Bug#1007717: Updated draft resolution

2022-06-20 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Fri 17 Jun 2022 at 02:45am +02, gregor herrmann wrote: > Well, yes, sure. > That would all be nice. > But issuing some advice about 1.0-with-or-without-dpatch or whatever > doesn't really change anything for them. Indeed, we have somewhat drifted off-topic :) > Oh, right, I totally

Bug#1007717: Updated draft resolution

2022-06-17 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Helmut" == Helmut Grohne writes: Helmut> Indeed, and I do agree that 4c is such a clear statement. I Helmut> would like to see a stronger statement here, but Sam et Helmut> al. tried to gain consensus on that and there wasn't. So the Helmut> CTTE advice probably shouldn't

Bug#1007717: Updated draft resolution

2022-06-16 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, 16 Jun 2022 16:56:24 -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: > On Fri 17 Jun 2022 at 01:03AM +02, gregor herrmann wrote: > > And that's what we are talking about: Debian experts building > > packages for Debian. At least that's what my priorities are. > I think Ian might really mean "Debian source

Bug#1007717: Updated draft resolution

2022-06-16 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Fri 17 Jun 2022 at 01:03AM +02, gregor herrmann wrote: > And that's what we are talking about: Debian experts building > packages for Debian. At least that's what my priorities are. I think Ian might really mean "Debian source package experts". It ought to be our goal to make it so

Bug#1007717: Updated draft resolution

2022-06-16 Thread gregor herrmann
On Wed, 15 Jun 2022 11:08:59 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > Helmut Grohne writes ("Re: Bug#1007717: Updated draft resolution"): > > Simon looked at how other distributions approach patches and figured > > that basically everyone else uses the patches-unapplied model. >

Bug#1007717: Updated draft resolution

2022-06-16 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Thu 16 Jun 2022 at 08:47am +02, Helmut Grohne wrote: > > Indeed, and I do agree that 4c is such a clear statement. I would like > to see a stronger statement here, but Sam et al. tried to gain consensus > on that and there wasn't. So the CTTE advice probably shouldn't override > that

Bug#1007717: Updated draft resolution

2022-06-16 Thread Helmut Grohne
Hi, On Wed, Jun 15, 2022 at 04:06:55PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > If you look at Debian 'testing' only, I think that the only remaining > way to do that is 1.0 + quilt (packages that were using dpatch have all > been converted or removed from testing). That's good. I wasn't able to locate a

Bug#1007717: Updated draft resolution

2022-06-15 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Wed 15 Jun 2022 at 04:06PM +02, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > According to https://udd.debian.org/~lucas/format10.cgi (which is based > on what lintian knows about the archive), there are 114 packages using > 1.0 with quilt. However, 67 of those are maintained by the Debian X > team. If

Bug#1007717: Updated draft resolution

2022-06-15 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
Hi, On 15/06/22 at 07:32 +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote: > The other model restricts itself to only adding files below > debian/ and then using debian/rules to actually apply patches during > build. This latter model is fairly annoying, because there are so many > different ways of doing it (i.e. we

Bug#1007717: Updated draft resolution

2022-06-15 Thread Ian Jackson
Helmut Grohne writes ("Re: Bug#1007717: Updated draft resolution"): > Simon looked at how other distributions approach patches and figured > that basically everyone else uses the patches-unapplied model. patches-unapplied is a good fit for distro experts in distros which are stil

Bug#1007717: Updated draft resolution

2022-06-15 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Helmut Grohne > For the reasons above, I do think we need another variant of 4. Your view makes a lot of sense. Would you think you could draft a "4" variant that summarizes it? I admit I'm lost between all the details and would like a spot to go to, and then look at the alternatives from

Bug#1007717: Updated draft resolution

2022-06-14 Thread Helmut Grohne
Hi, On Tue, Jun 07, 2022 at 10:31:18PM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: > Here's an updated ballot in light of our upcoming meeting. I've left > space to add a 4b, if, when our current discussion is concluded, someone > would like that in addition to 4c. After the meeting, Simon, Sean and myself

Bug#1007717: Updated draft resolution

2022-06-07 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Tue 10 May 2022 at 05:29pm -07, Sean Whitton wrote: > At today's ctte meeting we considered whether we can start a vote on > this, but two committee members were missing, and someone else at the > meeting reported that they hadn't yet been able to spend enough time > thinking through