Re: New Menu category Applictions/Multimedia

2010-02-16 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mardi 16 février 2010 à 08:15 +0900, Charles Plessy a écrit : > to achieve this reasonnable default, the maintainers of programs with a menu > entry need some instructions whether they should hide their entry in the major > desktop managers like GNOME, KDE and Xfce. Add the relevant snippets to

Re: Bug#569079: ITP: python-xdgapp -- Python XDG application library

2010-02-16 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Wed, 2010-02-10 at 14:36:03 -0500, Luke Faraone wrote: > On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 09:52, Guillem Jover wrote > >What does this provide that python-xdg does not? > > It's depended on by https://launchpad.net/groundcontrol, and > provides a wrapper around some xdg functions. Ah ok, I see it

Bug#570109: ITP: libmath-interpolator-perl -- interpolate between lazily-evaluated points

2010-02-16 Thread Steffen Möller
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Steffen Möller" * Package name: libmath-interpolator-perl Version : 0.0.3 Upstream Author : Andrew Main (Zefram) * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Math-Interpolator/ * License : GPL or Artistic Programming Lang: Per

Re: Missing libstdc++5 for 3rd party software

2010-02-16 Thread Daniel Baumann
On 02/15/2010 05:03 PM, Matthias Klose wrote: Is there any chance of getting libstdc++5 back in oldlibs? I don't intend to restore either libstdc++5 or libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2. i'll add them to http://forwardports.debian-maintainers.org/. -- Address:Daniel Baumann, Burgunderstrasse 3,

unit test generator for shared C/C++ library API

2010-02-16 Thread Andrey Ponomarenko
Dear colleagues, Linux Verification Center at the Institute for System Programming of RAS and the Linux Foundation have released a free unit test generator for shared C/C++ library API. It helps to quickly generate simple ("sanity" or "shallow"-quality) tests for all functions from the library AP

Downgrading a package to get it into upcoming release

2010-02-16 Thread Antonin Kral
Hi all, I am looking for some advise / opinions. I am working with guys from MongoDB project to get stable package in Debian. We have currently version 1.3.1 in unstable, this is considered as development branch which is not very stable. Is there any way how to reasonably push older version (1.2.

Re: Downgrading a package to get it into upcoming release

2010-02-16 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Tue, 16 Feb 2010, Antonin Kral wrote: Hi all, I am looking for some advise / opinions. I am working with guys from MongoDB project to get stable package in Debian. We have currently version 1.3.1 in unstable, this is considered as development branch which is not very stable. Is there an

Re: Downgrading a package to get it into upcoming release

2010-02-16 Thread Simon McVittie
On Tue, 16 Feb 2010 at 17:04:17 +0100, Antonin Kral wrote: > We have currently > version 1.3.1 in unstable, this is considered as development branch > which is not very stable. If you consider one of your packages to be unsuitable for a stable release, you should ensure that it has a release criti

Re: Downgrading a package to get it into upcoming release

2010-02-16 Thread sean finney
hi, On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 12:10:16PM -0500, Asheesh Laroia wrote: > You could use epochs to make the old version have a newer version > number according to dpkg. I don't know how distasteful that is, > though. it also might be a bit disruptive for those who have already installed the newer vers

Re: Downgrading a package to get it into upcoming release

2010-02-16 Thread Jean-Christophe Dubacq
On 16/02/2010 17:04, Antonin Kral wrote: > Hi all, > > I am looking for some advise / opinions. I am working with guys from > MongoDB project to get stable package in Debian. We have currently > version 1.3.1 in unstable, this is considered as development branch > which is not very stable. > > Is

Re: Downgrading a package to get it into upcoming release

2010-02-16 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Tue, 16 Feb 2010 18:23:39 +0100 Jean-Christophe Dubacq wrote: > On 16/02/2010 17:04, Antonin Kral wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I am looking for some advise / opinions. I am working with guys from > > MongoDB project to get stable package in Debian. We have currently > > version 1.3.1 in unstable

Re: Downgrading a package to get it into upcoming release

2010-02-16 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Tue, 16 Feb 2010 12:52:34 -0500 Michael Gilbert wrote: > On Tue, 16 Feb 2010 18:23:39 +0100 Jean-Christophe Dubacq wrote: > > > On 16/02/2010 17:04, Antonin Kral wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I am looking for some advise / opinions. I am working with guys from > > > MongoDB project to get

Re: Downgrading a package to get it into upcoming release

2010-02-16 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-02-16 18:55 +0100, Michael Gilbert wrote: >> all of these seem like rather complicated solutions. wouldn't it be a >> bit simpler to ask for removal from both testing and unstable, then once >> that happens, upload the old (known stable) version of the package? > > oh, you would probably

Re: Downgrading a package to get it into upcoming release

2010-02-16 Thread Michael Gilbert
On 2/16/10, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2010-02-16 18:55 +0100, Michael Gilbert wrote: > >>> all of these seem like rather complicated solutions. wouldn't it be a >>> bit simpler to ask for removal from both testing and unstable, then once >>> that happens, upload the old (known stable) version of th

Re: Bits from the NM people

2010-02-16 Thread Brian Ryans
Quoting Jan Dittberner on 2010-02-13 12:19:06: > There are surely more ways to show activity even without uploading packages or > doing other packaging work. Hear, hear. From what I've seen, packaging seems to be the 'sexiest' role a DM/DD could take on, and the most visible role. But what would

