Debian Bug report logs - #607973
ITP: parti-all -- screen for remote X apps

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: أحمد المحمودي <aelmahmoudy@sabily.org>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: ITP: parti-all -- screen for remote X apps

Date: Sat, 25 Dec 2010 14:51:50 +0200

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: "أحمد المحمودي" <aelmahmoudy@sabily.org>


* Package name    : parti-all
  Version         : 0.0.6
  Upstream Author : Nathaniel Smith <njs@pobox.com>
* URL             : http://code.google.com/p/partiwm/
* License         : GPL-2
  Programming Lang: Python
  Description     : parti + xpra + winpiggy

The upstream tarball consists of three conceptually-independent
projects:

parti: tabbing/tiling (one might say "partitioning") window manager. Its
goal is to bring this superior window management interface to modern,
mainstream desktop environments.

xpra: "X Persistent Remote Applications" -- think 'screen for X'.

wimpiggy: A library for writing window managers, used by parti & xpra.

Message #10 received at 607973@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Salvo Tomaselli <tiposchi@tiscali.it>

To: أحمد المحمودي <aelmahmoudy@sabily.org>, 607973@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#607973: ITP: parti-all -- screen for remote X apps

Date: Sat, 25 Dec 2010 14:26:21 +0100

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On Saturday 25 December 2010 13:51:50 أحمد المحمودي wrote:
> * Package name    : parti-all
>   Version         : 0.0.6
>   Upstream Author : Nathaniel Smith <njs@pobox.com>
> * URL             : http://code.google.com/p/partiwm/
> * License         : GPL-2
>   Programming Lang: Python
>   Description     : parti + xpra + winpiggy
> 
> The upstream tarball consists of three conceptually-independent
> projects:

From the website
> Summary: At the moment, Parti is fun to hack, but not usable as an actual
> day-to-day window manager. If you are looking for a tiling window manager
> now, you may want to try some other WM.

Perhaps it is too early to package it?

Bye
-- 
Salvo Tomaselli

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Message #15 received at 607973@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: أحمد المحمودي <aelmahmoudy@sabily.org>

To: Salvo Tomaselli <tiposchi@tiscali.it>

Cc: 607973@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#607973: ITP: parti-all -- screen for remote X apps

Date: Sat, 25 Dec 2010 15:33:54 +0200

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On Sat, Dec 25, 2010 at 02:26:21PM +0100, Salvo Tomaselli wrote:
> Perhaps it is too early to package it?
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It has been in Ubuntu since April 2009, and I (and my colleagues at 
work) find the xpra utility very useful.

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Message #20 received at 607973@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Timo Juhani Lindfors <timo.lindfors@iki.fi>

To: 607973@bugs.debian.org, aelmahmoudy@sabily.org

Subject: Re: ITP: parti-all -- screen for remote X apps

Date: Sat, 25 Dec 2010 15:57:13 +0200

Hi,

I tested xpra briefly in the hope that it could replace VNC. However,
I hit serious problems with keyboard layouts. Have you been able to
use non-US keyboard layouts?

Message #25 received at 607973@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: أحمد المحمودي <aelmahmoudy@sabily.org>

To: Timo Juhani Lindfors <timo.lindfors@iki.fi>, 607973@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#607973: ITP: parti-all -- screen for remote X apps

Date: Sat, 25 Dec 2010 16:09:33 +0200

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On Sat, Dec 25, 2010 at 03:57:13PM +0200, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote:
> I tested xpra briefly in the hope that it could replace VNC. However,
> I hit serious problems with keyboard layouts. Have you been able to
> use non-US keyboard layouts?
---end quoted text---

Just tested it now with arabic layout, and I ran into troubles indeed.

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Message #30 received at 607973@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Sandro Tosi <morph@debian.org>

To: أحمد المحمودي <aelmahmoudy@sabily.org>, 607973@bugs.debian.org

Cc: Salvo Tomaselli <tiposchi@tiscali.it>

Subject: Re: Bug#607973: ITP: parti-all -- screen for remote X apps

Date: Sat, 25 Dec 2010 16:27:19 +0100

2010/12/25 أحمد المحمودي <aelmahmoudy@sabily.org>:
> On Sat, Dec 25, 2010 at 02:26:21PM +0100, Salvo Tomaselli wrote:
>> Perhaps it is too early to package it?
> ---end quoted text---
>
> It has been in Ubuntu since April 2009

that alone doesn't qualify anything to be up to the quality needed to
be packaged for Debian.

