Re: Debian Med sprint II in Southport, UK - any objections to the last weekend in January?
There are some trains from Manchester airport to Southport. If location can be next a low-cost hub Manchester is ok for me, but all depends on each one location. I will come if I can find the budget... ;-) Olivier Le 8/10/11 6:33 PM, Tim Booth a écrit : Hi All, Following the very successful Debian Med Bioinformatics Sprint last year in Luebeck, we propose a second one to be held in the UK early next year. As I didn't duck fast enough I'm currently the main organiser. The likely location is Southport (exact venue TBC) on the north west coast of England. Transport links are generally good with flights to nearby Manchester and Liverpool. As before, there will be an emphasis on sleeves-rolled-up packaging work and mentoring. We will also aim to tackle other specific topics based on the interests of the attendees. Please see the new Wiki page [http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMed/Meeting/Southport2012] and add your priorities to the list. For now I just want to set a date, so I'll propose the last weekend in January - the 27th,28th,29th - as per last time. Please let me know if: a) You want to come but can't make that date b) You want to come but can't do a weekend Once I have the date fixed I'll advertise more widely and ask all prospective attendees to add themselves to the Wiki page in order to keep track of numbers, and I'll start looking for a venue. I can't say right now if there will be any travel sponsorship for volunteers, but hopefully that will be possible. Cheers, TIM -- Olivier Sallou IRISA / University of Rennes 1 Campus de Beaulieu, 35000 RENNES - FRANCE Tel: 02.99.84.71.95 gpg key id: 4096R/326D8438 (pgp.mit.edu) Key fingerprint = 5FB4 6F83 D3B9 5204 6335 D26D 78DC 68DB 326D 8438 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-med-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4e437fb5.3090...@irisa.fr
Re: Debian Med sprint II in Southport, UK - any objections to the last weekend in January?
Hello, @Tim, do not fix the date too stricktly too early, find the right venue first. From the feedback I got it was important to have an opportunity for those nightly hacking session, i.e. to have the bed right next to our venue. Not every place will allow for that and when there is some sudden birthday party at that weekend already then you'd be too much constrained (so it happend in Luebeck, good we found a fun place anyway). @all: The idea for Southport is to make it a running theme to aim at some more or less touristy coastal spot - but anticyclic in the winter. This way we are at a small place and flock together more and it is nice and special and since there will be not so many guests we will be treated well. Also, I find people to be influenced by the sea quite a lot in their character, maybe more than by their local culture, which gives it all some international flair, too. To convene at Southport was jointly decided by the Brits that attended the first Sprint ... they were all excited about it, must be good. @Olivier, would you volunteer for 2013? Steffen On 08/11/2011 09:07 AM, Olivier Sallou wrote: There are some trains from Manchester airport to Southport. If location can be next a low-cost hub Manchester is ok for me, but all depends on each one location. I will come if I can find the budget... ;-) Olivier Le 8/10/11 6:33 PM, Tim Booth a écrit : Hi All, Following the very successful Debian Med Bioinformatics Sprint last year in Luebeck, we propose a second one to be held in the UK early next year. As I didn't duck fast enough I'm currently the main organiser. The likely location is Southport (exact venue TBC) on the north west coast of England. Transport links are generally good with flights to nearby Manchester and Liverpool. As before, there will be an emphasis on sleeves-rolled-up packaging work and mentoring. We will also aim to tackle other specific topics based on the interests of the attendees. Please see the new Wiki page [http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMed/Meeting/Southport2012] and add your priorities to the list. For now I just want to set a date, so I'll propose the last weekend in January - the 27th,28th,29th - as per last time. Please let me know if: a) You want to come but can't make that date b) You want to come but can't do a weekend Once I have the date fixed I'll advertise more widely and ask all prospective attendees to add themselves to the Wiki page in order to keep track of numbers, and I'll start looking for a venue. I can't say right now if there will be any travel sponsorship for volunteers, but hopefully that will be possible. Cheers, TIM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-med-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4e43be11.8030...@gmx.de
Re: Debian Med sprint II in Southport, UK - any objections to the last weekend in January?
