Re: Knowing the release names in advance

2013-01-01 Thread Charles Plessy
Hi Thomas and everybody, and « bonne année » ! It seems to me that the main technical arguments advocating predictable or sortable release names have been given, so I think that the next step would be to make sure that they get to the right ears at the right time. While this discussion on -devel

[RFC] Go (golang) packaging

2013-01-01 Thread Michael Stapelberg
Hi, I am co-maintainer of the golang package and spent a few hours on trying to figure out how to best create Debian packages for libraries and programs which are implemented in Go. I have documented my thoughts, conclusions and example packaging on: http://wiki.debian.org/MichaelStapelberg/GoPac

Re: [RFC] Go (golang) packaging

2013-01-01 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 9:44 PM, Michael Stapelberg wrote: > Any feedback is appreciated. Please read the wiki page before you > comment, it contains more rationale than this email. Thanks. Since golang apparently doesn't support dynamic linking, every package built against a golang library will h

Re: Knowing the release names in advance

2013-01-01 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 01/01/2013 04:21 PM, Charles Plessy wrote: > Hi Thomas and everybody, and « bonne année » ! > > It seems to me that the main technical arguments advocating predictable or > sortable release names have been given, so I think that the next step would be > to make sure that they get to the right ea

Re: [RFC] Go (golang) packaging

2013-01-01 Thread Michael Stapelberg
Hi Paul, > Since golang apparently doesn't support dynamic linking, every package > built against a golang library will have to include an appropriate > Built-Using header. You will probably also want a lintian test for > this to autoreject anything without this header. Thanks, I was not aware of

Re: [RFC] Go (golang) packaging

2013-01-01 Thread Dmitrijs Ledkovs
On 1 January 2013 15:44, Michael Stapelberg wrote: > Hi, > > I am co-maintainer of the golang package and spent a few hours on trying > to figure out how to best create Debian packages for libraries and > programs which are implemented in Go. > > I have documented my thoughts, conclusions and exam

Re: [RFC] Go (golang) packaging

2013-01-01 Thread Michael Stapelberg
Hi Dmitrijs, Dmitrijs Ledkovs writes: > What about multiarch? I tried to address this on the wiki page, see http://wiki.debian.org/MichaelStapelberg/GoPackaging#Multi-Arch.2Fcross-compiling Essentially, I currently believe that multi-arch does not make sense for go, since we are only dealing wit

Re: [RFC] Go (golang) packaging

2013-01-01 Thread Simon McVittie
On 01/01/13 16:14, Michael Stapelberg wrote: > Hi Paul, >> Support dynamic linking? That would avoid the whole rebuild-the-world >> thing that statically-linked languages have. > Only when not using the “official” compiler (gc), e.g. gccgo has support > for dynamic linking. Where does gccgo look f

Re: [RFC] Go (golang) packaging

2013-01-01 Thread Michael Stapelberg
Hi Simon, Simon McVittie writes: > Where does gccgo look for Go sources (src)? > Where does gccgo look for Go "static libraries" (pkg)? > Where does gccgo look for Go dynamic libraries? (Presumably the same > places where gcc looks for C dynamic libraries?) I can’t really answer these questions i

Bug#697137: RFA: whohas -- query multiple distributions' package archives

2013-01-01 Thread Jonathan Wiltshire
Package: wnpp Severity: normal I request adoption of whohas, a command line tool that allows you to query several package collections at once. Regrettably I no longer have the time nor perl-fu to properly look after this tool (though I will do so where possible for Wheezy). It needs care from tim

Re: Knowing the release names in advance

2013-01-01 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Tue, Jan 01, 2013 at 10:26:17PM +0800, Thomas Goirand a écrit : > > Maybe it's a bit overkill to do a DEP just for that no? For simple propositions, a DEP is not much more than giving a number to a wiki page, and keeping track if the proposition is under discussion, accepted or rejected. The

Bug#697145: ITP: wit -- manipulate Wii and GameCube ISO images and WBFS containers

2013-01-01 Thread Michael Stapelberg
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Michael Stapelberg * Package name: wit Version : 2.10a Upstream Author : Dirk Clemens * URL : http://wit.wiimm.de/ * License : GPL-2+ Programming Lang: C Description : manipulate Wii and GameCube ISO images and W

ITP: sphinx -- Speech recognition tool base

2013-01-01 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, I've just noticed that sphinx2 was orphaned some time ago, and thus unfortunately dropped from Wheezy. I'd like to reupload it for jessie, here are the ITPs of the 3 modules: - Forwarded message from Samuel Thibault - Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Samuel Thibault * Pa

Re: [RFC] Go (golang) packaging

2013-01-01 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 12:14 AM, Michael Stapelberg wrote: > Only when not using the “official” compiler (gc), e.g. gccgo has support > for dynamic linking. Then we should use gccgo until the official compiler supports this. > AFAIK not, but I will add this to the list of questions I want to ask

Re: [RFC] Go (golang) packaging

2013-01-01 Thread Shawn
On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 6:54 PM, Paul Wise wrote: > On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 12:14 AM, Michael Stapelberg wrote: > > > Only when not using the “official” compiler (gc), e.g. gccgo has support > > for dynamic linking. > > Then we should use gccgo until the official compiler supports this. > go also

Re: [RFC] Go (golang) packaging

2013-01-01 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Michael Stapelberg [130101 14:45]: > Furthermore, the package names should be e.g. “golang-codesearch” for > the library code.google.com/p/codesearch Please also consider "codesearch-golang". Especially with longer package names not everything can show the full name so the beginning should be t

Re: [RFC] Go (golang) packaging

2013-01-01 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 3:15 PM, Bernhard R. Link wrote: > Another question: Have you considered asking for a archive Section for > those packages? I guess with no special section yet all those packages > would be section libdevel as they are for static linking only, wouldn't > they? http://wiki.d