Bug#522017: ITP: jblas -- jblas is a fast linear algebra library for Java

2009-03-30 Thread Soeren Sonnenburg
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Soeren Sonnenburg * Package name: jblas Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : Mikio Braun mikiocs.tu-berlin.de * URL : https://ml01.zrz.tu-berlin.de/trac/jblas/ * License : BSD Programming Lang: Java Description : jblas

Re: This topic died off; any resolution?

2009-03-30 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Mon, 30 Mar 2009, Russ Allbery wrote: > Manoj Srivastava writes: > > > My slight preference is a script with a well known name, since > > that script can then be extracted and used by DEHS/PTS like systems, > > without requireing that the whole source be unpoacked and > > ./debian/r

Re: This topic died off; any resolution?

2009-03-30 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Mon, Mar 30 2009, Russ Allbery wrote: > Manoj Srivastava writes: > >> get-orig-source: get-latest-source >> get-latest-source: >> get-debian-source: > At the cost of additional complexity of the specification, which I'm not > really happy about. I'd rather standardize one single interface, n

Bug#522006: ITP: libtest-most-perl -- Perl module with the most commonly needed test functions and features

2009-03-30 Thread Damyan Ivanov
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Damyan Ivanov * Package name: libtest-most-perl Version : 0.21 Upstream Author : Curtis "Ovid" Poe * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Test-Most/ * License : same as Perl (GPL-1+|Artistic) Programming Lang: Perl Desc

Bug#521978: ITP: armadillo -- streamlined C++ linear algebra library

2009-03-30 Thread Kumar Appaiah
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Kumar Appaiah Package name : armadillo Version: 0.6.2 Upstream Author: Conrad Anderson (conradsand at ieee.org) URL: http://arma.sf.net License: Dual Licensed, GPL-3+ and LGPL-3+ Programming Lang

Re: This topic died off; any resolution?

2009-03-30 Thread Russ Allbery
Manoj Srivastava writes: > Well, programs that extract these files can do so. But the thing > is, we can now make get-orig-source actually work with these external > script too: > > --8<---cut here---start->8--- > GET_SRC_VERSION := $(strip $(shell L

Re: This topic died off; any resolution?

2009-03-30 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Mon, Mar 30 2009, Russ Allbery wrote: > Manoj Srivastava writes: > >> My slight preference is a script with a well known name, since >> that script can then be extracted and used by DEHS/PTS like systems, >> without requireing that the whole source be unpoacked and >> ./debian/rules

Re: Jack Audio Connection Kit transition

2009-03-30 Thread Felipe Sateler
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 02:19, Adeodato Simó wrote: > Maintainers: unless you’re jackbeat or gst-plugins-bad0.10, you need not > upload for this, though build-depending on libjack-dev in your next > upload would be nice. > > --- > > Hello, Felipe. I finally found some time to look at your message.

Re: This topic died off; any resolution?

2009-03-30 Thread Russ Allbery
Manoj Srivastava writes: > My slight preference is a script with a well known name, since > that script can then be extracted and used by DEHS/PTS like systems, > without requireing that the whole source be unpoacked and > ./debian/rules be runnable (I have sanity checks in my debian/r

Developing aptitude frontends (was Re: [GSoC] KDE4/Qt4 based package manager)

2009-03-30 Thread Filipus Klutiero
Obey Arthur Liu wrote: Filipus Klutiero a écrit : > Christian Perrier wrote: >> Is this silly to think that, as most of the (good) work was made in >> aptitude-gtk, an aptitude-qt development would be a better idea? > At first sight, it does sound silly to me. aptitude-gtk is a GTK+ GUI > for A

Re: [GSoC] KDE4/Qt4 based package manager

2009-03-30 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2009-03-29, Mateusz 'Matthew' Marek wrote: > Hi, > > I would be interested in making KDE4/Qt4 based package manager. I am > 2nd year student of computer science from Poland (Gdansk University of > Technology, CET/CEST) with some experience in C/C++ and Qt programming > and git as SCM. Currently

