Re: [RFC] Binary packages containing the source

2010-10-06 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Goswin von Brederlow goswin-...@web.de, 2010-09-22, 11:39: apt-get install linux-2.6:src where src is just another architecture (at least for the user interface). apt-get install foo:src should then install the source and also all Build-Depends(-Indep) of the source. Besides packages

Re: [RFC] Binary packages containing the source

2010-09-22 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Josselin Mouette j...@debian.org writes: Le jeudi 16 septembre 2010 à 03:08 +0200, Jakub Wilk a écrit : * Hector Oron hector.o...@gmail.com, 2010-09-15, 21:26: c) allow build depends on source packages, which it is probably a worst idea. On the contrary, I think that allowing source

Re: [RFC] Binary packages containing the source

2010-09-22 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Hector Oron hector.o...@gmail.com writes: Dear developers, ABSTRACT How to enable in some special cases a way to allow one source package have multiple maintainers within Debian archive. It might be better to say they have different flavours which should (out of practicallity) or must be

Re: [RFC] Binary packages containing the source

2010-09-22 Thread Julien Cristau
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 11:39:01 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Going by what multiarch proposed and apt already supports that should be apt-get install linux-2.6:src where src is just another architecture (at least for the user interface). Why do people hate vowels so much?

Re: [RFC] Binary packages containing the source

2010-09-22 Thread Ian Jackson
Julien Cristau writes (Re: [RFC] Binary packages containing the source): Why do people hate vowels so much? Bcs f y lv thm t y cn wrt ncmprhnsbl gbbrsh mch mr ffctvly. Ls y sv smll mnt f typng. Ian. (sorry) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: [RFC] Binary packages containing the source

2010-09-22 Thread Brett Parker
On 22 Sep 12:47, Ian Jackson wrote: Julien Cristau writes (Re: [RFC] Binary packages containing the source): Why do people hate vowels so much? Bcs f y lv thm t y cn wrt ncmprhnsbl gbbrsh mch mr ffctvly. Ls y sv smll mnt f typng

Re: [RFC] Binary packages containing the source

2010-09-22 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Julien Cristau jcris...@debian.org writes: On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 11:39:01 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Going by what multiarch proposed and apt already supports that should be apt-get install linux-2.6:src where src is just another architecture (at least for the user interface).

Re: [RFC] Binary packages containing the source

2010-09-22 Thread Ian Jackson
Brett Parker writes (Re: [RFC] Binary packages containing the source): On 22 Sep 12:47, Ian Jackson wrote: Julien Cristau writes (Re: [RFC] Binary packages containing the source): Why do people hate vowels so much? Bcs f y lv thm t y cn wrt ncmprhnsbl gbbrsh mch mr ffctvly. Ls y sv

Re: [RFC] Binary packages containing the source

2010-09-22 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 12:35 PM, Ian Jackson ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk wrote: Brett Parker writes (Re: [RFC] Binary packages containing the source): On 22 Sep 12:47, Ian Jackson wrote: Julien Cristau writes (Re: [RFC] Binary packages containing the source): Why do people hate vowels

Re: [RFC] Binary packages containing the source

2010-09-22 Thread Don Armstrong
On Wed, 22 Sep 2010, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Call it source if you like. The point was that the arch follows the package name. It's interesting that this is exactly backwards from the way the BTS does it. [Source packages are src:foopkg.] Don Armstrong -- [The] JK-88 [coffee] percolator

Re: [RFC] Binary packages containing the source

2010-09-22 Thread Ian Jackson
Matt Zagrabelny writes (Re: [RFC] Binary packages containing the source): On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 12:35 PM, Ian Jackson ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk wrote: No :-).  Perhaps ls rather than Ls would have been more correct. I'm not sure of the correct rule for this situation

Re: [RFC] Binary packages containing the source

2010-09-16 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeudi 16 septembre 2010 à 03:08 +0200, Jakub Wilk a écrit : * Hector Oron hector.o...@gmail.com, 2010-09-15, 21:26: c) allow build depends on source packages, which it is probably a worst idea. On the contrary, I think that allowing source packages to be installable in the same way

Re: [RFC] Binary packages containing the source

2010-09-16 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 09:22:57AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: Plus, these packages would (in the current state of affairs) lack a description. On this topic, we have our friend #555743. /shameless-plug -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7

Re: [RFC] Binary packages containing the source

2010-09-16 Thread Stéphane Glondu
Le 16/09/2010 09:22, Josselin Mouette a écrit : I agree this is a cleaner solution, but how do you ensure there are sources (deb-src) referenced in the sources.list ? You don't need to. The package would be reported as uninstallable. Some message suggesting to add deb-src lines to sources.list

[RFC] Binary packages containing the source

2010-09-15 Thread Hector Oron
Dear developers, ABSTRACT How to enable in some special cases a way to allow one source package have multiple maintainers within Debian archive. RATIONALE There are already a number of packages in the archive which ship sources in a binary package, in some cases this is very useful, so

Re: [RFC] Binary packages containing the source

2010-09-15 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Hector Oron hector.o...@gmail.com, 2010-09-15, 21:26: c) allow build depends on source packages, which it is probably a worst idea. On the contrary, I think that allowing source packages to be installable in the same way as binary packages is an excellent idea. Imagine you can do: