Re: why hasn't the debian transition freeze been announced or shared in debin testing info. or bits.debian.org ?

2018-04-27 Thread shirish शिरीष
at bottom :- On 26/04/2018, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: > > Yes. In any case, those dates (as well as links to the announcement) are > also > available from https://release.debian.org/ > > Emilio > Thank you Emilio/Pochu, Just the link I was looking for to link to :) -- Regards

[OT] Thanks for your QA work (Was: Please do not drop Python 2 modules)

2018-04-27 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Adrian, On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 09:09:55PM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > I am willing to stop for several weeks/months to monitor RC bugs and > report FTBFS so that is really you who is so terribly fast in spotting and reporting bugs (sometimes even with patches). I recently came to the con

Bug#897017: ITP: node-bufferlist -- interface to treat a linked list of buffers as a single stream

2018-04-27 Thread Xavier Guimard
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Xavier Guimard * Package name: node-bufferlist Version : 0.1.0 Upstream Author : James Halliday * URL : https://github.com/substack/node-bufferlist * License : Expat Programming Lang: Javascript Description : int

Re: RFC: Support for zstd in .deb packages?

2018-04-27 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Hi Guillem. I have no real opinion on this. Guillem Jover - 27.04.18, 07:02: […] > In 2016 Paul Wise mentioned the Zstandard compressor on IRC [Z], > and I briefly checked it out as a potential candidate for dpkg > (while also mentioning it to Julian Andres Klode who was considering > adding lz4

Re: RFC: Support for zstd in .deb packages?

2018-04-27 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 09:44:09AM +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > I have no real opinion on this. Me neither. The only comment I have is: libzstd was first packaged by the Debian Med team as a predepencency for some biological software. It is quite usual that we package predependencies

Bug#897019: ITP: node-gunzip-maybe -- Node.js module that optionally gunzips a stream

2018-04-27 Thread Paolo Greppi
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Paolo Greppi * Package name: node-gunzip-maybe Version : 1.4.1 Upstream Author : Mathias Buus (@mafintosh) * URL : https://github.com/mafintosh/gunzip-maybe * License : Expat Programming Lang: JavaScript Description

Bug#897021: ITP: node-peek-stream -- Node.js module that provides an enhanced stream type

2018-04-27 Thread Paolo Greppi
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Paolo Greppi * Package name: node-peek-stream Version : 1.1.3 Upstream Author : Mathias Buus * URL : https://github.com/mafintosh/peek-stream * License : Expat Programming Lang: JavaScript Description : FIX_ME wri

Re: RFC: Support for zstd in .deb packages?

2018-04-27 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hello, On Fri, 27 Apr 2018, Guillem Jover wrote: > But in any case, I'm still open to data and opinions given that this > is in the end a matter of trade-offs, so → request for comments. :) I believe that the "zstd" compression format is providing an interesting trade-off compared to other compre

Bug#897023: ITP: node-tar-fs -- Node.js module that provides filesystem-like access to tar files

2018-04-27 Thread Paolo Greppi
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Paolo Greppi * Package name: node-tar-fs Version : 1.16.0 Upstream Author : Mathias Buus * URL : https://github.com/mafintosh/tar-fs * License : Expat Programming Lang: JavaScript Description : Node.js module that

Re: RFC: Support for zstd in .deb packages?

2018-04-27 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 07:02:12AM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > (And BTW I do not consider the current support in Ubuntu a deciding > factor in any way, while it could perhaps fragment the .deb ecosystem, > that's something for them to deal with IMO; should really start adding > the vendor to the

Re: Please do not drop Python 2 modules

2018-04-27 Thread Chris Lamb
Adrian, > We (Debian) have decided to support Python 2.7 in buster, like it or not. > > At that point it is not up to individual maintainers to sabotage > Python 2.7 support in buster by dropping Python 2 packages without > a valid technical reason. Most maintainers are likely dropping Python 2

