Re: does aptitude really need to lock the status database when downloading?

2011-02-04 Thread Stanislav Maslovski
On Fri, Feb 04, 2011 at 01:21:07AM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote: #include hallo.h * Stanislav Maslovski [Fri, Feb 04 2011, 03:10:54AM]: Hi debian-devel, I wanted to ask this for quite a long time: Does aptitude (I think apt-get does the same) really have to lock the status database area

Re: does aptitude really need to lock the status database when downloading?

2011-02-04 Thread Olaf van der Spek
On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 9:57 AM, Stanislav Maslovski stanislav.maslov...@gmail.com wrote: This is possible, however, it is an extra busy work for a user. In any case, I think that holding a lock only for downloading is an overkill and this can be relaxed. What if you would launch two

Re: does aptitude really need to lock the status database when downloading?

2011-02-04 Thread Adam Borowski
On Fri, Feb 04, 2011 at 03:29:14AM +0100, Julian Taylor wrote: On Fri, 2011-02-04 at 03:10 +0300, Stanislav Maslovski wrote: For example, I am running an update on a slow connection and want to uninstall or install with dpkg a few packages while the others are being downloaded. Should not

Re: does aptitude really need to lock the status database when downloading?

2011-02-04 Thread Adam Borowski
On Fri, Feb 04, 2011 at 10:00:40AM +0100, Olaf van der Spek wrote: On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 9:57 AM, Stanislav Maslovski stanislav.maslov...@gmail.com wrote: This is possible, however, it is an extra busy work for a user. In any case, I think that holding a lock only for downloading is an

Re: Misc Developer News (#24)

2011-02-04 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Stefano Zacchiroli z...@debian.org writes: On Wed, Feb 02, 2011 at 04:13:55PM +, Philipp Kern wrote: http://wiki.debian.org/HowToRelease (which has not been edited since 2009) If you start linking to the wiki, take the right page: http://wiki.debian.org/ReleaseTimetable Can the other

Re: does aptitude really need to lock the status database when downloading?

2011-02-04 Thread Stanislav Maslovski
On Fri, Feb 04, 2011 at 10:00:40AM +0100, Olaf van der Spek wrote: On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 9:57 AM, Stanislav Maslovski stanislav.maslov...@gmail.com wrote: This is possible, however, it is an extra busy work for a user. In any case, I think that holding a lock only for downloading is an

Re: Upcoming FTPMaster meeting

2011-02-04 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Philipp Kern tr...@philkern.de writes: On 2011-02-03, Joerg Jaspert jo...@ganneff.de wrote: * Leaf packages. that is, the possibility of having small packages in the archive, without bloating the packages files as a full package would. Somehow, less information stored for them. Like only

Re: there is /usr/lib64 symlink but no /usr/local/lib64

2011-02-04 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Yaroslav Halchenko deb...@onerussian.com writes: please do not slap me too hard (only so that I feel your warm carrying touch): is there a rationale for: on amd64 Debian systems having /lib64 - /lib /usr/lib64 - /usr/lib but no similar one for /usr/local/lib64, so that directory

Re: Bug#611828: ITP: probalign -- multiple sequence alignment using partition function posterior probabilities

2011-02-04 Thread Tanguy Ortolo
Hello. Le mercredi 02 février 2011, andr...@an3as.eu a écrit : Description : multiple sequence alignment using partition function posterior probabilities Is that about DNA sequences? I think this should be explicited in the description, with something like: detect multiple sequence

Re: Bug#611828: ITP: probalign -- multiple sequence alignment using partition function posterior probabilities

2011-02-04 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Tanguy, On Fri, Feb 04, 2011 at 10:33:05AM +0100, Tanguy Ortolo wrote: Le mercredi 02 février 2011, andr...@an3as.eu a écrit : Description : multiple sequence alignment using partition function posterior probabilities Is that about DNA sequences? I think this should be

Re: does aptitude really need to lock the status database when downloading?

2011-02-04 Thread Fernando Lemos
On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 6:57 AM, Stanislav Maslovski stanislav.maslov...@gmail.com wrote: [...] If you want to have that level of control, why don't you just check it manually? Use --download-only with apt-get (no dpkg locking this way) and when it's done, use apt-get without it to install the

Re: does aptitude really need to lock the status database when downloading?

2011-02-04 Thread David Kalnischkies
On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 01:10, Stanislav Maslovski stanislav.maslov...@gmail.com wrote: For example, I am running an update on a slow connection and want to uninstall or install with dpkg a few packages while the others are being downloaded. Should not this be possible? I understand that there

Re: does aptitude really need to lock the status database when downloading?

