Re: Dependencies of metapackages

2011-09-02 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> Wolodja Wentland writes: > is there a specific reason why metapackages depend rather then > recommend packages they are meant to pull in? > The rationale behind this question is [0] that we see a plethora of > users in #debian who ask questions like: "Why did apt remove all my > syste

checking if .deb's match Packages

2011-09-02 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> Henrique de Moraes Holschuh writes: […] > The Debian mirror in mirrors.kernel.org, on the other hand... While > the apt signature will protect users downloading packages through the > package manager, users that get binary packages directly are not > protected. FWIW, personal

Re: Dependencies of metapackages

2011-09-02 Thread Carsten Hey
* Josselin Mouette [2011-09-01 09:52 +0200]: > I think we could solve a lot of those problems by treating metapackages > specially in APT. Ubuntu has a section "metapackages", introducing such a section in Debian could be the first step to treat metapackages specially. Carsten -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: kernel.org compromised

2011-09-02 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 02 Sep 2011, Philipp Kern wrote: > On 2011-09-02, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > On Fri, 02 Sep 2011, Bastian Blank wrote: > >> On Thu, Sep 01, 2011 at 06:05:01PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh > >> wrote: > >> > Our kernels are not a problem. The Debian mirror in mirrors.ker

Bug#640118: ITP: rdkit -- Collection of cheminformatics and machine-learning software

2011-09-02 Thread Michael Banck
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Michael Banck * Package name: rdkit Version : 201106 Upstream Author : Greg Landrum and Julie Penzotti * URL : http://www.rdkit.org/ * License : BSD Programming Lang: C++, Python Description : Collection of chemi

e2dis status update

2011-09-02 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> Steve McIntyre writes: > Ivan Shmakov wrote: >> It was my understanding that Jigdo's .template cannot associate one >> SHA-1 with such a non-contiguous chunk. > Correct. That could be added as a feature, maybe - we could add > extent-mapping. The format seemed to me a bit

Re: e2dis: a Jigdo-like tool for Ext2+ FS images

2011-09-02 Thread Steve McIntyre
Ivan Shmakov wrote: > > It was my understanding that Jigdo's .template cannot associate > one SHA-1 with such a non-contiguous chunk. Correct. That could be added as a feature, maybe - we could add extent-mapping. I'm also thinking of adding code to say "this file from within this .deb

Re: kernel.org compromised

2011-09-02 Thread Philipp Kern
On 2011-09-02, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Fri, 02 Sep 2011, Bastian Blank wrote: >> On Thu, Sep 01, 2011 at 06:05:01PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: >> > Our kernels are not a problem. The Debian mirror in mirrors.kernel.org, >> > on the other hand... While the apt signa

Bug#640110: ITP: ruby-ascii85 -- Ruby library to encode/decode the Ascii85 format

2011-09-02 Thread Cédric Boutillier
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Cédric Boutillier" This library is one of the dependencies of a new version of libprawn-ruby (soon to be renamed ruby-prawn). It is therefore needed to get a newer version of ruby-prawn into Debian. * Package name: ruby-ascii85 Version : 1.

Re: kernel.org compromised

2011-09-02 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 02 Sep 2011, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Thu, Sep 01, 2011 at 06:05:01PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > Our kernels are not a problem. The Debian mirror in mirrors.kernel.org, > > on the other hand... While the apt signature will protect users > > downloading packages through

Re: kernel.org compromised

2011-09-02 Thread Bastian Blank
On Thu, Sep 01, 2011 at 06:05:01PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > Our kernels are not a problem. The Debian mirror in mirrors.kernel.org, > on the other hand... While the apt signature will protect users > downloading packages through the package manager, users that get binary > pack