Re: Finding correct component for Virtual Box / Debian / screen resolution issue

2013-08-06 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On Tue, Aug 06, 2013 at 11:24:15PM +0200, Paul Wise wrote: > On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 4:50 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > I strongly oppose installing, by default, any userland program that > > takes over such low-level hardware control. > > Considering that Linux (on my machine) doesn't appear to

Re: Finding correct component for Virtual Box / Debian / screen resolution issue

2013-08-06 Thread adrelanos
Paul Wise: >> In /etc/default/grub using GRUB_GFXMODE="1280x1024" works, but only for >> the grub boot menu. >> >> I don't know which driver/module grub is loading to achieve that. Other >> then the GRUB_GFXMODE="1280x1024 change, no other changes. So grub >> default, whatever that is. Any way I co

Re: Bug#718791: ITP: mikutter -- Simple, powerful and moeful twitter client

2013-08-06 Thread dai
On Tue, Aug 06, 2013 at 11:33:07PM +0200, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > > > > Description : Simple, powerful and moeful twitter client > > > > > > > > > > > Mikutter is a simple, powerful and moeful twitter client. > This may be obvious to the average otaku, but not so much to > $debian_user

re: Non-identical files with identical md5sums on Debian systems?

2013-08-06 Thread peter green
I do occasionally check for identical files on different systems by comparing their md5sums. So, just out of interest, could someone tell me (how to find out) how many non-identical files with identical md5sums there are there on a typical (say, amd64) Debian system? Assuming the output of md5 is

Re: Bug#717083: ITP: pychef -- Python library to interact with the Chef server API

2013-08-06 Thread Nick Phillips
On Tue, 2013-08-06 at 20:42 +0100, Wolodja Wentland wrote: > On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 12:23 -0300, Miguel Landaeta wrote: > > Package: wnpp > > Severity: wishlist > > Owner: Miguel Landaeta > > > > * Package name: pychef > > Version : 0.2.2 > > Upstream Author : Noah Kantrowitz >

Re: Finding correct component for Virtual Box / Debian / screen resolution issue

2013-08-06 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 11:42 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > Linux doesn't (normally) control the fan speed; that's handled by a > microcontroller. Hmm, ok. > And where should that manual configuration come from, if thinkfan is > automatically installed? I created mine by reading the documentation i

Re: We need a global decision about R data in binary format, and stick to it.

2013-08-06 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, Aug 05, 2013 at 05:44:16PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: > > > My last question is, given the answers to the previous questions, what > > do we do with the R packages that are already in the archive and also > > contain data that is editable as is but do have an original source, > > who wil

Re: Finding correct component for Virtual Box / Debian / screen resolution issue

2013-08-06 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Tue, 2013-08-06 at 23:24 +0200, Paul Wise wrote: > On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 4:50 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > I strongly oppose installing, by default, any userland program that > > takes over such low-level hardware control. > > Considering that Linux (on my machine) doesn't appear to be able

Re: Bug#718912: ITP: pdfjs -- PDF reader in Javascript

2013-08-06 Thread Shawn
On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 2:31 PM, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > On Tue, 2013-08-06 at 14:19 -0700, Shawn Landden wrote: > > * Package name: pdfjs > > Version : master > > Upstream Author : Mozilla > > * URL : http://mozilla.github.io/pdf.js/ > > This has been in the archive fo

Re: Bug#718791: ITP: mikutter -- Simple, powerful and moeful twitter client

2013-08-06 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Wed, 2013-08-07 at 01:54 +0800, Chow Loong Jin wrote: > On Tue, Aug 06, 2013 at 04:56:51PM +0200, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > On Tue, 2013-08-06 at 12:46 +0800, Chow Loong Jin wrote: > > > On Tue, Aug 06, 2013 at 11:59:29AM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > > > > On Mon, Aug 05, 2013 at 10:35:01PM +0

