Re: Status of new source formats project

2009-08-07 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On Wednesday 05 August 2009 14:21:54 Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Michael Banck (05/08/2009): > > On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 10:15:22AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > > And for the format of the patch, I do not know what to tell them > > > apart that unified diff is the preferred format of some Debian

Re: Status of new source formats project

2009-08-05 Thread Ben Finney
Charles Plessy writes: > Le Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 03:45:00PM +1000, Ben Finney a écrit : > > > > The point, rather, seems to be that unified-diff format is the de > > facto standard format for exchanging patch information. > > Le Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 10:53:21AM +0200, Michael Banck a écrit : > >

Re: Status of new source formats project

2009-08-05 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Michael Banck (05/08/2009): > On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 10:15:22AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > And for the format of the patch, I do not know what to tell them > > apart that unified diff is the preferred format of some Debian > > developers, > > It's the preferred format for 99% of all Free

Re: Status of new source formats project

2009-08-05 Thread Michael Banck
On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 10:15:22AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > And for the format of the patch, I do not know what to tell them apart that > unified diff is the preferred format of some Debian developers, It's the preferred format for 99% of all Free Software work/projects AFAICT. > and that

Re: Status of new source formats project

2009-08-04 Thread Ben Finney
Charles Plessy writes: > Le Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 09:51:26AM +0200, Paul Wise a écrit : > > Perhaps you could talk to upstream about switching to either using > > unified diffs for updates, tarballs for every release or a git/etc > > repository? > > For sure, Debian can suggest them git, Ubuntu c

Re: Status of new source formats project

2009-08-04 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 09:51:26AM +0200, Paul Wise a écrit : > Perhaps you could talk to upstream about switching to either using > unified diffs for updates, tarballs for every release or a git/etc > repository? For sure, Debian can suggest them git, Ubuntu can suggest them bzr, Fedora can sugge

Re: Status of new source formats project

2009-08-04 Thread Paul Wise
Perhaps you could talk to upstream about switching to either using unified diffs for updates, tarballs for every release or a git/etc repository? -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tro

Re: Status of new source formats project

2009-08-03 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 06:18:57PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog a écrit : > > > The patch is not in unified format, which causes the failure of > > dpkg-buildpackage. It is trivial to refresh it with quilt to the unified > > format, but this introduces a divergence with upstream that I would prefer > >

Re: Status of new source formats project

2009-08-03 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Sun, 02 Aug 2009, Charles Plessy wrote: > I see that .bzip2 and .lzma are also supported compression methods for the 3.0 > (native) format as well as for the binary packages. But I do not think it > would > be useful to add zip to this list. It seems to me that the only thing needed > is > the

Re: Status of new source formats project

2009-08-03 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Vincent Danjean wrote: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: Charles Plessy wrote: I see that .bzip2 and .lzma are also supported compression methods for the 3.0 (native) format as well as for the binary packages. But I do not think it would be useful to add zip to this list. It seems to me that the on

Re: Status of new source formats project

2009-08-03 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Charles Plessy writes: > Another question that I would like to ask is on the auto-patching > functionality. One of the programs we package, EMBOSS, is released once a > year > every 15th of July, and other updates are made via patches. Currently it is > possible to just give the patch to quilt

Re: Status of new source formats project

2009-08-02 Thread Roger Leigh
On Sun, Aug 02, 2009 at 08:11:57PM +, Philipp Kern wrote: > On 2009-08-02, Vincent Danjean wrote: > > Unpacking a source package is not needed during an upgrade. However, it > > occurs before > > a build. > > > > So, I understand the question of Charles as "do we want that stable dpkg be > >

Re: Status of new source formats project

2009-08-02 Thread Philipp Kern
On 2009-08-02, Vincent Danjean wrote: > Unpacking a source package is not needed during an upgrade. However, it > occurs before > a build. > > So, I understand the question of Charles as "do we want that stable dpkg be > able to > unpack all packages from testing ?". I have no strong opinion for

Re: Status of new source formats project

2009-08-02 Thread Vincent Danjean
Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: > Charles Plessy wrote: >> I see that .bzip2 and .lzma are also supported compression methods for the >> 3.0 >> (native) format as well as for the binary packages. But I do not think it >> would >> be useful to add zip to this list. It seems to me that the only thing

Re: Status of new source formats project

2009-08-02 Thread Russ Allbery
Raphael Hertzog writes: > On Sun, 02 Aug 2009, Charles Plessy wrote: >> But actually, among the programs that are not distributed upstream in a >> tar.gz format, we in the Debian Med team have as many zip cases as >> bzip2. Do you think that it would be possible to support zip format >> (i.e. .zi

Re: Status of new source formats project

2009-08-02 Thread Emilio Pozuelo Monfort
Charles Plessy wrote: > I see that .bzip2 and .lzma are also supported compression methods for the 3.0 > (native) format as well as for the binary packages. But I do not think it > would > be useful to add zip to this list. It seems to me that the only thing needed > is > the capacity to unpack t

Re: Status of new source formats project

2009-08-02 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sun, Aug 02, 2009 at 11:03:11AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog a écrit : > On Sun, 02 Aug 2009, Charles Plessy wrote: About zip support: > > But actually, among the programs that are not distributed upstream in a > > tar.gz > > format, we in the Debian Med team have as many zip cases as bzip2. Do you

Re: Status of new source formats project

2009-08-02 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Sun, 02 Aug 2009, Charles Plessy wrote: > But actually, among the programs that are not distributed upstream in a tar.gz > format, we in the Debian Med team have as many zip cases as bzip2. Do you > think > that it would be possible to support zip format (i.e. .zip, .jar and .xpi > extensions)

Re: Status of new source formats project

2009-08-02 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 04:55:16PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog a écrit : > > I updated the wiki page listing the status of this project: > http://wiki.debian.org/Projects/DebSrc3.0 Bonjour Raphaël, first of all, thank you for making things progress for the support of a next-generation source format