Re: new kubernetes packaging

2020-03-25 Thread Florian Weimer
* Vincent Bernat: > ❦ 24 mars 2020 16:30 -07, Russ Allbery: > >> On the other hand (and I don't follow this community closely, so apologies >> if I have the details wrong here), my impression is that the Go community >> is not planning to support shared libraries, loves its staticly-linked >> bin

Re: new kubernetes packaging

2020-03-25 Thread Simon McVittie
On Wed, 25 Mar 2020 at 08:41:45 +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: > De-vendoring sources might still be an advantage because applications > can be fixed with a bin-NMU, but it's a lot of work. The resulting > divergence from upstream can result in additional bugs. On the other > hand, there are projec

Re: new kubernetes packaging

2020-03-25 Thread Alastair McKinstry
On 24/03/2020 23:05, Simon McVittie wrote: > On Tue, 24 Mar 2020 at 15:14:02 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >> I think this calculus is not entirely obvious. > Thank you for applying some much-needed nuance to this issue. I suspect > the ideal policy is neither "never use vendored dependencies" nor >

we have choice, but no change (Re: What to do when DD considers policy to be optional? [kubernetes])

2020-03-25 Thread Holger Levsen
On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 07:25:49PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > I'll repeat a point that I made earlier but put a bit of a sharper point > on it: We should thoughtfully question whether the current approach to > license review that we as a project ask ftpmasters to do is a correct > investment of p

Re: What to do when DD considers policy to be optional? [kubernetes]

2020-03-25 Thread Christian Kastner
Russ, On 25.03.20 03:25, Russ Allbery wrote: > I'll repeat a point that I made earlier but put a bit of a sharper point > on it: We should thoughtfully question whether the current approach to > license review that we as a project ask ftpmasters to do is a correct > investment of project resources

Re: What to do when DD considers policy to be optional? [kubernetes]

2020-03-25 Thread Tomas Pospisek
On 25.03.20 14:43, Christian Kastner wrote: > This is not to say that licensing is an unimportant issue -- it clearly > is. But our analyze-and-document down-to-the-file approach is on the > other extreme end of the spectrum, and it causes lots of tiresome work > that nobody apart from us seems to

Re: What to do when DD considers policy to be optional? [kubernetes]

2020-03-25 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 03:14:41PM +0100, Tomas Pospisek wrote: > On 25.03.20 14:43, Christian Kastner wrote: > > > This is not to say that licensing is an unimportant issue -- it clearly > > is. But our analyze-and-document down-to-the-file approach is on the > > other extreme end of the spectrum

Re: What to do when DD considers policy to be optional? [kubernetes]

2020-03-25 Thread Tomas Pospisek
On 25.03.20 15:19, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 03:14:41PM +0100, Tomas Pospisek wrote: >> On 25.03.20 14:43, Christian Kastner wrote: >> >>> This is not to say that licensing is an unimportant issue -- it clearly >>> is. But our analyze-and-document down-to-the-file approach

Re: What to do when DD considers policy to be optional? [kubernetes]

2020-03-25 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 03:32:20PM +0100, Tomas Pospisek wrote: > On 25.03.20 15:19, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 03:14:41PM +0100, Tomas Pospisek wrote: > >> On 25.03.20 14:43, Christian Kastner wrote: > >> > >>> This is not to say that licensing is an unimportant issue --

Re: What to do when DD considers policy to be optional? [kubernetes]

2020-03-25 Thread Adam Borowski
On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 03:32:20PM +0100, Tomas Pospisek wrote: > On 25.03.20 15:19, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 03:14:41PM +0100, Tomas Pospisek wrote: > >> On 25.03.20 14:43, Christian Kastner wrote: > >> > >>> This is not to say that licensing is an unimportant issue --

Re: What to do when DD considers policy to be optional? [kubernetes]

2020-03-25 Thread Scott Kitterman
On March 25, 2020 1:43:26 PM UTC, Christian Kastner wrote: >Russ, > >On 25.03.20 03:25, Russ Allbery wrote: >> I'll repeat a point that I made earlier but put a bit of a sharper >point >> on it: We should thoughtfully question whether the current approach >to >> license review that we as a proj

