Re: change proposal for handling of Depends: field in task files

Hi all, Mike Gabriel writes: > Nonetheless, the current status of blends-dev is: > > 1. it now fully suppors two modes "nodepends=true" (aka -D) and > "nodepends=false (aka without -D) > 2. the "nodepends=true mode is the default I still think it would be

Re: change proposal for handling of Depends: field in task files

Hi Andreas, On Sa 12 Aug 2017 17:28:50 CEST, Andreas Tille wrote: [...] I've did a s/^Depends:/Recommends/ debian-med:tasks/* and the code works nicely. So I decided to upload the new blends-dev. Thanks for uploading. Can you also push your changelog changes to the Git repo? Thanks!

Re: change proposal for handling of Depends: field in task files

Hi Mike, On Sat, Aug 12, 2017 at 04:40:38AM +, Mike Gabriel wrote: > > In a second round we could later change the behaviour of Depends. I > > agree that technically that's a weak solution but should work if > > somebody intends to reproduce older packages since we would fail to > >

Re: change proposal for handling of Depends: field in task files

HI Andreas, hi all, On Sa 05 Aug 2017 13:25:48 CEST, Andreas Tille wrote: 2. We create bugs for all known build-dependencies of blends-dev to 2.1 'sed s/^Depends:/Recommends:/ -i tasks/*` 2.2 insert a "Format: https://blends.d.o/format; as first line to indicate that the new format is

Re: change proposal for handling of Depends: field in task files

On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 02:33:49PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > > This additional line even works if the URL is not valid yet -- but gives > > us some additional pressure to create an up-do-date format description > > (which is IMO not the worst thing). > > I guess what Andreas really

Re: change proposal for handling of Depends: field in task files

[Ole Streicher] > Sorry, I don't see the big problem here: The first step is anyway just > to extend blends-dev to accept "Recommends" aside of "Depends", which > should be simply enough. Then, the only disagreement is that I propose > to have a required Format: line in the tasks header; this

Re: change proposal for handling of Depends: field in task files

Andreas Tille writes: > On Tue, Aug 08, 2017 at 09:04:56PM +0200, Ole Streicher wrote: >> Mike Gabriel writes: >> > Is anyone here maintaining blend packages that have not been uploaded >> > to Debian? If so, please speak up. >> >> My point

Re: change proposal for handling of Depends: field in task files

Hi, On Tue, Aug 08, 2017 at 09:04:56PM +0200, Ole Streicher wrote: > Mike Gabriel writes: > > Is anyone here maintaining blend packages that have not been uploaded > > to Debian? If so, please speak up. > > My point was here: If we introduce a format identifier

Re: change proposal for handling of Depends: field in task files

Mike Gabriel writes: > Is anyone here maintaining blend packages that have not been uploaded > to Debian? If so, please speak up. My point was here: If we introduce a format identifier (like an URL), we can very simply test for it and exit with error if it is

Re: change proposal for handling of Depends: field in task files

Hi Mike, On Mon, Aug 07, 2017 at 09:40:07PM +, Mike Gabriel wrote: > > What about doing it the other way around, and change behaviour of > > blends-dev for the tasks with a format line and leave the old behaviour > > The issue about the tasks files is that they look like debian/control, but

Re: change proposal for handling of Depends: field in task files

Hi Petter, On Sa 05 Aug 2017 11:52:57 CEST, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: [Ole Streicher] The number of blends is countable: I personally like the idea to first replace all "Depends" with "Recommends" in all tasks files, and then change the behaviour of the "blends-dev" package. We should also

Re: change proposal for handling of Depends: field in task files

Hi Ross, On Sat, Aug 05, 2017 at 03:26:57PM +0200, Ross Gammon wrote: > > Non maintained blends cout get an NMU, and also then the bug report > > helps documenting the process. > > > I am looking after Debian Multimedia with help from Felipe & IOhannes > (mainly) these days. We created some new

Re: change proposal for handling of Depends: field in task files

Hi Ole, On Sat, Aug 05, 2017 at 02:04:08PM +0200, Ole Streicher wrote: > I my feeling right that you basically propose the same as I? The idea is the same - I'd like to go simpler without the technical format definition stuff. > So, we should do a 0th step and fix blends-dev to accept

Re: change proposal for handling of Depends: field in task files

Hi Andreas, I my feeling right that you basically propose the same as I? Andreas Tille writes: > I'm all for it. I just did `sed -i 's/^Depends/Recommends/' tasks/*` in > Debian Med packages but while I assumed that this would work with > blends-dev unfortunately it does not.

Re: change proposal for handling of Depends: field in task files

Petter Reinholdtsen writes: > We started by using depends. This proved a disaster, as the meta > packages would be close to impossible to keep in testing. It would be > thrown out or blocked from entering testing whenever any of the more > than 1000 packages we want had a RC