Re: Debian Policy 4.1.4.0 released

2018-07-03 Thread Sean Whitton
[trimming the CC a bit; Russ and Ian read -devel] Hello Jonathan, Andreas, I don't think that what either of you have said is a response to the reasons that there were for removing this optional target from Policy. The thought driving this is that not every trick in a Debian package maintainer's

Re: Debian Policy 4.1.4.0 released

2018-07-03 Thread Emmanuel Bourg
> Git mode for uscan helps as well in many cases. Is the git mode currently broken? I keep getting the error message "fatal: Not a valid object name" when fetching a new release: $ uscan --download-version 9.2.25 uscan: Newest version of jetty9 on remote site is 9.2.25, specified download ve

Re: Debian Policy 4.1.4.0 released

2018-07-03 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Sean, On Tue, Jul 03, 2018 at 09:59:55AM +0100, Sean Whitton wrote: > [trimming the CC a bit; Russ and Ian read -devel] > > Hello Jonathan, Andreas, > > I don't think that what either of you have said is a response to the > reasons that there were for removing this optional target from Policy

Re: Bug#515856: Debian Policy 4.1.4.0 released

2018-07-03 Thread Bill Allombert
On Mon, Jul 02, 2018 at 04:40:43PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Jonathan Nieder writes: > > > Context: I have run into a few packages that used the +dfsg convention > > without documenting what they removed from the tarball and I was not > > able to locally update them. :( > > This is one of the

Re: Bug#515856: Debian Policy 4.1.4.0 released

2018-07-03 Thread Andrius Merkys
Hi, On 07/03/2018 01:20 PM, Bill Allombert wrote: > How many packages are using Files-Excluded ? 1781 Using codesearch.d.o [1] to look through the debian/copyright files, then running curl -s https://codesearch.debian.net/results/2d02749753b89563/packages.json | jq -r '.Packages[]' | wc -l ge

Re: Bug#515856: Debian Policy 4.1.4.0 released

2018-07-03 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, Jul 03, 2018 at 12:20:28PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > On Mon, Jul 02, 2018 at 04:40:43PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > > > > This is one of the cases that now has a better solution and more standard > > tools than the get-orig-source target, specifically Files-Excluded in > > debian/cop

Re: Bug#515856: Debian Policy 4.1.4.0 released

2018-07-03 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, Jul 03, 2018 at 04:11:14PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > > When the new copyright format was introduced, it was agreed there > would be no compulsion to migrate to the new copyright format. > > There is nothing that prevent to add Files-Excluded stanzas to old > format copyright files fo

Re: Bug#515856: Debian Policy 4.1.4.0 released

2018-07-03 Thread Bill Allombert
On Tue, Jul 03, 2018 at 03:43:19PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Tue, Jul 03, 2018 at 12:20:28PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 02, 2018 at 04:40:43PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > > > > > > This is one of the cases that now has a better solution and more standard > > > tools than

Bug#902930: ITP: libanyevent-socket-perl -- AnyEvent::Socket implements various utility functions for handling internet protocol addresses and sockets, in an as transparent and simple way as possible.

2018-07-03 Thread Ian Jackson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ian Jackson * Package name: libanyevent-socket-perl Version : 7.14 Upstream Author : Marc A. Lehmann * URL : https://metacpan.org/pod/AnyEvent::Socket * License : Artistic / GPL1+ Programming Lang: Perl Description

Bug#902940: ITP: omegamap -- describing selection and recombination in sequences

2018-07-03 Thread Steffen Moeller
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Steffen Moeller * Package name: omegamap Version : 0.5 Upstream Author : Daniel Wilson * URL : http://www.danielwilson.me.uk/omegaMap.html * License : GPL Programming Lang: C, C++ Description : describing selectio

Re: workarounds for Planet bugs?

2018-07-03 Thread Laura Arjona Reina
Hello Daniel El 02/07/18 a las 20:04, Daniel Pocock escribió: > > > Hi everybody, > > Planet struggles to poll certain blogs (see below), including some new > contributors. > > Does anybody know of workarounds these people can use until Planet is > updated to a recent version of planet-venus?

A message from CMake upstream: announcing dh-cmake

2018-07-03 Thread Kyle Edwards
Hello everyone! My name is Kyle. I work at Kitware, Inc., the upstream maintainer of the CMake buildsystem (https://www.cmake.org/) and VTK, the Visualization Toolkit (https://www.vtk.org/). As some of you on the Debian Science list may have heard, we are making an effort to officially support our

Bug#902960: ITP: sweed -- assessment of SNPs for their evolutionary advantage

2018-07-03 Thread Steffen Moeller
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Steffen Moeller * Package name: sweed Version : 3.2.1 * URL : https://sco.h-its.org/exelixis/web/software/sweed/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: C Description : assessment of SNPs for their evolutionary advantage

Re: A message from CMake upstream: announcing dh-cmake

2018-07-03 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Jul 4, 2018 at 3:56 AM, Kyle Edwards wrote: > Our end goal is to get both dh-cmake and VTK into Debian proper, but it > is still in an experimental state, and there is still a lot of work to > be done yet. We would like to get some feedback on dh-cmake, and we > will eventually file a form