Re: Seeking advice on packaging of pion-net

2009-09-20 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 11880 March 1977, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > Source: pion-net > Binary: libpion-net-dev, libpion-net-2.1.8, libpion-common-2.1.8, > libpion-net-2.1.8-dbg, libpion-common-2.1.8-dbg, libpion-net-doc > The problem, as I see it, with this arrangement is, that when a new > upstream released, like

Bug#547617: ITP: pymetrics -- Python code metric reporting tool

2009-09-20 Thread Andrew Pollock
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andrew Pollock * Package name: pymetrics Version : 0.8.1 Upstream Author : Reg. Charney * URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/pymetrics * License : GPL Programming Lang: Python Description : Python code metric

Re: opposition against clamav-data in debian volatile

2009-09-20 Thread Luk Claes
Marc Haber wrote: > On Sun, 20 Sep 2009 18:28:30 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh > wrote: >> On Sun, 20 Sep 2009, Marc Haber wrote: > No. The process runs on a virtual machine on a host privately owned > and operated by the previous ftpmaster of Debian volatile, and was > carefully designed in

Re: opposition against clamav-data in debian volatile

2009-09-20 Thread Marc Haber
On Sun, 20 Sep 2009 18:28:30 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: >On Sun, 20 Sep 2009, Marc Haber wrote: >> As long as you do not expect me to manually sign every single upload, > >Why not? Because nobody pays me to spend an hour a day to sign packages. We had three full cycles since I wen

Bug#547611: RFH: geomview -- interactive geometry viewing program

2009-09-20 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Package: wnpp Severity: normal Hi, I'd appreciate someone to help with maintenance of geomview. The package description is: Geomview is interactive geometry software which is particularly appropriate for mathematics research and education. In particular, geomview can display things in hyperbo

Seeking advice on packaging of pion-net

2009-09-20 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
I am packaging pion-net [0], which is currently at version 2.1.8. Once built, the SONAMEs of the two shared library packages are: libpion-net-2.1.8.so libpion-common-2.1.8.so According to the Debian Library Packaging Guide [1], with SONAMEs like that, the packages should be named libpion-net-2.1

Bug#547607: ITP: pion-net -- library for implementing lightweight HTTP interfaces

2009-09-20 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Roberto C. Sanchez" -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: pion-net Version : 2.1.8 Upstream Author : Atomic Labs, Inc. * URL : http://www.pion.org/projects/pion-network-library * License : Boost

Bug#547593: ITP: kaya-board -- Board game suite

2009-09-20 Thread David Palacio
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Package name: kaya-board Version: 0.1.1 Upstream Author: Paolo Capriotti URL: http://pcapriotti.github.com/kaya/ License: GPL version 2 Description: Board game suite Kaya is a board gam

Bug#547581: ITP: scilab-scimax -- Symbolic computations for Scilab based on Maxima

2009-09-20 Thread Sylvestre Ledru
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Sylvestre Ledru * Package name: scilab-scimax Version : 2.0.1 Upstream Author : Calixte Denizet * URL : http://scilabtbxset.sourceforge.net/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: C, LISP, Scilab Description : Symboli

Re: opposition against clamav-data in debian volatile

2009-09-20 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sun, 20 Sep 2009, Marc Haber wrote: > As long as you do not expect me to manually sign every single upload, Why not? It is a package, it has root access anywhere it is being installed or removed. Even if you abuse the DM machinery to have a key restricted to only upload clamav-data, it would

Re: DEP-5: an example parser, choice of syntax for Files:

2009-09-20 Thread lkcl
apologies, i didn't find this thread until i talked on #debian-devel today, so um... i wrote my own :) http://pyjamas.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/pyjamas/trunk/contrib/copyright_check.py?view=log pyjamas has 2,000 files, from a wide range of projects and sources: (fckeditor, python, random win32 m

Re: Faster boot by running init.d scripts in parallel

2009-09-20 Thread lkcl
Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > One "hidden" feature of the current Debian boot sustem, is the ability > to run the init.d scripts in parallel. > some years back, richard lightman wrote depinit. it's a complete replacement for sysvinit, and it's a parallel initialisation system. unlike sy

