Re: [Idea] Debian User Repository? (Not simply mimicing AUR)

2019-04-08 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Apr 7, 2019 at 10:14 PM Peter Silva wrote: > We would love to be able to upstream to debian, but haven't figured it out The process is pretty simple, but reliant on the limited number of Debian members who do package sponsorship. The ones we do have are fairly active though. The process

Re: [Idea] Debian User Repository? (Not simply mimicing AUR)

2019-04-08 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Apr 7, 2019 at 9:26 PM Mo Zhou wrote: > Such idea about informal packaging repository has been > demonstrated successful by the Archlinux User Repository (AUR). > Hence, it should be valuable to think about it for Debian. Seems like a PKGBUILD-to-deb script would be a simple way to do thi

Re: [Idea] Debian User Repository? (Not simply mimicing AUR)

2019-04-08 Thread Mo Zhou
Hi Paul, I've ever thought about a PKGBUILD->Deb translator, and in this way we can directly reuse all existing code in AUR without change. However, the translator itself is not trivial, as it might need it's own shell parser or something alike to be reliable enough. The current (virtually) zero

Re: [Idea] Debian User Repository? (Not simply mimicing AUR)

2019-04-08 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Apr 8, 2019 at 3:34 PM Mo Zhou wrote: > However, the translator itself is not trivial, as it might need > it's own shell parser or something alike to be reliable enough. Couldn't you just run makepkg (with some hooks) and dpkg-deb to convert the results to Debian packages? -- bye, pabs

Re: duprkit User Repository

2019-04-08 Thread Phil Morrell
On Mon, Apr 08, 2019 at 05:00:21AM +, Mo Zhou wrote: > Plus, it's super important to write every packaging bit into a single > file. That would enable simple copy&pasting from github or any other > resources. If you provide a directory, things will become more > complicated. More impotantly, th

Re: [Idea] Debian User Repository? (Not simply mimicing AUR)

2019-04-08 Thread Ole Streicher
Paul Wise writes: > On Sun, Apr 7, 2019 at 10:14 PM Peter Silva wrote: >> We would love to be able to upstream to debian, but haven't figured it out > > The process is pretty simple, but reliant on the limited number of > Debian members who do package sponsorship. The ones we do have are > fairly

Re: [Idea] Debian User Repository? (Not simply mimicing AUR)

2019-04-08 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Sun, Apr 07, 2019 at 02:17:00PM +, Mo Zhou wrote: This single sentence is quite ambiguous to non-native english speakers. At the first glance I interpreted the sentence as "This will only lead to flamewars" due to the meaning of bikeshed[1]. However, I got a hint from a fellow developer

Re: duprkit User Repository

2019-04-08 Thread Mo Zhou
Hi, On Mon, Apr 08, 2019 at 08:54:27AM +0100, Phil Morrell wrote: > On Mon, Apr 08, 2019 at 05:00:21AM +, Mo Zhou wrote: > > Obviously working implementation > perfect theoretical, but I'm confused > by your insistence on a single file without abstraction. Even an > uncompressed tarball can b

Re: [Idea] Debian User Repository? (Not simply mimicing AUR)

2019-04-08 Thread Mo Zhou
On Mon, Apr 08, 2019 at 03:46:15PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Mon, Apr 8, 2019 at 3:34 PM Mo Zhou wrote: > > > However, the translator itself is not trivial, as it might need > > it's own shell parser or something alike to be reliable enough. > > Couldn't you just run makepkg (with some hooks)

Re: Bug#926229: New QoS defaults break systems running on VMWare

2019-04-08 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Apr 02, 2019 at 12:32:52PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > If it were just the VMware issue, then my inclination would be to leave > OpenSSH as it is: it's proprietary software and the only leverage we > have to get them to fix it is to have their customers complaining. A VMware employee popp

Re: [Idea] Debian User Repository? (Not simply mimicing AUR)

