Re: New contributor experience

2025-06-18 Thread Marc Haber
On Wed, Jun 18, 2025 at 02:29:05PM +0200, IOhannes m zmölnig wrote: Am 18. Juni 2025 12:35:04 MESZ schrieb Marc Haber : On Tue, 17 Jun 2025 13:42:18 -0700, Soren Stoutner wrote: I am not sure whether just pushing my fixed code to the branch that I submitted an MR for will automatically upda

Re: how to abtain only the debian directory of a package

2025-06-18 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jun 18, 2025 at 11:59:11AM +0200, PICCA Frederic-Emmanuel wrote: Do we have a cli-tool whcih is an equivalent of apt source blabla=version, but connected by default to snapshot ? There's debsnap(1) in devscripts. -- Colin Watson (he/him) [cjwat...@debian.

Re: how to abtain only the debian directory of a package

2025-06-18 Thread Andrey Rakhmatullin
On Wed, Jun 18, 2025 at 11:59:11AM +0200, PICCA Frederic-Emmanuel wrote: ... and hope that they don't patch the upstream source directly. The purpose is not necessarely to build every packages already uploaded into Debian :). Just a few packages from testing/unstable in order to build backpor

Re: New contributor experience

2025-06-18 Thread Marc Haber
On Tue, 17 Jun 2025 23:15:55 +0300, Otto Kekäläinen wrote: >I've seen some of this same sentiment in discussions about >bugs.debian.org. People think that having a hard-to-use bug tracker >will keep the "noobs" away and maintain a higher quality of bug >reports and discussions among the people who

Re: New contributor experience

2025-06-18 Thread Phil Wyett
On Wed, 2025-06-18 at 00:40 +0200, Alex wrote: > > any solutions > > on what the Debian community can do to improve the new contributor > > experience. > > Hi everyone > > I've been following this thread with great interest from the very > beginning and can relate to the many good points raised

how to abtain only the debian directory of a package

2025-06-18 Thread PICCA Frederic-Emmanuel
Hello, I would like to get only the debian directory of a package, in order to build locally a set of packages. My tools are for now, the dht programm from pkg-haskell-tools. This tool expect a flat directory organized like this p//debian It then create the dsc file from this and build all the

Re: New contributor experience

2025-06-18 Thread Andrea Pappacoda
On Tue Jun 17, 2025 at 7:31 PM CEST, Otto Kekäläinen wrote: The big question here you seem to avoid commenting on is what is the workflow you expect the next generation to seriously adopt? Any plans to write a new e-mail client and then ask e.g. university students to start learning it? For the

Re: how to abtain only the debian directory of a package

2025-06-18 Thread PICCA Frederic-Emmanuel
> ... and hope that they don't patch the upstream source directly. The purpose is not necessarely to build every packages already uploaded into Debian :). Just a few packages from testing/unstable in order to build backports on the current stable or exceptionally oldstable. Maybe a solution wo

Re: New contributor experience

2025-06-18 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Wed, Jun 18, 2025 at 02:29:49PM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: > The typical Github/Gitlab workflow encourages having a separation between > two categories of branches: > > - stable, "public", safe to reference and will not be force-pushed > (for example "main" or "0.2.x" or "debian/latest") >

Re: New contributor experience

2025-06-18 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jun 18, 2025 at 02:51:02PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: How about force pushes after doing rebase -i to squash fixups? I have been told to NEVER do that, but the one time I accidentally did it, it just worked. This was the blanket advice people were giving 15 years ago, but nowadays most

Re: how to abtain only the debian directory of a package

2025-06-18 Thread PICCA Frederic-Emmanuel
> debsnap Indeed, it is quite slow compare to apt source... thanks Fred

Re: how to abtain only the debian directory of a package

2025-06-18 Thread Andrey Rakhmatullin
On Wed, Jun 18, 2025 at 12:51:28PM +0200, PICCA Frederic-Emmanuel wrote: debsnap Indeed, it is quite slow compare to apt source... Not to me. Make sure you are using it correctly, e.g. make sure you are specifying the version to download. -- WBR, wRAR signature.asc Description: PGP sign

