Re: intend-to-implement: script to obtain Debian Source

2005-05-06 Thread Adam Heath
On Mon, 4 Apr 2005, Junichi Uekawa wrote: Hi, The new toolset(tentatively called dbs-ng while I'm developing it) supports what I call pre-patched source. Was this a April-fools joke, or do you have some code that we can look at? While there is no code to look at, xen 2.0(in experimental)

Re: intend-to-implement: script to obtain Debian Source

2005-04-12 Thread Junichi Uekawa
unpack: some packages unpack the upstream tarball, some do patching patch: some patch the source tree, some generate patch out of it. 2. A policy on what target to have for optional unpacking and patching, and apply a recommendation that is enforced on etch/etch+1 That should probably

Re: Bug#250202: intend-to-implement: script to obtain Debian Source

2005-04-12 Thread Bill Allombert
On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 10:29:10PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: unpack: some packages unpack the upstream tarball, some do patching patch: some patch the source tree, some generate patch out of it. 2. A policy on what target to have for optional unpacking and patching, and apply a

Re: intend-to-implement: script to obtain Debian Source

2005-04-11 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Hi, | I second suggestion given at #250202 and like to see unpacked and | patched targets to hit Policy 4.8. If so, it should be «unpack» and «patch» to match the build and install targets. Note that there are existing packages that use 'unpack' and 'patch' targets for other

Re: intend-to-implement: script to obtain Debian Source

2005-04-07 Thread Pierre THIERRY
Scribit Lars Wirzenius dies 06/04/2005 hora 21:34: I don't find it very sane to be forced to deliberately trigger problems on the user's system to find bugs. I assume the goal is to make it fail on the developer's system, on build daemons, whenever random developers unpack the package If it

Re: intend-to-implement: script to obtain Debian Source

2005-04-07 Thread Pierre THIERRY
Scribit Steve Greenland dies 06/04/2005 hora 17:37: There's a long history of people relying on explicitly unspecified behaviour, and then bitching when that behaviour changes. For the sake of my curiosity again, could you point me some precise examples? Historically, Nowhere man -- [EMAIL

Re: intend-to-implement: script to obtain Debian Source

2005-04-07 Thread Wouter van Heyst
On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 10:22:15PM +0200, Pierre THIERRY wrote: Scribit Steve Greenland dies 06/04/2005 hora 17:37: There's a long history of people relying on explicitly unspecified behaviour, and then bitching when that behaviour changes. For the sake of my curiosity again, could you

Re: intend-to-implement: script to obtain Debian Source

2005-04-07 Thread Steve Greenland
On 07-Apr-05, 15:22 (CDT), Pierre THIERRY [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Scribit Steve Greenland dies 06/04/2005 hora 17:37: There's a long history of people relying on explicitly unspecified behaviour, and then bitching when that behaviour changes. For the sake of my curiosity again, could

Re: intend-to-implement: script to obtain Debian Source

2005-04-06 Thread Pierre THIERRY
Scribit Steve Greenland dies 04/04/2005 hora 07:15: - what problems do thsi random order could weed? Unnoted dependencies that just happen to be fulfilled due to a consistent (though arbitrary) application order. By applying in a different order each time, you should trigger an error fairly

Re: intend-to-implement: script to obtain Debian Source

2005-04-06 Thread Lars Wirzenius
ke, 2005-04-06 kello 19:31 +0200, Pierre THIERRY kirjoitti: Scribit Steve Greenland dies 04/04/2005 hora 07:15: - what problems do thsi random order could weed? Unnoted dependencies that just happen to be fulfilled due to a consistent (though arbitrary) application order. By applying in a

Re: intend-to-implement: script to obtain Debian Source

2005-04-06 Thread Steve Greenland
On 06-Apr-05, 12:31 (CDT), Pierre THIERRY [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Urgh. Are you doing computer science or cooking? Couldn't the application write somewhere the order of the patch that it just used?! *I'm* not doing anything except postulating the reasoning behind a deliberately random

