Re: dpatch, "diff -u" and "very big projects"

2008-02-04 Thread Ondrej Certik
On Feb 3, 2008 5:38 AM, Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > http://wiki.debian.org/debian/patches is world-writeable, and attempts > to summarize what was said in this thread and in the Policy discussions > about 'README.source'. Do not hesitate to edit it ! Thanks for summariz

Re: Looking for co-maintainer for mercurial

2008-02-21 Thread Ondrej Certik
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 9:10 PM, William Pitcock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'll be happy to help with this package. Hi, I'll help with this package too, because I use Mercurial everyday. Let's maintain it in: http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/PythonAppsPackagingTeam ? There are many good

Re: Looking for co-maintainer for mercurial

2008-02-24 Thread Ondrej Certik
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 4:27 PM, Ondrej Certik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 9:10 PM, William Pitcock > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'll be happy to help with this package. > > Hi, I'll help wit

Re: Looking for co-maintainer for mercurial

2008-02-24 Thread Ondrej Certik
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 12:57 PM, William Pitcock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > > > On Sun, 2008-02-24 at 12:30 +0100, Ondrej Certik wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 4:27 PM, Ondrej Certik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 a

Re: Looking for co-maintainer for mercurial

2008-02-26 Thread Ondrej Certik
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 1:20 AM, Edward Allcutt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 12:05:46AM +, Stephen Gran wrote: > > This one time, at band camp, Aaron M. Ucko said: > > > > Julian Andres Klode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > > BTW, I think that hg is now the on

Re: Google Summer of Code 2008

2008-02-27 Thread Ondrej Certik
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 9:42 AM, Lucas Nussbaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 27/02/08 at 00:42 +, Steve McIntyre wrote: > > Hey folks, > > > > Google are running their Summer of Code programme again this year[1], > > and if we want to take part again we need to apply between March 3rd >

Re: Google Summer of Code 2008

2008-02-27 Thread Ondrej Certik
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 7:11 PM, Lucas Nussbaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 27/02/08 at 16:33 +0100, Ondrej Certik wrote: > > If some projects in the past were a failure, it is solely the problem > > of the management (=student's mentor:), it doesn't matter if

Re: Google Summer of Code 2008

2008-02-27 Thread Ondrej Certik
> > I would regard > > GSoC as a reasonable means to stress the tasks we would really > > like to have done and encourage people to tackle them. > > I consider that the main goal of GSOC is a social one: let new people > learn about free software projects. If we start to depend on Google > fu

Re: Google Summer of Code 2008

2008-02-27 Thread Ondrej Certik
> Er, by what metric have these students "failed" their projects? > > The summer has finished, and it's about time I summarised how we got > on. We had 9 Summer of Code students working for us, and we had a 100% > success rate this year. Woo! Last year we only managed 6 successful > projec

Re: A suggestion

2008-03-27 Thread Ondrej Certik
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 2:38 PM, Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > Le Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 08:35:51AM -0700, Mike Bird a écrit : > > > > > Debian is losing users and relevance. > > This does not match the results of the "popcon" survey. It could be > that Debian would gain

uploading new binary packages from a DM approved source package

2008-04-16 Thread Ondrej Certik
Hi, if I want to packge a new upstream version of DM-Upload-Allowed library (for example [1]), it changes the name of the binary package and thus goes to NEW. Last time I asked it wasn't possible for me, as a DM, to upload it and I had to search for a sponsor. Is there some policital reason for

Re: uploading new binary packages from a DM approved source package

2008-04-16 Thread Ondrej Certik
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 1:34 PM, Bas Wijnen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > > On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 01:08:05PM +0200, Ondrej Certik wrote: > > if I want to packge a new upstream version of DM-Upload-Allowed > > library (for example [1]), it changes the name

Re: Should SONAME bumps always go through NEW

2008-04-16 Thread Ondrej Certik
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 2:27 PM, Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2008-04-16 at 13:34 +0200, Bas Wijnen wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 01:08:05PM +0200, Ondrej Certik wrote: > > > if I want to packge a new upstream version of DM-Upload-Allowed >

Re: SAGE packages for Debian

2008-05-14 Thread Ondrej Certik
On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 10:16 PM, Timothy G Abbott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That's probably a good plan, especially since the sandbox is apparently > going to be eliminated eventually (and it sounds like arpack and delaunay > are on the list of things likely to be merged into mainline scipy) > >

Re: Should DMs be allowed to upload to NEW

2008-07-04 Thread Ondrej Certik
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 4:53 PM, Romain Beauxis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Le Wednesday 16 April 2008 15:44:56 Neil Williams, vous avez écrit : >> An upload of a new application is nowhere near as complex as the upload >> to start a library SONAME transition. Even uploading a new library never >>

Bug#418410: ITP: python-sympy -- Computer Algebra System (CAS) in Python

2007-04-09 Thread Ondrej Certik
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ondrej Certik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: python-sympy Version : 0.3 Upstream Author : Ondrej Certik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://code.google.com/p/sympy * License : GPL Programming

