Re: Status of new source formats project

2009-08-07 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On Wednesday 05 August 2009 14:21:54 Cyril Brulebois wrote: Michael Banck mba...@debian.org (05/08/2009): On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 10:15:22AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: And for the format of the patch, I do not know what to tell them apart that unified diff is the preferred format of

Re: Status of new source formats project

2009-08-05 Thread Michael Banck
On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 10:15:22AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: And for the format of the patch, I do not know what to tell them apart that unified diff is the preferred format of some Debian developers, It's the preferred format for 99% of all Free Software work/projects AFAICT. and that we

Re: Status of new source formats project

2009-08-05 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Michael Banck mba...@debian.org (05/08/2009): On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 10:15:22AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: And for the format of the patch, I do not know what to tell them apart that unified diff is the preferred format of some Debian developers, It's the preferred format for 99% of

Re: Status of new source formats project

2009-08-05 Thread Ben Finney
Charles Plessy ple...@debian.org writes: Le Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 03:45:00PM +1000, Ben Finney a écrit : The point, rather, seems to be that unified-diff format is the de facto standard format for exchanging patch information. Le Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 10:53:21AM +0200, Michael Banck a

Re: Status of new source formats project

2009-08-04 Thread Paul Wise
Perhaps you could talk to upstream about switching to either using unified diffs for updates, tarballs for every release or a git/etc repository? -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: Status of new source formats project

2009-08-04 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 09:51:26AM +0200, Paul Wise a écrit : Perhaps you could talk to upstream about switching to either using unified diffs for updates, tarballs for every release or a git/etc repository? For sure, Debian can suggest them git, Ubuntu can suggest them bzr, Fedora can suggest

Re: Status of new source formats project

2009-08-04 Thread Ben Finney
Charles Plessy ple...@debian.org writes: Le Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 09:51:26AM +0200, Paul Wise a écrit : Perhaps you could talk to upstream about switching to either using unified diffs for updates, tarballs for every release or a git/etc repository? For sure, Debian can suggest them git,

Re: Status of new source formats project

2009-08-03 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Charles Plessy ple...@debian.org writes: Another question that I would like to ask is on the auto-patching functionality. One of the programs we package, EMBOSS, is released once a year every 15th of July, and other updates are made via patches. Currently it is possible to just give the

Re: Status of new source formats project

2009-08-03 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Vincent Danjean wrote: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: Charles Plessy wrote: I see that .bzip2 and .lzma are also supported compression methods for the 3.0 (native) format as well as for the binary packages. But I do not think it would be useful to add zip to this list. It seems to me that the

Re: Status of new source formats project

2009-08-03 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Sun, 02 Aug 2009, Charles Plessy wrote: I see that .bzip2 and .lzma are also supported compression methods for the 3.0 (native) format as well as for the binary packages. But I do not think it would be useful to add zip to this list. It seems to me that the only thing needed is the

Re: Status of new source formats project

2009-08-03 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 06:18:57PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog a écrit : The patch is not in unified format, which causes the failure of dpkg-buildpackage. It is trivial to refresh it with quilt to the unified format, but this introduces a divergence with upstream that I would prefer to

Re: Status of new source formats project

2009-08-02 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 04:55:16PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog a écrit : I updated the wiki page listing the status of this project: http://wiki.debian.org/Projects/DebSrc3.0 Bonjour Raphaël, first of all, thank you for making things progress for the support of a next-generation source format.

Re: Status of new source formats project

2009-08-02 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Sun, 02 Aug 2009, Charles Plessy wrote: But actually, among the programs that are not distributed upstream in a tar.gz format, we in the Debian Med team have as many zip cases as bzip2. Do you think that it would be possible to support zip format (i.e. .zip, .jar and .xpi extensions) for

Re: Status of new source formats project

2009-08-02 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sun, Aug 02, 2009 at 11:03:11AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog a écrit : On Sun, 02 Aug 2009, Charles Plessy wrote: About zip support: But actually, among the programs that are not distributed upstream in a tar.gz format, we in the Debian Med team have as many zip cases as bzip2. Do you

Re: Status of new source formats project

2009-08-02 Thread Emilio Pozuelo Monfort
Charles Plessy wrote: I see that .bzip2 and .lzma are also supported compression methods for the 3.0 (native) format as well as for the binary packages. But I do not think it would be useful to add zip to this list. It seems to me that the only thing needed is the capacity to unpack the

Re: Status of new source formats project

2009-08-02 Thread Russ Allbery
Raphael Hertzog hert...@debian.org writes: On Sun, 02 Aug 2009, Charles Plessy wrote: But actually, among the programs that are not distributed upstream in a tar.gz format, we in the Debian Med team have as many zip cases as bzip2. Do you think that it would be possible to support zip format

Re: Status of new source formats project

2009-08-02 Thread Vincent Danjean
Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: Charles Plessy wrote: I see that .bzip2 and .lzma are also supported compression methods for the 3.0 (native) format as well as for the binary packages. But I do not think it would be useful to add zip to this list. It seems to me that the only thing needed

Re: Status of new source formats project

2009-08-02 Thread Philipp Kern
On 2009-08-02, Vincent Danjean vdanjean...@free.fr wrote: Unpacking a source package is not needed during an upgrade. However, it occurs before a build. So, I understand the question of Charles as do we want that stable dpkg be able to unpack all packages from testing ?. I have no strong

Re: Status of new source formats project

2009-08-02 Thread Roger Leigh
On Sun, Aug 02, 2009 at 08:11:57PM +, Philipp Kern wrote: On 2009-08-02, Vincent Danjean vdanjean...@free.fr wrote: Unpacking a source package is not needed during an upgrade. However, it occurs before a build. So, I understand the question of Charles as do we want that stable dpkg