Re: (seemingly) declinging bug report numbers

2012-10-22 Thread Jon Dowland
On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 02:53:43AM +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > Then again,... I wonder why Ubuntu exists, if they allegedly anyway want > their changes into Debian. > And still sounds like a fork in a respect that forks usually don't > change everything. > > But I mean that discussion

Re: (seemingly) declinging bug report numbers

2012-10-22 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 08:10:54PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > But they're not as good at the things that large pools of > volunteers are good at, like maintaining lots of packages that are of > interest to small groups of people. I'm following the example of others by cherry picking from Ru

Bug#691190: ITP: python-errorhandler -- Python log handler tracking logging of messages above a certain level

2012-10-22 Thread Jan Dittberner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jan Dittberner * Package name: python-errorhandler Version : 1.1.1 Upstream Author : Chris Withers * URL : http://pypi.python.org/pypi/errorhandler * License : MIT Programming Lang: Python Description : Python lo

Re: Speeding up dpkg triggers with a list of changes

2012-10-22 Thread Guillem Jover
On Mon, 2012-10-22 at 20:27:41 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > In the specific case of mandb I'd rather just try first to make the > interest more fine-grained (say one per manN subdir), and changing > mandb to accept subdirs. I think that could improve the current > situation quite a lot w/o other m

Re: Storing additional metadata in the dpkg database [Re: possible mass bug filing for packages shipping stuff in /var/run, /var/lock, /run?]

2012-10-22 Thread Guillem Jover
On Wed, 2012-10-10 at 05:44:25 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: > On 08.10.2012 22:53, Guillem Jover wrote: > > That applies as well to any path generated at maintainer script or > > run time by the package (like state, cache, log files, etc), but I > > don't think it's currently a good idea for these t

Re: Speeding up dpkg triggers with a list of changes

2012-10-22 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Mon, 2012-10-22 at 20:24:33 +0300, Kari Pahula wrote: > I tried out using inotify to speed up dpkg file triggers, with man-db > as a test case, not that this approach is limited to that. > I'd say that doing this is a worthwhile thing, but I'd like to discuss > the specifics. How closely

Speeding up dpkg triggers with a list of changes

2012-10-22 Thread Kari Pahula
I had a fun little weekend project. I tried out using inotify to speed up dpkg file triggers, with man-db as a test case, not that this approach is limited to that. My code consists of two programs, one that parses a .triggers file and collects the events in the background and another one that as

Bug#691172: ITP: python-pkginfo -- Query metadatdata from sdists / bdists / installed packages.

2012-10-22 Thread Jan Dittberner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jan Dittberner * Package name: python-pkginfo Version : 0.9 Upstream Author : Tres Seaver, Agendaless Consulting * URL : http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pkginfo/ * License : Python Software Foundation License Programming La

Bug#691150: ITP: ruby-mysql2 -- A modern, simple and very fast Mysql library for Ruby - binding to libmysql

2012-10-22 Thread Michael Franzl
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Michael Franzl * Package name: ruby-mysql2 Version : 0.3.11 Upstream Author : Brian Lopez * URL : https://github.com/brianmario/mysql2 * License : MIT Programming Lang: Ruby, C Description : A modern, simple and v