Re: Bug#735134: perl: rename(1) is ancient

2014-02-02 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2014-02-02 at 19:42 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Sun, Feb 02, 2014 at 03:12:32PM +, Dominic Hargreaves wrote: > > > > So to summarise: for many years the perl package has provided > > /usr/bin/rename, a stanalone utility implemented in perl. The issue is we > > don't want to provide

Bug#737483: ITP: r-cran-deoptimr -- GNU R package for Diffential Evolution in pure R

2014-02-02 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Package: wnpp Owner: Dirk Eddelbuettel Severity: wishlist * Package name: r-cran-deoptimr Version : 1.0-0 Upstream Author : Eduardo L. T. Conceicao and Martin Maechler * URL or Web page : http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/DEoptimR/index.html * License : GPL (>= 2)

Re: Registering a media type for Debian binary packages ?

2014-02-02 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Charles Plessy , 2014-02-02, 22:23: -download packages from APT (Advanced Packaging Tool) archives that are +download packages from Debian format archives that are “Debian format archives” sounds odd to me. Perhaps it should be “Debian package archives” or simply “Debian archives”? The res

Bug#737467: ITP: libhtml-tagtree-perl -- module that generates HTML via a tree of tag objects

2014-02-02 Thread Radu-Bogdan Croitoru
Package: wnpp Owner: Radu-Bogdan Croitoru Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libhtml-tagtree-perl Version : 1.00 Upstream Author : daniel debrito * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/HTML-TagTree

Re: Bug#735134: perl: rename(1) is ancient

2014-02-02 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, Am Sonntag, den 02.02.2014, 19:31 +0100 schrieb gregor herrmann: > On Sun, 02 Feb 2014 18:05:45 +, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > > > A > > > maintained version is available as a separate package, > > > libfile-rename-perl. > > This is a frustrating package name for an end user binary. Reminds

Re: Bug#735134: perl: rename(1) is ancient

2014-02-02 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sun, 02 Feb 2014 18:05:45 +, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > > A > > maintained version is available as a separate package, libfile-rename-perl. > This is a frustrating package name for an end user binary. Reminds > me of the difficulty I have remembering which package the LWP-tools > "GET" and "

Re: Bug#735134: perl: rename(1) is ancient

2014-02-02 Thread Jonathan Dowland
Hi, I regularly use rename(1) and miss it on non-Debian systems. The fact perl provides it currently doesn't matter to me (or I'd argue any end user) > On 2 Feb 2014, at 15:12, Dominic Hargreaves wrote: > A > maintained version is available as a separate package, libfile-rename-perl. This is a

Re: Bug#735134: perl: rename(1) is ancient

2014-02-02 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sun, Feb 02, 2014 at 03:12:32PM +, Dominic Hargreaves wrote: > > So to summarise: for many years the perl package has provided > /usr/bin/rename, a stanalone utility implemented in perl. The issue is we > don't want to provide the utility from the perl package any more because > it's been a

Bug#737410: ITP: python3-fitbitscraper -- A Python 3 module for scraping steps and sleep data from the FitBit website

2014-02-02 Thread Iain R. Learmonth
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Iain R. Learmonth" * Package name: python3-fitbitscraper Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : Iain R. Learmonth * URL : http://github.com/irl/python-fitbitscraper/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: Python Description

Package vlock and RC bug

2014-02-02 Thread Rodolfo García Peñas
Hi, vlock has a RC bug (#702705). I was working on it and requesting help, without success. The bug seems to be in kernel, not in vlock. But vlock was removed from testing. I sent a patch, and Bastien sent other patch, but these patches doesn't solve the problem, only mitigate it. Could be po

Re: Bug#735134: perl: rename(1) is ancient

2014-02-02 Thread Dominic Hargreaves
[CCing debian-devel to get feedback on a de facto 'standard' tool]. On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 03:34:29PM +, Dominic Hargreaves wrote: > On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 12:59:04PM -0800, Don Armstrong wrote: > > On Tue, 14 Jan 2014, Niko Tyni wrote: > > > I suggest something like > > > > > > - package

Re: Registering a media type for Debian binary packages ?

2014-02-02 Thread James McCoy
On Feb 2, 2014 8:23 AM, "Charles Plessy" wrote: > > -Since the Debian packages vehiculate programs to be installed on a computer, > +Since the Debian packages conveys programs to be installed on a computer, Small nit -- s/conveys/convey/. Cheers, James

Re: Registering a media type for Debian binary packages ?

2014-02-02 Thread Ian Jackson
Charles Plessy writes ("Re: Registering a media type for Debian binary packages ?"): > Dear Jakub, Ian, and everybody, > > would the following patch address your questions ? LGTM Thanks! Ian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: Transition of Icedove 24.2.0 to testing

2014-02-02 Thread Julien Cristau
On Sun, Feb 2, 2014 at 01:00:11 +0100, Carsten Schoenert wrote: > Hello release team, > > as Mike asked a few days before for Iceweasel, would it be possible to > force the transition of the current Icedove version 24.2.0 from unstable > to testing before Christoph will prepare the package for s

Re: Registering a media type for Debian binary packages ?

2014-02-02 Thread Charles Plessy
Dear Jakub, Ian, and everybody, would the following patch address your questions ? --- vnd.debian.package.bak20140202 2014-02-02 22:07:56.175007336 +0900 +++ vnd.debian.package 2014-02-02 22:17:59.342650431 +0900 @@ -18,24 +18,26 @@ Debian binary packages can contain scripts executing arbi

Re: Reproducing build error / environment

2014-02-02 Thread Christoph Ender
>> * Christoph Ender , 2014-02-01, 21:47: >>> I’m currently having trouble reproducing a build error – see >>> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=735757 > On 2014-02-01 22:07 +0100, Jakub Wilk wrote: >> My guess is that the root cause is #735782. Am 02.02.2014 um 09:02 schrieb Sv

Debian on Aakash tablets project (Fwd: Re: [Aakash-hackers] Bootstrapping for Aakash)

2014-02-02 Thread Pirate Praveen
Aakash is the low cost tablet project of Indian government. Aakash-2 is the next generation in Aakash project. Aakash tablets run Android 4.0.4 and this project is an experiment of running Debian on Aakash range of tablets. DebianAakash project is subset/subproject of Debian which can be used as a

Re: Reproducing build error / environment

2014-02-02 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-02-01 22:07 +0100, Jakub Wilk wrote: > * Christoph Ender , 2014-02-01, 21:47: >> I’m currently having trouble reproducing a build error – see >> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=735757 > > My guess is that the root cause is #735782. I think you are right, I merged the two