Re: What to do when DD considers policy to be optional? [kubernetes]

2020-03-25 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Andrey Rahmatullin (2020-03-25 15:46:10) > On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 03:32:20PM +0100, Tomas Pospisek wrote: > > On 25.03.20 15:19, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > > > On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 03:14:41PM +0100, Tomas Pospisek wrote: > > >> On 25.03.20 14:43, Christian Kastner wrote: > > >> > > >>>

Re: What to do when DD considers policy to be optional? [kubernetes]

2020-03-25 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 03:57:29PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > > >> I'd contest this. Whenever Open Source standards come up in a > > > >> discussion, Debian is always the gold reference. You know it can be > > > >> done > > > >> right and it is: in Debian. > > > > Or you can look at the Re

Re: What to do when DD considers policy to be optional? [kubernetes]

2020-03-25 Thread Christian Kastner
On 25.03.20 15:14, Tomas Pospisek wrote: > I can be sure that if stuff lands in Debian then I won't get screwed > by weird, dirty, missleading, underhanded licensing rules, which > seems to be the standard outside the Open Source world and even on > its fringes. The only thing you can be sure about

Re: What to do when DD considers policy to be optional? [kubernetes]

2020-03-25 Thread Florian Weimer
* Andrey Rahmatullin: > Or you can look at the Redhat approach as a minimal working one. > You know it can be done much easier and still work: in Redhat. I think you are referring to a Fedora process, not a Red Hat process. The Red Hat process does not seem much simpler than what ftpmaster are do

Re: length of Debian copyright files

2020-03-25 Thread Simon McVittie
On Wed, 25 Mar 2020 at 15:32:20 +0100, Tomas Pospisek wrote: > On 25.03.20 15:19, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > > Or you can look at the Redhat approach as a minimal working one. > > You know it can be done much easier and still work: in Redhat. > > (in case it hasn't already been discussed in this

Re: What to do when DD considers policy to be optional? [kubernetes]

2020-03-25 Thread Pierre-Elliott Bécue
Le mardi 24 mars 2020 à 19:08:23+, Janos LENART a écrit : > [snip] > I do think there is a good case for Kubernetes to be an exception from 4.13 > for > now, just like other Go packages effectively are. Using other examples to say "people do bas stuff elsewhere so I'm entitled to do the same"

Re: length of Debian copyright files

2020-03-25 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Wed 25 Mar 2020 at 03:43PM +00, Simon McVittie wrote: > I think part of the problem might be this vicious cycle: the NEW queue > is an asynchronous gatekeeper/progress blocker, which gives maintainers > a strong incentive to get things accepted first time (because a NEW > rejection will

Re: length of Debian copyright files

2020-03-25 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 03:43:17PM +, Simon McVittie wrote: > I think part of the problem might be this vicious cycle: the NEW queue > is an asynchronous gatekeeper/progress blocker, which gives maintainers > a strong incentive to get things accepted first time (because a NEW > rejection will d

Re: length of Debian copyright files

2020-03-25 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Wed 25 Mar 2020 at 08:58PM +05, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 03:43:17PM +, Simon McVittie wrote: >> I think part of the problem might be this vicious cycle: the NEW queue >> is an asynchronous gatekeeper/progress blocker, which gives maintainers >> a strong in

Re: What to do when DD considers policy to be optional? [kubernetes]

2020-03-25 Thread Marc Haber
On Tue, 24 Mar 2020 20:37:16 +, Jeremy Stanley wrote: >If this represents the actual state of building Kubernetes, it's >unclear to me why Debian would package it at all. I don't see the >value to users in consuming Kubernetes from a Debian package if the >result is compromising on Debian's vi

Re: What to do when DD considers policy to be optional? [kubernetes]

2020-03-25 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 25 mars 2020 15:57 +01, Jonas Smedegaard: >> rpm packages record the package license information in a one-line License: >> field. > > Is your point that 9 lines can be reduced to one, or that 100 lines can > be reduced to one? > > It is legal in Debian to write debian/copyright files looking l

Re: length of Debian copyright files

2020-03-25 Thread Simon McVittie
On Wed, 25 Mar 2020 at 09:04:52 -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: > On Wed 25 Mar 2020 at 08:58PM +05, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 03:43:17PM +, Simon McVittie wrote: > >> maintainers are incentivized > >> to dot every i and cross every t in the copyright file even if it isn'