Re: [alioth deprecation] Please remove your unused and/or migrated repositories

2018-04-27 Thread Arturo Borrero Gonzalez
On 27 April 2018 at 08:55, Alexander Wirt wrote: > Hi, > > please remove your old, unused repos on alioth, so that we don't have to > archive them. > > For darcs, bzr and mecurial do this until 2018-05-09 for all other VCS until > 2018-05-16. > Hey! Could you please provide some hints of what bu

Bug#897025: ITP: node-v8-compile-cache -- Node.js module that enables the code cache to speed up instantiation time

2018-04-27 Thread Paolo Greppi
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Paolo Greppi * Package name: node-v8-compile-cache Version : 1.1.2 Upstream Author : Andres Suarez * URL : https://github.com/zertosh/v8-compile-cache * License : Expat Programming Lang: JavaScript Description :

Re: [alioth deprecation] Please remove your unused and/or migrated repositories

2018-04-27 Thread Alexander Wirt
On Fri, 27 Apr 2018, Arturo Borrero Gonzalez wrote: > On 27 April 2018 at 08:55, Alexander Wirt wrote: > > Hi, > > > > please remove your old, unused repos on alioth, so that we don't have to > > archive them. > > > > For darcs, bzr and mecurial do this until 2018-05-09 for all other VCS until >

Re: [alioth deprecation] Please remove your unused and/or migrated repositories

2018-04-27 Thread Arturo Borrero Gonzalez
On 27 April 2018 at 11:07, Alexander Wirt wrote: > On Fri, 27 Apr 2018, Arturo Borrero Gonzalez wrote: > >> On 27 April 2018 at 08:55, Alexander Wirt wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > please remove your old, unused repos on alioth, so that we don't have to >> > archive them. >> > >> > For darcs, bzr and

Re: [alioth deprecation] Please remove your unused and/or migrated repositories

2018-04-27 Thread Alexander Wirt
On Fri, 27 Apr 2018, Arturo Borrero Gonzalez wrote: > On 27 April 2018 at 11:07, Alexander Wirt wrote: > > On Fri, 27 Apr 2018, Arturo Borrero Gonzalez wrote: > > > >> On 27 April 2018 at 08:55, Alexander Wirt wrote: > >> > Hi, > >> > > >> > please remove your old, unused repos on alioth, so tha

Bug#897027: ITP: golang-github-xlab-handysort -- Alphanumeric string sorting algorithm implementation in Go

2018-04-27 Thread Arnaud Rebillout
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Arnaud Rebillout * Package name: golang-github-xlab-handysort Version : 0.0~git20150421.fb3537e-1 Upstream Author : Maxim Kupriianov * URL : https://github.com/xlab/handysort * License : Expat Programming Lang: Go Des

Bug#897030: ITP: r-cran-later -- GNU R utilities for delaying function execution

2018-04-27 Thread Andreas Tille
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andreas Tille * Package name: r-cran-later Version : 0.7.1 Upstream Author : Joe Cheng * URL : https://cran.r-project.org/package=later * License : GPL Programming Lang: GNU R Description : GNU R utilities for de

Bug#897033: ITP: r-cran-promises -- GNU R abstractions for promise-based asynchronous programming

2018-04-27 Thread Andreas Tille
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andreas Tille * Package name: r-cran-promises Version : 1.0.1 Upstream Author : Joe Cheng * URL : https://cran.r-project.org/package=promises * License : MIT Programming Lang: GNU R Description : GNU R abstractio

Re: [Alioth-staff-replacement] alioth deprecation - next steps

2018-04-27 Thread Mike Gabriel
Hi, On Do 26 Apr 2018 10:52:41 CEST, Alexander Wirt wrote: On Thu, 26 Apr 2018, Andrej Shadura wrote: On 26 April 2018 at 10:21, Alexander Wirt wrote: > On Thu, 26 Apr 2018, Andrej Shadura wrote: > >> On 17 April 2018 at 13:00, Alexander Wirt wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > as you should be awar

