Re: Changed Github download URLs are affecting lots of existing watch files

2021-03-27 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Mar 27, 2021 at 10:18 AM Gard Spreemann wrote: > Phil Morrell writes: > > > Sounds like you're asking for a new github redirector on qa.debian.org > > as there is for sf.net, which could use the official api for stability. FTR there is one of those here: https://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/fake

Re: Questioning debian/upstream/signing-key.asc

2021-03-27 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 9:15 PM Timo Röhling wrote: > It's the same for me: the only package I maintain where upstream signs their > releases is the package where I am also the author. And I really don't think > that it provides any additional value for Debian in this particular > constellation; I

Re: I'm orphan my packages and leave the project as maintainer

2021-03-27 Thread Dominik George
> In the latter, we should all >diverge away (more than was already done) from the FSF and lead the Free >Software movement without the FSF. I take it that this probably involves Organisations like SPI, who consider it ok to foster platforms like Zoom, or even worse like LPI, who consider it ok

Re: Changed Github download URLs are affecting lots of existing watch files

2021-03-27 Thread Wookey
Has anyone tried asking github if they are willing to specify and support a stable interface (maybe even revert this change for the time being). It's quite a big deal when they change these things, especially just before a stable release. Having a reliable way to check the current release version

Re: Changed Github download URLs are affecting lots of existing watch files

2021-03-27 Thread Gordon Ball
On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 10:38:57PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > This breaks at least all Debian Med packages refereing to Github and > probably way more. This means our toolset will fail to detect new > upstream versions. > > Any idea what to do (besides uploading all packages obtained from > Gi

Re: Tips for debugging/testing debian/control Depends/Breaks etc changes?

2021-03-27 Thread Tim Woodall
On Wed, 24 Mar 2021, Otto Kek?l?inen wrote: Hello! I've noticed I've spent quite a lot of time debugging various situations where the debian/control definitions for depends/breaks/replaces/conflicts/provides are not optimal. The waste of time is two-fold: 1) apt is not verbose enough 2) the c

Bug#985992: ITP: fastani -- Fast alignment-free computation of whole-genome Average Nucleotide Identity

2021-03-27 Thread Nilesh Patra
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nilesh Patra X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, nil...@debian.org * Package name: fastani Version : 1.32-1 Upstream Author : Georgia Institute of Technology * URL : https://github.com/ParBLiSS/FastANI * License

Bug#985988: ITP: r-cran-genoplotr -- Plot Publication-Grade Gene and Genome Maps

2021-03-27 Thread Nilesh Patra
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nilesh Patra X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, nil...@debian.org * Package name: r-cran-genoplotr Version : 0.8.11 Upstream Author : Lionel Guy * URL : https://cran.r-project.org/package=genoPlotR * License :

Re: I'm orphan my packages and leave the project as maintainer

2021-03-27 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le vendredi, 26 mars 2021, 16.01:14 h CET Timothy M Butterworth a écrit : > The FSF with out RMS would be like the Linux Foundations with out > Linus. I'm quite sure the Linux Foundation will work just fine without Linus Torvalds, and will one day have to. My hope is that the same goes for the F

Re: Changed Github download URLs are affecting lots of existing watch files

2021-03-27 Thread Bart Martens
On Sat, Mar 27, 2021 at 12:26:29PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > Hi Bart, > > On Sat, Mar 27, 2021 at 07:38:17AM +0100, Bart Martens wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 11:43:27PM +0100, Yadd wrote: > > > Le 26/03/2021 à 22:38, Andreas Tille a écrit : > > > > Any idea what to do (besides uploading

Re: Changed Github download URLs are affecting lots of existing watch files

2021-03-27 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Bart, On Sat, Mar 27, 2021 at 07:38:17AM +0100, Bart Martens wrote: > On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 11:43:27PM +0100, Yadd wrote: > > Le 26/03/2021 à 22:38, Andreas Tille a écrit : > > > Any idea what to do (besides uploading all packages obtained from > > > Github right after the release)? > > > >

Re: Changed Github download URLs are affecting lots of existing watch files

2021-03-27 Thread Gard Spreemann
Phil Morrell writes: > Sounds like you're asking for a new github redirector on qa.debian.org > as there is for sf.net, which could use the official api for stability. This got me thinking: the version checking mechanism of d/watch files is useless if the outside world changes, i.e. if upstream

Re: Questioning debian/upstream/signing-key.asc

2021-03-27 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2021-03-26 Christoph Biedl wrote: > a few days ago, I ran uscan on a package where I knew there was a new > upstream version - just to encounter an validation error since the > keys in debian/upstream/signing-key.asc had expired. [...] > Another about 40 distinct keys will expire within the nex