Re: Improvement of headless server upgrades

2025-03-05 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, On Wed, Mar 05, 2025 at 04:06:56PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > On Tue, 4 Mar 2025 20:39:43 -0500, "Helmut K. C. Tessarek" > wrote: > >Both network "outages" could have been prevented by adding a note at the > >end of the dist-upgrade output. > > > >e.g. something like the following (monospace

Bug#979071: ITP: neci -- Full Configuration Interaction Quantum Monte Carlo Code

2021-01-02 Thread Michael Banck
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Michael Banck * Package name: neci Version : git snapshot Upstream Author : George H. Booth and Ali Alavi * URL : https://github.com/ghb24/NECI_STABLE * License : GPLv3 Programming Lang: Fortran90 Description

Re: Running autopkgtest on porter boxes: dd-autopkgtest

2020-06-02 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, On Tue, Jun 02, 2020 at 03:14:18PM +0200, Tomas Pospisek wrote: > On 31.05.20 22:40, Michael Banck wrote: > > it's possible for DDs to build/test packages on porter boxes via > > dd-schroot-cmd, see https://dsa.debian.org/doc/schroot/. > > > > However, e.g. a

Running autopkgtest on porter boxes: dd-autopkgtest

2020-05-31 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, it's possible for DDs to build/test packages on porter boxes via dd-schroot-cmd, see https://dsa.debian.org/doc/schroot/. However, e.g. arm64 autopkgtest failures are RC bugs and so far, it was difficult to reproduce and debug those on the porter boxes, at least I was not aware of an easy way

Re: Removing bzip2 support from apt due to rustification

2019-06-07 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, On Fri, Jun 07, 2019 at 09:54:01AM +0200, Xavier wrote: > Le 07/06/2019 à 09:48, Mo Zhou a écrit : > > On 2019-06-06 21:44, Boyuan Yang wrote: > >> I do remember there's still some source packages / binary packages in > >> Debian > >> using the bzip2 format. If we are going to do that (which

Bug#875553: ITP: cdiff -- Colored, incremental diff with side by side and auto pager support

2017-09-12 Thread Michael Banck
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Michael Banck * Package name: cdiff Version : 1.0 Upstream Author : Matthew Wang * URL : https://github.com/ymattw/cdiff * License : BSD Programming Lang: Python Description : Colored, incremental diff with side

Bug#875493: ITP: patroni -- Template for PostgreSQL High Availability

2017-09-11 Thread Michael Banck
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Michael Banck * Package name: patroni Version : 1.3.4 Upstream Author : Alexander Kukushkin Feike Steenbergen Oleksii Kliukin * URL : https://github.com/zalando/patroni * License

Bug#859626: ITP: pgaudit -- PostgreSQL Audit Extension

2017-04-05 Thread Michael Banck
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Michael Banck * Package name: pgaudit Version : 1.1.0 Upstream Author : pgAudit developers * URL : http://pgaudit.org/, https://github.com/pgaudit/pgaudit * License : PostgreSQL Programming Lang: C Description

Re: Possibility of migrating Debian FTP-hosted package archives to Gopher

2017-02-08 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, On Wed, Feb 08, 2017 at 03:15:31PM -0800, Ryan Cunningham wrote: > This will also require support for Gopher to be provided by default in > Debian's versions of Firefox ESR, Epiphany, Rekonq, Wget, cURL, APT, > Synaptic, Gdebi, and similar packages. I had already my code editor up starting to

Re: [Pkg-php-pecl] Bug#816265: Bug#816265: Bug#816265: Bug#816265: php-geoip: FTBFS: libtool: No such file or directory

2016-02-29 Thread Michael Banck
> On Mon, Feb 29, 2016, at 14:46, Sergey B Kirpichev wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 02:28:08PM +0100, Ondřej Surý wrote: > > > It's not how important they seem to *me*, but to the release team. > > > The FTBFS on non-release archs are not "serious" > > > > I don't see that here: > > https://ww

Bug#815837: armci-mpi -- ARMCI-compatible implemntation using MPI RMA

2016-02-24 Thread Michael Banck
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Debian Science Team * Package name: armci-mpi Version : 0.0 Upstream Author : The ARMCI-MPI Team at Argonne National Laboratory * URL : https://wiki.mpich.org/armci-mpi/index.php/Main_Page * License : OpenMPI license Pr

Bug#815718: ITP: mpi-testsuite -- testsuite for MPI implementations

2016-02-24 Thread Michael Banck
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Michael Banck * Package name: mpi-testsuite Version : 3.2 Upstream Author : The MPICH Team at Argonne National Laboratory * URL : http://trac.mpich.org/projects/mpich/browser/test/mpi * License : MPICH license

Re: default softphone in Debian stretch

2016-01-14 Thread Michael Banck
On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 07:29:48PM +0100, Daniel Pocock wrote: > On 14/01/16 17:10, Iain R. Learmonth wrote: > > It would make sense that if upstreams for desktop environments do not > > recommend a softphone, that Debian includes a softphone with the desktop > > environment's task package that is

Re: Byte swapped /usr/share?

