Re: arm64 update - help wanted

2014-05-15 Thread Ian Campbell
On Thu, 2014-05-15 at 22:49 -0300, Antonio Terceiro wrote: > On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 08:20:53PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > > On Thu, 2014-05-15 at 02:10 +0100, Wookey wrote: > > > Also if anyone has expertise in language porting we'd like to hear > > > from you. Below is the list of languages we

Bug#748321: ITP: raceintospace -- free software version of the Liftoff! board game

2014-05-15 Thread Dariusz Dwornikowski
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Dariusz Dwornikowski * Package name: raceintospace Version : 1.1 Upstream Author : Michael K McCarty , Pace Willisson , Krzysztof Kosciuszkiewicz , Wil

Re: arm64 update - help wanted

2014-05-15 Thread Antonio Terceiro
On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 08:20:53PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Thu, 2014-05-15 at 02:10 +0100, Wookey wrote: > > Also if anyone has expertise in language porting we'd like to hear > > from you. Below is the list of languages we believe still need porting to > > arm64: > > Ruby wasn't on the l

Work-needing packages report for May 16, 2014

2014-05-15 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: 589 (new: 21) Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 135 (new: 0) Total number of packages reques

mirror.debian.net zone deprecation

2014-05-15 Thread Luca Filipozzi
Hi, The mirror.debian.net zone's records have been unmaintained for some time and the count of queries against the zone is exceedingly low. The Debian Mirror Team does not need the zone and the Debian System Administration Team would like to remove this 'special snowflake' delegation from debian.

Re: mirror.debian.net down?

2014-05-15 Thread Luca Filipozzi
On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 01:16:58AM +0100, Steven Chamberlain wrote: > On 16/05/14 00:00, Luca Filipozzi wrote: > > I'm guessing the gb.* lookups are mostly you. The au.* lookups are DSA. > > > > That leaves somebody looking up nl*. You and he/she might be the last > > users of this zone. > > Wh

Re: arm64 update - help wanted

2014-05-15 Thread Matthias Klose
Am 15.05.2014 03:10, schrieb Wookey: > Go (we have gccgo, but not gcgo) this is not arm64 specific. Debian has a serious problem in that the current Go maintainers are focused on gc only, which only supports amd64, i386, armhf, and probably armel. > Mono needs porting > GCL > CLISP need porti

Re: mirror.debian.net down?

2014-05-15 Thread Steven Chamberlain
Hi, On 16/05/14 00:00, Luca Filipozzi wrote: > I'm guessing the gb.* lookups are mostly you. The au.* lookups are DSA. > > That leaves somebody looking up nl*. You and he/she might be the last users > of > this zone. Why did you discount the fr., it. and us. queries? nl.arm. does not seem to

Re: arm64 update - help wanted

2014-05-15 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 02:10:39AM +0100, Wookey wrote: > GHCi (ghc is done, but not ghci - is this hard?) This is hard. You need either an LLVM-based port or a native code generator, and in either case I think you need some linker support in GHC. Both of these are serious compiler engineer proj

Re: arm64 update - help wanted

2014-05-15 Thread Sébastien Villemot
Le jeudi 15 mai 2014 à 02:10 +0100, Wookey a écrit : > Also if anyone has expertise in language porting we'd like to hear > from you. Below is the list of languages we believe still need porting to > arm64: > Julia Note that currently Julia is only available on i386/amd64 (so no armel/armhf for

Re: mirror.debian.net down?

2014-05-15 Thread Luca Filipozzi
On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 12:27:19AM +0100, Steven Chamberlain wrote: > On 14/05/14 23:34, Luca Filipozzi wrote: > >> In the last week at least 13 of my own servers/VMs at two sites (each site > >> has a caching DNS resolver), my desktop and also my laptop from offsite > >> have been querying this zo

Re: arm64 update - help wanted

2014-05-15 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
2014-05-15 02:10 Wookey: The debian-port arm64 rebootstrap is progressing nicely, and we just passed 4200 source packages built, with another few hundred pending. There are now 2 buildds running. In the course of that 344 have failed to build, (see http://buildd.debian-ports.org/status/architect

Re: Dealing with emacs21 (and related) bugs [was: Re: ignoring bugs with no maintainer]

2014-05-15 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, 2014-05-15 at 18:48 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: [...] > For example, one of the oldest open emacs bugs is my own bug #9741 > from May 1997. It should clearly remain open. [...] That is your opinion. Really, it is up to the maintainer(s) whether they leave a bug open (or tag it 'wontfix') w

Re: systemd-fsck?

