Re: Needed input from Australian users and developers:; choosing timezones for Australia in D-I

2011-03-23 Thread Rick Thomas
On Mar 23, 2011, at 2:15 AM, Christian PERRIER wrote: I'm just not fond of "Australia/Sydney" presented as a choice, I'd rather have "New South-Wales". For what it's worth, the timezone database (as evidenced by, among other things, the output of the "tzselect" command) is organized most

Re: Bug#595427: wnpp: ITP: winetricks -- Quick and dirty script to download and install variousredistributable runtime libraries

2011-03-23 Thread Jari Aalto
2011-03-15 21:24 Austin English : > On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 13:52, Jari Aalto wrote: >>    - does not depend on external programs outside of Debian. > > ...vast majority of its uses requires downloading things from outside of > Debian, typically with a potentially non-DFSG license (Microsoft > red

Re: Need for automatic USB stick backup package

2011-03-23 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Mar 22, Paul Wise wrote: > Automounting is disabled on desktops that do the right thing and when I call bullshit on this. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: ranting vs bug filing (Re: potential MBF: first alternate depends not available in main

2011-03-23 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Holger Levsen writes: > Hi, > > this is not particulary about unrar or Goswin... > > On Samstag, 19. März 2011, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> No, I truely mean that unrar-free is practically useless. The stoneage >> rar formats it suports have not been in general use for many years. > > http://b

Re: Library depending on -data packages

2011-03-23 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Simon McVittie writes: > For instance, openarena needs a corresponding version of openarena-data: > if you substitute a data-set in the same format (zipped Quake III-compatible > assets) with non-trivial modifications, it won't be network-compatible, and > might even crash if you don't make corre

Re: Bug#595427: wnpp: ITP: winetricks -- Quick and dirty script to download and install variousredistributable runtime libraries

2011-03-23 Thread Philipp Kern
On 2011-03-23, Jari Aalto wrote: > 2011-03-15 21:24 Austin English : >> On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 13:52, Jari Aalto wrote: >>>    - does not depend on external programs outside of Debian. >> ...vast majority of its uses requires downloading things from outside of >> Debian, typically with a potenti

Re: Library depending on -data packages

2011-03-23 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Jonathan Nieder writes: > (dropped cc's; hopefully that's okay.) > Hi! > > Luca Capello wrote: > >> I see these situations as a misuse of Depends: where Recommends: would >> be perfectly fine, otherwise Recommends: are useless. But given that it >> seems no one agrees with me, is such a behavior

Re: Cross compiler ITP (armel)

2011-03-23 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Mark Hymers writes: > On Mon, 14, Mar, 2011 at 02:04:30PM +, Hector Oron spoke thus.. >> Hi, >> >> 2009/11/2 Mark Hymers : >> > On Mon, 02, Nov, 2009 at 12:43:42PM +, Philipp Kern spoke thus.. >> >> Of course it is a sane approach but very special care needs to be taken >> >> when >> >>

Re: Cross compiler ITP (armel)

2011-03-23 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Mark Hymers writes: > On Tue, 22, Mar, 2011 at 01:57:42PM +, Hector Oron spoke thus.. >> Hi Mark, >> >> 2011/3/22 Mark Hymers : >> >> > The current design is the Binary packages can contain an additional >> > control field: Built-Using. >> >> First of all, thanks very much for taking care

Re: Cross compiler ITP (armel)

2011-03-23 Thread Philipp Kern
On 2011-03-23, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Also does the testing transition consider the Built-Using? If I specify > 'Built-Using: gcc-4.5 (= 4.5.2-5)' will the package be blocked from > entering testing until gcc-4.5 (= 4.5.2-5) has entered and block gcc-4.5 > (= 4.5.2-5) from being replaced fr

Re: Help identify packages that multiarch support will break

2011-03-23 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Raphael Hertzog writes: > [ Bcc to -dpkg for info ] > > Hello, > > since multiarch support in dpkg is on good track, it's about time to > identify what will break when people start using multiarch packages... A while back I already posted about a major problem cases. Specifically packages violat

Re: Help identify packages that multiarch support will break

2011-03-23 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Wed, 23 Mar 2011, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > What is the policy on conffiles under multiarch? Can a Multi-Arch: same > package have conffiles? Or would that confuse dpkg too much? They can have conffiles but obviously the confffile must be the same across all architectures (for a given

Re: Cross compiler ITP (armel)

2011-03-23 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Philipp Kern writes: > On 2011-03-23, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> Also does the testing transition consider the Built-Using? If I specify >> 'Built-Using: gcc-4.5 (= 4.5.2-5)' will the package be blocked from >> entering testing until gcc-4.5 (= 4.5.2-5) has entered and block gcc-4.5 >> (= 4.