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 01:33:37PM +0200, Steffen Möller wrote: venue first. From the feedback I got it was important to have an opportunity for those nightly hacking session, i.e. to have the bed right next to our venue. + high bandwidth stable internet in the venue + high bandwidth stable internet in the venue + high bandwidth stable internet in the venue + internet in the bed + high bandwidth stable internet in the venue @Olivier, would you volunteer for 2013? Ahhh, Britany. :-) Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-med-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/2011083943.gb30...@an3as.eu
Re: Debian Med sprint II in Southport, UK - any objections to the last weekend in January?
this is some time for 2013... :-) Britany has lots of wonderful coasts, the problem is to come (just like for any place such as Southport). While it is quite easy to come to Rennes for example, travelling to the coast is more complex... and takes some time. But we have time to discuss about this! Olivier Le 8/11/11 1:39 PM, Andreas Tille a écrit : On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 01:33:37PM +0200, Steffen Möller wrote: venue first. From the feedback I got it was important to have an opportunity for those nightly hacking session, i.e. to have the bed right next to our venue. + high bandwidth stable internet in the venue + high bandwidth stable internet in the venue + high bandwidth stable internet in the venue + internet in the bed + high bandwidth stable internet in the venue @Olivier, would you volunteer for 2013? Ahhh, Britany. :-) Kind regards Andreas. -- Olivier Sallou IRISA / University of Rennes 1 Campus de Beaulieu, 35000 RENNES - FRANCE Tel: 02.99.84.71.95 gpg key id: 4096R/326D8438 (pgp.mit.edu) Key fingerprint = 5FB4 6F83 D3B9 5204 6335 D26D 78DC 68DB 326D 8438 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-med-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4e43c13f@irisa.fr
Re: Debian Med sprint II in Southport, UK - any objections to the last weekend in January?
On 08/11/2011 01:39 PM, Andreas Tille wrote: On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 01:33:37PM +0200, Steffen Möller wrote: venue first. From the feedback I got it was important to have an opportunity for those nightly hacking session, i.e. to have the bed right next to our venue. + high bandwidth stable internet in the venue + high bandwidth stable internet in the venue + high bandwidth stable internet in the venue + internet in the bed + high bandwidth stable internet in the venue Well, yes, but when we know about a difficulty with the network then we can prepare for it. It is still mostly about us meeting. @Olivier, would you volunteer for 2013? Ahhh, Britany. :-) Uh, these German autocorrections, I just had one of those in my first line :) Well, when I google of images of Britany I like those, too, well, most of them. Hoping for a Yes, sure, come, from Olivier ... Steffen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-med-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4e43c277.3070...@gmx.de
Re: Debian Med sprint 2013 , just a few photo of britany for those who want to discover it....
Just a sample of photos in britanny http://www.google.fr/search?hl=frq=bretagne+imagesbav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.biw=1318bih=865um=1ie=UTF-8tbm=ischsource=ogsa=Ntab=wi#um=1hl=frtbm=ischsa=1q=bretagne+cote+granit+roseoq=bretagne+cote+granit+roseaq=faqi=aql=gs_sm=egs_upl=6502l8646l0l8749l17l15l0l12l12l0l210l329l2.0.1l3l0bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.fp=3f76ecb9466f0473biw=1318bih=865 http://www.google.fr/search?hl=frq=bretagne+imagesbav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.biw=1318bih=865um=1ie=UTF-8tbm=ischsource=ogsa=Ntab=wi#um=1hl=frtbm=ischsa=1q=bretagne+saint+malooq=bretagne+saint+maloaq=faqi=g1aql=gs_sm=egs_upl=73009l74376l2l74559l10l9l0l7l7l0l49l94l2l2l0bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.fp=3f76ecb9466f0473biw=1318bih=865 Olivier Le 8/11/11 1:52 PM, Steffen Möller a écrit : these German autocorrections, I just had one of those in my first line :) Well, when I google of image -- Olivier Sallou IRISA / University of Rennes 1 Campus de Beaulieu, 35000 RENNES - FRANCE Tel: 02.99.84.71.95 gpg key id: 4096R/326D8438 (pgp.mit.edu) Key fingerprint = 5FB4 6F83 D3B9 5204 6335 D26D 78DC 68DB 326D 8438 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-med-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4e43c3b9.6070...@irisa.fr
Re: Debian Med sprint II in Southport, UK - any objections to the last weekend in January?