Re: [Alioth-staff-replacement] alioth deprecation - next steps

2018-04-27 Thread Alexander Wirt
On Fri, 27 Apr 2018, Mike Gabriel wrote: > Hi, > > On Do 26 Apr 2018 10:52:41 CEST, Alexander Wirt wrote: > > > On Thu, 26 Apr 2018, Andrej Shadura wrote: > > > > > On 26 April 2018 at 10:21, Alexander Wirt wrote: > > > > On Thu, 26 Apr 2018, Andrej Shadura wrote: > > > > > > > >> On 17 April

Re: RFC: Support for zstd in .deb packages?

2018-04-27 Thread Adam Borowski
On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 09:44:09AM +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > Regarding technical aspects like these, one more data point: BTRFS > meanwhile offers zstandard compression support. So I bet BTRFS > developers consider it suitable for format stability and long-term data > storage. I am stil

Bug#897037: ITP: grabix -- tool for random access into BGZF files

2018-04-27 Thread Steffen Moeller
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Steffen Moeller * Package name: grabix Version : 0.1.6 * URL : https://github.com/arq5x/grabix * License : MIT/X Programming Lang: C++ Description : tool for random access into BGZF files The package is team-mainta

Re: RFC: Support for zstd in .deb packages?

2018-04-27 Thread Adam Borowski
(ZSTD) On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 07:02:12AM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > Recently Julian mentioned it again on IRC, and we each started > implementing support in dpkg and apt respectively, to allow easier > evaluation. I stopped when I realized the code was getting too messy, > but after few weeks

Re: RFC: Support for zstd in .deb packages?

2018-04-27 Thread Adam Borowski
On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 01:45:07PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > Don't. For .debs, that is. Scratch that. apt Depends: libapt-pkg5.0 Depends: libzstd1 While apt is "merely" priority:required rather than fully essential, a Debian system without apt is so deeply embedded it already requires speci

Re: RFC: Support for zstd in .deb packages?

2018-04-27 Thread Ian Jackson
Guillem Jover writes ("RFC: Support for zstd in .deb packages?"): > * Eternity contract: This would add yet another format that would need > to be supported pretty much forever, to be able to at least unpack > .deb's that might be available in the wild. This also increases the > (Build-)Essen

Re: Please do not drop Python 2 modules

2018-04-27 Thread Ian Jackson
Adrian Bunk writes ("Re: Please do not drop Python 2 modules"): > On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 06:19:24PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > > Adrian: are you volunteering to write patches to solve Helmut's cross > > building problem ? > > I am willing to stop for several weeks/months to monitor RC bugs and

Re: Please do not drop Python 2 modules

2018-04-27 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 01:06:03PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > Adrian Bunk writes ("Re: Please do not drop Python 2 modules"): > > On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 06:19:24PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > > > Adrian: are you volunteering to write patches to solve Helmut's cross > > > building problem ? > > >

Re: Please do not drop Python 2 modules

2018-04-27 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 04/26/2018 07:14 PM, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 12:03:56AM +0200, Thomas Goirand wrote: >> On 04/25/2018 06:14 PM, Adrian Bunk wrote: >>> On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 12:10:12AM +0200, Thomas Goirand wrote: ... This cannot go on, and on, and on, and on... We have to send a

Re: RFC: Support for zstd in .deb packages?

2018-04-27 Thread Julian Andres Klode
On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 02:01:44PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 01:45:07PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > > Don't. For .debs, that is. > > Scratch that. > > apt Depends: libapt-pkg5.0 Depends: libzstd1 > > While apt is "merely" priority:required rather than fully essenti

Re: RFC: Support for zstd in .deb packages?

2018-04-27 Thread Julian Andres Klode
On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 01:45:07PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > (ZSTD) > > On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 07:02:12AM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > > Recently Julian mentioned it again on IRC, and we each started > > implementing support in dpkg and apt respectively, to allow easier > > evaluation. I sto