[Debian-l10n-devel] Bug#805378: Undefined subroutine errors (spider-bts) Was: [Help] Re: dl10n-check: Can't locate Debian/Pkg/DebSrc.pm in @INC

[Andreas Tille]

Hi all,

first of all I'm happy that the issue seems to be solved now.

Am Tue, Nov 19, 2024 at 06:34:55PM +0100 schrieb Laura Arjona Reina:
> > I admit I was not aware that changing the packaging repository of some
> > Debian package can have some severe influence on a production machine.
> 
> Well, the Debian infrastructure in some places runs based on git master
> branch, and in this case we have a cron job that pulls the changes in git.
> But nothing critical, I guess.

I'm pretty sure that in several cases it might make sense to run on the
code of the Git repository.  However, if there is a package in parallel
it would be great to document this inside debian/README.source.

> > I'm very sorry if I might have broken something.
> > 
> > On the other hand it seems that nobody is actually using dl10n as a
> > *package*.  Wouldn't it make sense to remove the Debian package from the
> > archive ... or possibly splitting the part from the repository that is
> > used in some daily cron job to some other place than the packaging
> > repository?  Just trying to understand what is possibly a simple thing
> > when being involved.
> 
> I think it does not make sense to have a package but OTOH if there is no
> package maybe we couldn't have gotten all the cleaning an up-to-date stuff
> that all you provided in the last days :-)
 
Valid point. ;-)  However, if there is some use case for a package in
parallel to the usage of direct pulls it might make sense to upload it
to fix reported bugs and update the packaging.  From my point of view
that's done now and someone of your team could to so (or ask me for
doing so if this helps).
 
> I don't feel confident to be the one removing the part of the code that is
> used only for obtaining a package (I don't maintain packages), nor asking
> the package to be removed from the archive (if nobody else steps ahead, I
> can teach myself in the following weeks and try to ensure that dl10n is not
> present in Trixie).

Requesting removal of the package is via

    reportbug other
     -> select "11" (== ftpmaster)
     -> select ROM  (Removal of maintainer)
     <Enter> <Enter>
     write some text why the package can be removed.

As I said, you can feel free to ask me to upload the current status in
Git where I would volunteer to add d/README.source before uploading to
give some warning to other contributors.
 
> Thanks all and kind regards,

See you hopefully in Brest
   Andreas. 

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