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 01:52:23PM +0200, Steffen Möller wrote: + high bandwidth stable internet in the venue + high bandwidth stable internet in the venue + high bandwidth stable internet in the venue + internet in the bed + high bandwidth stable internet in the venue Well, yes, but when we know about a difficulty with the network then we can prepare for it. It is still mostly about us meeting. Ok, I agree it is mostly about us meeting and + high bandwidth stable internet in the venue + high bandwidth stable internet in the venue + high bandwidth stable internet in the venue + internet in the bed + high bandwidth stable internet in the venue ... and we should be prepared for it in advance. @Olivier, would you volunteer for 2013? Ahhh, Britany. :-) Uh, these German autocorrections, I just had one of those in my first line :) Well, when I google of images of Britany I like those, too, well, most of them. Hoping for a Yes, sure, come, from Olivier ... There is no need for googling: http://fam-tille.de/frankreich/granitrose/ http://fam-tille.de/frankreich/emeraude/ and yes I'm perfectly spoiling my previous argument because those places are not easy to reach. However, I might bring my wife and would stay for another week watching waves pushing / roling over lighthouses. February should be the right time for this ... Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-med-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110811124404.gh30...@an3as.eu
Serbian package description translations waiting for input (Was: Just to say hello)
Hi Karolina, On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 12:49:07PM +0200, Karolina Kalic wrote: You can add Serbian to the tasks, and I'll do my best to translate it as soon as possible. I will do but currently ddtp.debian.net is down and thus the registration of Serbian (which seems to be not there currently). I'll observe this and will keep you informed. That's done now. Just have a look at http://debian-med.alioth.debian.org/tasks/bio bottom line (just for checking whether everything is spelled properly) and then you should be able to start translations. (Please note that for the first time you need to create a login at ddtp.debian.net - just follow the Translate description button and you will be (hopefully) guided by the ddtp server. Please note: It might be also quite valuable to not only translate descriptions which are relevant for Debian Med. Please point all your friends who enjoyed DebConf to ddtp.debian.net and ask them for translations - having all packages in base translated would be a nice goal for end summer. :-) Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-med-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110811142526.gm30...@an3as.eu
Re: Serbian package description translations waiting for input (Was: Just to say hello)
Hi, Andreas, On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 16:25, Andreas Tille andr...@an3as.eu wrote: Hi Karolina, On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 12:49:07PM +0200, Karolina Kalic wrote: You can add Serbian to the tasks, and I'll do my best to translate it as soon as possible. I will do but currently ddtp.debian.net is down and thus the registration of Serbian (which seems to be not there currently). I'll observe this and will keep you informed. That's done now. Just have a look at http://debian-med.alioth.debian.org/tasks/bio bottom line (just for checking whether everything is spelled properly) and then you should be able to start translations. (Please note that for the first time you need to create a login at ddtp.debian.net - just follow the Translate description button and you will be (hopefully) guided by the ddtp server. Spelling is good, but something is wrong with login (or I'm doing something wrong). I created Login, and confirmed it via link from email, but after I login with my alias, and than go to main page (or any other), it keeps asking me to login again. Should I write to Debian-I18n mailing list? Karolina -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-med-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CADh3fJmn-=gyA1KMwUnQEGtJrrWKZENed2N3aoV4aoc6LXÅq...@mail.gmail.com
debian-med svn checkout
