Re: The Difference between debcheckout and dgit and what they try to accomplish

2019-06-16 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, Jun 17, 2019 at 06:53:05AM +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote: > > Still, vcs-git is not my preferred interface to the archive, because its > lack of uniformity makes using it unproductive for me. In other words: If vcs-git would be uniform would this be more attractive to you? Kind regards

Re: The Difference between debcheckout and dgit and what they try to accomplish

2019-06-16 Thread Helmut Grohne
Hi Sam, On Sun, Jun 16, 2019 at 08:08:51PM -0400, Sam Hartman wrote: > Ian> That depends, I think, on whether you are trying to (a) join a > Ian> maintainer team, or do "maintainer-like" work; or, (b) do > Ian> cross-archive work with small changes to many packages, or > Ian> archi

Re: The Difference between debcheckout and dgit and what they try to accomplish

2019-06-16 Thread Sam Hartman
When I outlined disadvantages and advantages I tried to follow what people who have been participating in the discussion to date described as advantages and disadvantages. For the things I listed I have high confidence that the people involved understood the tools they were using and their own nee

Re: The Difference between debcheckout and dgit and what they try to accomplish

2019-06-16 Thread Ian Jackson
I haven't really organised my thoughts and have been travelling a lot and am very tired, so this is a bit bitty. I may respond more usefully in a day or two: Sam Hartman writes ("The Difference between debcheckout and dgit and what they try to accomplish"): > Debcheckout allows you to get the la

Re: Consensus Call: Do We Want to Require or Recommend DH; comments by 2019-06-16

2019-06-16 Thread Russ Allbery
Bill Allombert writes: > The magic of dh comes by making assumption on the upstream build system. > When these assumptions are correct then it is much less verbose than > debhelper. When they are not correct the maintainer needs to override > all incorrect guesses, in addition to writing the corr

Re: Consensus Call: Do We Want to Require or Recommend DH; comments by 2019-06-16

2019-06-16 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sat, May 25, 2019 at 01:26:47PM -0400, Sam Hartman wrote: > > Hi. Almost two weeks ago [1] I started a discussion on whether we > wanted to increase the strength of our recommendation of the dh > sequencer from debhelper. > This message is a consensus call summarizing my reading of the > discu

The Difference between debcheckout and dgit and what they try to accomplish

2019-06-16 Thread Sam Hartman
I'm trying to organize my thoughts leading towards a discussion about git on salsa. Last month we had a wide ranging discussion that started from a discussion of preferred formats for git branch structure. During that discussion, we explored the differences in what a tool like debcheckout gives

Re: scratch buildds

2019-06-16 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sat, Jun 15, 2019 at 11:34:19PM +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > > Hi Chris, > > On 6/15/19 12:28 AM, Chris Lamb wrote: > > Adam Borowski wrote: > > > >> Thus, what would you guys say about a new distribution, "scratch"? It > >> would > >> be a kind of extra-experimental that doesn't put its b

Bug#930619: ITP: michabo -- Qt desktop client for Pleroma and Mastodon

2019-06-16 Thread Iain R. Learmonth
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Iain R. Learmonth" * Package name: michabo Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : kaniini * URL : https://git.pleroma.social/kaniini/michabo * License : GPL v3 Programming Lang: C++/Qt Description : Qt desktop client fo