Re: getting rid of "testing"

2019-06-27 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Wed, Jun 26, 2019 at 04:50:39PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: Hi, On Wed, Jun 26, 2019 at 03:10:27PM +0200, Philip Hands wrote: I know +1 postings are not really welcome. I've been looking for an excuse to write slightly more than "+1" (to Simon or Phil's messages, in particular), but "+1" is

Re: getting rid of "testing"

2019-06-27 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Wed, Jun 26, 2019 at 09:07:23PM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: Think again about why we have release names at all: Debian 1.0 never happened because somebody packaged a pre-release semi-broken version as Debian 1.0 on their CDs. At that point, Debian chose to also use codenames to refer to re

Re: getting rid of "testing"

2019-06-27 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Wed, Jun 26, 2019 at 09:15:49PM +0200, Alf Gaida wrote: Only a last thought: Didn't we have really important problems to solve? It might be only me, but i see the discussion as a minor variation of bike shedding. It may not be important to you, but it's evidently important to some people. I

Re: getting rid of "testing"

2019-06-27 Thread Ian Jackson
Michael Stone writes ("Re: getting rid of "testing""): > On Wed, Jun 26, 2019 at 01:29:44PM -0300, Antonio Terceiro wrote: > >As a data point, having "stable" and "testing" stay around is very > >useful for CI purposes. For example on ci.debian.net all our setup uses > >"stable" and "testing" inste

Bug#931174: ITP: libjs-scribl -- HTML5 canvas genomics graphic library

2019-06-27 Thread Steffen Moeller
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Steffen Moeller * Package name: libjs-scribl * URL : http://chmille4.github.io/Scribl/ * License : MIT Programming Lang: JavaScript Description : HTML5 canvas genomics graphic library To be team maintained on salsa.d.o/med-t

Re: getting rid of "testing"

2019-06-27 Thread Simon McVittie
On Thu, 27 Jun 2019 at 12:04:39 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > [What is currently stable, etc.] is available via the ftpmaster API > service, and by reading symlinks > in archive mirrors. I think the idea of having this information in a > .deb too (ideally kept up to date in all in-support releases,

Re: getting rid of "testing"

2019-06-27 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Ian" == Ian Jackson writes: Ian> Stepping back a bit: Ian> Can we have a comment from ftpmaster on their view of the rough Ian> consensus here? I think a Last Call (time-bounded) would be Ian> good. (I really liked the approach Sam took with the dh Ian> discussion.)

Uninformative hyperlink in O: (package orphaning) bug reports

2019-06-27 Thread Boyuan Yang
Dear -devel list, (Please forward this email to proper mailing lists if there's other lists that this email would suit in better.) I noticed that for all bug reports that orphan a package in Debian, a semi- standard paragraph of words will be provided like this: ...Maintaining a packag

Re: getting rid of "testing"

2019-06-27 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 01:11:09PM +0500, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 09:46:00AM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > > > Related to that I would like to be able to write something like > > > deb http://deb.debian.org/debian debian11 main > > > deb http://security.debian.org/de

Work-needing packages report for Jun 28, 2019

2019-06-27 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: 1434 (new: 0) Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 157 (new: 0) Total number of packages reques

Getting rid of codenames (Was: getting rid of "testing")

2019-06-27 Thread Yao Wei (魏銘廷)
How about getting rid of codenames altogether? Like we use unstable for unstable, experimental for experimental as it already is, no testing and buster but debian11, debian12, etc. Although it is eliminating some funs but it is much more predictable and simple to remember. I also confused sque

Re: getting rid of "testing"

2019-06-27 Thread Adam Borowski
On Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 10:16:33PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > Yes please, let's use debian11 in the URL somewhere. Because debian11 is such a buzz... -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Packager's rule #1: upstream _always_ screws something up. This ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ is true especially if you're packaging your own p

Bug#931200: ITP: python3-aiorwlock -- Synchronization primitive RWLock for asyncio

2019-06-27 Thread William Grzybowski
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: William Grzybowski * Package name: aiorwlock Version : 0.6.0 Upstream Author : Andrew Svetlov * URL : https://github.com/aio-libs/aiorwlock * License : Apache 2.0 Programming Lang: Python Description : Synchroniza

Re: Getting rid of codenames (Was: getting rid of "testing")

2019-06-27 Thread Geert Stappers
On Fri, Jun 28, 2019 at 08:51:18AM +0800, Yao Wei (?) wrote: > How about getting rid of codenames altogether? Like we use unstable > for unstable, experimental for experimental as it already is, no > testing and buster but debian11, debian12, etc. > > Although it is eliminating some funs