Re: Should .a library contains non-reallocatable code?

2015-02-24 Thread Alastair McKinstry
On 23/02/2015 19:17, Ian Jackson wrote: > Ian Jackson writes ("Re: Should .a library contains non-reallocatable code?"): >> Jeff is correct. > ... >> That not usually a problem. Providing that only the relevant symbols >> are exported from the .so, the executable simply results in multiple >> com

Re: Should .a library contains non-reallocatable code?

2015-02-24 Thread Christian Kastner
On 2015-02-24 11:01, Alastair McKinstry wrote: > I agree with this; are there any cases where only a static library _is_ > provided, and if so why? why not provide a .so? One use case that was described to me was about libraries with APIs that were not yet considered stable enough to be (properly)

Bug#779087: ITP: libmoops-perl -- moops object-oriented programming sugar

2015-02-24 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jonas Smedegaard -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 * Package name: libmoops-perl Version : 0.034 Upstream Author : Toby Inkster * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/Moops * License : Artistic or GPL-1+ P

Bug#779088: ITP: libkavorka-perl -- function signatures with the lure of the animal

2015-02-24 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jonas Smedegaard -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 * Package name: libkavorka-perl Version : 0.035 Upstream Author : Toby Inkster * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/Kavorka * License : Artistic or GPL-1+

Bug#779091: ITP: libreturn-type-perl -- specify a return type for a function (optionally with coercion)

2015-02-24 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jonas Smedegaard -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 * Package name: libreturn-type-perl Version : 0.005 Upstream Author : Toby Inkster * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/Return-Type * License : Artistic o

Bug#779096: ITP: python-requests-aws -- S3 AWS authentication for the requests module

2015-02-24 Thread Thomas Goirand
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Thomas Goirand * Package name: python-requests-aws Version : 0.1.6 Upstream Author : Paul Tax * URL : https://github.com/tax/python-requests-aws * License : BSD-3-clause Programming Lang: Python Description : S3

Re: jessie for x32

2015-02-24 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 02/22/2015 03:56 AM, Adam Borowski wrote: > Hi folks! > Here's some news about the x32 port. > [...] What you've done is just awesome. I'm sure there's a ton of application, especially on the server side. It's great to have the full power of the 64 bits arch without doubling the RAM usage (famo

Re: conflicts between Debian's and upstream's Debian package

2015-02-24 Thread Harald Dunkel
Hi Andreas, On 02/20/15 18:54, Andreas Tille wrote: > Hi Harald, > > Is there any reason why you do not even now are talking about package > name and upstream URL featuring the same name? Its not fruitful to > leave your discussion partners in the dark. > Sorry, but I don't want to blame anybo

Re: conflicts between Debian's and upstream's Debian package

2015-02-24 Thread Harald Dunkel
On 02/24/15 15:09, Harald Dunkel wrote: > > Sorry, but I don't want to blame anybody producing "bad" packages. > It shouldn't matter here. > Should be: Sorry, but I don't want to blame anybody to produce "bad" packages. Name and upstream URL shouldn't matter here. Sorry for my bad English. R

Re: Should .a library contains non-reallocatable code?

2015-02-24 Thread Ian Jackson
(I have reordered Bernard's mail and my responses to try to produce a coherent whole.) Bernhard R. Link writes ("Re: Should .a library contains non-reallocatable code?"): > [examples not involving -Bsymbolic] My view is that when trying to build a shared library that depends on a static library,

Re: Should .a library contains non-reallocatable code?

2015-02-24 Thread Ian Jackson
Jeff Epler writes ("Re: Should .a library contains non-reallocatable code?"): > On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 05:19:30PM -0600, Jeff Epler wrote: > > * foomodule is a Python wrapper for libfoo, so it must be shipped > >as a .so, but if it links libfoo.a, and libfoo.a is not -fPIC, > >it is not p

Re: conflicts between Debian's and upstream's Debian package

2015-02-24 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Harald Dunkel (2015-02-24 15:09:15) > On 02/20/15 18:54, Andreas Tille wrote: >> Is there any reason why you do not even now are talking about package >> name and upstream URL featuring the same name? Its not fruitful to >> leave your discussion partners in the dark. >> > > Sorry, but I

Re: conflicts between Debian's and upstream's Debian package

2015-02-24 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 03:55:35PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > I disagree: We won't hide problems. > > (Sure I agree that we shouldn't throw blame, but that's on you to > collide those two, not me) The "bad" packages Harald is talking about, I think, are external to Debian — I don't think h

Bug#779106: ITP: libmoosex-xsaccessor-perl -- use Class::XSAccessor to speed up Moose accessors

2015-02-24 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jonas Smedegaard -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 * Package name: libmoosex-xsaccessor-perl Version : 0.007 Upstream Author : * URL : * License : Programming Lang: Perl Description : use Class::

Re: conflicts between Debian's and upstream's Debian package

2015-02-24 Thread Ian Jackson
Jonathan Dowland writes ("Re: conflicts between Debian's and upstream's Debian package"): > The "bad" packages Harald is talking about, I think, are external to > Debian — I don't think he's trying to protect a DD here. So this is > courtesy rather than hiding problems. I don't think reference to

Bug#779130: ITP: libdevel-strictmode-perl -- determine whether strict (but slow) tests should be enabled

2015-02-24 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jonas Smedegaard -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 * Package name: libdevel-strictmode-perl Version : 0.003 Upstream Author : Toby Inkster * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/Devel-StrictMode * License :

Re: Should .a library contains non-reallocatable code?