Bug#421677: ITP: python-petsc4py -- Python bindings for PETSc libraries

2007-04-30 Thread Ondrej Certik
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ondrej Certik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: python-petsc4py Version : 0.7.3 Upstream Author : Lisandro Dalcin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://code.google.com/p/petsc4py/ * License : BSD Program

Re: screenshots.debian.net goes beta

2008-11-10 Thread Ondrej Certik
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 4:46 PM, Christoph Haas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Montag, 10. November 2008, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: >> On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 03:05:32PM +0100, Christoph Haas wrote: >> > it took a little longer than I expected but I finally launched >> > http://screenshots.deb

Re: ITP: mpi-defaults -- Meta-packages depending on appropriate MPI -dev and -bin packages for each platform

2008-11-20 Thread Ondrej Certik
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 11:14 AM, Manuel Prinz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am Mittwoch, den 19.11.2008, 09:05 -0600 schrieb Dirk Eddelbuettel: >> I think we should put either debian or mpi first. How about >> >> mpi-default-{dev,bin} >> >> or even >> >> mpi-debian-default-{dev,

Re: SmellyWerewolf.com perfume & make-up discount

2008-11-24 Thread Ondrej Certik
On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 7:46 PM, Stefano Zacchiroli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 11:04:18AM -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote: >> In my opinion, which is as humble as it can be (but that might not >> mean much), I fail to see Joss' post as sexist. From its first line >> it is a parod

Re: Debian -- the best

2008-12-19 Thread Ondrej Certik
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 11:43 AM, Michael Hanke wrote: > > Dear Debian developers, > > > for some reason I am subscribed to debian-devel and even try to read > most of the posts. I guess I do that to stay in touch with the most recent > developments, but it is also I fairly good indicator of the p

Re: Misc developer news (#13)

2009-01-24 Thread Ondrej Certik
> New whohas tool displays other distributions that have your package > --- > > Unstable features a new tool, `whohas`, which searches through a list of > distributions and displays those that also carry a version of a given > packa

Re: List of (un)sponsored packages on Mentors (approximate)

2007-07-22 Thread Ondrej Certik
The actual discussion came up when we talked about whether the current GR on non-DDs with upload permissions is good or bad for Debian. And we agreed that Debian lacks a lot of packages just because the poor package maintainer (tm) didn't find a sponsor in time. Yes, that is the most difficult p

Re: List of (un)sponsored packages on Mentors (approximate)

2007-07-22 Thread Ondrej Certik
I find it easy enough to do: $ sudo apt-get update $ apt-src -bi install $package apt-src will then "install" the source of the package into the current working directory, then "b"uild it, and then "i"nstall the resulting binaries. Thanks for the tip. This is actually very comfortable and wor

Re: List of (un)sponsored packages on Mentors (approximate)

2007-07-27 Thread Ondrej Certik
> I find it easy enough to do: > > $ sudo apt-get update > $ apt-src -bi install $package > > apt-src will then "install" the source of the package into the current > working directory, then "b"uild it, and then "i"nstall the resulting > binaries. > > This works just fine for me with the deb-src me

Bug#434912: ITP: abinit -- A package for electronic structure calculations

2007-07-27 Thread Ondrej Certik
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org --- Please fill out the fields below. --- Package name: abinit Version: 5.3.4 Upstream Author: Prof. Xavier Gonze URL: http://www.abinit.org/ License: GPL Description: ABINIT is a pa

Re: Bug#441302: ITP: getxpath -- extract a value from a XML file using a XPATH expression

2007-09-08 Thread Ondrej Certik
> same here, do we really need a package for a wrapper around xsltproc, > where the GPL header is larger than the script itself? Why not to put that script inside the xsltproc package instead of creating a new one? Ondrej -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubsc

Re: Debian's Linux kernel continues to regress on freedom

2007-09-12 Thread Ondrej Certik
> I guess the Social Contract really is a joke. I don't know why new applicants > are supposed to agree to it. Old members apparently violate it at will for > years > with no consequences. > > It doesn't make me respect Debian very much. I am not a DD (yet), but all my packages were very strict

speed of COW directory copying: XFS 20x slower than ext3

2007-09-15 Thread Ondrej Certik
Hi, I am using cowbuilder for building my packages, because the initialization takes like 10s, compared to several minutes with pbuilder on my system. A few days ago, I realized that on one of my systems, it takes 0.5s only to copy the COW directory. I became curious and wanted to know why, so I d

Re: speed of COW directory copying: XFS 20x slower than ext3

2007-09-18 Thread Ondrej Certik
> > it turned out the problem is in the XFS filesystem, that is 20x slower, > > than the ext3 filesystem. I know that XFS is bad at handling small > > files, but 20x times? > > Try to play with parameters mentioned in laptop-mode.txt in the Linux > sources. > > Then, try to have XFS log area on sep

Re: Some questions about Debian

2007-09-23 Thread Ondrej Certik
> - Do you think that this initiative is interesting? Yes, I think this initiative is very interesting, because those are details that I think are the most important, yet it's very difficult to get those from the respective webpages (like debian.org, etc.). I am unable to connect to [1] though, s

