Re: data.debian.org -- requirements for packages

2010-09-30 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 01:09:03PM -0400, Michael Hanke wrote: > * compression of content > Any policy to enforce compressed file formats regarding the stuff installed > by a data package? Also, how would we deal with data that is to be accessed using a query engine such as an SQL datab

Re: Buildd & binary-indep

2010-09-30 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Joey Hess [100929 18:33]: > Bernhard R. Link wrote: > > There really is no reason to keep build-arch and build-indep optional > > (the only reason would have been to allow for them becoming widespread > > on their own and then requiring them once that has no big effect), as > > every package not

Re: data.debian.org -- requirements for packages

2010-09-30 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Wed, 29 Sep 2010, Michael Hanke wrote: > I know that data.debian.org is not yet there, but I wonder whether there > is already a concept, i.e. a set of requirements that packages have to > fulfil to qualify for this archive? Also, I do wonder what the highest update frequency should be for dat

Re: data.debian.org -- requirements for packages

2010-09-30 Thread Simon McVittie
On Wed, 29 Sep 2010 at 13:09:03 -0400, Michael Hanke wrote: > * compression of content > > Any policy to enforce compressed file formats regarding the stuff installed > by a data package? I think this ought to be case-by-case: some users of large data blobs (e.g. Quake 3/Openarena PK3 files)

Re: Backports service becoming official

2010-09-30 Thread Sandro Tosi
Hi all, On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 10:14, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 01:19:20PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: >> On Wed, 22 Sep 2010, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: >> > From what concerns the BTS, Don's proposal in [2] (the main one, not >> > the alternative solution) seems reason

Re: data.debian.org -- requirements for packages

2010-09-30 Thread Michael Hanke
On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 06:01:38PM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: > On Wed, 29 Sep 2010 at 13:09:03 -0400, Michael Hanke wrote: > > * compression of content > > > > Any policy to enforce compressed file formats regarding the stuff > > installed > > by a data package? > > I think this ought to

Re: Buildd & binary-indep

2010-09-30 Thread Joey Hess
Bernhard R. Link wrote: > > This smells the same as the /usr/share/doc transition. That took > > *years* -- and without significant efforts, it would have never finished. > > Sorry. Even if that was comparable and thus true, it still means that this > is by far the superior solution. Only taking y

Search for a file in all Debian source packages

2010-09-30 Thread Michael Hanke
Hi, I want to determine in what Debian _source_ packages a file with a particular name exists. There used to be a webservice that had all? source packages indexed and allowed for this type of query, but I cannot remember what it was -- maybe it doesn't exist anymore. Is there any way to accomplis

Re: Search for a file in all Debian source packages

2010-09-30 Thread Benjamin Drung
Am Donnerstag, den 30.09.2010, 14:31 -0400 schrieb Michael Hanke: > Hi, > > I want to determine in what Debian _source_ packages a file with a > particular name exists. There used to be a webservice that had all? > source packages indexed and allowed for this type of query, but I cannot > remember

Re: Search for a file in all Debian source packages

2010-09-30 Thread Michael Hanke
On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 08:33:54PM +0200, Benjamin Drung wrote: > Am Donnerstag, den 30.09.2010, 14:31 -0400 schrieb Michael Hanke: > > Hi, > > > > I want to determine in what Debian _source_ packages a file with a > > particular name exists. There used to be a webservice that had all? > > source

Re: Search for a file in all Debian source packages

2010-09-30 Thread James Vega
On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 2:31 PM, Michael Hanke wrote: > I want to determine in what Debian _source_ packages a file with a > particular name exists. There used to be a webservice that had all? > source packages indexed and allowed for this type of query, but I cannot > remember what it was -- mayb

Re: data.debian.org -- requirements for packages

2010-09-30 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
> Also, I do wonder what the highest update frequency should be for data > packages. > Some databases for instance release weekly or even daily snapshots, but > updating a 10g debian package each week probably is not what we want. I guess my follow-up is the result of being smoke deprived today: c

Re: Search for a file in all Debian source packages

2010-09-30 Thread Raphael Geissert
Michael Hanke wrote: > Is there any way to accomplish this, without having to create a > complete mirror of the archive and parse all tarballs? As of a few minutes ago: http://lintian.debian.org/~geissert/Contents-sources.gz (for the time being, to be updated every four days.) Cheers, -- Rapha

Re: Buildd & binary-indep

2010-09-30 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Mon, 27 Sep 2010, Russ Allbery wrote: > > Well, I don't make it a requirement to implement it right now and the > > Build-Features code can certainly start with just the build-arch > > stuff. But I want to make sure we gave it enough thought so that it's > > not problematic later on to exte

