Bug#830109: ITP: openems -- Electromagnetic field solver using the FDTD method

2016-07-05 Thread Ruben Undheim
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ruben Undheim * Package name: openems Version : 0.0.34 Upstream Author : Thorsten Liebig * URL : http://openems.de * License : GPL-3+ Programming Lang: C++ Description : Electromagnetic field solver using the FDT

[RFC] Switching dpkg-deb --uniform-compression by default

2016-07-05 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! I'd like consider switching dpkg-deb --uniform-compression by default, so that both control.tar and data.tar members use the same compression, which currently would be xz (or gzip with -Zgzip). This would give us more uniform and smaller packages. I think the d-i people wanted something like

[MBF] Obsoleting bzip2 compression in .deb packages

2016-07-05 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! I'd like to obsolete bzip2 (and lzma) as .deb compressors when building binary packages. dpkg-deb currently emits warnings, this would turn them into errors. For lzma it's fine in Debian as the archive has never accepted them. For bzip2 there are currently 31 source packages that produce some

Re: dpkg-genchanges warning for -dbgsym packages

2016-07-05 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Wed, 2016-05-04 at 02:06:56 +0200, Iustin Pop wrote: > I'm very glad for the automatic debug packages, but I wonder if I'm > doing something wrong since I get this warning: > > dpkg-genchanges: warning: package foo-dbgsym listed in files list > but not in control info > > The pa

Re: [MBF]: Building arch:all and arch:any without build-{arch,indep} targets

2016-07-05 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Sun, 2016-04-03 at 17:29:32 +, Niels Thykier wrote: > The targets are "officially" mandatory and have been since 3.9.4 > (released in September 2012). Currently lintian and dpkg still forgive > their absence to avoid auto-rejects and FTBFS bugs. > However, Guillem and I would like to

Re: sid on openvz

2016-07-05 Thread Andrea Bolognani
On Fri, Dec 04, 2015 at 10:06:11AM +0100, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > The minimum required version in the glibc is something configurable at > build time (to some extents, the absolute minimum is 2.6.32 for glibc > 2.21). This configure how much compatibility glue is used to workaround > the missing sy

Re: Thinking about a "jessie and a half" release

2016-07-05 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Tue, Jul 05, 2016 at 04:15:36PM -0300, Breno Leitao wrote: >Steve, > >On 07/04/2016 10:01 AM, Steve McIntyre wrote: >>A lot of arm64 machine users would benefit from this, and maybe owners >>of very recent amd64 machines too. > >ppc64el port would take benefit from it also, since, there were man

Re: Thinking about a "jessie and a half" release

2016-07-05 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Tue, Jul 05, 2016 at 06:11:24PM +, Holger Levsen wrote: >On Mon, Jul 04, 2016 at 04:01:10PM -0400, Nicholas D Steeves wrote: >> I still wonder if a fork of the last linux:src=4.4, updated to bring >> it to linux-4.4.14 would be a lower support burden? I'm still finding >> that there are a f

Re: Thinking about a "jessie and a half" release

2016-07-05 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Tue, Jul 05, 2016 at 02:37:06PM +0200, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: >Hi Steve, > >On Mon Jul 04, 2016 at 14:01:03 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> A lot of arm64 machine users would benefit from this, and maybe owners >> of very recent amd64 machines too, with better support for things on >> the Sk

Re: Thinking about a "jessie and a half" release

2016-07-05 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Mon, Jul 04, 2016 at 07:05:42PM +0200, Ben Hutchings wrote: >On Mon, 2016-07-04 at 14:01 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> Hey folks, >> >> There's something I've been pondering for a while, along with some >> other folks - it might be useful to do a "jessie and a half" release, >> similarly to w

Re: Request for feedback: systemd backport for jessie

2016-07-05 Thread Michael Prokop
* Brian [Tue Jul 05, 2016 at 08:16:34PM +0100]: > On Tue 05 Jul 2016 at 20:46:07 +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > > * Michael Prokop [2016-07-05 17:34 +0200]: > > > here at DebConf I've been working on a backport of systemd for jessie. [...] > > Are you aware of the 'Thinking about a "jessie a

Bug#830059: ITP: r-cran-rlumshiny -- GNU R 'Shiny' Applications for the R Package 'Luminescence'

2016-07-05 Thread Andreas Tille
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andreas Tille * Package name: r-cran-rlumshiny Version : 0.1.0 Upstream Author : Christoph Burow * URL : https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/RLumShiny * License : GPL Programming Lang: GNU R Description : GNU

Bug#829833: ITP: libdate-holidays-de-perl -- Determine German holidays

2016-07-05 Thread Christoph Biedl
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Christoph Biedl * Package name: libdate-holidays-de-perl Version : 1.7 Upstream Author : Martin Schmitt * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Date-Holidays-DE/ * License : ISC Programming Lang: Perl Description : D

Re: Request for feedback: systemd backport for jessie

2016-07-05 Thread Brian
On Tue 05 Jul 2016 at 20:46:07 +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > Hi Mika, > > * Michael Prokop [2016-07-05 17:34 +0200]: > > > Hi, > > > > here at DebConf I've been working on a backport of systemd for jessie. > > > > If you're interested in all the new features, bugfixes and changes > > tha

Re: Thinking about a "jessie and a half" release

2016-07-05 Thread Breno Leitao
Steve, On 07/04/2016 10:01 AM, Steve McIntyre wrote: A lot of arm64 machine users would benefit from this, and maybe owners of very recent amd64 machines too. ppc64el port would take benefit from it also, since, there were many new kernel features that made linux after 3.16.

