Re: Experimental ddeb support in debhelper and lintian (Was: Re: -dbg packages; are they actually useful?)

2015-06-11 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
On Monday 20 April 2015 12:46 PM, David Kalnischkies wrote: That can be very quickly quite a set of packages. apt ~23, apititude ~40, mpv (similar to mplayer) ~159, kate (KDEs notepad) ~465. [0] That can be tuned by excluding non-libraries, but that has its own drawbacks (private libraries

Re: Experimental ddeb support in debhelper and lintian

2015-05-14 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 4 avril 2015 10:54 +0200, Niels Thykier ni...@thykier.net : * There is an experimental branch for debhelper to generate these automatically available. - Requires a export DH_BUILD_DDEBS=1 to trigger the code path - It applies to *all* compat levels. - Trying to get the

Re: Experimental ddeb support in debhelper and lintian (Was: Re: -dbg packages; are they actually useful?)

2015-05-14 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2015-05-03 18:58, Guillem Jover wrote: Hi! On Tue, 2015-04-07 at 22:11:18 +0200, Niels Thykier wrote: A) Use .deb (i.e. the regular extension) with a new section. Is there any problem with using the existing debug section? Or is the different section used to distinguish that these

Re: Experimental ddeb support in debhelper and lintian

2015-05-14 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2015-04-12 05:31, Paul Wise wrote: On Sat, Apr 11, 2015 at 3:20 PM, Niels Thykier wrote: As noted on IRC, mentors.debian.net / debexpo will probably need to be updated too (at least if we go the ddebs route). debexpo needs a rewrite to a non-deprecated framework so support for ddebs is

Re: Experimental ddeb support in debhelper and lintian (Was: Re: -dbg packages; are they actually useful?)

2015-05-14 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2015-04-19 19:10, David Kalnischkies wrote: On Sat, Apr 04, 2015 at 10:54:09AM +0200, Niels Thykier wrote: The resulting debs are installable with dpkg -i ( \o/ ). I have not tried anything fancy like setting up a local APT mirror and tried to convince APT do install it. I did and apt

Re: Experimental ddeb support in debhelper and lintian (Was: Re: -dbg packages; are they actually useful?)

2015-05-14 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2015-05-02 13:46, David Kalnischkies wrote: On Fri, May 01, 2015 at 11:46:42PM +0200, Niels Thykier wrote: […] ddeb support […] +1. \o/ - apt now properly handles the pkg:arch dependency. [...] I would revert the revert as this is potentially causing more trouble than the

Re: Experimental ddeb support in debhelper and lintian (Was: Re: -dbg packages; are they actually useful?)

2015-05-03 Thread David Kalnischkies
On Sat, May 02, 2015 at 09:07:56AM -0400, James McCoy wrote: On Sat, May 02, 2015 at 01:46:25PM +0200, David Kalnischkies wrote: (aka: I don't see why a debug package has to depend on the package it provides symbols for at all. If any the relation should be 'Enhances'…). The intention is

Re: Experimental ddeb support in debhelper and lintian (Was: Re: -dbg packages; are they actually useful?)

2015-05-03 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Tue, 2015-04-07 at 22:11:18 +0200, Niels Thykier wrote: A) Use .deb (i.e. the regular extension) with a new section. Is there any problem with using the existing debug section? Or is the different section used to distinguish that these are autogenerated perhaps? B) Use .ddeb (i.e.

Re: Experimental ddeb support in debhelper and lintian (Was: Re: -dbg packages; are they actually useful?)

2015-05-02 Thread David Kalnischkies
On Fri, May 01, 2015 at 11:46:42PM +0200, Niels Thykier wrote: […] ddeb support […] +1. \o/ - apt now properly handles the pkg:arch dependency. For different values of properly – apt isn't the only thing involved here, you have to consider the reaction of dpkg and dose as well and these 3

Re: Experimental ddeb support in debhelper and lintian (Was: Re: -dbg packages; are they actually useful?)

2015-05-02 Thread James McCoy
On Sat, May 02, 2015 at 01:46:25PM +0200, David Kalnischkies wrote: (aka: I don't see why a debug package has to depend on the package it provides symbols for at all. If any the relation should be 'Enhances'…). The intention is to ensure the debug symbols came from the same build as the binary

Re: Experimental ddeb support in debhelper and lintian (Was: Re: -dbg packages; are they actually useful?)

2015-05-01 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2015-04-04 10:54, Niels Thykier wrote: On 2015-04-04 09:54, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le jeudi 02 avril 2015 à 19:37 +0200, Esokrates a écrit : Hi, I am particularly interested in automatic debug packages, as the current situation is pretty messy imho. I found

Re: Experimental ddeb support in debhelper and lintian (Was: Re: -dbg packages; are they actually useful?)

