Bug#426985: ITP: python-pycallgraph -- A Python library that creates call graphs for Python programs

2007-05-31 Thread Jan Michael Alonzo
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jan Michael Alonzo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: python-pycallgraph Version : 0.3 Upstream Author : Gerald Kaszuba * URL : http://pycallgraph.slowchop.com/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: Python Description

Re: ldbl128 transition for alpha, powerpc, sparc, s390

2007-05-31 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 11:36:55PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: > php4-dev This package is EOL and will not be fixed for this transition (assuming it applies). > php5-dev This is a false positive, the only use of 'long double' in the php5 header files is in a macro definition. Please exclude th

Re: Wanted: introductory page for all teams

2007-05-31 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Fri, 01 Jun 2007, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > > > So consider this a +1 for me to get write access to all DD by default in > > our website. > > for the content I'm pretty sure that's a good idea. Giving all DDs > access to the css could result in a new design every week. Although that > sounds like

Work-needing packages report for Jun 1, 2007

2007-05-31 Thread wnpp
The following is a listing of packages for which help has been requested through the WNPP (Work-Needing and Prospective Packages) system in the last week. Total number of orphaned packages: 397 (new: 1) Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 82 (new: 2) Total number of packages requeste

Re: Better documenting what does not work in Etch.

2007-05-31 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña] > Actually, the website has errata pages for each release work at the > wiki could be a basis for an updated page at the website. Yes. I suggest using http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEtch> for this purpose. Happy hacking, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: ldbl128 transition for alpha, powerpc, sparc, s390

2007-05-31 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 11:36:55PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: > With glibc-2.5 and gcc-4.1.2 (and gcc-4.2), the `long double' data > type did change from a 64bit representation to a 128bit representation > on alpha, powerpc, sparc, s390. To allow partial upgrades of packages, > we will need to re

ITP: aoeui -- Lightweight, unobtrusive, Dvorak-optimized text editor

2007-05-31 Thread Ryan Kavanagh
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Ryan Kavanagh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Debian Bug Tracking System <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: ITP: aoeui -- Lightweight, unobtrusive, Dvorak-optimized text editor Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-M

Bug#426957: ITP: rnahybrid -- Fast and effective prediction of microRNA/target duplexes

2007-05-31 Thread Charles Plessy
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Package name: rnahybrid Version : 2.1 Upstream Author : Marc Rehmsmeier, Peter Steffen, Matthias Hoechsmann URL : http://bibiserv.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de/rnahybrid/ License : GPL

Re: Is there a way to positively, uniquely identify which Debian release a program is running on?

2007-05-31 Thread Russ Allbery
Gabor Gombas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 04:46:30PM -0400, Kris Deugau wrote: >> However, there doesn't seem to be any single, consistent, >> doesn't-change-for-the-life-of-the-release, programmatically possible >> (never mind *easy* just yet...) method to find out if I'm

ITP: rsstail - Text based RSS feeder

2007-05-31 Thread Rene Mayorga
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Rene Mayorga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: rsstail * Version : 1.1 * Upstream Author : Folkert van Heusden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.vanheusden.com/rsstail/ * License : GPLv2 * Description : (see below)

Re: Wanted: introductory page for all teams

2007-05-31 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
> So consider this a +1 for me to get write access to all DD by default in > our website. for the content I'm pretty sure that's a good idea. Giving all DDs access to the css could result in a new design every week. Although that sounds like an interesting thing to watch ;) -- Bernd Zeimetz <[E

Re: Is there a way to positively, uniquely identify which Debian release a program is running on?

2007-05-31 Thread Santiago Vila
On Fri, 1 Jun 2007, Adeodato Simó wrote: > Santiago, would you be willing to introduce this new file (distinct from > /etc/debian_version) into base-files, and maintain two separate branches > of the package as explained by Javier? That would be an ugly hack. base-files is a package which is uplo

Ruzena Bajcsy has moved as of November 1st, 2001.

2007-05-31 Thread Ruzena Bajcsy
I have moved to UC Berkeley, CA. My new contact e-mail is: [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you wish to reach me, please resend this e-mail directly to my new e-mail because I will not read e-mail to my UPENN address anymore. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tr

Re: Is there a way to positively, uniquely identify which Debian release a program is running on?

