Re: debian github organization ?

2015-04-19 Thread Brian May
On Sun, 19 Apr 2015 at 18:25 Vincent Bernat ber...@debian.org wrote: This is not the case anymore. Deleting a branch leaves the pull request as is. Also, editing commits leave the history of the pull request in the timeline. Comments on edited commits are also still accessible. Oh, if that

Accepted verbiste 0.1.41-4 (source amd64 all) into unstable

2015-04-19 Thread Tomasz Buchert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2015 10:39:46 +0200 Source: verbiste Binary: verbiste verbiste-gnome verbiste-mate-applet verbiste-el libverbiste-0.1-0 libverbiste-dev Architecture: source amd64 all Version: 0.1.41-4 Distribution: unstable Urgency:

Accepted python-httpretty 0.8.3-1 (source all) into experimental

2015-04-19 Thread Thomas Goirand
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Format: 1.8 Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2015 11:10:36 +0100 Source: python-httpretty Binary: python-httpretty python3-httpretty Architecture: source all Version: 0.8.3-1 Distribution: experimental Urgency: medium Maintainer: PKG OpenStack

Re: dose3 support for versioned provides (was: Re: Bits from the dpkg project: 1.17.x series, general news)

2015-04-19 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, Am Samstag, den 18.04.2015, 23:54 +0200 schrieb Johannes Schauer: for source packages that require versioned virtual packages, dose3 support for this is needed because otherwise the affected source packages will remain bd-uninstallable. But right now dose3 can only parse versioned

Re: debian github organization ?

2015-04-19 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, 2015-04-18 at 12:07 +0200, Jérémy Lal wrote: gitg is quite good for simple tasks. I'm guessing it isn't good enough to be a replacement for the github web UI though and that there is no equivalent free software desktop UI. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise

Re: GitHub “pull request” is useful and can be easily integrated'’

2015-04-19 Thread Neil Williams
On Sun, 19 Apr 2015 19:00:33 +1000 Ben Finney ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au wrote: Neil Williams codeh...@debian.org writes: On Sat, 18 Apr 2015 17:55:17 +1000 Ben Finney ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au wrote: GitHub's pull request feature is proprietary to GitHub, it can only work between

Re: debian github organization ?

2015-04-19 Thread Robert Collins
On 17 April 2015 at 18:13, Russ Allbery r...@debian.org wrote: Marc Haber mh+debian-de...@zugschlus.de writes: Thankfully, git is by far the best VCS on the market and the vast majority of people seem to agree. But imagine the outcry if ten years ago Sourceforge had said our VCS is svn and we

Re: debian github organization ?

2015-04-19 Thread Robert Collins
On 18 April 2015 at 08:03, Ben Finney ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au wrote: Paul Tagliamonte paul...@debian.org writes: So, yes, it's nonfree. Yes, it's controlled by DDs. No, I don't think this should be the Vcs-Git: target. No, I don't think we should endorse GitHub. Yes, we need free tools.

Re: GitHub “pull request” is proprietary, incompatible with Git ‘request-pull’ (was: debian github organization ?)

2015-04-19 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sun, Apr 19, 2015 at 12:13:32PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: To those of you who are willing to use github for Debian related things, it would be great if you could: Mirror the repositories to alioth so Debian has a backup. I'd rather see it the other way around: advertise the alioth Git repo

Re: GitHub “pull request” is useful and can be easily integrated'’

2015-04-19 Thread Ben Finney
Neil Williams codeh...@debian.org writes: On Sat, 18 Apr 2015 17:55:17 +1000 Ben Finney ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au wrote: GitHub's pull request feature is proprietary to GitHub, it can only work between repositories hosted inside the GitHub silo, and any project using that feature is

Re: MBF: build Python 3 modules for packages that support it upstream

2015-04-19 Thread Julien Cristau
On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 15:47:16 -0400, Paul Tagliamonte wrote: On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 06:50:11PM -0400, Paul Tagliamonte wrote: I'll curate the raw run I did today, since I saw a few false positive (python 3 backports to python 3) and file them. I'll run a dd-list at some point before

Re: debian github organization ?

