Bug#689388: ITP: erlang-proper -- QuickCheck-inspired property-based testing tool for Erlang

2012-10-01 Thread Nobuhiro Iwamatsu
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nobuhiro Iwamatsu * Package name: erlang-proper Version : 1.0 Upstream Author : Manolis Papadakis Eirini Arvaniti Kostis Sagonas * URL : https://github.com/manopapad/proper.git * License

Bug#689387: ITP: erlang-cherly -- Cherly (sher-lee) is an in-VM caching library for Erlang

2012-10-01 Thread Nobuhiro Iwamatsu
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nobuhiro Iwamatsu * Package name: erlang-cherly Version : 0.9.1 Upstream Author : Cliff Moon, Yoshiyuki Kanno * URL : https://www.github.com/leo-project/cherly.git Original upstream is https://github.com/clif

Re: Debian not suitable for SSD due to apt/dpkg?

2012-10-01 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Michael Hanke (m...@debian.org): > I'm on an Intel SSD (120GB) since Aug 2009 -- running Debian testing all > the time. I do not upgrade daily, but often. I have _not_ done any of > the optimizations mentioned on the wiki. I have on average approx 15GB > free on the drive. Obviously, I ran

Bug#689381: Login screen fails to appear

2012-10-01 Thread Jesse Rhodes
reassign 689381 gdm3 thanks

Bug#689381: general: Login screen fails to appear, though you can still interact with it

2012-10-01 Thread Gregory
Package: general Severity: important After booting into Debian 6.0.6 the login screen fails to appear. This is an intermittant problem. I still hear the sound associated with the login screen and can interact with it (eg enter my password and log in) but the screen itself is not visible. The only

New sip4 release with API bump

2012-10-01 Thread Scott Kitterman
The newest sip4 release, 4.14 increases the API version to 9.0. Since it has potential incompatibilities, I've uploaded it to Experimental so maintainers of rdepends can investigate if changes are needed. I hope to land this in unstable very shortly after Wheezy is released. There are a few p

Re: Comments+blank line in debian/control: Clarification in policy or MBF?

2012-10-01 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Mon, Oct 01, 2012 at 11:00:54PM +0200, Jakub Wilk a écrit : > * Michael Tautschnig , 2012-10-01, 14:25: > >>By policy, blank lines separate paragraphs, comments are > >>discarded, so we end up with an empty first paragraph. Policy, > >>however, requires that the *first* paragraph contains essent

Re: Comments+blank line in debian/control: Clarification in policy or MBF?

2012-10-01 Thread Michael Tautschnig
> Le lundi 01 octobre 2012 à 14:43 +0100, Ian Jackson a écrit : > > This wouldn't help people doing backports or whatever. I think this > > should be fixed in the packages involved. > > Changing gnome-pkg-tools to replace the blank line with an empty comment > is trivial. In unstable. > > How d

Re: Comments+blank line in debian/control: Clarification in policy or MBF?

2012-10-01 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Michael Tautschnig , 2012-10-01, 14:25: By policy, blank lines separate paragraphs, comments are discarded, so we end up with an empty first paragraph. Policy, however, requires that the *first* paragraph contains essential package information (Policy 5.2). I'm not convinced by this interpr

Re: Debian not suitable for SSD due to apt/dpkg?

2012-10-01 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Vincent Bernat > In case of ext4 over encrypted LVM, does the kernel have all the > discard/trim support? The Debian wiki says that LVM supports trim to > declare unused space with lvresize as an example. Does it include unused > space inside a logical volume? Yes, but you need to enable it e

Re: Comments+blank line in debian/control: Clarification in policy or MBF?

2012-10-01 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le lundi 01 octobre 2012 à 14:43 +0100, Ian Jackson a écrit : > This wouldn't help people doing backports or whatever. I think this > should be fixed in the packages involved. Changing gnome-pkg-tools to replace the blank line with an empty comment is trivial. In unstable. How does that help wi

Re: Debian not suitable for SSD due to apt/dpkg?

2012-10-01 Thread shyamal
> "Frank" == Frank Bauer writes: Frank> Hi, I am considering migrating my Debian testing system to a Frank> SSD to speed things up. Since SSD lifetime is severely Frank> limited (about 5000 overwrites for consumer grade MLC), I Frank> wanted to know beforehand, how much write

Re: Debian not suitable for SSD due to apt/dpkg?

2012-10-01 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 1 octobre 2012 18:26 CEST, Jonathan McDowell  : >> what are the main (ssd related) advantages of running a 3.2 kernel >> instead of the 2.6.32 from squeeze? (I don't want to run 3.2 due to >> wlan/intel gfx problems, though last time I tried was three months >> ago, might been fixed by now.) >

Re: Debian not suitable for SSD due to apt/dpkg?

