Bug#649690: ITP: metaconfig -- python ConfigParser bootstraping library

2011-11-23 Thread Alastair McKinstry
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alastair McKinstry * Package name: metaconfig Version : 0.1.4a1 Upstream Author : Stephen Pascoe * URL : http://pypi.python.org/pypi/metaconfig * License : BSD Programming Lang: Python Description : python Config

How to manage/document C dependencies?

2011-11-23 Thread Thomas Koch
Hi, I'm currently discussing with Jitsi[1] what they could do to make packaging feasible. On the java site they'll now probably use Ivy to document and manage their java dependencies. But they also have a lot of dependencies to C libraries. These are currently still committed to their SVN as

Alert - The Branding Revolution

2011-11-23 Thread Robert Stacey
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Re: Increasing minimum 'i386' processor

2011-11-23 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Matthias Klose writes: > On 11/19/2011 11:42 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: >> The i386 architecture was the first in Linux and in Debian, but we have >> long since dropped support for the original i386-compatible processors >> and now require a minimum of a 486-class processor. >> >> I think it is ti

Re: How to manage/document C dependencies?

2011-11-23 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Thomas Koch writes: > Hi, > > I'm currently discussing with Jitsi[1] what they could do to make packaging > feasible. On the java site they'll now probably use Ivy to document and > manage > their java dependencies. > > But they also have a lot of dependencies to C libraries. These are curren

Re: How to manage/document C dependencies?

2011-11-23 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mercredi 23 novembre 2011 à 10:15 +0100, Thomas Koch a écrit : > But they also have a lot of dependencies to C libraries. These are currently > still committed to their SVN as .so files. Urrgh, that’s awful. > I'm totally clueless about C. Is there any best practice for an upstream how > to

Re: Increasing minimum 'i386' processor

2011-11-23 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Goswin von Brederlow] > Where the relevant patches added to binutils and gcc for this? See for yourself: http://sites.google.com/site/x32abi/ -- Peter Samuelson | org-tld!p12n!peter | http://p12n.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsub

Re: Is anyone using the Units program in a script? [and 1 more messages]

2011-11-23 Thread Ian Jackson
John Hasler writes ("Re: Is anyone using the Units program in a script?"): > Ian Jackson writes: > > Honestly, this is not a very good way to go about asking this > > question. > > How do you suggest that I ask it? Sorry, I didn't mean to criticise you. I wrote in haste. I should have been clea

Re: Increasing minimum 'i386' processor

2011-11-23 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Wed, 2011-11-23 at 00:44 +0100, Matthias Klose wrote: > On 11/19/2011 11:42 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > The i386 architecture was the first in Linux and in Debian, but we have > > long since dropped support for the original i386-compatible processors > > and now require a minimum of a 486-class

Re: How to manage/document C dependencies?

2011-11-23 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 11/23/2011 07:09 PM, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le mercredi 23 novembre 2011 à 10:15 +0100, Thomas Koch a écrit : > >> But they also have a lot of dependencies to C libraries. These are currently >> still committed to their SVN as .so files. >> > Urrgh, that’s awful. > This tells a

Bug#649736: ITP: python-smartypants -- a smart-quotes plugin for pyblosxom

2011-11-23 Thread Julien Danjou
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Julien Danjou * Package name: python-smartypants Version : 1.6.0.3 Upstream Author : Chad Miller * URL : http://web.chad.org/projects/smartypants.py/ * License : BSD Programming Lang: Python Description : a smart-

Bug#649738: ITP: python-typogrify -- filters for the Django template to transform text into typographically-improved HTML

2011-11-23 Thread Julien Danjou
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Julien Danjou * Package name: python-typogrify Version : 1.0 Upstream Author : Christian Metts * URL : https://github.com/hyde/typogrify/ * License : BSD Programming Lang: Python Description : filters for the Djan

Bug#649743: ITP: hyde -- static website generator with the power of Django templates

2011-11-23 Thread Julien Danjou
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Julien Danjou * Package name: hyde Version : 0.8.4 Upstream Author : Lakshmi Vyasarajan * URL : http://github.com/hyde/hyde * License : MIT Programming Lang: Python Description : static website generator with the

Re: what if a package needs to be "recalled"

2011-11-23 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On dim., 2011-11-20 at 20:56 -0500, Michael Gilbert wrote: > If this thread is specifically related to the broken sandbox in > chromium right now, then you can use "chromium --no-sandbox" until we > find an appropriate fix the bug (or help us do that). No need to come > up with crazy versioning so

Bug#649780: ITP: libosinfo -- Library for managing information about operating systems and hypervisors

2011-11-23 Thread Guido Günther
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Guido Günther" * Package name: libosinfo Version : 0.0.2 * URL : https://fedorahosted.org/libosinfo/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: C Description : Library for managing information about operating

Re: Increasing minimum 'i386' processor

2011-11-23 Thread Bill Allombert
On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 07:20:11PM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > The i386 architecture was the first in Linux and in Debian, but we have > long since dropped support for the original i386-compatible processors > and now require a minimum of a 486-class processor. > > I think it is time to increase

Re: what if a package needs to be "recalled"

2011-11-23 Thread jidanni
> "YP" == Yves-Alexis Perez writes: YP> I'm not sure telling people to use --no-sandbox without telling them YP> what they lose is a good idea. Sandboxing is here for a reason. Wish it was documented. Say on the man page. Of course if they don't use it, they won't be able to browse anything

Re: what if a package needs to be "recalled"

2011-11-23 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 7:12 PM, wrote: >> "YP" == Yves-Alexis Perez writes: > > YP> I'm not sure telling people to use --no-sandbox without telling them > YP> what they lose is a good idea. Sandboxing is here for a reason. I find the "no-sandbox" label sufficiently descriptive, but for compl

Re: what if a package needs to be "recalled"

2011-11-23 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 7:43 PM, Michael Gilbert wrote: > On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 7:12 PM,  wrote: >>> "YP" == Yves-Alexis Perez writes: >> >> YP> I'm not sure telling people to use --no-sandbox without telling them >> YP> what they lose is a good idea. Sandboxing is here for a reason. > > I fi

Bug#649812: mention where to find all chromium command line switches

2011-11-23 Thread jidanni
X-debbugs-CC: michael.s.gilb...@gmail.com, cor...@debian.org, debian-devel@lists.debian.org Package: chromium Version: 15.0.874.106~r107270-1 Severity: wishlist File: /usr/share/man/man1/chromium.1.gz > "MG" == Michael Gilbert writes: >> Wish it was documented. Say on the man page. MG> You

Re: The mingw* mess in Debian

2011-11-23 Thread Stephen Kitt
Hi Fabian, On Fri, 11 Nov 2011 15:33:55 +0100, Fabian Greffrath wrote: > > The history has been explained by others. I've been working for a while on > > dropping at least gcc-mingw32; see #644769 which tracks the various > > packages build-depending on gcc-mingw32 and/or mingw32. There are only