2014-05-15 Thread Guido Günther
On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 07:51:37AM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > > From: Guido =?iso-8859-1?Q?G=FCnther?= > > >GTK+3 supports themes > > GTK/GNOME people have stated numerous times that they do not want > them. There's not Debian people and not Gtk+/GNOME people, this current thread shows t

Re: systemd-fsck?

2014-05-15 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeudi 15 mai 2014 à 07:51 +, Thorsten Glaser a écrit : > > From: Guido =?iso-8859-1?Q?G=FCnther?= > > >GTK+3 supports themes > > GTK/GNOME people have stated numerous times that they do not want them. Do you have a quote to back up your claims? The fact is that themes are supported, a

Re: arm64 update - help wanted

2014-05-15 Thread Ian Campbell
On Thu, 2014-05-15 at 02:10 +0100, Wookey wrote: > Also if anyone has expertise in language porting we'd like to hear > from you. Below is the list of languages we believe still need porting to > arm64: Ruby wasn't on the list, is that under control? Ruby seems to be at the bottom of the build-d

Re: Release Notes (and any other documentation) (was: systemd-fsck?)

2014-05-15 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 06:33:41PM +0200, Luca Capello wrote: > ...despite the above, MANY THANKS to all people writing the Release > Notes (and any other official documentation), which is highly > important at least for me, as well as a pleasure to read. Hear hear, strongly and fully ack'd. (And

Dealing with emacs21 (and related) bugs [was: Re: ignoring bugs with no maintainer]

2014-05-15 Thread Ian Jackson
Andrei POPESCU writes ("Dealing with emacs21 (and related) bugs [was: Re: ignoring bugs with no maintainer]"): > On Jo, 15 mai 14, 13:43:31, Ian Jackson wrote: > > One of my bugs was involved in this situation and I was one of the > > people (the person?) who objected. I contacted the maintainer

Re: Dealing with emacs21 (and related) bugs [was: Re: ignoring bugs with no maintainer]

2014-05-15 Thread Russ Allbery
Jean-Christophe Dubacq writes: > Completely at random, I tested this one: > • #128748 [w| | ] [emacs21] emacs21: M-x word-count (from xemacs) is > missing? > It happens that this one is solved in emacs24, not in emacs23. > What should be done: reassign to emacs23 (which obviously will never

Re: Dealing with emacs21 (and related) bugs [was: Re: ignoring bugs with no maintainer]

2014-05-15 Thread Jean-Christophe Dubacq
On 15/05/2014 17:06, Russ Allbery wrote: > Andrei POPESCU writes: > >> For this concrete case, might I suggest following course of action: > >> 1. ping all submitters of emacs21 (and related) bugs to test against >> recent emacs (at a minimum emacs23 from wheezy) and deal with the bug as >> ne

Re: preparing for GCC 4.9 (bug squashing on May 16/17)

2014-05-15 Thread Wookey
+++ Matthias Klose [2014-05-13 14:56 +0200]: > With gcc-4.9 now available in testing, it is time to prepare for the change of > the default to 4.9, for a subset of architectures or for all (release) > architectures. The defaults for the gdc, gccgo, gcj and gnat frontends > already > point to 4.9

Release Notes (and any other documentation) (was: systemd-fsck?)

2014-05-15 Thread Luca Capello
Hi there! Nothing related to any init system in Debian, but... On Tue, 13 May 2014 19:19:54 +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Thibaut Paumard (2014-05-13): >> Le 13/05/2014 17:36, Russ Allbery a écrit : >> > Right, which I've been arguing for already in this thread. I don't think >> > we should f

Bug#748273: ITP: flower -- web based tool for monitoring and administrating Celery clusters

2014-05-15 Thread Benjamin Drung
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Benjamin Drung * Package name: flower (binary: python-flower) Version : 0.6.0+dfsg Upstream Author : Mher Movsisyan * URL : https://github.com/mher/flower * License : BSD Programming Lang: Python Description : web

