Re: B-D on src package? (was: Re: Challenge from Julia's non-standard vendored openblas"64_"

2019-08-06 Thread Stephen Kitt
Hi josch, On Tue, 06 Aug 2019 20:11:07 +0200, Johannes Schauer wrote: > Quoting Stephen Kitt (2019-08-06 18:43:24) > > Could we avoid (some of) this by treating “source” as a new architecture? > > There would be a mostly do-nothing buildd which would repack the source > > package as a binary

Re: B-D on src package? (was: Re: Challenge from Julia's non-standard vendored openblas"64_"

2019-08-06 Thread Johannes Schauer
Hi, Quoting Stephen Kitt (2019-08-06 18:43:24) > > recently there was some discussion about this in #debian-apt. I don't have > > the logs of that discussion so others might want to expand on what I > > remember from back then. In no particular order plus my own thoughts. > > > > apt developers

Re: B-D on src package? (was: Re: Challenge from Julia's non-standard vendored openblas"64_"

2019-08-06 Thread Stephen Kitt
On Sun, 28 Jul 2019 16:33:21 +0200, Johannes Schauer wrote: > Quoting Mo Zhou (2019-07-28 16:03:43) > > On 2019-07-28 13:13, Ian Jackson wrote: > > > This is maybe not directly helpful to you right now, but: > > > > > > If we could build-depend on source packages, you could combine these > > >

Re: B-D on src package? (was: Re: Challenge from Julia's non-standard vendored openblas"64_"

2019-08-03 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On 28/07/2019 20:32, Paul Wise wrote: > On Sun, Jul 28, 2019 at 10:04 PM Mo Zhou wrote: > >> Is such demand common enough among developers? > > There are several ways this would be useful: > To replace all out-of-tree Linux kernel module -source packages, so > that dkms/etc doesn't need a

Re: B-D on src package? (was: Re: Challenge from Julia's non-standard vendored openblas"64_"

2019-07-31 Thread Ian Jackson
Johannes Schauer writes ("Re: B-D on src package? (was: Re: Challenge from Julia's non-standard vendored openblas"64_""): > We have to think about a good syntax for the Build-Depends field > which is able to express a build dependency on source packages > unp

Re: B-D on src package? (was: Re: Challenge from Julia's non-standard vendored openblas"64_"

2019-07-28 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Jul 28, 2019 at 10:33 PM Johannes Schauer wrote: > If we choose the "src:" prefix to pick source instead of binary packages, then > it's important that we don't have any binary packages called "src" and no > source packages with a name equal to a valid debian architecture. Could we have

Re: B-D on src package? (was: Re: Challenge from Julia's non-standard vendored openblas"64_"

2019-07-28 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Jul 28, 2019 at 10:04 PM Mo Zhou wrote: > Is such demand common enough among developers? There are several ways this would be useful: To replace all librust-*-dev and golang-*-dev packages (they contain source code). To replace all toolchain -source packages, so that cross-compiling

Re: B-D on src package? (was: Re: Challenge from Julia's non-standard vendored openblas"64_"

2019-07-28 Thread Shengjing Zhu
Mo Zhou 于 2019年7月28日周日 16:03写道: > On 2019-07-28 13:13, Ian Jackson wrote: > > This is maybe not directly helpful to you right now, but: > > > > If we could build-depend on source packages, you could combine these > > two ideas into something that might be less awful. > > More than once have I

Re: B-D on src package? (was: Re: Challenge from Julia's non-standard vendored openblas"64_"

2019-07-28 Thread Johannes Schauer
Hi, Quoting Mo Zhou (2019-07-28 16:03:43) > On 2019-07-28 13:13, Ian Jackson wrote: > > This is maybe not directly helpful to you right now, but: > > > > If we could build-depend on source packages, you could combine these > > two ideas into something that might be less awful. > More than once

Re: B-D on src package? (was: Re: Challenge from Julia's non-standard vendored openblas"64_"

2019-07-28 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Sun, Jul 28, 2019 at 07:03:43AM -0700, Mo Zhou wrote: > > This is maybe not directly helpful to you right now, but: > > > > If we could build-depend on source packages, you could combine these > > two ideas into something that might be less awful. > > More than once have I thought of "what if

B-D on src package? (was: Re: Challenge from Julia's non-standard vendored openblas"64_"

2019-07-28 Thread Mo Zhou
On 2019-07-28 13:13, Ian Jackson wrote: > This is maybe not directly helpful to you right now, but: > > If we could build-depend on source packages, you could combine these > two ideas into something that might be less awful. More than once have I thought of "what if I can B-D on a source