Hi, Does the following description work for anyone since the changes on alioth? http://debian-med.alioth.debian.org/docs/policy.html#source = To check sources out from our repositories, please do: * If you are a member of Debian Med or a Debian developer, you have write permission: svn co svn+ssh://u...@alioth.debian.org/svn/debian-med/trunk/... git clone git+ssh://u...@alioth.debian.org/git/debian-med/package.git = Thanks Dominique -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-med-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAAvaLCzUK_-QuBSAsoYjNSFRqRebz=gc17c7nwujo7tcpgo...@mail.gmail.com
Re: debian-med svn checkout
Hi Dominique! On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 1:04 PM, Dominique Belhachemi domi...@debian.org wrote: Does the following description work for anyone since the changes on alioth? For SVN it works: svn co svn+ssh://svn.debian.org/svn/debian-med/trunk/ For git: git clone git+ssh://git.debian.org/git/debian-med/package.git You can specify the user if needed too (for example, u...@svn.debian.org). Both works here. Best regards, Nelson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-med-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAARFvTWJkwTVgu7oPNHvjCCkpJx5RXjn=ri_nnvemupooi4...@mail.gmail.com
Re: debian-med svn checkout
Thanks Nelson, svn co svn+ssh://svn.debian.org/svn/debian-med/trunk/ It still doesn't work for me. All I get is the following error message: svn: To better debug SSH connection problems, remove the -q option from 'ssh' in the [tunnels] section of your Subversion configuration file. svn: Network connection closed unexpectedly Cheers Dominique -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-med-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAAvaLCwjy4330UqzhcxH4VZoWuuOSboWeT5=zbf6bictk+d...@mail.gmail.com
Re: debian-med svn checkout
Hi! On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 1:25 PM, Dominique Belhachemi domi...@debian.org wrote: It still doesn't work for me. All I get is the following error message: Can you ssh directly to the host? Are you using VerifyHostKeyDNS in your ~/.ssh/config for Debian hosts? ssh -v svn.debian.org can give us more info (you can also increase the vs to -vvv) Best regards, Nelson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-med-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/caarfvtubbd7mwnnfgsd-366nvsuejw+ez58cnnvanusvfqu...@mail.gmail.com
Re: debian-med svn checkout
Thanks, It is working now. I used a wrong key for my *-guest account. Cheers Dominique On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 12:30 PM, Nelson A. de Oliveira nao...@gmail.com wrote: Hi! On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 1:25 PM, Dominique Belhachemi domi...@debian.org wrote: It still doesn't work for me. All I get is the following error message: Can you ssh directly to the host? Are you using VerifyHostKeyDNS in your ~/.ssh/config for Debian hosts? ssh -v svn.debian.org can give us more info (you can also increase the vs to -vvv) Best regards, Nelson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-med-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/caavalcymb9940kz5g1a2q-9soaheav6_6fu2w2m7pwuixjh...@mail.gmail.com
Please autobuild abyss
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I'm the upstream and Debian maintainer of abyss, which is a bioinformatics software package. Its license is free for academic use and licensed to commercial users. The license currently reads Debian may redistribute this software package. Is that sufficient? I'm happy to make any changes that you require to the statement to include ABySS in the autobuild. I've added XS-Autobuild: yes to debian/control. Thanks, Shaun -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk5ECh8ACgkQvFdYF1IwUUrGGACgwLlZaVD3B0oJ/PAYPh2WIrDz 5/UAnRssZPTYWqJKZUVJqoWgjRpECAp+ =QrKf -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-med-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CADX6M3o4=wdxa6r100dvaanvczjm_jqrvpf8gd3ikjo6-21...@mail.gmail.com
[ans...@debian.org: The archive now supports xz compression]