2019-04-08 Thread Mo Zhou
Hi, D**ian may be pronounced as "Dasteriskian", i.e. "D-asterisk-ian" (Still sounds ugly). I'm really bad at naming things, neither. AUR is not targeted on new Archlinux users. Likewise, the D**bian term is not expected to cause confusion to people who really need to use these scripts/tools. That

Re: duprkit User Repository

2019-04-08 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Mon, Apr 08, 2019 at 09:58:26AM +, Mo Zhou wrote: > AUR's PKGBUILD, Fedora/CentOS/RedHat's .spec, Gentoo's .ebuild, > all of them are single-file format. The advantages of single-file > format includes easy distribution, e.g. copying & pasting from > webpages (you cannot copy a directory fro

PPAs (Re: [Idea] Debian User Repository? (Not simply mimicing AUR))

2019-04-08 Thread Holger Levsen
On Mon, Apr 08, 2019 at 10:18:39AM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > > At the first glance I interpreted the sentence as > > "This will only lead to flamewars" > > due to the meaning of bikeshed[1]. > > > > However, I got a hint from a fellow developer and learned that > > "Bikeshed" has its own m

Re: [Idea] Debian User Repository? (Not simply mimicing AUR)

2019-04-08 Thread Ondřej Surý
I don’t think you need to avoid using “Debian” in the name. This is the least problem your proposal have. Ondrej -- Ondřej Surý > On 8 Apr 2019, at 12:27, Mo Zhou wrote: > > Hi, > > D**ian may be pronounced as "Dasteriskian", i.e. "D-asterisk-ian" > (Still sounds ugly). I'm really bad at nam

Re: Seeking hardening flag / blhc expoert

2019-04-08 Thread Otto Kekäläinen
Hello! Thanks everybody for the pointers. I fixed it now with: Subject: [PATCH] Ensure cmake builds also apply CPPFLAGS flags for hardening to fully work --- debian/rules | 5 + 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules index 3a16f8bfa..2e7536b9c 100755 ---

Re: duprkit User Repository

2019-04-08 Thread Ondřej Surý
I very much dislike the idea of inventing yet another format. Your energy would be much better used if you rather added support for external tarballs to the packaging tools (with hashes, etc.) and turn this into DEP. Debian is not Fedora/Arch/... and whacking the debian/ into a single file does

Re: PPAs (Re: [Idea] Debian User Repository? (Not simply mimicing AUR))

2019-04-08 Thread Ondřej Surý
Or DPA (Debian Personal Archive)... Ondrej -- Ondřej Surý > On 8 Apr 2019, at 12:32, Holger Levsen wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 08, 2019 at 10:18:39AM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: >>> At the first glance I interpreted the sentence as >>> "This will only lead to flamewars" >>> due to the meaning of

Re: duprkit User Repository

2019-04-08 Thread Mo Zhou
Hi, On Mon, Apr 08, 2019 at 03:31:21PM +0500, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > On Mon, Apr 08, 2019 at 09:58:26AM +, Mo Zhou wrote: > > AUR's PKGBUILD, Fedora/CentOS/RedHat's .spec, Gentoo's .ebuild, > > all of them are single-file format. The advantages of single-file > > format includes easy dist

Re: duprkit User Repository

2019-04-08 Thread Jonathan Carter
On 2019/04/08 12:37, Ondřej Surý wrote: > I very much dislike the idea of inventing yet another format. Your energy > would be much better used if you rather added support for external tarballs > to the packaging tools (with hashes, etc.) and turn this into DEP. > > Debian is not Fedora/Arch/...