Re: intend-to-implement: script to obtain Debian Source

2005-04-04 Thread Pierre THIERRY
Scribit Adam Heath dies 01/04/2005 hora 19:10: Additionally, as a way to weed out other problems, any patches that are leafs(ie, don't depend on anything) are applied in a random order. For the sake of my curiosity: - what problems do thsi random order could weed? - won't it be more difficult

Re: intend-to-implement: script to obtain Debian Source

2005-04-04 Thread Steve Greenland
On 04-Apr-05, 02:48 (CDT), Pierre THIERRY [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Scribit Adam Heath dies 01/04/2005 hora 19:10: Additionally, as a way to weed out other problems, any patches that are leafs(ie, don't depend on anything) are applied in a random order. For the sake of my curiosity: -

Re: intend-to-implement: script to obtain Debian Source

2005-04-03 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Hi, The new toolset(tentatively called dbs-ng while I'm developing it) supports what I call pre-patched source. Was this a April-fools joke, or do you have some code that we can look at? However, the concept looks possible to implement, and will fix most of the problems we have with handling

Re: intend-to-implement: script to obtain Debian Source

2005-04-03 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Hi, | I second suggestion given at #250202 and like to see unpacked and | patched targets to hit Policy 4.8. If so, it should be «unpack» and «patch» to match the build and install targets. Note that there are existing packages that use 'unpack' and 'patch' targets for other meanings.

Re: intend-to-implement: script to obtain Debian Source

2005-04-01 Thread Adam Heath
On Sun, 27 Mar 2005, Lars Wirzenius wrote: su, 2005-03-27 kello 09:01 +0200, George Danchev kirjoitti: I second suggestion given at #250202 and like to see unpacked and patched targets to hit Policy 4.8. I hear that Adam Heath (doogie for those on IRC) has been working on a new source

Re: intend-to-implement: script to obtain Debian Source

2005-03-31 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Steve Kowalik | On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 08:54:01 +0200, Tollef Fog Heen uttered | TTBOMK, he hasn't discussed this with the dpkg maintainer, nor has he | made his code public. | | Er, Adam Heath has made plenty of uploads of dpkg, and is listed as an | Uploader. Yes, but (again, TTBOMK) he

Re: intend-to-implement: script to obtain Debian Source

2005-03-31 Thread George Danchev
On Thursday 31 March 2005 15:14, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: * Steve Kowalik | On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 08:54:01 +0200, Tollef Fog Heen uttered | | TTBOMK, he hasn't discussed this with the dpkg maintainer, nor has he | made his code public. | | Er, Adam Heath has made plenty of uploads of dpkg,

Re: intend-to-implement: script to obtain Debian Source

2005-03-31 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Thu, 2005-03-31 at 17:40 +1000, Steve Kowalik wrote: On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 08:54:01 +0200, Tollef Fog Heen uttered TTBOMK, he hasn't discussed this with the dpkg maintainer, nor has he made his code public. Er, Adam Heath has made plenty of uploads of dpkg, Hasn't made any in the last

Re: intend-to-implement: script to obtain Debian Source

2005-03-31 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Thu, 2005-03-31 at 15:49 +0300, George Danchev wrote: On Thursday 31 March 2005 15:14, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: * Steve Kowalik | On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 08:54:01 +0200, Tollef Fog Heen uttered | | TTBOMK, he hasn't discussed this with the dpkg maintainer, nor has he | made his code

Re: intend-to-implement: script to obtain Debian Source

2005-03-30 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* George Danchev | I second suggestion given at #250202 and like to see unpacked and | patched targets to hit Policy 4.8. If so, it should be «unpack» and «patch» to match the build and install targets. -- Tollef Fog Heen,''`. UNIX is

Re: intend-to-implement: script to obtain Debian Source

2005-03-30 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Lars Wirzenius | su, 2005-03-27 kello 09:01 +0200, George Danchev kirjoitti: | | I second suggestion given at #250202 and like to see unpacked | and patched targets to hit Policy 4.8. | | I hear that Adam Heath (doogie for those on IRC) has been working on a | new source package format that

Re: intend-to-implement: script to obtain Debian Source

2005-03-30 Thread Steve Kowalik
On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 08:54:01 +0200, Tollef Fog Heen uttered TTBOMK, he hasn't discussed this with the dpkg maintainer, nor has he made his code public. Er, Adam Heath has made plenty of uploads of dpkg, and is listed as an Uploader. Cheers, -- Steve I

