Re: Atlas proposal

2010-08-17 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Sylvestre Ledru (sylves...@debian.org): > * is it possible to use debconf this way ? If you end up doing so, I'd insist strongly for a review to happen on debian-l10n-english. I suspect that the text of debconf templates might be tricky to write signature.asc Description: Digital

Re: Atlas proposal

2010-08-17 Thread Don Armstrong
On Wed, 18 Aug 2010, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Don Armstrong, le Tue 17 Aug 2010 17:24:05 -0700, a écrit : > > [Optimization is] about maximizing the throughput of a particular > > problem, which may mean that atlas shouldn't use all of the cache, > > or shouldn't use as many cores as exist on a par

Re: Atlas proposal

2010-08-17 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 01:52 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Ben Hutchings, le Wed 18 Aug 2010 00:07:58 +0100, a écrit : > > The dynamic linker does the run-time selection for you. All you need to > > do is to install the optimised libraries in subdirectories that specify > > the hardware they requ

Re: Atlas proposal

2010-08-17 Thread Samuel Thibault
Don Armstrong, le Tue 17 Aug 2010 17:24:05 -0700, a écrit : > On Wed, 18 Aug 2010, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Don Armstrong, le Tue 17 Aug 2010 15:13:15 -0700, a écrit : > > > All of these are things that can be detected at run time and > > > appropriate libraries dlopened or codepaths diverged, et

Re: Atlas proposal

2010-08-17 Thread Don Armstrong
On Wed, 18 Aug 2010, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Don Armstrong, le Tue 17 Aug 2010 15:13:15 -0700, a écrit : > > All of these are things that can be detected at run time and > > appropriate libraries dlopened or codepaths diverged, etc. > > Errr, then you'll need a myriad of libraries/codepaths for a

Re: Atlas proposal

2010-08-17 Thread Samuel Thibault
Ben Hutchings, le Wed 18 Aug 2010 00:07:58 +0100, a écrit : > The dynamic linker does the run-time selection for you. All you need to > do is to install the optimised libraries in subdirectories that specify > the hardware they require. Currently the following platform and > capability flag names

Re: Atlas proposal

2010-08-17 Thread Samuel Thibault
Don Armstrong, le Tue 17 Aug 2010 15:13:15 -0700, a écrit : > On Tue, 17 Aug 2010, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Roger Leigh, le Tue 17 Aug 2010 22:45:50 +0100, a écrit : > > > Why can't this be fixed the correct way: > > > by building all optimised variants for a given architecture and > > > selectin

Re: Atlas proposal

2010-08-17 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 23:56 +0200, Sylvestre Ledru wrote: > Le mardi 17 août 2010 à 22:45 +0100, Roger Leigh a écrit : [...] > > Disabling threading is also suspect: how can the optimal number of > > threads possibly be determined at build time? This should also be > > configurable or at least aut

Bug#593411: ITP: pd-wiimote -- A puredata external for accessing the wiimote controller

2010-08-17 Thread Roman Haefeli
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Roman Haefeli * Package name: pd-wiimote Version : 0.3.1 Upstream Author : Iohannes M. Zmoelnig * URL : http://puredata.info/community/projects/software/wiimote/ * License : GPLv2 Programming Lang: C Description

Re: Atlas proposal

2010-08-17 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mardi 17 août 2010 à 23:09 +0200, Sylvestre Ledru a écrit : > After some discussions at the DebConf, here is a proposal on what should > be done: > * drop all optimized packages from the archive > * only provide libatlas3gf-base & libatlas-base-dev without any > extension and limited to one thre

Re: Atlas proposal

2010-08-17 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 17 Aug 2010, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Roger Leigh, le Tue 17 Aug 2010 22:45:50 +0100, a écrit : > > Why can't this be fixed the correct way: > > by building all optimised variants for a given architecture and > > selecting the appropriate variant at runtime based upon the system's > > capab

