Re: Bug#732878: Add MariaDB as an alternative dependency

2013-12-27 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 12/27/2013 09:44 AM, Clint Byrum wrote: > Excerpts from Vincent Bernat's message of 2013-12-25 09:52:40 -0800: >> ❦ 25 décembre 2013 12:41 CET, Clint Byrum : >> > Don't you think it would be more reasonable if the mariadb-client > contained a Provides: mysql-client, rather than changin

[DEP 8] About "XS-Testsuite: autopkgtest": time to remove "XS-" ?

2013-12-27 Thread Charles Plessy
Hello everybody, the use of autopkgtest as documented in DEP 8 is taking momentum. How about allowing a "Testsuite" field to replace the "XS-Testsuite" field? If people like the idea, I can send a patch to dpkg if needed. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Illkirch-Graffenstaden, France --

Bug#733214: ITP: python-botocore -- Low-level, data-driven core of boto 3

2013-12-27 Thread TANIGUCHI Takaki
Package: wnpp Owner: tak...@debian.org Severity: wishlist * Package name: python-botocore Version : 0.29.0 Upstream Author : Mitch Garnaat * URL or Web page : https://github.com/boto/botocore * License : MIT Description : A low-level interface to a growing number o

Bug#733216: ITP: python-rsa -- Pure-Python RSA implementation

2013-12-27 Thread TANIGUCHI Takaki
Package: wnpp Owner: tak...@debian.org Severity: wishlist * Package name: python-rsa Version : 3.1.2 Upstream Author : Sybren A. Stuvel * URL or Web page : http://stuvel.eu/rsa * License : Apache Description : Python-RSA is a pure-Python RSA implementation. It supports

Bug#733215: ITP: python-bcdoc -- ReST document generation tools for botocore

2013-12-27 Thread TANIGUCHI Takaki
Package: wnpp Owner: tak...@debian.org Severity: wishlist * Package name: python-bcdoc Version : 0.12.0 Upstream Author : Mitch Garnaat * URL or Web page : https://github.com/botocore/bcdoc * License : Apache Description : Tools to help document botocore-based project

Re: On building everything from source.

2013-12-27 Thread Paul Wise
[Offlist] On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 3:23 PM, Charles Plessy wrote: > I would welcome something like "The maintainer > decides, and can be overruled by the Technical Comittee if needed". That is what we have now, as usual other contributors will obviously question decisions made where they consider

Re: On building everything from source.

2013-12-27 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Fri, 27 Dec 2013, Paul Wise wrote: > > the unpredictability of when a source package goes to NEW (that is, > > when the list of binary packages changes), > > That is entirely predictable and under the control of the Debian > package maintainer since it only changes when the maintainer updates >

Bug#733219: ITP: libkeyword-simple-perl -- Perl module to define new keywords in pure Perl

2013-12-27 Thread Salvatore Bonaccorso
Package: wnpp Owner: Salvatore Bonaccorso Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libkeyword-simple-perl Version : 0.02 Upstream Author : Lukas Mai * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/Keyword-Simple

Re: Bug#732878: Add MariaDB as an alternative dependency

2013-12-27 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, 2013-12-26 at 17:42 -0800, Clint Byrum wrote: > Excerpts from Ben Hutchings's message of 2013-12-25 04:32:01 -0800: > > On Wed, 2013-12-25 at 03:41 -0800, Clint Byrum wrote: > > > Excerpts from Vincent Bernat's message of 2013-12-25 03:36:30 -0800: > > > > ❦ 25 décembre 2013 08:27 CET, Tho

Re: On building everything from source.

2013-12-27 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Fri, 2013-12-27 at 17:04 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > [Offlist] Only not... > On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 3:23 PM, Charles Plessy wrote: > > > I would welcome something like "The maintainer > > decides, and can be overruled by the Technical Comittee if needed". > > That is what we have now, as usua

Re: GnuTLS in Debian

2013-12-27 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Steve Langasek dixit: >of GPLv3, and explicitly did not. In fact, the system library exception is >now defined even more narrowly than for GPLv2, so that it now covers only >language runtime libraries. I think this was a poor choice on the FSF's Is it really? | A "Standard Interface" means an

Re: Bug#732878: Add MariaDB as an alternative dependency

2013-12-27 Thread Clint Byrum
Excerpts from Ben Hutchings's message of 2013-12-27 02:38:45 -0800: > On Thu, 2013-12-26 at 17:42 -0800, Clint Byrum wrote: > > Excerpts from Ben Hutchings's message of 2013-12-25 04:32:01 -0800: > > > On Wed, 2013-12-25 at 03:41 -0800, Clint Byrum wrote: > > > > Excerpts from Vincent Bernat's mess

Re: Bug#732878: Add MariaDB as an alternative dependency

2013-12-27 Thread Clint Byrum
Excerpts from Thomas Goirand's message of 2013-12-27 00:36:49 -0800: > On 12/27/2013 09:44 AM, Clint Byrum wrote: > > Excerpts from Vincent Bernat's message of 2013-12-25 09:52:40 -0800: > >> ❦ 25 décembre 2013 12:41 CET, Clint Byrum : > >> > > Don't you think it would be more reasonable if t

Re: Last call for pv-grub-menu.