2012-10-01 Thread Jonathan McDowell
On Mon, Oct 01, 2012 at 03:37:19PM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Montag, 1. Oktober 2012, Michael Hanke wrote: > > Just a data point: > > interesting, thanks. > > what are the main (ssd related) advantages of running a 3.2 kernel > instead of the 2.6.32 from squeeze? (I don't want to run 3.2

Re: Comments+blank line in debian/control: Clarification in policy or MBF?

2012-10-01 Thread Jon Dowland
On Mon, Oct 01, 2012 at 02:25:36PM +0100, Michael Tautschnig wrote: > - the problem affects all packages *build-depending* on gnome-pkg-tools, thus > I'd actually have to do an MBF (it's more than 160 packages) It would be worth looking at a) whether those 160 packages have a common maintainer,

Re: Comments+blank line in debian/control: Clarification in policy or MBF?

2012-10-01 Thread Ian Jackson
Michael Tautschnig writes ("Comments+blank line in debian/control: Clarification in policy or MBF?"): > Taking a pragmatic position, it would be best to have policy acknowledge the > fact that empty paragraphs don't count, and get the parser in pbuilder fixed. This wouldn't help people doing back

Re: Debian not suitable for SSD due to apt/dpkg?

2012-10-01 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Montag, 1. Oktober 2012, Michael Hanke wrote: > Just a data point: interesting, thanks. what are the main (ssd related) advantages of running a 3.2 kernel instead of the 2.6.32 from squeeze? (I don't want to run 3.2 due to wlan/intel gfx problems, though last time I tried was three mon

Comments+blank line in debian/control: Clarification in policy or MBF?

2012-10-01 Thread Michael Tautschnig
Hi, While rebuilding our archive using pbuilder I noticed that all packages build-depending on gnome-pkg-tools failed to build. That led me to filing #684503, which I'll quote here for convenience: | The file control.header ends with an empty blank line. As the contents of that | file is prepende

Re: Debian not suitable for SSD due to apt/dpkg?

2012-10-01 Thread Andreas Beckmann
On 2012-10-01 13:32, Frank Bauer wrote: > On Mon, Oct 01, 2012 at 10:23:32AM +0800, Chow Loong Jin wrote: >> >> Have you done any actual calculation on this? A quick Google search on SSD >> write >> cycles shows more articles debunking this theory than supporting it. > > Reading specifications of

Re: Debian not suitable for SSD due to apt/dpkg?

2012-10-01 Thread Michael Hanke
On Mon, Oct 01, 2012 at 10:23:32AM +0800, Chow Loong Jin wrote: > On 30/09/2012 18:49, Frank Bauer wrote: > > Why not, my computer upgrade cycles are about 6-8 years and the > > computer won't be idling all the time - especially considering modern > > desktop environments running whole database eng

Re: thoughts on using multi-arch based cross-building

2012-10-01 Thread Thibaut Girka
On Mon, Oct 01, 2012 at 06:27:04PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 6:14 PM, Wookey wrote: > > Thibg's final report gives a useful summary: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-embedded/2012/08/msg2.html > > and this blog post gives some more details: > > http://gsoc.sitedethib.co

Re: Debian not suitable for SSD due to apt/dpkg?

2012-10-01 Thread Frank Bauer
On Mon, Oct 01, 2012 at 10:23:32AM +0800, Chow Loong Jin wrote: > > Have you done any actual calculation on this? A quick Google search on SSD > write > cycles shows more articles debunking this theory than supporting it. Reading specifications of intel's SSD 320 line at the following link: http

Re: thoughts on using multi-arch based cross-building

2012-10-01 Thread Thibaut Girka
On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 03:34:18PM +0100, peter green wrote: > I've been attempting to use multi-arch for cross-building packages > for raspbian (a debian derivative I am working on for armv6 > hardfloat) and run into a few things which I thought i'd share > and/or ask about. Great! I'm busy with

Re: Hijacking^W^W^W^W^W^WSalvaging packages for fun and profit: A proposal

2012-10-01 Thread Bart Martens
On Mon, Oct 01, 2012 at 12:29:00PM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Sonntag, 30. September 2012, Arno Töll wrote: > > * We are effectively ruling out opinions of non-members. That's bizarre, > > since we allow them to maintain (and even "hijack") packages. > > No, we d/won't allow non-members to

Re: Hijacking^W^W^W^W^W^WSalvaging packages for fun and profit: A proposal

2012-10-01 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Sonntag, 30. September 2012, Arno Töll wrote: > * We are effectively ruling out opinions of non-members. That's bizarre, > since we allow them to maintain (and even "hijack") packages. No, we d/won't allow non-members to hijack packages. We probably will allow them to salvage packages OT

Re: thoughts on using multi-arch based cross-building

2012-10-01 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 6:14 PM, Wookey wrote: > It's possible, but some more is still needed to have them built by the > normal buildds. Wanna-build needs support for cross-arch dependencies; > that's not been done yet. Splitting (multiarching) libc++-dev is also > needed to build the g++ cross-co

