Request for Review: Shedskin (a Python-to-C++ compiler)

2011-11-15 Thread Paul Boddie
Hello, As I mentioned in the thread concerning Nuitka, I've been trying for a while to get Shedskin packaged for Debian, and I've sent the occasional RFS to the Mentors list, but I'd be interested to know if anyone is interested in taking this work further and/or sponsoring it. Here's the

Re: PyCon 2013 -- anyone going? ideas for the talks?

2012-09-21 Thread Paul Boddie
On Friday 21 September 2012 20:13:22 Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: eh -- I cannot recommend any specific tutorial, especially tailored toward Python (yet). Lucas' packaging-tutorial is quite nice but IMHO for 1/2 hour introduction into packaging tutorial should be more concise and more specific

Re: PyCon 2013 -- tentative title/abstract/outline -- feedback plz

2012-09-27 Thread Paul Boddie
On Thursday 27 September 2012 17:50:04 Paul Tagliamonte wrote: On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 08:51:37AM -0400, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: not a single comment... bad... I guess I need to work on the text more if even hardcore Debian people do not feel 'moved' ;-) Well, i'll give my 2c as a

Re: PyCon 2013 -- tentative title/abstract/outline -- feedback plz

2012-09-27 Thread Paul Boddie
On Friday 28 September 2012 00:23:10 Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: Thank you Paul ;-) Good comments -- once again, arguments seems to be oriented mostly toward developers... I guess I should explicitly guide the abstract more toward 'user-' and sysadmin- use cases: people in need to have easy

Publishing multiple packages with aptly in Salsa CI

2023-09-10 Thread Paul Boddie
Hello, A few weeks ago, I asked about techniques for making new packages available to other new packages so that the autopkgtest job could be run successfully in a pipeline in the Salsa CI environment. Eventually, this was made to work by taking advantage of the aptly job defined in the

Re: [Debian-salsa-ci] Publishing multiple packages with aptly in Salsa CI

2023-09-15 Thread Paul Boddie
On Friday, 15 September 2023 16:33:25 CEST Philip Hands wrote: > > For another angle, see: > > https://salsa.debian.org/philh/user-setup/-/pipelines/576662 > > In which I have a `harvest-repos` job that grabs artifacts from `build` > jobs in other pipelines, and an `aptly-plus` job that's got

Re: Package testing with Salsa CI for new packages

2023-08-19 Thread Paul Boddie
On Friday, 18 August 2023 19:54:55 CEST Carles Pina i Estany wrote: > > Ha! I wasn't aware of the aptly option > (https://salsa.debian.org/salsa-ci-team/pipeline/#using-automatically-built-> > apt-repository and SALSA_CI_DISABLE_APTLY=0). > I think that I might have re-invented the wheel in a

Package testing with Salsa CI for new packages

2023-08-17 Thread Paul Boddie
Hello, It has been quite some time since I contributed any packaging to Debian, but in the last year or so I have been trying to put together some packaging for MoinMoin 2. As many of you will be aware, MoinMoin (colloquially referenced as "Moin" hereafter) is currently used by Debian for the

Re: Package testing with Salsa CI for new packages

2023-08-19 Thread Paul Boddie
On Saturday, 19 August 2023 20:32:59 CEST Carles Pina i Estany wrote: > > Quick answer for now... And a very quick reply from me... :-) [...] > I don't know if a .asc files are allowed. Actually, from my > .bash_history: > --- > wget -O- https://www.virtualbox.org/download/oracle_vbox_2016.asc

Re: Package testing with Salsa CI for new packages

2023-08-20 Thread Paul Boddie
On Sunday, 20 August 2023 14:06:37 CEST Carles Pina i Estany wrote: > > Interesting approach, but if you could use the variables and ship the > shell script it might reduce some duplication between jobs (if possible, > I haven't look into too much detail in your case) and more importantly > you

Re: Package testing with Salsa CI for new packages

2023-08-21 Thread Paul Boddie
On Monday, 21 August 2023 15:01:26 CEST Carles Pina i Estany wrote: > > If you want, you can simplify more (it's not exactly the same, so it > might or might not help). There is a way on GitLab to point to the > latest build of a job. For example, you have the following URL for one > of the git

Re: Package testing with Salsa CI for new packages

2023-08-18 Thread Paul Boddie
On Friday, 18 August 2023 18:21:00 CEST Andrey Rakhmatullin wrote: > On Thu, Aug 17, 2023 at 05:10:08PM +0200, Paul Boddie wrote: > > Here, it would seem that the most prudent approach is to use the Salsa CI > > service instead of trying to get the test suite to run during the pa

Re: Package testing with Salsa CI for new packages

2023-08-18 Thread Paul Boddie
On Friday, 18 August 2023 16:12:19 CEST Carles Pina i Estany wrote: > > For the jobs it is happening via > https://salsa.debian.org/salsa-ci-team/pipeline/#using-automatically-built- apt-repository Reviewing this documentation is actually more helpful than I thought it would be. I had noticed

