Work-needing packages report for Jan 31, 2014

2014-01-30 Thread wnpp
The following is a listing of packages for which help has been requested through the WNPP (Work-Needing and Prospective Packages) system in the last week. Total number of orphaned packages: 513 (new: 4) Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 154 (new: 0) Total number of packages request

Re: [RFH] Local wanna-build and buildd setup in unstable

2014-01-30 Thread Philipp Kern
On 2014-01-26 21:13, Karsten Merker wrote: When running buildd (0.64.1-1, current version in unstable), [...] You might want to have a look at the buildd-* branch in git (build-tools.git) or at https://buildd.debian.org/apt/ -- it contains the buildd we actually run. The unstable version is s

Bug#737154: ITP: pencil2d -- Animation/drawing software to create hand-drawn animation using both bitmap and vector graphics

2014-01-30 Thread Mattia Rizzolo
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mattia Rizzolo * Package name: pencil2d Version : 0.5.4 beta Upstream Author : Matt Chang * URL : http://www.pencil2d.org/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: C++ Description : Animation/drawing software to create

[RFC] Cyrus SASL 2.1.26 experimental->unstable

2014-01-30 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
[Note: I am sending this email to both debian-devel and pkg-cyrus-sasl2, as the pkg-cyrus-sasl2 list has low a population of subscribers, and changes to cyrus-sasl2 have the potential impact many other packages.] The cyrus-sasl2 package has seen better days, and I am trying to clean it up and get

Re: Should we try to draw more attention on ITAs waiting for sponsorship (with testing removal) ?

2014-01-30 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 02:40:55PM +, Neil Williams wrote: > > Sometimes it _is_ helpful. Any tools that made it easier to judge when > > would be good. Just being on the mentors list gives a poor overview of > > how much is slipping through the net. > > Personally, I'm wondering how much of w

Re: CUPS is now linked against OpenSSL (and will stay GPLv2-only)

2014-01-30 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le mardi, 28 janvier 2014, 16.07:34 Daniel Kahn Gillmor a écrit : > On Sun 2013-12-22 14:12:40 -0500, Andreas Metzler wrote: > > #3 Hope that GMP is relicensed to GPL2+/LGPLv3+ > > On Tue 2014-01-14 04:53:51 -0500, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: > > 2) GnuTLS > > > >2.x is useable but deprecated

Re: Should we try to draw more attention on ITAs waiting for sponsorship (with testing removal) ?

2014-01-30 Thread Nicolas Dandrimont
* Olivier Berger [2014-01-30 13:51:40 +0100]: > Hi. > > I'm not sure this is really a problem we should address. Sorry if I'm > overlooking details. > > I suspect we have quite a few orphaned old packages still in testing, > for which an ITA (Intent to Adopt) has been offered by a non DD, whic

Re: Sketches and diagrams in open source software development

2014-01-30 Thread Paul R. Tagliamonte
I've got some I drew up, I'll add them shortlyish On Jan 30, 2014 1:10 AM, "Paul Wise" wrote: > On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 9:29 PM, Sebastian Baltes wrote: > > > Any ideas where I can find sketches and diagrams that are related to the > > development of Debian? > > I just created a page of links to

Re: Should we try to draw more attention on ITAs waiting for sponsorship (with testing removal) ?

2014-01-30 Thread Neil Williams
On Thu, 30 Jan 2014 13:41:16 + Wookey wrote: > +++ Neil Williams [2014-01-30 13:25 +]: > > On Thu, 30 Jan 2014 13:51:40 +0100 > > Olivier Berger wrote: > > > > > I myself isn't very motivated to sponsor packages which I don't > > > use... but maybe I'm not noticing at all (or didn't rea

Re: Should we try to draw more attention on ITAs waiting for sponsorship (with testing removal) ?