Re: thoughts on using multi-arch based cross-building

2012-10-01 Thread Wookey
+++ Wookey [2012-10-01 11:14 +0100]: > +++ Paul Wise [2012-10-01 17:42 +0800]: > > > > I'd like to see cross-toolchains in sid before wheezy is out, is that > > going to be possible? Sorry - meant to say, that whilst we should definately have a go at this in experiemental, the libsdtc++ changes n

Re: thoughts on using multi-arch based cross-building

2012-10-01 Thread Wookey
+++ Paul Wise [2012-10-01 17:42 +0800]: > On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 10:34 PM, peter green wrote: > > > I've been attempting to use multi-arch for cross-building packages for > > raspbian (a debian derivative I am working on for armv6 hardfloat) and run > > into a few things which I thought i'd share

Question Regarding A Resource For Prospective Students

2012-10-01 Thread Lillian Clark
Hi there, I happened upon your collection of college and career web resources for prospective students here http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/1998/09/msg00565.html and thought you might be interested in another authoritative online resource to add to those. Are you the correct person to co

Re: Hijacking^W^W^W^W^W^WSalvaging packages for fun and profit: A proposal

2012-10-01 Thread Ian Jackson
Stefano Zacchiroli writes ("Re: Hijacking^W^W^W^W^W^WSalvaging packages for fun and profit: A proposal"): > I just meant that if we encourage to post seconds (which are in fact > just a form of review of the intention to orphan) on a list such as -qa > (which is more specific-purpose than, say, -d

Re: thoughts on using multi-arch based cross-building

2012-10-01 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 10:34 PM, peter green wrote: > I've been attempting to use multi-arch for cross-building packages for > raspbian (a debian derivative I am working on for armv6 hardfloat) and run > into a few things which I thought i'd share and/or ask about. I'd like to see cross-toolchai

Re: Hijacking^W^W^W^W^W^WSalvaging packages for fun and profit: A proposal

2012-10-01 Thread Simon McVittie
On 01/10/12 09:51, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: > I've had an NMU in the past for a package when I had a little less time, > but the change was sound and correct. So I didn't bother to make an > (empty) MU just to acknowledge it - I think that should be OK and not > 'punished' by taking it as a sign of a

Re: Bug#689207: ITP: rust -- a safe, concurrent, practical language

2012-10-01 Thread Andrew Shadura
Hello, On Sun, 30 Sep 2012 13:22:01 +0200 Luca Bruno wrote: > * URL : http://www.rust-lang.org/ > * License : MIT > Programming Lang: C/C++, Rust > Description : a safe, concurrent, practical language Oh, please, please package it! It seems like it's very interesting

Re: Hijacking^W^W^W^W^W^WSalvaging packages for fun and profit: A proposal

2012-10-01 Thread Neil Williams
On Mon, 1 Oct 2012 10:51:22 +0200 "Thijs Kinkhorst" wrote: > Hi Arno, > > Thanks for this initiative. It seems like a useful guideline. > > > * A previous NMU was not acknowledged, and at least another issue > > justifying another NMU is pending for /one month/ [5]. > > I was wondering what 'a

Re: Hijacking^W^W^W^W^W^WSalvaging packages for fun and profit: A proposal

2012-10-01 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Mon, Oct 01, 2012 at 10:51:22AM +0200, Thijs Kinkhorst a écrit : > > I was wondering what 'acknowledging an NMU' means nowadays. Of course, we > all used this term from the time that NMU's did not close bugs in the BTS > and therefore needed to be explicitly acknowledged by an MU. However, > si

Re: Hijacking^W^W^W^W^W^WSalvaging packages for fun and profit: A proposal

2012-10-01 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
Hi Arno, Thanks for this initiative. It seems like a useful guideline. > * A previous NMU was not acknowledged, and at least another issue > justifying another NMU is pending for /one month/ [5]. I was wondering what 'acknowledging an NMU' means nowadays. Of course, we all used this term from th

Re: mass bug filing about versioned dependency on the libhdf5-7 virtual package

2012-10-01 Thread Julien Cristau
On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 00:28:15 +0700, Ivan Shmakov wrote: > I tend to think that a re-build (via binNMU or otherwise) will > be sufficient for most of the packages affected. > > Unless there'll be objections, I'm going to file the respective > bug reports regarding the v

Re: thoughts on using multi-arch based cross-building

2012-10-01 Thread Johannes Schauer
Hi, On Mon, Oct 01, 2012 at 01:05:11AM +0100, Wookey wrote: > > Build-depends installation: apt-get build-dep is fine if you are > > building an unmodified package from a repo but it's of no use if you > > have modified the build-dependencies to make them satisfiable. > > Annoying isn't it? This

Re: rm -rf /usr/somedir in maintainer scripts?

2012-10-01 Thread Simon McVittie
On 01/10/12 07:51, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > Now that we have well working bind mounts, we could actually deprecate > [sysadmins moving directories to a less full filesystem and leaving > symlinks behind] and just tell people to use bind mounts instead. At least > if our non-Linux ports has decent