Bug#926638: ITP: python-pure-sasl -- pure Python client SASL implementation

2019-04-08 Thread Thomas Goirand
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Thomas Goirand * Package name: python-pure-sasl Version : 0.5.1 Upstream Author : Tyler Hobbs * URL : https://github.com/thobbs/pure-sasl * License : Expat Programming Lang: Python Description : pure Python clien

Re: duprkit User Repository

2019-04-08 Thread Mo Zhou
Hi, On Mon, Apr 08, 2019 at 12:37:36PM +0200, Ondřej Surý wrote: > > I very much dislike the idea of inventing yet another format. Your > energy would be much better used if you rather added support for > external tarballs to the packaging tools (with hashes, etc.) and turn > this into DEP. There

Re: duprkit User Repository

2019-04-08 Thread Mo Zhou
On Mon, Apr 08, 2019 at 12:51:15PM +0200, Jonathan Carter wrote: > On 2019/04/08 12:37, Ondřej Surý wrote: > > Indeed. I can see why Mo would want to put it in one file, but the > Debian package format can work just fine if you work from git > repositories as you suggest, plus if it looks like a m

Re: PPAs (Re: [Idea] Debian User Repository? (Not simply mimicing AUR))

2019-04-08 Thread Mo Zhou
Hi, The proposed idea is source-only-based, and is totally different from PPA (source+binary-based). I'm a PPA user and I don't have any reason to re-invent yet another PPA. The proposed idea is to take some advantages from source-based software distribution tools. Examples are available here: ht

Re: duprkit User Repository

2019-04-08 Thread Johannes Schauer
Hi, Quoting Mo Zhou (2019-04-08 11:58:26) > The header script is not really what debian/rules does. For example, > when you are going to build some official Debian package, you may want > to do the following: > > $ debcheckout foobar > $ cd foobar; gbp export-orig; debuild -S -nc > $ sbuild

Re: [Idea] Debian User Repository? (Not simply mimicing AUR)

2019-04-08 Thread W. Martin Borgert
Quoting Mo Zhou : Plus, letting users write PKGBUILD doesn't help them learn Debian packaging at all... Then I would try to diverge as little as possible from the classical way how Debian packaging works.

Re: [Idea] Debian User Repository? (Not simply mimicing AUR)

2019-04-08 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Mon, Apr 08, 2019 at 06:49:10AM +, Mo Zhou wrote: > Hi, > > As you wish, I added a disclaimer to the toolkit, and replaced every > single "Debian" keyword in the repo with "D**ian", except for those > in disclaimer. Perhaps using ".deb" instead of "Debian" or "D**ian" might be more practic

Re: duprkit User Repository

2019-04-08 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Mon, Apr 08, 2019 at 10:47:20AM +, Mo Zhou wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Apr 08, 2019 at 03:31:21PM +0500, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 08, 2019 at 09:58:26AM +, Mo Zhou wrote: > > > AUR's PKGBUILD, Fedora/CentOS/RedHat's .spec, Gentoo's .ebuild, > > > all of them are single-fil

Re: [Idea] Debian User Repository? (Not simply mimicing AUR)

2019-04-08 Thread Mo Zhou
Hi, On Mon, Apr 08, 2019 at 08:18:53AM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Mon, Apr 08, 2019 at 06:49:10AM +, Mo Zhou wrote: > > Hi, > > > > As you wish, I added a disclaimer to the toolkit, and replaced every > > single "Debian" keyword in the repo with "D**ian", except for those > > in di

Re: duprkit User Repository

2019-04-08 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Mon, Apr 08, 2019 at 11:02:35AM +, Mo Zhou wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Apr 08, 2019 at 12:37:36PM +0200, Ondřej Surý wrote: > > > > I very much dislike the idea of inventing yet another format. Your > > energy would be much better used if you rather added support for > > external tarballs to t

Re: [Idea] Debian User Repository? (Not simply mimicing AUR)

2019-04-08 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Mon, Apr 08, 2019 at 12:29:56PM +, Mo Zhou wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Apr 08, 2019 at 08:18:53AM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 08, 2019 at 06:49:10AM +, Mo Zhou wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > As you wish, I added a disclaimer to the toolkit, and replaced every > > > sing

Re: duprkit User Repository

2019-04-08 Thread Mo Zhou
Hi, The use of single-file format is not mandatory to the whole idea. With no effort I transformed the single-file format into the traditional format which you like: https://github.com/dupr/DefaultCollection/tree/master/rover-traditional Please choose use whatever you like. On Mon, Apr 08, 2019