2015-04-20 Thread David Kalnischkies
On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 09:50:00AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 1:10 AM, David Kalnischkies wrote: I would presume most derivatives aren't using it either Most derivatives appear to use reprepro but there is one using apt-ftparchive

Re: Experimental ddeb support in debhelper and lintian (Was: Re: -dbg packages; are they actually useful?)

2015-04-19 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 1:10 AM, David Kalnischkies wrote: I would presume most derivatives aren't using it either Most derivatives appear to use reprepro but there is one using apt-ftparchive https://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/CensusFull https://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/Census/Lihuen

Re: Experimental ddeb support in debhelper and lintian (Was: Re: -dbg packages; are they actually useful?)

2015-04-19 Thread David Kalnischkies
On Sat, Apr 04, 2015 at 10:54:09AM +0200, Niels Thykier wrote: The resulting debs are installable with dpkg -i ( \o/ ). I have not tried anything fancy like setting up a local APT mirror and tried to convince APT do install it. I did and apt works with ddeb just fine, meaning it can happily

Re: Experimental ddeb support in debhelper and lintian

2015-04-11 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2015-04-11 07:14, Niels Thykier wrote: [...] Stretch is a two year time frame though, which makes me kinda sad. Thanks for you effort though, keep up the amazing work! If I understand correctly, if it would have been something for stretch, either A or B would have been decided

Re: Experimental ddeb support in debhelper and lintian

2015-04-11 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Apr 11, 2015 at 3:20 PM, Niels Thykier wrote: As noted on IRC, mentors.debian.net / debexpo will probably need to be updated too (at least if we go the ddebs route). debexpo needs a rewrite to a non-deprecated framework so support for ddebs is probably a long way off. Support for ddebs

Re: Experimental ddeb support in debhelper and lintian

2015-04-11 Thread Johannes Schauer
Hi, Quoting Niels Thykier (2015-04-11 09:20:36) On 2015-04-11 07:14, Niels Thykier wrote: [...] Stretch is a two year time frame though, which makes me kinda sad. Thanks for you effort though, keep up the amazing work! If I understand correctly, if it would have been something

Re: Experimental ddeb support in debhelper and lintian (Was: Re: -dbg packages; are they actually useful?)

2015-04-10 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2015-04-09 09:25, Esokrates wrote: On Tuesday, April 07, 2015 10:11:18 PM Niels Thykier wrote: [...] So mostly that is more a decision making (political) problem, than a technical one. It is not entirely clear to me that we any have (major) political issues IRT ddebs. People

Re: Experimental ddeb support in debhelper and lintian (Was: Re: -dbg packages; are they actually useful?)

2015-04-09 Thread Esokrates
On Tuesday, April 07, 2015 10:11:18 PM Niels Thykier wrote: On 2015-04-07 21:10, Niels Thykier wrote: On 2015-04-04 12:58, Esokrates wrote: On Saturday, April 04, 2015 10:54:09 AM Niels Thykier wrote: [...] I know predictions are hard, but is there a plan to get things done for

Re: Experimental ddeb support in debhelper and lintian (Was: Re: -dbg packages; are they actually useful?)

2015-04-09 Thread Esokrates
On Thursday, April 09, 2015 09:25:44 AM Esokrates wrote: So mostly that is more a decision making (political) problem, than a technical one. Stretch is a two year time frame though, which makes me kinda sad. Thanks for you effort though, keep up the amazing work! If I understand correctly, if

Re: Experimental ddeb support in debhelper and lintian (Was: Re: -dbg packages; are they actually useful?)

2015-04-07 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2015-04-04 12:58, Esokrates wrote: On Saturday, April 04, 2015 10:54:09 AM Niels Thykier wrote: [...] - Trying to get the reproducible team to try it out to see if it regresses anything (incl. reproducible builds) I guess the ddeb's are meant to be reproducible too? Yes. The

Re: Experimental ddeb support in debhelper and lintian (Was: Re: -dbg packages; are they actually useful?)

2015-04-07 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2015-04-07 21:10, Niels Thykier wrote: On 2015-04-04 12:58, Esokrates wrote: On Saturday, April 04, 2015 10:54:09 AM Niels Thykier wrote: [...] I know predictions are hard, but is there a plan to get things done for the next release (Stretch)? At this point, there is no plan,

Experimental ddeb support in debhelper and lintian (Was: Re: -dbg packages; are they actually useful?)

2015-04-04 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2015-04-04 09:54, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le jeudi 02 avril 2015 à 19:37 +0200, Esokrates a écrit : Hi, I am particularly interested in automatic debug packages, as the current situation is pretty messy imho. I found https://wiki.debian.org/AutomaticDebugPackages. Does anyone know the

Re: Experimental ddeb support in debhelper and lintian (Was: Re: -dbg packages; are they actually useful?)

2015-04-04 Thread Esokrates
On Saturday, April 04, 2015 10:54:09 AM Niels Thykier wrote: Last time I checked, dak was still missing code to handle the generated .ddeb files. Cheers, And it *still* does! But there are a few things that have changed! * There is an experimental branch for debhelper to generate