2015-04-19 Thread Neil Williams
On Sun, 19 Apr 2015 21:12:57 +1200 Robert Collins robe...@robertcollins.net wrote: On 18 April 2015 at 08:03, Ben Finney ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au wrote: Paul Tagliamonte paul...@debian.org writes: So, yes, it's nonfree. Yes, it's controlled by DDs. No, I don't think this should be the

Re: [py3porters-devel] MBF: build Python 3 modules for packages that support it upstream

2015-04-19 Thread Sandro Tosi
basemap uploaded to experimental, waiting for NEW https://ftp-master.debian.org/new/basemap_1.0.7%2Bdfsg-2.html Cheers, Sandro On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 8:07 PM, Paul Tagliamonte paul...@debian.org wrote: On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 06:50:11PM -0400, Paul Tagliamonte wrote: Severity will be

Re: Work-needing packages report for Mar 27, 2015

2015-04-19 Thread Geert Stappers
On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 03:02:40PM +0200, Fabian Greffrath wrote: Am Dienstag, den 31.03.2015, 12:34 +0200 schrieb Jeroen Dekkers: Dropping packages that need help from the help-wanted list doesn't solve any problem, it only hides problems and makes it even less likely that packages that

Accepted golang-goptlib 0.4-1 (source all) into unstable

2015-04-19 Thread Ximin Luo
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Format: 1.8 Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2015 10:44:34 +0200 Source: golang-goptlib Binary: golang-goptlib-dev Architecture: source all Version: 0.4-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Hilko Bengen ben...@debian.org Changed-By: Ximin Luo

Re: debian github organization ?

2015-04-19 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 19 avril 2015 08:55 GMT, Brian May br...@microcomaustralia.com.au : I suspect not many people know about this however (did I miss an announcement from github on this?), and I suspect it may not be possible to make changes to the pull request without write access to the branch. Yes, that's

Re: GitHub “pull request” is useful and can be easily integrated'’

2015-04-19 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 19 avril 2015 19:00 +1000, Ben Finney ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au : The pull request exists on github, fine. How can a collaborator Alice, with no GitHub account, get the pull request? Take a random PR: https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/pull/16258 Append .patch to get the patch: curl

Re: Bits from the dpkg project: 1.17.x series, general news

2015-04-19 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Guillem Jover guil...@debian.org (2015-04-18): General News * Raphaël Hertzog has stepped down as maintainer. It seems a little sad there's not even a thanks or two, so here it is: Thanks so much for all the hard (and not only technical) work, Raphaël! Mraw, KiBi.

Re: debian github organization ?

2015-04-19 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 19 avril 2015 07:34 GMT, Brian May br...@microcomaustralia.com.au : Unfortunately, github pull requests have limitations compared with patches, archived for example on a mailing list. For blog post on this see:

Re: GitHub “pull request” is useful and can be easily integrated'’

2015-04-19 Thread Robert Collins
On 19 April 2015 at 21:00, Ben Finney ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au wrote: Neil Williams codeh...@debian.org writes: On Sat, 18 Apr 2015 17:55:17 +1000 Ben Finney ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au wrote: GitHub's pull request feature is proprietary to GitHub, it can only work between repositories

linking perl statically against libperl

2015-04-19 Thread Niko Tyni
Hi, I'd like to start linking /usr/bin/perl statically against libperl on all architectures instead of just on *i386 like now. See #781476 for some more details. I'm looking for input on this. Pros: A we can treat all architectures the same way - simpler packaging B slightly improved

Re: linking perl statically against libperl

2015-04-19 Thread Axel Beckert
Hi, Niko Tyni wrote: Cons: E increased memory usage on systems running multiple perl processes F possibly increased startup time for short perl scripts (but that may be a non-issue due to caching anyway?) This sounds rather concerning to me. The again, I've never noticed any

Re: debian github organization ?