Re: opinions of snappy packages

2016-07-05 Thread Antti Jarvinen
Lars Wirzenius writes: > Right. It seems I have a different opinion here than the project has > in general, and because of that, I think it's as OK for snapd to be in > main as those other packages. And becaus snapd now has, or is getting, > support for other server sides, and there's a free on

Re: howto avoid "apt-get update" going guru?

2016-07-05 Thread Tiago Ilieve
Josh, On 5 July 2016 at 14:53, Josh Triplett wrote: > Tollef Fog Heen wrote: >> I'd not actively recommend people use httpredir.debian.org as it's >> somewhat sporadically maintained. > > Do you have any more details on that? There was a discussion[1] on "debian-project" mailing list a few month

Re: Thinking about a "jessie and a half" release

2016-07-05 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Holger Levsen (2016-07-05): > On Mon, Jul 04, 2016 at 04:01:10PM -0400, Nicholas D Steeves wrote: > > I still wonder if a fork of the last linux:src=4.4, updated to bring > > it to linux-4.4.14 would be a lower support burden? I'm still finding > > that there are a fair number of issues reported

Re: Request for feedback: systemd backport for jessie

2016-07-05 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
Hi Mika, * Michael Prokop [2016-07-05 17:34 +0200]: > Hi, > > here at DebConf I've been working on a backport of systemd for jessie. > > If you're interested in all the new features, bugfixes and changes > that systemd received since its version 215-17+deb8u4 (the one > available from jessie)

Re: sparc64 porterbox available for general use

2016-07-05 Thread Aurelien Jarno
On 2016-07-04 16:43, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Hi! > > I'm happy to announce that I finally managed to set up the first sparc64 > porterbox. It's available to all DDs and is called notker.debian.net [1]. > > The machine is using the same setup that Debian uses for its other > porterboxes

Re: Thinking about a "jessie and a half" release

2016-07-05 Thread Holger Levsen
On Mon, Jul 04, 2016 at 04:01:10PM -0400, Nicholas D Steeves wrote: > I still wonder if a fork of the last linux:src=4.4, updated to bring > it to linux-4.4.14 would be a lower support burden? I'm still finding > that there are a fair number of issues reported with 4.5.x and 4.6.x > on various mai

Re: howto avoid "apt-get update" going guru?

2016-07-05 Thread Josh Triplett
Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > I'd not actively recommend people use httpredir.debian.org as it's > somewhat sporadically maintained. Do you have any more details on that? Does a better alternative exist? I still have hopes that someday the d-i mirror question becomes an expert-level question for peop

Bug#829736: ITP: r-cran-nmf -- GNU R framework to perform non-negative matrix factorization

2016-07-05 Thread Alba Crespi
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alba Crespi * Package name: r-cran-nmf Version : 0.20.6 Upstream Author : Renaud Gaujoux, Cathal Seoighe URL : https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/NMF/ * License : GPL (>=2) Programming Lang: R Description :

Request for feedback: systemd backport for jessie

2016-07-05 Thread Michael Prokop
Hi, here at DebConf I've been working on a backport of systemd for jessie. If you're interested in all the new features, bugfixes and changes that systemd received since its version 215-17+deb8u4 (the one available from jessie) you might wanna give it a try. The backport is based on what will be

Re: Thinking about a "jessie and a half" release

2016-07-05 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Tue, 2016-07-05 at 08:25 +0100, Rebecca N. Palmer wrote: > Would it be possible/reasonable (at least for stretch) to have the  > installer detect this and ask "your hardware appears to be too new for  > this release, would you like to enable -backports?" It might be, but it's going to be hard t

Re: howto avoid "apt-get update" going guru?

2016-07-05 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Martin Bagge / brother > On 2016-07-05 06:32, Harald Dunkel wrote: > > > # apt-get update > > Err:1 http://ftp.debian.org/debian sid InRelease > > Could not connect to klecker-ftp.debian.org:80 (130.89.148.12), > > connection timed out [IP: 2001:6b0:e:2018::173 80] > > Reading package lists.

Re: Thinking about a "jessie and a half" release

2016-07-05 Thread Samuel Henrique
2016-07-05 7:43 GMT-03:00 Jose R R : > > Why would you call it "Jessie + 1/2"? Wouldn't it be a better idea > Well IBM set a precedent for that: OS/2. > Accordingly, Jessie BP could be called Jessie/2 ;-) ​Well, that would be a half Jessie, not Jessie and a half, right?​ We could use 3Jessie/2 o

Re: Thinking about a "jessie and a half" release

2016-07-05 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
Hi Steve, On Mon Jul 04, 2016 at 14:01:03 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > A lot of arm64 machine users would benefit from this, and maybe owners > of very recent amd64 machines too, with better support for things on > the Skylake platform. Those are the only two architectures I'm > thinking of sup

Re: Thinking about a "jessie and a half" release

2016-07-05 Thread Jose R R
On Tue, Jul 5, 2016 at 2:01 AM, Christian Seiler wrote: > > On 07/04/2016 03:01 PM, Steve McIntyre wrote: > > There's something I've been pondering for a while, along with some > > other folks - it might be useful to do a "jessie and a half" release, > > similarly to what we did in the etch days.