Re: duprkit User Repository

2019-04-08 Thread Mo Zhou
On Mon, Apr 08, 2019 at 08:36:45AM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Mon, Apr 08, 2019 at 11:02:35AM +, Mo Zhou wrote: > In such a large community of volunteers it may not be enough to propose > something that is only marginally better because the cost (even just in > cognitive terms) and e

Re: PPAs (Re: [Idea] Debian User Repository? (Not simply mimicing AUR))

2019-04-08 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
Hi, On 08/04/2019 14:18, Mo Zhou wrote: > Hi, > > The proposed idea is source-only-based, and is totally different > from PPA (source+binary-based). I'm a PPA user and I don't have > any reason to re-invent yet another PPA. > > The proposed idea is to take some advantages from source-based > soft

Re: PPAs (Re: [Idea] Debian User Repository? (Not simply mimicing AUR))

2019-04-08 Thread Mo Zhou
On Mon, Apr 08, 2019 at 03:50:19PM +0300, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > Hi, > > The README states a directory structure with a top-level collection > directory, but the repository currently does not include one. The github.com:dupr/DefaultCollection.git repo is indeed a specification compliant if you ma

Re: [Idea] Debian User Repository? (Not simply mimicing AUR)

2019-04-08 Thread Mo Zhou
Hi, On Mon, Apr 08, 2019 at 01:59:04PM +0200, W. Martin Borgert wrote: > Quoting Mo Zhou : > > Plus, letting users write PKGBUILD doesn't help them learn > > Debian packaging at all... > > Then I would try to diverge as little as possible > from the classical way how Debian packaging works. If

Re: is Wayland mature enough to be the default desktop choice in Buster?

2019-04-08 Thread Jonathan Dowland
Dear Simon On Sat, Apr 06, 2019 at 10:20:26PM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: It's perhaps important to point out before this thread gets much further that Wayland is not like Xorg Apologies for not being clearer in my original message. Thank you for clearing that up. GNOME in buster has defaul

Re: PPAs (Re: [Idea] Debian User Repository? (Not simply mimicing AUR))

2019-04-08 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Mon, Apr 08, 2019 at 11:18:14AM +, Mo Zhou wrote: The proposed idea is source-only-based, and is totally different from PPA (source+binary-based). I'm a PPA user and I don't have any reason to re-invent yet another PPA. Sorry I appreciate that *your* idea is different, and effectively my

Re: duprkit User Repository

2019-04-08 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Mon, Apr 08, 2019 at 12:57:56PM +, Mo Zhou wrote: > On Mon, Apr 08, 2019 at 08:36:45AM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 08, 2019 at 11:02:35AM +, Mo Zhou wrote: > > In such a large community of volunteers it may not be enough to propose > > something that is only marginal

Re: PPAs (Re: [Idea] Debian User Repository? (Not simply mimicing AUR))

2019-04-08 Thread Alf Gaida
DUR is fine, DPA is fine PPA is not - as it is used before in a totally different context. The idea just to require git is really nice, putting all the things into a single file is not. Not even Arch does it. (patches, install, config ...) - so the default debian dir should be enough. Please

Re: is Wayland/Weston mature enough to be the default desktop choice in Buster?

2019-04-08 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Sun, Apr 07, 2019 at 01:08:42PM -0400, Peter Silva wrote: > https://www.cnx-software.com/2018/08/27/rockpro64-rk3399-board-linux-review-ubuntu-18-04/ > > 71fps or es2gears? Is es2gears a benchmark, unlike glxgears? -- WBR, wRAR signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: is Wayland/Weston mature enough to be the default desktop choice in Buster?