Re: Extended descriptions size

2009-03-30 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, 30 Mar 2009, Michael Bramer wrote: Goswin von Brederlow schrieb: I think the idea of using the Description-md5sum is that in most cases the md5sum remains identical for many versions. If you use the packages actual version then every upload will need a new translation entry or some fuzz

Re: Extended descriptions size

2009-03-30 Thread Michael Bramer
Goswin von Brederlow schrieb: Andreas Tille writes: On Sun, 22 Mar 2009, Michael Bramer wrote: if we like to remove the long description from the package file, we must change apt in some way and use some other rules for select the right description (a new 'Description-md5sum' or the Versio

Re: [GSoC] KDE4/Qt4 based package manager

2009-03-30 Thread Obey Arthur Liu
Filipus Klutiero a écrit : > Christian Perrier wrote: >> Is this silly to think that, as most of the (good) work was made in >> aptitude-gtk, an aptitude-qt development would be a better idea? > At first sight, it does sound silly to me. aptitude-gtk is a GTK+ GUI > for Aptitude. Similarly, aptit

Re: Re: [GSoC] KDE4/Qt4 based package manager

2009-03-30 Thread Filipus Klutiero
Christian Perrier wrote: Quoting Obey Arthur Liu (art...@milliways.fr): > > synaptic or shaman (from Chakra). I think that aptitude-gtk and adept > > are not userfriendly. Using these applications was quite difficult for > Heartfelt thank yous! (I'm the guy responsible for aptitude-gtk.. :D )

Re: This topic died off; any resolution?

2009-03-30 Thread Reinhard Tartler
Manoj Srivastava writes: >> Well, for complicated cases (like ffmpeg, where we have to fight with >> svn:externals, external svn servers etc) it is very helpful to have such >> a rule. Espc. if some user objects with some of the modifications and >> needs to apply changes to it in order to get a s

Bug#521895: ITP: rt-tests -- Test programs for rt kernels

2009-03-30 Thread Uwe Kleine-König
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Uwe Kleine-König" * Package name: rt-tests Version : 0.33 Upstream Author : Clark Williams , Thomas Gleixner and others * URL : http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/clrkwllms/rt-tests.git * License : GPL-2 Prog

Bug#521893: ITP: linux-patch-preemptrt -- The CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT Patch Sets for various Debian kernels

2009-03-30 Thread Uwe Kleine-König
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Uwe Kleine-König" * Package name: linux-patch-preemptrt Upstream Author : Ingo Molnar , Thomas Gleixner and others * URL : http://rt.wiki.kernel.org/ * License : GPL-2 Programming Lang: C Description : The CONFIG_PREEMPT

Re: How to depend on 32bit libs on amd64? (and what to do with ia32-libs)

2009-03-30 Thread Luk Claes
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Adeodato Simó writes: > >> * Goswin von Brederlow [Mon, 30 Mar 2009 14:33:32 +0200]: >> Mark Hymers has talked about providing a mechanism to ensure source >> packages stay on the pool when other stuff has been built from them (eg. >> kernel module packages). With

Re: How to depend on 32bit libs on amd64? (and what to do with ia32-libs)

2009-03-30 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Goswin von Brederlow [Mon, 30 Mar 2009 18:00:08 +0200]: > The alternative solution is ia32-archive, which creates a local > repository of converted packages on the users system. No wrappers > needed and no ugly hacks but that comes at the cost of disk space and > the need to configure what packa

Re: RFS: libnet - orphaning libnet

2009-03-30 Thread David Paleino
On Sat, 28 Mar 2009 15:12:05 +0100, David Paleino wrote: > On Sat, 28 Mar 2009 15:22:46 +0200, Stefanos Harhalakis wrote: > > > On Friday 27 March 2009, David Paleino wrote: > > > After all, it's your choice, you should have fun working with VCS's > > > (that's why I switched from SVN to Git most

Bug#521875: ITP: icedove-quotecolors -- Colorize different quoting levels in e-mail messages

