Bug#861646: ITP: reprounzip -- Linux tools for reproducible experiments
On Tue, 2017-05-02 at 09:54 -0400, Rémi Rampin wrote:
> 2017-05-02 05:44 -0400, Ghislain Vaillant:
> > Each tool is registered as a separate download on pip and are versioned
> > separately. Based on that alone, I guess it makes more sense to provide
> > separate source packages too.
>
> Hi, ReproZip author here.
>
> To give some context, the tools are packaged independently because
> they have different requirements (in particular, reprozip only works
> on Linux, but reprounzip works on other platforms where Docker and
> Vagrant are available).
Do you mean Linux the kernel or the platform? The tracer would not work
on a non-Linux kernel such as FreeBSD or the Hurd, am I right?
> 2017-05-02 07:51 -0400, Holger Levsen:
> > And you should very probably remove the word "Linux" from the short description,
> > and maybe also s#reproducible#reproducing#…
>
> We don't actually use this description anywhere I could find. The
> packages are collectively labelled as "Linux tool enabling
> reproducible experiments". Let me know if I missed something.
I guess Holger was trying to come up with a more accurate short
description of the package.
Since the tool itself targets reproducible experiments *on* Linux, but
is not specific *to* Linux, what about "Tool for reproducing
experiments on Linux"?
Ghis
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