Re: Verifying dep-5

2016-05-29 Thread Johannes Schauer
Hi, Quoting Nikolaus Rath (2016-05-29 22:11:58) > Did you write down your findings in some more detail somewhere? no, sorry. > I'd be curious why e.g. a LD_PRELOAD based wrapper would not work for all > important cases. For me "all important cases" were "compilation of all debian source package

Re: Spice/QXL maintainer AWOL, can someone update?

2016-05-29 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, 2016-05-29 at 23:32 -0400, Jason Briggs wrote: > I do not know why upstream has not done anything. I would suggest a thread CCing upstream, the Debian maintainer, the Fedora maintainer and the Ubuntu maintainer asking for clarification. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise s

Re: Re: Spice/QXL maintainer AWOL, can someone update?

2016-05-29 Thread Jason Briggs
Thank you for the detailed information. I do not know why upstream has not done anything. In mailing list someone from Xorg acknowledged that offscreen surfaces are known problem and suggested the first workaround (https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/spice-devel/2012-November/011479.html) a

Re: Spice/QXL maintainer AWOL, can someone update?

2016-05-29 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, May 30, 2016 at 4:10 AM, Jason Briggs wrote: > Hello, sorry to disturb, a resource said to contact this list: > https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/beyond-pkging.html#mia-qa Laurent is definitely not MIA, last mail is yesterday: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrep

Bug#825785: ITP: tab -- Typesetter for lute tablature

2016-05-29 Thread Chris Lamb
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Chris Lamb X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: tab Upstream Author : Wayne Cripps * URL : https://github.com/mandovinnie/Lute-Tab * License : BSD Programming Lang: C Description : Typesetter for lute

Spice/QXL maintainer AWOL, can someone update?

2016-05-29 Thread Jason Briggs
Hello, sorry to disturb, a resource said to contact this list: https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/beyond-pkging.html#mia-qa There is a very impeding bug in the kvm spice/qxl package: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=801081 The maintainer replied once and th

Re: Verifying dep-5

2016-05-29 Thread Nikolaus Rath
On May 28 2016, Johannes Schauer wrote: > Hi, > > Quoting Paul Wise (2016-05-28 06:45:44) >> I think it would be interesting to automatically track how each file >> in a binary package was created and which files they were derived >> from. Then we could automatically generate proper copyright file

Re: Computing resources for DHG work

2016-05-29 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, minor correction. Our packaging does not use parallelism of the.compiler, but the rebuild-all-tool (dht make-all) can run multiple builds in parallel, using -j n. Greetings,Joachim Am 29. Mai 2016 14:43:54 MESZ, schrieb Sean Whitton : >Hello, > >I received an offer of some computing power

Re: Computing resources for DHG work

2016-05-29 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Sean Whitton , 2016-05-29, 21:43: The disc space required would be the total of: - all the source packages & orig tarballs that have the haskell group specified as the Maintainer: - plus all the binary packages built from those - plus a base sid debootstrap chroot (around 1.6GB) A chroot w

Re: Computing resources for DHG work

2016-05-29 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, I received an offer of some computing power off-list. Thank you for your reply, regardless. For posterity I'll answer your questions: On Sun, May 29, 2016 at 02:14:40PM +0200, Michael Tautschnig wrote: > Is this a single-core endeavour, or would would you benefit from > multiple cores?

Bug#825741: ITP: tkblt -- Graphics extension library for Tcl/Tk

2016-05-29 Thread Ole Streicher
X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-as...@lists.debian.org, pkg-tcltk-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ole Streicher * Package name: tkblt Version : 3.0.1 Upstream Author : William Joye * URL : https://github.com/SA

Re: Computing resources for DHG work

2016-05-29 Thread Michael Tautschnig
Hi Sean, On Sun, May 29, 2016 at 20:32:43 +0900, Sean Whitton wrote: > Dear all, > > The Debian Haskell Group has picked a target set of package versions to > freeze on for stretch. I'm working to upgrade packages in the DHG > source package git repository to the target versions. This requires

Computing resources for DHG work

2016-05-29 Thread Sean Whitton
Dear all, The Debian Haskell Group has picked a target set of package versions to freeze on for stretch. I'm working to upgrade packages in the DHG source package git repository to the target versions. This requires quite a lot of computation, and the only machine I have access to until late Jul

Re: Verifying dep-5

2016-05-29 Thread Dmitry Bogatov
[2016-05-28 13:20] Stefano Zacchiroli > On Sat, May 28, 2016 at 02:18:51AM +0300, Dmitry Bogatov wrote: > > But seems we do not have tools to check it. Probably, we need some way > > to mark licenses of whole binary packages. WDYT? > > You're correct that we have no way to document the licenses o

Re: package versions with snapshots/branch updates (was: Re: Accepted gcc-5 5.3.1-21 (source) into unstable)

2016-05-29 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Sun, May 29, 2016 at 12:00:28AM +0200, Rene Engelhard wrote: > > > e.g. if you have a package 1.0 and add a complete branch update as a patch > > > (or upgrade to a snapshot) one should do a 1.0+gitYYYDDMM-1 or whatever > > > format > > > you choose. Not 1.0-15 or so. > > Here the question is "