2014-01-30 Thread Balint Reczey
Hi, On 01/30/2014 02:25 PM, Neil Williams wrote: > On Thu, 30 Jan 2014 13:51:40 +0100 > Olivier Berger wrote: > >> I myself isn't very motivated to sponsor packages which I don't >> use... but maybe I'm not noticing at all (or didn't read >> how-can-i-help messages ;-). > > That's the crux of i

Re: Should we try to draw more attention on ITAs waiting for sponsorship (with testing removal) ?

2014-01-30 Thread Wookey
+++ Neil Williams [2014-01-30 13:25 +]: > On Thu, 30 Jan 2014 13:51:40 +0100 > Olivier Berger wrote: > > > I myself isn't very motivated to sponsor packages which I don't > > use... but maybe I'm not noticing at all (or didn't read > > how-can-i-help messages ;-). > > That's the crux of it -

Re: Should we try to draw more attention on ITAs waiting for sponsorship (with testing removal) ?

2014-01-30 Thread Neil Williams
On Thu, 30 Jan 2014 13:51:40 +0100 Olivier Berger wrote: > I myself isn't very motivated to sponsor packages which I don't > use... but maybe I'm not noticing at all (or didn't read > how-can-i-help messages ;-). That's the crux of it - a sponsor needs some level of interest in the package, beyo

Should we try to draw more attention on ITAs waiting for sponsorship (with testing removal) ?

2014-01-30 Thread Olivier Berger
Hi. I'm not sure this is really a problem we should address. Sorry if I'm overlooking details. I suspect we have quite a few orphaned old packages still in testing, for which an ITA (Intent to Adopt) has been offered by a non DD, which is waiting for sponsorship. Typically, some of these potentia

Bug#737107: ITP: appdirs -- determining appropriate platform-specific directories

2014-01-30 Thread Benjamin Drung
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Benjamin Drung * Package name: appdirs Binary names: python-appdirs and python3-appdirs Version : 1.2.0+git20130326 Upstream Author : Trent Mick * URL : https://github.com/ActiveState/appdirs * License : MIT Progr

Bug#737099: ITP: mapsembler2 -- bioinformatics targeted assembly software

2014-01-30 Thread Olivier Sallou
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Olivier Sallou * Package name: mapsembler2 Version : 2.0.5 Upstream Author : INRIA * URL : https://colibread.inria.fr/mapsembler2/ * License : CeCILL Programming Lang: C Description : bioinformatics targeted asse

Bug#737098: ITP: discosnp -- discovering Single Nucleotide Polymorphism (SNP) from raw set(s) of reads obtained with Next Generation Sequencers

2014-01-30 Thread Olivier Sallou
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Olivier Sallou * Package name: discosnp Version : 1.0.1 Upstream Author : INRIA * URL : http://colibread.inria.fr/discosnp/ * License : CeCILL Programming Lang: C Description : discovering Single Nucleotide Polymo

Re: Bits from the Release Team: Architecture health check

2014-01-30 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Thu, January 30, 2014 08:20, Peter Palfrader wrote: > On sparc, it's dies under load -- at least on smetana and spontini. Not > on sompek and stadler though. schroeder and lebrun are also running > squeeze kernels. At work we've seen regular kernel panics when we upgraded two sparc machines

Re: Bits from the Release Team: Architecture health check

2014-01-30 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 29/01/14 at 19:41 +0100, Niels Thykier wrote: > "Recursive" auto-removals temporarily suspended > === > > We have received complaints that package maintainers felt surprised > and inadequately warned, when their packages were removed due to a(n > indi

Bug#737094: ITP: jsch-agent-proxy -- Proxy to ssh-agent and Pageant in Java

2014-01-30 Thread Emmanuel Bourg
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Emmanuel Bourg * Package name: jsch-agent-proxy Version : 0.0.7 Upstream Author : Atsuhiko Yamanaka * URL : https://github.com/ymnk/jsch-agent-proxy * License : BSD Programming Lang: Java Description : Proxy to s