Dear all, I forward you these news from the FTP team. Given the size of many of our packages, I recommend to use xz compression as much as possible. This includes all our get-orig-source scripts: when we repack, there is no need to stick to upstream's compression system. Have a nice day, -- Charles - Forwarded message from Ansgar Burchardt ans...@debian.org - Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2011 17:12:36 +0200 From: Ansgar Burchardt ans...@debian.org To: debian-devel-annou...@lists.debian.org Subject: The archive now supports xz compression Message-ID: 877h6kasnv@deep-thought.43-1.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.3 (gnu/linux) Hi, The archive software now accepts packages using xz for compression in addition to gzip and bzip2 for both source and binary packages. Please remember that packages in the base system[1] (and dependencies) *must* currently use gzip as otherwise debootstrap will be unable to install a system. Additionally please only use xz (or bzip2 for that matter) if your package really profits from its usage (for example, it provides a significant space saving). While those methods may compress better they often use more CPU time to do so and a very small decrease in package size is hardly worth the extra effort placed on slower systems. Think of both user systems and the Debian buildds which will waste more time - an especially bad problem on slower architectures. Regards, Ansgar, for the FTP Team 1: Meaning everything with Priority: required. - End forwarded message - -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-med-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110811224830.ga25...@merveille.plessy.net
Re: Licsensing scientific data
Hello Andreas, Le dimanche 31 juillet 2011 à 10:04 +0200, Andreas Tille a écrit : - Sylvestre, did you by chance saved the gobby file because gobby.debian.net was switched off I guess you saw that since then: http://debblog.philkern.de/2011/08/debconf11-gobby-documents.html As attachement, you will find the one relative to the debian science roundtable. I will try to update the wiki soon. Cheers, Sylvestre * Interaction of pkg-scicomp - NMU upload + svn migration to complete it * Advertising on Debian Science - how ? * ?blog: e.g. Debian-Med got wonderful one http://debianmed.blogspot.com/ , NeuroDebian got some too ;-) : http://neuro.debian.net/blog/ * ?presence on scientfic conferences (e.g. NeuroDebian does that on neuroscience-related conferences) - New nice website - to who ? * List software. Update blends tasks: - missing software in the archive - available packages in the archive but not listed in blends * BibTeX files - please consider adopting/extending http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-exppsy/debian-bibliography.git - unify/work-together with http://wiki.debian.org/UpstreamMetadata - Debian references: continue M.Hanke-initiated http://wiki.debian.org/CategoryPublication : TODO - wiki2bib fetcher/validator - proposals: * debian/copyright (bad idea) * debian/control (bad idea with screams) * debian/bib (in BibTeX format) * debian/upstream-metadata.yaml (1-1 mapping with bib) * use RDF (or have some converter from .yaml) * More fine grained tasks - Ideally aim at selection being done by sub-tasks within d-i - warning: we could lose critical mass * Giving credit to upstream * Sloppy backports? * Build-time testing * Helping upstream - expertise transfer among projects - build-time testing (together with automatic sloppy backports provides lots of feedback) * Enable pinning to defined versions of programs - usually people want to work with a specific version of scientific program; how can we address this issue? Should we? - this is quite a new concept in Debian, because some of these users would really like forwardports of old software (to ensure reproducibility) - but if reproducibility isn't preserved in newer version, there must be something broken somewhere! - snapshot.debian.org can be used; this mean that old branches are not updated anymore - however, having multiple branches in Debian requires LOTS of work - static versions of packages are not a good idea. (Security) bugs will stay and the user might not be aware. - users can also set up virtual machines to have full reproducibility of calculations (having the same libraries could be insufficient: you have to have the same whole environment) * DebTags - create tasks from debtags - we need more fine-grained tasks to match the two classifications * Usage of the mailing list - Proposal by Sylvestre Ledru to separate users and packaging questions - Argument by Adam Powell IV that normal users will ask on upstream MLs or other mailing lists
Re: fis-gtm
