Work-needing packages report for Sep 14, 2018

2018-09-13 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: 1297 (new: 3) Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 169 (new: 0) Total number of packages reques

Bug#908787: RFP: pigpio -- library allowing remote control of Raspberry Pi GPIO

2018-09-13 Thread Nick Morrott
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-pyt...@lists.debian.org, pkg-raspi-maintain...@alioth-lists.debian.net * Package name: pigpio Version : 67 Upstream Author : Joan * URL : https://github.com/joan2937/pigpio * License

Re: Limiting the size of installed changelogs

2018-09-13 Thread Ruben Undheim
> Yes, this would be very sensible IMHO. > > Having debhelper cut off the changelogs from 4 or 6 years before (and > inserting a pointer to the source package for the rest) sounds like > a good idea to me. It would be nice if X number of the oldest entries are kept - particularly the "initial rel

Re: Updating the policy for conflicting binaries names ? [was: Re: Re: New package netgen-lvs with binary /usr/bin/netgen - already taken]

2018-09-13 Thread Adam Borowski
On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 11:28:36PM +0200, Thomas Goirand wrote: > > For example, in the Rust team, we have been discussing about packaging > > fd (a find alternative developed using rust [1]). We are planning to > > install it in /usr/bin/fd .. but this conflicts with something > > completely diff

Bug#908783: ITP: firmware-microbit-micropython -- MicroPython runtime for the BBC micro:bit

2018-09-13 Thread Nick Morrott
Package: wnpp Owner: Nick Morrott Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-pyt...@lists.debian.org * Package name: firmware-microbit-micropython Version : 1.0.0-rc.4 Upstream Author : The MicroPython-on-micro:bit Developers * URL : https:/

Re: Updating the policy for conflicting binaries names ? [was: Re: Re: New package netgen-lvs with binary /usr/bin/netgen - already taken]

2018-09-13 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 09/08/2018 08:18 PM, Sylvestre Ledru wrote: > Hello, > > Le 08/09/2018 à 18:39, Sean Whitton a écrit : >> Hello, >> >> On Fri 07 Sep 2018 at 10:10PM +0200, Ruben Undheim wrote: >> >>> However, I think the policy gives us a lot of freedom to choose (it is not >>> very >>> strict in this case).

Bug#908781: ITP: yotta -- build tool for C/C++ projects using modular components

2018-09-13 Thread Nick Morrott
Package: wnpp Owner: Nick Morrott Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-pyt...@lists.debian.org * Package name: yotta Version : 0.18.5 Upstream Author : ARM Limited * URL : https://github.com/ARMmbed/yotta * License : Apache-2.0

Bug#908776: ITP: hyperfine -- A command-line benchmarking tool

2018-09-13 Thread Sylvestre Ledru
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Sylvestre Ledru * Package name: hyperfine * URL : https://github.com/sharkdp/hyperfine * License : MIT or Apache Programming Lang: Rust Description : A command-line benchmarking tool Features: Statistical analysis acros

Re: Limiting the size of installed changelogs

2018-09-13 Thread Niels Thykier
Mattia Rizzolo: > On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 11:22:37AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: >> - Would it make sense to split the changelog, leaving older entries >> only in the source package? If so, should this be done manually, or >> would it make sense to have dh_installchangelogs split at some age or >>

Re: Limiting the size of installed changelogs

2018-09-13 Thread Mattia Rizzolo
On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 11:22:37AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > - Would it make sense to split the changelog, leaving older entries > only in the source package? If so, should this be done manually, or > would it make sense to have dh_installchangelogs split at some age or > size limit? Yes, thi

Re: Limiting the size of installed changelogs

2018-09-13 Thread Mattia Rizzolo
On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 01:45:00PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > It's > not too surprising that upstream changelogs can be even larger. The > inclusion of upstream changelogs (vs release notes) was discussed in # > 459427. Not everybody may know it, but ubuntu has been patching debhelper for many

Re: Limiting the size of installed changelogs

2018-09-13 Thread Holger Levsen
On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 08:56:22AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > > - A large part of the changelog is listing the changes in upstream > > stable updates. [...] > For the record, I've found these curated summaries of the upstream changes > *incredibly* helpful more times than I can count. So I'd lov

