Re: Bug#510624: ITP: pigz -- Parallel Implementation of GZip

2009-01-04 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 8:49 AM, Samuel Thibault wrote: > That's precisely the kind of thing that makes it better to just leave it > up to Linux. The case of HPC is quite particular in that you usually > really precisely control your computation. In the case of > general-purpose tools, I would r

Re: (UPDATED) mass bug filing for undefined sn?printf use

2009-01-04 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sat, 03 Jan 2009 12:27:46 -0800, Kees Cook wrote: > Attached is the updated list, libpar-packer-perl: Ryan Niebur has kindly provided a patch, and I've built, tested and uploaded 0.982-2 with the patch included. Cheers, gregor -- .''`. Home: http://info.comodo.priv.at/{,blog/} / GPG Key

Re: "Semantic" shell? (for lack of better name)

2009-01-04 Thread Erich Schubert
Hello Bryan, > > At some point I was considering to actually use RDF-like triplets such > > as "app1 reads image/gif" "app1 writes image/jpeg" etc. but we ended up > > to going a tuplet-only approach for complexity reasons. > > we? who? Any working code that I could go poke? The Debtags developer

Re: Bug#510624: ITP: pigz -- Parallel Implementation of GZip

2009-01-04 Thread Samuel Thibault
Josselin Mouette, le Mon 05 Jan 2009 00:47:02 +0100, a écrit : > There is probably a missing piece here. If you start several pigz > processes, the kernel only sees processes starting a lot of threads, and > processes only see a given number of cores. There is no interface that > allows a process t

Re: Bug#510624: ITP: pigz -- Parallel Implementation of GZip

2009-01-04 Thread Samuel Thibault
Ron Johnson, le Sun 04 Jan 2009 17:40:08 -0600, a écrit : > On 01/04/09 17:20, Josselin Mouette wrote: > >Still, it is better to use CPU pinning since you often want finer > >control than that, and that’s especially true in multi-user environments > >where resources can be sub-host. > > Wouldn't i

Re: Bug#510624: ITP: pigz -- Parallel Implementation of GZip

2009-01-04 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le lundi 05 janvier 2009 à 00:38 +0100, Samuel Thibault a écrit : > Sure, but that should be only a user-explicitely-wanting thing. I would > really not like to see pigz systematically bind threads. What if I e.g. > want to run several pigz processes at the same time because I have a lot > of cor

Re: Bug#510624: ITP: pigz -- Parallel Implementation of GZip

2009-01-04 Thread Ron Johnson
On 01/04/09 17:20, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le dimanche 04 janvier 2009 à 23:45 +0100, Samuel Thibault a écrit : It’s already the case in HPC environments, and CPU pinning is certainly going to be used more widely as the number of cores increases. And that's a shame. Linux shouldn't be so happy

Re: Bug#510624: ITP: pigz -- Parallel Implementation of GZip

2009-01-04 Thread Samuel Thibault
Josselin Mouette, le Mon 05 Jan 2009 00:20:42 +0100, a écrit : > Samuel Thibault, le Sun 04 Jan 2009 23:45:22 +0100, a écrit : > > > It’s already the case in HPC environments, and CPU pinning is certainly > > > going to be used more widely as the number of cores increases. > > > > And that's a sha

Re: Bug#510624: ITP: pigz -- Parallel Implementation of GZip

2009-01-04 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le dimanche 04 janvier 2009 à 23:45 +0100, Samuel Thibault a écrit : > > It’s already the case in HPC environments, and CPU pinning is certainly > > going to be used more widely as the number of cores increases. > > And that's a shame. Linux shouldn't be so happy to move tasks between > CPUs...

Re: Bug#510624: ITP: pigz -- Parallel Implementation of GZip

2009-01-04 Thread Samuel Thibault
Josselin Mouette, le Sun 04 Jan 2009 16:07:25 +0100, a écrit : > Le dimanche 04 janvier 2009 à 15:49 +0100, Eduard Bloch a écrit : > > Sounds like a plan, but I don't feel very comfortable to do that in the > > Debian package. Let me explain why: > > > > - sched_setaffinity method seems to be Lin

Re: Bug#509225: ITP: tevent -- talloc-based event loop library

2009-01-04 Thread Jelmer Vernooij
Am Montag, den 05.01.2009, 08:45 +1100 schrieb Robert Collins: > On Sat, 2008-12-20 at 01:57 +0100, Jelmer Vernooij wrote: > > Am Samstag, den 20.12.2008, 11:10 +1100 schrieb Robert Collins: > > > libevent + libtevent-which-wraps-libevent is better than > > > libtevent-which-duplicates-much-of-lib

Re: "Semantic" shell? (for lack of better name)

2009-01-04 Thread Bryan Bishop
On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 7:16 PM, Erich Schubert wrote: > I've thought about similar efforts, much were centered about having a > generic "command line syntax definition language". I don't know if formal grammars (BNF, etc.) would apply there. > Not every application can be squeezed into the input,

