mind. My current problem is that I have no idea which current > >> package to contact to ask for a inclusion. It

Re: Looking for ideas for merging a micro package...

2013-09-03 Thread Vincent Danjean
Le 03/09/2013 11:52, Paul Wise a écrit : > On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 10:51 AM, Vincent Danjean wrote: > >> Never mind. My current problem is that I have no idea which current >> package to contact to ask for a inclusion. It is not important enough >> to be included in packages such as util-linux an

Re: Looking for ideas for merging a micro package... (was: Nitpicking in the NEW queue.)

2013-09-03 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 10:51 AM, Vincent Danjean wrote: > Never mind. My current problem is that I have no idea which current > package to contact to ask for a inclusion. It is not important enough > to be included in packages such as util-linux and few (no?) system/devel > packages already have