Re: Priority dependence

2010-07-19 Thread Romain Beauxis
Hi ! Le dimanche 18 juillet 2010 13:41:10, vous avez écrit : > Something to consider for Squeeze + 1? Agreed. Just like you it seems at some point the installation would use tools like dpkg and install according to the priority. Nowadays, a clear setting where we select the tip of the i

Re: Xen for Squeeze, 3.4 or 4.0

2010-07-19 Thread Russell Coker
On Mon, 19 Jul 2010, Toni Mueller wrote: > On Thu, 10.06.2010 at 17:54:28 +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > > My personal preference would be to go with 4.0. > > If it's one, then I opt for 4.0. I've got a few systems running Xen 4.0 now. It's working pretty well. I've got one system where the l

vim-tiny in base (was Re: Priority dependence)

2010-07-19 Thread James Vega
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 04:45:56PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > "brian m. carlson" writes: > > > The vi and nano debate was had a long time ago. So was the nvi versus > > vim-tiny. It was decided that first-time users were not going to be > > able to navigate vi, but experienced users would exp

Re: Priority dependence

2010-07-19 Thread Russ Allbery
"brian m. carlson" writes: > The vi and nano debate was had a long time ago. So was the nvi versus > vim-tiny. It was decided that first-time users were not going to be > able to navigate vi, but experienced users would expect it. I don't > know why people argued for vim-tiny over nvi; for a r

Re: Priority dependence

2010-07-19 Thread brian m. carlson
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 09:14:52PM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > Of those, aptitude and it's dependencies are not necessary (just nice > to have sometimes), tasksel and dependencies should only be included > when using D-I, whiptail and readline (and dependencies) are not always > necessary, partic

Bug#589675: ITP: mothur -- sequence analysis suite for research on microbiota

2010-07-19 Thread Steffen Moeller
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Steffen Moeller * Package name: mothur Version : 1.11.0 * URL : http://www.mothur.org * License : unclear Programming Lang: C Description : sequence analysis suite for research on microbiota Mothur seeks to develo

Re: Priority dependence

2010-07-19 Thread Neil Williams
On Mon, 19 Jul 2010 00:08:32 +0200 Michael Banck wrote: > On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 10:14:57PM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > > On Sun, 18 Jul 2010 11:04:10 -0700 > > Russ Allbery wrote: > > > > > Frans Pop writes: > > > > > > > Maybe we should consider changing the default prio for all > > > >

Re: Priority dependence

2010-07-19 Thread Neil Williams
On Sun, 18 Jul 2010 15:16:49 -0700 Russ Allbery wrote: apologies for this one being so long... > Neil Williams writes: > > > It is very worthwhile having a clear division between Required and > > Important. A typical bootstrap should include Required but there is > > no need for any of the imp

Anyone collected historical data for popcons of derivative(s)?

2010-07-19 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
Dear Fellows, I wonder if anyone cron-ed fetching of popcons for derivative distributions (e.g. Ubuntu). ubuntu exposes only current status http://popcon.ubuntu.com/ and I've not found if there is any way obtain historical data (like we have one available for DDs). I am asking because we thought

Re: Bug#589342: ITP: sieve -- Extension that implements the ManageSieve protocol

2010-07-19 Thread Michael Fladischer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Goetze, 2010-07-19 18:05: > May I suggest that this Package would be better named icedove-sieve? You are right, I already changed the name[1] of the source package to icedove-sieve. The binary package will be xul-ext-sieve. [1] http://git.deb

Re: packages being essential but having stuff in /usr/?!