Re: Package testing with Salsa CI for new packages

2023-08-18 Thread Paul Boddie
On Friday, 18 August 2023 09:51:29 CEST Carles Pina i Estany wrote: > > I'm not a Debian developer but I have some experience on Salsa CI, so I > thought that I might be able to help... but then I was confused by a > specific part of the message: > > On 17 Aug 2023 at 17:10:08,

Request to join the Debian Python Team

2024-01-15 Thread Paul Boddie
Hello, I would like to request membership of the Debian Python Team. For a while, I have been working on a package for Shed Skin (shedskin) which is a compiler for a dialect of Python. I previously maintained a package for this software in the Python 2 era, and since it has been made

Re: Uscan: watch and changelog

2024-03-29 Thread Paul Boddie
On Friday, 29 March 2024 17:39:04 CET c.bu...@posteo.jp wrote: > > On 2024-03-29 16:23 Carsten Schoenert wrote: > > You need to use "opts=mode=git, ...", see the man page of uscan. > > Are you sure. For example this watch file do not use "opts=" >

Re: Request to join the Debian Python Team

2024-04-03 Thread Paul Boddie
On Wednesday, 3 April 2024 16:25:10 CEST Andrey Rakhmatullin wrote: > On Wed, Apr 03, 2024 at 04:21:05PM +0200, Paul Boddie wrote: > > > > Many thanks for giving me access! Would it make sense to move the existing > > project into the Python Team's package

Re: Request to join the Debian Python Team

2024-04-03 Thread Paul Boddie
On Wednesday, 3 April 2024 16:51:33 CEST Andrey Rakhmatullin wrote: > > Then putting the repo in the team namespace makes sense. OK. I will aim to do that. > On Wed, Apr 03, 2024 at 04:48:44PM +0200, Paul Boddie wrote: > > However, I did not presume that I could just set the M

Re: Request to join the Debian Python Team

2024-04-03 Thread Paul Boddie
On Wednesday, 3 April 2024 15:56:48 CEST Pierre-Elliott Bécue wrote: > > I've granted you developer access to the package subgroup. You can > create a shedskin project here if you want. Many thanks for giving me access! Would it make sense to move the existing project into the Python Team's

Re: Uscan: watch and changelog

2024-03-31 Thread Paul Boddie
On Sunday, 31 March 2024 15:31:36 CEST c.bu...@posteo.jp wrote: > > Don't write and explain such things in emails. Save your time and > resources. Write it into the wiki just one time and then you can link > to it. You wrote it. I won't copy and paste your stuff. Ladies and > Gentlemen please do

Re: Docu: Need help to understand section about package creation

2024-03-29 Thread Paul Boddie
On Friday, 29 March 2024 09:52:14 CET Carsten Schoenert wrote: > > Starting with Debian packaging isn't a easy thing and there is *not* the > one way to do it right. And there are for sure hundreds of HowTos out > there. You will need to try a few of them and chose in the end the > workflow that

Re: Request to join the Debian Python Team

2024-04-04 Thread Paul Boddie
On Wednesday, 3 April 2024 19:03:44 CEST Pierre-Elliott Bécue wrote: > Paul Boddie wrote on 03/04/2024 at 16:21:05+0200: > > > > Many thanks for giving me access! Would it make sense to move the existing > > project into the Python Team's packages collection on Salsa

Re: Request to join the Debian Python Team

2024-04-04 Thread Paul Boddie
On Thursday, 4 April 2024 18:02:42 CEST Pierre-Elliott Bécue wrote: > > I've bumped your access to maintainer, let's try, and I'll downgrade > when you're done. The project has been transferred and now resides here: https://salsa.debian.org/python-team/packages/shedskin Many thanks once again!

Re: python devs complaining about debian packaging

2024-05-26 Thread Paul Boddie
On Sunday, 26 May 2024 03:33:09 CEST Ian Norton wrote: > I am puzzled about some of the responses there, how can anyone expect to > randomly update packages on the system using pip and not have it go wrong > on any distribution? This is why things like pipenv exist. Or whatever today's tool is

Re: python devs complaining about debian packaging

2024-06-03 Thread Paul Boddie
On Monday, 3 June 2024 16:27:29 CEST Donald Stufft wrote: > > In the interim the packaging toolchain evolved to the point that having > distutils in the stdlib was no longer of general benefit, and in fact made > things worse because people had grown accustomed to things like `from > distutils

Re: python devs complaining about debian packaging

2024-06-02 Thread Paul Boddie
On Monday, 27 May 2024 04:07:34 CEST Scott Kitterman wrote: > > While there are technical concerns on both sides, socially I think the > Python community isn't that interested in outside perspectives. I managed to dig up these notes from the packaging summit at PyCon: