RM: nb2plots -- ROM; leaf package

2024-02-28 Thread Alexandre Detiste
control: tag -1 +moreinfo Hi, I'm using this (nice, alive...) package and I'm willing to maintain it in the Python Team. Greetings, Alexandre

python3-poetry-dynamic-versioning is now in the Debian archive

2024-02-28 Thread Louis-Philippe Véronneau
Hello! python3-poetry-dynamic-versioning recently landed in the archive and I wanted to make it known! This package does something similar to python3-setuptools-scm and can be used in Debian in a similar way. You can use it manually with the following snippet, but pybuild's next release

Re: Suggesting change in DPT policy

2024-02-28 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 2/28/24 12:44, Scott Kitterman wrote: Everyone in Debian is already bound by the code of conduct already, so it seems redundant to add it here again. I agree. Thomas

Re: Maintaining packages with complex relationships (Was: Suggesting change in DPT policy)

2024-02-28 Thread Timo Röhling
Hi, * Andreas Tille [2024-02-28 11:51]: I think it could be useful for the routine-update command to stop when such file is hit, in order to raise the importance that the package has quirks, and should not be casually updated without involved scrutiny. I wonder whether this can be

Re: Suggesting change in DPT policy

2024-02-28 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Scott, Am Wed, Feb 28, 2024 at 09:19:29AM -0500 schrieb Scott Kitterman: > Looking at your list, I note that it includes team members that have been > very > active in team wide work, not just on their own packages. I'm fully aware of this. > I think it would be > contrary to the spirit

Re: Suggesting change in DPT policy

2024-02-28 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Scott, Am Wed, Feb 28, 2024 at 11:44:07AM + schrieb Scott Kitterman: > > This makes more sense to me. It is completely understandable that how things > are communicated affects how people feel about them. This is a difficult > thing to get right. I have experienced similar

Re: Suggesting change in DPT policy

2024-02-28 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Wednesday, February 28, 2024 3:21:12 AM EST Andreas Tille wrote: > Hi, > > Louis-Philippe (just quoting below in case you might have missed it) is > repeating the importance that anyone who thinks my suggestion (MR[1]) is > a bad idea make themselves heard. I'm hereby adding those maintainers

Bug#1064959: ITP: python-usb-devices -- Python tools for mapping, describing, and resetting USB devices

2024-02-28 Thread Edward Betts
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Edward Betts X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-de...@lists.debian.org, debian-python@lists.debian.org * Package name: python-usb-devices Version : 0.4.5 Upstream Author : J. Nick Koston * URL :

Re: Suggesting change in DPT policy

2024-02-28 Thread Scott Kitterman
On February 28, 2024 9:54:55 AM UTC, Thomas Goirand wrote: >On 2/28/24 00:54, Scott Kitterman wrote: >> It's self-induced. I mean if it's demotivating to have people point out >> that you didn't follow the policy, then you can solve that all by yourself >> by following the policy. If I

Re: Suggesting change in DPT policy

2024-02-28 Thread Scott Kitterman
On February 28, 2024 7:08:14 AM UTC, Andreas Tille wrote: >Hi Scott, > >Am Tue, Feb 27, 2024 at 11:54:01PM + schrieb Scott Kitterman: >> It's self-induced. I mean if it's demotivating to have people point out >> that you didn't follow the policy, then you can solve that all by yourself

Maintaining packages with complex relationships (Was: Suggesting change in DPT policy)

2024-02-28 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Étienne, Am Wed, Feb 28, 2024 at 09:37:59AM +0100 schrieb Étienne Mollier: > > > Instead of restricting collaboration, we could let policy encourage > > > maintainers to state such constraints in debian/README.DPT and ask team > > > members to check that file before they team-upload. > > > >

Re: Suggesting change in DPT policy

2024-02-28 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Tue, Feb 27, 2024 at 09:05:44AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > Hi, > > [...] +1 from me, too. I had completely forgotten this paragraph in the Python policy and it doesn't make that much sense. I personally generally do send an email to anyone in the "Maintainers" field or the last uploader

Re: Suggesting change in DPT policy

2024-02-28 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 2/28/24 09:21, Andreas Tille wrote: Hi, Louis-Philippe (just quoting below in case you might have missed it) is repeating the importance that anyone who thinks my suggestion (MR[1]) is a bad idea make themselves heard. I'm hereby adding those maintainers who have more than 5 packages that

Re: Suggesting change in DPT policy

2024-02-28 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 2/28/24 00:54, Scott Kitterman wrote: It's self-induced. I mean if it's demotivating to have people point out that you didn't follow the policy, then you can solve that all by yourself by following the policy. If I take your argument to its logical conclusion, all of Debian's rules can

Re: Suggesting change in DPT policy

2024-02-28 Thread Agathe Porte
Hi, 2024-02-27 09:06 CET, Andreas Tille: > I probably should have reviewed the DPT policy on Maintainership[3] more > carefully. In other teams, it's common for the Maintainer to be set to > the team, so I assumed it was just an oversight when I made this > change[4] when touching the package to

Re: Suggesting change in DPT policy

2024-02-28 Thread Vincent Bernat
Hello, I support this change too. I am myself set to maintainer of packages just because whatever tool we used at the time to generate debian/ directory for a package did that. On 2024-02-28 09:21, Andreas Tille wrote: Hi, Louis-Philippe (just quoting below in case you might have missed

Re: Suggesting change in DPT policy

2024-02-28 Thread Étienne Mollier
Hi all, Andreas Tille, on 2024-02-28: > Am Tue, Feb 27, 2024 at 04:08:51PM +0100 schrieb Timo Röhling: > > I guess the motivation behind the weak collaboration model is that some > > packages have hidden "gotchas", which a casual team uploader might not know. > > For instance, pygit2 is one of

Re: Suggesting change in DPT policy

2024-02-28 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, Louis-Philippe (just quoting below in case you might have missed it) is repeating the importance that anyone who thinks my suggestion (MR[1]) is a bad idea make themselves heard. I'm hereby adding those maintainers who have more than 5 packages that are affected and did not yet raised their

Re: Suggesting change in DPT policy

2024-02-28 Thread Andreas Tille
Am Tue, Feb 27, 2024 at 04:25:49PM + schrieb weepingclown: > While perfectly understanding the weak collaboration model reasoning, I've > still always found DPT as uploader and not maintainer rather absurd TBH. The > current go to tool (as I understand it) for python packaging, py2dsp, also