Re: Bug#718912: ITP: pdfjs -- PDF reader in Javascript

2013-08-06 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Tue, 2013-08-06 at 14:19 -0700, Shawn Landden wrote: > * Package name: pdfjs > Version : master > Upstream Author : Mozilla > * URL : http://mozilla.github.io/pdf.js/ This has been in the archive for a few months already - http://packages.qa.debian.org/p/pdf.js.html

Re: Finding correct component for Virtual Box / Debian / screen resolution issue

2013-08-06 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 4:50 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > I strongly oppose installing, by default, any userland program that > takes over such low-level hardware control. Considering that Linux (on my machine) doesn't appear to be able to spin the fans up to full speed and in general control the fa

Bug#718912: ITP: pdfjs -- PDF reader in Javascript

2013-08-06 Thread Shawn Landden
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Shawn Landden * Package name: pdfjs Version : master Upstream Author : Mozilla * URL : http://mozilla.github.io/pdf.js/ * License : Apache-2 Programming Lang: javascript Description : PDF reader in Javascript pd

Bug#718910: ITP: systemd-cron -- systemd units to provide minimal cron daemon functionality

2013-08-06 Thread Shawn Landden
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Shawn Landden * Package name: systemd-cron Version : 1.1.1 Upstream Author : dbent * URL : https://github.com/dbent/systemd-cron * License : MIT/X Programming Lang: systemd Description : systemd units to provide

Re: Bug#717083: ITP: pychef -- Python library to interact with the Chef server API

2013-08-06 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 12:23 -0300, Miguel Landaeta wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Miguel Landaeta > > * Package name: pychef > Version : 0.2.2 > Upstream Author : Noah Kantrowitz > * URL : https://github.com/coderanger/pychef > * License

Re: Bug#716981: ITP: libcore-cache-clojure -- cache abstraction library

2013-08-06 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 16:38 +0200, Eugenio Cano-Manuel Mendoza wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: "Eugenio Cano-Manuel Mendoza" > > * Package name: libcore-cache-clojure > Version : 0.6.2 > Upstream Author : Michael Fogus > * URL : https://github.c

Re: Bug#718791: ITP: mikutter -- Simple, powerful and moeful twitter client

2013-08-06 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On Tue, Aug 06, 2013 at 04:56:51PM +0200, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Tue, 2013-08-06 at 12:46 +0800, Chow Loong Jin wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 06, 2013 at 11:59:29AM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > > > On Mon, Aug 05, 2013 at 10:35:01PM +0900, HIGUCHI Daisuke (VDR dai) wrote: > > > > Package: wnpp > > >

Re: C++11

2013-08-06 Thread Dmitrijs Ledkovs
On 6 August 2013 14:41, Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote: > Hello, > > I am the maintainer of Wt [1], a C++ web development library (think of Qt or > Gtk+ for the web) and web server. > > My upstream [2] sent me a mail asking about mixing C++03 and C++11. My > understanding is it is not possible for a va

Re: Finding correct component for Virtual Box / Debian / screen resolution issue

2013-08-06 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Mon, Aug 05, 2013 at 04:15:29PM +, adrelanos wrote: > >> This question is about Virtual Box / Debian / screen resolution without > >> having guest additions installed. > > > > I see, is there any reason to not do that? > > Security reasons. It weakens isolation between guest and host. See

Re: We need a global decision about R data in binary format, and stick to it.

2013-08-06 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Ian Jackson chiark.greenend.org.uk> writes: > Jeremy Stanley writes ("Re: We need a global decision about R data in binary format, and stick to it."): > > interpreted strongly. For example I have a program which relies on a > > fairly large set of correlative data requiring hours of expensive >

Re: SID: Trap divide error 0 in libc

2013-08-06 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Christian Haul web.de> writes: > After the upgrade Boot falls with multiple errors, a common part is > trap divide error ip:7f88f70e601b sp:7fffde9ce760 error:0 in libc-2.17.so[7f88f70b9000+1a2000] I think that’s the x32 stuff. I get a /core file for it, even: tglase@tglase:~ $ file /core /core

