Re: Generic Python packages which don’t work on all architectures

2021-01-21 Thread Ole Streicher
Ansgar writes: > On Thu, 2021-01-21 at 13:46 +0100, Ole Streicher wrote: >> I am still wondering why we don't have just empty some pseudo- > packages that are available only on specific architectures >> (or  groups of them, like linux, or little endian, or 64 bit or so). > > To solve which

Re: Generic Python packages which don’t work on all architectures

2021-01-21 Thread Ole Streicher
Paul Wise writes: > On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 1:12 PM Ole Streicher wrote: > >> This would be a quite flexible and extendible approach to have packages >> installable only where they work. > > There is precedent for this sort of thing in the isa-support source > package, which fails installation

Re: Respectfully request to join the debian python team

2021-01-21 Thread Evangelos Ribeiro Tzaras
Hi, On 1/21/21 8:39 AM, PerRy wrote: My name is Perry, I wanted to request to join the debian python team. In a previous email, I shared that I have been using debian for a while now and at this point in time I want to contribute back to the project. One of my skills is writing scripts in

Re: Generic Python packages which don’t work on all architectures

2021-01-21 Thread Ole Streicher
Paul Wise writes: > This is what I eventually chose for iotop. At the time I wanted dpkg > and dak to support something like Architecture: linux-all, which would > build arch: all packages, but only put them in the Packages files for > the Linux architectures. > > I am now thinking that a more

Re: Generic Python packages which don’t work on all architectures

2021-01-21 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 1:12 PM Ole Streicher wrote: > This would be a quite flexible and extendible approach to have packages > installable only where they work. There is precedent for this sort of thing in the isa-support source package, which fails installation when your CPU doesn't support

Re: Generic Python packages which don’t work on all architectures

2021-01-21 Thread Ansgar
On Thu, 2021-01-21 at 13:46 +0100, Ole Streicher wrote: > I am still wondering why we don't have just empty some pseudo- packages that are available only on specific architectures > (or  groups of them, like linux, or little endian, or 64 bit or so). To solve which problem? Packages being

Re: Generic Python packages which don’t work on all architectures

2021-01-21 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 3:42 PM Ole Streicher wrote: > But this is also the case for all packages which implicitly depend on > other packages which are not available on some architectures. This is true, but it doesn't make for a good user experience. > Generally, arch:all packages depend on a

Re: Respectfully request to join the debian python team

2021-01-21 Thread PerRy
Hi Stefano, thanks for the advice, I'll definitely take a look into patching and orphaned packages. As far as mentoring how would I go about doing that? finding one that is. On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 12:15 PM Stefano Rivera wrote: > Hi PerRy (2021.01.21_07:39:50_+) > > I wanted to request to

Re: Respectfully request to join the debian python team

2021-01-21 Thread Stefano Rivera
Hi PerRy (2021.01.22_00:48:18_+) > thanks for the advice, I'll definitely take a look into patching and > orphaned packages. As far as mentoring how would I go about doing that? > finding one that is. I'd say post upload requests to the debian-mentors lists, or patches to bugs. There's a

Questions around the python-policy document

2021-01-21 Thread Fabrice BAUZAC-STEHLY
Hello Debian-Python, I have a few questions regarding the Python Policy: https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/python-policy/ - Is there a Debian package for reading it offline? (apparently not) - Who maintains this document: is it the Policy team, the Python team? - Where is the

Re: Status of https://debian-python.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

2021-01-21 Thread Fabrice BAUZAC-STEHLY
Barry Warsaw writes: >> On Dec 25, 2020, at 12:52, Sandro Tosi wrote: >> >> it looks like Barry (correct me if i'm wrong) set up >> https://debian-python.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ but it has not been >> updated in a while. >> >> Do we know what's the status of this website, if we want to

Re: Respectfully request to join the debian python team

2021-01-21 Thread Stefano Rivera
Hi PerRy (2021.01.21_07:39:50_+) > I wanted to request to join the debian python team. In a previous email, I > shared that I have been using debian for a while now and at this point in > time I want to contribute back to the project. One of my skills is writing > scripts in python, and I want

Re: Generic Python packages which don’t work on all architectures

2021-01-21 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 11:30 PM Paul Wise wrote: > there is probably some coverage of arch:all packages on debci, not > sure if it tests them on multiple arches though. FTR, #debci says arch:all packages get tested on all debci arches. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise

Re: Questions around the python-policy document

2021-01-21 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Hi Fabrice, Fabrice BAUZAC-STEHLY writes: > Hello Debian-Python, > > I have a few questions regarding the Python Policy: > https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/python-policy/ > > - Is there a Debian package for reading it offline? (apparently not) > > - Who maintains this document: is