Re: Cross compiler ITP (armel)

2011-03-23 Thread Mehdi Dogguy
On 23/03/2011 11:59, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Philipp Kern writes: On 2011-03-23, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Also does the testing transition consider the Built-Using? If I specify 'Built-Using: gcc-4.5 (= 4.5.2-5)' will the package be blocked from entering testing until gcc-4.5 (= 4.5.2

Re: Cross compiler ITP (armel)

2011-03-23 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 11:59:11AM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > >As a side note the debian-cd package needs to also consider Built-Using >when creating source images. Yup, we'll need to consider that. I'm looking forwards to having all the stuff we need properly dealt with, however it's do

Re: Help identify packages that multiarch support will break

2011-03-23 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Raphael Hertzog writes: > Hi, > > On Wed, 23 Mar 2011, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> What is the policy on conffiles under multiarch? Can a Multi-Arch: same >> package have conffiles? Or would that confuse dpkg too much? > > They can have conffiles but obviously the confffile must be the same >

Re: Needed input from Australian users and developers:; choosing timezones for Australia in D-I

2011-03-23 Thread Karl Goetz
On Wed, 23 Mar 2011 10:18:04 +0800 Paul Wise wrote: > this would only work for g-i not the text-based installer. The > text-based installer could use the GNOME strategy of providing a > search box to input your city/country and a list of possibly > corresponding timezones/locales. Would you remo

Re: Needed input from Australian users and developers:; choosing timezones for Australia in D-I

2011-03-23 Thread Karl Goetz
On Wed, 23 Mar 2011 07:15:20 +0100 Christian PERRIER wrote: > Quoting Paul Wise (p...@debian.org): > > I agree with the other Australians in the thread; the east-coast > > timezones are currently all the same but might not be in the future > > so we shouldn't rely on them being the same and we sh

Re: Needed input from Australian users and developers:; choosing timezones for Australia in D-I

2011-03-23 Thread Karl Goetz
On Wed, 23 Mar 2011 12:28:18 +1100 Ben Finney wrote: > Christian PERRIER writes: > > > The timezone choice in D-I is supposed to be user-friendly and easy > > to understand for the average citizen of the said country. > > FWIW: the existing Australian timezone choice in D-I seems fine from > t

Re: Help identify packages that multiarch support will break

2011-03-23 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Wed, 23 Mar 2011, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > They can have conffiles but obviously the confffile must be the same > > across all architectures (for a given version). > > And if I change the conffile and upgrade does dpkg then ask twice if I > want to keep my version? No. What about stopp

Karaoques para PC

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Bug#619388: ITP: cernlib -- CERNLIB data analysis suite

2011-03-23 Thread Lifeng Sun
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Lifeng Sun * Package name: cernlib Version : 2006 Upstream Author : CERN - European Laboratory for Particle Physics * URL : http://cernlib.web.cern.ch/cernlib/ * License : GPL-2+ Programming Lang: Fortran, C Descripti

Bug#619393: ITP: paw -- Physics Analysis Workstation

2011-03-23 Thread Lifeng Sun
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Lifeng Sun * Package name: paw Version : 2.14.04 Upstream Author : CERN - European Laboratory for Particle Physics * URL : http://paw.web.cern.ch/paw/ * License : GPL-2+ Programming Lang: Fortran, C Description :

Bug#619394: ITP: mclibs -- CERNLIB Monte Carlo libraries

2011-03-23 Thread Lifeng Sun
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Lifeng Sun * Package name: mclibs Version : 2006 Upstream Author : CERN - European Laboratory for Particle Physics * URL : http://wwwasd.web.cern.ch/wwwasd/cernlib/mc.html * License : GPL-2+ Programming Lang: Fortran, C

Bug#619396: ITP: geant321 -- Particle detector description and simulation tool

2011-03-23 Thread Lifeng Sun
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Lifeng Sun * Package name: geant321 Version : 3.21.14 Upstream Author : CERN - European Laboratory for Particle Physics * URL : http://wwwasd.web.cern.ch/wwwasd/geant/index.html * License : GPL-2+ Programming Lang: Fort

berkeley db orphaned

2011-03-23 Thread Ondřej Surý
Hi, it seems that previous maintainer of berkeley db packages has orphaned them all. Is there a work on creating a pkg-bdb (pkg-db) group? I would join and help, since I also maintain php5 and cyrus-imap and both packages use the libdb, but it's a big chunk for one person alone. O. P.S.: Please C

