Re: GUI tool for packaging

2012-11-14 Thread Clint Byrum
Excerpts from Thomas Kluyver's message of 2012-11-09 05:19:03 -0800: > This is an idea I've had knocking around for a while. Packaging is complex > - there are lots of different tools and syntaxes you have to understand to > do a good job of it - quilt, debhelper, watch files, etc. - along with > s

Re: Second round of advise on packaging python-csb

2012-11-14 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Nov 15, 2012, at 03:49 AM, Tristan Seligmann wrote: >On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 5:42 PM, Tomás Di Domenico wrote: >> Another blurry point. I'm having a hard time understanding the >> separation of tasks between the tarball packaging done by upstream I >> described before, and my Debian packaging.

Re: Second round of advise on packaging python-csb

2012-11-14 Thread Tristan Seligmann
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 5:42 PM, Tomás Di Domenico wrote: > Another blurry point. I'm having a hard time understanding the > separation of tasks between the tarball packaging done by upstream I > described before, and my Debian packaging. Similar to the docs, the > tests are run by upstream when t

Re: Is virtualenv --setuptools still useful?

2012-11-14 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Nov 14, 2012, at 02:00 PM, Stefano Rivera wrote: >Hi Barry (2012.11.13_01:04:59_+0200) >> I am upgrading Ubuntu 13.04's python-virtualenv package to 1.8.2. This >> could provide a basis for upgrading the Debian version in Wheezy+1. > >As usual, I'd say: You're a member of DPMT, which is the pr

Re: How to prevent debhelper using Python 2

2012-11-14 Thread Dmitrijs Ledkovs
On 14 November 2012 19:11, Jakub Wilk wrote: > * Barry Warsaw , 2012-11-14, 13:17: > While working on the python3-sympy package, I've seen that if Python 2 is installed, various dh_* commands, like dh_auto_clean, will automatically try to run setup.py in Python 2. In this case, setu

Re: Revisiting team joining procedures

2012-11-14 Thread Rick Thomas
On Nov 14, 2012, at 11:04 AM, Jakub Wilk wrote: I'm afraid that this creates false impression that we'd accept anyone, without any questions asked. This is not the case. As a DPMT admin I required that the applicant: 1) either had existing Python-related packages in the archive; 2) or sho

Re: Merging python-jenkins from Ubuntu

2012-11-14 Thread Paul Belanger
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 11:47 AM, Paul Belanger wrote: > Greetings list, > > I wanted to start discussion around merging a package from Ubuntu, > python-jenkins[1], into Debian. The reason for this is it is actually > a dependency for another piece of software I am hoping to package for > Debian,

Re: How to prevent debhelper using Python 2

2012-11-14 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Barry Warsaw , 2012-11-14, 13:17: While working on the python3-sympy package, I've seen that if Python 2 is installed, various dh_* commands, like dh_auto_clean, will automatically try to run setup.py in Python 2. In this case, setup.py checks the Python version and fails. This isn't a proble

Revisiting team joining procedures

2012-11-14 Thread Jakub Wilk
Python Modules Packaging Teams Policy[0] currently reads: "The team is open to any python-related package maintainer. To be added on the team, please send your request on debian-python@lists.debian.org indicate why you want to join the team: maintain your current packages within the team, help

Re: Is virtualenv --setuptools still useful?

2012-11-14 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Nov 14, 2012, at 02:00 PM, Stefano Rivera wrote: >Hi Barry (2012.11.13_01:04:59_+0200) >> I am upgrading Ubuntu 13.04's python-virtualenv package to 1.8.2. This >> could provide a basis for upgrading the Debian version in Wheezy+1. > >As usual, I'd say: You're a member of DPMT, which is the pr

Re: How to prevent debhelper using Python 2

2012-11-14 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Nov 14, 2012, at 02:14 PM, Jakub Wilk wrote: >* Thomas Kluyver , 2012-11-14, 11:44: >>While working on the python3-sympy package, I've seen that if Python 2 >is >>installed, various dh_* commands, like dh_auto_clean, will >automatically try >>to run setup.py in Python 2. In this case, setup.p

Re: How to prevent debhelper using Python 2

2012-11-14 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Nov 14, 2012, at 11:44 AM, Thomas Kluyver wrote: >While working on the python3-sympy package, I've seen that if Python 2 is >installed, various dh_* commands, like dh_auto_clean, will automatically >try to run setup.py in Python 2. In this case, setup.py checks the Python >version and fails. Th

Merging python-jenkins from Ubuntu

2012-11-14 Thread Paul Belanger
Greetings list, I wanted to start discussion around merging a package from Ubuntu, python-jenkins[1], into Debian. The reason for this is it is actually a dependency for another piece of software I am hoping to package for Debian, jenkins-job-builder[2]. I'd like to go through mentors.debian.net

Re: Second round of advise on packaging python-csb

2012-11-14 Thread Tomás Di Domenico
On 13/11/12 21:17, Jakub Wilk wrote: > * Tomás Di Domenico , 2012-11-12, 15:34: >> * Rebuilt the package with an upstream release tarball > > Much better now. :) > >> * Changed debian/* license to MIT, matching upstream's > > DEP-5-compliant short license name for the MIT license is "Expat". >

Re: Python fdb

2012-11-14 Thread Dmitry Shachnev
Hi Philippe! Please use Debian New Maintainer's Guide¹ as a starting point. For Python-specific things, check the “Python Packaging” page² or a similar article in the Ubuntu Packaging Guide³. If you want a tool that will generate most of the needed files for you, take a look at pydsc (available i

Re: How to prevent debhelper using Python 2

2012-11-14 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Thomas Kluyver , 2012-11-14, 11:44: While working on the python3-sympy package, I've seen that if Python 2 is installed, various dh_* commands, like dh_auto_clean, will automatically try to run setup.py in Python 2. In this case, setup.py checks the Python version and fails. This isn't a prob

Re: GUI tool for packaging

2012-11-14 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Nov 14, 2012, at 11:46 AM, Thomas Kluyver wrote: >On 14 November 2012 11:43, Jakub Wilk wrote: > >> I don't think so, sorry. > >Could you expand on this at all? Do you think that packaging should be left >to the experts? Or that the existing systems are easy enough for newcomers >to learn? I

Re: Is virtualenv --setuptools still useful?

2012-11-14 Thread Stefano Rivera
Hi Barry (2012.11.13_01:04:59_+0200) > I am upgrading Ubuntu 13.04's python-virtualenv package to 1.8.2. This could > provide a basis for upgrading the Debian version in Wheezy+1. As usual, I'd say: You're a member of DPMT, which is the primary maintainer of this package, so please feel free to c

Re: GUI tool for packaging

2012-11-14 Thread Thomas Kluyver
On 14 November 2012 11:43, Jakub Wilk wrote: > I don't think so, sorry. Could you expand on this at all? Do you think that packaging should be left to the experts? Or that the existing systems are easy enough for newcomers to learn? Thomas

Re: GUI tool for packaging

2012-11-14 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Thomas Kluyver , 2012-11-09, 13:19: - Do you think this is worth spending time on? I don't think so, sorry. -- Jakub Wilk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-python-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.d