Re: The mingw* mess in Debian

2011-11-10 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am 09.11.2011 17:04, schrieb Pau Garcia i Quiles: Yes, that would be my advice. Unfortunately mingw32 is now too far behind mingw-w64. The fork has become better than the original project. I still love it for the MSYS bundle, though. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debi

Re: The mingw* mess in Debian

2011-11-10 Thread Pau Garcia i Quiles
On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 9:28 AM, Fabian Greffrath wrote: > Am 09.11.2011 17:04, schrieb Pau Garcia i Quiles: >> >> Yes, that would be my advice. Unfortunately mingw32 is now too far >> behind mingw-w64. The fork has become better than the original >> project. > > I still love it for the MSYS bundl

Bug#648286: ITP: r8168 -- Realtek r8168 device driver for Linux (DKMS version)

2011-11-10 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Dmitry Smirnov * Package name: r8168-dkms Version : 8.026.00 Upstream Author : Realtek Semiconductor Corp. * URL : http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/downloadsView.aspx?Langid=1&PNid=13&PFid=5&Level=5&Conn=4&DownTypeID=3&GetDown

Bug#648288: ITP: kosmosfs -- Kosmos Distributed Filesystem

2011-11-10 Thread James Page
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: James Page -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 * Package name: kosmosfs Version : 0.5 * URL : http://code.google.com/p/kosmosfs * License : Apache-2.0 Programming Lang: C++, Python, Java Description : K

Bug#648290: ITP: ruby-unf-ext -- Unicode Normalization Form support library for CRuby

2011-11-10 Thread Youhei SASAKI
Package: wnpp Owner: Youhei SASAKI Severity: wishlist * Package name: ruby-unf-ext Version : 0.0.3 Upstream Author : 2011 Akinori MUSHA * URL or Web page : http://github.com/knu/ruby-unf_ext * License : MIT Description : Unicode Normalization Form support library fo

Re: Bug#648286: ITP: r8168 -- Realtek r8168 device driver for Linux (DKMS version)

2011-11-10 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi. Dmitry Smirnov (10/11/2011): > r8168 is the Linux device driver released for RealTek RTL8168B/8111B, > RTL8168C/8111C, RTL8168CP/8111CP, RTL8168D/8111D, RTL8168DP/8111DP, and > RTL8168E/8111E Gigabit Ethernet controllers with PCI-Express interface. > . > This is to substitute built-in r8

Re: Bug#648286: ITP: r8168 -- Realtek r8168 device driver for Linux (DKMS version)

2011-11-10 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
Sorry, I don't understand... This is merely an alternative driver from hardware vendor. Sometimes you might need alternatives if your hardware doesn't work well, or if you just suspect it do not work well but you need something to compare with. "Fixing stuff" is always good if you can do it. D

Re: Bug#648286: ITP: r8168 -- Realtek r8168 device driver for Linux (DKMS version)

2011-11-10 Thread Kai Wasserbäch
Dear Dimitry, Dmitry Smirnov schrieb am 10.11.2011 12:50: > Sorry, I don't understand... > > This is merely an alternative driver from hardware vendor. > Sometimes you might need alternatives if your hardware doesn't work well, > or if you just suspect it do not work well but you need something

Re: Bug#648286: ITP: r8168 -- Realtek r8168 device driver for Linux (DKMS version)

2011-11-10 Thread onlyjob
Dear Kai, > well, then what is different and why can't that be upstreamed? And is there a > known case, where the driver provided by Debian doesn't work (if so, is there > a > bug filed)? Perhaps you are right, given the time and the skills and the hardware and the person skilled and motivated e

Re: Bug#648286: ITP: r8168 -- Realtek r8168 device driver for Linux (DKMS version)

2011-11-10 Thread brian m. carlson
On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 11:54:01PM +1100, onlyjob wrote: > Perhaps you are right, given the time and the skills and the hardware > and the person skilled and motivated enough it can be upstreamed. > Ideally it should be. IIRC, upstream doesn't want r8168 because supposedly it covers only hardware

Re: Bug#648286: ITP: r8168 -- Realtek r8168 device driver for Linux (DKMS version)

2011-11-10 Thread Patrick Matthäi
Am 10.11.2011 13:54, schrieb onlyjob: Dear Kai, well, then what is different and why can't that be upstreamed? And is there a known case, where the driver provided by Debian doesn't work (if so, is there a bug filed)? Perhaps you are right, given the time and the skills and the hardware and t

