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

Holger Levsen <[email protected]> Thu, 9 Jan 2025 09:29:05 +0000

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.debian.devel.quality-assurance,gmane.linux.debian.devel.general
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On Wed, Jan 08, 2025 at 09:11:02PM +0100, Serafeim (Serafi) Zanikolas wrote:
> hi Holger,

as you have addressed me here and...
 
> On Wed Jan 8, 2025 at 11:57 AM CET, Holger Levsen wrote:
> > (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

... and here ^, I have to tell you that's *your* duty when rewriting adequate
in another langugage.

> slightly tangential: I'm somewhat surprised that piuparts.d.o would run
> adequate/stable. 

I told you in 2024 already that piuparts.d.o runs adequate and that piuparts.d.o
runs 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)

I'm sorry if I come accross as bitter but I've been trying to tell
you since the rewrite about this (and other problems) and that the new 
adequate needed more testing before uploading to unstable, but you just didnt
listen...

> ps. happy to also have a phone/video call if that would help us work better
>     together
 
no, thanks. I'm not even involved in piuparts anymore.


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