Bug#949163: Please provide a repo for packages not intent for users

2020-01-22 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On Tue 2020-01-21 22:35:47 +, Ximin Luo wrote: > Filtering by build-profile doesn't work as we have no mechanism to say > that build profile A should automatically imply build profile B on a > dependency. aiui, pabs means that build-dependencies that are only for running package tests will be

Bug#949163: Please provide a repo for packages not intent for users

2020-01-21 Thread Ximin Luo
Paul Wise: > On Mon, 2020-01-20 at 22:51 +0800, Shengjing Zhu wrote: >> On Mon, Jan 20, 2020 at 10:37 PM Ximin Luo wrote: >>> This doesn't work for Rust unfortunately, due to features. Based on >>> which feature-set is activated, when you depend on a source-package >>> you would want to pull in di

Bug#949163: Please provide a repo for packages not intent for users

2020-01-20 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, 2020-01-20 at 22:51 +0800, Shengjing Zhu wrote: > On Mon, Jan 20, 2020 at 10:37 PM Ximin Luo wrote: > > This doesn't work for Rust unfortunately, due to features. Based on > > which feature-set is activated, when you depend on a source-package > > you would want to pull in different sets o

Bug#949163: Please provide a repo for packages not intent for users

2020-01-20 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On Mon 2020-01-20 14:31:36 +, Ximin Luo wrote: > This doesn't work for Rust unfortunately, due to features. Based on > which feature-set is activated, when you depend on a source-package > you would want to pull in different sets of transitive dependencies. > > However, a combination of: > > 1.

Bug#949163: Please provide a repo for packages not intent for users

2020-01-20 Thread Shengjing Zhu
On Mon, Jan 20, 2020 at 10:37 PM Ximin Luo wrote: > > On Sat, 18 Jan 2020 10:25:36 +0800 Paul Wise wrote: > > On Sat, 18 Jan 2020 00:31:11 +0800 Shengjing Zhu wrote: > > > > > There're a lot of packages in archive which users are not expected to > > > install, for examples: > > > > > > * all gola

Bug#949163: Please provide a repo for packages not intent for users

2020-01-20 Thread Ximin Luo
On Sat, 18 Jan 2020 10:25:36 +0800 Paul Wise wrote: > On Sat, 18 Jan 2020 00:31:11 +0800 Shengjing Zhu wrote: > > > There're a lot of packages in archive which users are not expected to > > install, for examples: > > > > * all golang-*-dev packages. (currently there are 1k+) > > * maybe[1] all l

Bug#949163: Please provide a repo for packages not intent for users

2020-01-17 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, 18 Jan 2020 00:31:11 +0800 Shengjing Zhu wrote: > There're a lot of packages in archive which users are not expected to > install, for examples: > > * all golang-*-dev packages. (currently there are 1k+) > * maybe[1] all librust-*-dev packages. (currently there also are 1k+) I think that

Bug#949163: Please provide a repo for packages not intent for users

2020-01-17 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On Sat 2020-01-18 03:24:46 +0800, Shengjing Zhu wrote: > I(as a Go developer) write a Go program, which imports > github.com/containerd/btrfs[1]. I think a Go developer would use the "main" archive section, not the proposed "nodev" archive section. That seems like it will work fine. If they're r

Bug#949163: Please provide a repo for packages not intent for users

2020-01-17 Thread Shengjing Zhu
On Sat, Jan 18, 2020 at 2:57 AM Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: ยท[...] > > End users(aka normal Go developers) don't need these -dev packages. > > Arguably, if i'm going to work on go software in the debian context, i > might indeed want these packages. But the distinction isn't "end users > vs. debia

Bug#949163: Please provide a repo for packages not intent for users

2020-01-17 Thread Shengjing Zhu
On Sat, Jan 18, 2020 at 2:57 AM Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > > On Sat 2020-01-18 00:31:11 +0800, Shengjing Zhu wrote: > > There're a lot of packages in archive which users are not expected to > > install, for examples: > > > > * all golang-*-dev packages. (currently there are 1k+) > > * maybe[1] a

Bug#949163: Please provide a repo for packages not intent for users

2020-01-17 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On Sat 2020-01-18 00:31:11 +0800, Shengjing Zhu wrote: > There're a lot of packages in archive which users are not expected to > install, for examples: > > * all golang-*-dev packages. (currently there are 1k+) > * maybe[1] all librust-*-dev packages. (currently there also are 1k+) > > For Go, thes

Bug#949163: Please provide a repo for packages not intent for users

2020-01-17 Thread Shengjing Zhu
Package: ftp.debian.org Severity: wishlist -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, There're a lot of packages in archive which users are not expected to install, for examples: * all golang-*-dev packages. (currently there are 1k+) * maybe[1] all librust-*-dev packages. (currently th