Re: Bug#538802: ITP: mercury -- The Mercury programming system, a pure logical/functional programming language.

2009-07-28 Thread Reinhard Tartler
Paul Bone writes: > This is mostly correct. Mercury is indeed self-hosting and was > previously included in Debian. Mercury has a number of different > backends two of these target C, high-level C and low-level C. The > Mercury source distribution includes C intermediate files for the > standa

Re: Bug#538802: ITP: mercury -- The Mercury programming system, a pure logical/functional programming language.

2009-07-28 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 28/07/09 at 10:58 +1000, Paul Bone wrote: > On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 05:13:06PM +, brian m. carlson wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 05:34:44PM +1000, Paul Bone wrote: > > > * Package name: mercury > > > Version : 0.13.1-rotd20090725 > > > Upstream Author : Mercury Group >

Re: Bug#538802: ITP: mercury -- The Mercury programming system, a pure logical/functional programming language.

2009-07-28 Thread Paul Bone
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 09:30:58AM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > On 28/07/09 at 10:58 +1000, Paul Bone wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 05:13:06PM +, brian m. carlson wrote: > > > On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 05:34:44PM +1000, Paul Bone wrote: > > > > * Package name: mercury > > > > Version

Re: An introduction to multiarch

2009-07-28 Thread Steve Langasek
Hi Goswin, On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 11:57:12PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > So I decided to write an introduction to the problem that focuses more > on the user side, why we want multiarch at all, what goals and > requirements are to be met and gives some pointers. Thanks for this. I'm no

Paid help for DDs and Debian infrastructure?

2009-07-28 Thread Steffen Moeller
Hello, I recall the not-so-welcomed initiative from 2006 to have some full-timers employed to speed up the release process. Since I am running only sid anyway, I was not really interested in that, particularly not at the time. Now I think that we could make some good use of some full-timers. An

basic income for debian developers

2009-07-28 Thread Thomas Koch
Hi, since Steffen Moeller started a thread about paying Debian Developers, I got the idea to ask the Debian community about it's opinion about "Guaranteed minimum income"[1]. I've heard about the concept some weeks ago in a talk by Götz Werner[2] and imediatly felt in love with the idea. I'll g

Re: Paid help for DDs and Debian infrastructure?

2009-07-28 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, Am Dienstag, den 28.07.2009, 11:17 +0200 schrieb Steffen Moeller: > * the web-pages team might possibly need more helping hands to implement > what they want > to implement and/or to coordinate the translations etc .. so they could get > some more > graphical skills in or .. they would need

Virt-what support for VirtualBox?

2009-07-28 Thread Mark Allums
At the moment, Virt-what can detect VMWare, Microsoft Versions of Virtual PC, OpenVZ, Xen-HVM, Xen-DomU, Xen-Dom0, KVM, and QEMU. That looks like Virt-what does not detect VirtualBox. Is it likely to be added in the future? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.or

Re: basic income for debian developers

2009-07-28 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 11:42 AM, Thomas Koch wrote: > If this topic is not appropriate for this list, I beg your paddon. debian-devel is for technical discussions. I don't believe there is any debian list appropriate for your message. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNS

Re: Paid help for DDs and Debian infrastructure?

2009-07-28 Thread Paul Wise
This mail should have been posted to debian-project, debian-devel is for technical discussions. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

The insserv mess - or how not to change important parts of systems

2009-07-28 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Dear Petter, this is an excerpt from your last sysvinit upload's changelog: sysvinit (2.87dsf-2) unstable; urgency=low * Let sysv-rc depend on insserv (>= 1.12.0-10) to activate dependency based boot sequencing by default. Do you *REALLY* think that changing such important pieces of s

Re: Virt-what support for VirtualBox?