2015-04-19 Thread Brian May
On Sat, 18 Apr 2015 at 18:01 Neil Williams codeh...@debian.org wrote: The github pull request is just a nice UI over a patch. What on earth is wrong with that? Unfortunately, github pull requests have limitations compared with patches, archived for example on a mailing list. For blog post on

Accepted libzen 0.4.31-1 (source amd64 all) into experimental

2015-04-19 Thread Chow Loong Jin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2015 12:15:44 +0800 Source: libzen Binary: libzen-dev libzen0 libzen-doc Architecture: source amd64 all Version: 0.4.31-1 Distribution: experimental Urgency: medium Maintainer: Chow Loong Jin hyper...@debian.org

Accepted sudoku 1.0.5-1 (source amd64) into experimental

2015-04-19 Thread Peter Spiess-Knafl
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Format: 1.8 Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2015 02:12:40 +0200 Source: sudoku Binary: sudoku Architecture: source amd64 Version: 1.0.5-1 Distribution: experimental Urgency: medium Maintainer: Peter Spiess-Knafl d...@spiessknafl.at Changed-By: Peter Spiess-Knafl

Re: Bits from the dpkg project: 1.17.x series, general news

2015-04-19 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le dimanche, 19 avril 2015, 10.25:11 Cyril Brulebois a écrit : Thanks so much for all the hard (and not only technical) work, Raphaël! Indeed, thank you buxy! OdyX signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: Bits from the dpkg project: 1.17.x series, general news

2015-04-19 Thread Eduard Bloch
Hallo, * Guillem Jover [Sat, Apr 18 2015, 09:27:26PM]: * Add support for versioned Provides [!]: - Packages can provide a specific version, “virtual (= 1.0)” which will be honored, previously it would just be accepted when parsing. That's great news! This will make a lot of evil kludges

Re: GitHub “pull request” is useful and can be easily integrated'’

2015-04-19 Thread Robert Collins
On 20 April 2015 at 02:18, Ben Finney ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au wrote: Robert Collins robe...@robertcollins.net writes: Have you used github? If not you should: the best position to critique a system from is one of familiarity. If I were to critique only the effects GitHub has for the

Re: Bits from the dpkg project: 1.17.x series, general news

2015-04-19 Thread Ben Finney
Cyril Brulebois k...@debian.org writes: Guillem Jover guil...@debian.org (2015-04-18): General News * Raphaël Hertzog has stepped down as maintainer. It seems a little sad there's not even a thanks or two, so here it is: Thanks so much for all the hard (and not only

Re: GitHub “pull request” is useful and can be easily integrated'’

2015-04-19 Thread James McCoy
On Sun, Apr 19, 2015 at 10:27:01AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: The repositories and Git management are the very nice features of GitHub, and there's nothing there data-wise you can't pretty trivially extract. It's just a very nice UI. In fact, joeyh wrote a nice tool[0] that will extract all

Bug#782968: ITP: libmuscle -- multiple alignment library for protein sequences

2015-04-19 Thread Andreas Tille
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andreas Tille ti...@debian.org * Package name: libmuscle Version : 3.7 Upstream Author : Aaron Darling darl...@cs.wisc.edu * URL : http://sourceforge.net/p/mauve/code/HEAD/tree/muscle/ * License : Public domain

Accepted ruby-ref 1.0.5+dfsg-2~exp1 (source all) into experimental

2015-04-19 Thread Sebastien Badia
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Format: 1.8 Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2015 00:11:50 +0200 Source: ruby-ref Binary: ruby-ref Architecture: source all Version: 1.0.5+dfsg-2~exp1 Distribution: experimental Urgency: medium Maintainer: Debian Ruby Extras Maintainers

Re: GitHub “pull request” is useful and can be easily integrated'’

2015-04-19 Thread Ben Finney
Russ Allbery r...@debian.org writes: It's a UI. The UI is really nice. That's why people use it. But lock-in implies more than a really nice UI that people use because it's superior. By lock-in I'm implying vendor lock-in: the customer or user is unable to switch away from the vendor's