2015-09-26 Thread Michael Banck
On Sat, Sep 26, 2015 at 03:04:47PM +0200, Jakub Wilk wrote: > * Rene Engelhard , 2015-09-26, 14:30: > >>Just to make it sure: for the architectures that currently built > >>on Debian (officially or inofficially), I should then use > >>someting like the following in d/control: > >> > >>Depends: astr

Bug#797798: ITP: bagel -- Computational Chemistry Package

2015-09-02 Thread Michael Banck
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Debichem Team * Package name: bagel Version : (git snapshot) Upstream Author : Shiozaki Group, Northwestern University * URL : http://www.nubakery.org/ * License : GPL3+ Programming Lang: C++ Description : Computa

Bug#797400: ITP: dl-poly-classic -- General purpose molecular dynamics simulation package

2015-08-30 Thread Michael Banck
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Debichem Team * Package name: dl-poly-classic Version : 1.9 Upstream Author : W. Smith, T.R. Forester and I.T. Todorov * URL : http://www.ccp5.ac.uk/DL_POLY_CLASSIC/ * License : BSD Programming Lang: Fortran/Java Desc

Re: system upgrade by systemd

2015-08-30 Thread Michael Banck
On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 10:53:17AM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > Yes, Windows 10 has _exactly_ the same issue. I am astonished that we > managed to copy that epic fuckup in such a short time span. This is getting ridiculous, are you now claiming the Debian Gnome team or Gnome upstream was tracking th

Re: system upgrade by systemd

2015-08-30 Thread Michael Banck
Package: network-manager Severity: wishlist On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 06:46:24AM +0200, Michael Meskes wrote: > > It’s gnome-software in sid, or g-s-d in jessie, querying PackageKit for > > updates. > > The default policy is to not schedule any downloads when running on > > battery or on a modem con

Re: system upgrade by systemd

2015-08-29 Thread Michael Banck
On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 03:32:35PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > On Wed, 26 Aug 2015 13:26:13 +0200, Matthias Klumpp > wrote: > >1) This feature is not enabled by default. It only gets triggered if a > >frontend tool makes use of it, and will not be activated automatically. So, > >you will only see i

Re: system upgrade by systemd

2015-08-29 Thread Michael Banck
On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 07:27:25AM +0200, Torsten Landschoff wrote: > On 08/27/2015 05:19 AM, Michael Meskes wrote: > > > >> Strange - then the install-updates mode should not have been entered in > >> the first place. > > Let me guess, the file was re-created by some software. > As administrator o

Re: gfortran: handling binNMU for .mod file format change

2015-08-21 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, I had a look at your dh-fortran-mod package, and am quite sorry I missed this until now :-/ I assume this is meant for ${misc:Depends} in the -dev package, right? On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 06:44:50PM +0100, Sébastien Villemot wrote: > Le dimanche 11 août 2013 à 11:11 +0900, Ryo IGARASHI a écri

Bug#795110: ITP: plumed -- Free Energy Module for Molecular Dynamics Packages

2015-08-10 Thread Michael Banck
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Debichem Team * Package name: plumed Version : 2.1.3 Upstream Author : The plumed team * URL : http://www.plumed-code.org/ * License : LGPLv2+ Programming Lang: C++ Description : Free Energy Module for Molecular D

Bug#794695: ITP: tiledarray -- Block-Sparse Tensor Library

2015-08-05 Thread Michael Banck
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Debichem Team * Package name: tiledarray Version : 0.4.3-alpha Upstream Author : Valeev Group (Virginia Tech) * URL : https://github.com/ValeevGroup/tiledarray * License : GPLv3+ Programming Lang: C++ header files Des

Re: Is the Debian dependency system broken? (wget vs libgnutls-deb0-28)