2010-07-19 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Patrick Schoenfeld | On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 07:30:17PM +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: | > What about /etc? | | Well, this one is easy: /etc *can not* be on its own partition. | It has to be on the root filesystem so it will be available. Nah, it just has to be mounted when init is s

Re: Priority dependence

2010-07-19 Thread Ian Jackson
Bernhard R. Link writes ("Re: Priority dependence"): > Calculating a dependency closure is neither an easy nor an task with > a well-defined outcome. Starting with more data makes that both more > easy and more likely to come to deterministic results (with a good > enough starting set, most depende

Re: Priority dependence

2010-07-19 Thread Ian Jackson
Russ Allbery writes ("Re: Priority dependence"): > * Essential-only, usually only desirable in cases like build chroots. > Doesn't use priority at all, but should just start from the essential > packages and compute a dependency closure. This seems to be what the > intention of Priority: req

Re: Bug#589342: ITP: sieve -- Extension that implements the ManageSieve protocol

2010-07-19 Thread Michael Goetze
Hi, On 07/16/2010 09:44 PM, fladischermich...@fladi.at wrote: * Package name: sieve Version : 0.1.9 Upstream Author : Thomas Schmid * URL : http://sieve.mozdev.org/ * License : AGPLv3 Programming Lang: JavaScript, XUL Description : Extension that i

Re: Priority dependence

2010-07-19 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Peter Pentchev [100719 13:10]: > On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 12:41:54PM +0200, Bernhard R. Link wrote: > > The difference between optional and extra is indeed mood today. But I > > guess that is mostly because dh_make is making everything optional > > instead of extra by default... > > Uhm, I don't

Bug#589632: RFH: ppp -- Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) - daemon

2010-07-19 Thread Marco d'Itri
Package: wnpp Severity: normal I request assistance with maintaining the ppp package. The package is in an acceptable shape, but I need a lot of help with bugs triaging and fixing. The upstream maintainers are not exactly MIA, but they tend to ignore patches and requests. -- ciao, Marco signat

Re: Priority dependence

2010-07-19 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 12:41:54PM +0200, Bernhard R. Link wrote: > * Russ Allbery [100718 19:30]: > > Ideally, it would be nice to be able to sort out packages by priority and, > > from that, build, say, a CD set of only the important and higher packages > > and know that it's self-contained. In

Re: Priority dependence

2010-07-19 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 12:41:54PM +0200, Bernhard R. Link wrote: > The difference between optional and extra is indeed mood today. But I > guess that is mostly because dh_make is making everything optional > instead of extra by default... Most packages can be "optional", since they don't in

Re: Xen for Squeeze, 3.4 or 4.0

2010-07-19 Thread Toni Mueller
Hi, I know that I'm a bit late... On Thu, 10.06.2010 at 17:54:28 +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > My personal preference would be to go with 4.0. If it's one, then I opt for 4.0. Thank you very much! Kind regards, --Toni++ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org wit

Re: Priority dependence

2010-07-19 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Russ Allbery [100718 19:30]: > Ideally, it would be nice to be able to sort out packages by priority and, > from that, build, say, a CD set of only the important and higher packages > and know that it's self-contained. In practice, I suspect that we have > enough packages with problems here tha

Bug#589613: ITP: r-cran-outliers -- A collection of some tests commonly used for identifying outliers.

2010-07-19 Thread Steffen Moeller
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Steffen Moeller * Package name: r-cran-outliers Version : 0.13-2 * URL : http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/outliers/index.html * License : GPL-2 Programming Lang: R Description : A collection of some tests comm

Re: packages being essential but having stuff in /usr/?!

2010-07-19 Thread Patrick Schoenfeld
On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 07:30:17PM +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > What about /etc? Well, this one is easy: /etc *can not* be on its own partition. It has to be on the root filesystem so it will be available. Regards, Patrick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debi

Re: Upstream Tracker

2010-07-19 Thread Andrey Ponomarenko
On 07/19/2010 04:34 AM, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > Andrey Ponomarenko wrote: > > >> Hello, Colleagues! >> >> The new service for tracking ABI changes in various C/C++ libraries is >> now available for Linux distribution maintainers and upstream developers >> - "Upstream Tracker". It may be hel