Re: opinions of snappy packages

2016-07-05 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 10:11:23PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > The point has been made that there are lots of other clients in Debian main > that only talk to a single, proprietary server implementation; so if snapd > did only talk to the Canonical store, I believe its placement in main would >

Re: Thinking about a "jessie and a half" release

2016-07-05 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Jul 05, 2016 at 10:52:37AM +0200, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Tue, 2016-07-05 at 10:07 +0200, Mark Brown wrote: > > We're getting to the point where there's a fairly pressing need for > > arm64 - the more useful hardware is starting to get a wider distribution > > and we don't really have an

Re: Thinking about a "jessie and a half" release

2016-07-05 Thread Christian Seiler
On 07/04/2016 03:01 PM, Steve McIntyre wrote: > There's something I've been pondering for a while, along with some > other folks - it might be useful to do a "jessie and a half" release, > similarly to what we did in the etch days. That's *basically* just > like a normal jessie release, but with a

Re: howto avoid "apt-get update" going guru?

2016-07-05 Thread Harald Dunkel
Hi Martin, On 07/05/16 10:09, Martin Bagge / brother wrote: > On 2016-07-05 06:32, Harald Dunkel wrote: >> >> I didn't mention klecker-ftp anywhere in my config files. >> Its not on the round-robin list for ftp.debian.org either: >> >> # host ftp.debian.org >> ftp.debian.org has address 130.239.18

Re: Thinking about a "jessie and a half" release

2016-07-05 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Tue, 2016-07-05 at 10:07 +0200, Mark Brown wrote: > On Mon, Jul 04, 2016 at 07:05:42PM +0200, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > On Mon, 2016-07-04 at 14:01 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > > > > A lot of arm64 machine users would benefit from this, and maybe owners > > > of very recent amd64 machines too,

Re: Thinking about a "jessie and a half" release

2016-07-05 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Mon, Jul 04, 2016 at 04:01:10PM -0400, Nicholas D Steeves wrote: >>> >>> Is anybody else interested in helping? Thoughts/comments? > >Yes, it's a project I'm already working on ;-) Is this project a >candidate for a new Debian Team? I guess so, yes. :-) >> 2. Does it have to be called "jessi

Re: Thinking about a "jessie and a half" release

2016-07-05 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Jul 04, 2016 at 07:05:42PM +0200, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Mon, 2016-07-04 at 14:01 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > > A lot of arm64 machine users would benefit from this, and maybe owners > > of very recent amd64 machines too, with better support for things on > > the Skylake platform. Th

Re: Thinking about a "jessie and a half" release

2016-07-05 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Mon, Jul 04, 2016 at 03:12:34PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: >Hi, > >Steve McIntyre (2016-07-04): >> There's something I've been pondering for a while, along with some >> other folks - it might be useful to do a "jessie and a half" release, >> similarly to what we did in the etch days. That's

Re: howto avoid "apt-get update" going guru?

2016-07-05 Thread Harald Dunkel
On 07/05/16 06:32, Harald Dunkel wrote: > Hi folks, > > this morning I found "apt-get update" getting stuck due to an > unresponsive host: > Sorry, this was supposed to go to debian-user. Regards Harri

Re: howto avoid "apt-get update" going guru?

2016-07-05 Thread Martin Bagge / brother
On 2016-07-05 06:32, Harald Dunkel wrote: > Hi folks, > > this morning I found "apt-get update" getting stuck due to an > unresponsive host: > > # cat /etc/apt/sources.list > deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian sid main contrib non-free > deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian sid main contrib non

Re: Thinking about a "jessie and a half" release

2016-07-05 Thread Russell Stuart
On Tue, 2016-07-05 at 08:25 +0100, Rebecca N. Palmer wrote: > Have you reported this bug (with the full warnings)?  If not, please > do so. I haven't.  If I got a response at all to "My monitor doesn't work" it looks to me it would be: compile latest source with instrumentation turned on and send

Re: Thinking about a "jessie and a half" release

2016-07-05 Thread Rebecca N. Palmer
Would it be possible/reasonable (at least for stretch) to have the installer detect this and ask "your hardware appears to be too new for this release, would you like to enable -backports?" On 04/07/16 23:38, Ben Hutchings wrote: As I understand it, xserver-xorg-video-modesetting should be use

Bug#829665: ITP: r-cran-luminescence -- GNU R comprehensive luminescence dating data analysis

2016-07-05 Thread Andreas Tille
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andreas Tille * Package name: r-cran-luminescence Version : 0.6.0 Upstream Author : Sebastian Kreutzer * URL : https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/Luminescence * License : GPL Programming Lang: GNU R Description