2015-06-14 Thread Michael Banck
Hi Siomn, On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 05:50:02PM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: > On 14/06/15 17:19, Felipe Sateler wrote: > > I think either libgnutls-deb0-28 or libnettle6 should add a Breaks: > > libnettle4[1], to ensure all related packages are upgraded in lockstep. > > This is a recurring (anti-)

floating point testsuites on softfloat buildds

2014-12-01 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, some of my packages (e.g. nwchem, but others as well) have floating-point heavy testsuites becuse they are scientific computing applications. The current state on mips (but not mipsel) is that the testsuite routinely takes too long on some autobuilders, so that sbuild kills it after a testcas

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-11-25 Thread Michael Banck
On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 06:01:38PM +0100, Sascha Mester wrote: > Can someone tell me the advantages ( and disadvantages ) of systemd ? > I'm about to leave Debian as an user - not because of systemd, but > because of that discussion. Wait, you are asking for a discussion about the advantages and d

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-11-17 Thread Michael Banck
Hi Christoph, On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 01:24:13AM +0100, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > Just had to wonder... what happens to DDs who intentionally and clearly > break the constitution or who publicly state to no longer feel bound by > it? This mailing list is a technical list and your message/

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-11-17 Thread Michael Banck
Hi Josselin, On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 07:38:34PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le samedi 15 novembre 2014 à 16:16 -0800, Don Armstrong a écrit : > > The technical committe was asked in #746578 to override the ordering > > of the alternative dependencies on systemd-sysv and systemd-shim to > > pr

Re: veto?

2014-11-13 Thread Michael Banck
On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 01:41:33PM +0100, Daniel Pocock wrote: > On 12/11/14 13:12, zlatan wrote: > > Please no. > > > > We need less and not more layers of governance/'political' complexity > > in project. Lets stop acting like government and more like community. > > > If a veto facility is cre

Re: free choice in installer?

2014-11-10 Thread Michael Banck
On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 11:31:10AM +, Simon McVittie wrote: > If you have sufficiently specialized requirements that our recommended > default is unsuitable, that's a good time to look into the "expert" > installer mode, pre-seeding, or installing with the default > init/bootloader/etc. and swi

Re: Two years later and still no netatalk3 in jessie?

2014-11-09 Thread Michael Banck
On Sun, Nov 09, 2014 at 10:48:58AM +0100, Adrian Knoth wrote: > On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 01:21:04PM -0400, Igor Bernstein wrote: > > > - jessie freeze happens in 2 months > > Happened in the meantime :-/ Well, what is the point in CCing -devel then? If you were trying to set a roadmap for jessie

Re: Where to upload official OpenStack Debian images?

2014-07-18 Thread Michael Banck
On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 12:56:15PM +, Mike Gabriel wrote: > On Fr 18 Jul 2014 13:22:28 CEST, Thomas Goirand wrote: > >>[...] > >Roughly 350/400 GB for the compressed qcow2 image. [...]omas, > > I desperately hope that we have a typo here (G vs. M). Yes, it's MB. Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: Override disparity checks (Was: Re: Transition plan for changing the default init system)

2014-07-17 Thread Michael Banck
On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 04:53:26PM +0200, Luca Falavigna wrote: > Looking at the policy again, I think extra is (mis)used quite too > often. Part of the problem could be that dh_make at least at one point (maybe still does) put "extra" as defalt Priority in its templates and it might've gotten cop

Re: Java 9 dropping support for source/target level 1.5

2014-07-16 Thread Michael Banck
On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 05:32:32PM -0300, Miguel Landaeta wrote: > On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 09:50:46AM +0200, Sylvestre Ledru wrote: > > > > > I think that is unfair statement against Emmanuel (especially when > > adding d-d & d-r to the cc list). > > Totally agree with Sylvestre on this. > I also

Re: Bug#754551: ITP: node-ms -- milliseconds conversion utility

2014-07-12 Thread Michael Banck
On Sat, Jul 12, 2014 at 12:55:02PM +0200, Leo Iannacone wrote: > On 12 July 2014 12:35, Steve McIntyre wrote: > > l...@ubuntu.com wrote: > >>Package: wnpp > >>Severity: wishlist > >>Owner: Leo Iannacone > >>X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org > >> > >>* Package name: node-ms > >> Ver

Re: Non-source Javascript files in upstream source

2014-05-02 Thread Michael Banck
On Fri, May 02, 2014 at 03:58:37PM -0400, Paul Tagliamonte wrote: > If the png was made from the svg, include the svg. Well, it is unclear who you are adressing here. If upstream made a .png from (prsumably) an .svg, but did not include the .svg in the tarball, how can the Debian maintainer incl

