Bug#593554: ITP: fgo -- A simple GUI launcher for FlightGear

2010-08-19 Thread Christopher Baines
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Christopher Baines * Package name: fgo Version : 1.3.0 Upstream Author : Robert Leda * URL : http://sites.google.com/site/erobosprojects/flightgear/add-ons/fgo * License : GPL Programming Lang: Python Description

Re: Bug#592839: dpkg-source option to remove files on unpack: debian/source/remove-files

2010-08-19 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, I think that we should be aiming towards descriptive domain-specific languages rather than imperative catch-all ones wherever possible. In the old days before debhelper, the rules file would explicitly move files around, and I think .install files are a huge step forward. I'd also like to see

Bug#593568: ITP: libwww-perl5.808-perl -- version 5.808 of libwww-perl

2010-08-19 Thread Steffen Moeller
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Steffen Moeller * Package name: libwww-perl5.808-perl Version : 5.808 * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/libwww-perl/ * License : Artistic Programming Lang: Perl Description : version 5.808 of libwww-perl There ar

Re: Bug#592839: dpkg-source option to remove files on unpack: debian/source/remove-files

2010-08-19 Thread Ian Jackson
Goswin von Brederlow writes ("Re: Bug#592839: dpkg-source option to remove files on unpack: debian/source/remove-files"): > No. The files must be legal to be included. They are distributed in the > tarball after all. So deleting or not deleting makes absolutely no > difference to ftp-master. This

Bug#593587: ITP: libparallel-useragent-perl -- Extension for LWP to allow parallel HTTP and FTP access

2010-08-19 Thread Steffen Moeller
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Steffen Moeller * Package name: libparallel-useragent-perl * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/ParallelUserAgent/ * License : Artistic Programming Lang: Perl Description : Extension for LWP to allow parallel HTTP and FTP acce

Bug#593588: ITP: bioperl1.2.3 -- Perl tools for computational molecular biology

2010-08-19 Thread Steffen Moeller
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Steffen Moeller * Package name: bioperl1.2.3 Version : 1.2.3 * URL : http://www.bioperl.org * License : Artistic, LGPL and GPL Programming Lang: Perl Description : Perl tools for computational molecular biology Bio

Bug#593605: ITP: tralics -- a LaTeX to XML translator

2010-08-19 Thread Zbyszek Szmek
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Zbyszek Szmek * Package name: tralics Version : 2.13.6 Upstream Author : Inria Apics Team * URL : http://www-sop.inria.fr/miaou/tralics/ * License : CeCILL Programming Lang: C++ Description : a LaTeX to XML trans

Re: why are there /bin and /usr/bin...

2010-08-19 Thread Stéphane Glondu
Le 10/08/2010 12:18, Stanislav Maslovski a écrit : > Not just to repair. First of all, / must have enough tools to > bring the system up to the point where the other file systems can be > mounted (i.g., over the network). Is this still relevant, now that we have initrd? > This is an unfortunate c

Re: Bug#592839: dpkg-source option to remove files on unpack: debian/source/remove-files

2010-08-19 Thread David Claughton
On 19/08/10 07:02, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > David Claughton writes: >>> Legally that should be the same. And practically you would have the >>> useless files on the initial source unpack but they would be gone when >>> debian/rules is invoked the first time. dpkg-source -x could run the >>> c

Bug#593632: ITP: liblog-any-adapter-dispatch-perl -- an adapter to use Log::Dispatch with Log::Any

2010-08-19 Thread USB
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Ernesto Hernández-Novich (USB)" * Package name: liblog-any-adapter-dispatch-perl Version : 0.06 Upstream Author : Jonathan Swartz * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Log-Any-Adapter-Dispatch/ * License : Artistic or GP

Bug#593640: ITP: libchi-perl -- Unified Cache Handling Interface

2010-08-19 Thread USB
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Ernesto Hernández-Novich (USB)" * Package name: libchi-perl Version : 0.36 Upstream Author : Jonathan Swartz * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/CHI/ * License : Artistic or GPL Programming Lang: Perl Description

Re: Atlas proposal

2010-08-19 Thread Sylvestre Ledru
Hello, First, thanks to all people participating to this discussion. Le mercredi 18 août 2010 à 13:29 +0100, Ian Jackson a écrit : > I think the key thing to remember here is that both writing fast code, > and its subsequent deployment and performance tuning, are very hard > problems which are f

Re: Atlas proposal

2010-08-19 Thread Julien Cristau
On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 22:53:35 +0200, Sylvestre Ledru wrote: > How does it sound ? Is it possible ? > Running dpkg --install from your maintainer scripts is probably not the best plan ever. Cheers, Julien signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Atlas proposal

2010-08-19 Thread Russ Allbery
Julien Cristau writes: > On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 22:53:35 +0200, Sylvestre Ledru wrote: >> How does it sound ? Is it possible ? > Running dpkg --install from your maintainer scripts is probably not the > best plan ever. Normally packages that do this ship a script in /usr/sbin that does the act

Re: Atlas proposal

2010-08-19 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeudi 19 août 2010 à 22:53 +0200, Sylvestre Ledru a écrit : > * it will start the build (fakeroot debian/rules custom) > * at the end, it installs the .deb packages and removes the > libatlas3gf-auto I think it’s a bit too much to ask from dpkg to be able to do that. And think of upgrades! The

Work-needing packages report for Aug 20, 2010

2010-08-19 Thread wnpp
The following is a listing of packages for which help has been requested through the WNPP (Work-Needing and Prospective Packages) system in the last week. Total number of orphaned packages: 576 (new: 2) Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 135 (new: 2) Total number of packages request