2011-02-04 Thread Olaf van der Spek
On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 12:47 PM, Fernando Lemos fernando...@gmail.com wrote: This is possible, however, it is an extra busy work for a user. In any case, I think that holding a lock only for downloading is an overkill and this can be relaxed. As far as I can tell (and please correct me if I'm

Re: does aptitude really need to lock the status database when downloading?

2011-02-04 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Friday 04 February 2011 12.47:21 Fernando Lemos wrote: do, say, an apt-get upgrade, apt prepares an upgrade plan that uses a given set of packages. If apt wouldn't lock [...] new plan would have to be created, the user would have to be asked for confirmation again. Doesn't sound that great.

Re: there is /usr/lib64 symlink but no /usr/local/lib64

2011-02-04 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
I guess then it might be sensible to get /usr/local/lib64 - /usr/local/lib . ok -- lets see what libc6 maintainers think about that http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=612000 On Fri, 04 Feb 2011, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: aren't we diverging from FHS: If directories

Preparing GSoC 2011: bring in your project ideas!

2011-02-04 Thread Obey Arthur Liu
Hello all! It's the time of the year again and we have to prepare a list of project ideas to submit our application. It's simple: what project would you want to get done and how can you help? Cheers Arthur PS.: This is only about project ideas. If you are interested in providing feedback

Re: does aptitude really need to lock the status database when downloading?

2011-02-04 Thread Stanislav Maslovski
On Fri, Feb 04, 2011 at 09:47:21AM -0200, Fernando Lemos wrote: On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 6:57 AM, Stanislav Maslovski stanislav.maslov...@gmail.com wrote: [...] If you want to have that level of control, why don't you just check it manually? Use --download-only with apt-get (no dpkg locking

Re: Upcoming FTPMaster meeting

2011-02-04 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
On 2011-02-04 07:27, Philipp Kern wrote: On 2011-02-03, Joerg Jaspert jo...@ganneff.de wrote: * Leaf packages. that is, the possibility of having small packages in the archive, without bloating the packages files as a full package would. Somehow, less information stored for them. Like

Bug#612014: ITP: phpunit-selenium -- Selenium RC integration for PHPUnit

2011-02-04 Thread Olivier Berger
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Olivier Berger olivier.ber...@it-sudparis.eu * Package name: phpunit-selenium Version : 1.0.2 Upstream Author : Sebastian Bergmann s...@sebastian-bergmann.de * URL : http://www.phpunit.de/ * License : BSD Programming

Re: there is /usr/lib64 symlink but no /usr/local/lib64

2011-02-04 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Yaroslav Halchenko | please do not slap me too hard (only so that I feel your warm carrying | touch): | | is there a rationale for: on amd64 Debian systems having | | /lib64 - /lib Yes, it's required by the ABI, unfortunately. | /usr/lib64 - /usr/lib Not really, apart from some broken

Re: does aptitude really need to lock the status database when downloading?

2011-02-04 Thread Simon Chopin
Hi ! On Fri, Feb 04, 2011 at 09:47:21AM -0200, Fernando Lemos wrote: On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 6:57 AM, Stanislav Maslovski [...] As Julian Taylor mentioned, there is also another side of the same problem: aptitude itself can be improved so that it is able to download and unpack in parallel.

Re: does aptitude really need to lock the status database when downloading?

2011-02-04 Thread Fernando Lemos
On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 5:10 PM, Simon Chopin chopin.si...@googlemail.com wrote: [...] As Julian Taylor mentioned, there is also another side of the same problem: aptitude itself can be improved so that it is able to download and unpack in parallel. If it were doing this then the lock would

Re: does aptitude really need to lock the status database when downloading?

2011-02-04 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Simon Chopin] But I believe what Stanislas mean is to unpack while downloading the rest of the packages. I often wondered why it wasn't the case, but I've assumed so far that there was probably a reason I just could not think of :) I think it is because, in the general case, it is not at

Bug#612031: RFP: xscope -- Monitor X11/Client conversations

2011-02-04 Thread Arnout Engelen
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org --- Please fill out the fields below. --- Package name: xscope Version: 1.3 Upstream Author: James Peterson, MCC, Keith Packard URL: http://xorg.freedesktop.org/archive/individual/app/ License: X Description: Monitor

Re: Bug#612031: RFP: xscope -- Monitor X11/Client conversations

2011-02-04 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi, Arnout Engelen arnou...@bzzt.net (05/02/2011): Package name: xscope Version: 1.3 Upstream Author: James Peterson, MCC, Keith Packard URL: http://xorg.freedesktop.org/archive/individual/app/ License: X might not deserve its own package. I guess it could be shipped in one of the x11-*

Re: Bug#611828: ITP: probalign -- multiple sequence alignment using partition function posterior probabilities

