Bug#818574: dose : does not support xz input files

2016-04-19 Thread Johannes Schauer
Hi,

On Fri, 18 Mar 2016 09:11:29 +0100 Ralf Treinen  wrote:
> the dose services on qa.debian.org currently do not support xz input files.

while there is no libxz binding for ocaml yet, ben uses Sys.command to execute
zcat, bzcat and xzcat on demand for compressed files. Maybe a similar scheme
could be implemented in dose3?

Thanks!

cheers, josch


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Bug#821775: dose: add some features from qa.debian.org/debcheck.php

2016-04-19 Thread Johannes Schauer
Package: qa.debian.org
Severity: wishlist
User: qa.debian@packages.debian.org
Usertags: dose

Hi,

the https://qa.debian.org/debcheck.php seem to be not much maintained
and are missing a number of features with respect to dependency
resolution (like build profiles, architecture qualifiers, multiarch,
build-depends-indep/arch) all of which dose3 implements properly. Thus
it might make sense to move some of the checks currently done by
debcheck.php to dose/debcheck.html like:

 - priority checks
 - section checks
 - depends on non-main
 - oldlib checks

The checks could be done with dose3 by creating fitting package sets
using grep-dctrl and feeding those to distcheck for installability
checks.

I'd assume that feeding distcheck a few more filtered Packages files to
check for these issues is very much easier than fixing the dependency
resolver of debcheck.php.

Thanks!

cheers, josch



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Bug#821775: dose: add some features from qa.debian.org/debcheck.php

2016-04-19 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi!

Thanks for filing this.

On Tue, 2016-04-19 at 10:15:37 +0200, Johannes Schauer wrote:
> Package: qa.debian.org
> Severity: wishlist
> User: qa.debian@packages.debian.org
> Usertags: dose

> the https://qa.debian.org/debcheck.php seem to be not much maintained
> and are missing a number of features with respect to dependency
> resolution (like build profiles, architecture qualifiers, multiarch,
> build-depends-indep/arch) all of which dose3 implements properly. Thus
> it might make sense to move some of the checks currently done by
> debcheck.php to dose/debcheck.html like:
> 
>  - priority checks
>  - section checks
>  - depends on non-main
>  - oldlib checks

And as mentioned on IRC, the rest should be already covered by dose
or lintian, so at that point we could just get rid of debcheck.php.

> The checks could be done with dose3 by creating fitting package sets
> using grep-dctrl and feeding those to distcheck for installability
> checks.
> 
> I'd assume that feeding distcheck a few more filtered Packages files to
> check for these issues is very much easier than fixing the dependency
> resolver of debcheck.php.

I'd assume so.

Thanks,
Guillem