Re: Atlas proposal

2010-08-17 Thread Sylvestre Ledru
Le mardi 17 août 2010 à 22:45 +0100, Roger Leigh a écrit : > On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 11:09:08PM +0200, Sylvestre Ledru wrote: > > After some discussions at the DebConf, here is a proposal on what should > > be done: > > * drop all optimized packages from the archive > > * only provide libatlas3gf-b

Re: Atlas proposal

2010-08-17 Thread Samuel Thibault
Roger Leigh, le Tue 17 Aug 2010 22:45:50 +0100, a écrit : > Why can't this be fixed the correct way: > by building all optimised variants for a given architecture and > selecting the appropriate variant at runtime based upon the system's > capabilities e.g. from CPUID on i386/amd64? Because atlas

Re: Atlas proposal

2010-08-17 Thread Roger Leigh
On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 11:09:08PM +0200, Sylvestre Ledru wrote: > After some discussions at the DebConf, here is a proposal on what should > be done: > * drop all optimized packages from the archive > * only provide libatlas3gf-base & libatlas-base-dev without any > extension and limited to one th

Atlas proposal

2010-08-17 Thread Sylvestre Ledru
Hello, As I presented during the DebConf 10, I would like to change the way we are packaging Atlas. Quick remember, Atlas is a linear algebra library implementing the BLAS API/ABI. It is widely used in the scientific computing world but also by some spreadsheets (openoffice). This is an highly op

Re: Is Ryan Niebur MIA?

2010-08-17 Thread Xavier Oswald
On 11:46 Tue 17 Aug , Ryan Niebur wrote: > On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 08:13:54AM +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > > > > On a side note, I'd very much like to update midori, but doing a NMU for > > a new upstream release (he already packaged 0.2.6) is a bit rude, so I'd > > really prefer he we ha

Re: why are there /bin and /usr/bin...

2010-08-17 Thread Russ Allbery
Sven Mueller writes: > Am 10.08.2010 17:54, schrieb Russ Allbery: >> Unfortunately, there isn't any way to check this in Lintian since >> Lintian has no idea whether a given library will be found in /lib or in >> /usr/lib. It's one of those things that needs to be done in a >> cross-archive chec

Re: why are there /bin and /usr/bin...

2010-08-17 Thread Sven Mueller
Am 10.08.2010 17:54, schrieb Russ Allbery: > Simon McVittie writes: > >> It might be worth having a Lintian check for the situation you describe, >> since missing libraries will generally prevent the executable from >> starting up at all, whereas missing bits of /usr/share or /var might not >> be

Re: Is Ryan Niebur MIA?

2010-08-17 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On mar., 2010-08-17 at 11:46 -0700, Ryan Niebur wrote: > On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 08:13:54AM +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > > > > On a side note, I'd very much like to update midori, but doing a NMU for > > a new upstream release (he already packaged 0.2.6) is a bit rude, so I'd > > really prefe

Re: Is Ryan Niebur MIA?

2010-08-17 Thread Ryan Niebur
On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 08:13:54AM +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > > On a side note, I'd very much like to update midori, but doing a NMU for > a new upstream release (he already packaged 0.2.6) is a bit rude, so I'd > really prefer he we had news and if he's coming back soon :) > Alright, Ple

Re: Is Ryan Niebur MIA?

2010-08-17 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On 17/08/2010 15:51, Xavier Oswald wrote: > Some times ago I sponsored him uploads of midori. I told him that Im > interested > in helping maintaining midori and he said that he is active and will take care > of it if I well remember. Im sad to hear this. I asked him multiple time if he needed he

Re: Is Ryan Niebur MIA?

