Work-needing packages report for Feb 20, 2015

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: 668 (new: 1) Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 151 (new: 0) Total number of packages request

Re: Should .a library contains non-reallocatable code?

Here are two scenarios where building a static library (libfoo) with -fPIC is desirable: * libbar has a stable API, so it should be shipped as a .so, but if it links libfoo.a, and libfoo.a is not -fPIC, then libbar has to be shipped as a a static library too * foomodule is a Python wrappe

Re: Should .a library contains non-reallocatable code?

* Dmitry Katsubo , 2015-02-14, 13:31: I wonder what is the current state-of-art concerning the code in .a library (archive for static linking). Should it contain PIC code? This is what Debian Policy (§10.2) currently says: “As to the static libraries, the common case is not to have relocatable

Re: Hosting offers for Debian development

On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 02:52:51PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: > I recently had a need for a service machine, and DSA have been very > helpful and constructive. > > I really recommend that if you have a similar need, you send an email > to DSA explaining what you are trying to do (including the >

Bug#778789: ITP: python-congressclient -- client for the open policy framework for the cloud

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Thomas Goirand * Package name: python-congressclient Version : 1.0.2 Upstream Author : OpenStack Foundation * URL : https://github.com/stackforge/python-congressclient * License : Apache-2.0 Programming Lang: Python

RE:Bug#778417: ITP: netcdf-python -- python interface to the netCDF4 (network Common Data Form) library

Hi everyone, PICCA Frederic-Emmanuel writes: > @Konrad do you think that this netcdf implementation from scientific python > could be replace by this > netcdf4-python implementation ? Should we get rid of your implentation and > use this one instead (to be clear) The main problem with Pytho

deadline tommorrow! Re: Call for Debian projects and mentors in the Google Summer of Code 2015

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 There are just three ideas there so far, including the one I just added myself - for anybody who hasn't participated in GSoC before, I personally feel there are some really good things about this program both for free software and for Debian and it

Re: Hosting offers for Debian development

Mehdi Dogguy writes ("Re: Hosting offers for Debian development"): > I imagine that this kind of question has been asked many times in the past > but I didn't see a formal answer for it[1]: If someone is working on some > new project/service for Debian and wants to be hosted on a DSA-managed > mach

Bug#778764: ITP: ruby-test-construct -- Ruby library that creates temporary files and directories for testing

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alexander Gerasiov * Package name: ruby-test-construct Version : 2.0.0 Upstream Author : Ben Brinckerhoff * URL : https://github.com/bhb/test_construct * License : MIT/Expat Programming Lang: Ruby Description : Ru

Bug#778763: ITP: capture-output -- Ruby library to grab given IO output and return it as a string

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alexander Gerasiov * Package name: ruby-capture-output Version : 1.0.0 Upstream Author : Jakub Pastuszek * URL : https://github.com/jpastuszek/capture-output * License : MIT/Expat Programming Lang: Ruby Description

Re: moving to multiarch for packages with plugins

Wow -- thanks so much everyone who replied. This is really helpful! Cheers, Dennis van Dok (on behalf of the other developers) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.