2019-04-08 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Sun, Apr 07, 2019 at 05:59:38PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > * nvidia proprietary: doesn't work with new kernels. It does, even nvidia-legacy-304xx-kernel-dkms says "Building the kernel modules has been tested up to Linux 4.20.". -- WBR, wRAR signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [Idea] Debian User Repository? (Not simply mimicing AUR)

2019-04-08 Thread Kyle Edwards
On Mon, 2019-04-08 at 00:02 -0400, Peter Silva wrote: > > If one needs to keep a close eye on changes to make sure they can > > still > > be installed even on a years-old OS, the resulting packages can be > > placed in a custom repository set up with the instructions at > > https://wiki.debian.org/

Using Jenkins Debian Glue to setup personal repos really quick (Was: [Idea] Debian User Repository?)

2019-04-08 Thread Ondřej Surý
It’s fairly easy nowadays with debian-jenkins-glue and jenkins-job-builder: https://salsa.debian.org/ondrej/jenkins-job-builder.git The launchpad PPAs are still slightly better (I cant rebuild individual matrix combinations from Jenkins), but only slightly. With qemu-user-static the even the ar

Re: Using Jenkins Debian Glue to setup personal repos really quick (Was: [Idea] Debian User Repository?)

2019-04-08 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Ondřej, On Mon, Apr 08, 2019 at 06:14:57PM +0200, Ondřej Surý wrote: > It’s fairly easy nowadays with debian-jenkins-glue and jenkins-job-builder: > > https://salsa.debian.org/ondrej/jenkins-job-builder.git > > The launchpad PPAs are still slightly better (I cant rebuild individual > matrix

RE:[Idea] Debian User Repository? (Not simply mimicing AUR)

2019-04-08 Thread PICCA Frederic-Emmanuel
now we have the salsa pipeline. does it fit your needs ?

Re: Using Jenkins Debian Glue to setup personal repos really quick (Was: [Idea] Debian User Repository?)

2019-04-08 Thread Ondřej Surý
Hey, check https://jenkins.rfc1925.org and f.e. https://packages.sury.org/php/ -- Ondřej Surý > On 8 Apr 2019, at 18:22, Holger Levsen wrote: > > Hi Ondřej, > >> On Mon, Apr 08, 2019 at 06:14:57PM +0200, Ondřej Surý wrote: >> It’s fairly easy nowadays with debian-jenkins-glue and jenkins-job

Re: Using Jenkins Debian Glue to setup personal repos really quick (Was: [Idea] Debian User Repository?)

2019-04-08 Thread Ondřej Surý
That repository is more of a remote backup, but I would be happy to collaborate on something more useful to general DD public... There’s some additional content in this ticket that might go into the readme: https://github.com/oerdnj/deb.sury.org/issues/1092 Ondrej -- Ondřej Surý > On 8 Apr 20

Re: RE:[Idea] Debian User Repository? (Not simply mimicing AUR)

2019-04-08 Thread Kyle Edwards
On Mon, 2019-04-08 at 16:05 +, PICCA Frederic-Emmanuel wrote: > now we have the salsa pipeline. > > does it fit your needs ? Does this allow non-DD's to host packages? Nobody at Kitware is a DD, we just host an unofficial third-party repository, similar to PPA. Kyle

Re: PPAs (Re: [Idea] Debian User Repository? (Not simply mimicing AUR))

2019-04-08 Thread Shengjing Zhu
> from PPA (source+binary-based). If people just want a PPA which supports Debian, please just take a look at OBS[1]. I've seen many upstreams provide packages with OBS, and most distributions are supported. Not only deb, but also rpm, from Debian/Ubuntu to OpenSuse/Fedora, and even Archlinux, in

Re: [Idea] Debian User Repository? (Not simply mimicing AUR)

2019-04-08 Thread Ansgar
Paul Wise writes: > On Mon, Apr 8, 2019 at 3:34 PM Mo Zhou wrote: > >> However, the translator itself is not trivial, as it might need >> it's own shell parser or something alike to be reliable enough. > > Couldn't you just run makepkg (with some hooks) and dpkg-deb to > convert the results to Debi

RE:RE:[Idea] Debian User Repository? (Not simply mimicing AUR)

2019-04-08 Thread PICCA Frederic-Emmanuel
After a build, you get this https://salsa.debian.org/science-team/python-xrayutilities/-/jobs/147913/artifacts/browse/debian/output/ Is it enought for you. Mayve you can discuss with the salsa pipeline team and request a target in order to produce a better repo. cheers

