[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#845982: Please clarify several issues with cwltool

[Michael Crusoe]

There is no particular urgency to get cwltest into the archive ahead of any
other new package.

2016-12-12 22:25 GMT+02:00 Andreas Tille <andreas at fam-tille.de>:

> Hi Michael,
>
> I just want to make sure you understood that if we want to get a new
> package through new queue (cwltest) that this is really urgent now.
> Since I'm not really sure what to do next (if you take over from here or
> you might urgently need help) I'll stay idle until I read from you more
> detailed information to the questions below.
>
> Kind regards
>
>       Andreas.
>
> On Sun, Dec 11, 2016 at 05:31:28PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 09, 2016 at 01:18:04PM +0000, Michael Crusoe wrote:
> > > >   1. Patch to not use python-typing.
> > > >      Why this?  Adding the package to Build-Depends would be cheap
> > >
> > > At some point the python2 typing package went away?
> >
> > No idea but according to
> >
> > $ apt-cache policy python-typing
> > python-typing:
> >   Installiert:           3.5.2.2-1
> >   Installationskandidat: 3.5.2.2-1
> >   Versionstabelle:
> >  *** 3.5.2.2-1 501
> >         501 http://httpredir.debian.org/debian testing/main amd64
> Packages
> >          50 http://httpredir.debian.org/debian unstable/main amd64
> Packages
> >         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
> >
> > everything seems to be fine.
> >
> > > >   2. Lagging behind upstream.
> > > >      Are there any reasons?
> > >
> > > Yes, only py2 compat and I wanted to add py3 before updating :-P
> >
> > Hmmm, but we want to have latest upstream in Stretch (no matter what
> > Python version), right?
> >
> > > >   3. I injected latest upstream (1.0.20161207161158) in my local Git
> > > >      repository
> > > >       * cwltest is now separate - do we want to package it as well?
> > >
> > > Yes please
> >
> > I injected
> >
> >     https://anonscm.debian.org/git/debian-med/cwltest.git
> >
> > Please take over from here since you are the expert.  And please make
> > this of high priority if we want to feed the latest and greatest code
> > into Stretch.
> >
> > > >       * after removing it from set of requriements I was running into
> > > >
> > > > Download error on https://pypi.python.org/simple/schema-salad/:
> [Errno
> > > > -3] Temporary failure in name resolution -- Some packages may not be
> found!
> > > > Couldn't retrieve index page for 'schema-salad'
> > > > Scanning index of all packages (this may take a while)
> > > > Reading https://pypi.python.org/simple/
> > > > Download error on https://pypi.python.org/simple/: [Errno -3]
> Temporary
> > > > failure in name resolution -- Some packages may not be found!
> > > > No local packages or working download links found for
> > > > schema-salad<2,>=1.21.20161206204028
> > > > error: Could not find suitable distribution for
> Requirement.parse('schema-
> > > > salad<2,>=1.21.20161206204028')
> > >
> > > Yes, schema salad also needs to be updated
> >
> > Done.
> >
> > > >   4. Continuing with python-schema-salad I noticed that it is lagging
> > > >      behind as welland it is now >= 2 (2.0.20161122040508)
> > >
> > > *sigh* please ignore the 2.x series of schema salad -- that was not my
> doing
> >
> > I excluded 2.x series from d/watch - please find a more sensible
> > solution for the future since I consider this hackish.
> >
> > > > I do not feel competent to decide what version is fit for Debian 9.
> If
> > > > we do nothing cwltool is out - so IMHO we should urgently upgrade all
> > > > needed packages but I have no idea what might be the right procedure.
> > > >
> > > > Michael, could you please take over (and thus join the advent
> calendar
> > > > effort ;-))
> >
> > I admit I basically ignored cwl related packages since I assumed you
> > would care for the code where you are upstream.  Please let us know if
> > you have reasons for not beeing able to care.  We happily help to have
> > the recent code without bugs in Stretch but we need more information
> > from you to take action.
> >
> > Kind regards
> >
> >      Andreas.
> >
> >
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