Re: what about an special QA package priority?

2008-05-23 Thread George Danchev
On Saturday 24 May 2008, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Fri, 23 May 2008, Luciano Bello wrote: --cut-- > > Of course at first is not easy. But we should go to an scenario > > where all the local patches was reported to upstream (to apply them > > in the next release) or be justified by more than one dev

Bug#472706: ITA: bdfresize -- Resize BDF Format Font

2008-05-23 Thread Tatsuya Kinoshita
retitle 472706 ITA: bdfresize -- Resize BDF Format Font owner 472706 ! thanks I'm going to adopt the bdfresize package. My packages bitmap-mule and xfonts-jisx0213 depend on it. Thanks, -- Tatsuya Kinoshita pgp9xcVzQmQxr.pgp Description: PGP signature

Patch peer review.

2008-05-23 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sat, May 24, 2008 at 01:38:27AM +0100, Don Armstrong a écrit : > > We need the people who are doing the review and have continuously > committed to doing the review before we block on the review. Hi all, peer-reviewed scientific research relies on intermediates to organise the reviewing proce

Re: SAGE packages for Debian

2008-05-23 Thread Timothy G Abbott
On Thu, 15 May 2008, Ondrej Certik wrote: On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 10:16 PM, Timothy G Abbott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: That's probably a good plan, especially since the sandbox is apparently going to be eliminated eventually (and it sounds like arpack and delaunay are on the list of things like

Bug#482622: ITP: octave-msh -- Package for creating and managing triangular and tetrahedral meshes for Finite Element or Finite Volume PDE solvers.

2008-05-23 Thread Ólafur Jens Sigurðsson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Debian Octave Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [N.B.: This ITP was generated automatically from a template, even though the DOG does intend to package the described software for Debian. We apologize for the glitches in the text below.] * Package name: octave

Bug#482620: ITP: octave-multicore -- An Octave-forge package providing functions for

2008-05-23 Thread Ólafur Jens Sigurðsson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Debian Octave Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [N.B.: This ITP was generated automatically from a template, even though the DOG does intend to package the described software for Debian. We apologize for the glitches in the text below.] * Package name: octave

Bug#482619: ITP: octave-ocs -- Package for solving DC and transient MNA equation stemming from electrical circuit

2008-05-23 Thread Ólafur Jens Sigurðsson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Debian Octave Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [N.B.: This ITP was generated automatically from a template, even though the DOG does intend to package the described software for Debian. We apologize for the glitches in the text below.] * Package name: octave

Re: what about an special QA package priority?

2008-05-23 Thread Don Armstrong
On Fri, 23 May 2008, Luciano Bello wrote: > Is not about accept help. It about considering the package as > unmaintained if there is not a team to maintain it. In same > packages, we can not depend on only two pairs of eyes. If there aren't enough people who are interested in maintaining packages

Bug#482615: ITP: octave-tcl-octave -- socket implementation of a tcl-octave connection

2008-05-23 Thread Ólafur Jens Sigurðsson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Debian Octave Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [N.B.: This ITP was generated automatically from a template, even though the DOG does intend to package the described software for Debian. We apologize for the glitches in the text below.] * Package name: octave

Bug#482618: ITP: octave-pdb -- Reads and display PDB-files from the Brookhaven protein databank

2008-05-23 Thread Ólafur Jens Sigurðsson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Debian Octave Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [N.B.: This ITP was generated automatically from a template, even though the DOG does intend to package the described software for Debian. We apologize for the glitches in the text below.] * Package name: octave

Bug#482616: ITP: octave-secs2d -- A Drift-Diffusion simulator for 2d semiconductor devices

2008-05-23 Thread Ólafur Jens Sigurðsson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Debian Octave Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [N.B.: This ITP was generated automatically from a template, even though the DOG does intend to package the described software for Debian. We apologize for the glitches in the text below.] * Package name: octave

Bug#482617: ITP: octave-secs1d -- A Drift-Diffusion simulator for 1d semiconductor devices

2008-05-23 Thread Ólafur Jens Sigurðsson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Debian Octave Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [N.B.: This ITP was generated automatically from a template, even though the DOG does intend to package the described software for Debian. We apologize for the glitches in the text below.] * Package name: octave

Bug#482613: ITP: octave-triangular -- Simple example of a user type implementing a simple matrix type for triangular matrices