2013-12-27 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Samuel Thibault debian.org> writes: > > Isn’t there a GRUB2 port for Xen now? > > Yes, and it will be part of the grub2 source code, but that's not > released yet. But it’s in Debian already (which is where I saw it before writing the above posting): http://packages.debian.org/experimental/gru

Bug#733233: RFH: software-center -- Utility for browsing, installing, and removing software

2013-12-27 Thread Julian Andres Klode
Package: wnpp Severity: normal I request assistance with maintaining the software-center package. Or killing it. I don't have enough days (or weeks?) to get a new upstream version working. The package description is: The Software Center lets you browse and install thousands of free application

Re: [DEP 8] About "XS-Testsuite: autopkgtest": time to remove "XS-" ?

2013-12-27 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Fri, 2013-12-27 at 17:41:26 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > the use of autopkgtest as documented in DEP 8 is taking momentum. > > How about allowing a "Testsuite" field to replace the "XS-Testsuite" field? Last time this came up here, it didn't look like we got consensus on whether the fie

Re: On building everything from source.

2013-12-27 Thread Thorsten Alteholz
Hi Raphael, On Fri, 27 Dec 2013, Raphael Hertzog wrote: What's unpredictable is that your package might be refused not for the addition of the NEW binary but for because debian/copyright is not good enough for current standards of the ftpmasters while it was ok at the time it got accepted the fi

Re: [DEP 8] About "XS-Testsuite: autopkgtest": time to remove "XS-" ?

2013-12-27 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
On 27 December 2013 16:35, Guillem Jover wrote: > Hi! > > On Fri, 2013-12-27 at 17:41:26 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: >> the use of autopkgtest as documented in DEP 8 is taking momentum. >> >> How about allowing a "Testsuite" field to replace the "XS-Testsuite" field? > > Last time this came up he

Re: [DEP 8] About "XS-Testsuite: autopkgtest": time to remove "XS-" ?

2013-12-27 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-12-27 17:35, Guillem Jover wrote: > Hi! > > On Fri, 2013-12-27 at 17:41:26 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: >> the use of autopkgtest as documented in DEP 8 is taking momentum. >> >> How about allowing a "Testsuite" field to replace the "XS-Testsuite" field? > > Last time this came up here, i

Re: GnuTLS in Debian

2013-12-27 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Russ Allbery [131224 01:42]: > On the contrary, it's Debian's insistence on following an idiosyncratic > license interpretation that's creating the supposed unfairness. This is > obviously not Red Hat's fault. Could you please stop using that word "idiosyncratic". How about using "interpretati

Re: On building everything from source.

2013-12-27 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 2:23 AM, Charles Plessy wrote: > I would welcome clearer rules to decide what is strictly required to be built > from source. In particular, I would welcome something like "The maintainer > decides, and can be overruled by the Technical Comittee if needed". What > follows

Re: GnuTLS in Debian

2013-12-27 Thread Russ Allbery
"Bernhard R. Link" writes: > * Russ Allbery [131224 01:42]: >> On the contrary, it's Debian's insistence on following an idiosyncratic >> license interpretation that's creating the supposed unfairness. This >> is obviously not Red Hat's fault. > Could you please stop using that word "idiosyncr

Architecture: all versus linux-any

2013-12-27 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List, I am maintaining a package, FireHOL not to name it, which basically contains bash sources. So it Architecture was set up to all by one of my predecessor. Meanwhile, kfreebsd support emerged. As FireHOL is meant to manage iptables, it is de facto meant for linux: http://qa.debian.org/de

Re: On building everything from source.

2013-12-27 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 12:29:09PM -0500, Michael Gilbert wrote: > On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 2:23 AM, Charles Plessy wrote: > > I would welcome clearer rules to decide what is strictly required to be > > built > > from source. In particular, I would welcome something like "The maintainer > > decide

Re: Architecture: all versus linux-any

2013-12-27 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 07:53:32PM +0100, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > Hello List, > I am maintaining a package, FireHOL not to name it, which basically > contains bash sources. So it Architecture was set up to all by one of > my predecessor. Meanwhile, kfreebsd support emerged. > As FireHOL is meant to

Re: Architecture: all versus linux-any

2013-12-27 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hi, thanks for the reply. On 27/12/13 20:45, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 07:53:32PM +0100, Jerome BENOIT wrote: >> Hello List, > >> I am maintaining a package, FireHOL not to name it, which basically >> contains bash sources. So it Architecture was set up to all by one of >>

Re: Architecture: all versus linux-any

2013-12-27 Thread Russ Allbery
Jerome BENOIT writes: > On 27/12/13 20:45, Steve Langasek wrote: >> The package already depends on the architecture-dependent iptables, and >> is therefore uninstallable on kfreebsd. So there doesn't seem to be >> any harm to having the package be Architecture: all. > Will setting Architecture

Re: Architecture: all versus linux-any

2013-12-27 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 09:02:49PM +0100, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > thanks for the reply. > On 27/12/13 20:45, Steve Langasek wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 07:53:32PM +0100, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > >> Hello List, > >> I am maintaining a package, FireHOL not to name it, which basically > >> conta

Re: Architecture: all versus linux-any

2013-12-27 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello Again, On 27/12/13 21:17, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 09:02:49PM +0100, Jerome BENOIT wrote: >> thanks for the reply. > >> On 27/12/13 20:45, Steve Langasek wrote: >>> On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 07:53:32PM +0100, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hello List, > I am maintainin

Re: On building everything from source.