Re: Bug#619393: ITP: paw -- Physics Analysis Workstation

2011-03-23 Thread Mika Pflüger
Hi, Am Wed, 23 Mar 2011 22:42:44 +0800 schrieb Lifeng Sun : > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Lifeng Sun > > * Package name: paw > Version : 2.14.04 > Upstream Author : CERN - European Laboratory for Particle Physics > * URL : http://paw.web.cern.ch/paw/ >

Re: Cross compiler ITP (armel)

2011-03-23 Thread Mark Hymers
On Wed, 23, Mar, 2011 at 08:15:52AM +0900, Charles Plessy spoke thus.. > Le Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 11:54:47AM +, Mark Hymers a écrit : > > > > I'm not entirely sure where this should be documented, it's not really a > > policy thing as it's specific to the archive. Suggestions welcome. > > Sin

Re: Bug#619393: ITP: paw -- Physics Analysis Workstation

2011-03-23 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 6:11 PM, Mika Pflüger wrote: > It seems that PAW is upstream dead (last activity on the website was in I believe there is a recent activity on debian-science to resurect that package: http://lists.debian.org/debian-science/2011/03/msg0.html Lifeng are you part of thi

Re: Bug#619396: ITP: geant321 -- Particle detector description and simulation tool

2011-03-23 Thread Mika Pflüger
Hi, Am Wed, 23 Mar 2011 23:01:28 +0800 schrieb Lifeng Sun : > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Lifeng Sun > > * Package name: geant321 > Version : 3.21.14 > Upstream Author : CERN - European Laboratory for Particle Physics > * URL : http://wwwasd.web.cern.c

Re: Needed input from Australian users and developers:; choosing timezones for Australia in D-I

2011-03-23 Thread Joey Hess
Rick Thomas wrote: > For what it's worth, the timezone database (as evidenced by, among > other things, the output of the "tzselect" command) is organized > mostly in terms of country/city rather than country/larger- > geographical-area. This is also largely misunderstood, as often two cities with

Re: Needed input from Australian users and developers:; choosing timezones for Australia in D-I

2011-03-23 Thread Rick Thomas
On Mar 23, 2011, at 1:42 PM, Joey Hess wrote: Rick Thomas wrote: For what it's worth, the timezone database (as evidenced by, among other things, the output of the "tzselect" command) is organized mostly in terms of country/city rather than country/larger- geographical-area. This is also lar

Re: Needed input from Australian users and developers:; choosing timezones for Australia in D-I

2011-03-23 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Ben Finney (ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au): > Christian PERRIER writes: > > > I'm just not fond of "Australia/Sydney" presented as a choice, I'd > > rather have "New South-Wales". > > (Regardless of what you choose, FYI it's “New South Wales”, no hyphen.) Sure. If I finally decide to go fo

Bug#619426: ITP: sord -- library for storing RDF data in memory

2011-03-23 Thread Alessio Treglia
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alessio Treglia * Package name: sord Version : 0~svn68 Upstream Author : David Robillard * URL : http://drobilla.net/software/sord/ * License : BSD Programming Lang: C Description : A lightweight RDF model librar

Bug#619429: ITP: serd -- lightweight RDF syntax library

2011-03-23 Thread Alessio Treglia
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alessio Treglia * Package name: serd Version : 0~svn128 Upstream Author : David Robillard * URL : http://drobilla.net/software/serd/ * License : BSD Programming Lang: C Description : lightweight RDF syntax librar

Re: Who is (co-)maintaining lcdproc package ?

2011-03-23 Thread Nick Leverton
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 08:48:48PM +0100, Dominique Dumont wrote: > Depending on your answers, I'll upload a new version with an updated > maintainer/uploader list. (and with a correction in the bug list which is > missing commas) Hi Dominique and all, My situation is uncertain at the moment an

Re: Bug#619393: ITP: paw -- Physics Analysis Workstation

2011-03-23 Thread Lifeng Sun
Hi, On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 6:11 PM, Mika Pflüger wrote: > It seems that PAW is upstream dead (last activity on the website was in > 2006, the last release of PAW was in 2002, the cernlib site states in > red: 'The development and support for CERNLIB has been discontinued. > Libraries will be con

Bug#619396: ITP: geant321 -- Particle detector description and simulation tool

2011-03-23 Thread Lifeng Sun
Hi, On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 6:29 PM, Mika Pflüger wrote: > Additionally to my concerns towards cernlib in general (see answer to > #619393), I think that GEANT is not free software. Thank you for figuring out the license issue, please see answer to #619393. Kind regards, - Lifeng -- signa