Re: Hardened OpenSSL fork

2014-04-20 Thread Michael Banck
Heya, On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 at 07:07:45PM +0100, Steven Chamberlain wrote: > I wonder if this might result in an alternate SSL/TLS library we could > use in Debian? Probably - but I think there is enough time left for jessie that we don't need to jump to conclusion already and can watch this unfol

Re: systemd - some more considerations

2014-04-03 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, On Thu, Apr 03, 2014 at 10:41:45AM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > Norbert Preining: > > * several kernel maintainer propose (not completely serious, but > > it shows the general opinion), to add > > + BUG_ON(!strcmp(current->comm, "systemd")); > > URLs please. IIRC that's from

Re: systemd - some more considerations

2014-04-03 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, On Thu, Apr 03, 2014 at 05:41:21AM -0007, Cameron Norman wrote: > This really is not something suitable for debian-devel, unless you > are actually proposing a GR to re-choose the init system, which you > do not seem to be doing. GRs are also off-topic on -devel. Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: default messaging/VoIP client for Debian 8/Jessie

2014-03-30 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 11:49:08AM +0200, Daniel Pocock wrote: > > If you want GNOME to switch from Empathy to jitsi I think that would > > be a conversation that should be had with upstream, not with Debian. I > > doubt they would be interested in it due to the Java requirement > > though. >

Bug#739600: ITP: kprinter4 -- External KDE4 printing utility

2014-02-20 Thread Michael Banck
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Michael Banck * Package name: kprinter4 Version : 9 Upstream Author : Marco Nelles * URL : http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php/KPrinter4?content=163537 * License : GPL Programming Lang: C++ Description

Re: Valve games for Debian Developers

2014-01-22 Thread Michael Banck
On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 03:26:26AM +0330, ?? ?? wrote: > Hey, this looks more like an anti-Valve trap for DDs aimed to slow down > development of Debian as base of Steam OS by steering their time spending > from developing Debian to playing Valve games. ... OK, I was joking, or

Re: gdm3: still buggy!

2013-12-22 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 11:22:35PM +0100, Svante Signell wrote: > severity 724731 serious > thanks > > This is really becoming an issue: I still cannot run the latest gdm3 > together with gnome, meaning that gdm3 is still borked. Debian-devel is not a user support forum. If you cannot deal

Re: Location for Fortran90 module files

2013-08-09 Thread Michael Banck
On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 02:37:15PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: > Am 25.07.2013 14:25, schrieb Michael Banck: > > What to do about the compatibilty is a different matter, did this come > > up before? > > looks like one hand in the debian-science team doesn't know wha

Location for Fortran90 module files

2013-07-25 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, Fortran90 compiler produce module files (.mod) when compiling modules, those are supposed to included by Fortran90 applications like .h header files for C/C++. However, those module files are kinda precompiled and compiler- and even compiler-version dependent in the sense that there is no gua

Re: Plan to release a gplv3 compliant debian-based release

2013-07-05 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, On Fri, Jul 05, 2013 at 04:28:13PM +0200, Svante Signell wrote: > On Fri, 2013-07-05 at 16:14 +0300, Uoti Urpala wrote: > Since this discussion took place in 2006, the Linux as a whole would > probably be too old to be intersting. However, there are big chunks of > current code having the 'or

Re: Berkeley DB 6.0 license change to AGPLv3

2013-07-04 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, On Thu, Jul 04, 2013 at 12:29:36PM +0200, Ondřej Surý wrote: > On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 11:44 AM, Michael Banck wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 04, 2013 at 06:39:30AM +0200, Ondřej Surý wrote: > > > >From my understanding, the other copyright holders' opinion doesn't >

Re: Berkeley DB 6.0 license change to AGPLv3

2013-07-04 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, On Thu, Jul 04, 2013 at 06:39:30AM +0200, Ondřej Surý wrote: > On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 12:27 AM, Michael Banck wrote: > > People have pointed out upthread that Oracle does not appear to be the > > sole copyright holder of BerkelyDB. So unless they had copyright > > assi

Re: Plan to release a gplv3 compliant debian-based release

2013-07-03 Thread Michael Banck
On Tue, Jul 02, 2013 at 03:32:00PM -0700, John H. Robinson, IV wrote: > Svante Signell wrote: > > > > I've been thinking about this for some time now. There is a need for a > > gplv3+-compliant Debian-based distribution! Meaning that gplv2 only code > > will not be included! For kernels, kFreeBSD

Re: Berkeley DB 6.0 license change to AGPLv3

2013-07-03 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, On Tue, Jul 02, 2013 at 02:48:18PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > If the relicensing is real and not another misconfiguration of the > build/release system (like with MySQL docs), this sounds like a > shakedown for proprietary users of Berkeley DB. GPLv2-licensed users > are collateral damage.

