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  • Bug#1101376: ITP: package-assembler -- CLI tool to create necessary fil

    From Jonathan Dowland@21:1/5 to Alexandre Detiste on Thu Mar 27 12:30:01 2025
    XPost: linux.debian.devel

    On Wed Mar 26, 2025 at 7:12 PM GMT, Alexandre Detiste wrote:
    Please stop this series of troll packages.

    I think characterising this as trolling is unfair. Clearly this is not suitable for inclusion in Debian, but, what isn't clear is Luka's
    intent. It looks to me that they are making a genuine if perhaps
    misguided attempt to make a positive contribution.

    Engaging with Luka positively, to guide them towards being able to
    contribute to the project, would be the better way to go, IMHO.

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  • From Simon Josefsson@21:1/5 to Jonathan Dowland on Thu Mar 27 14:00:01 2025
    XPost: linux.debian.devel

    "Jonathan Dowland" <jmtd@debian.org> writes:

    On Wed Mar 26, 2025 at 7:12 PM GMT, Alexandre Detiste wrote:
    Please stop this series of troll packages.

    I think characterising this as trolling is unfair.

    +1

    Clearly this is not suitable for inclusion in Debian, but, what isn't
    clear is Luka's intent. It looks to me that they are making a genuine
    if perhaps misguided attempt to make a positive contribution.

    Engaging with Luka positively, to guide them towards being able to contribute to the project, would be the better way to go, IMHO.

    To me this looks like it can be a useful package, if it isn't already,
    and it looks fine for inclusion into Debian.

    I've found the 'dh-make-golang make' tool incredibly useful to quickly
    get a suitable debian/* template for a project. I would find a similar
    tool that isn't Go-specific which would could an upstream tarball and/or
    a URL to a homepage and attempt to create a debian/* template a missing
    tool to faciliate Debian package creation.

    /Simon

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  • From Simon Josefsson@21:1/5 to Nicolas Peugnet on Thu Mar 27 15:50:01 2025
    XPost: linux.debian.devel

    Nicolas Peugnet <nicolas@club1.fr> writes:

    On 27/03/2025 13:50, Simon Josefsson wrote:
    I've found the 'dh-make-golang make' tool incredibly useful to quickly
    get a suitable debian/* template for a project. I would find a similar
    tool that isn't Go-specific which would could an upstream tarball and/or
    a URL to a homepage and attempt to create a debian/* template a missing
    tool to faciliate Debian package creation.

    The thing is, there are already a lot of them: https://wiki.debian.org/AutomaticPackagingTools

    The only language-agnostic on that list is 'dh-make' and while I haven't
    spent a lot of time with it, my (old) impression of it was that it the resulting templates it creates was more complicated to fill out than to
    start from scratch, or copying debian/* from some similar existing
    package. So I think there is room for improvement in this area.

    Luka, did you try 'dh-make'? What are the main differences to your
    package?

    FWIW, I don't think there is any problem to have more than one tool that
    adress a similar problem.

    /Simon

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  • From Jonathan Dowland@21:1/5 to Simon Josefsson on Fri Mar 28 11:30:01 2025
    XPost: linux.debian.devel

    On Thu Mar 27, 2025 at 12:50 PM GMT, Simon Josefsson wrote:
    To me this looks like it can be a useful package, if it isn't already,
    and it looks fine for inclusion into Debian.

    Apologies to Luka, I should not describe it as "clearly not suitable".

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