Re: [RFC] multiarch and virtual packages

2013-10-04 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Thu, Oct 03, 2013 at 11:54:55AM +0200, Vincent Danjean wrote: > > The current proposal about Depends/Conflicts/Provides is the following: > ICD Loader: > === > Section: libs > Multi-Arch: same > Architecture: any > Provides: libopencl1 > Conflicts: libopencl1 > Replaces: libopencl1 > Su

Bug#725369: ITP: javax.persistence -- JPA Spec 2.1 OSGi Bundle

2013-10-04 Thread Andrew Ross
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andrew Ross * Package name: javax.persistence Version : 2.1.0.v201304241213 Upstream Author : Sun Microsystems, Oracle Corporation * URL : http://www.eclipse.org/eclipselink * License : Eclipse Public License v1.0 and Ecl

Re: how do deal with versionless mercurial software ?

2013-10-04 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Fri, Oct 04, 2013 at 01:31:35PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2013-10-02 17:50:40 +0200, Dominik George wrote: > > That said, what's the point in NOT being verbose? > > Version strings need to be displayed, and if they take too much space, > they may be truncated (e.g. in aptitude). They

Re: how do deal with versionless mercurial software ?

2013-10-04 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello, On 04/10/13 13:50, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2013-10-04 13:40:29 +0200, Dominik George wrote: >> My argument for keeping the VCS hash is to ease identifying the code >> in the package. > > Does it need to be in the version string? > Why not somewhere else? > > The goal of the Version fi

Bug#725341: ITP: libnet-facebook-oauth2-perl -- simple Perl wrapper around Facebook OAuth v2.0 protocol

2013-10-04 Thread Xavier Guimard
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Xavier Guimard * Package name: libnet-facebook-oauth2-perl Version : 0.07 Upstream Author : Mahmoud A. Mehyar * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/Net-Facebook-Oauth2 * License : Artistic or GPL-1+ Programming Lang: Pe

Re: [RFC] multiarch and virtual packages

2013-10-04 Thread Vincent Danjean
Le 03/10/2013 13:04, David Kalnischkies a écrit : > On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 11:54 AM, Vincent Danjean wrote: >> I tried several variation, adding :same and/or :i386/:amd64 to >> the Conflicts and/or Provides in ICD Loader. I do not succeed into > > :same doesn't exist (in this context), where di

Re: how do deal with versionless mercurial software ?

2013-10-04 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2013-10-04 13:40:29 +0200, Dominik George wrote: > My argument for keeping the VCS hash is to ease identifying the code > in the package. Does it need to be in the version string? Why not somewhere else? The goal of the Version field in Debian packages is to identify and sort several versions

Re: [RFC] multiarch and virtual packages

2013-10-04 Thread Vincent Danjean
Le 03/10/2013 13:28, Simon McVittie a écrit : > On 03/10/13 10:54, Vincent Danjean wrote: >> The only "problem" is that it is not currently possible to install >> an ICD Loader:i386 from one vendor and an ICD Loader:amd64 from another >> vendor. > > Is there a valid reason to do that, other than

Re: how do deal with versionless mercurial software ?

2013-10-04 Thread Dominik George
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Vincent Lefevre schrieb: >Then, do you mean that VCS hashes are sortable? Of course not. One would have to do something like 0~MMDDnn+git in that rare case. My argument for keeping the VCS hash is to ease identifying the code in the pac

Re: how do deal with versionless mercurial software ?

2013-10-04 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2013-10-02 17:50:40 +0200, Dominik George wrote: > I established an advantage for the user using my proposal - go get > me a disadvantage for the packager. As a user, I dislike long version strings. > That said, what's the point in NOT being verbose? Version strings need to be displayed, and

Re: how do deal with versionless mercurial software ?

2013-10-04 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2013-10-02 16:51:09 +0200, Dominik George wrote: > Dominique Dumont schrieb: > >well, you proposed a version like 'hg'. if upstream switches to > >git, you can't use a version like 'git' because it sorts before > >hg. I grant you that is easy to work around. > > If you deem it unlikely

Re: libravatar in the BTS [Re: bugs.debian.org: something's wrong...]

2013-10-04 Thread Ian Campbell
On Thu, 2013-10-03 at 13:56 -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Thu, 03 Oct 2013, Guillem Jover wrote: > > On Wed, 2013-10-02 at 10:11:58 -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: > > > If you do this, I'd also suggest dropping in a rule for > > > http://bugs.debian.org/libravatar, as I will eventually be moving t