Re: Packaging certain libraries as "end-user software"

On 07/19/2015 11:06 AM, Eduard Bloch wrote: > ... even if there are no users who care! And won't care in > future because it's clear that upstream is not using a stable API. since the sceintific community was mentioned as the background for these users: i doubt whether they won't care *because* it

Re: Ad-hoc survey of existing Debian git integration tools

Le 20/07/2015 18:46, Ian Jackson a écrit : > AFAICT the only tools which attempt to convert between a `3.0 (quilt)' > and a series of git commits are git-dpm and gbp-pq. Am I wrong about > that ? There are also dom-{apply,save}-patches in dh-ocaml. They are basically wrappers around git-am and gi

Re: Bug#793057: ITP: godot -- open source MIT licensed game engine

On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 23:29:14 +0200, Bruno Ramos wrote: > Description : open source MIT licensed game engine > That's not a terribly useful short description. Only the last two words belong there, IMO. The "open source" bit is kind of implied by it being in Debian, and the exact licens

Bug#793098: ITP: pfring -- PF_RING is a high-speed packet capture, filtering and analysis framework.

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist PF_RING is a high-speed packet capture, filtering and analysis framework. It's composed of a kernel module that does all the low-level packet capture work, and a user-space library (libpfring.so/libpfring.a) applications written in C can be linked against. Als

Re: Bug#792903: ITP: hdump -- Hexadecimal and ASCII dumper for binary files

On Mon, 20 Jul 2015 23:52:27 -0300 Paulo wrote: > > Does this have significant advantages over these tools that are > > already in the archive and likely to be near-ubiquitous on GNU > > systems? > > > > * od -t x1 (part of coreutils, and a subset of its functionality is > >standardized in PO

Re: Packaging ASL

Dear Debian Developers, I wanted to see ASL - Advanced Simulation Library as part of Debian. I contacted an experienced DD who kindly agreed to upload and maintain it however he didn't have the time to create the initial package (see his email bellow). I was advised to create i

Re: Packaging ASL

On 21/07/15 12:25, Zeev Pekar wrote: Dear Debian Developers, I wanted to see ASL - Advanced Simulation Library as part of Debian. I contacted an experienced DD who kindly agreed to upload and maintain it however he didn't have the time to create the initial package (see his e

Re: [Debconf-announce] DebConf15: Call for keys for keysigning in Heidelberg, Germany

Dear Aníbal, For those of us attending DebCamp, do you know if it will be possible to print the necessary lists there after August 10th? Cheers, Kris On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 6:13 AM, Aníbal Monsalve Salazar wrote: > DebConf15: Call for keys for keysigning in Heidelberg, Germany > > As part

Bug#793133: ITP: hawtbuf -- Rich byte buffer library

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Emmanuel Bourg * Package name: hawtbuf Version : 1.10 Upstream Author : Hiram Chirino * URL : https://github.com/fusesource/hawtbuf * License : Apache-2.0 Programming Lang: Java Description : Rich byte buffer libr

Re: Ad-hoc survey of existing Debian git integration tools

Ian Jackson chiark.greenend.org.uk> writes: > I would like to think some more about the workflows of the existing > tools people are using to work with Debian and git, so that I can I tend to have the entire tree “as seen from Debian” in version control, so I can just throw the .orig.tar.* to ..

Re: BD-Uninstallable due to circullar dependency

Julien Cristau debian.org> writes: > It should just be forced despite the bd-uninstallable. sysvinit-utils > and util-linux are essential, so they're already in the build chroot, so > whether a newer version is available and uninstallable doesn't matter. Not if the B-D is versioned, unfortunate

Re: The Spirit of Free Software, or The Reality

Mike Hommey glandium.org> writes: > I'm saying you can't derive any knowledge from that debian-legal post > about screenshot of games. Mhm. AIUI the messages, the base for the reasoning is that the imagery is the product of the game code, which is not the fact here. //mirabilos -- To UNSUBSC

Bug#793140: ITP: golang-github-odeke-em-cli-spinner -- Simple spinner library for command line

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: golang-github-odeke-em-cli-spinner Version : 0.0~git20150625 Upstream Author : Fernando Ike * URL : https://github.com/odeke-em/cli-spinner * License : MIT Programmin

Re: server certificates/key pairs and CA directories

Daniel Pocock pocock.pro> writes: > I looked at the package ssl-cert to try and understand and there I found > that it is using /etc/ssl/certs for server certs while other packages Do NOT do that. It’s causing trouble because some software (e.g. Gajim) reads all files under /etc/ssl/certs/ not

Re: Huge data files in Debian

On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 06:03:41PM -0400, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: > > On Sat, 18 Jul 2015, Ole Streicher wrote: > > > I'd support this -- we could also discuss the "distributed filesystem > > approach" there. Could this happen between Friday (DebCamp) and Tuesday? > > I have to leave on Wednesd

Re: LFS status, and enabling it opportunistically on next SONAME bump

On 2015-07-19 23:57, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote: > On Sun, Jul 12, 2015 at 07:37:23PM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: >> Hi! > Hi, > >> Our Large File Support on some 32-bit architectures is a bit poor, and >> this has been going on for a while now: >> >> >>

Re: Packaging ASL

[...] > > May I ask somebody to volunteer to finish the initial creation of the > > package, so it can be uploaded? > > It has been developed/tested on Debian since 2010 so the process should > > be smooth. > > Packaging efforts for other distros are underway and probably can be > > helpful for De

Re: Ad-hoc survey of existing Debian git integration tools

Thorsten Glaser writes ("Re: Ad-hoc survey of existing Debian git integration tools"): > [workflow description] Thanks. FYI, dgit trees are (for `3.0 (quilt)' format source packages) what is nowadays called a `patches-applied packaging branch'. That is, the dgit git tree contains the patches in

Re: Proposal v2: enable stateless persistant network interface names

Simon McVittie dixit: >You can still do this via manual configuration; as far as I understand Yes, but… >* the current Debian-specific persistent-net-generator scheme pitti wants to drop this; however, this is where we usually do the manual renaming when needed. By all means, do your new thing

Bug#793173: ITP: zz bulletin -- Open source, Elegant, Powerful Forums.

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Package name : zz bulletin Version : 2.3.2 Upstream Author : eahe URL : http://www.zzbulletin.org/ License : (GPL2.) Description : zzBulletin, Open source, Elegant, Powerful Forums. Top user. Ten recent posts. Three captcha alternatives. Ban p