2007-05-31 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña [Thu, 31 May 2007 12:33:07 +0200]: Hello. > I actually think we should ship a *distinct* /etc/debian_version > in testing and not make it follow the "sid->testing->stable" dance. Otherwise > there is a timeframe in which sid's or testing's base-files say's it is >

Re: ldbl128 transition for alpha, powerpc, sparc, s390

2007-05-31 Thread Santiago Vila
On Thu, 31 May 2007, Matthias Klose wrote: > Attached you can find a list of packages with header files in > /usr/include matching 'long *double'. > [...] > gettext I don't understand this, as grep double `dpkg -L gettext | grep include/` outputs nothing. Is this a false positive? [ Please ke

ldbl128 transition for alpha, powerpc, sparc, s390

2007-05-31 Thread Matthias Klose
With glibc-2.5 and gcc-4.1.2 (and gcc-4.2), the `long double' data type did change from a 64bit representation to a 128bit representation on alpha, powerpc, sparc, s390. To allow partial upgrades of packages, we will need to rename all packages holding libraries with the long double data type in th

Re: Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution license

2007-05-31 Thread Francesco Poli
On Thu, 31 May 2007 18:47:37 +0200 Miriam Ruiz wrote: > Hi, > > I plan to file an ITP and package a cute small game [...] > All the game code is licensed under the GPL 2.0. Good. > All the game content, > sounds and graphics are licensed under Creative Commons 3.0 > Attribution license ( http:/

Converting an svn-buildpackage repository to git

2007-05-31 Thread Cameron Dale
Hi, I'm thinking of converting a subversion repository I use for one of my debian packages to git (preferably with all history intact). The repository was created by svn-buildpackage, so it has a structure like this: trunk/ tags/ tags/1.0-1/ branches/ branches/mybranch/ branches/upstream/

Re: python, then C++, or C++ from the start?

2007-05-31 Thread Oleg Verych
* From: martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 10:37:54 +0200 * Organization: Debian GNU/Linux > also sprach Oleg Verych <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007.05.31.1013 +0200]: >> Then call me ! > > Do you have a POSIX-compatible solution to the problem of setting > variables inside whi

Re: Parsing of dpkg status file considered harmful

2007-05-31 Thread sean finney
On Thursday 31 May 2007 19:03:41 Ian Jackson wrote: > (Note that I'm adamantly opposed to the IMO crazy plans to replace the > on-disk status database format. IMO the parsing needs to be sped up > and the Descriptions moved into a separate file. But this is a > discussion for a different list.)

Re: Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution license

2007-05-31 Thread Marco d'Itri
On May 31, Miriam Ruiz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anyway, I prefer to ask about it first: Does anyone know if CC-by 3.0 is > DFSG-free or not for sure, shall I go ahead and put it in the repositories? The ftpmasters do. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution license

2007-05-31 Thread Miriam Ruiz
Hi, I plan to file an ITP and package a cute small game called "Which Way Is Up?" ( http://hectigo.net/puskutraktori/whichwayisup/ ) and maintain it. All the game code is licensed under the GPL 2.0. All the game content, sounds and graphics are licensed under Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution lic

Re: Is there a way to positively, uniquely identify which Debian?release a program is running on?

2007-05-31 Thread Gabor Gombas
On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 01:50:50PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > That sounds a bit strange as the version of glibc in testing is the same > as the one in stable. Or do you mean "sid" instead of "lenny"? Oops, you're right. It's etch+sid. Gabor -- -

Re: Parsing of dpkg status file considered harmful

2007-05-31 Thread Ian Jackson
Guillem Jover writes ("Parsing of dpkg status file considered harmful"): > Please stop parsing dpkg status file from maintainer scripts. No > package should assume its location or format (except for now for > package managment frontends and the like, until there's a proper > library they can use).

Re: Source package taking over removed package's place in the namespace

2007-05-31 Thread The Fungi
On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 02:04:08PM +0200, Magnus Holmgren wrote: > Situation: Two source packages collide in the namespace. The > second one gets rather awkward name. Later, the first package dies > and is removed from unstable, testing, and (after release) stable, > but still remains in oldstable.

Re: http://utnubu.alioth.debian.org/scottish/ still used?

2007-05-31 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 02:46:32PM +0200, Daniel Baumann wrote: > In order to find the Debian maintainer, we'd have to have an additional > pass to extract that information -- which would actually be quite > expensive (unpacking 16,000 source packages every hour!)" That's bogus, the maintainer fie

Bug#426895: ITP: homebank -- Manage your personal accounts at home

2007-05-31 Thread Francesco Namuri
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Francesco Namuri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Package name: homebank Version : 3.2 Upstream Author : Maxime Doyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> URL : http://homebank.free.fr/ License : GPL Programming Lang: C Description : Man

Re: python, then C++, or C++ from the start?