Re: Bug#718791: ITP: mikutter -- Simple, powerful and moeful twitter client

2013-08-06 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Tue, 2013-08-06 at 12:46 +0800, Chow Loong Jin wrote: > On Tue, Aug 06, 2013 at 11:59:29AM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 05, 2013 at 10:35:01PM +0900, HIGUCHI Daisuke (VDR dai) wrote: > > > Package: wnpp > > > Severity: wishlist > > > Owner: "HIGUCHI Daisuke (VDR dai)" > > > >

Re: Finding correct component for Virtual Box / Debian / screen resolution issue

2013-08-06 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2013-08-05 at 16:15 +, adrelanos wrote: > Paul Wise: > >> This question is about Virtual Box / Debian / screen resolution without > >> having guest additions installed. > > > > I see, is there any reason to not do that? > > Security reasons. It weakens isolation between guest and host

Re: Finding correct component for Virtual Box / Debian / screen resolution issue

2013-08-06 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2013-08-05 at 10:58 +0200, Paul Wise wrote: > On Sun, Aug 4, 2013 at 3:09 PM, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > > Doesn't look like something to be run in d-i. > > As I understand it, isenkram is just a proof of concept of the idea. > It also seems to be a reimplementation of discover? > > > di

Re: SID: Trap divide error 0 in libc

2013-08-06 Thread Ondřej Surý
Hi Christian, On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 3:10 PM, Christian Haul wrote: > Hi, > Im running sid now sucessfully for a couple oft years. The last update on > 4.8. gives me some headaches, though. > After the upgrade Boot falls with multiple errors, a common part is > trap divide error ip:7f88f70e601b

C++11

2013-08-06 Thread Pau Garcia i Quiles
Hello, I am the maintainer of Wt [1], a C++ web development library (think of Qt or Gtk+ for the web) and web server. My upstream [2] sent me a mail asking about mixing C++03 and C++11. My understanding is it is not possible for a variety of reasons, unless all players take great care (see [3], f

SID: Trap divide error 0 in libc

2013-08-06 Thread Christian Haul
Hi, Im running sid now sucessfully for a couple oft years. The last update on 4.8. gives me some headaches, though. After the upgrade Boot falls with multiple errors, a common part is trap divide error ip:7f88f70e601b sp:7fffde9ce760 error:0 in libc-2.17.so[7f88f70b9000+1a2000] I can however Boo

Re: Finding correct component for Virtual Box / Debian / screen resolution issue

2013-08-06 Thread Bastian Blank
On Tue, Aug 06, 2013 at 01:13:52PM +0200, Paul Wise wrote: > On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 12:37 PM, Felix Geyer wrote: > > Are source packages in contrib allowed to have binary packages in main? > I don't think that is allowed nor would it make sense. It is not allowed. The support was discontinued some

Re: Finding correct component for Virtual Box / Debian / screen resolution issue

2013-08-06 Thread Adam Borowski
On Tue, Aug 06, 2013 at 12:37:54PM +0200, Felix Geyer wrote: > Are source packages in contrib allowed to have binary packages in main? The other way around: sources in main are allowed to produce packages in contrib. That's why even if 90% of binaries are in contrib, the source still has to be in

Re: Finding correct component for Virtual Box / Debian / screen resolution issue

2013-08-06 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 12:37 PM, Felix Geyer wrote: > Are source packages in contrib allowed to have binary packages in main? I don't think that is allowed nor would it make sense. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Finding correct component for Virtual Box / Debian / screen resolution issue

2013-08-06 Thread Felix Geyer
On 2013-08-03 16:49, Adam Borowski wrote: While the host part indeed needs to be contrib because a bit of 16 bit code requires a non-free compiler, and the alternative, EFI, is not really ready, I consider having the _guest_ outside main to be a packaging error. Mostly because it prevents d-i

Re: Finding correct component for Virtual Box / Debian / screen resolution issue

2013-08-06 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 6:15 PM, adrelanos wrote: > Security reasons. It weakens isolation between guest and host. See also > [1]. Another reason is, guest additions are every now and then not > installable. Makes sense. > Maybe. Have they been forwarded upstream? Are there workarounds? Not acco