Re: security policy / root passwords

2013-06-10 Thread Michael Banck
Hi Daniel, On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 09:24:39PM +0200, Daniel Pocock wrote: > Every copy of jessie could be distributed with one of the red hoods > referred to in this article: > > http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/09/edward-snowden-nsa-whistleblower-surveillance > > I presume it has some k

Re: security policy / root passwords

2013-06-10 Thread Michael Banck
On Sun, Jun 09, 2013 at 07:20:16PM +0200, Michael Banck wrote: > > Is there any policy within Debian about such matters, particularly for > > packages that are a default part of the distribution? Is it too late to > > remove this popup from wheezy? > > I think the best ap

Re: security policy / root passwords

2013-06-09 Thread Michael Banck
On Sun, Jun 09, 2013 at 06:45:18PM +0200, Daniel Pocock wrote: > There have been multiple complaints about the new Gnome popup asking > for the root password I am not sure what you are complaining about - that you need to specify the root password to install packages, or that gnome requests additi

Re: Default desktop for jessie Was: Re: Debian/Wheezy general rant ...

2013-06-05 Thread Michael Banck
On Wed, Jun 05, 2013 at 03:02:35PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Did I miss anything? We should seriously start looking at replacing gcc with clang in build-essential in case we run out of flamewars. Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "u

Re: idea: generalized soft dependencies

2013-05-12 Thread Michael Banck
On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 03:53:06PM +0200, David Kalnischkies wrote: > >> > Soft-Depends: debdelta {10%,text:"to enable automatic delta downloading"} > >> > >> While this solves the why, we have a new problem: Translations > >> And these texts are quickly written in a way a user can't use: > >> What

Re: Switching default dpkg-deb compressor to xz

2013-05-08 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 11:17:39AM +0200, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > On 05/07/2013 21:49, Guillem Jover wrote: > > As mentioned some months ago [0], I'm planning to switch dpkg-deb default > > compressor from gzip to xz, as there seemed to be consensus that was > > the way to go, and given the

Re: Will we see MariaDB in Jessie?

2013-05-06 Thread Michael Banck
On Mon, May 06, 2013 at 01:54:41PM -0400, Paul Tagliamonte wrote: > Meh. +1 to kill MySQL for MariaDB. It's got a much better future. I see > it more like a libc changeover. Who cares, it's got the same interface. > We only have things to gain (better upstream, upstream commited to real > f/oss, ne

Re: R 3.0.0 and required rebuilds of all reverse Depends: of R

2013-04-01 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, On Mon, Apr 01, 2013 at 04:45:19PM +0100, Neil McGovern wrote: > On Mon, Apr 01, 2013 at 05:48:13PM +0300, Uoti Urpala wrote: > You seem to believe that unstable is more important than stable > releases. I do not. One of us is in the wrong project. That's easy to answer: It must be you, beca

Re: "Do not CC me"

2012-11-25 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 12:27:31AM +0400, Игорь Пашев wrote: > I see many note in this list like: > "I'm registered to the list. So please *do not* Cc: me." This is a technical list. Please discuss non-technical issues like the above elsewhere, e.g. on debian-project. Thanks and best regar

Re: RFC on MBF (non-freeness of "The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil")

2012-11-11 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 04:25:51PM +0100, Leo 'costela' Antunes wrote: > Ansgar has recently made an MBF against all packages including the > problematic JSON license term "The Software shall be used for Good, not > Evil". From what I've seen, most - if not all - of the affected packages > are

Re: Bug#692830: ITP: nemo -- File manager for cinnamon

2012-11-09 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, On Fri, Nov 09, 2012 at 05:47:56PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On Fri, Nov 09, 2012 at 05:39:40PM +0100, Michael Banck wrote: > > If people think it is worth keeping the nautilus codebase around, I > > think it would be ok to have it packaged, > > Hmm, are

Re: Bug#692830: ITP: nemo -- File manager for cinnamon

2012-11-09 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, On Fri, Nov 09, 2012 at 05:27:03PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On Fri, Nov 09, 2012 at 04:23:16PM +, Jon Dowland wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 09, 2012 at 05:06:57PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > > I don't think it is currently a sensible decision to introduce > > > du

