Re: RFC: Final update of DEP-14 on naming of git packaging branches

2020-08-29 Thread Russ Allbery
Richard Laager writes: > On 8/29/20 3:33 PM, Russ Allbery wrote: >> I think the primary thing that bothers me about this workflow is that >> experimental becomes an ephemeral branch, which appears and disappears >> based on the vagaries of the release cycle. > To me, that feels like the branch i

Re: RFC: Final update of DEP-14 on naming of git packaging branches

2020-08-29 Thread Simon McVittie
On Sat, 29 Aug 2020 at 15:07:07 -0500, Richard Laager wrote: > However, this is still saying that one should prefer debian/latest over > debian/unstable, and that debian/unstable is (sort of) only for use when > you're also uploading to experimental. The way I think of it phrases this a bit differ

Re: RFC: Final update of DEP-14 on naming of git packaging branches

2020-08-29 Thread Richard Laager
On 8/29/20 3:33 PM, Russ Allbery wrote: > I think the primary thing that bothers me about this workflow is that > experimental becomes an ephemeral branch, which appears and disappears > based on the vagaries of the release cycle. To me, that feels like the branch is an accurate representation of

Re: RFC: Final update of DEP-14 on naming of git packaging branches

2020-08-29 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Seconded. Thanks! Raphael Hertzog dijo [Sat, Aug 29, 2020 at 01:01:09AM +0200]: > Hello, > > following the recent discussions of June and of the last days, I'm > proposing the changes below to DEP-14. Basically it replaces debian/master > with debian/latest for all the reasons already discussed e

Re: RFC: Final update of DEP-14 on naming of git packaging branches

2020-08-29 Thread Russ Allbery
Richard Laager writes: > When I last brought this up [1], Russ Allbery said that debian/latest > was desirable (to him, at least) because, "My normal use of experimental > does not involve maintaining unstable and experimental branches > simultaneously. I essentially never do that; instead, I ma

Re: RFC: Final update of DEP-14 on naming of git packaging branches

2020-08-29 Thread Richard Laager
On 8/28/20 6:01 PM, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > following the recent discussions of June and of the last days, I'm > proposing the changes below to DEP-14. Basically it replaces debian/master > with debian/latest for all the reasons already discussed earlier. And > it says that debian/unstable is pref

Re: RFC: Final update of DEP-14 on naming of git packaging branches

2020-08-29 Thread Samuel Henrique
> And it also marks the proposal as ACCEPTED given that it has gained > traction over the years and that we didn't feel the need to make > significant change to it. +1 to this and the other changes. I believe we will be able to easily perform the branch naming changes under the pkg-sec team. Reg

Re: RFC: Final update of DEP-14 on naming of git packaging branches

2020-08-29 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le samedi, 29 août 2020, 01.01:09 h CEST Raphael Hertzog a écrit : > Hello, > > following the recent discussions of June and of the last days, I'm > proposing the changes below to DEP-14. Basically it replaces debian/master > with debian/latest for all the reasons already discussed earlier. And >

Re: Accepting / adopting DEP-14

2020-08-29 Thread Emmanuel Arias
On Fri, Aug 28, 2020 at 8:23 PM Simon McVittie wrote: > On Sat, 29 Aug 2020 at 01:05:32 +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > But given that we recommend upstream/latest for the upstream branch, I'm > now > > leaning towards using debian/latest as default as well. > > FWIW, I like this better than an

Pybliographer

2020-08-29 Thread Ted To
Hi, Is there any chance of reviving pybliographer?  I understand that it was removed because it relied on old, unsupported Gnome libraries.  But the current version (1.4.0) has removed python-gnome2, python-gnome2-vfs, and python-glade2 dependencies and instead uses pygtk and gettext (https:/

Re: Debian Academy Team and Wiki

2020-08-29 Thread jathan
On 28/08/2020 16:00, Jean-Philippe MENGUAL wrote: > Hi, > > I was afraid I lost the mail, but I have it, great. > > My suggestions about this topic I am very interested in is: > - using the debian welcome wiki page and IRC channel, the team has an > interesting background to base a platform I thi