2009-03-30 Thread Christoph Goehre
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Christoph Goehre * Package name: icedove-quotecolors Version : 0.2.8 Upstream Author : Malte Rücker * URL : http://quotecolors.mozdev.org * License : MPL Programming Lang: Javascript Description : Colorize differ

Re: How to depend on 32bit libs on amd64? (and what to do with ia32-libs)

2009-03-30 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Goswin von Brederlow] > Currently ia32-libs source builds one ia32-libs.deb. Not split up per > binary package it contains. Yes but I thought we were talking about changing that, so that it builds ia32-libc6, ia32-libssl0.9.8, etc. That is how I understood Dato's proposal, which I think is prob

Re: This topic died off; any resolution?

2009-03-30 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sat, Mar 28 2009, Reinhard Tartler wrote: > Manoj Srivastava writes: > >> A special rule in debian/rules to duplicate apt-get source for >> people who are skeptical of thea rchive (and have an ill defined >> attack vector thay are being paranoid about) -- or to provide >> functional

Re: grouping of alternative depends

2009-03-30 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Mon, Mar 30 2009, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 11:41:22AM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: >> I'd like to use a depends like "(pdns-backend-ldap pdns-recursor) | bind9" >> but >> afaik this is not possible. AFAICS I should file a wishbug against dpkg but >> as I dont have t

Re: How to depend on 32bit libs on amd64? (and what to do with ia32-libs)

2009-03-30 Thread Matthew Johnson
On Mon Mar 30 17:20, Roger Leigh wrote: > With multiarch, it's a different story, but we aren't quite there yet. > Multiarch is definitely the right way to handle this and I think we should were possible be putting effort into that and not hacks. I still am not clear what the holdups are with mul

Re: How to depend on 32bit libs on amd64? (and what to do with ia32-libs)

2009-03-30 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Peter Samuelson writes: > [Adeodato Simó] >> Mark Hymers has talked about providing a mechanism to ensure source >> packages stay on the pool when other stuff has been built from them (eg. >> kernel module packages). With this, ia32-libs could become a small >> source package containing scripts t

Re: How to depend on 32bit libs on amd64? (and what to do with ia32-libs)

2009-03-30 Thread Roger Leigh
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 04:26:54PM +0200, Adeodato Simó wrote: > * Goswin von Brederlow [Mon, 30 Mar 2009 14:33:32 +0200]: > > Hello, [-mentors only Bcc'ed to drop it from the discussion] > > Executive summary: concerns about ia32-apt-get raised, lesser hack > proposed for comments. > > > be

Re: How to depend on 32bit libs on amd64? (and what to do with ia32-libs)

2009-03-30 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Samuel Thibault writes: > Goswin von Brederlow, le Mon 30 Mar 2009 14:33:32 +0200, a écrit : >> Ia32-apt-get provides wrappers for dpkg.deb and apt-get that allow >> installing deb packages from an i386 repository (or local file) >> directly. > > Mmm, couldn't there be any possible relation with

Re: How to depend on 32bit libs on amd64? (and what to do with ia32-libs)

2009-03-30 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Adeodato Simó writes: > * Goswin von Brederlow [Mon, 30 Mar 2009 14:33:32 +0200]: > > Hello, [-mentors only Bcc'ed to drop it from the discussion] > > Executive summary: concerns about ia32-apt-get raised, lesser hack > proposed for comments. > >> before Lenny ftpmaster asked us (ia32-libs m

Re: Jack Audio Connection Kit transition

2009-03-30 Thread Adeodato Simó
Maintainers: unless you’re jackbeat or gst-plugins-bad0.10, you need not upload for this, though build-depending on libjack-dev in your next upload would be nice. --- Hello, Felipe. I finally found some time to look at your message. I’ve moved -release to CC (thanks for the Bcc!), since it’s on-t

Re: How to depend on 32bit libs on amd64? (and what to do with ia32-libs)