Accepted gnash 0.8.11~git20150419-1 (source i386 all) into unstable

2015-04-19 Thread Gabriele Giacone
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Format: 1.8 Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2015 15:14:31 +0200 Source: gnash Binary: gnash-common gnash klash gnash-tools gnash-cygnal browser-plugin-gnash konqueror-plugin-gnash python-gtk-gnash gnash-ext-fileio gnash-ext-mysql gnash-ext-lirc gnash-dev

Debian Archive architecture removals

2015-04-19 Thread Joerg Jaspert
Hi, As the jessie release approaches, the ftp-team have been reviewing the status of the architectures in unstable. Neither sparc nor hurd-i386 are going to release with jessie and we are therefore looking at their future in unstable. SPARC =

Re: GitHub “pull request” is useful and can be easily integrated'’

2015-04-19 Thread Brian May
On Mon, 20 Apr 2015 at 00:19 Ben Finney ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au wrote: This is quite frustrating. There's some serious equivocating by GitHub apologists in this discussion: It GitHub better then the open source GitLab? If the answer is Yes, is there any obstacles to trying to improve

Re: GitHub “pull request” is proprietary, incompatible with Git ‘request-pull’

2015-04-19 Thread Russ Allbery
Stefano Zacchiroli z...@debian.org writes: On Sun, Apr 19, 2015 at 12:13:32PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: To those of you who are willing to use github for Debian related things, it would be great if you could: Mirror the repositories to alioth so Debian has a backup. I'd rather see it the

Accepted libmediainfo 0.7.73-1 (source amd64 all) into experimental

2015-04-19 Thread Chow Loong Jin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2015 20:27:33 +0800 Source: libmediainfo Binary: libmediainfo-dev libmediainfo0 python-mediainfodll python3-mediainfodll libmediainfo-doc Architecture: source amd64 all Version: 0.7.73-1 Distribution: experimental

Accepted hurd 1:0.6-1 (source hurd-i386 all) into unstable

2015-04-19 Thread Samuel Thibault
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Sun, 01 Mar 2015 00:41:25 +0100 Source: hurd Binary: hurd-libs0.3 hurd hurd-dev hurd-dbg hurd-doc hurd-libs0.3-udeb hurd-udeb Architecture: source hurd-i386 all Version: 1:0.6-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer:

Re: MBF: build Python 3 modules for packages that support it upstream

2015-04-19 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Sun, Apr 19, 2015 at 02:41:47PM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: You might want to give people more than 24 hours to comment. A week seems like the bare minimum to me. Cheers, Julien Euch, sorry, I filed them this morning, but it was only like 40 or so packages, a chunk of which are DPMT.

Bug#782970: ITP: pysimplesoap -- Python simple and lightweight SOAP Library

2015-04-19 Thread Jörg Frings-Fürst
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jörg Frings-Fürst mo...@debian.org * Package name: pysimplesoap Version : 1.16 Upstream Author : Mariano Reingart reing...@gmail.com * URL : http://code.google.com/p/pysimplesoap * License : LGPL-3.0 Programming Lang:

Re: GitHub “pull request” is useful and can be easily integrated'’

2015-04-19 Thread Russ Allbery
Ben Finney ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au writes: We're told that GitHub has a raft of features that make it superior, until it's pointed out that those features are GitHub-specific and incompatible with collaborators from outside; then, conveniently, the specialness of those features dwindles to

Accepted cwm 5.6-2 (source) into experimental

2015-04-19 Thread James McDonald
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Format: 1.8 Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2015 12:17:39 +0200 Source: cwm Binary: cwm Architecture: source Version: 5.6-2 Distribution: experimental Urgency: low Maintainer: James McDonald ja...@jamesmcdonald.com Changed-By: James McDonald

Bug#782969: ITP: libmems -- library to support DNA string matching and comparative genomics

