Bug#803057: Npgsql package

2015-10-26 Thread Jo Shields
Debian's build servers have no internet access, by design (as is the case for most distros). Packages requiring internet access to build don't go into Debian, full stop. So if their build system needs it, then there needs to be provision for using a local cache instead of the web (NuGet supports th

Bug#803057: Npgsql package

2015-10-26 Thread Shay Rojansky
OK, thanks for the explanation, that makes sense. I'm not at all familiar with what you guys intend to do with NuGet from a Debian perspective. If this is more of a short-term backwards-compatibility measure, may I suggest not publishing Debian packages for Npgsql 3.x to force people to move to Nu

Bug#803057: Npgsql package

2015-10-26 Thread Jo Shields
NuGet introduces a number of packaging issues that we are not ready to deal with yet from a dependency resolution perspective in Debian (we have some measures half implemented to handle it). Uploading from the 2.x branch is a short-term measure to satisfy dependencies on packages which currently b

Bug#803057: Npgsql package

2015-10-26 Thread Shay Rojansky
Hi. I'm the maintainer of Npsgql, and I happened to see this report. Npgsql was removed from mono because it was severely out of date, and in today's .NET world the best practice is to install packages via nuget rather than installing them on the system (i.e. in the Global Assembly Cache or GAC).