Re: Resolve namce conflise with node and nodejs [was Re: Is anyone maintaining (the ham radio tool) node?]

2011-11-08 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
On 11-11-08 at 02:34pm, Patrick Ouellette wrote: > Where is the voice of the nodejs maintainers in this? For my own part, I am following the thread, quite happy to hear the voice of the (ham) node maintainers, but wondering what is so precious about keeping the name of its binary. Form my under

Re: Package mailing lists (was: bits from the DPL for September 2011)

2011-11-08 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Iustin Pop] > Could/should Debian make it easier for each package to have an own email > list (i.e. making it easier to have "1-person team maintenance")? We have {pkg}@packages.debian.org and {srcpkg}@packages.qa.debian.org. I don't know if mail to these aliases get archived, but at least it is

Re: Simplifying bootstrap on circular-dependent packages

2011-11-08 Thread Igor Pashev
Hi, In my humble experience I just used debian/shlibs.local :-) 05.11.2011 01:30, Daniel Ruoso пишет: I have been thinking about the bootstrapping of pakages lately. I am involved in bootstrapping a partial system -- no kernel and no libc -- for some architectures for internal use. And I just t

Package mailing lists (was: bits from the DPL for September 2011)

2011-11-08 Thread Iustin Pop
On Sun, Oct 09, 2011 at 03:48:35PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > - I've made the "private email aliases considered harmful" point [10], > in a somehow unrelated thread. I ask you to watch out for interactions > in Debian that could happen only through private email addresses. > There are

Re: Trivia: very old files on incoming.debian.org

2011-11-08 Thread Iustin Pop
On Tue, Nov 08, 2011 at 09:50:27PM +, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > On Wed, 2011-11-09 at 06:34 +0900, Iustin Pop wrote: > > Not sure where else to send this… but while checking for a small upload > > I did I saw some very old files on incoming. If you check sorted by > > date, http://incoming.debia

Re: Trivia: very old files on incoming.debian.org

2011-11-08 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Wed, 2011-11-09 at 06:34 +0900, Iustin Pop wrote: > Not sure where else to send this… but while checking for a small upload > I did I saw some very old files on incoming. If you check sorted by > date, http://incoming.debian.org/?C=M;O=A, you'll see some very old > things (1997, 2003, 2007, etc…

Re: Dynamic linking against binutils libraries (again) (attn: doko)

2011-11-08 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Nov 08, 2011 at 09:57:02PM +0100, Magnus Holmgren wrote: > Since this discussion in 2005: > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/05/msg01085.html > binutils has got a shlibs file that specifies a tight dependency on the > current upstream version. Thus frequent binNMUs of any packag

Trivia: very old files on incoming.debian.org

2011-11-08 Thread Iustin Pop
Hi all, Not sure where else to send this… but while checking for a small upload I did I saw some very old files on incoming. If you check sorted by date, http://incoming.debian.org/?C=M;O=A, you'll see some very old things (1997, 2003, 2007, etc…). Their size is not big, but seems… unclean to not

Dynamic linking against binutils libraries (again) (attn: doko)

2011-11-08 Thread Magnus Holmgren
Since this discussion in 2005: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/05/msg01085.html binutils has got a shlibs file that specifies a tight dependency on the current upstream version. Thus frequent binNMUs of any packages linking dynamically against libbfd or libopcodes are needed, or those

Re: Is anyone maintaining (the ham radio tool) node?

2011-11-08 Thread Patrick Ouellette
On Tue, Nov 08, 2011 at 07:16:35AM +1100, Damien Gardner Jnr wrote: > > I have to pop my head up from my lurker-hole here, and say that I'm a more > than a little confused, why a 15 year old application should change its name > at all? Even the Node.js wiki makes it clear that the application s

Resolve namce conflise with node and nodejs [was Re: Is anyone maintaining (the ham radio tool) node?]

2011-11-08 Thread Patrick Ouellette
Where is the voice of the nodejs maintainers in this? They are listed as: Debian Javascript Maintainers Jérémy Lal Dave Beckett Jonas Smedegaard -- Patrick Ouellette p...@flying-gecko.net ne4po (at) arrl (dot) net Amateur Radio: NE4PO What kind of change have you b

Re: Description-less packages file

2011-11-08 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
Hello, I welcome this change as it will also bring benefits in the local processing speed (at least, for some tools). As for Cupt, a couple of simple patches is needed for the support of the grabbing new 'Description-md5' from Packages-files, but even without them the program should work correctl

Re: Bug#647995: ITP: cellprofiler -- quantitatively measure phenotypes from images automatically

2011-11-08 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 4:50 PM, Roger Leigh wrote: > If it's 100% python, that's great, but due to its past, and the > fact that its heavy image processing most likely requires the > use of non-python code for speed, I just wanted to check exactly > how free it is nowadays. I have never used the

Re: Bug#647995: ITP: cellprofiler -- quantitatively measure phenotypes from images automatically

2011-11-08 Thread Roger Leigh
On Tue, Nov 08, 2011 at 09:37:24AM +0100, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > * Package name: cellprofiler > Upstream Author : Broad Institute Last time I used it, Cell Profiler required a Matlab runtime which included not only the proprietary Matlab libraries, but also an entire Linux distribution i

Bug#648040: ITP: jailkit -- chroot jail utilities

2011-11-08 Thread Björn Esser
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Björn Esser" * Package name: jailkit Version : 2.1.4 Upstream Author : Olivier Sessink * URL : http://olivier.sessink.nl/jailkit/ * License : BSD Programming Lang: C, Python Description : chroot jail utilities

Re: Bug#648017: ITP: local-file -- small clojure library

2011-11-08 Thread Wolodja Wentland
Hi Mathieu, On Tue, Nov 08, 2011 at 12:28 +0100, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > Programming Lang: Java This should probably be "Clojure" and not "Java" :) -- Wolodja 4096R/CAF14EFC 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Bug#648017: ITP: local-file -- small clojure library

2011-11-08 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Tue, Nov 08, 2011 at 12:28 +0100, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > > * Package name: local-file > Version : 0.1.0 > Upstream Author : Arthur Edelstein > * URL : https://github.com/arthuredelstein/local-file/ > * License : > Programming Lang: Java > Description

Bug#648017: ITP: local-file -- small clojure library

2011-11-08 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mathieu Malaterre * Package name: local-file Version : 0.1.0 Upstream Author : Arthur Edelstein * URL : https://github.com/arthuredelstein/local-file/ * License : Programming Lang: Java Description : small cloju

Re: directory under /usr/bin -- Ok or not?

2011-11-08 Thread Stig Sandbeck Mathisen
Marvin Renich writes: > How is /usr/libexec/ better than /usr/lib/ in these > cases? Placing executables in /usr/lib/package is just messy, if it contains, for instance, libraries. Having binaries in /usr/lib//bin, as inn2 does, is a bit better at least. -- Stig Sandbeck Mathisen -- To UNS

Bug#648006: ITP: png23d -- Converts PNG images into three dimensional representations.

2011-11-08 Thread Vincent Sanders
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Vincent Sanders * Package name: png23d Version : 1.10 Upstream Author : Name * URL : http://kyllikki.github.com/png23d/ * License : MIT Programming Lang: C Description : Converts PNG images into three dimensional

Bug#647995: ITP: cellprofiler -- quantitatively measure phenotypes from images automatically

2011-11-08 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mathieu Malaterre * Package name: cellprofiler Version : 2.0 Upstream Author : Broad Institute * URL : http://www.cellprofiler.org * License : GPL Programming Lang: Python Description : quantitatively measure phe