Re: Dealing with emacs21 (and related) bugs [was: Re: ignoring bugs with no maintainer]

2014-05-15 Thread Russ Allbery
Andrei POPESCU writes: > For this concrete case, might I suggest following course of action: > 1. ping all submitters of emacs21 (and related) bugs to test against > recent emacs (at a minimum emacs23 from wheezy) and deal with the bug as > needed > 2. if no response within a reasonable amount

Dealing with emacs21 (and related) bugs [was: Re: ignoring bugs with no maintainer]

2014-05-15 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 15 mai 14, 13:43:31, Ian Jackson wrote: > Andrei POPESCU writes ("Re: ignoring bugs with no maintainer (Re: Removal of > emacs23 from unstable/testing)"): > > Last time someone (Bcc'd) tried to tackle these (admittedly without > > contacting the maintainer in advance) the contributor was pr

Bug#748235: ITP: liboptimization-java -- Nonlinear Optimization Java Package

2014-05-15 Thread Andreas Tille
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andreas Tille * Package name: liboptimization-java Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : Steve Verrill * URL : http://www1.fpl.fs.fed.us/optimization.html * License : Public Domain Programming Lang: Java Description :

Re: ignoring bugs with no maintainer (Re: Removal of emacs23 from unstable/testing)

2014-05-15 Thread Ian Jackson
Andrei POPESCU writes ("Re: ignoring bugs with no maintainer (Re: Removal of emacs23 from unstable/testing)"): > Last time someone (Bcc'd) tried to tackle these (admittedly without > contacting the maintainer in advance) the contributor was prevented > from doing so and was requested to either che

Re: ignoring bugs with no maintainer (Re: Removal of emacs23 from unstable/testing)

2014-05-15 Thread Ian Jackson
Rob Browning writes ("Re: ignoring bugs with no maintainer (Re: Removal of emacs23 from unstable/testing)"): > Don Armstrong writes: > > The right solution for these (and other bugs which happen when source > > packages are renamed) is for the bugs to follow the new source package > > name. ... >

Re: systemd-fsck?

2014-05-15 Thread Gergely Nagy
Thibaut Paumard writes: > Le 15/05/2014 10:55, Gergely Nagy a écrit : >> You do realise we have one libc (sure, you can install *additional* >> ones, but we have one libc the archive is compiled against), we have one >> package manager (you can, of course, install rpm too, it is packaged!), >> we

Re: systemd-fsck?

2014-05-15 Thread Thibaut Paumard
Le 15/05/2014 10:55, Gergely Nagy a écrit : > You do realise we have one libc (sure, you can install *additional* > ones, but we have one libc the archive is compiled against), we have one > package manager (you can, of course, install rpm too, it is packaged!), > we have one "make" we use to build

Re: systemd-fsck?

2014-05-15 Thread Svante Signell
On Thu, 2014-05-15 at 10:55 +0200, Gergely Nagy wrote: > Thorsten Glaser writes: > > Integration of some components at the cost of disabling the freedom > > of users to choose a different free component that also does the job, > > and at the cost of removing some users' use cases: no. That is not

Re: systemd-fsck?

2014-05-15 Thread Gergely Nagy
Thorsten Glaser writes: >>. This >>> is a perfectly fine job for a derivate or Pure Blend: to provide a >>> polished system that serves one use case well. >> >>Proper integration certainly belongs into Debian or did we become a >>supermarket: > > Proper integration of components: yes. That is the

Re: systemd-fsck?

2014-05-15 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Michael Biebl: > I can not confirm this behaviour Matthias describes with v204. > Sorry, my bad. Turns out that this was not done via the rescue shell. I was using the root shell which you get on TTY9 (assuming it is enabled, which it usually isn't for obvious reasons). Thanks for double-che

Re: systemd-fsck?

2014-05-15 Thread Thorsten Glaser
> From: Guido =?iso-8859-1?Q?G=FCnther?= >GTK+3 supports themes GTK/GNOME people have stated numerous times that they do not want them. >. This >> is a perfectly fine job for a derivate or Pure Blend: to provide a >> polished system that serves one use case well. > >Proper integration certain

Re: Avoiding system d

2014-05-15 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 10:25:52AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > this> It is indeed much easier to throw mud than to bake bricks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://list