Bug#803354: ITP: dsfmt -- dSFMT pseudorandom number generator

2015-10-28 Thread Peter Colberg
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Peter Colberg * Package name: dsfmt Version : 2.2.3 Upstream Author : Mutsuo Saito and Makoto Matsumoto * URL : http://www.math.sci.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/~m-mat/MT/SFMT/ * License : BSD-3-clause Programming Lang: C Descri

Re: PCRE package naming

2015-10-28 Thread Russ Allbery
Matthew Vernon writes: > No, the -dev packages will need to be co-installable, too. I expect > we'll need to ship PCRE (including its -dev package) for quite some time. > ...so I'm still not sure what to call PCRE2 :-/ It's pretty ugly, but I'd tend to use libpcre-v2-dev. Hopefully people will

Re: PCRE package naming

2015-10-28 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, Simon Richter writes: > Hi Matthew, > > On 22.10.2015 16:47, Matthew Vernon wrote: > > > Upstream has a new PCRE library, which they hope everyone will > > eventually migrate to, which is called PCRE2. It is currently version > > 10.20. It ships things named like libpcre2-8.so.0, and its p

Re: Bug#803303: general: Standardized troubleshooting

2015-10-28 Thread Marc Haber
On Wed, 28 Oct 2015 11:36:42 -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: >Concrete suggestion: add a "TROUBLESHOOTING" section in the manpage of every >program, explaining how to get more info about what's going on when the program >doesn't do what the user wants. Good Idea. You can begin filing documentation p

Bug#803303: general: Standardized troubleshooting

2015-10-28 Thread Stefan Monnier
Package: general Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, I've been using Debian on all my machines for many years and am generally very happy with it but I recently realized that my experience could have been even better (both for me and for the maintainers of all the packages I use) if it were easie

Bug#803280: ITP: libtext-unicode-equivalents-perl -- build Unicode canonically equivalent strings

2015-10-28 Thread Daniel Glassey
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: w...@debian.org X-Debbugs-CC: debian-p...@lists.debian.org, debian-devel@lists.debian.org Package name: libtext-unicode-equivalents-perl Version : 0.05 Upstream Author : Bob Hallissy URL : https://metacpan.org/release/Text-Unicode-Eq

Bug#803257: ITP: reactivedata -- FRP with incremental changes in data structures

2015-10-28 Thread Stéphane Glondu
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Stéphane Glondu" * Package name: reactivedata Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : Hugo Heuzard * URL : https://github.com/ocsigen/reactiveData * License : LGPL Programming Lang: OCaml Description : FRP with increment

Re: Linux kernels v3.18.x and v4.2.x in sid

2015-10-28 Thread Ian Campbell
On Tue, 2015-10-27 at 23:00 +0100, Dmitry Katsubo wrote: > On 27/10/2015 10:31, Ian Campbell wrote: > > > Hm, kernel.org says that 3.18 is the long-term support kernel. > > > > I'm afraid that LTS from kernel.org != stable support from Debian. > > > > Debian typically picks a single kernel versio