Re: major linux problems summary 2012

2012-11-04 Thread Michael Banck
On Sun, Nov 04, 2012 at 04:01:03PM +0600, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > "You can't publish a (dynamically linked) binary that can be used on most > user systems" > "You cannot make all your GUI software look the same" The information density and/or applicability of those statements is too low to use

Re: major linux problems summary 2012

2012-11-03 Thread Michael Banck
On Sun, Nov 04, 2012 at 03:23:06AM +0600, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > On Sat, Nov 03, 2012 at 08:53:24PM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > > Don't feed the troll. > > > It's not trolling. > > > It's a honest list of problems which a lot of developers don't view as > > > problems. > > He should use

Bug#685316: ITP: molds -- semi-empirical electronic structure and molecular dynamics

2012-08-19 Thread Michael Banck
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: debichem-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org * Package name: molds Version : no release yet Upstream Author : Mikiya Fujii * URL : http://en.sourceforge.jp/projects/molds/ * License : GPLv3+ Programming Lang: C++ Descriptio

Bug#676667: ITP: fmcs -- Find Maximum Common Substructure

2012-06-08 Thread Michael Banck
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Debichem Team * Package name: fmcs Version : 1.0 Upstream Author : Andrew Dalke * URL : https://bitbucket.org/dalke/fmcs/overview * License : BSD Programming Lang: Python Description : Find Maximum Common Substr

Bug#676658: ITP: chemfp -- Cheminformatics fingerprints file formats and tools

2012-06-08 Thread Michael Banck
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Debichem Team * Package name: chemfp Version : 1.0 Upstream Author : Andrew Dalke * URL : http://code.google.com/p/chem-fingerprints/ * License : MIT Programming Lang: C/Python Description : Cheminformatics fing

Bug#674135: ITP: spglib -- Crystal Symmetry Library

2012-05-23 Thread Michael Banck
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: DebiChem Project * Package name: spglib Version : 1.0.8 Upstream Author : Atsushi Togo * URL : http://spglib.sourceforge.net * License : BSDish Programming Lang: C Description : Crystal Symmetry Library Spglib

Re: Bug#661329: recommends doom-wad which is only provided by non-free doom-wad-shareware

2012-04-30 Thread Michael Banck
On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 11:13:45PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > They may be useless without additional data, but this is the same as > drivers that are useless without additional hardware. I don't buy this analogy - usually, drivers are programmed for existing (or soon-to-be-existing) hardware,

Re: bug reports with urls in them

2012-04-01 Thread Michael Banck
On Sun, Apr 01, 2012 at 11:31:49AM +0200, Michael Welle wrote: > Anyways, what if I want to report a bug that happens if I use foo.org? We can discuss this again once this is actually the case. Regards, Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: On init in Debian

2012-03-23 Thread Michael Banck
On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 06:59:52PM -0400, Chris Knadle wrote: > On Friday, March 23, 2012 18:26:37, Michael Biebl wrote: > > On 23.03.2012 20:07, Chris Knadle wrote: > > > Right now the situation may be somewhat reversed, because in the general > > > case, daemons need to be patched to work correct

Re: please update to latest upstart version (again)

2012-03-23 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 12:06:09AM +0100, Svante Signell wrote: > On Fri, 2012-03-23 at 23:54 +0100, Thomas Bechtold wrote: > > > > i did this already 10 month ago [1]. i also wrote some mails to the > > maintainer, he answered, i build some test packages for debian sid, > > wrote mails again

Re: gconftool

2012-03-23 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 11:32:09PM +0100, Svante Signell wrote: > On Fri, 2012-03-23 at 21:17 +, Philipp Kern wrote: > > On 2012-03-23, Svante Signell wrote: > > > The man pages are not very informative either. > > > > lol whut? > > > > You're arguing for CLI tools and then fail to read

Bug#664975: ITP: indigo -- Organic Chemistry Toolkit

2012-03-21 Thread Michael Banck
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Debichem Team * Package name: indigo Version : 1.0.0 Upstream Author : GGA Software Services LLC * URL : http://ggasoftware.com/opensource/indigo * License : GPLv3 Programming Lang: C++, Java, Python Description

Bug#663636: ITP: opsin -- Chemical name to structure converter

2012-03-12 Thread Michael Banck
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Debichem Team * Package name: opsin Version : 1.2.0 Upstream Author : Daniel Lowe, Peter Corbett and Peter Murray-Rust * URL : http://www-ucc.ch.cam.ac.uk/products/software/opsin * License : Artistic License 2.0 Progra

