Re: noarching source packages

2017-05-06 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2017-05-06 08:38, Marco Atzeri wrote: > On 06/05/2017 02:20, Brian Inglis wrote: >> On 2017-05-01 13:57, Achim Gratz wrote: >>> Jon Turney writes: What is your reason for changing the name? >>> There shouldn't be two different naming conventions for the same >>> purpose. So >>>

Re: noarching source packages

2017-05-06 Thread Marco Atzeri
On 06/05/2017 02:20, Brian Inglis wrote: On 2017-05-01 13:57, Achim Gratz wrote: Jon Turney writes: What is your reason for changing the name? There shouldn't be two different naming conventions for the same purpose. So package-version-release[-purpose].tar.xz with purpose:=[source|debuginfo]

Re: noarching source packages

2017-05-05 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2017-05-01 13:57, Achim Gratz wrote: > Jon Turney writes: >> What is your reason for changing the name? > There shouldn't be two different naming conventions for the same > purpose. So > package-version-release[-purpose].tar.xz > with purpose:=[source|debuginfo] would be preferrable. >> I was

Re: noarching source packages

2017-05-05 Thread Achim Gratz
Jon Turney writes: > The assumption that the "package" part is unique for installable > packages is rather deeply entrenched, and I don't actually see any > benefit apart from the aesthetic in changing this now. Well, it's not really the aesthetics: the debuginfo package is, like the source

Re: noarching source packages

2017-05-04 Thread Jon Turney
On 01/05/2017 20:57, Achim Gratz wrote: Jon Turney writes: What is your reason for changing the name? There shouldn't be two different naming conventions for the same purpose. So package-version-release[-purpose].tar.xz with purpose:=[source|debuginfo] would be preferrable. If we were

Re: noarching source packages

2017-05-04 Thread Jon Turney
On 03/05/2017 12:50, Ken Brown wrote: On 5/1/2017 4:05 PM, Ken Brown wrote: On 5/1/2017 3:57 PM, Achim Gratz wrote: But the real problem is that besides our own stuff some upstream sources are archful. Examples? Last I looked, it was texlive. This might go back to the time when biber was

Re: noarching source packages

2017-05-03 Thread Ken Brown
On 5/1/2017 4:05 PM, Ken Brown wrote: On 5/1/2017 3:57 PM, Achim Gratz wrote: But the real problem is that besides our own stuff some upstream sources are archful. Examples? Last I looked, it was texlive. This might go back to the time when biber was distributed as a packed perl archive

Re: noarching source packages

2017-05-01 Thread Ken Brown
On 5/1/2017 3:57 PM, Achim Gratz wrote: But the real problem is that besides our own stuff some upstream sources are archful. Examples? Last I looked, it was texlive. This might go back to the time when biber was distributed as a packed perl archive on x86 but not x86_64. But it hasn't

Re: noarching source packages

2017-05-01 Thread Achim Gratz
Jon Turney writes: > What is your reason for changing the name? There shouldn't be two different naming conventions for the same purpose. So package-version-release[-purpose].tar.xz with purpose:=[source|debuginfo] would be preferrable. > I was wondering if we need to explicitly identify

Re: noarching source packages

2017-05-01 Thread Jon Turney
On 27/04/2017 18:53, Achim Gratz wrote: Jon Turney writes: Picking up the discussion from [1], I've been looking a bit at noarching the source packages. So, the first problem is that we don't really have source packages. I'll use this occasion to raise the topic of the debuginfo packages

Re: noarching source packages

2017-04-27 Thread Achim Gratz
Jon Turney writes: > Picking up the discussion from [1], I've been looking a bit at > noarching the source packages. > > So, the first problem is that we don't really have source packages. I'll use this occasion to raise the topic of the debuginfo packages again. I still think we should change

noarching source packages

2017-04-24 Thread Jon Turney
Picking up the discussion from [1], I've been looking a bit at noarching the source packages. So, the first problem is that we don't really have source packages. Instead there is a special package (conventionally, the main one) which has a source archive as well as a binary archive, and all