2015-04-19 Thread Andreas Tille
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andreas Tille ti...@debian.org * Package name: libmems Version : 1.6 Upstream Author : Aaron Darling darl...@cs.wisc.edu * URL : http://sourceforge.net/p/mauve/code/HEAD/tree/libMems/trunk/ * License : GPL Programming

Re: Debian Installer Jessie RC 3 release

2015-04-19 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
Hi, On Sun Apr 19, 2015 at 16:25:30 +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Improvements in this release of the installer = * apt-setup: - Stop enabling backports by default (#764982). (i have read the BR) I consider this this 'last minute' change

Re: Bits from the dpkg project: 1.17.x series, general news

2015-04-19 Thread Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
*Thanks* :) -- “I don’t think security can solve problems. We need to teach greater respect.” Oslo Mayor Stang when asked whether Oslo needs greater security after the attacks in Norway, 07/2011. Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer http://perezmeyer.com.ar/ http://perezmeyer.blogspot.com/

Re: GitHub “pull request” is proprietary, incompatible with Git ‘request-pull’

2015-04-19 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 1:28 AM, Russ Allbery wrote: Stefano Zacchiroli writes: On Sun, Apr 19, 2015 at 12:13:32PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: I mirror the repositories on my own publicly-accessible Git server. Hopefully that's good enough. :) If those are Debian related, I'd still suggest

Re: Experimental ddeb support in debhelper and lintian (Was: Re: -dbg packages; are they actually useful?)

2015-04-19 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 1:10 AM, David Kalnischkies wrote: I would presume most derivatives aren't using it either Most derivatives appear to use reprepro but there is one using apt-ftparchive https://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/CensusFull https://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/Census/Lihuen

Accepted rhc 1.35.3-1 (source all) into experimental

2015-04-19 Thread Chow Loong Jin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2015 02:05:15 +0800 Source: rhc Binary: rhc Architecture: source all Version: 1.35.3-1 Distribution: experimental Urgency: medium Maintainer: Debian Ruby Extras Maintainers

Bug#782749: general: All browsers except Links2 crash constantly and iceweasel is broken

2015-04-19 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, 2015-04-19 at 11:20 -0600, D. Charles Pyle wrote: My machine is a Sparc64 machine. ... if I can help, I can try to do so. An update: sparc will be removed from the Debian archive unless a team of people is willing to work on the port and bring it back in shape:

Re: Experimental ddeb support in debhelper and lintian (Was: Re: -dbg packages; are they actually useful?)

2015-04-19 Thread David Kalnischkies
On Sat, Apr 04, 2015 at 10:54:09AM +0200, Niels Thykier wrote: The resulting debs are installable with dpkg -i ( \o/ ). I have not tried anything fancy like setting up a local APT mirror and tried to convince APT do install it. I did and apt works with ddeb just fine, meaning it can happily

Re: GitHub “pull request” is useful and can be easily integrated'’

2015-04-19 Thread Ben Finney
Neil Williams codeh...@debian.org writes: On Sun, 19 Apr 2015 19:00:33 +1000 Ben Finney ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au wrote: How can a collaborator Alice, with no GitHub account, get the pull request? Public github repositories do not need a github account to clone. This is quite

Re: Bits from the dpkg project: 1.17.x series, general news

2015-04-19 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
Le dimanche 19 avril 2015, 12:25:28 Didier 'OdyX' Raboud a écrit : Le dimanche, 19 avril 2015, 10.25:11 Cyril Brulebois a écrit : Thanks so much for all the hard (and not only technical) work, Raphaël! Indeed, thank you buxy! OdyX +1. Thanks a lot Raphaël. Cheers, Thomas

Re: GitHub “pull request” is useful and can be easily integrated'’

2015-04-19 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 20 avril 2015 00:18 +1000, Ben Finney ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au : Likewise, as an external party Alice can collaborate via ‘git send-email’ or ‘git request-pull’ on an equal footing with any other repo (including GitHub repos). But Bob, having chosen GitHub's proprietary pull requests as