Re: intend-to-implement: script to obtain Debian Source

2005-03-29 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Darren Salt] Back-porting to sarge using tools in sarge? That doesn't sound so daunting. Anyone doing serious backporting will need to start by backporting a few development tools, which is already true from woody - sarge - viz. debhelper 4. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: intend-to-implement: script to obtain Debian Source

2005-03-27 Thread George Danchev
On Saturday 26 March 2005 00:49, Junichi Uekawa wrote: Hi, Optional source patching is non-standard in Debian, and I would like a standard interface to interact with Debian source. So would I. Which is why I filed #250202 I second suggestion given at #250202 and like to see

Re: intend-to-implement: script to obtain Debian Source

2005-03-27 Thread Lars Wirzenius
su, 2005-03-27 kello 09:01 +0200, George Danchev kirjoitti: I second suggestion given at #250202 and like to see unpacked and patched targets to hit Policy 4.8. I hear that Adam Heath (doogie for those on IRC) has been working on a new source package format that will make

Re: intend-to-implement: script to obtain Debian Source

2005-03-27 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sun, 27 Mar 2005, Lars Wirzenius wrote: I hear that Adam Heath (doogie for those on IRC) has been working on a new source package format that will make tarball-within-tarball sources But we will only be able to see it (nevermind USE it) when hell freezes over, which must be at etch+2 or

Re: intend-to-implement: script to obtain Debian Source

2005-03-27 Thread Lars Wirzenius
su, 2005-03-27 kello 07:49 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh kirjoitti: On Sun, 27 Mar 2005, Lars Wirzenius wrote: I hear that Adam Heath (doogie for those on IRC) has been working on a new source package format that will make tarball-within-tarball sources But we will only be able to see

Re: intend-to-implement: script to obtain Debian Source

2005-03-27 Thread George Danchev
On Sunday 27 March 2005 11:25, Lars Wirzenius wrote: su, 2005-03-27 kello 09:01 +0200, George Danchev kirjoitti: I second suggestion given at #250202 and like to see unpacked and patched targets to hit Policy 4.8. I hear that Adam Heath (doogie for those on IRC) has been working on a new

Re: intend-to-implement: script to obtain Debian Source

2005-03-27 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Hi, My plan is to have a source-repository of every single Debian package. I consider it to be interesting in several ways including that of avoiding symbol conflicts with shared library package, and finding out what might be a scalable way to maintain such a large chunk of source code. So

Re: intend-to-implement: script to obtain Debian Source

2005-03-27 Thread George Danchev
On Monday 28 March 2005 01:33, Junichi Uekawa wrote: Hi, Hello, My plan is to have a source-repository of every single Debian package. I consider it to be interesting in several ways including that of avoiding symbol conflicts with shared library package, and finding out what might be a

Re: intend-to-implement: script to obtain Debian Source

2005-03-27 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Lars Wirzenius may or may not have written... su, 2005-03-27 kello 07:49 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh kirjoitti: On Sun, 27 Mar 2005, Lars Wirzenius wrote: I hear that Adam Heath (doogie for those on IRC) has been working on a new source package format that will make

intend-to-implement: script to obtain Debian Source

2005-03-25 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Hi, I am planning to implement a script to obtain Debian source. Is there anyone who has already done that ? It is planned to have the following features: 1. wrapper to dpkg-source -x 2. heuristically parse debian/rules file to extract and patch the Debian source as dbs/dpatch

Re: intend-to-implement: script to obtain Debian Source

2005-03-25 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sat, Mar 26, 2005 at 06:54:19AM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: Optional source patching is non-standard in Debian, and I would like a standard interface to interact with Debian source. So would I. Which is why I filed #250202. Be sure to read the whole bug -- there's quite some discussion

Re: intend-to-implement: script to obtain Debian Source

2005-03-25 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Hi, Optional source patching is non-standard in Debian, and I would like a standard interface to interact with Debian source. So would I. Which is why I filed #250202 I have had a vague recollection that there was something which had not been implemented yet; thanks for pointing it