Re: git & Debian packaging sprint report

2019-07-13 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Fri 12 Jul 2019 at 02:06PM +02, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > Depends on a lot of things. As far as I understand this work is in a > very early stage and a first brainstorming session on what problem this > is intended to solve, why one should consider doing it, and possible > requirements

Re: Is it the job of Lintian to push an agenda?

2019-07-13 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Sat 13 Jul 2019 at 11:10PM +02, Jérémy Lal wrote: > the question > "Is it the job of Lintian to push an agenda?" > is a good question, and it would be nice to get a general answer, > separately from the technical issue about sysvinit scripts. I think that it is useful to Debian for Lin

Re: Is it the job of Lintian to push an agenda?

2019-07-13 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Sat 13 Jul 2019 at 02:22PM -07, Russ Allbery wrote: > Matthias Klumpp writes: > >> With two Debian stable releases defaulting to systemd now, I think a >> solid case could be made to at least relax the "must" requirement to a >> "should" in policy (but that should better go to the resp

Packaging Games with In-App Purchases

2019-07-13 Thread Bagas Sanjaya
Hello, Let's imagine that I will package a city-building game titled makecity. The game is licensed under GPL(v3), but it has virtual currency which can be purchased by real money, that is the currency is "premium currency" (which is hard or impossible to get freely except by purchasing). Howev

Re: Detecting (upcoming) problems using automatic tests

2019-07-13 Thread Julian Andres Klode
On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 10:23:59PM -0300, Chris Lamb wrote: > Hi Julian, > > > I was just thinking that adding deprecation warnings and stuff > > to software is "nice", but the problem with warnings is that they > > tend to not break tests. > > I'm guessing you have a particular package or use-ca

unsigned repositories (was: Re: Dropping Release and Release.gpg support from APT)

2019-07-13 Thread Julian Andres Klode
On Tue, Jul 09, 2019 at 08:53:04PM +0200, Julian Andres Klode wrote: > So, > > we currently have code dealing with falling back from InRelease > to Release{,.gpg} and it's all a bit much IMO. Now that buster > has been released with an InRelease file, the time has IMO come for > us to drop support

Re: Dropping Release and Release.gpg support from APT

2019-07-13 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Wed, 2019-07-10 at 10:17 +0200, Julian Andres Klode wrote: > On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 10:10:41AM +0200, Philipp Kern wrote: > > On 2019-07-10 10:04, Julian Andres Klode wrote: > > > On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 10:35:25AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > > > > On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 2:53 AM Julian Andres Kl

Re: Is it the job of Lintian to push an agenda?

2019-07-13 Thread Russ Allbery
Russ Allbery writes: > The Policy process is not equipped to deal with this because that > process requires fairly consensus, and I don't believe that's possible > to reach on this topic. Argh. That should have been "fairly strong consensus" and fell victim to last-minute editing. -- Russ All

Re: Is it the job of Lintian to push an agenda?

2019-07-13 Thread Russ Allbery
Matthias Klumpp writes: > With two Debian stable releases defaulting to systemd now, I think a > solid case could be made to at least relax the "must" requirement to a > "should" in policy (but that should better go to the respective bug > report). The Policy process is not equipped to deal with

Re: Is it the job of Lintian to push an agenda?

2019-07-13 Thread Jérémy Lal
Hi, the question "Is it the job of Lintian to push an agenda?" is a good question, and it would be nice to get a general answer, separately from the technical issue about sysvinit scripts. Jérémy

Re: Is it the job of Lintian to push an agenda?

2019-07-13 Thread Matthias Klumpp
Am Sa., 13. Juli 2019 um 22:04 Uhr schrieb Vincent Bernat : > > ❦ 13 juillet 2019 11:52 -07, Russ Allbery : > > >> Previously, we had a sort of agreement (through the TC decision) that > >> such scripts should be maintained by people caring about them and we > >> should only act on bug reports wit

Re: Is it the job of Lintian to push an agenda?

2019-07-13 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 13 juillet 2019 11:52 -07, Russ Allbery : >> Previously, we had a sort of agreement (through the TC decision) that >> such scripts should be maintained by people caring about them and we >> should only act on bug reports with proper patches to have them. > > I don't agree that this was ever the

Re: Is it the job of Lintian to push an agenda?

2019-07-13 Thread Niels Thykier
Russ Allbery: >> Thanks to this new Lintian tag, the current situation is that packages >> won't pass NEW without a SysV init script (unless a FTP-masters ignore >> this specific tag despite its severity). > I haven't worked on Lintian in several years, so perhaps my information is > stale, but at

Re: Is it the job of Lintian to push an agenda?

2019-07-13 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Saturday, July 13, 2019 2:52:59 PM EDT Russ Allbery wrote: > Vincent Bernat writes: > > Thanks to this new Lintian tag, the current situation is that packages > > won't pass NEW without a SysV init script (unless a FTP-masters ignore > > this specific tag despite its severity). > > I haven't w

Re: Is it the job of Lintian to push an agenda?

2019-07-13 Thread Russ Allbery
Vincent Bernat writes: > Lintian got a new tag to enforce Policy 9.11: > Packages may integrate with these replacement init systems by > providing implementation-specific configuration information > about how and when to start a service or in what order to run > certain tasks at boot time. H

Is it the job of Lintian to push an agenda?

2019-07-13 Thread Vincent Bernat
Hey! Lintian got a new tag to enforce Policy 9.11: Packages may integrate with these replacement init systems by providing implementation-specific configuration information about how and when to start a service or in what order to run certain tasks at boot time. However, any package integrati

Bug#931988: ITP: kopano-webapp-plugin-intranet -- Kopano WebApp intranet plugin

2019-07-13 Thread Roel van Meer
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Roel van Meer * Package name: kopano-webapp-plugin-intranet Version : 1.0.0 Upstream Author : Kopano * URL : https://kopano.com/ https://stash.kopano.io/projects/KWA/repos/intranet/browse * License :

Re: Notes on packaging PCYNLITX

2019-07-13 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Hi, > If I will packaging PCYNLITX for Debian, any suggestions, assuming that I > have read New Maintainers Guideline and > related Debian packaging documentation? > [2]: http://www.pcynlitx.tech/the-installation-of-pcynlitx/ after looking at the source - i think your biggest challenge will be