Re: Setting http_proxy in debian/rules

2013-02-06 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
what about something like ifeq (,$(findstring get-orig-source, $(MAKECMDGOALS))) export http_proxy=http://127.0.0.1:9/ endif so unless called with get-orig-source -- it would get defined... ? On Wed, 06 Feb 2013, Piotr Ożarowski wrote: > [Dmitrijs Ledkovs, 2013-02-06] > > On 5 February 2013 17

Re: python-xlrd

2013-02-06 Thread Sandro Tosi
On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 10:24 PM, Thomas Kluyver wrote: > On 6 February 2013 19:30, Sandro Tosi wrote: >> >> please read our "unwritten policy" about Maintainer field at >> http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/PythonModulesTeam/HowToJoin > > > "As a general rule of thumb, just set Maintainer to the team;

Re: python-xlrd

2013-02-06 Thread Thomas Kluyver
On 6 February 2013 19:30, Sandro Tosi wrote: > please read our "unwritten policy" about Maintainer field at > http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/PythonModulesTeam/HowToJoin "As a general rule of thumb, just set Maintainer to the team; there might be some exceptions, like in situations where the packa

Re: Setting http_proxy in debian/rules

2013-02-06 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Feb 06, 2013, at 11:18 AM, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: >I should add a hook to export that for the build & binary stages of the >package build in my sbuild config (but not the fetching build-deps) Also one >should be able to set that in debuild hooks. That would help make local sbuilds act more li

Re: Setting http_proxy in debian/rules

2013-02-06 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Feb 06, 2013, at 01:13 PM, Piotr Ożarowski wrote: >FTR: pybuild does that by default (http_proxy=http://127.0.0.1:9/) Nice. >it probably should be changed to not overwrite existing http_proxy (if set) >or to make it possible to disable it. The only case where I found I had to unset http_prox

Re: python-xlrd

2013-02-06 Thread Sandro Tosi
On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 5:12 PM, Thomas Kluyver wrote: > I suggest that we encourage packagers to make team maintainership the norm, > and individual maintainership the exception, to avoid this kind of problem. > This is in line with plenty of other open source projects, where people talk > about n

Re: python-xlrd

2013-02-06 Thread Simon McVittie
On 06/02/13 16:12, Thomas Kluyver wrote: > Of course, it's good to exercise due diligence, but the flip > side is that technical changes which I hope would be uncontroversial > have now taken a back seat to bureaucracy, because one man a few years > ago declared himself 'the maintainer'. If the re

Re: python-xlrd

2013-02-06 Thread Elena ``of Valhalla''
On 2013-02-06 at 16:12:21 +, Thomas Kluyver wrote: > No doubt he should have declared his packages orphaned before he left. But > whether he got hit by a bus, or just lost interest in them, I'm not > interested in blaming him. I have e-mailed the MIA team to start the > 2-month process [3] that

Re: python-xlrd

2013-02-06 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Feb 06, 2013, at 04:12 PM, Thomas Kluyver wrote: >I suggest that we encourage packagers to make team maintainership the norm, >and individual maintainership the exception, to avoid this kind of problem. >This is in line with plenty of other open source projects, where people >talk about not bec

Re: python-xlrd

2013-02-06 Thread Thomas Kluyver
On 6 February 2013 12:52, Sandro Tosi wrote: > Yes I do: Thomas is set as the Maintainer (as opposed to the team > being the Maintainer), so your are more forced to ask Thomas first > given the huge changes you're planning to do: did you contact him (it > doesn't seem so from your email)? have yo

Re: python-xlrd

2013-02-06 Thread Sandro Tosi
On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 12:48 PM, Thomas Kluyver wrote: > Does > anyone object to me committing this to the DPMT SVN repository, and seeking > sponsorship for the new version? Yes I do: Thomas is set as the Maintainer (as opposed to the team being the Maintainer), so your are more forced to ask Th

Re: Setting http_proxy in debian/rules

2013-02-06 Thread Piotr Ożarowski
[Dmitrijs Ledkovs, 2013-02-06] > On 5 February 2013 17:48, Barry Warsaw wrote: > > http://mail.python.org/pipermail/catalog-sig/2013-February/004831.html > > I should add a hook to export that for the build & binary stages of FTR: pybuild does that by default (http_proxy=http://127.0.0.1:9/) it

python-xlrd

2013-02-06 Thread Thomas Kluyver
The python-xlrd package is maintained by Thomas Bläsing and the DPMT, but the packaged version is quite old. A PAPT thread from last year suggests that Thomas Bläsing is missing in action [1]. I've prepared a new version of the package, using a patch from the bug tracker, the latest upstream versi

Re: Setting http_proxy in debian/rules

2013-02-06 Thread Dmitrijs Ledkovs
On 5 February 2013 17:48, Barry Warsaw wrote: > There's been a lot of discussion lately on various forums (e.g. catalog-sig) > about PyPI security. I realized that our recommendation for setting > http_proxy in debian/rules can have beneficial local security implications. > > More details here: >