Re: length of Debian copyright files

2020-03-25 Thread Keith Packard
Simon McVittie writes: > One thing that the ftp team clarified somewhat recently is that in > most cases, we must track all the copyright notices that exist in the > upstream source, and copy them into d/copyright. As an example, I've got a package in the new queue with a 5077 line copyright fil

Bug#954951: ITP: libcompiler-lexer-perl -- Lexical Analyzer for Perl5

2020-03-25 Thread Dominique Dumont
Package: wnpp Owner: Dominique Dumont Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libcompiler-lexer-perl Version : 0.23 Upstream Author : Masaaki Goshima (goccy) * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/Comp

Re: length of Debian copyright files

2020-03-25 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Keith Packard (2020-03-25 19:07:33) > Simon McVittie writes: > > > One thing that the ftp team clarified somewhat recently is that in > > most cases, we must track all the copyright notices that exist in > > the upstream source, and copy them into d/copyright. > > As an example, I've g

Re: length of Debian copyright files

2020-03-25 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello Simon, Not speaking for the whole FTP Team in this mail, but maybe I can help a bit. On Wed 25 Mar 2020 at 05:47PM +00, Simon McVittie wrote: > On Wed, 25 Mar 2020 at 09:04:52 -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: >> On Wed 25 Mar 2020 at 08:58PM +05, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: >> > On Wed, Mar 25, 20

Re: What to do when DD considers policy to be optional? [kubernetes]

2020-03-25 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Hi, > As a person who originally introduced Kubernetes to Debian I can say that it > is indeed a lot of work to maintain this package and to reuse packaged > libraries. But I've demonstrated that it is possible at least to some extent. if you've maintained k8s you would know that it is only tes

Re: new kubernetes packaging

2020-03-25 Thread Moritz Mühlenhoff
Sean Whitton wrote: > I am not sure, however, that your argument applies to security updates > to our stable releases. These updates are almost always a matter of > backporting small fixes, rather than updating to new upstream releases. > And for backported fixes, vendoring makes things much hard

Re: What to do when DD considers policy to be optional? [kubernetes]

2020-03-25 Thread Moritz Mühlenhoff
Russ Allbery schrieb: > Michael Lustfield writes: > >> One last thing to consider... NEW reviews are already an intense >> process. If this package hit NEW /and/ we allowed vendored libs, you >> could safely expect me to never complete that particular review. I doubt >> I'm the only one; that's e

Re: email backend for fedmsg

2020-03-25 Thread clime
> > > I work in telecom for meteorology, and we ended up with a general method > for file copying (catchphrase: rsync on steroids*.) ( *every catchphrase is > a distortion, no dis to rsync, but in certain cases we do work much faster, > it just communicates the idea.) Sarracenia ( > https://github

Re: email backend for fedmsg

2020-03-25 Thread clime
I was looking into the email approach more and maybe I found a few improvements: - each communicating agent has an exim instance - there are a few dns servers that replicate their configuration between each other (to provide redundancy) - these servers store subscriptions of the agents for each to

Re: email backend for fedmsg

2020-03-25 Thread Peter Silva
Most Sarrracenia stuff is tied to AMQP, but next-gen messages are called v03 (version 3) they use a JSON payload for all the information, and that makes it somewhat protocol independent. There is also a 500 line MQTT demo that implements a file replication network, using the same JSON messages, and

Re: What to do when DD considers policy to be optional? [kubernetes]

2020-03-25 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
On Thursday, 26 March 2020 7:38:12 AM AEDT Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > ... you would know that it is only tested with the > exact versions of the libraries as it was released with. > > Choosing different versions is prone to introduce subtle bugs and should > never be done and accepted if that k8s vers

Re: What to do when DD considers policy to be optional? [kubernetes]

2020-03-25 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
On Thursday, 26 March 2020 3:45:21 AM AEDT Marc Haber wrote: > Software packages like kubernetes, docker, and many of the other "hip > tools of the day" are moving way too fast for our release scheme. It is worth remembering that Debian is not only a stable release. Statically built Golang apps ar