2015-02-24 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Ian Jackson [150224 15:50]: > > You still pollute the ABI with the details of the internals: > > > > if you try to change main.c to: > > #include > > #include "foo1.h" > > #include "bar2.h" > > int main() { > > double rr1; > > foo(&rr1); > > int r1 = rr1; > > int r2 = bar2(); > > pri

Bug#779132: ITP: libperlx-assert-perl -- yet another assertion keyword

2015-02-24 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jonas Smedegaard -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 * Package name: libperlx-assert-perl Version : 0.904 Upstream Author : Toby Inkster * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/PerlX-Assert * License : Artistic

Re: Should .a library contains non-reallocatable code?

2015-02-24 Thread Ian Jackson
Bernhard R. Link writes ("Re: Should .a library contains non-reallocatable code?"): > Ian Jackson [150224 15:50]: > > + gcc -Wall main.c -L. -lbar1 -lbar2 > > You forgot to change that line as I said to change it. Ah yes, sorry. I can reproduce the problem that way. It works if I say gcc -Wa

Fwd: Bug#778417: RE:Bug#778417: ITP: netcdf-python -- python interface to the netCDF4 (network Common Data Form) library

2015-02-24 Thread Ross Gammon
Forgot to add debian-devel back in the loop On 02/24/2015 10:29 AM, Konrad Hinsen wrote: > On Tue, 24 Feb 2015 06:44:54 + Nick Papior Andersen > wrote: > >> In my experience many of the features are quite similar. >> >> However, > netcdf4-python has the advantage of full CDF4 capabilities.

Bug#779137: ITP: liblexical-accessor-perl -- true private attributes for Moose/Moo/Mouse

2015-02-24 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jonas Smedegaard -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 * Package name: liblexical-accessor-perl Version : 0.008 Upstream Author : Toby Inkster * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/Lexical-Accessor * License :

Bug#779138: ITP: libtypes-xsd-lite-perl -- type constraints based on a subset of XML schema datatypes

2015-02-24 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jonas Smedegaard -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 * Package name: libtypes-xsd-lite-perl Version : 0.005 Upstream Author : Toby Inkster * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/Types-XSD-Lite * License : Arti

Bug#779140: ITP: python-zaqarclient -- OpenStack queueing API client

2015-02-24 Thread Thomas Goirand
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Thomas Goirand * Package name: python-zaqarclient Version : 0.1.0 Upstream Author : OpenStack Foundation * URL : http://github.com/openstack/python-zaqarclient * License : Apache-2.0 Programming Lang: Python Descript

Bug#779141: ITP: libtypes-xsd-perl -- type constraints based on XML schema datatypes

2015-02-24 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jonas Smedegaard -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 * Package name: libtypes-xsd-perl Version : 0.005 Upstream Author : Toby Inkster * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/Types-XSD * License : Artistic or GP

Bug#779143: ITP: libdatetimex-auto-perl -- use DateTime without needing to call constructors

2015-02-24 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jonas Smedegaard -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 * Package name: libdatetimex-auto-perl Version : 0.008 Upstream Author : Toby Inkster * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/DateTimeX-Auto * License : Arti

Bug#779147: ITP: libuniversal-ref-perl -- turns ref() into a multimethod

2015-02-24 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jonas Smedegaard -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 * Package name: libuniversal-ref-perl Version : 0.14 Upstream Author : Joshua ben Jore * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/UNIVERSAL-ref * License : Arti

Bug#779148: ITP: libdatetime-incomplete-perl -- library to handle incomplete datetime like January 5

2015-02-24 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jonas Smedegaard -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 * Package name: libdatetime-incomplete-perl Version : 0.07 Upstream Author : Flavio S. Glock * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/DateTime-Incomplete * License

Bug#779152: ITP: r-cran-rsdmx -- GNU R package for the Statistical Data and Metadata Exchange (SDMX) framework

2015-02-24 Thread Sébastien Villemot
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Sébastien Villemot" * Package name: r-cran-rsdmx Version : 0.4.5 Upstream Author : Emmanuel Blondel * URL : http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/rsdmx/index.html * License : GPL-2+ Programming Lang: R Description

Re: Should .a library contains non-reallocatable code?

2015-02-24 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, Am 24.02.2015 um 11:01 schrieb Alastair McKinstry: > I agree with this; are there any cases where only a static library _is_ > provided, and if so why? why not provide a .so? In libvxi-dev I provide a -fPIC .a library only, mainly for size reasons (the library consists of RPC proxy/stub code

Re: Bug#778417: ITP: netcdf-python -- python interface to the netCDF4 (network Common Data Form) library

2015-02-24 Thread Sandro Tosi
> The netcdf4-python package is the only one described as having > implemented most of the newest features of NetCDF-4. It was actually > modelled on the Scientific.IO.NetCDF module API. netCDF4 module is required by basemap, so it'll be nice to have it in the archive. Regards, -- Sandro Tosi (a

Bug#779157: ITP: libmoosex-mungehas-perl -- munge your "has" (works with Moo, Moose and Mouse)

2015-02-24 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jonas Smedegaard -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 * Package name: libmoosex-mungehas-perl Version : 0.007 Upstream Author : Toby Inkster * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/MooseX-MungeHas * License : Ar