Re: trends.debian.net updated

2020-04-04 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 04/04/20 at 08:09 +0200, Paul Gevers wrote: > Hi Lucas > > On 03-04-2020 22:41, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > There are a few things that strike me: > > > > - first, one can see how the number of package in testing decreases > > slowly during freezes, as broken packages are removed > > And inte

Re: trends.debian.net updated

2020-04-04 Thread Sebastiaan Couwenberg
On 4/4/20 9:28 AM, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > On 04/04/20 at 08:09 +0200, Paul Gevers wrote: >>> I keep wondering if we should make an effort to remove from testing >>> packages whose packaging 'style' is clearly outdated, such as packages >>> not updated since 2004 ('beav' is an example)... >> >> Is

Re: trends.debian.net updated

2020-04-04 Thread Simon McVittie
On Sat, 04 Apr 2020 at 08:09:34 +0200, Paul Gevers wrote: > On 03-04-2020 22:41, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > - first, one can see how the number of package in testing decreases > > slowly during freezes, as broken packages are removed > > And interesting to see that this hardly happened during the

Bug#955738: ITP: termtosvg -- record terminal sessions as standalone SVG animations

2020-04-04 Thread Guilhem Moulin
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Guilhem Moulin * Package name: termtosvg Version : 1.1.0 Upstream Author : Nicolas Bedos * URL : https://nbedos.github.io/termtosvg/ * License : BSD-3-clause Programming Lang: Python Description : record terminal

+1 (autoremals are great, was Re: trends.debian.net updated)

2020-04-04 Thread Holger Levsen
On Sat, Apr 04, 2020 at 11:43:21AM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: > On Sat, 04 Apr 2020 at 08:09:34 +0200, Paul Gevers wrote: > > On 03-04-2020 22:41, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > > - first, one can see how the number of package in testing decreases > > > slowly during freezes, as broken packages are

Bug#955748: ITP: pydle -- An IRCv3-compliant Python 3 IRC library

2020-04-04 Thread Jelmer Vernooij
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jelmer Vernooij * Package name: pydle Version : 0.9.3 Upstream Author : Shiz * URL : https://github.com/Shizmob/pydle * License : BSD Programming Lang: Python Description : An IRCv3-compliant Python 3 IRC library

go-sendxmpp debian package preparations

2020-04-04 Thread Martin Dosch
Dear all, I prepared a debian package for go-sendxmpp [1] as well as for the dependencies getopt [2] and mattn/go-xmpp [3]. It would be nice if someone could check them and add them to debian if all is well. If not I'd appreciate any feedback. Best regards, Martin [1] https://salsa.debian.or

Re: trends.debian.net updated

2020-04-04 Thread Adam Borowski
On Sat, Apr 04, 2020 at 09:37:16AM +0200, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote: > On 4/4/20 9:28 AM, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > On 04/04/20 at 08:09 +0200, Paul Gevers wrote: > >>> I keep wondering if we should make an effort to remove from testing > >>> packages whose packaging 'style' is clearly outdated,

Bug#955754: ITP: libobject-pad-perl -- module providing a simple syntax for lexical slot-based objects

2020-04-04 Thread gregor herrmann
Package: wnpp Owner: gregor herrmann Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libobject-pad-perl Version : 0.19 Upstream Author : Paul Evans * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/Object-Pad * License

Re: trends.debian.net updated

2020-04-04 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Sat 04 Apr 2020 at 09:28AM +02, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > Well, no, there doesn't seem to be any serious user-visible issues. > > That's why I keep wondering whether it makes sense to just keep all this > technical debt around. It could be useful to someone, and it is not clear that it i

Re: trends.debian.net updated

2020-04-04 Thread Ole Streicher
Adam Borowski writes: > Idea: perhaps we could make no unrestricted (maintainer, team, or QA) upload > for 10 years a RC bug on its own? That threshold could then be gradually > reduced to eg. 5 years, as worst offenders get fixed. One could deprecate old Standards-Version and require a version

Re: trends.debian.net updated

2020-04-04 Thread Niels Thykier
Sean Whitton: > Hello, > > On Sat 04 Apr 2020 at 09:28AM +02, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > >> Well, no, there doesn't seem to be any serious user-visible issues. >> >> That's why I keep wondering whether it makes sense to just keep all this >> technical debt around. > > It could be useful to someone,

Re: trends.debian.net updated

2020-04-04 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Sat 04 Apr 2020 at 08:17PM +02, Niels Thykier wrote: > [explanation] > > Therefore, I would like us to acknowledge the fact that technical debt > is doing harm in that it has a cost for our contributors. But at the > same time, I know it is hard to compare objectively to the cost of th

Bug#955782: ITP: ruby-ruby-dep -- Creates a version constraint of supported Rubies

2020-04-04 Thread kiran
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: hacksk X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name : ruby-ruby-dep Version : 1.5.0 Upstream Author : 2016 Cezary Baginski * URL : https://github.com/e2/ruby_dep * License : Expat Programming Lang: Ruby Description : Creates a version constra

Re: trends.debian.net updated

2020-04-04 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Apr 04, Niels Thykier wrote: > Some of the technical debt is "doing harm" in the sense that we will > have work around and deprecated code that linger and slow down our work > on improving Debian. You have cited specific issues which cause troubles, which is quite different from just removing

Bug#955797: ITP: ruby-gem-isolator -- Use an isolated set of gems in your tests

2020-04-04 Thread kiran
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: hacksk X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name : ruby-gem-isolator Version : 1.5.0 Upstream Author : 2016 Cezary Baginski * URL : https://github.com/e2/ruby-gem-isolator * License : Expat Programming Lang: Ruby Description : Use an isola

Bug#955803: ITP: bemenu -- Dynamic menu inspired by dmenu

2020-04-04 Thread Peter Colberg
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Peter Colberg * Package name: bemenu Version : 0.3.0-1 Upstream Author : Jari Vetoniemi * URL : https://github.com/Cloudef/bemenu * License : GPL-3+, LGPL-3+ Programming Lang: C Description : Dynamic menu inspire