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Message #35 received at 607973@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: أحمد المحمودي <aelmahmoudy@sabily.org>

To: Sandro Tosi <morph@debian.org>

Cc: 607973@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#607973: ITP: parti-all -- screen for remote X apps

Date: Sat, 25 Dec 2010 19:14:25 +0200

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On Sat, Dec 25, 2010 at 04:27:19PM +0100, Sandro Tosi wrote:
> that alone doesn't qualify anything to be up to the quality needed to
> be packaged for Debian.
---end quoted text---

As mentioned in the ITP, the tarball consists of three parts: 

* parti: the window manager that is not usable according to upstream 
  website. I haven't tried it actually, since my main interest is in the 
  xpra tool.
* xpra: a tool to detach/reattach running X programs, think of it as 
  'screen' utility but for X. Yet unlike VNC, the applications are 
  "rootless". This tool is the reason I am interested in making the 
  package available in Debian, it is usable, me & my colleagues use it 
  at work. Our use case is that we run some GUI CAD tools at work that 
  may take some long time, so we run those through an xpra session, then 
  we can check the simulation/synthesis when we get back home (over a 
  VPN connection), without getting sluggish response that you get when 
  using VNC.
* wimpiggy: a library used by the above tools.

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Message #40 received at 607973@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Miguel Landaeta <miguel@miguel.cc>

To: 607973@bugs.debian.org

Cc: aelmahmoudy@sabily.org, 569203@bugs.debian.org

Subject: parti

Date: Sat, 25 Dec 2010 14:59:06 -0430

Hi,

There is/was a previous ITP for parti. Please see #569203.

IMO, the parti window manager is not ready to be used by end
users. However, xpra is very usable but it has some issues
with keyboard management. I use this tool ocassionally
without issues.

Anyway, the previous ITP only provides two binary packages
(parti and python-wimpiggy). If there is any interest in
Debian to upload this package I don't really care if this is
maintained under collab-maint or PAPT but I would like to be
involved as co-maintainer.

I think as next step to have this available in Debian, we
should contact upstream to know their plans about the future
of this software.

Cheers,

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Message #45 received at 607973@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: أحمد المحمودي <aelmahmoudy@sabily.org>

To: Miguel Landaeta <miguel@miguel.cc>

Cc: 607973@bugs.debian.org, 569203@bugs.debian.org, control@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: parti

Date: Sat, 25 Dec 2010 22:02:38 +0200

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merge 569203 607973
quit

On Sat, Dec 25, 2010 at 02:59:06PM -0430, Miguel Landaeta wrote:
> There is/was a previous ITP for parti. Please see #569203.

I'm terribly sorry, yet I did search the wnpp bugs today before I filed 
the ITP. I was searching for parti-all though, so I missed your ITP. 

> IMO, the parti window manager is not ready to be used by end
> users. However, xpra is very usable but it has some issues
> with keyboard management. I use this tool ocassionally
> without issues.

My main interest is xpra indeed.

> Anyway, the previous ITP only provides two binary packages
> (parti and python-wimpiggy). If there is any interest in
> Debian to upload this package I don't really care if this is
> maintained under collab-maint or PAPT but I would like to be
> involved as co-maintainer.

I've done some commits into PAPT SVN repository [1], I see that you & 
Michael Schutte some work in git [2]. Although I prefer git over SVN, 
yet I think it's better to have it maintained under PAPT.

I have a question, is this:

python make_constants_pxi.py wimpiggy/lowlevel/constants.txt wimpiggy/lowlevel/constants.pxi

really necessary ? I know that setup.py mentions it in the comments, yet 
the Ubuntu package didn't run that, yet the build is successful and the 
package works.

> I think as next step to have this available in Debian, we
> should contact upstream to know their plans about the future
> of this software.

I did send him an email few hours ago. Will forward it to you shortly.

[1] svn+ssh://svn.debian.org/svn/python-apps/packages/parti-all/trunk
[2] git://git.debian.org/collab-maint/parti.git

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Message #52 received at 607973@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: أحمد المحمودي <aelmahmoudy@sabily.org>

To: Miguel Landaeta <miguel@miguel.cc>

Cc: 607973@bugs.debian.org, 569203@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: parti

Date: Sat, 25 Dec 2010 22:25:01 +0200

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On Sat, Dec 25, 2010 at 02:59:06PM -0430, Miguel Landaeta wrote:
> maintained under collab-maint or PAPT but I would like to be
> involved as co-maintainer.
---end quoted text---

You started working on it before me, so of course you are involved. 

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Message #57 received at 607973@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Miguel Landaeta <miguel@miguel.cc>

To: أحمد المحمودي <aelmahmoudy@sabily.org>, 607973@bugs.debian.org

Cc: 569203@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#607973: parti

Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2010 11:38:25 -0430

2010/12/25 أحمد المحمودي <aelmahmoudy@sabily.org>:
> On Sat, Dec 25, 2010 at 02:59:06PM -0430, Miguel Landaeta wrote:
> I'm terribly sorry, yet I did search the wnpp bugs today before I filed
> the ITP. I was searching for parti-all though, so I missed your ITP.

No problem. It's also my bad for not using the name provided by upstream.

> I've done some commits into PAPT SVN repository [1], I see that you &
> Michael Schutte some work in git [2]. Although I prefer git over SVN,
> yet I think it's better to have it maintained under PAPT.