Re: Possible MBF due to DBus security issue

2009-01-04 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
Simon McVittie wrote: > RC, totally broken security policy adds allow-by-default even if dbus-daemon > doesn't have it - maintainers pinged, RC bug filed, RM from lenny suggested FBReader build-depends on it (for maemo platforms), it would be a loss to have not fbreader for maemo and unacceptable

Re: Possible MBF due to DBus security issue

2009-01-04 Thread Simon McVittie
Test results mentioned are for a laptop with a freshly installed lenny system, the (GNOME) desktop task, the tested packages, my release candidate version of dbus, and patched versions of hal and system-tools-backends as seen below. Some packages haven't been tested yet - I'm not confident that I k

Testing requested: D-Bus-related packages and CVE-2008-4311

2009-01-04 Thread Simon McVittie
In order to fix CVE-2008-4311 the default permissions on the system bus have been tightened up. This has revealed bugs in the configurations shipped with a number of services using the system bus which relied on the broken behaviour and will now break. We've been using

Re: Bug#509225: ITP: tevent -- talloc-based event loop library

2009-01-04 Thread Robert Collins
On Sat, 2008-12-20 at 01:57 +0100, Jelmer Vernooij wrote: > Am Samstag, den 20.12.2008, 11:10 +1100 schrieb Robert Collins: > > libevent + libtevent-which-wraps-libevent is better than > > libtevent-which-duplicates-much-of-libevent. :) > In theory, I agree. However, in this case libevents is about

Bug#510763: ITP: xlwt -- Python library to generate Microsoft Excel 95 to 2003 compatible spreadsheets

2009-01-04 Thread Jan Dittberner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jan Dittberner -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: xlwt Version : 0.7.0 Upstream Author : John Machin * URL : http://pypi.python.org/pypi/xlwt * License : BSD Programming Lang: Python Desc

Bug#510723: ITP: libconfig-model-itself-perl -- Graphical *model* editor for Config::Model

2009-01-04 Thread Dominique Dumont
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Dominique Dumont * Package name: libconfig-model-itself-perl Version : 1.208-1 Upstream Author : Dominique Dumont * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Config-Model-Itself/ * License : LGPL Programming Lang: Perl Desc

Re: Bug#510624: ITP: pigz -- Parallel Implementation of GZip

2009-01-04 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le dimanche 04 janvier 2009 à 15:49 +0100, Eduard Bloch a écrit : > Sounds like a plan, but I don't feel very comfortable to do that in the > Debian package. Let me explain why: > > - sched_setaffinity method seems to be Linux specific How is that a problem? You only need to use it in Linux buil

Re: Bug#510624: ITP: pigz -- Parallel Implementation of GZip

2009-01-04 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Guus Sliepen [Sun, Jan 04 2009, 10:45:23AM]: > On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 09:57:33PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote: > > > PS: I plan to hack it a little bit and use syssconf function on Debian > > systems to determine the real number of CPU cores (#x) since pigz's > > default value is 8 which

Re: Possible MBF due to DBus security issue

2009-01-04 Thread Neil Williams
On Sat, 3 Jan 2009 17:58:47 + Matthew Johnson wrote: > A fixed version of dbus has been uploaded to experimental. The release > team would like this version to go into lenny, but we need to fix any > bugs caused by that version. Upstream have already started collating > patches to upstreams[0

Bug#438885: marked as done (Mass bug filing: must use invoke-rc.d)

2009-01-04 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Sun, 4 Jan 2009 14:22:41 +0100 with message-id <200901041422.47496.hol...@layer-acht.org> and subject line latest lintian includes a check for this, so this bug can be closed has caused the Debian Bug report #438885, regarding Mass bug filing: must use invoke-rc.d to be marked

Bug#510687: ITP: libemail-sender-perl -- Perl module for sending email

2009-01-04 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ansgar Burchardt * Package name: libemail-sender-perl Version : 0.001 Upstream Author : Ricardo SIGNES * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Email-Sender/ * License : Artistic | GPL-1+ (like perl) Programming Lang: Perl

Re: Bug#510624: ITP: pigz -- Parallel Implementation of GZip

2009-01-04 Thread Guus Sliepen
On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 09:57:33PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote: > PS: I plan to hack it a little bit and use syssconf function on Debian > systems to determine the real number of CPU cores (#x) since pigz's > default value is 8 which is much more than home systems have nowadays, > and the performanc

Re: Possible MBF due to DBus security issue

2009-01-04 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le samedi 03 janvier 2009 à 17:58 +, Matthew Johnson a écrit : > Debian GNOME Maintainers >system-config-printer (U) >system-tools-backends (U) Both explicitly list all permissions, so I think they should be fine. -- .''`. : :' : We are debian.org. Lower your prices, surrender