Status of systemtap in Debian

2010-02-16 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
[ M-F-T set to debian-devel@ ] Hi, Systemtap[1] is a tool allowing to dynamically insert probes in the Linux kernel, similarly to what is possible with DTrace on Solaris. [1] http://sourceware.org/systemtap/ The state of systemtap in Debian is currently worrying. First, the package has been orph

Re: Status of systemtap in Debian

2010-02-16 Thread Philipp Kern
On 2010-02-16, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > Systemtap[1] is a tool allowing to dynamically insert probes in the > Linux kernel, similarly to what is possible with DTrace on Solaris. > [1] http://sourceware.org/systemtap/ > > The state of systemtap in Debian is currently worrying. First, the > package h

Re: Status of systemtap in Debian

2010-02-16 Thread Eugeniy Meshcheryakov
Hello, 16 лютого 2010 о 20:35 + Philipp Kern написав(-ла): > Is that supported on all architectures or is it architecture-specific? Systemtap now supports only i386/amd64/ia64/armel/powerpc/s390. > Would it be sufficient to provide that infrastructure on the fast > arches? I'm concerned how

Re: Status of systemtap in Debian

2010-02-16 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 16/02/10 at 20:35 +, Philipp Kern wrote: > On 2010-02-16, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > Systemtap[1] is a tool allowing to dynamically insert probes in the > > Linux kernel, similarly to what is possible with DTrace on Solaris. > > [1] http://sourceware.org/systemtap/ > > > > The state of syste

Re: Status of systemtap in Debian

2010-02-16 Thread dann frazier
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 09:13:06PM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > [ M-F-T set to debian-devel@ ] > > Hi, > > Systemtap[1] is a tool allowing to dynamically insert probes in the > Linux kernel, similarly to what is possible with DTrace on Solaris. > [1] http://sourceware.org/systemtap/ > > The st

Re: Status of systemtap in Debian

2010-02-16 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 09:13:06PM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > - disk space on buildds: at least 2 GiB are required to build a kernel > with debuginfo. (that doesn't sound too hard to satisfy) There currently are packages that require more diskspace than that, for instance the linux-2.6 pa

Re: Status of systemtap in Debian

2010-02-16 Thread Bastian Blank
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 09:13:06PM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > - disk space on buildds: at least 2 GiB are required to build a kernel > with debuginfo. (that doesn't sound too hard to satisfy) A typical build includes between 2 and 10 of them. > - mirror space: each debug .deb would use ~ 45

Re: Status of systemtap in Debian

2010-02-16 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 16/02/10 at 22:27 +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 09:13:06PM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > - disk space on buildds: at least 2 GiB are required to build a kernel > > with debuginfo. (that doesn't sound too hard to satisfy) > > A typical build includes between 2 and 10

Re: dpkg source format 3.0 (git)

2010-02-16 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Jonathan Nieder wrote: > For usability: I imagine what is typically needed is the set of Vcs-Git > fields somewhere conveniently machine-readable, so one could just go > > apt-get source --git whatever > > and get a checkout of its packaging repository. ... which is what debcheckout provi

Re: Downgrading a package to get it into upcoming release

2010-02-16 Thread Antonin Kral
* Simon McVittie [2010-02-16 20:26] wrote: > bug to stop it from propagating to testing automatically. In this case it'd be > appropriate to file a bug against version 1.3.1, "mongodb: 1.3.x unsuitable > for stable in maintainer's opinion", then close it in version 1:1.2.x > (assuming you use epoc

Bug#570150: ITP: z80ex -- Emulation library for z80 CPUs.

2010-02-16 Thread Adrian Glaubitz
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Adrian Glaubitz Hi, this is a emulation library for z80 CPUs. It is required for the kcemu KC85/4 emulator developed by Thorsten Paul which I also packaged (#538914). But it may also be used for other emulators. Adrian * Package name: z80ex Version

Bug#570175: ITP: libhttp-parser-xs-perl -- simple and fast HTTP request parser

2010-02-16 Thread Jonathan Yu
Package: wnpp Owner: Jonathan Yu Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libhttp-parser-xs-perl Version : 0.05 Upstream Author : Kazuho Oku * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/HTTP-Parser-XS/ * Licens

Re: unit test generator for shared C/C++ library API

2010-02-16 Thread Paul Wise
[CCing you since I presume you are not subscribed] On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 11:29 PM, Andrey Ponomarenko wrote: > We suppose this tool can be very useful for shared library developers > and recommend it for including to Debian Linux. > For more information, please see: > http://ispras.linux-found

Bug#570180: ITP: docky -- Elegant, powerful, clean dock

2010-02-16 Thread Christopher James Halse Rogers
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Christopher James Halse Rogers * Package name: docky Version : 2.0.0 Upstream Author : Jason Smith * URL : https://launchpad.net/docky * License : GPL-3+ Programming Lang: C#, Python Description : Elegant, powerf

Re: Flag images

2010-02-16 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On lun., 2010-02-15 at 12:03 -0800, Don Armstrong wrote: > Flags are a poor representation of a particular language, and language > selection is better handled using locales and content-negotiation > anyway. [There are many examples where a country speaks many > languages, and examples where multip