Re: DEP11 is CANDIDATE now!

2012-03-26 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 12:42:25PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: Together with Andreas Tille, we are finalising the first proof of principle of using debian/upstream files in YAML format to store additional metadata. Our current approach is only tracking the latest version of a package (in

Re: DEP11 is CANDIDATE now!

2012-03-26 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 3:09 PM, Andreas Tille wrote: infrastructure of Debian.  I perfectly could imagine some mechanism in parallel to the process which creates Contents-arch.gz which parses Debian source archives and creates some Contents-Source.gz files which could have a lot of

Re: DEP11 is CANDIDATE now!

2012-03-26 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 04:04:55PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote:  Contents-OrigSource.gz  (containing all the content of original sources)  Contents-Debian.gz      (containing everything in debian/) Half way there: http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/sid/main/Contents-source.gz Cool! I

Re: Diversity statement for the Debian Project

2012-03-26 Thread MJ Ray
Francesca Ciceri madame...@debian.org a recent discussion [1] on Debian Women mailing list made me realize that the Debian Project, the *Universal* Operating System, doesn't have a diversity statement [2]. I have three worries: 1. what's the point? What will actually change as a result of

Re: Diversity statement for the Debian Project

2012-03-26 Thread Francesca Ciceri
Hi, first of all let me say a *big thank you* for who took a moment (or more) to think about this proposal, criticizing the form of it, reviewing it, sending patches and fixes, asking for clarifications or providing them. And not only in this thread but also in IRC and via private mails. Even if

Re: Diversity statement for the Debian Project

2012-03-26 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 05:31:35PM +0200, Francesca Ciceri wrote: Hi, first of all let me say a *big thank you* for who took a moment (or more) to think about this proposal, criticizing the form of it, reviewing it, sending patches and fixes, asking for clarifications or providing them. And