Re: About backports.

2015-08-16 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Afif, On Sat, Aug 15, 2015 at 11:59:36PM -0700, Afif Elghraoui wrote: > > That's a brilliant idea! I've just thrown this idea on the breakfast > > table here at DebConf and everybody likes it a lot! > > :) > > > > Please get a DD soon! ;-) > > I'd love to; should I go ahead and start NM whi

Re: About backports.

2015-08-16 Thread Afif Elghraoui
Hi, Andreas, On السبت 15 آب 2015 23:24, Andreas Tille wrote: > Hi Afif, > >> Even with the current system in Debian, this can be somewhat >> automated--for example, setting up a machine to respond to the testing >> migration emails by triggering a rebuild of a package on a Stable chroot >> and, i

Re: About backports.

2015-08-15 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Afif, On Sat, Aug 15, 2015 at 07:46:05PM -0700, Afif Elghraoui wrote: > >>From a strategic point of view I'm not sure that some extra > > infrastucture will support the idea of convergence to collect people > > behind a common idea. > > > Even with the current system in Debian, this can be so

Re: About backports.

2015-08-15 Thread Afif Elghraoui
Hi, all, On الثلاثاء 11 آب 2015 00:59, Andreas Tille wrote: >>From my personal point of view its similar: Debian has a quite > sophisticated infrastucture. Setting up something thats not even > comparable would drain maintenance time I could use for more progressive > things. I for myself had e

Re: About backports.

2015-08-11 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 09:28:10PM -0700, Afif Elghraoui wrote: > > I'm not sure I understand enough about the workings of Debian yet to > suggest anything helpful, but I'd prefer to support something to improve > the current backports/release system. The issues you bring up seem to be > more gene

Re: About backports.

2015-08-10 Thread Afif Elghraoui
On الأحد 9 آب 2015 16:21, Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Sun, Aug 09, 2015 at 03:59:17PM -0700, Afif Elghraoui a écrit : >> >> Like you indicated, that's not the only concern. On behalf of stable >> release users, I think making a recent version of samtools available in >> stable-backports is importan

Re: About backports.

2015-08-09 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
On Mon, 10 Aug 2015, Charles Plessy wrote: > > Like you indicated, that's not the only concern. On behalf of stable > > release users, I think making a recent version of samtools available in > > stable-backports is important-- I think the backports repository is a > > huge reason why Debian stabl