Re: [Idea] Debian User Repository? (Not simply mimicing AUR)

2019-04-08 Thread Ben Finney
Vincent Bernat writes: > ❦ 8 avril 2019 14:46 +10, Ben Finney : > > >> yes, it can be done, but it is a lot more work for individual > >> packagers. > > > > Sure. And, on the other hand, providing an APT repository for arbitrary > > packages of unknown copyright status is also a lot of work to

Re: duprkit User Repository

2019-04-08 Thread Mo Zhou
Hi, On Mon, Apr 08, 2019 at 10:22:42AM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > Two suggestions: > > - Stop claiming that what you propose is "zero-cost", "only 1 second of > work", etc.* And, I'm already tired of saying that again and again. > - Find the individuals who currently experience the

Re: is Wayland/Weston mature enough to be the default desktop choice in Buster?

2019-04-08 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Apr 5, 2019 at 11:25 PM Mo Zhou wrote: > I second that since I always refuse to use Wayland, due to I'm currently using GNOME on Xorg because: Under Wayland applications seem to have a problem displaying fullscreen, for example totem only displays video in the upper left corner of the sc

Handling Japanese new era "令和 (Reiwa)"

2019-04-08 Thread Hideki Yamane
Hi, I've noticed that Japan renews its era from 平成 (Heisei) to 令和 (Reiwa) (U+32FF) at 1st May and it's necessary to update some packages to deal with it. > To Release Managers How do we handle with it for buster? (and stretch?) > Folks Some packages list to be updated as far as I know P

[prototype] Debian User Repository Toolkit 0.0a release

2019-04-08 Thread Mo Zhou
Hi list, I drafted a 0.0 alpha release[1] for the toolkit, and created a logo for the DUPR project. From now on I'll try to add more packaging scripts (maybe I should call them recipes) to the default collection[2]. Packaing plans are tracked here[3], and maybe further discussion about the DUPR (D

Re: [Idea] Debian User Repository? (Not simply mimicing AUR)

2019-04-08 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 9 avril 2019 08:41 +10, Ben Finney : >> >> yes, it can be done, but it is a lot more work for individual >> >> packagers. >> > >> > Sure. And, on the other hand, providing an APT repository for arbitrary >> > packages of unknown copyright status is also a lot of work to expect >> > disinterest

Bug#926692: ITP: fluentd -- Fluentd event collector

2019-04-08 Thread Hideki Yamane
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Hideki Yamane * Package name: fluentd Version : 1.4.2 Upstream Author : Sadayuki Furuhashi * URL : https://www.fluentd.org/ * License : Apache-2.0 Programming Lang: Ruby Description : Fluentd event collector Fl

Re: is Wayland/Weston mature enough to be the default desktop choice in Buster?

2019-04-08 Thread Bastian Blank
On Tue, Apr 09, 2019 at 08:44:45AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Fri, Apr 5, 2019 at 11:25 PM Mo Zhou wrote: > > I second that since I always refuse to use Wayland, due to > I'm currently using GNOME on Xorg because: > Under Wayland applications seem to have a problem displaying > fullscreen, for ex

Re: SIMDebian: Debian Partial Fork with Radical ISA Baseline

2019-04-08 Thread Mo Zhou
Hi Guillem, Thanks for your helpful pointers. On Sat, Apr 06, 2019 at 10:55:35PM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > If what you are interested in though is just a small subset of the > archive, another option that would benefit everyone and is perhaps > less cumbersome than having to jugle around with

Re: is Wayland/Weston mature enough to be the default desktop choice in Buster?

2019-04-08 Thread intrigeri
Paul Wise: > There doesn't appear to be anything like devilspie in Debian for GNOME > on Wayland. The "Auto Move Windows" GNOME Shell extension (in the gnome-shell-extensions package) provides parts of devilspie's functionality. Cheers, -- intrigeri