Bug#719458: ITP: python-contextlib2 -- Backported utilities for context management

2013-08-11 Thread Tristan Seligmann
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Tristan Seligmann * Package name: python-contextlib2 Version : 0.4.0 Upstream Author : Nick Coghlan * URL : http://contextlib2.readthedocs.org/ * License : PSF License Programming Lang: Python Description : Backpo

Re: UTF-8 in jessie

2013-08-11 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 02:51:52AM +0200, Adam Borowski a écrit : > > I would like to propose full UTF-8 support. I don't mean here full > support for all of Unicode's finer points, merely complete eradication of > mojibake. Hi Adam, this is a great goal. Here are two comments. There is a rel

Re: UTF-8 in jessie

2013-08-11 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 02:51:52AM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > [...] > > On the other hand, detecting text files is hard. The best tool so far, > "file", makes so many errors it's useless for this purpose. One could use > location: like, declaring stuff in /etc/ and /usr/share/doc/ to be text

UTF-8 in jessie

2013-08-11 Thread Adam Borowski
On Mon, May 06, 2013 at 02:49:57PM +0200, Andreas Beckmann wrote: > now might be the right time to start a discussion about release goals > for jessie. I would like to propose full UTF-8 support. I don't mean here full support for all of Unicode's finer points, merely complete eradication of moji

Bug#719436: ITP: autorevision -- extracts metadata about the current revision from your repository

2013-08-11 Thread Paul Wise
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Paul Wise * Package name: autorevision Version : 1.4 Upstream Author : dak180, Eric S. Raymond * URL : http://www.catb.org/esr/autorevision/ * License : MIT Programming Lang: shell Description : extracts metadata

Re: unnecessarily tight dependency on R for r-cran-scales

2013-08-11 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Faheem, On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 12:24:23PM +0530, Faheem Mitha wrote: > >One could consider adding systematically the magic tilde to the > >version numbers passed to ${R:Depends}, but at that point, I think > >that it is even better to implement a versionned R API number. > > A versioned R API

Bug#719421: ITP: libreturn-multilevel-perl -- Perl module to enable returning from a nested call stack

2013-08-11 Thread Florian Schlichting
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Florian Schlichting * Package name: libreturn-multilevel-perl Version : 0.03 Upstream Author : Lukas Mai, * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Return-MultiLevel/ * License : GPL-1+, Artistic Programming Lang: Perl Des

Re: Bug#719323: ITP: jackson-core -- fast and powerful JSON library for Java

2013-08-11 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 12:52 +0100, Stephen Nelson wrote: > On 11 Aug 2013 00:32, "Wolodja Wentland" wrote: >> It is not, but thank you for catching this and reviewing WNPP bugs! :) >> libjackson-json-java is version 1.* of the JSON processoe by FasterXML >> while I plan to package version 2.* w

Re: Bug#719323: ITP: jackson-core -- fast and powerful JSON library for Java

2013-08-11 Thread Stephen Nelson
On 11 Aug 2013 00:32, "Wolodja Wentland" wrote: > It is not, but thank you for catching this and reviewing WNPP bugs! :) > > libjackson-json-java is version 1.* of the JSON processoe by FasterXML while I > plan to package version 2.* which has been split into a number of packages and > should be p

Bug#719356: ITP: libarchive-any-lite-perl -- simple CPAN package extractor

2013-08-11 Thread Florian Schlichting
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Florian Schlichting * Package name: libarchive-any-lite-perl Version : 0.07 Upstream Author : Kenichi Ishigaki, * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Archive-Any-Lite/ * License : GPL-1+, Artistic Programming Lang: Perl