2009-03-30 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Adeodato Simó] > Mark Hymers has talked about providing a mechanism to ensure source > packages stay on the pool when other stuff has been built from them (eg. > kernel module packages). With this, ia32-libs could become a small > source package containing scripts that would download the necessar

Re: realtime kernel for Debian

2009-03-30 Thread Uwe Kleine-König
Hi Alexander, On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 10:22:02AM +0200, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote: > Hi! > > Uwe Kleine-König schrieb: > > > [your To: header was strange, maybe my mail reaches less recipents than > > your's] > > Well, at least it reached me ;) > > >>> Maybe providing a patch package is

Re: How to depend on 32bit libs on amd64? (and what to do with ia32-libs)

2009-03-30 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Goswin von Brederlow [Mon, 30 Mar 2009 14:33:32 +0200]: Hello, [-mentors only Bcc'ed to drop it from the discussion] Executive summary: concerns about ia32-apt-get raised, lesser hack proposed for comments. > before Lenny ftpmaster asked us (ia32-libs maintainers) to do > something about t

Bug#521850: ITP: globus-gsi-openssl-error -- Globus Toolkit - Globus OpenSSL Error Handling

2009-03-30 Thread Steffen Moeller
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Steffen Moeller * Package name: globus-gsi-openssl-error * URL : http://www.globus.org/ * License : Apache-2.0 Description : Globus Toolkit - Globus OpenSSL Error Handling The Globus Toolkit is an open source software toolkit

Re: How to depend on 32bit libs on amd64? (and what to do with ia32-libs)

2009-03-30 Thread Samuel Thibault
Goswin von Brederlow, le Mon 30 Mar 2009 14:33:32 +0200, a écrit : > Ia32-apt-get provides wrappers for dpkg.deb and apt-get that allow > installing deb packages from an i386 repository (or local file) > directly. Mmm, couldn't there be any possible relation with the multiarch support mentioned e

How to depend on 32bit libs on amd64? (and what to do with ia32-libs)

2009-03-30 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
ftpmaster: Please comment on the last section concerning DAK behaviour. Hi, before Lenny ftpmaster asked us (ia32-libs maintainers) to do something about the mess that is ia32-libs. Specifically that it is a HUGE source duplication and a security nightmare. Unfortunaetly there wasn't enough time

Bug#521837: ITP: ktikz -- Editor for the TikZ language

2009-03-30 Thread Florian Hackenberger
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Florian Hackenberger * Package name: ktikz Version : 0.8-1 Upstream Author : Florian Hackenberger * URL : http://www.hackenberger.at/ktikz-editor-for-the-tikz-language * License : GPL2 or higher

Re: why is Ardour pretty outdated in stable and not in testing?

2009-03-30 Thread Ben Finney
Grammostola Rosea writes: > Also maybe Debian can be a bit less conservative when such a core > app I think Ardour is pretty far from “a core app”. That term should be reserved for nigh-indispensible applications like the MTA or even the well-named ‘coreutils’. > is not in stable and stable rel

Re: [GSoC] KDE4/Qt4 based package manager

2009-03-30 Thread Michael Biebl
Obey Arthur Liu wrote: > Mateusz 'Matthew' Marek a écrit : > >> That's why I think the best way to make Qt4 based package manager is >> make it from scratch. > Are you sure you can make a graphical package manager in one summer, > from scratch ? > We believe the current best approach would be to

Re: grouping of alternative depends

2009-03-30 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Holger Levsen writes: > Hi, > > On Sonntag, 29. März 2009, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: >> Doesn't this do what you want? >> Depends: pdns-backend-ldap | bind9, pdns-recursor | bind9 > > sure, that works and thats what I'm doing now. But it's ugly and redudant and > potentially wrong: installi

Re: why is Ardour pretty outdated in stable and not in testing?