No problem. I think there is a better chance of getting
a sponsor through PAPT. I will join to PAPT since I'm only
a member of DPMT.

> I have a question, is this:
>
> python make_constants_pxi.py wimpiggy/lowlevel/constants.txt wimpiggy/lowlevel/constants.pxi
>
> really necessary ? I know that setup.py mentions it in the comments, yet
> the Ubuntu package didn't run that, yet the build is successful and the
> package works.

That line is not necessary. I looked more closely at that python
invocation and it doesn't do anything. It can safely be removed.

>
> I did send him an email few hours ago. Will forward it to you shortly.

Thanks for forwarding that. Please let me know if he answers.

Regards,

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Message #64 received at 607973-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: أحمد المحمودي (Ahmed El-Mahmoudy) <aelmahmoudy@sabily.org>

To: 607973-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#607973: fixed in parti-all 0.0.6+dfsg-1

Date: Sun, 03 Apr 2011 00:02:16 +0000

Source: parti-all
Source-Version: 0.0.6+dfsg-1

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
parti-all, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:

parti-all_0.0.6+dfsg-1.debian.tar.gz
  to main/p/parti-all/parti-all_0.0.6+dfsg-1.debian.tar.gz
parti-all_0.0.6+dfsg-1.dsc
  to main/p/parti-all/parti-all_0.0.6+dfsg-1.dsc
parti-all_0.0.6+dfsg.orig.tar.gz
  to main/p/parti-all/parti-all_0.0.6+dfsg.orig.tar.gz
parti_0.0.6+dfsg-1_all.deb
  to main/p/parti-all/parti_0.0.6+dfsg-1_all.deb
python-wimpiggy_0.0.6+dfsg-1_amd64.deb
  to main/p/parti-all/python-wimpiggy_0.0.6+dfsg-1_amd64.deb
xpra_0.0.6+dfsg-1_amd64.deb
  to main/p/parti-all/xpra_0.0.6+dfsg-1_amd64.deb



A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 607973@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
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أحمد المحمودي (Ahmed El-Mahmoudy) <aelmahmoudy@sabily.org> (supplier of updated parti-all package)

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Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 19:23:24 +0200
Source: parti-all
Binary: parti xpra python-wimpiggy
Architecture: source all amd64
Version: 0.0.6+dfsg-1
Distribution: experimental
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Python Applications Packaging Team <python-apps-team@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Changed-By: أحمد المحمودي (Ahmed El-Mahmoudy) <aelmahmoudy@sabily.org>
Description: 
 parti      - tabbing/tiling window manager using GTK+
 python-wimpiggy - library for writing window managers, using GTK+
 xpra       - tool to detach/reattach running X programs
Closes: 607973
Changes: 
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 .
   [ أحمد المحمودي (Ahmed El-Mahmoudy) ]
   * Initial release to Debian (Closes: #607973)
   * Added debian/repack script to repack upstream tarball.
   * debian/watch:
     + Updated URL.
     + Added demangling for dfsg.
     + Added call for repack script
   * Removed stray xpra.dirs
   * Renamed wimpiggy to python-wimpiggy
     + debian/control:
       - Added "Section: python" for python-wimpiggy
       - Added Provides/Conflicts: wimpiggy
   * Switch to 3.0 (quilt) source format.
   * Use dh_python2 instead of python-central.
     + Removed debian/pycompat
     + debian/control:
       - build-dep on python-all-dev >= 2.6.6-2
       - Use X-Python-Version in source stanza and remove X[BS]-Python-Version
         fields.
   * Use debhelper without CDBS.
     + debian/rules: build-dep on debhelper >= 7.0.50~ to support dh overrides.
   * debian/control:
     + Bumped Standards-Version to 3.9.1, no changes needed.
     + Added Vcs-* fields
     + Set PAPT as Maintainer, and myself as uploader.
     + Better package descriptions.
     + Added ipython to parti's Depends.
   * Added debian/parti.1, debian/parti.manpages, debian/parti.links
   * debian/docs: Remove NEWS
   * debian/{xpra,parti}.install: Install xpra & parti packages as private
     packages.
   * Added private-pkg.diff patch to add /usr/lib/xpra to sys.path for xpra
     script and /usr/lib/parti to sys.path for parti script.
   * debian/copyright:
     + Removed clauses for working-notes/specs/* files, as the specs/ folder is
       removed in this DFSG.
     + Added clause for parti/addons/ipython_view.py
 .
   [ Miguel Landaeta ]
   * Add myself to Uploaders.
   * Move clean target to debian/clean file.
 .
   [ Michael Schutte <michi@uiae.at> ]
   * Add Suggests on openssh-{client,server} for xpra.
   * Add a couple of patches:
     - manpage.patch: Fix a typo in xpra manpage.
     - run_xauth.patch: Run xauth regardless of __debug__.
   * Install upstream changelog file.
 .
   [ Jakub Wilk ]
   * Export LDFLAGS in debian/rules.
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