Re: Removing bzip2 support from apt due to rustification

2019-06-08 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Jun 07, 2019 at 09:03:18PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > This isn't just for us; it's also for the upstreams involved. It can be > demoralizing and frustrating to be pulled into negative discussions about > something you care about, and people have limited capacity to react > gracefully to

Re: Removing bzip2 support from apt due to rustification

2019-06-07 Thread Russ Allbery
Paul Wise writes: > On Sat, Jun 8, 2019 at 10:09 AM Russ Allbery wrote: >> Please let us have internal conversations without using them to >> prematurely pick fights with external maintainers. > It definitely wasn't my intention to pick a fight. Yeah, I didn't think that part was intentional

Re: Removing bzip2 support from apt due to rustification

2019-06-07 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Jun 8, 2019 at 10:09 AM Russ Allbery wrote: > Please let us have internal conversations without using them to > prematurely pick fights with external maintainers. It definitely wasn't my intention to pick a fight. I strongly disagree with hiding upstream problems from upstream

Re: Removing bzip2 support from apt due to rustification

2019-06-07 Thread Russ Allbery
Paul Wise writes: > That was me. I apologise for the confusion I generated. I get annoyed at > people who don't CC the right people when sending mail. In this case I > probably should have sent you Federico direct mail pointing at the > archives instead. This is called snitch-tagging in other

Re: Removing bzip2 support from apt due to rustification

2019-06-07 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Jun 8, 2019 at 4:48 AM Julian Andres Klode wrote: > On Fri, Jun 07, 2019 at 03:36:08PM -0500, Federico Mena Quintero wrote: > > On Fri, 2019-06-07 at 11:48 +0800, Julian Andres Klode wrote: > > > > Why am I getting BCCed on this? Is this low-key unsolicited > > complaining like in

Re: Removing bzip2 support from apt due to rustification

2019-06-07 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
On Fri, 2019-06-07 at 22:48 +0200, Julian Andres Klode wrote: > I did not BCC you, someone must have bounced it to you. You might > want to look at your mail headers to see how it got to you. I don't > even know your email address (well now I do...). I hope whoever did > it will step forward. You

Re: Removing bzip2 support from apt due to rustification

2019-06-07 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
On Fri, 2019-06-07 at 11:48 +0800, Julian Andres Klode wrote: Why am I getting BCCed on this? Is this low-key unsolicited complaining like in https://mastodon.social/@juliank/102226793499538013 ? > seeing that Federico Mena Quintero has taken over bzip2 development > and is in the process of

Re: Removing bzip2 support from apt due to rustification

2019-06-07 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, On Fri, Jun 07, 2019 at 09:54:01AM +0200, Xavier wrote: > Le 07/06/2019 à 09:48, Mo Zhou a écrit : > > On 2019-06-06 21:44, Boyuan Yang wrote: > >> I do remember there's still some source packages / binary packages in > >> Debian > >> using the bzip2 format. If we are going to do that (which

Re: Removing bzip2 support from apt due to rustification

2019-06-07 Thread Julian Andres Klode
On Fri, Jun 07, 2019 at 03:36:08PM -0500, Federico Mena Quintero wrote: > On Fri, 2019-06-07 at 11:48 +0800, Julian Andres Klode wrote: > > Why am I getting BCCed on this? Is this low-key unsolicited > complaining like in https://mastodon.social/@juliank/102226793499538013 I did not BCC you,

Re: Removing bzip2 support from apt due to rustification

2019-06-07 Thread Xavier
Le 07/06/2019 à 09:48, Mo Zhou a écrit : > Hi Boyuan, > > On 2019-06-06 21:44, Boyuan Yang wrote: >> I do remember there's still some source packages / binary packages in Debian >> using the bzip2 format. If we are going to do that (which looks reasonable, >> BTW), a serious archive-wide scan

Re: Removing bzip2 support from apt due to rustification

2019-06-07 Thread Mo Zhou
Hi Boyuan, On 2019-06-06 21:44, Boyuan Yang wrote: > I do remember there's still some source packages / binary packages in Debian > using the bzip2 format. If we are going to do that (which looks reasonable, > BTW), a serious archive-wide scan should be made in advance to see how great > the

Re: Removing bzip2 support from apt due to rustification

2019-06-06 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 06.06.19 um 23:35 schrieb Julian Andres Klode: > Hi folks, > > seeing that Federico Mena Quintero has taken over bzip2 development > and is in the process of porting it to Rust[1], we should consider > removing bzip2 support from apt, dpkg, etc. following the release > of buster. Reading

Potentially forking bzip2 (was: Re: Removing bzip2 support from apt due to rustification)

2019-06-06 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Thu, 2019-06-06 at 23:35:28 +0200, Julian Andres Klode wrote: > seeing that Federico Mena Quintero has taken over bzip2 development > and is in the process of porting it to Rust[1], we should consider > removing bzip2 support from apt, dpkg, etc. following the release > of buster. Argh.

Re: Removing bzip2 support from apt due to rustification

2019-06-06 Thread Julian Andres Klode
On Thu, Jun 06, 2019 at 05:44:27PM -0400, Boyuan Yang wrote: > 在 2019-06-06四的 23:35 +0200,Julian Andres Klode写道: > > Hi folks, > > > > seeing that Federico Mena Quintero has taken over bzip2 development > > and is in the process of porting it to Rust[1], we should consider > > removing bzip2

Re: Removing bzip2 support from apt due to rustification

2019-06-06 Thread Adam Borowski
On Thu, Jun 06, 2019 at 05:44:27PM -0400, Boyuan Yang wrote: > 在 2019-06-06四的 23:35 +0200,Julian Andres Klode写道: > > seeing that Federico Mena Quintero has taken over bzip2 development > > and is in the process of porting it to Rust[1], we should consider > > removing bzip2 support from apt, dpkg,

Re: Removing bzip2 support from apt due to rustification

2019-06-06 Thread Boyuan Yang
在 2019-06-06四的 23:35 +0200,Julian Andres Klode写道: > Hi folks, > > seeing that Federico Mena Quintero has taken over bzip2 development > and is in the process of porting it to Rust[1], we should consider > removing bzip2 support from apt, dpkg, etc. following the release > of buster. > > My

Removing bzip2 support from apt due to rustification

2019-06-06 Thread Julian Andres Klode
Hi folks, seeing that Federico Mena Quintero has taken over bzip2 development and is in the process of porting it to Rust[1], we should consider removing bzip2 support from apt, dpkg, etc. following the release of buster. My understanding is that having APT depend on a library written in Rust