Re: criteria for acceptable languages for central QA tools in Debian (was: Re: coordination between lintian/piuparts/adequate)

"Serafeim (Serafi) Zanikolas" <[email protected]> Wed, 08 Jan 2025 21:11:02 +0100

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hi Holger,

On Wed Jan 8, 2025 at 11:57 AM CET, Holger Levsen wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 07, 2025 at 11:55:30PM +0100, Serafeim (Serafi) Zanikolas wrote:
> > two things: first, what is a "core component of Debian" is very much up to
> > debate, but I'd be quite surprised if anybody made the case that adequate is.
>
> adequate is run on all 70000 binary packages on piuparts.debian.org. I'm really
> curious whether this will blow up when piuparts.d.o will be upgraded to trixie
> running the new adequate...
>
> (actually adequate is run on many more binary packages on piuparts.d.o, because
> p.d.o is not only testing unstable...)
>
> I would have loved if a test run with the new adequate on all those packages would
> have been made before the old adequate got kicked out. I guess technically it's
> not too late to do such a test run on the archive.

sure, let's find out! wouldn't this be simply a matter of pinning adequate to
testing/unstable? or even easier, you could just copy the adequate executable
from unstable to a bookworm instance (since adequate's only versioned dependency
is libc6 (>= 2.34) and latest stable ships 2.36

Paul Wise runs a test instance that has made adequate hit a limit at some point
(not specific to the rewrite, see #1077704), but I've no idea of how many
packages he had installed

slightly tangential: I'm somewhat surprised that piuparts.d.o would run
adequate/stable. that might have made sense with an unmaintained adequate, but
I've added three new checks since the rewrite and it'd make no sense to have to
wait for a stable releases to use them (yes, I also owe you a patch to update
the hardwired list of adequate tags in piuparts; I've been holding back because
every single message from you on adequate comes across as bitter)

thanks,
serafi

ps. happy to also have a phone/video call if that would help us work better
    together

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