[RFC] Adding pkg-config to build-essential

2016-09-17 Thread Michael Biebl
Hi, I wonder if nowadays pkg-config would qualify as Build-Essential. We have 2400 source packages listing it as explicit Build-Depends and countless -dev packages pulling in pkg-config. So the list of packages requiring pkg-config during build is potentially much longer. At which point do we co

Bug#838083: ITP: metaphlan2 -- Metagenomic Phylogenetic Analysis

2016-09-17 Thread Andreas Tille
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andreas Tille * Package name: metaphlan2 Version : 2.6.0 Upstream Author : Duy Tin Truong, Nicola Segata and Curtis Huttenhower * URL : https://bitbucket.org/biobakery/metaphlan2 * License : MIT Programming Lang: Python

Re: [RFC] Adding pkg-config to build-essential

2016-09-17 Thread Josh Triplett
Michael Biebl wrote: > I wonder if nowadays pkg-config would qualify as Build-Essential. > > We have 2400 source packages listing it as explicit Build-Depends and > countless -dev packages pulling in pkg-config. So the list of packages > requiring pkg-config during build is potentially much longer

Re: [RFC] Adding pkg-config to build-essential

2016-09-17 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 17.09.2016 um 12:24 schrieb Josh Triplett: > I can't think of anything this would buy us, other than a few bytes in > the Packages file. It's a valid question. I guess I need to explain what triggered this email. A couple of days ago I uploaded a new version of gtk-doc-tools (to experimental) w

Bug#838095: ITP: python-k8sclient -- Kubernetes API python client code

2016-09-17 Thread Thomas Goirand
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Thomas Goirand * Package name: python-k8sclient Version : 0.3.0 Upstream Author : OpenStack Foundation * URL : https://github.com/openstack/python-ks8client * License : Apache-2.0 Programming Lang: Python Description

Re: Debian does not have customers, but users

2016-09-17 Thread W. Martin Borgert
On 2016-09-16 21:26, Nicholas D Steeves wrote: > What about the term client? ;-) What about the term "users"? (We use the word already in our social contract and IMHO it serves us well.)

Bug#838101: ITP: python-azure -- Microsoft Azure SDK for Python

2016-09-17 Thread Iain R. Learmonth
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Iain R. Learmonth" * Package name: python-azure Version : 2.0.0 Upstream Author : Microsoft * URL : https://github.com/lmazuel/azure-sdk-for-python * License : MIT / Apache Programming Lang: Python Description :

Re: [RFC] Adding pkg-config to build-essential

2016-09-17 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Sat, 2016-09-17 at 11:26:05 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: > I wonder if nowadays pkg-config would qualify as Build-Essential. I don't think so. > We have 2400 source packages listing it as explicit Build-Depends and > countless -dev packages pulling in pkg-config. So the list of packages >

Bug#838121: ITP: msrest - AutoRest swagger generator Python client runtime

2016-09-17 Thread Antoine R. Dumont
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Antoine R. Dumont" * Package name: python-msrest Version : 0.4.3 Upstream Author : Microsoft * URL : https://github.com/Azure/autorest * License : MIT Programming Lang: Python Description : AutoRest swagger gener

Bug#838122: ITP: msrestazure - Azure-specific autorest swagger generator Python client runtime

2016-09-17 Thread Antoine R. Dumont
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Antoine R. Dumont" * Package name: python-msrestazure Version : 0.4.2 Upstream Author : Microsoft * URL : https://github.com/Azure/autorest * License : MIT Programming Lang: Python Description : Azure-specific au

Bug#838123: ITP: tendermint -- simple, secure, scalable Blockchain platform

2016-09-17 Thread Alessio Treglia
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alessio Treglia * Package name: tendermint Version : 0.7.1 Upstream Author : the Tendermin project * URL : http://tendermint.com/ * License : Apache-2.0 Programming Lang: Go Description : simple, secure, scalable

Bug#838128: ITP: tmsp -- the Tendermint Socket Protocol

2016-09-17 Thread Alessio Treglia
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alessio Treglia * Package name: tmsp Version : Git snapshot Upstream Author : the Tendermint project * URL : http://www.tendermint.com * License : Apache-2.0 Programming Lang: Go Description : Tendermint Socket Pr

Re: [RFC] Adding pkg-config to build-essential

2016-09-17 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
2016-09-17 14:06 Guillem Jover: On Sat, 2016-09-17 at 11:26:05 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: At which point do we consider a package Build-Essential? It's not like every package actually uses gcc or make during build either. If you had picked g++ that would have been a better example. :) But ma

Re: removal instead of orphaning?

2016-09-17 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
2016-08-28 21:50 Sean Whitton: Hello, On Sun, Aug 28, 2016 at 10:13:44AM +0100, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote: I think that one measure to improve the current situation is that, for the people doing NMUs, to orphan the package when the number of NMUs exceeds for example 3 or 5 in a row, o

Bug#838150: ITP: itktools -- command line tools based on the ITK, intended for image processing

2016-09-17 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Steve M. Robbins" * Package name: itktools Version : 0.3.2 Upstream Author : Marius Staring, Stefan Klein, David Doria * URL : https://github.com/ITKTools/ITKTools * License : Apache 2.0 Programming Lang: C++ Descrip

Bug#838156: ITP: haskell-raaz -- crytographic networking library for Haskell

2016-09-17 Thread Sean Whitton
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Sean Whitton * Package name: haskell-raaz Version : 0.0.2 Upstream Author : Piyush P Kurur * URL : https://github.com/raaz-crypto/raaz * License : BSD-3-clause Programming Lang: Haskell Description : crytographic

Re: removal instead of orphaning?

2016-09-17 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 2:53 AM, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote: > 2016-08-28 21:50 Sean Whitton: >> On Sun, Aug 28, 2016 at 10:13:44AM +0100, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo >> wrote: >>> >>> I think that one measure to improve the current situation is that, for >>> the people doing NMUs, to or