Re: Search for a file in all Debian source packages

2010-09-30 Thread Michael Hanke
On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 02:21:45PM -0500, Raphael Geissert wrote: > Michael Hanke wrote: > > Is there any way to accomplish this, without having to create a > > complete mirror of the archive and parse all tarballs? > > As of a few minutes ago: > http://lintian.debian.org/~geissert/Contents-source

Re: Debian source code search engine

2010-09-30 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
Following Michael's inquiry I finally found this thread. Peter, are there any plans to make Debian's source code indexer alive again (and may be placed on somewhat permanent/reliable hosting)? Cheers, On Sun, 24 May 2009, Peter De Wachter wrote: > I've set up a search engine which indexes Debi

Re: Search for a file in all Debian source packages

2010-09-30 Thread Benjamin Drung
Am Donnerstag, den 30.09.2010, 14:38 -0400 schrieb Michael Hanke: > On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 08:33:54PM +0200, Benjamin Drung wrote: > > Am Donnerstag, den 30.09.2010, 14:31 -0400 schrieb Michael Hanke: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I want to determine in what Debian _source_ packages a file with a > > > p

Re: Buildd & binary-indep

2010-09-30 Thread Russ Allbery
Raphael Hertzog writes: > Well, we specified DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS space separated because build flags > frequently embed commas. Shall we not take the same decision > preemptively here? Most fields that take multiple values use commas. We do have another that takes spaces (Architecture), but I wou

Re: Search for a file in all Debian source packages

2010-09-30 Thread Jon Dowland
I *think*, if Raphael hadn't stepped up first and saved you the bother, you could probably get this information out of UDD. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian

Bug#598660: ITP: feed2omb -- Announces new articles in a feed to an open microblogging service

2010-09-30 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Raphaël Hertzog" * Package name: feed2omb Version : 0.9 Upstream Author : Ciaran Gultnieks * URL : http://projects.ciarang.com/p/feed2omb/ * License : GNU Affero General Public License 3 Programming Lang: Python Desc

Re: Summary of CUT discussions

2010-09-30 Thread Marc Haber
On Wed, 29 Sep 2010 18:05:24 +0100, Darren Salt wrote: >I demand that Roland Mas may or may not have written... >> And if I may join the bikeshedding, let me suggest we rename “testing” >> to “staging”, > >"nextstable"? ;-) > >(Not "newstable", though. That could be confusing.) notyetstable Grüß

Re: Debian source code search engine

2010-09-30 Thread Peter De Wachter
Op Thu, 30 Sep 2010 16:07:14 -0400 schreef Yaroslav Halchenko : > Following Michael's inquiry I finally found this thread. > > Peter, are there any plans to make Debian's source code indexer alive > again (and may be placed on somewhat permanent/reliable hosting)? Unfortunately I can't host it

Re: Debian ppa

2010-09-30 Thread Jon Dowland
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 07:17:22AM +0200, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: > Actually, the proposed project [1] also included work on the dak side I read that as "dark side"... but the effect was just the same ;) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "

Re: Debian ppa

2010-09-30 Thread Jon Dowland
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 06:53:02PM +1000, William Grant wrote: > Well, those few sysadmins manage Launchpad, Landscape, Ubuntu One and > some other internal applications. And you wouldn't want or need to run > all of Launchpad's services. Well that's interesting. The point I was going to make bef

Re: data.debian.org -- requirements for packages

2010-09-30 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Yaroslav Halchenko] > for HUGE DBs with frequent updates -- may be we could come up with data > package chains -- i.e. with some base package version + sequence of > dependent packages with binary deltas which get applied upon > installation? e.g. > > data-blob-1.0.0 > data-blob-1.0.0+1 > data-b

Re: Search for a file in all Debian source packages

2010-09-30 Thread Raphael Geissert
Jon Dowland wrote: > I *think*, if Raphael hadn't stepped up first and saved you the bother, > you could probably get this information out of UDD. AFAIK (and supported by [1]) UDD doesn't even have the Contents of binary packages. The only other alternative (but there's no guarantee that all th

Keeping content of binary and source packages in UDD (Was: Search for a file in all Debian source packages)

2010-09-30 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 06:13:45PM -0500, Raphael Geissert wrote: > > I *think*, if Raphael hadn't stepped up first and saved you the bother, > > you could probably get this information out of UDD. > > AFAIK (and supported by [1]) UDD doesn't even have the Contents of binary > packages. But in p

Re: Keeping content of binary and source packages in UDD (Was: Search for a file in all Debian source packages)

2010-09-30 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 08:45:34AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 06:13:45PM -0500, Raphael Geissert wrote: > > > I *think*, if Raphael hadn't stepped up first and saved you the bother, > > > you could probably get this information out of UDD. > > > > AFAIK (and supported by