Re: Some questions about Debian

2007-09-23 Thread Ondrej Certik
> Up again, but I haven't published the answers yet. I will as soon as > I'll have the "next step" figured out. BTW, I noticed you are a Ubuntu developer, do you use PPA? I would like to have it in Debian, so I am working on it [1], [2], but very slowly, don't have much time. Ondrej [1] http://c

Re: Some questions about Debian

2007-09-23 Thread Ondrej Certik
> Any particular reason this seems to be targeted only to svn/git, > and seems to be (based on the name) biased towards svn? It can very > easily be adapted to Arch, as well, and I am sure bzr and darcs should > be easily added. Given that, vcsbuildstat could be a better name. No, we wa

Re: Packaging a library that requires cross-compiled code

2007-10-01 Thread Ondrej Certik
> This is exactly the point I've been trying to make for a long time, > about things like autoconf and automake1.x, and why you should > build-depend on them and run them every time. Because it proves that > we are fully self-hosting, and the main reason _not_ to do it is the > fear that we might

parsing/using *.dsc *.changes, *.deb etc., from Python

2007-10-28 Thread Ondrej Certik
Hi, when writing scripts to manage Debian repository, many people including me use Python. Is there some "official" way of doing it? It seems to me everyone is writing his own parsers. I know about of at least 5 different projects doing it: 1) git-buildpackage: /usr/share/python-support/git-buil

Re: parsing/using *.dsc *.changes, *.deb etc., from Python

2007-10-29 Thread Ondrej Certik
> See if http://ftp-master.debian.org/bzr/debian-archive-kit/ helps you. This looks good, thanks! > python-debian aims to be a bundle of Python libraries to deal with > Debian-specific file formats. As such I would consider it to be the > official tool (disclaimer: but I'm one of the maintainers,

Bug#451039: ITP: cython -- C-Extensions for Python

2007-11-12 Thread Ondrej Certik
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org --- Please fill out the fields below. --- Package name: cython Version: 0.9.6.8.ds Upstream Author: Stefan Behnel, Robert Bradshaw, and William Stein URL: http://www.cython.org/ License: Py

Re: how to cross architecture build a package

2007-11-23 Thread Ondrej Certik
On Nov 24, 2007 1:17 AM, Pierre Habouzit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Nov 24, 2007 at 12:01:33AM +, Paul Wise wrote: > > On Nov 24, 2007 6:14 AM, Alex Samad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > trying to build a i386 package on a amd64 machine and i keep getting > > > > Are you building

uploading as Debian Maintainer - rejected

2007-12-04 Thread Ondrej Certik
OTECTED]>, José Fonseca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Matthias Klose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ondrej Certik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Kumar Appaiah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [...] DM-Upload-Allowed: yes I signed the package using debsign with my gpg key, that is in the file /usr/share/keyr

Re: uploading as Debian Maintainer - rejected

2007-12-04 Thread Ondrej Certik
Hi Miriam, Joey, Aníbal, Adeodato, Vincent, Michael and Bernd, you are right, it's most probably the missing XS-. Thanks for finding this out. I recently created a wiki page: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMaintainer because I wasn't able to google this page, that I just found: http://wiki.debian

Re: Python related changes for unstable/squeeze

2009-02-16 Thread Ondrej Certik
Hi Matthias, thanks for all the work you do. I have one question: > - 3.0/3.1: I do not plan to upload 3.0 to unstable or experimental, > but will prepare 3.1 packages for experimental and upload those > to unstable with the final release or a late release candidate. > The 3.1 release is p

Re: Python related changes for unstable/squeeze

2009-02-16 Thread Ondrej Certik
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Matthias Klose wrote: > Ondrej Certik schrieb: >> Hi Matthias, >> >> thanks for all the work you do. I have one question: >> >>> - 3.0/3.1: I do not plan to upload 3.0 to unstable or experimental, >>> but will pre

Re: Python related changes for unstable/squeeze

2009-02-16 Thread Ondrej Certik
>> Various >> --- >> >> There are other things which may be worth a look. > > - Can you guys please finally sit down and agree on one solution for > handling python modules? I still think that having two (slightly > different) ways of doing this task is not the way to go. I really do > not s

Re: Python related changes for unstable/squeeze

2009-02-17 Thread Ondrej Certik
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 6:44 AM, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le mardi 17 février 2009 à 15:03 +0100, Bernd Zeimetz a écrit : >> > - Can you guys please finally sit down and agree on one solution for >> > handling python modules? I still think that having two (slightly >> > different) ways of doi

Re: Python related changes for unstable/squeeze

2009-02-17 Thread Ondrej Certik
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 10:34 AM, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le mardi 17 février 2009 à 10:09 -0800, Ondrej Certik a écrit : >> Unfortunately from both of you I only met Matthias in person (in >> Prague at the Ubuntu Developer Summit), but what I understood is that >> the

Re: Piotrek's new preferred helper tool - (unfair) decision

2009-03-02 Thread Ondrej Certik
On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 4:17 PM, Piotr Ożarowski wrote: > [Piotr Ożarowski, 2009-02-18] >> [...] it's time however to decide which one will be my >> winner - I'll decide that in next weeks (maybe months, but it >> will happen sooner than later > > Since nobody is interested in having the tools bina