Re: Automated backports based on Janitor work?

2022-12-04 Thread Jelmer Vernooij
On Sat, Dec 03, 2022 at 09:11:57AM +0100, Niels Thykier wrote: > Jelmer Vernooij: > > On Thu, Aug 26, 2021 at 11:39:06AM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > > [...] > > > Jelmer, did you already think about that? Is there a way one could help > > > you? > > > > Reviving this thread that's more than

Re: Automated backports based on Janitor work?

2022-12-03 Thread Niels Thykier
Jelmer Vernooij: Hi Lucas, On Thu, Aug 26, 2021 at 11:39:06AM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: [...] Jelmer, did you already think about that? Is there a way one could help you? Reviving this thread that's more than a year old... [...] Known issues that still need to be addressed: *

Re: Automated backports based on Janitor work?

2022-12-01 Thread Jelmer Vernooij
Hi Lucas, On Thu, Aug 26, 2021 at 11:39:06AM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > I'm really amazed by all the great work done around the Debian Janitor > project. It's great to see how it focuses the maintainer's work on where > there's some actual value with having humans in the loop. > > Watching

Re: Automated backports based on Janitor work?

2021-09-05 Thread Jelmer Vernooij
On 30 August 2021 19:17:54 CEST, Christian Kastner wrote: >On 30.08.21 15:49, Jelmer Vernooij wrote: >> I think one of the main challenges here is to make sure that the >> dependencies for packages in unstable/testing are correct. > >Why wouldn't they be correct, though? If it's less strict than

Re: Automated backports based on Janitor work?

2021-08-30 Thread Christian Kastner
On 30.08.21 15:49, Jelmer Vernooij wrote: > I think one of the main challenges here is to make sure that the > dependencies for packages in unstable/testing are correct. Why wouldn't they be correct, though? If it's less strict than it should be, then that is a bug. And if it's too strict,

Re: Automated backports based on Janitor work?

2021-08-30 Thread Jelmer Vernooij
Hi Lucas, On Thu, Aug 26, 2021 at 11:39:06AM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > Watching the talk[0] on automatically providing packages for new > upstream releases and new upstream git snapshots, I wondered if the same > tooling could be used to automatically provide stable backports > for packages

Re: Automated backports based on Janitor work?

2021-08-27 Thread Jonathan Carter
Hey Lucas On 2021/08/27 15:04, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: Oh I wasn't thinking about uploading to the official backports suite. In the same spirit as the fresh-{releases,snapshots} suites provided by janitor, I was thinking about an automatically-generated backports suite. That sounds great.

Re: Automated backports based on Janitor work?

2021-08-27 Thread Holger Levsen
On Fri, Aug 27, 2021 at 03:04:34PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > uploading to -backports also implies the promise to keep maintaining that > > backport until the next release is out... I'm not sure that part of the > > upload should be automated nor forgotten ;) > Oh I wasn't thinking about

Re: Automated backports based on Janitor work?

2021-08-27 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 27/08/21 at 12:54 +, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Thu, Aug 26, 2021 at 11:39:06AM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > There's probably a large number of packages that just require a > > rebuild (+ test with autopkgtest) to be backported. > > uploading to -backports also implies the promise to

Re: Automated backports based on Janitor work?

2021-08-27 Thread Holger Levsen
On Thu, Aug 26, 2021 at 11:39:06AM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > There's probably a large number of packages that just require a > rebuild (+ test with autopkgtest) to be backported. uploading to -backports also implies the promise to keep maintaining that backport until the next release is

Re: Automated backports based on Janitor work?

2021-08-27 Thread Christian Kastner
On 26.08.21 11:39, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > Additionally, one could imagine a DSL to: > - make minor changes to the source package before building (adjust > dependencies, apply an additional patch, etc.) > - tell sbuild that some build-dependencies must be pulled from backported > packages > >

Automated backports based on Janitor work?

2021-08-26 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
Hi, I'm really amazed by all the great work done around the Debian Janitor project. It's great to see how it focuses the maintainer's work on where there's some actual value with having humans in the loop. Watching the talk[0] on automatically providing packages for new upstream releases and new