Unbundling ARPACK (for reals this time)

2011-11-30 Thread Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
On 16 November 2011 04:32, bastien ROUCARIES wrote: > Le Tuesday 8 November 2011 23:47:56, Thomas Weber a écrit : >> On Tue, Nov 08, 2011 at 12:21:16PM +0100, roucaries bastien wrote: >> > On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 12:18 AM, Thomas Weber wrote: >> > BTW do you need help on arpack ? >> >> Opps, thank

Re: Uploading during freeze time

2010-10-12 Thread Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
I just realised, the packages I'm complaining about are essentially squeeze backports. That is, they're packages that the packager wishes could have gone into squeeze but can't because of the freeze, so they go into experimental instead. Would it make sense then to start $x-backports as soon as $x

Re: Uploading during freeze time

2010-10-12 Thread Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
2010/10/12 Pietro Battiston : > But before this conversation goes on forever - which is tipically what > happens when people think they are debating on methods and techniques > while instead they diverge on motivations - does the following satisfy > you: > > http://lwn.net/Articles/406301/ > http:/

Re: Uploading during freeze time

2010-10-12 Thread Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
On 12 October 2010 09:24, Thibaut Paumard wrote: [standard response without actually reading what is being replied to] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.

Re: Uploading during freeze time

2010-10-12 Thread Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
On 11 October 2010 19:02, Russ Allbery wrote: > Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso writes: > >> The *real* problem is that labelling Firefox 3.6 as "experimental" is >> downright silly. > > Hm, okay.  I guess I'm not feeling particularly inspired to do any work

Re: Uploading during freeze time

2010-10-11 Thread Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
.On 12 October 2010 01:02, Russ Allbery wrote: > > Oh, so the specific problem that you're trying to fix is that you, as an > unstable user, aren't getting software that you would like to be using > because unstable is being used for a different purpose during the freeze? I guess so, although I d

Re: Uploading during freeze time

2010-10-11 Thread Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
On 11 October 2010 20:01, Russ Allbery wrote: > Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso writes: >> Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > >>> It gets used as "unstable+1" during the freeze, since there's no better >>> place. > >> So why not create a better place?

Re: Uploading during freeze time

2010-10-11 Thread Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
On 11 October 2010 20:28, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > In , Jordi > Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote: >>On 11 October 2010 12:11, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. > wrote: >>> It gets used as "unstable+1" during the freeze, since  there's no better >>> place. &g

Re: Uploading during freeze time

2010-10-11 Thread Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
ly by other people outside of Debian. >> In , Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote: >>Does it have to be this way? Why do fixes to testing have to go >>through unstable, even during freeze time? > > They don't.  t-p-u exists for when the version in testing needs a fix, but

Uploading during freeze time

2010-10-11 Thread Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
On 7 October 2010 14:06, Joachim Reichel wrote: > I guess what Christoph meant is the following: if you upload 1.45 to unstable > you block this way for fixes to 1.44 in testing (and the RM will most probably > not allow 1.45 to migrate to testing). > > You could upload 1.45 to experimental for no

RFS: qrupdate (updated package)

2010-03-21 Thread Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
debian.net/debian/pool/main/q/qrupdate/qrupdate_1.1.1-1.dsc I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me. Kind regards - Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@list

Re: RFS: gnofract4d

2010-01-25 Thread Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
Regarding gnofract4d... 2007/6/1 francesco namuri : > On Ven, Giugno 1, 2007 19:27, Ricardo Mones wrote: > >> | fractutils/gf4d_subprocess.py: >> | >> | #By obtaining, using, and/or copying this software and/or its >> | #associated documentation, you agree that you have read, understood, >> | #and

libqrupdate: Done?

2009-02-05 Thread Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
I think I'm done with libqrupdate and that it's ready for upload to Debian. The latest commit log of what I've done can be found in our SVN: http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-scicomp/qrupdate/trunk/debian Jaroslav, the patch for adding an install target to the build system is under debian/patc

Re: RFS: qrupdate

2009-02-03 Thread Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
2009/1/31 Paul Wise : > hexedit says byte 0x7 of debian/control is a tab (0x09) rather than a > space (0x20). Anyway, not a big deal. Ah, that one. I see it now. Okay, it's a space now. > Just tested it on an etch system (perl 5.8.8), worked fine. I really > doubt that it requires any recent ver

Re: RFS: qrupdate

2009-01-30 Thread Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
2009/1/29 Paul Wise : > On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 12:24 AM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso > wrote: > >>> patches/add-soname seems to change the whitespace in the definition of SRC, >>> why? >> >> Why not? It fits into 80 columns that way. :-) > > Just a gra

RFS: qrupdate

2009-01-29 Thread Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
2009/1/28 Paul Wise : > You should use a Debian-specific SONAME if upstream doesn't have one. > Please teach upstream about SONAMEs, ABI etc and get them to do that > stuff instead of doing it yourself. That's actually already done, and upstream has accepted my patch to add a soname, but hasn't ma

RFS: qrupdate

2009-01-28 Thread Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "qrupdate". Package name: qrupdate Version : 1.0-1 Upstream Author : Jaroslav Hájek URL : http://qrupdate.sf.net License : GPLv3 Section : libs It builds these binary packages: libqrupda

debian/symbols Fortran library

2009-01-28 Thread Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
re: http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2009/01/msg00241.html Alright, I got around to fixing all of Lintian warnings and the other issues that Rafael Laboissiere found. However, I still don't understand how to generate debian/symbols in order to satisfy the Lintian message. It also seem