2011-02-04 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Fri, Feb 04, 2011 at 10:33:05AM +0100, Tanguy Ortolo a écrit : Le mercredi 02 février 2011, andr...@an3as.eu a écrit : Description : multiple sequence alignment using partition function posterior probabilities Is that about DNA sequences? I think this should be explicited in

Re: Bug#593339: RFP: freeorion -- FreeOrion is a free, open source, turn-based space empire and galactic conquest computer game

2011-02-04 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 6:40 AM, Adam Borowski kilob...@angband.pl wrote: * [a show stopper] it requires Nvidia's CG Toolkit -- non-free  non-distributable.  The upstream is in love in that piece of crock, and  declares it is and should be mandatory. Looks like that is no longer required

Accepted gauche 0.9-17 (source i386 all)

2011-02-04 Thread NIIBE Yutaka
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Accepted whois 5.0.11 (source i386)

2011-02-04 Thread Marco d'Itri
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Accepted u-boot 2011.03~rc1-1 (source all amd64)

2011-02-04 Thread Loïc Minier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2011 13:13:14 +0100 Source: u-boot Binary: u-boot u-boot-tools uboot-mkimage Architecture: source amd64 all Version: 2011.03~rc1-1 Distribution: experimental Urgency: low Maintainer: Clint Adams cl...@gnu.org Changed-By:

Accepted tilestache 1.7.2-1 (source all)

2011-02-04 Thread David Paleino
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Accepted paramiko 1.7.6-5.1 (source all)

2011-02-04 Thread Jelmer Vernooij
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Accepted xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.14.0-2 (source amd64)

2011-02-04 Thread Cyril Brulebois
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2011 15:37:47 +0100 Source: xserver-xorg-video-intel Binary: xserver-xorg-video-intel xserver-xorg-video-intel-dbg Architecture: source amd64 Version: 2:2.14.0-2 Distribution: experimental Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian

Accepted aspell 0.60.6-5 (source all i386)

2011-02-04 Thread Brian Nelson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2011 12:00:55 -0500 Source: aspell Binary: aspell aspell-doc libaspell15 libaspell-dev libpspell-dev Architecture: source all i386 Version: 0.60.6-5 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Brian Nelson

Accepted minicom 2.5-1 (source amd64)

2011-02-04 Thread Martin A. Godisch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2011 20:06:55 +0100 Source: minicom Binary: minicom Architecture: source amd64 Version: 2.5-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Martin A. Godisch godi...@debian.org Changed-By: Martin A. Godisch

Accepted wraplinux 1.7-4 (source i386)

2011-02-04 Thread Daniel Baumann
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Accepted libemail-mime-createhtml-perl 1.030-1 (source all)

2011-02-04 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2011 21:15:18 +0100 Source: libemail-mime-createhtml-perl Binary: libemail-mime-createhtml-perl Architecture: all source Version: 1.030-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian Perl Group

Accepted midori 0.3.0-1.3 (source amd64)

2011-02-04 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2011 09:01:07 +0100 Source: midori Binary: midori midori-dbg Architecture: source amd64 Version: 0.3.0-1.3 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Ryan Niebur r...@debian.org Changed-By: Yves-Alexis Perez

Accepted libpam-alreadyloggedin 0.3-3 (source i386)

2011-02-04 Thread Jakub Wilk
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Accepted jquery 1.5-1 (source all)

2011-02-04 Thread metal
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Format: 1.8 Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2011 22:47:43 -0200 Source: jquery Binary: libjs-jquery Architecture: source all Version: 1.5-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian Javascript Maintainers pkg-javascript-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org

Accepted obexd 0.40-1 (source amd64)

2011-02-04 Thread Nobuhiro Iwamatsu
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2011 07:01:41 +0900 Source: obexd Binary: obexd-client obexd-server Architecture: source amd64 Version: 0.40-1 Distribution: experimental Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian Bluetooth Maintainers

Accepted bluez-hcidump 2.0-1 (source amd64)

2011-02-04 Thread Nobuhiro Iwamatsu
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2011 07:19:35 +0900 Source: bluez-hcidump Binary: bluez-hcidump Architecture: source amd64 Version: 2.0-1 Distribution: experimental Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian Bluetooth Maintainers

Accepted jquery 1.5-2 (source all)

2011-02-04 Thread metal
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Format: 1.8 Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2011 20:25:02 -0200 Source: jquery Binary: libjs-jquery Architecture: source all Version: 1.5-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian Javascript Maintainers pkg-javascript-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org

Accepted libdatetime-format-natural-perl 0.93-1 (source all)

2011-02-04 Thread Angel Abad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2011 23:25:59 +0100 Source: libdatetime-format-natural-perl Binary: libdatetime-format-natural-perl Architecture: all source Version: 0.93-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian Perl Group