2009-07-28 Thread Chris Lamb
Mark Allums wrote: > That looks like Virt-what does not detect VirtualBox. Is it likely to > be added in the future? Your question is better redirected at the Fedora-virt mailing list; they develop this software, not us: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-virt Alternatively, you c

Re: The insserv mess - or how not to change important parts of systems

2009-07-28 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jul 28, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > " Insserv will become essential together with sysv-rc, and is not > supposed to be simple to remove any more. Dependency based boot > sequencing is going to become the default and suppoted boot sequencing > method. I'll remove the option to disable it. " This i

Re: The insserv mess - or how not to change important parts of systems

2009-07-28 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
Marco d'Itri wrote: On Jul 28, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: " Insserv will become essential together with sysv-rc, and is not supposed to be simple to remove any more. Dependency based boot sequencing is going to become the default and suppoted boot sequencing method. I'll remove the option to disab

Re: Virt-what support for VirtualBox?

2009-07-28 Thread Mark Allums
Chris Lamb wrote: Mark Allums wrote: That looks like Virt-what does not detect VirtualBox. Is it likely to be added in the future? Your question is better redirected at the Fedora-virt mailing list; they develop this software, not us: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-virt Alt

Bug#539008: ITP: telepathy-qt4 -- Telepathy framework - Qt 4 library

2009-07-28 Thread Simon McVittie
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Simon McVittie * Package name: telepathy-qt4 Version : 0.1.9 Upstream Author : the Telepathy project (© Collabora Ltd./Nokia Corporation) * URL : http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/wiki/ * License : LGPL2.1+ Programming L

Re: An introduction to multiarch

2009-07-28 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Steve Langasek writes: > Hi Goswin, > > On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 11:57:12PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> 4) Implementation (migration) > >> For most users activating multiarch would be a simple matter of >> putting > >> Apt::Architectures {"amd64"; "i386";}; > >> in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/mu

Re: The insserv mess - or how not to change important parts of systems

2009-07-28 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jul 28, Giacomo Catenazzi wrote: > - squeeze+1: true upstart: move all scripts to a event based system How do you plan to remove insserv once it becomes essential? -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: An introduction to multiarch

2009-07-28 Thread Bastian Blank
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 03:48:24PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Steve Langasek writes: > > I don't think this configuration belongs to apt, I think it belongs to dpkg. > I disagree, at least to a degree. Me too. >qemu-powerpc (or whatever it would > be

Bug#539022: ITP: ibus-qt -- ibus qt4 input method plugin

2009-07-28 Thread LI Daobing
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: LI Daobing * Package name: ibus-qt Version : 1.2.0.20090728 Upstream Author : Huang Peng * URL : http://code.google.com/p/ibus * License : GPLv2 Programming Lang: C++ Description : ibus qt4 input method plugin I

Please test eglibc 2.9-23+multiarch

2009-07-28 Thread Aurelien Jarno
Hi all, I have recently uploaded to experimental eglibc 2.9-23+multiarch, from our multiarch branch. It doesn't use the multiarch paths yet, but it is a first step toward multiarch. The only difference with the unstable version is that libc-bin and libc-dev-bin are splitted out of libc6 and lib

Re: Bug#538857: rocksndiamonds: post-installation fails

2009-07-28 Thread Moritz Muehlenhoff
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 09:15:00PM +0400, Dmitry E. Oboukhov wrote: > >> The site www.artsoft.org is (temporary?) down. Why do You think it > >> must be another way? Postinst returns error code because it can't > >> download resource. Other packages (for example msttcorefonts) have > >> the same be

Re: Bug#538857: rocksndiamonds: post-installation fails

2009-07-28 Thread Dmitry E. Oboukhov
On 19:39 Tue 28 Jul , Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: MM> On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 09:15:00PM +0400, Dmitry E. Oboukhov wrote: The site www.artsoft.org is (temporary?) down. Why do You think it must be another way? Postinst returns error code because it can't download resource. Other pa

question about iptables and bug #538608

2009-07-28 Thread Jérémy Lal
the "renamed debian/patches to debian/patch to avoid 3.0-quilt-by-default bug reports" changelog in latest iptables makes me uncomfortable... is it something we should all do eventually ? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troubl