2007-05-31 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 05:34:10PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > But I am asking you still: can you think of anything to say against > such an approach? Please don't flame languages or anything of that > sort. The question is just: is it viable for a C++ coder with > a Python proficiency to mocku

Re: Parsing of dpkg status file considered harmful

2007-05-31 Thread Guillem Jover
On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 15:22:59 +0200, Daniel Leidert wrote: > Am Mittwoch, den 30.05.2007, 07:53 +0300 schrieb Guillem Jover: > > I've been meaning to send this for some time, but latest docbook-xml > > upload finally triggered it. > > Well, why didn't you send me a CC of this mail? I just stumble

Re: Parsing of dpkg status file considered harmful

2007-05-31 Thread Guillem Jover
On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 14:51:00 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le mercredi 30 mai 2007 à 07:53 +0300, Guillem Jover a écrit : > > If you need to retrieve the conffile info, which is why most of those > > packages are poking at the status file, please use something like: > > > > $ dpkg-query -W

Bug#426889: ITP: libhmac-ruby1.8 -- A keyed-hash message authentication code (HMAC) library for Ruby

2007-05-31 Thread Daigo Moriwaki
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Daigo Moriwaki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libhmac-ruby1.8 Version : 0.3 Upstream Author : Daiki Ueno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.example.org/ * License : Ruby's license Programming Lang: Ruby Descr

Re: Is there a way to positively, uniquely identify which Debian release a program is running on?

2007-05-31 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 02:06:28PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: > That would "bless" the abuse of /etc/debian_version. IMHO, it would be > good for Debian if we continue to discourage its use. LSB compliance (which is a release goal) obliges us to provide proper versioning information for releases.

Re: Source package taking over removed package's place in the namespace

2007-05-31 Thread Magnus Holmgren
On Thursday 31 May 2007 14:32, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > Magnus Holmgren wrote, Thursday, May 31, 2007 1:04 PM > > > Situation: Two source packages collide in the namespace. The second > > one gets rather awkward name. Later, the first package dies and is > > removed from unstable, testing, and (aft

What happened to popcon graphs?

2007-05-31 Thread Nico Golde
Hi, Anyone knows why the popcon graphs on: http://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package= are missing? I mailed igloo 5 days ago without any reply yet. Anyone knows more? Kind regards Nico -- Nico Golde - http://ngolde.de - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - GPG: 0x73647CFF For security reasons, all text in this ma

Re: Is there a way to positively, uniquely identify which Debian release a program is running on?

2007-05-31 Thread Kris Deugau
The Fungi wrote: > On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 04:46:30PM -0400, Kris Deugau wrote: > [...] >> On RHEL and derived distros, there's usually a file /etc/redhat-release >> (sometimes renamed, but usually trivially enough that it can be found >> with little trouble) containing both the distro code name an

Bug#426888: ITP: libdata-ical-perl -- Generates iCalendar (RFC 2445) calendar files

2007-05-31 Thread Dominic Hargreaves
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Dominic Hargreaves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libdata-ical-perl Version : 0.13 Upstream Author : Jesse Vincent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Data-ICal/ * License : Perl Programming Lang

Re: Parsing of dpkg status file considered harmful

2007-05-31 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Mittwoch, den 30.05.2007, 07:53 +0300 schrieb Guillem Jover: > I've been meaning to send this for some time, but latest docbook-xml > upload finally triggered it. Well, why didn't you send me a CC of this mail? I just stumbled over this by fluke. > Please stop parsing dpkg status file from ma

Re: Is there a way to positively, uniquely identify which Debian release a program is running on?

2007-05-31 Thread Santiago Vila
On Thu, 31 May 2007, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: > On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 02:06:28PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: > > That would "bless" the abuse of /etc/debian_version. IMHO, it would be > > good for Debian if we continue to discourage its use. > > LSB compliance (which is a release g

Re: http://utnubu.alioth.debian.org/scottish/ still used?

2007-05-31 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Thursday 31 May 2007 14:46, Daniel Baumann wrote: > "Unfortunately as you're probably aware, Debian insists that we don't > attribute Ubuntu packages to the Debian maintainer anywhere. Under this > agreement, we have to change the Maintainer field in our packages. As far as I know no-one ever

Re: http://utnubu.alioth.debian.org/scottish/ still used?

2007-05-31 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Thu, 31 May 2007, Daniel Baumann wrote: > I asked him in February excately this. I don't think he mind that I > paste it here: > > "Unfortunately as you're probably aware, Debian insists that we don't > attribute Ubuntu packages to the Debian maintainer anywhere. Under this > agreement, we hav

Re: Parsing of dpkg status file considered harmful

2007-05-31 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mercredi 30 mai 2007 à 07:53 +0300, Guillem Jover a écrit : > I've been meaning to send this for some time, but latest docbook-xml > upload finally triggered it. > > Please stop parsing dpkg status file from maintainer scripts. No > package should assume its location or format (except for now f

Re: http://utnubu.alioth.debian.org/scottish/ still used?

2007-05-31 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 02:46:32PM +0200, Daniel Baumann wrote: > Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: > > This might be too obvious, but: did you check whether Ubuntu/Scott would be > > willing to provide a per-maintainer indexed version on their > > patches.ubuntu.com? > > I asked him in February excately t

Re: http://utnubu.alioth.debian.org/scottish/ still used?