Thorsten -- Thank you for your message and apologies for this delayed reply. Depending on where I am, I use three different clients to view e-mail one of which does not give me the opportunity to mark e-mails as Unread to be read again later on a friendlier client. After seeing your message there, I overlooked it later with the volume of e-mail in my Inbox. Mea culpa. More comments below - look for [KSB3]. Regards -- Bhaskar On 08/02/2011 01:55 PM, Thorsten Alteholz wrote: Hi Bhaskar, On Mon, 25 Jul 2011, Bhaskar, K.S wrote: [KSB3] ...snip... Even though they are compiled from the same source code, the 32- and 64-bit binaries of GT.M are different and packaged installed separately. Yes, but in case I want to create the 32-bit version on a 64-bit CPU, I need to call make twice and do a 'setenv OBJECT_MODE 32' in between, right? [KSB3] That is correct. Why do you say that you don't expect anyone to run GT.M on arm? While working with ARM processors there have been always resource problems sooner or later. But you are right, I didn't thought about those things you mentioned. So we need a bootstrap for arm :-). [KSB3] I agree wholeheartedly! [KSB2] Someone installing a new version would choose the latest release. But we have users who distribute applications on top of GT.M. They may have a periodic repackage / release cycle, and if they are running stably, there is less work for them to do to continue using an existing GT.M version until their next cycle. Ok, but we are talking about the distribution via Debian/Ubuntu or whatever derivate. So if someone has another application that depends on one release, then of course due to this dependency this release won't be deleted. If someone uses Debian as a basis and adds his own stuff before distributing it, he should either announce this fact and the needed release won't be deleted. Or he does his own thing and uses his release in any way. So I don't see any problem that unused releases might be deleted in a new Debian release. In this case deleting doesn't mean that the packages disappears. All of the next 23 releases will remain in the archive and can be used! [KSB3] OK If GT.M is unfriendly to other UTF-8 locales, I definitelyt want to know so that we can fix it. If GT.M requires en_US.utf8 that may be unfriendly, and we'll consider what we can do about it. There are severeal lines like: utflocale=`locale -a | grep -i en_us ...` in configure and later there is a test: if [ $utflocale = ]; then or: if [ $found_icu -ne 0 -a $utflocale != ] ; then doutf8=1 else doutf8=0 fi May I say that this is an unfriendly behaviour? [KSB] We will look into this. To support UTF-8 mode, GT.M requires a .utf8 locale, any utf8 locale, except on z/OS where it requires en_US.utf8 because of certain platform dependencies. The configure script is old and this part of it has probably not been looked at for a long time. Perhaps the Debian package will not even need it. But, if you look at the (newer) gtmprofile script that a user would source to set up a GT.M environment, notice that it uses the first available utf8 locale. For example, on my laptop, even though I am in the US: kbhaskar@bhaskarks:~$ gtm_chset=UTF-8 /usr/lib/fis-gtm/V5.4-002B_x86/gtm GTMwrite $ztrnlnm(LC_CTYPE) en_AG.utf8 GTMhalt kbhaskar@bhaskarks:~$ I have to explicitly set en_US.utf8 to get it: kbhaskar@bhaskarks:~$ LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 gtm_chset=UTF-8 /usr/lib/fis-gtm/V5.4-002B_x86/gtm GTMwrite $ztrnlnm(LC_CTYPE) en_US.utf8 GTMhalt kbhaskar@bhaskarks:~$ History is what history is - we try to do better today than we did yesterday. and we'll try to do better tomorrow than we do today. There is another issue. After updating my sid machine it wasn't possible to build the package from sources. It says something about missing include file. Other packages replaced the -I- with -iquote which does not work in your case. After adding the attached patch, everything was fine again. [KSB3] This was on our list of things to do. I know that the changes are small, but since GT.M is built from a highly common code base across a wide variety of platforms and released under a variety of licenses, both free / open source (e.g., GT.M for Linux on x86) and proprietary (e.g,. GT.M for proprietary UNIX flavors), would you please make a statement that you make no claim of copyright to the patch? Thank you very much. -- GT.M - Rock solid. Lightning fast. Secure. No compromises. _ The information contained in this message is proprietary and/or confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, please: (i) delete the message and all copies; (ii) do not disclose, distribute or use the message in any manner; and (iii) notify the sender immediately. In addition, please be aware that any message addressed to our domain is subject to archiving and review by persons
