Re: third-party packages adding apt sources

2016-05-20 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, May 21, 2016 at 2:46 PM, Vincent Bernat wrote: > A meta tool "package me this" would be interesting. There is debdry but it got orphaned. > many of those tools are too complex for many upstreams because they > don't want to package each dependency one by one. For example, > dh-make-golan

Re: third-party packages adding apt sources

2016-05-20 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 21 mai 2016 14:07 +0800, Paul Wise  : >> Totally agree. Our standards are far too high for many upstreams. > > I don't understand the disconnect here. Are upstreams not interested > in software quality to the extent we are? Many of them don't consider packaging quality as important. As long as

Re: third-party packages adding apt sources

2016-05-20 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 1:34 PM, Vincent Bernat wrote: > Totally agree. Our standards are far too high for many upstreams. I don't understand the disconnect here. Are upstreams not interested in software quality to the extent we are? > I am always flabestered by the popularity of fpm to build De

Re: third-party packages adding apt sources

2016-05-20 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 1:26 PM, Vincent Bernat wrote: > testing is not suitable for most people because: > > 1. no security support This can be mitigated by adding unstable to your sources.list and using a wrapper around debsecan to automatically pull in packages from unstable when there are se

Re: third-party packages adding apt sources

2016-05-20 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 11:18 PM, Daniel Pocock wrote: > More and more frequently I'm encountering systems where third-party > repositories have been added into /etc/apt/sources.list or > /etc/apt/sources.list.d, usually put there by some .deb package that a > user installed from some third party

Re: third-party packages adding apt sources

2016-05-20 Thread Charles Plessy
Hi Daniel, Le Thu, May 19, 2016 at 05:18:28PM +0200, Daniel Pocock a écrit : > > From a technical perspective, can we do more to prevent users being > surprised by packages putting new entries in /etc/apt/sources.list.d? maybe you are looking for an Apt option that would only install a package i

Re: Bits from the DPL -- April-May 2016

2016-05-20 Thread Emilio Pozuelo Monfort
On 20/05/16 20:55, Mehdi Dogguy wrote: > Hi Emilio, > > On 20/05/2016 20:11, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: >> Hi Mehdi, >> >> First of all, congrats for the election! >> > > Thanks! > >> On 17/05/16 18:57, Mehdi Dogguy wrote: >>> Assets >>> == >>> - Approved expenses for MiniDebConf at Vienn

Re: third-party packages adding apt sources

2016-05-20 Thread Vincent Danjean
Le 19/05/2016 19:20, Hakan Peker a écrit : > On 05/19/2016 06:18 PM, Daniel Pocock wrote: >> From a technical perspective, can we do more to prevent users being >> surprised by packages putting new entries in /etc/apt/sources.list.d? >> > Please no. The system is working as intended. I don't think

Re: Bits from the DPL -- April-May 2016

2016-05-20 Thread Mehdi Dogguy
Hi Emilio, On 20/05/2016 20:11, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: > Hi Mehdi, > > First of all, congrats for the election! > Thanks! > On 17/05/16 18:57, Mehdi Dogguy wrote: >> Assets >> == >> - Approved expenses for MiniDebConf at Vienna, Austria. (Up to 3000€) > > Out of curiosity, what was

Re: third-party packages adding apt sources

2016-05-20 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 20 mai 2016 08:59 -0300, Antonio Terceiro  : >> testing is not suitable for most people because: >> >> 1. no security support > > That's not true. Proper security fixes will get into testing after 2 > days in unstable if everything goes right as long as the maintainer, or > something that car

Re: Bits from the DPL -- April-May 2016

2016-05-20 Thread Emilio Pozuelo Monfort
Hi Mehdi, First of all, congrats for the election! On 17/05/16 18:57, Mehdi Dogguy wrote: > Assets > == > - Approved expenses for MiniDebConf at Vienna, Austria. (Up to 3000€) Out of curiosity, what was this used/intended for? I couldn't find a mail on debian-sprints explaining the request,

Re: question precise

2016-05-20 Thread humbert . olivier . 1
Hi all, Following in french for Sergio who is asking about Debian in french. Salut Sergio, il y a une liste debian-user-fre...@lists.debian.org à laquelle tu peux t'abonner pour parler de debian en français. Petite note : debian et ubuntu ne sont pas la même chose bien qu'ubuntu soit basée sur

Re : question precise

2016-05-20 Thread MENGUAL Jean-Philippe
Bonjour, - Sartorelli Sergio a écrit : > Bonjour. J'aimerai savoir si il existe Debian complètement en français ? Le français est l'une des langues la mieux supportées chez Debian avec l'anglais, avec un taux de traduction proche de 100 % (voire de 100 %). Donc oui, Debian peut être cons

question precise

2016-05-20 Thread Sartorelli Sergio
Bonjour. J'aimerai savoir si il existe Debian complètement en français ? Exemple: UBUNTU en français contient 85 % d'Anglais, cela est très désagréable. Lorsque on télécharge une application UBUNTU ne l'accepte pas et qui plus est donne ces commantaires en Anglais et vous ? Merci de me répondr

testing is a tool for the release team (Re: third-party packages adding apt sources

2016-05-20 Thread Holger Levsen
On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 02:40:56PM +0200, Ole Streicher wrote: > This behavious may be useful for a development platform, but for an end > user this is just inacceptable. This is why we keep saying that testing is a tool for the release team and not a suite ment for users. Despite that it is su

Re: third-party packages adding apt sources

2016-05-20 Thread Ole Streicher
Antonio Terceiro writes: > On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 07:26:28AM +0200, Vincent Bernat wrote: >> 2. packages can disappear at any time > > If they are broken. In my book that a feature and not a bug. >From the user's perspective, they are also often *not* broken. Just take the "pandas" package as a

Re: third-party packages adding apt sources

2016-05-20 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Bas Wijnen > Debian stable is for users who want a rock solid system. It is out of date by > the nature of how it is built. Users who want to get the newest versions of > their software should not be running stable; testing is probably better for > them. This often isn't what users want, th

Re: third-party packages adding apt sources

2016-05-20 Thread The Wanderer
On 2016-05-20 at 07:59, Antonio Terceiro wrote: > On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 07:26:28AM +0200, Vincent Bernat wrote: > >> ❦ 19 mai 2016 16:39 GMT, Bas Wijnen : >> >>> Debian stable is for users who want a rock solid system. It is >>> out of date by the nature of how it is built. Users who want t

Re: third-party packages adding apt sources

2016-05-20 Thread Antonio Terceiro
On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 07:26:28AM +0200, Vincent Bernat wrote: > ❦ 19 mai 2016 16:39 GMT, Bas Wijnen  : > > > Debian stable is for users who want a rock solid system. It is out of date > > by > > the nature of how it is built. Users who want to get the newest versions of > > their software sh

Re: third-party packages adding apt sources

2016-05-20 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Fri, May 20, 2016 at 07:34:59AM +0200, Vincent Bernat a écrit : > > I am always flabestered by the popularity of fpm to build Debian > packages (and by the increasing popularity of pleaserun by the same > author on the same concepts). It provides a way to easily build a Debian > package from a