Re: RFS: cimg (updated package)

2009-01-21 Thread Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
2009/1/21 Michal Čihař : > You make a NMU without any sign that maintainer has been contacted Hm, okay, I'll try to contact Sam and Christophe. Hi Sam and Christophe! Can I update your cimg-dev package, please? > Also do you have some good reason for NMUing new upstream > version? This is a pret

RFS: cimg (updated package)

2009-01-21 Thread Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.2.9-1.1 of my package "cimg". It builds these binary packages: cimg-dev - powerful image processing library The package appears to be lintian clean. The upload would fix these bugs: 399846, 460024, 497672 The package can be found

RFS: libqrupdate

2009-01-18 Thread Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
ad this to Debian, I will commit to our svn soon. I made a few trivial patches to the build system but without using quilt, so would you prefer that I fix that before committing? Kind regards - Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: cimg-dev

2009-01-13 Thread Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
2009/1/13 Paul Wise : > On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 8:36 AM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso > wrote: > >> However, the library comes with many example programs, which currently >> are compiled, *but not shipped in the binary*. What's the best way to >> solve this? The GSL cre

cimg-dev

2009-01-13 Thread Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
Dear mentors, The cimg-dev package needs some love, and it looks like a pretty trivial package to update. Since the library itself is only a header file, nothing compiled, it's all rather simple. However, the library comes with many example programs, which currently are compiled, *but not shipped

Re: Processing (#433270), no upstream tarball, other questions

2008-12-08 Thread Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
2008/12/8 Eric Lavarde - Debian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > You might be able to find fun-friends on the debian-java mailing list (I > don't volunteer :-( ), Understood. I'll go that route. Yay, another Debian mailing list to join. This one will be the ninth. - Jordi G. H. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Processing (#433270), no upstream tarball, other questions

2008-12-07 Thread Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
2008/12/7 Eric Lavarde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Looking quickly through the binary download, you might have quite a lot of > fun (JOGL is in Debian, Gluegen isn't, JNA neither, Antlr is there, dxf > viewer not, etc...) Ack. I hadn't noticed those files. But now I looked... [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/

Processing (#433270), no upstream tarball, other questions

2008-12-06 Thread Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
Hi. I've gotten motivated again to close Processing's ITP bug #433270, since Processing has gone out of beta recently, and OpenJDK seems to be able to handle it now. There are a few problems. One, there is no upstream tarball. There is a tagged svn release, but it includes a lot of superfluous so

Re: [Pkg-octave-devel] QtOctave new upstream release

2008-11-30 Thread Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
2008/11/28 Rafael Laboissiere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I committed some changes in the package. Please, take a look at the current > SVN sources and tell me whether they are okay with you. Ah, nice. I didn't think of automating the upstream tarball restructuring. Thank you for the example on how to

Re: QtOctave new upstream release

2008-11-27 Thread Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
2008/11/27 Andreas Wenning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Your lintian error points out that the file src/.pc/.version is modified > (actually created) in the diff.gz . The .pc/.version dir is most likely > created > by an editor on another program while changing the package; you should simply > get rid o

QtOctave new upstream release

2008-11-27 Thread Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
I just tried to package a new upstream release of QtOctave. It seems that I made a Lintian mistake, and I'm not sure how to fix it. I think the problem is that somehow icons.tar ended up in the toplevel dir, but I don't know how they got there. I might have a mistake in one of the CMakeLists.txt fi

Re: Removing non-Linux files from source tarballs

2007-11-05 Thread Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
On 01/11/2007, Paul Wise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 11/2/07, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Now, Processing distributes in its source tarball (well, not really a > > source tarball at all, since it's necessary to get everything fr

Re: Removing non-Linux files from source tarballs

2007-11-01 Thread Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
On 01/11/2007, Hubert Chathi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 1 Nov 2007 13:17:26 -0600, "Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso" <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> said: > > > Hello, mentors. I'm currently working on Processing (#433270). > > [...] > > > Oh, an

Re: Removing non-Linux files from source tarballs

2007-11-01 Thread Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
On 01/11/2007, Justin Pryzby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 01:17:26PM -0600, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote: > > Hello, mentors. > > > > I'm currently working on Processing (#433270). > > > > Now, Processing distributes in its s

Removing non-Linux files from source tarballs

2007-11-01 Thread Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
Hello, mentors. I'm currently working on Processing (#433270). Now, Processing distributes in its source tarball (well, not really a source tarball at all, since it's necessary to get everything from svn), some Windows .exes and some MacOSX-specific files too. Do these have to be removed from th

Re: LiDIA: How to split up a library?

2007-07-12 Thread Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
On 10/07/07, Bernd Zeimetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: So a good place for the library [LiDIA] and hopefully a team which could help you would be the the Debian science team Thanks, I'll try them. - Jordi G. H. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tro

LiDIA: How to split up a library?

2007-07-10 Thread Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
I want to package LiDIA, a very featureful C++ library for computational number theory that at one time had the best algorithms for elliptic curve cryptography available anywhere: http://www.cdc.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/TI/LiDIA/ I know that as a packaging newbie I'm discouraged from attem