2008-05-23 Thread Ólafur Jens Sigurðsson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Debian Octave Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [N.B.: This ITP was generated automatically from a template, even though the DOG does intend to package the described software for Debian. We apologize for the glitches in the text below.] * Package name: octav

Bug#482614: ITP: octave-symband -- Linear Algebra for Symmetric Banded Matrices

2008-05-23 Thread Ólafur Jens Sigurðsson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Debian Octave Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [N.B.: This ITP was generated automatically from a template, even though the DOG does intend to package the described software for Debian. We apologize for the glitches in the text below.] * Package name: octave

Bug#482612: ITP: libdevel-calltrace-perl -- Perl code tracer

2008-05-23 Thread Antony Gelberg
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Antony Gelberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libdevel-calltrace-perl Version : 1.0 Upstream Author : Robert Spier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and Jesse Vincent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://search.cpan.or

Re: what about an special QA package priority?

2008-05-23 Thread Luciano Bello
El Vie 23 May 2008, Don Armstrong escribió: > > - It should maintained by a team > > Team maintenance doesn't automatically make a package better.[1] > Furthermore, I don't believe there are many (possibly any!) packages > in Debian where the package is "important" and the current maintainer > wou

Bug#482596: ITP: octave-xraylib -- Bindings to the Xraylib functions

2008-05-23 Thread Ólafur Jens Sigurðsson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Debian Octave Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [N.B.: This ITP was generated automatically from a template, even though the DOG does intend to package the described software for Debian. We apologize for the glitches in the text below.] * Package name: octave

Re: packages up for adoption

2008-05-23 Thread David Watson
* Joey Hess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I'll no longer be maintaining the following packages. I plan to orphan > them next week and hope to find new maintainers for them before then. > > rss2email I'll take rss2email if no one else wants to. -- David Watson - Debian GNU/Linux Developer [EMAIL

Re: Re: packages up for adoption

2008-05-23 Thread Bart Samwel
Hi Michael, Michael Meskes wrote: > Sorry guys, apparently this email of mine didn't make it to the list. > Thus sending it again. Need to figure out what's going on as this > happened twice. > > Am Mittwoch, 21. Mai 2008 20:53:51 schrieb Joey Hess: >> I'll no longer be maintaining the following

Bug#482589: ITP: shrewsoft-vpn-client -- free IPsec client including graphical user interface

2008-05-23 Thread bernat
Package: wnpp Owner: Vincent Bernat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Severity: wishlist * Package name: shrewsoft-vpn-client Version : 2.0.3 Upstream Author : Shrew Soft * URL or Web page : http://shrew.net/?page=software * License : other Description : IPsec client including grap

Re: what about an special QA package priority?

2008-05-23 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 06:03:51PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > So, basically, I welcome your proposal, but IMO its simplest and most > effective implementation would be: ``packages scoring high in popcon > have to be maintained by teams using some Vcs-*''. Why do you want to force the use o

Re: what about an special QA package priority?

2008-05-23 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 20 May 2008, Luciano Bello wrote: > - It should be checked with debugging tools (like valgrind :P) > - It should a public VCS These should be encouraged, and in the cases where packages aren't in a public VCS or QAed properly before upload, the deficiencies should be politely pointed out

Re: what about an special QA package priority?

2008-05-23 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 05:21:07PM -0300, Luciano Bello wrote: > I was thinking about the Debian/OpenSSL debacle. Clearly it not easy to > manage a hard meticulous QA process in all packages. In the other hand, there > are packages more critical than others, which are more delicate to secur

Bug#482555: ITP: patman -- DNA pattern matcher for short sequences

2008-05-23 Thread Charles Plessy
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Package name: patman Version : 1.2 Upstream Author : Kay Pruefer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Udo Stenzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> URL : http://bioinf.eva.mpg.de/patman/ License : GPL-2+ Prog

Re: FYI: VCS choice these days

2008-05-23 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 12:31:09PM -0400, Felipe Sateler wrote: > Osamu Aoki wrote: > > > Then you are voting for mercurial if you participated in popcon. > > > > vote: number of people who use this package regularly; > > Note that the vote is not that reliable either: it needs atime, which is

Re: FYI: VCS choice these days

2008-05-23 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 02:05:14PM +1000, Brian May wrote: > Osamu Aoki wrote: >> Shorter summary of vote data goes as: >> >> cvs 5% >> subversion9% >> git-core 3% >> mercurial 0.6% >> darcs 0.3% >> bzr 0.3% >> > Does monotone not get a mention? or w