Re: Please test eglibc 2.9-23+multiarch

2009-07-28 Thread Vincent Danjean
Hi, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > The only difference with the unstable version is that libc-bin and > libc-dev-bin are splitted out of libc6 and libc6-dev. This way it > complies with the Debian Policy requirement that the libraries should > not contain binaries, which is also a requirement for mult

Bug#539082: ITP: mk -- A simple replacement for make

2009-07-28 Thread Venkatesh Srinivas
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Venkatesh Srinivas * Package name: mk Version : 20090728 Upstream Author : Russ Cox * URL : http://swtch.com/plan9port/unix/ * License : Lucent Public License Programming Lang: C Description : A simple

Re: Bug#539008: ITP: telepathy-qt4 -- Telepathy framework - Qt 4 library

2009-07-28 Thread Simon McVittie
On Tue, 28 Jul 2009 at 23:39:32 +0200, Fathi Boudra wrote: > $ apt-cache search telepathy |grep -i qt4 ... > libqttapioca0 - Qt4 tapioca library ... > libqttelepathycore0 - core library for Qt4 telepathy That's not the same library (sorry about the naming, I hadn't realised telepathy-qt was also f

Re: Virt-what support for VirtualBox?

2009-07-28 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
In article <4a6efb99.8060...@allums.com> you wrote: > I somewhat favor VirtualBox, since Debian runs inside it very well and > it runs on Debian very well, and it has the open-source edition. > Occasionally, something like Virt-what might come in handy for me. Virtualbox can be recognized by Ven

dash pulled on stable when APT::Default-Release is used

2009-07-28 Thread Vincent Danjean
Hi, Since a few days, on a stable machine (with stable, testing and unstable sources for apt but APT::Default-Release set to "stable"), "apt-get dist-upgrade" wants to install dash. Can someone explain me why ? Is it due to the fact that dash is essential in unstable ? kooot:/home/vdanjean#

Re: Please test eglibc 2.9-23+multiarch

2009-07-28 Thread Aurelien Jarno
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 12:28:30AM +0200, Vincent Danjean wrote: > Hi, > > Aurelien Jarno wrote: > > The only difference with the unstable version is that libc-bin and > > libc-dev-bin are splitted out of libc6 and libc6-dev. This way it > > complies with the Debian Policy requirement that the l

Re: Virt-what support for VirtualBox?

2009-07-28 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
In article <200907282338.n6sncgxs059...@neskaya.eckenfels.net> you wrote: > Virtualbox can be recognized by Vendor strings in BIOS, you can use > biosdecode or lshw to find them. So I guess it is no big deal to extend > virt-what to find those signatues. It is actually dmidecode (used by virt-wha

Re: dash pulled on stable when APT::Default-Release is used

2009-07-28 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Vincent Danjean (29/07/2009): > kooot:/home/vdanjean# aptitude why dash > i linux-image-2.6.30-1-amd64 Depends initramfs-tools (>= 0.55) | yaird (>= > 0.0.13) | linux-initramfs-tool > p yaird Depends dash Got a winner here, I believe: | -(cy...@talisker pts/8)-(~) | $ rm

Re: dash pulled on stable when APT::Default-Release is used

2009-07-28 Thread Vincent Danjean
Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Vincent Danjean (29/07/2009): >> kooot:/home/vdanjean# aptitude why dash >> i linux-image-2.6.30-1-amd64 Depends initramfs-tools (>= 0.55) | yaird (>= >> 0.0.13) | linux-initramfs-tool >> p yaird Depends dash > > Got a winner here, I believe: > |

Re: Virt-what support for VirtualBox?

2009-07-28 Thread Mark Allums
Bernd Eckenfels wrote: In article <4a6efb99.8060...@allums.com> you wrote: I somewhat favor VirtualBox, since Debian runs inside it very well and it runs on Debian very well, and it has the open-source edition. Occasionally, something like Virt-what might come in handy for me. Virtualbox can