Re: Facilitating external repositories

2015-06-07 Thread Josh Triplett
On Sun, Jun 07, 2015 at 11:55:23PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Sun, Jun 07, 2015 at 11:30:01AM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 07, 2015 at 11:08:36AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > > On Fri, Jun 05, 2015 at 09:10:56AM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: > > > > If that's not an option

Re: Facilitating external repositories

2015-06-07 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sun, Jun 07, 2015 at 11:30:01AM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: > On Sun, Jun 07, 2015 at 11:08:36AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 05, 2015 at 09:10:56AM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: > > > If that's not an option for some reason, then given that the packages > > > are Free Software an

Re: Facilitating external repositories

2015-06-07 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sun, Jun 07, 2015 at 07:43:30PM +0200, Bálint Réczey wrote: > I think this situation still allows maintaining the packages in > Debian, when (if ever) your contract ends and you don't want to > maintain the packages in your free time you can orphan the packages. > The next maintainer could adopt

Re: Upstream and packaging

2015-06-07 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Geert Stappers (2015-06-07): > What about creating a guide line where upstream creates a directory > Packaging where sub directories are like Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, > Redhat, CentOS, Suse and such? > > So Upstream can ship their tar-balls / git repositories with > the package stuff ( Spec files, d

Re: Facilitating external repositories

2015-06-07 Thread Josh Triplett
On Sun, Jun 07, 2015 at 11:08:36AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Fri, Jun 05, 2015 at 09:10:56AM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: > > If that's not an option for some reason, then given that the packages > > are Free Software and of reasonably broad interest, you could at least > > upload a package

Re: Facilitating external repositories

2015-06-07 Thread Bálint Réczey
Hi Wouter, 2015-06-07 11:08 GMT+02:00 Wouter Verhelst : > On Fri, Jun 05, 2015 at 09:10:56AM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: >> Wouter Verhelst wrote: >> > At $DAYJOB, I'm maintaining a few repositories with ready-to-install >> > packages for a number of distributions[1] >> > >> > Currently, the instr

Bug#787994: ITP: gmt-gshhg -- Global Self-consistent Hierarchical High-resolution Geography (GSHHG)

2015-06-07 Thread Bas Couwenberg
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Bas Couwenberg * Package name: gmt-gshhg Version : 2.3.4 Upstream Author : Paul Wessel * URL : http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/pwessel/gshhg/index.html * License : LGPL-3+ Programming Lang: N/A Description : Global S

Re: Facilitating external repositories

2015-06-07 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Thu, Jun 04, 2015 at 06:18:16PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > - There is no trust path from your already-installed distribution to the > "archive" package (yes, I did sign the gpg keys; no, I don't consider > that enough). There are 2 popular methods for this: - Have an "app store". We w

Re: Issue with PTS watch file service

2015-06-07 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Jun 7, 2015 at 10:52 PM, Andreas Tille wrote: > Wild guess: It migth be connected to the fact that DEHS is not working > properly any more as it was mentioned here on Debian-QA list[1]. DEHS died many years ago, the timing is more likely to be caused by upgrades to jessie. IIRC multiple

Bug#787991: ITP: gmt-dcw -- Digital Chart of the World (DCW) for GMT

2015-06-07 Thread Bas Couwenberg
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Bas Couwenberg * Package name: gmt-dcw Version : 1.1.1 Upstream Author : Paul Wessel * URL : http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/pwessel/dcw/index.html * License : LGPL-3+ Programming Lang: N/A Description : Digital Char

Re: Issue with PTS watch file service

2015-06-07 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Daniel, On Fri, Jun 05, 2015 at 01:24:14PM +0200, Daniel Leidert wrote: > Hi, > > Is it possible, that the watch file service of our PTS has some issue > atm? The PTS spuriously reports "temporary or permanent problems" for > some projects, although the watch files look perfectly ok to me and

Re: ppp plugins and dependencies

2015-06-07 Thread James McCoy
On Sun, Jun 07, 2015 at 11:26:12AM +0100, Chris Boot wrote: > One of the first tasks on my list is to resolve the issue with > dependencies and ABI compatibility surrounding the building of ppp > plugins. Several packages in the archive use the ppp-dev package to help > them build ppp plugins that

Re: ppp plugins and dependencies

2015-06-07 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 07.06.2015 um 13:35 schrieb Chris Boot: > On 07/06/15 11:49, Michael Biebl wrote: >> Thinking about this, something like this could be useful for such >> situations: >> Breaks: != ppp-abi-version-2.4.6 >> as counterpart to >> Depends: = ppp-abi-version-2.4.6 > > We can't do that quite, but this

Re: Upstream and packaging

2015-06-07 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2015-06-07 14:17, Geert Stappers wrote: > > Hi, > > What about creating a guide line where upstream creates a directory > Packaging where sub directories are like Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, > Redhat, CentOS, Suse and such? > > So Upstream can ship their tar-balls / git repositories with > the pack

Upstream and packaging

2015-06-07 Thread Geert Stappers
Hi, What about creating a guide line where upstream creates a directory Packaging where sub directories are like Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, Redhat, CentOS, Suse and such? So Upstream can ship their tar-balls / git repositories with the package stuff ( Spec files, debian/ directories ) allready availa