2009-03-30 Thread Vincent Danjean
Grammostola Rosea wrote: > Also maybe Debian can be a bit less conservative when such a core app is > not in stable and stable releases go out the door after years! I guess > some packages are added in Etch after a while. No (no new package, even no new version, only important (or more) bug fixe

Re: Debian 4.0 and Lustre

2009-03-30 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
EricSingleton writes: > On Mar 24, 4:00 am, Andreas Tille wrote: >> On Tue, 24 Mar 2009, set...@gmail.com wrote: >> > I preferDebian4.0 because I feel it is more stable than 5.0. >> >> Please define "more stable". >> What are the problems which you have observed?  Did you reported these >> prob

Re: Extended descriptions size

2009-03-30 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Andreas Tille writes: > On Sun, 22 Mar 2009, Michael Bramer wrote: > >> if we like to remove the long description from the package file, we >> must change apt in some way and use some other rules for select the >> right description (a new 'Description-md5sum' or the Version-Nr) > > I'd call the V

Re: Bug#519070: fixed in raptor 1.4.18-2

2009-03-30 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, Michael Biebl wrote: > > - build against OpenSSL versions of curl and (especially) neon again > > as the webdav ucp now directly links against openssl... > > (reopens: #391671). Use system-openssl. > > > > Why can't you build-depend on libcurl4-gnutls-dev? Oh, I can, and act

Re: why is Ardour pretty outdated in stable and not in testing?

2009-03-30 Thread Cassiel
2009/3/30 Andreas Tille > On Mon, 30 Mar 2009, Fabian Greffrath wrote: > > You don't seem to understand the Debian release policy. Once a stable >> version has been released, there is zero chance that another package will be >> added. The only chance for ardour to be part of a stable Debian rele

Re: why is Ardour pretty outdated in stable and not in testing?

2009-03-30 Thread Grammostola Rosea
Fabian Greffrath wrote: Grammostola Rosea schrieb: But that doesn't really solve the problem imo. The problem is solved when Ardour in unstable hit testing and then stable after a while. Now it seems to be stuck in unstable... You don't seem to understand the Debian release policy. Once a sta

Re: [GSoC] KDE4/Qt4 based package manager

2009-03-30 Thread Obey Arthur Liu
Christian Perrier a écrit : > Quoting Obey Arthur Liu (art...@milliways.fr): > >>> synaptic or shaman (from Chakra). I think that aptitude-gtk and adept >>> are not userfriendly. Using these applications was quite difficult for >> Heartfelt thank yous! (I'm the guy responsible for aptitude-gtk.. :

Re: why is Ardour pretty outdated in stable and not in testing?

2009-03-30 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, 30 Mar 2009, Fabian Greffrath wrote: You don't seem to understand the Debian release policy. Once a stable version has been released, there is zero chance that another package will be added. The only chance for ardour to be part of a stable Debian release is Squeeze, not Lenny. There

Re: realtime kernel for Debian

2009-03-30 Thread Alexander Reichle-Schmehl
Hi! Uwe Kleine-König schrieb: > [your To: header was strange, maybe my mail reaches less recipents than > your's] Well, at least it reached me ;) >>> Maybe providing a patch package is a better first step? >> thanks for thinking. Who could provide such a patch package? > I can. I'd need a spon

Re: why is Ardour pretty outdated in stable and not in testing?

2009-03-30 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Grammostola Rosea schrieb: But that doesn't really solve the problem imo. The problem is solved when Ardour in unstable hit testing and then stable after a while. Now it seems to be stuck in unstable... You don't seem to understand the Debian release policy. Once a stable version has been rel

Re: grouping of alternative depends

2009-03-30 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 11:41:22AM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: > I'd like to use a depends like "(pdns-backend-ldap pdns-recursor) | bind9" > but > afaik this is not possible. AFAICS I should file a wishbug against dpkg but > as I dont have time atm to dig through all the bugs against dpkg, I th

Re: [GSoC] KDE4/Qt4 based package manager

2009-03-30 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Obey Arthur Liu (art...@milliways.fr): > > synaptic or shaman (from Chakra). I think that aptitude-gtk and adept > > are not userfriendly. Using these applications was quite difficult for > Heartfelt thank yous! (I'm the guy responsible for aptitude-gtk.. :D ) Is this silly to think that