2007-05-31 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 02:46:32PM +0200, Daniel Baumann wrote: > "Unfortunately as you're probably aware, Debian insists that we don't > attribute Ubuntu packages to the Debian maintainer anywhere. Under this > agreement, we have to change the Maintainer field in our packages. Don't they still k

Re: http://utnubu.alioth.debian.org/scottish/ still used?

2007-05-31 Thread Daniel Baumann
Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: > This might be too obvious, but: did you check whether Ubuntu/Scott would be > willing to provide a per-maintainer indexed version on their > patches.ubuntu.com? I asked him in February excately this. I don't think he mind that I paste it here: "Unfortunately as you're p

Re: Source package taking over removed package's place in the namespace

2007-05-31 Thread Adam D. Barratt
Magnus Holmgren wrote, Thursday, May 31, 2007 1:04 PM Situation: Two source packages collide in the namespace. The second one gets rather awkward name. Later, the first package dies and is removed from unstable, testing, and (after release) stable, but still remains in oldstable. Question: Ca

Bug#426874: ITP: pkg -- High-level library for managing Debian package information

2007-05-31 Thread Enrico Zini
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Enrico Zini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: pkg Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : Enrico Zini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : hg clone http://hg.debian.org/hg/private/enrico/libpkg * License : LGPL Programming Lang: C++

Re: Is there a way to positively, uniquely identify which Debian release a program is running on?

2007-05-31 Thread Santiago Vila
On Thu, 31 May 2007, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: > On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 12:35:06AM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: > > Hi. > > > > I believe there is something fundamentally wrong if you *have* to rely > > on /etc/debian_version for anything. The number of Debian packages > > actually us

Source package taking over removed package's place in the namespace

2007-05-31 Thread Magnus Holmgren
I didn't get any response on debian-mentors, so I repost this question here: Situation: Two source packages collide in the namespace. The second one gets rather awkward name. Later, the first package dies and is removed from unstable, testing, and (after release) stable, but still remains in ol

Re: Is there a way to positively, uniquely identify which Debian release a program is running on?

2007-05-31 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 31 May 2007 12:11, Gabor Gombas wrote: > Forget it. I already have a machine in production which is mostly etch > but glibc and a handful of other packages are from lenny. That sounds a bit strange as the version of glibc in testing is the same as the one in stable. Or do you mean "si

Re: http://utnubu.alioth.debian.org/scottish/ still used?

2007-05-31 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Thursday 31 May 2007 00:01, Joachim Breitner wrote: > I am wondering if anyone still uses the re-ordered ubuntu patches > provided by the Utnubu team at This might be too obvious, but: did you check whether Ubuntu/Scott would be willing to provide a per-maintainer indexed version on their pat

Re: Is there a way to positively, uniquely identify which Debian release a program is running on?

2007-05-31 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 12:35:06AM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: > Hi. > > I believe there is something fundamentally wrong if you *have* to rely > on /etc/debian_version for anything. The number of Debian packages > actually using such file is probably zero (but I could be wrong). Bastille uses it

Re: Is there a way to positively, uniquely identify which Debian release a program is running on?

2007-05-31 Thread Gabor Gombas
On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 04:46:30PM -0400, Kris Deugau wrote: > However, there doesn't seem to be any single, consistent, > doesn't-change-for-the-life-of-the-release, programmatically possible > (never mind *easy* just yet...) method to find out if I'm on Debian > sarge, etch, lenny, or some third

Re: undo configuration file changes

2007-05-31 Thread Kushal Kumaran
On 5/31/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, In the Moment i'm packaging some software and wonder if there is a possibility to handle files such as crontab or configuration files of other programs to add a directive with postinst but also to remove that directive with prerm.

undo configuration file changes

2007-05-31 Thread Pascal.Speck
Hello, In the Moment i'm packaging some software and wonder if there is a possibility to handle files such as crontab or configuration files of other programs to add a directive with postinst but also to remove that directive with prerm. Is there a predefined possibility for that or do I have

Re: python, then C++, or C++ from the start?

2007-05-31 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Oleg Verych <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007.05.31.1013 +0200]: > Then call me ! Do you have a POSIX-compatible solution to the problem of setting variables inside while loops? See http://blog.madduck.net/geek/2006.05.29-shell-sucks -- Please do not send copies of list mail to me; I read t

Re: python, then C++, or C++ from the start?

2007-05-31 Thread Oleg Verych
On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 08:50:11AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: [] > The methods, which are the actual workers doing the configuring will > most certainly be implemented in shell. Then call me ! I like shell PITAs. At least it will start to run everywhere by `/bin/sh' (dash, busybox, bash, zsh,