Re: ppp plugins and dependencies

2015-06-07 Thread Simon McVittie
On 07/06/15 12:35, Chris Boot wrote: > On 07/06/15 11:49, Michael Biebl wrote: >> Shipping a .pc file upstream to get the correct plugin directory (and >> build flags) sounds like a useful addition. > > Upstream's build system is... archaic. It doesn't autotools and its > configure script is hand-

Re: ppp plugins and dependencies

2015-06-07 Thread Chris Boot
On 07/06/15 11:49, Michael Biebl wrote: > Am 07.06.2015 um 12:26 schrieb Chris Boot: >> network-manager only has pppd as a Recommends despite shipping a pppd >> plugin. > > Small correction: network-manager has a versioned Recommends and a > versioned Breaks against ppp. > This is deliberate, sinc

Re: ppp plugins and dependencies

2015-06-07 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Jun 7, 2015 at 7:00 PM, Michael Biebl wrote: > Thinking about this, something like this could be useful for such > situations: > Breaks: != ppp-abi-version-2.4.6 > as counterpart to > Depends: = ppp-abi-version-2.4.6 I'm not sure you can do the Breaks part of that as it would have to be l

Bug#787982: ITP: python-pbh5tools -- tools for manipulating HDF5 files produced by, Pacific Biosciences sequencing instruments

2015-06-07 Thread Afif Elghraoui
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Debian Med Packaging Team X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: python-pbh5tools Version : 0.8.0 Upstream Author : Pacific Biosciences * URL : https://github.com/PacificBiosciences/pbh5tools * License

Re: ppp plugins and dependencies

2015-06-07 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 07.06.2015 um 12:49 schrieb Michael Biebl: > Am 07.06.2015 um 12:26 schrieb Chris Boot: >> network-manager only has pppd as a Recommends despite shipping a pppd >> plugin. > > Small correction: network-manager has a versioned Recommends and a > versioned Breaks against ppp. > This is deliberate

Re: ppp plugins and dependencies

2015-06-07 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 07.06.2015 um 12:26 schrieb Chris Boot: > network-manager only has pppd as a Recommends despite shipping a pppd > plugin. Small correction: network-manager has a versioned Recommends and a versioned Breaks against ppp. This is deliberate, since network-manager does not strictly need ppp. The ve

Re: ppp plugins and dependencies

2015-06-07 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Chris Boot , 2015-06-07, 11:26: Depends: [...] ppp (>= 2.4.6~), ppp (<< 2.4.7~) [...] The tildes are pointless here. s/~//g -- Jakub Wilk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

ppp plugins and dependencies

2015-06-07 Thread Chris Boot
Hi all, Apologies for the long email, but there's a lot to discuss on the topic. Marco d'Itri and I recently agreed that I would take over maintenance of ppp. Thanks for all your hard work over the years keeping this package going, Marco. One of the first tasks on my list is to resolve the issue

Bug#787981: ITP: python-pbcore -- Python library for processing Pacific Biosciences data, files

2015-06-07 Thread Afif Elghraoui
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Debian Med Packaging Team X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: python-pbcore Version : 1.0.0 Upstream Author : Pacific Biosciences * URL : https://github.com/PacificBiosciences/pbcore * License :

Bug#787977: ITP: smrtanalysis -- software suite for single molecule, real-time sequencing

2015-06-07 Thread Afif Elghraoui
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Debian Med Packaging Team X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: smrtanalysis Version : 2.3.0 Upstream Author : Pacific Biosciences * URL : http://pacbiodevnet.com * License : BSD Programming L

Re: Facilitating external repositories

2015-06-07 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sat, Jun 06, 2015 at 01:48:12PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Sat, Jun 6, 2015 at 8:13 AM, Brian May wrote: > > > the software is far to volatile (e.g. important bug fixes on a weekly basis) > > We have a place for such software: experimental > > > I don't want old versions hanging around any

Re: Facilitating external repositories

2015-06-07 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Hi Chris, On Sat, Jun 06, 2015 at 11:49:21PM -0400, Chris Knadle wrote: > Hey, Wouter. > > On 06/04/2015 12:18 PM, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > Hi, > > > > At $DAYJOB, I'm maintaining a few repositories with ready-to-install > > packages for a number of distributions[1] > > > > Currently, the ins

Re: Facilitating external repositories

2015-06-07 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Fri, Jun 05, 2015 at 09:10:56AM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: > Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > At $DAYJOB, I'm maintaining a few repositories with ready-to-install > > packages for a number of distributions[1] > > > > Currently, the instructions[2] say to do the following: > > - Download and install

DEB_SIGN_KEYID vs DEBSIGN_KEYID

2015-06-07 Thread Harald Dunkel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi folks, Trying to get rid of my old GPG key I stumbled over this: For devscripts you can define a variable "DEBSIGN_KEYID". For dpkg it is called "DEB_SIGN_KEYID". git-buildpackage doesn't support a keyid environment variable at all, as it seems.

Re: Facilitating external repositories

2015-06-07 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Jun 7, 2015 at 11:49 AM, Chris Knadle wrote: > I recall the prior DPL wanting to support PPAs in Debian, and I would > imagine that this issue is one of the "sticking points" to that idea. The Debian PPA proposal will be different to Launchpad PPAs and will be signed by the same keys as t