2013-12-27 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 02:47:46PM -0500, Paul Tagliamonte a écrit : > > We do always look for new members of the ftpteam, please refer to > Ganneff's postings to all sorts of mailing lists on how to join the team. > It's quite an important team, and more help is always welcome. Hi Paul, if it i

Re: On building everything from source.

2013-12-27 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 06:44:41AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > So, shall we contact Lucas to tell him the good news that there is a new > member > in the FTP team ? There's a bit of process and no one gets rights right away. I'm not the one who makes these decisions, I just work on the team.

Bug#733264: ITP: libdata-swap-perl -- Perl module to swap type and contents of variables

2013-12-27 Thread gregor herrmann
Package: wnpp Owner: gregor herrmann Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libdata-swap-perl Version : 0.07 Upstream Author : Matthijs van Duin * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/Data-Swap * Licen

Bug#733265: ITP: libdata-swap-perl -- Perl module to swap type and contents of variables

2013-12-27 Thread gregor herrmann
Package: wnpp Owner: gregor herrmann Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libdata-swap-perl Version : 0.07 Upstream Author : Matthijs van Duin * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/Data-Swap * Licen

Re: On building everything from source.

2013-12-27 Thread Charles Plessy
Dear FTP team, I would like to help processing the NEW queue. You can see at the following URL some of the reviews that I did in the past as part of my "peer review" proposal. - https://wiki.debian.org/CopyrightReview - http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?tag=one-copyright-review;use

Re: MiniDebConf 2014 Barcelona Call for Proposals

2013-12-27 Thread Pau Garcia i Quiles
On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 10:58 PM, Mònica Ramírez wrote: === > MiniDebConf 2014 Barcelona Call for Proposals > === > > Debian Women is proud to announce that it will hold a MiniDebConf > in Barcelona on 15-16

Re: MiniDebConf 2014 Barcelona Call for Proposals

2013-12-27 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Pau Garcia i Quiles (2013-12-27): > On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 10:58 PM, Mònica Ramírez wrote: > > === > > MiniDebConf 2014 Barcelona Call for Proposals > > === > > > > Debian Women is proud to announce that it

Bug#733278: ITP: r-bioc-biomart -- GNU R Interface to BioMart databases (Ensembl, COSMIC, Wormbase and Gramene)

2013-12-27 Thread Andreas Tille
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andreas Tille * Package name: r-bioc-biomart Version : 2.18.0 Upstream Author : Steffen Durinck * URL : http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/biomaRt.html * License : Artistic-2.0 Programming Lang: R

Re: On building everything from source.

2013-12-27 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 6:53 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > The firmware-linux-free maintainer has verified that identical binaries > can be built from source, but as you well know not all of the required > cross-compilers are packaged in Debian. Does that mean that firmware-linux-free should move to

Bug#733283: ITP: r-bioc-rtracklayer -- GNU R interface to genome browsers and their annotation tracks

2013-12-27 Thread Andreas Tille
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andreas Tille * Package name: r-bioc-rtracklayer Version : 1.22.0 Upstream Author : Michael Lawrence * URL : http://bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/rtracklayer.html * License : Artistic-2.0 Programming Lan

Re: GnuTLS in Debian

2013-12-27 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 02:38:50PM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > Steve Langasek dixit: > > >of GPLv3, and explicitly did not. In fact, the system library exception is > >now defined even more narrowly than for GPLv2, so that it now covers only > >language runtime libraries. I think this was a

Re: On building everything from source.

2013-12-27 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sat, 2013-12-28 at 08:11 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 6:53 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > The firmware-linux-free maintainer has verified that identical binaries > > can be built from source, but as you well know not all of the required > > cross-compilers are packaged in D

several SIGSEGV bugs in debian 7/AMD64

2013-12-27 Thread René Kuligowski
concerning: older AMD64 computers + 3.x kernel, X11 + native NVidia drivers + FVWM or WMII, and some other SIGSEGV'ing apps Good morning, the following case made me put debian 7.3 aside and keep using debian 6.0.7: I am using an older AMD64 AthlonXP Core 2 3800+, accompa

Re: GnuTLS in Debian

2013-12-27 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 12/25/2013 12:38 AM, Clint Byrum wrote: > Excerpts from Thomas Goirand's message of 2013-12-23 23:38:15 -0800: >> On 12/24/2013 12:04 AM, Marco d'Itri wrote: >>> This is self-inflicted damage, and I think it's slightly arrogant to >>> pretend that Debian is the only organization which cares abo