Re: Bug#647995: ITP: cellprofiler -- quantitatively measure phenotypes from images automatically

2011-11-10 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
Hi Thouis, Thanks for the confirmation ! The java module is not ready yet, but I am working on it. Thanks, On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 2:19 PM, Thouis Jones wrote: > I'm not on the debian list, but saw the message thread, and can verify > that CellProfiler 2.0 is 100% open source (GPLv2, some par

Can't get rid of diff-contains-substvars warning

2011-11-10 Thread Ole Wolf
I have a problem building a package properly. From a clean build, sources-only (debuild clean; debuild -S), I get the lintian warning that the diff-contains-substvars in one of the packages that are built: W: vellemaninstrumentation source: diff-contains-substvars debian/backup/vellemaninstrume

Re: Bug#648286: ITP: r8168 -- Realtek r8168 device driver for Linux (DKMS version)

2011-11-10 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, 2011-11-10 at 14:14 +0100, Patrick Matthäi wrote: > Am 10.11.2011 13:54, schrieb onlyjob: [...] > >> Don't get me wrong: I love alternatives, but I don't see their value when > >> it > >> comes to device drivers. > > > > That's probably because you can afford it due to lack of problematic

Re: Bug#648286: ITP: r8168 -- Realtek r8168 device driver for Linux (DKMS version)

2011-11-10 Thread Patrick Matthäi
Am 10.11.2011 15:18, schrieb Ben Hutchings: On Thu, 2011-11-10 at 14:14 +0100, Patrick Matthäi wrote: Am 10.11.2011 13:54, schrieb onlyjob: [...] Don't get me wrong: I love alternatives, but I don't see their value when it comes to device drivers. That's probably because you can afford it du

Re: The mingw* mess in Debian

2011-11-10 Thread Stephen Kitt
Hi Fabian (and all the other participants in this thread), On Wed, 09 Nov 2011 13:33:14 +0100, Fabian Greffrath wrote: > Is there a principle behind all this or where can I help to clean this > up? ;) The history has been explained by others. I've been working for a while on dropping at least g

Re: Bug#648286: ITP: r8168 -- Realtek r8168 device driver for Linux (DKMS version)

2011-11-10 Thread Julien Valroff
Hi, Le jeudi 10 nov. 2011 à 15:21:29 (+0100 CET), Patrick Matthäi a écrit : > Am 10.11.2011 15:18, schrieb Ben Hutchings: [...] > >Anyone who has problems with r8169 in 3.0 or 3.1 should report this: > > > >To: Realtek linux nic maintainers > >To: Francois Romieu > >Cc: net...@vger.kernel.org > >

Re: Bug#648306: The mingw* mess in Debian

2011-11-10 Thread Ron
Hi Stephen, I was hoping you'd actually been cc'd on this :) On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 08:16:01PM +0100, Stephen Kitt wrote: > As far as the naming is concerned, see #622276 for details. I've thought > about splitting the packages up, with separate 32- and 64-bit targets, but > I'm not sure wheth

Re: The mingw* mess in Debian

2011-11-10 Thread Pau Garcia i Quiles
On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 8:16 PM, Stephen Kitt wrote: > I've thought > about splitting the packages up, with separate 32- and 64-bit targets, but > I'm not sure whether replacing and providing the mingw32 packages would be > correct, since mingw-w64 isn't a drop-in replacement (the triplets are >

Re: Bug#648286: ITP: r8168 -- Realtek r8168 device driver for Linux (DKMS version)

2011-11-10 Thread onlyjob
Thanks, Julien. I see you've made r8168-source package as well - nice. I will introduce support for module-assistant if we agree on package inclusion. > I would second that as I have another problem with r8169 which doesn't > support support resuming from suspend/hibernate. I've been using r8168

Re: Bug#648286: ITP: r8168 -- Realtek r8168 device driver for Linux (DKMS version)

2011-11-10 Thread Jeremy Allard
2011/11/10 onlyjob > Thanks, Julien. > > I see you've made r8168-source package as well - nice. > I will introduce support for module-assistant if we agree on package > inclusion. > > > I would second that as I have another problem with r8169 which doesn't > > support support resuming from suspen

Work-needing packages report for Nov 11, 2011

2011-11-10 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: 400 (new: 5) Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 143 (new: 2) Total number of packages request