Bug#663153: ITP: automaton -- Finite-State Automaton for Regular Expressions

2012-03-08 Thread Michael Banck
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Debian Java Maintainers * Package name: automaton Version : 1.11-8 Upstream Author : Anders Møller * URL : http://www.brics.dk/automaton/ * License : BSD Programming Lang: Java Description : Finite-State Automato

Bug#653254: ITP: mesmer -- Chemical reactions dynamics solver

2011-12-25 Thread Michael Banck
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Debichem Team * Package name: mesmer Version : 0.2 Upstream Authors: Struan H. Robertson, David R. Glowacki, Chi-Hsiu Liang, Chris Morley and Michael J. Pilling * URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/mesmer/

Bug#647050: ITP: cinfony -- python abstraction layer to cheminformatics pacakges

2011-10-29 Thread Michael Banck
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Debichem Team * Package name: cinfony Version : 1.0 Upstream Author : Noel O'Boyle * URL : http://code.google.com/p/cinfony/ * License : BSD Programming Lang: Python Description : python abstraction layer to chem

Bug#642472: ITP: aces2 -- Advanced Concepts in Electronic Structure II

2011-09-22 Thread Michael Banck
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Michael Banck * Package name: aces2 Version : 2.8.0 Upstream Author : Quantum Theory Project, University of Florida * URL : http://www.qtp.ufl.edu/ACES * License : GPL Programming Lang: Fortran Description

Bug#641655: ITP: xtalopt -- Evolutionary Crystal Structure Prediction

2011-09-14 Thread Michael Banck
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Debichem Team * Package name: xtalopt Version : r8.0 Upstream Author : David Lonie * URL : http://xtalopt.openmolecules.net * License : GPLv2, LGPLv2 and BSD Programming Lang: C, C++ Description : Evolutionary Cr

Bug#640718: ITP: aces3 -- Advanced Concepts in Electronic Structure III

2011-09-06 Thread Michael Banck
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Michael Banck * Package name: aces3 Version : 3.0.6 Upstream Author : Quantum Theory Project, University of Florida * URL : http://www.qtp.ufl.edu/ACES/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: C, Fortran Description

Bug#640118: ITP: rdkit -- Collection of cheminformatics and machine-learning software

2011-09-02 Thread Michael Banck
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Michael Banck * Package name: rdkit Version : 201106 Upstream Author : Greg Landrum and Julie Penzotti * URL : http://www.rdkit.org/ * License : BSD Programming Lang: C++, Python Description : Collection of

Re: packaging-dev meta package

2011-05-28 Thread Michael Banck
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 02:20:48PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 04:52:38PM -0400, Mackenzie Morgan wrote: > > On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 4:49 PM, Benjamin Drung wrote: > > > Recommends or Suggests: > > > cdbs > > > cmake > > > My reasoning on these two was that some people

Re: throw away debs and source only uploads

2011-04-17 Thread Michael Banck
On Thu, Apr 07, 2011 at 04:55:12PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > - going ahead with throw away debs seems to be largely uncontroversial; > can we haz zem please? :-) Will that throw away Arch: all packages as well? If there are no technical issues/implementation missing with this (somebody

Re: Aren't there any checks in place to prevent a package from becoming uninstallable?

2011-02-27 Thread Michael Banck
On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 04:42:28PM +0800, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: > Well OK, but can't the package owners get a friendly mail once a day > "yoo hoo Holmes, your package is now broken", lest they relax at the > beach totally unaware one day Auntie Nelda might suddenly have the urge > to use their

Re: Bug#612752: Bind fails to start if $OPENSSL_CONF is set

2011-02-26 Thread Michael Banck
On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 05:54:23PM +0100, Sean Finney wrote: > On Sat, 2011-02-26 at 14:32 +0100, Michael Banck wrote: > > > > > > The right way to do this is, IMNSHO, what systemd does and just have > > > init handle starting and stopping the job. That ensures

Re: Bug#612752: Bind fails to start if $OPENSSL_CONF is set

2011-02-26 Thread Michael Banck
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 11:43:50AM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > ]] Timo Weingärtner > > | service (8) does that already. > > The right way to do this is, IMNSHO, what systemd does and just have > init handle starting and stopping the job. That ensures there's no > inconsistency between boot-

Re: question of switch to KDE

2011-02-15 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 03:43:20PM +0800, jia hao wrote: >I am use Debian squeeze 6.0.0, and how to switch from GNOME to KDE ? Please ask this question on debian-user, debian-devel is for development related discussions. Best regards, Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel

Re: Upcoming FTPMaster meeting

2011-02-13 Thread Michael Banck
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 03:23:30PM +0100, Bernhard R. Link wrote: > * Holger Levsen [110213 13:13]: > > On Sonntag, 13. Februar 2011, Bernhard R. Link wrote: > > > But it is an essential part of doing it right, so we should try to do > > > our best and not just give up early. > > > > doing it righ

Re: Does it matter that the squeeze installer...