Re: how to abtain only the debian directory of a package

2025-06-18 Thread Andrey Rakhmatullin
On Wed, Jun 18, 2025 at 11:30:05AM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: So to start with, I just want to get the debian directory of the testing/unstable version of package. How can I get this without downloading a full debian source package ? Ther is no easy way for native packages (i.e. where th

Re: New contributor experience

2025-06-18 Thread Marc Haber
On Tue, 17 Jun 2025 13:42:18 -0700, Soren Stoutner wrote: >Regarding working with patch submissions, I greatly prefer an MR. I almost >never merge a request without requesting changes, or at least clarification. >Having the ability to highlight specific lines of code and start a thread >discu

Re: New contributor experience

2025-06-18 Thread IOhannes m zmölnig
Am 18. Juni 2025 12:35:04 MESZ schrieb Marc Haber : >On Tue, 17 Jun 2025 13:42:18 -0700, Soren Stoutner >wrote: >> >I am not sure whether just >pushing my fixed code to the branch that I submitted an MR for will >automatically update the MR it will. in forges like gitlab (or GitHub), MRs (PRs)

Re: how to abtain only the debian directory of a package

2025-06-18 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2025-06-18 PICCA Frederic-Emmanuel wrote: [...] > So to start with, I just want to get the debian directory of the > testing/unstable version of package. > How can I get this without downloading a full debian source package ? Ther is no easy way for native packages (i.e. where the source pa

Re: New contributor experience

2025-06-18 Thread Marc Haber
On Tue, 17 Jun 2025 20:38:45 +, Jeremy Stanley wrote: >On 2025-06-17 20:31:31 +0300 (+0300), Otto Kekäläinen wrote: >[...] >> The big question here you seem to avoid commenting on is what is >> the workflow you expect the next generation to seriously adopt? >[...] > >Perhaps playing devil's a

Bug#1107985: ITP: librust-unicode-normalization-alignments-dev -- forked version of unicode-normalization wich provides alignment information during normalization

2025-06-18 Thread Kohei Sendai
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Kohei Sendai X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, kouhei.sen...@gmail.com * Package name: librust-unicode-normalization-alignments-dev Version : 0.1.12 Upstream Contact: Anthony MOI * URL : https://github.com/n1t0/unicod

Re: New contributor experience

2025-06-18 Thread Simon McVittie
On Wed, 18 Jun 2025 at 14:29:05 +0200, IOhannes m zmölnig wrote: discussion on lines of code within the MR can become stale when you push new commits that change the very lines (but the history is kept), and the discussion can be "resolved" (hidden, as no longer relevant; but still there). my

Bug#1108013: ITP: atari-rpi -- USB to Atari mouse adapter for Raspberry Pi

2025-06-18 Thread Jérôme SONRIER
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jérôme SONRIER X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, j...@emor3j.fr.eu.org * Package name: atari-rpi Version : 1.0 Upstream Contact: Jérôme SONRIER * URL : https://github.com/emor3j/atari_rpi * License : GPL Pro

Bug#1108021: ITP: librust-rayon-cond-dev -- Experimental iterator wrapper that is conditionally parallel or serial.

2025-06-18 Thread Kohei Sendai
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Kohei Sendai X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, kouhei.sen...@gmail.com * Package name: librust-rayon-cond-dev Version : 0.4.0 Upstream Contact: Josh Stone * URL : https://github.com/cuviper/rayon-cond * License

Bug#1108022: ITP: librust-spm-precompiled-dev -- emulate https://github.com/google/sentencepiece Dart::DoubleArray struct and it's Normalizer

2025-06-18 Thread Kohei Sendai
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Kohei Sendai X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, kouhei.sen...@gmail.com * Package name: librust-spm-precompiled-dev Version : 0.1.4 Upstream Contact: Nicolas Patry * URL : https://github.com/huggingface/spm_precompiled

Bug#1108020: ITP: librust-esaxx-rs-dev -- Wrapping around sentencepiece's esaxxx library.

2025-06-18 Thread Kohei Sendai
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Kohei Sendai X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, kouhei.sen...@gmail.com * Package name: librust-esaxx-rs-dev Version : 0.1.10 Upstream Contact: Nicolas Patry * URL : https://github.com/Narsil/esaxx-rs * License