Re: Connecting those interested in getting GT.M into the Debianrepositories

2010-09-07 Thread Karsten Hilbert
On Mon, Sep 06, 2010 at 11:40:55PM -0400, K.S. Bhaskar wrote: > Writabilty of files: I prefer for an installed version of GT.M to not > have *any* writable files, even if root-owned and only owner-writable. How does GT.M persist data ? Karsten -- GPG key ID E4071346 @ wwwkeys.pgp.net E167 67

Re: Connecting those interested in getting GT.M into the Debianrepositories

2010-09-07 Thread Karsten Hilbert
On Mon, Sep 06, 2010 at 11:40:55PM -0400, K.S. Bhaskar wrote: > The concept of a "single user" GT.M is not meaningful. GT.M is > inherently multi-user. Well, one needs to keep apart the concepts. Of course, the database engine itself is (like PostgreSQL) inherently multi-(DB)-user and will alway

Re: Connecting those interested in getting GT.M into the Debianrepositories

2010-09-07 Thread Karsten Hilbert
On Mon, Sep 06, 2010 at 11:40:55PM -0400, K.S. Bhaskar wrote: > Unicode version: GT.M itself requires ICU version 3.6 or higher. > However, there is a defect in the way Debian packages ICU, by putting > the version number in the package name (e.g., libicu36). So, there is > no way to define a

Re: Connecting those interested in getting GT.M into theDebianrepositories

2010-09-07 Thread K.S. Bhaskar
GT.M - Rock solid. Lightning fast. Secure. No compromises. On 09/07/2010 12:59 AM, Charles Plessy wrote: Dear Bhaskar, here are two short comments about unpacking binary packages and dependance on libicu. Le Mon, Sep 06, 2010 at 11:40:55PM -0400, K.S. Bhaskar a écrit : [KSB] <...snip...>

Re: Connecting those interested in getting GT.M into the Debianrepositories

2010-09-07 Thread K.S. Bhaskar
GT.M - Rock solid. Lightning fast. Secure. No compromises. On 09/07/2010 07:53 AM, Karsten Hilbert wrote: On Mon, Sep 06, 2010 at 11:40:55PM -0400, K.S. Bhaskar wrote: > Writabilty of files: I prefer for an installed version of GT.M to not > have *any* writable files, even if root-owned and

Re: Connecting those interested in getting GT.M into the Debianrepositories

2010-09-07 Thread K.S. Bhaskar
GT.M - Rock solid. Lightning fast. Secure. No compromises. On 09/07/2010 08:03 AM, Karsten Hilbert wrote: On Mon, Sep 06, 2010 at 11:40:55PM -0400, K.S. Bhaskar wrote: > The concept of a "single user" GT.M is not meaningful. GT.M is > inherently multi-user. Well, one needs to keep apart th

Re: Connecting those interested in getting GT.M into theDebianrepositories

2010-09-07 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 09:54:48AM -0400, K.S. Bhaskar wrote: > [KSB] Thank you, Charles. This is is a handy feature that I was not > aware of! Debian is cool, isn't it? ;-) > The first question is: should the GT.M package require ICU (International > Components for ICU) or should it recommen

Re: Connecting those interested in getting GT.M into theDebianrepositories

2010-09-07 Thread Karsten Hilbert
On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 10:18:16PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > IMHO as long as you are dealing with peoples names you always have to > respect non-ASCII characters even in pure English environments. Indeed. That would pretty much decide it for me. Experience from GNUmed speaks to the same effec

Re: Connecting those interested in getting GT.M intotheDebianrepositories

2010-09-07 Thread K.S. Bhaskar
GT.M - Rock solid. Lightning fast. Secure. No compromises. On 09/07/2010 04:18 PM, Andreas Tille wrote: On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 09:54:48AM -0400, K.S. Bhaskar wrote: > [KSB] Thank you, Charles. This is is a handy feature that I was not > aware of! Debian is cool, isn't it? ;-) [KSB] Yes, i

Re: Connecting those interested in getting GT.M intotheDebianrepositories

2010-09-07 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 04:51:48PM -0400, K.S. Bhaskar wrote: >> IMHO as long as you are dealing with peoples names you always have to >> respect non-ASCII characters even in pure English environments. > > [KSB] In the United States, it is common to pretend that there are no > non-ASCII character

Re: Bug#595958: ITP: paml -- Phylogenetic Analysis by Maximum Likelihood

2010-09-07 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Steffen, thanks for the ITP. As you can see at http://debian-med.alioth.debian.org/tasks/bio#paml this package is also provided by BioLinux people and I'd regard this as a really cool first step to integration if you would involve the maintainer inside BioLinux in the official Debian pack