Re: Looking for ideas for merging a micro package...

2013-09-06 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Neil McGovern neilm at debian.org writes: I absolutely do not want to see anything related to ruby on my systems. SC#4 and not forcing bad things on users. Fantastic. In that case I propose we remove mksh from the archive as From my system ≠ from the archive. I don’t say everyone

Re: Looking for ideas for merging a micro package...

2013-09-06 Thread David Kalnischkies
On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 9:41 AM, Thorsten Glaser t...@mirbsd.de wrote: In fact, I even demoted it from Recommends to Suggests on a package because many people still run with install-recommends=true and it was not strictly needed. Thanks for fixing a bug in your package. Just don't blame other

Re: Looking for ideas for merging a micro package...

2013-09-05 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Philipp Kern pkern at debian.org writes: I absolutely do not want to see anything related to ruby on my systems. How is that relevant for Debian? SC#4 and not forcing bad things on users. bye, //mirabilos (at work) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Re: Looking for ideas for merging a micro package...

2013-09-05 Thread Neil McGovern
On Thu, Sep 05, 2013 at 02:18:40PM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: Philipp Kern pkern at debian.org writes: I absolutely do not want to see anything related to ruby on my systems. How is that relevant for Debian? SC#4 and not forcing bad things on users. Fantastic. In that case I

Re: Looking for ideas for merging a micro package...

2013-09-04 Thread Benjamin Drung
Am Dienstag, den 03.09.2013, 22:18 -0700 schrieb Russ Allbery: tony mancill tmanc...@debian.org writes: Thank you for pointing this out. I just recently uploaded a script, splitpatch, that I argued should be accepted as-is (i.e. as a micro package) because of the dependency on ruby.

Re: Looking for ideas for merging a micro package...

2013-09-04 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Benjamin Drung bdrung at debian.org writes: devscript had only Perl and Shell scripts initially, but then gained Python scripts. I don't see any reason to not accept ruby script. ruby would pull in another ~ 13 MB of storage, but devscripts targets developer machines. I absolutely do not

Re: Looking for ideas for merging a micro package...

2013-09-04 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Thorsten Glaser] I absolutely do not want to see anything related to ruby on my systems. Why? Is this just an emotional reaction, or is it the 13 MB of dependencies, or something else? I wonder if anyone feels the same way about, say, libraries written in FORTRAN, or binaries linked against

Re: Looking for ideas for merging a micro package...

2013-09-04 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Sep 04, 2013 at 01:02:35PM -0500, Peter Samuelson wrote: [Thorsten Glaser] I absolutely do not want to see anything related to ruby on my systems. Why? Is this just an emotional reaction, or is it the 13 MB of dependencies, or something else? I wonder if anyone feels the same

Re: Looking for ideas for merging a micro package...

2013-09-04 Thread Philipp Kern
On Wed, Sep 04, 2013 at 01:16:12PM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: Benjamin Drung bdrung at debian.org writes: devscript had only Perl and Shell scripts initially, but then gained Python scripts. I don't see any reason to not accept ruby script. ruby would pull in another ~ 13 MB of storage,

Re: Looking for ideas for merging a micro package...

2013-09-04 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Peter Samuelson dixit: I absolutely do not want to see anything related to ruby on my systems. Why? Is this just an emotional reaction, or is it the 13 MB of dependencies, or something else? Something else, mostly technical, the rest personal. I wonder if anyone feels the same way about,

Looking for ideas for merging a micro package... (was: Nitpicking in the NEW queue.)

2013-09-03 Thread Vincent Danjean
Le 02/09/2013 06:12, Paul R. Tagliamonte a écrit : Respectfully - when we add micro (under Size 100 packages) the amount of metadata added to every mirror and every users machine is almost as much as the package contents. This is a very common request (make sure this really needs to be

Re: Looking for ideas for merging a micro package... (was: Nitpicking in the NEW queue.)

2013-09-03 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 10:51 AM, Vincent Danjean wrote: Never mind. My current problem is that I have no idea which current package to contact to ask for a inclusion. It is not important enough to be included in packages such as util-linux and few (no?) system/devel packages already have a

Re: Looking for ideas for merging a micro package...

2013-09-03 Thread Vincent Danjean
Le 03/09/2013 11:52, Paul Wise a écrit : On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 10:51 AM, Vincent Danjean wrote: Never mind. My current problem is that I have no idea which current package to contact to ask for a inclusion. It is not important enough to be included in packages such as util-linux and few

Re: Looking for ideas for merging a micro package...

2013-09-03 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Tue, Sep 03, 2013 at 02:31:35PM +0200, Vincent Danjean wrote: Le 03/09/2013 11:52, Paul Wise a écrit : On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 10:51 AM, Vincent Danjean wrote: Never mind. My current problem is that I have no idea which current package to contact to ask for a inclusion. It is not

Re: Looking for ideas for merging a micro package...

2013-09-03 Thread Vincent Danjean
Le 03/09/2013 14:50, Paul Tagliamonte a écrit : On Tue, Sep 03, 2013 at 02:31:35PM +0200, Vincent Danjean wrote: So, I'm looking for a package that would accept this ruby script (I will probably ask linux-util anyway if nobody has other suggestions) and I will keep it in my perso repository

Re: Looking for ideas for merging a micro package...

2013-09-03 Thread Russ Allbery
Vincent Danjean vdanjean...@free.fr writes: The fact is that the FTP team comment was correct: it is really a small package. So, my question was really open (I do not know every package in Debian), in case someone has a useful suggestion (that does not involve to rewrite the script).

Re: Looking for ideas for merging a micro package...

2013-09-03 Thread tony mancill
On 09/03/2013 02:17 PM, Russ Allbery wrote: Vincent Danjean vdanjean...@free.fr writes: The fact is that the FTP team comment was correct: it is really a small package. So, my question was really open (I do not know every package in Debian), in case someone has a useful suggestion (that does

Re: Looking for ideas for merging a micro package...

2013-09-03 Thread Russ Allbery
tony mancill tmanc...@debian.org writes: Thank you for pointing this out. I just recently uploaded a script, splitpatch, that I argued should be accepted as-is (i.e. as a micro package) because of the dependency on ruby. Given that ruby is becoming more popular for scripting, what do folks