Re: Packaging minetest mods

2020-07-16 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Jul 16, 2020 at 3:17 PM Julien Puydt wrote: > I have packaged a few mods for the minetest game these last years. > Recent minetest versions have a feature where you can download mods > directly online. Where/how are the downloadable mods maintained? > (1) should I go on updating the exis

Re: Preferred form of modification for binary data used in unit testing?

2020-07-16 Thread Holger Levsen
hi, doesn't the subject already tell that we are not talking about software and it's freeness, but rather... something else, something... important? (not that I'd know more, here & now.) my point is: i do think this is out of scope for policy as it is. and rightfully so. -- cheers,

Work-needing packages report for Jul 17, 2020

2020-07-16 Thread wnpp
The following is a listing of packages for which help has been requested through the WNPP (Work-Needing and Prospective Packages) system in the last week. Total number of orphaned packages: 1170 (new: 5) Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 209 (new: 1) Total number of packages reques

Re: Preferred form of modification for binary data used in unit testing?

2020-07-16 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Thu 16 Jul 2020 at 05:19PM -07, Sean Whitton wrote: > You would need the buggy version of the software if you wanted to > make modified versions of the binary data to test for closely related > bugs, for example. Hmm, perhaps this is not true. Perhaps for making closely related broken

Re: Preferred form of modification for binary data used in unit testing?

2020-07-16 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Thu 16 Jul 2020 at 07:42PM +02, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Thu, Jul 16, 2020 at 08:42:24AM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: >> I would remove the test data because it does not seem DFSG-conformant. > > Care to explain? You can't claim DFSG violation without showing which > part. That was a b

Bug#965161: ITP: php-oscarotero-gettext -- PHP gettext manager

2020-07-16 Thread James Valleroy
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: James Valleroy X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, jvalle...@mailbox.org * Package name: php-oscarotero-gettext Version : 4.8.2 Upstream Author : Oscar Otero * URL : https://github.com/php-gettext/Gettext * License

Videoconference Friday 2020-07-17 18:00 UTC (Was: For those who want to keep on contributing (Was: Debian @ COVID-19 Biohackathon (April 5-11, 2020))

2020-07-16 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, for those who would like to join our next videomeeting it will happen at https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Debian+CoViD-19+Biohackathon+Video+Conference&iso=20200717T20&p1=37&ah=1 The meeting is on the Debian Social channel https://jitsi.debian.socia

Re: Preferred form of modification for binary data used in unit testing?

2020-07-16 Thread Steve McIntyre
Hey Philipp, Philipp Hahn wrote: > >if a *previous* version of a software generated a *buggy* binary >database, that bug got fixed in a *newer* version and also some >*recovery* mechanism was added to allow reading that broken format >*once*, but there is no code the write the *broken* file again.

Re: Preferred form of modification for binary data used in unit testing?

2020-07-16 Thread Russ Allbery
Philipp Hahn writes: > * Declare that there in no preferred form for modification, as a > "open-save"-cycle with the current code will not re-create the bit > idencial file again. This is my gut reaction. Modifying this piece of testing data is mostly pointless. It's kind of like asking what t

Re: Preferred form of modification for binary data used in unit testing?

2020-07-16 Thread Bastian Blank
On Thu, Jul 16, 2020 at 08:42:24AM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: > I would remove the test data because it does not seem DFSG-conformant. Care to explain? You can't claim DFSG violation without showing which part. Also please explain how you would make sure the code is tested. Bastian -- Killing

Re: Packaging minetest mods

2020-07-16 Thread Wolfgang Silbermayr
On 7/16/20 5:44 PM, Sean Whitton wrote: > Hello, > > On Thu 16 Jul 2020 at 05:17PM +02, Julien Puydt wrote: >> >> I have packaged a few mods for the minetest game these last years. >> Recent minetest versions have a feature where you can download mods >> directly online. >> >> So the questions are

Re: Packaging minetest mods

2020-07-16 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Thu 16 Jul 2020 at 05:17PM +02, Julien Puydt wrote: > Hi, > > I have packaged a few mods for the minetest game these last years. > Recent minetest versions have a feature where you can download mods > directly online. > > So the questions are : > > (1) should I go on updating the existi

Re: Preferred form of modification for binary data used in unit testing?

2020-07-16 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello Philipp, On Wed 15 Jul 2020 at 09:45AM +02, Philipp Hahn wrote: > Hi, > > if a *previous* version of a software generated a *buggy* binary > database, that bug got fixed in a *newer* version and also some > *recovery* mechanism was added to allow reading that broken format > *once*, but the

Packaging minetest mods

2020-07-16 Thread Julien Puydt
Hi, I have packaged a few mods for the minetest game these last years. Recent minetest versions have a feature where you can download mods directly online. So the questions are : (1) should I go on updating the existing packages? or ask for their removal? orphan them? whatever? (2) should I go

Re: Preferred form of modification for binary data used in unit testing?

2020-07-16 Thread Johannes Schauer
Hi, Quoting Christian Kastner (2020-07-16 14:08:34) > On 2020-07-16 12:53, Pirate Praveen wrote: > >> Generally speaking, I think it's a mistake to apply the question of > >> "preferred form for modification" to unit test payloads. Unit tests are > >> purely about functionality. The original sourc

Re: Preferred form of modification for binary data used in unit testing?

2020-07-16 Thread Christian Kastner
On 2020-07-16 12:53, Pirate Praveen wrote: >> Generally speaking, I think it's a mistake to apply the question of >> "preferred form for modification" to unit test payloads. Unit tests are >> purely about functionality. The original source to a payload is an >> arbitrary choice (possibly even rando

Bug#965118: ITP: colorcet -- A set of useful perceptually uniform colormaps for plotting scientific data

2020-07-16 Thread Sebastien Delafond
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Sebastien Delafond * Package name: colorcet Version : 2.0.2 Upstream Author : James A. Bednar * URL : https://github.com/holoviz/colorcet * License : CC-BY-4.0 Programming Lang: Python Description : A set of usef

Re: Preferred form of modification for binary data used in unit testing?

2020-07-16 Thread Pirate Praveen
On Thu, Jul 16, 2020 at 12:28, Christian Kastner wrote: On 2020-07-15 09:45, Philipp Hahn wrote: if a *previous* version of a software generated a *buggy* binary database, that bug got fixed in a *newer* version and also some *recovery* mechanism was added to allow reading that broken for

Re: Preferred form of modification for binary data used in unit testing?

2020-07-16 Thread Christian Kastner
On 2020-07-15 09:45, Philipp Hahn wrote: > if a *previous* version of a software generated a *buggy* binary > database, that bug got fixed in a *newer* version and also some > *recovery* mechanism was added to allow reading that broken format > *once*, but there is no code the write the *broken* fi

Bug#965108: ITP: goldplate -- cute and simple opaque golden test runner for CLI applications

2020-07-16 Thread Félix Sipma
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Félix Sipma X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: goldplate Version : 0.1.1 Upstream Author : Jasper Van der Jeugt * URL : https://github.com/fugue/goldplate.git * License : Apache-2.0 Programming

Bug#965102: ITP: pup -- command-line HTML processor

2020-07-16 Thread Arnaud Rebillout
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Arnaud Rebillout * Package name: pup Version : 0.4.0+git20190919.681d7bb-1 Upstream Author : Eric Chiang * URL : https://github.com/ericchiang/pup * License : Expat Programming Lang: Go Description : command-line