2011-01-24 Thread Michael Banck
On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 03:11:47PM +, David Goodenough wrote: > On Monday 24 January 2011, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 02:28:28PM +, David Goodenough wrote: > > > thinks that Window 7 is Windows Vista. I am installing an amd64 machine > > > which already has the 6

Re: Modifying a file from another package (rather than replacing it)

2010-12-25 Thread Michael Banck
On Sat, Dec 25, 2010 at 07:53:41PM +0100, Malte Forkel wrote: > Am 25.12.2010 13:25, schrieb Ben Hutchings: > > If you cannot accomplish what you want using an existing hook then > > perhaps you should ask the pbuilder maintainer to add a new hook. > > Well, a new hook probably won't do. I've writ

Bug#603711: ITP: ga -- Global Arrays Toolkit

2010-11-16 Thread Michael Banck
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Michael Banck * Package name: ga Version : 5.0 Upstream Author : Global Arrays Team * URL : http://www.emsl.pnl.gov/docs/global * License : GA License (BSD-like, see below) Programming Lang: (C, C++, C#, Perl, Python

Re: Debian Installer 6.0 Beta1 release (WPA support)

2010-11-06 Thread Michael Banck
On Sat, Nov 06, 2010 at 10:03:12AM +, Philipp Kern wrote: > On 2010-11-05, Thomas Goirand wrote: > > On 11/03/2010 01:57 PM, Christian PERRIER wrote: > >> then, a few > >> months before the release, we start getting suggestions to add this or > >> that fancy new thingy > > Do you consider

Re: Debian Installer 6.0 Beta1 release (WPA support)

2010-11-03 Thread Michael Banck
On Wed, Nov 03, 2010 at 11:53:23PM +0100, Adam Borowski wrote: > [1]. Since most of the system is not translated, having a yet another > untranslated line is not the end of the world. And I'm afraid that typical > translations make it hard for even native users of a language to understand > what a

Re: Debian Installer 6.0 Beta1 release (WPA support)

2010-11-03 Thread Michael Banck
Christian, On Wed, Nov 03, 2010 at 06:57:52AM +0100, Christian PERRIER wrote: > Quoting Harald Jenny (har...@a-little-linux-box.at): > > > Well the patch is dated in 2008, so yes, people should have been quicker > > voting and working for this feature. > > > And this is a growing problem with D

Re: debian can be better

2010-10-31 Thread Michael Banck
On Mon, Nov 01, 2010 at 05:44:27AM +0900, Miles Bader wrote: > Mark Allums writes: > > In my opinion, and at risk of starting a fruitless spiral into the > > flames, I think Ubuntu have jumped on the crazy train with 10.10 > > Maverick Meerkat. > > Just out of curiosity, what changed with that ve

Re: RFH: bug squashing for php5

2010-10-21 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 11:10:45AM +0200, Ondřej Surý wrote: > we currently lack hands for testing and bug squashing in php5. I have just > uploaded php5 5.3.3-2 to unstable and as soon as it get built it would be > great if we had more hands to go through all the bugs in the src=php5 and > te

Re: [RFC] disabled root account / distinct group for users with administrative privileges

2010-10-21 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 12:38:41AM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: > So, I'm wondering if we shouldn't pick a more neutral name without a previous > history in Debian. > One suggestion is to use group "admin". Ubuntu has been using that group for > exactly the purpose what we are going for and I t

Bug#598728: ITP: nwchem -- High-Performance Computational Chemistry Software

2010-10-01 Thread Michael Banck
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Debichem Team * Package name: nwchem Version : 6.0 Upstream Author : NWChem Core Developer Team * URL : http://www.nwchem-sw.org * License : ECL 2.0 Programming Lang: Fortran, Python Description : High-Performanc

Re: Priority dependence

2010-07-18 Thread Michael Banck
On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 10:14:57PM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > On Sun, 18 Jul 2010 11:04:10 -0700 > Russ Allbery wrote: > > > Frans Pop writes: > > > > > Maybe we should consider changing the default prio for all library > > > packages to optional or lower, except for specific cases (e.g. lib

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