Re: Transitional (dummy) packages considered silly

2009-09-20 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 06:16:52PM +0200, Magnus Holmgren wrote: > On lördagen den 19 september 2009, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > There is one point in having the transitional package: it ensures that > > no package does try to take "foo" as a package name in $stable + 1 which > > would then in turn

Re: libjpeg62-dev -> libjpeg-dev transition

2009-09-20 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 03:00:54PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 07:40:28PM +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 07:20:40PM +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > > On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 02:32:51PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > > > > * Pierre Habouzit (mad

Re: Quick analysis of the Python dist-packages transition

2009-09-20 Thread Piotr Ożarowski
[Steve Langasek, 2009-09-20] > On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 09:18:16PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > * 505 of these packages do not use distutils and should not be > > affected, still shipping files to site-packages/. However, > > according to Scott Kimmermann (who handled par

Re: Quick analysis of the Python dist-packages transition

2009-09-20 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 09:18:16PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > * 505 of these packages do not use distutils and should not be > affected, still shipping files to site-packages/. However, > according to Scott Kimmermann (who handled parts of this > transition in Ub

Re: opposition against clamav-data in debian volatile

2009-09-20 Thread Marc Haber
On Sun, 20 Sep 2009 17:10:45 +0200, Luk Claes wrote: >Hmm, nothing is black and white. The current way of uploading >clamav-data is suboptimal and ftpmasters don't want that to continue >when volatile is integrated in the main archive. Though that does not >mean there are no alternatives. Back the

Re: Transitional (dummy) packages considered silly

2009-09-20 Thread Magnus Holmgren
On lördagen den 19 september 2009, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 11:52:23PM +0200, Magnus Holmgren wrote: > > When a binary package is renamed or split, as well as if several packages > > are merged under a new name, transitional packages are normally created, > > which depend on

Re: Transitional (dummy) packages considered silly

2009-09-20 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
Anton Piatek wrote: > 2009/9/19 Eugene V. Lyubimkin : >> Anton Piatek wrote: This should really be done by the package management, not by the user. >>> It sounds like you are describing the following: > $stable: package foo >>> manually installed > $stable + 1: foo Depends bar, bar {re

Re: Transitional (dummy) packages considered silly

2009-09-20 Thread Anton Piatek
2009/9/19 Eugene V. Lyubimkin : > Anton Piatek wrote: >>> This should really be done by the package management, not by the user. >> >> It sounds like you are describing the following: $stable: package foo >> manually installed $stable + 1: foo Depends bar, bar {replaces foo, provides foo,

Re: opposition against clamav-data in debian volatile

2009-09-20 Thread Luk Claes
Marc Haber wrote: > On Sat, 19 Sep 2009 15:52:17 + (UTC), Philipp Kern > wrote: >> On 2009-09-19, Marc Haber wrote: >>> On Fri, 18 Sep 2009 15:56:07 + (UTC), Philipp Kern >>> wrote: On 2009-09-18, Tom Feiner wrote: > Looks like this method works well for clamav-data and other s

Re: opposition against clamav-data in debian volatile (was: Packages that download/install unsecured files)

2009-09-20 Thread Marc Haber
On Sat, 19 Sep 2009 15:52:17 + (UTC), Philipp Kern wrote: >On 2009-09-19, Marc Haber wrote: >> On Fri, 18 Sep 2009 15:56:07 + (UTC), Philipp Kern >> wrote: >>>On 2009-09-18, Tom Feiner wrote: Looks like this method works well for clamav-data and other similar packages whi

Bug#547531: ITP: blahtexml -- Converts TeX equations into MathML

2009-09-20 Thread Abhishek Dasgupta
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Abhishek Dasgupta * Package name: blahtexml Version : 0.7 Upstream Author : Gilles Van Assche , David Harvey * URL : http://gva.noekeon.org/blahtexml/ * License : BSD, CC-BY (documentation) Programming Lang: C++ D

Bug#547492: ITP: python-junitxml

2009-09-20 Thread Robert Collins
package: wnpp X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org A tiny junit extension. Source: pyjunitxml Section: python Priority: optional Maintainer: Robert Collins Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 5.0.38), cdbs (>= 0.4.49), python-all-dev (>= 2.3.5-11) Build-Depends-Indep: python-docutils, python-