Re: Limiting the size of installed changelogs

2018-09-13 Thread Russ Allbery
Ben Hutchings writes: > - A large part of the changelog is listing the changes in upstream > stable updates. These are mostly important changes, and we already try > to leave out those that are clearly irrelevant to Debian. Should we > continue to include these, or limit to those that address C

Re: New package netgen-lvs with binary /usr/bin/netgen - already taken

2018-09-13 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Wed 12 Sep 2018 at 06:19PM +0200, Ruben Undheim wrote: > I guess the "long description" for the package can also refer to README.Debian > for how to handle the "issue", to make the user aware of it even before > installing it. This seems fine, though it would be nice if it wasn't neede

Re: Limiting the size of installed changelogs

2018-09-13 Thread Jeremy Bicha
On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 8:53 AM Boyuan Yang wrote: > If Debian wants to limit changelog size as well, it may be better if we keep > similar / identical behaviour / implementation as Ubuntu. More specifically, Ubuntu packages keep changelog entries for 10 Debian/Ubuntu package versions. At the bo

Re: Limiting the size of installed changelogs

2018-09-13 Thread Boyuan Yang
As for limiting / truncating Debian changelogs, there is an existing implementation that we may refer to, which is Ubuntu's approach: they keep certain amount of changelog in the .deb package (I'm not sure about the detailed algorithm but that is available somewhere) while adding some explanati

Re: Limiting the size of installed changelogs

2018-09-13 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, 2018-09-13 at 13:46 +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 11:22:37AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > The src:linux package has a very big changelog (about 1700 kiB > > uncompressed, 600 kiB gzipped). On my system the largest installed > > changelogs, by some way, are all v

Re: Limiting the size of installed changelogs

2018-09-13 Thread Roger Shimizu
On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 7:22 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > The src:linux package has a very big changelog (about 1700 kiB > uncompressed, 600 kiB gzipped). On my system the largest installed > changelogs, by some way, are all versions of this. (The next largest > changelogs come from src:glibc, at

Re: Limiting the size of installed changelogs

2018-09-13 Thread W. Martin Borgert
Quoting Ben Hutchings : - Would it make sense to split the changelog, leaving older entries only in the source package? As long as the full d/ch is in the source package, I'm fine. On one of my embedded machines changelogs are 2/3 of /usr/share/doc. E.g. multiple copies of the same changelog f

Re: Limiting the size of installed changelogs

2018-09-13 Thread Adam Borowski
On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 11:22:37AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > The src:linux package has a very big changelog (about 1700 kiB > uncompressed, 600 kiB gzipped). On my system the largest installed > changelogs, by some way, are all versions of this. (The next largest > changelogs come from src:gl

Bug#908746: ITP: mypager -- pager tool to use with mysql/psql command line clients

2018-09-13 Thread Romuald Brunet
Package: wnpp Owner: Romuald Brunet Severity: wishlist * Package name: mypager Version : 0.6.0 Upstream Author : Romuald Brunet * URL : https://github.com/romuald/mypager * License : Apache2 Programming Lang: Perl Description : pager tool to use with m

Re: Limiting the size of installed changelogs

2018-09-13 Thread Holger Levsen
On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 01:46:34PM +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > I was curious, so I ran the following on my laptop: [finding 22M of changelogs] I was curious too, so I ran "du -sch /usr/share/doc" and found that in this VM thats 150M of a 3.5G system. But then I have ~15 such installations on my

Re: Limiting the size of installed changelogs

2018-09-13 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 11:22:37AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > The src:linux package has a very big changelog (about 1700 kiB > uncompressed, 600 kiB gzipped). On my system the largest installed > changelogs, by some way, are all versions of this. (The next largest > changelogs come from src:gl

Limiting the size of installed changelogs

2018-09-13 Thread Ben Hutchings
The src:linux package has a very big changelog (about 1700 kiB uncompressed, 600 kiB gzipped). On my system the largest installed changelogs, by some way, are all versions of this. (The next largest changelogs come from src:glibc, at about 200 kiB gzipped.) I recently had to introduce yet more i