2010-08-17 Thread Xavier Oswald
On 08:13 Tue 17 Aug , Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > Hey, > > did anybody have news from Ryan recently? Some time ago we discussed > midori new upstream release (debian has 0.2.4, 0.2.7 just came out), but > I heard no news since few months. I pinged him on irc, by mail and on > the BTS, but nothi

Re: libcairo2 in squeeze & subpixel rendering

2010-08-17 Thread Stanislav Maslovski
On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 12:06:48PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le lundi 09 août 2010 à 23:40 +0400, Stanislav Maslovski a écrit : > > Thus I repeat: the subpixel rendering of fonts in current squeeze is > > suboptimal, because instead of providing flexibility and full control > > it virtually

Re: libexplain: need access to debian alpha machine

2010-08-17 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Tue, 17 Aug 2010, Paul Wise wrote: On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 6:05 PM, Peter Miller wrote: I'm trying to get my libexplain project [1] to build on Debian alpha. I don't actually have access to an alpha machine, so my feedback loop is via the Debian build farm [2]... one fix per release. This

Re: libexplain: need access to debian alpha machine

2010-08-17 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Bastien ROUCARIES wrote: > On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 5:46 AM, Paul Wise wrote: >> On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 6:05 PM, Peter Miller >> wrote: >> >>> I'm trying to get my libexplain project [1] to build on Debian alpha. >>> I don't actually have access to an alpha machine, so my feedback loop is >>> vi

Bug#593341: ITP: twittering-mode -- a Twitter client for Emacs

2010-08-17 Thread Takaya Yamashita
Package: wnpp Owner: Takaya Yamashita Severity: wishlist * Package name: twittering-mode Version : 1.0.0 Upstream Author : Yuto Hayamizu * URL or Web page : http://twmode.sf.net/ * License : GPL2 Description : A Twitter client for Emacs --- Best Regards, Takaya Yam

Re: Non-recompilable binaries in source and binary packages (Adobe Flash strikes again)

2010-08-17 Thread Ian Jackson
Russ Allbery writes ("Re: Non-recompilable binaries in source and binary packages (Adobe Flash strikes again)"): >Ian Jackson writes: >>Well, some maintainers have been rebuilding source packages to remove >>things like RFCs and non-free-GFDL documentation. Perhaps not >>everyone has. > > RFCs

Bug#593339: RFP: freeorion -- FreeOrion is a free, open source, turn-based space empire and galactic conquest computer game

2010-08-17 Thread Roman V. Nikolaev
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org --- Please fill out the fields below. --- Package name: freeorion Version: 0.3.15 Upstream Author: FreeOrion Team URL: http://www.freeorion.org URL: http://sourceforge.net/projects/free

Bug#593333: ITP: python-bitarray -- module for efficient handling of boolean arrays

2010-08-17 Thread Jan Dittberner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jan Dittberner * Package name: python-bitarray Version : 0.3.5 Upstream Author : Ilan Schnell * URL : http://pypi.python.org/pypi/bitarray/ * License : Python Software Foundation License Programming Lang: Python, C

Bug#593330: ITP: rapid-spring -- content download tool for spring RTS

2010-08-17 Thread Jan Dittberner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jan Dittberner * Package name: rapid-spring Version : 0.3.2 Upstream Author : Tobi Vollebregt * URL : http://pypi.python.org/pypi/rapid-spring/ * License : GPLv2+ Programming Lang: Python Description : content d

Re: libexplain: need access to debian alpha machine

2010-08-17 Thread Bastien ROUCARIES
On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 5:46 AM, Paul Wise wrote: > On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 6:05 PM, Peter Miller > wrote: > >> I'm trying to get my libexplain project [1] to build on Debian alpha. >> I don't actually have access to an alpha machine, so my feedback loop is >> via the Debian build farm [2]... on

Happy birthday!

2010-08-17 Thread Eric KOM
Hello! Happy birthday at Debian Project! I've been using Debian since 2002. It was not easy to obtain the CD, even download the ISO. I really enjoyed the way this OS was developed. At this time, It was not easy to use Linux in my country (Cameroon). Debian is very fun, easier and the more complete

Happy birthday!

2010-08-17 Thread surma
Hey, I just wanted to wish you happy birthday. :) I've been using debian since 1996, I started to code then and debian was the best platform to write C language. Anyway, happy birthday! -Surma