Bug#996993: ITP: biojava5-live -- Java API to biological data and applications (version 5)
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Debian-med team X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-...@lists.debian.org * Package name: biojava5-live Version : 5.4.0 Upstream Author : BioJava Developers * URL : https://www.biojava.org/ * License : LGPL-2.1 Programming Lang: Java Description : Java API to biological data and applications (version 5) This package presents the Open Source Java API to biological databases and a series of mostly sequence-based algorithms. BioJava is an open-source project dedicated to providing a Java framework for processing biological data. It includes objects for manipulating sequences, file parsers, server support, access to BioSQL and Ensembl databases, and powerful analysis and statistical routines including a dynamic programming toolkit. This is the version 5 of biojava, which brings several changes compared to version 4, packaged in biojava4-live. It will be maintained by the Debian-med team.
Bug#996991: ITP: jgrapht -- Java library of graph theory data structures and algorithms
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Pierre Gruet User: debian-scie...@lists.debian.org Usertags: field..science X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-scie...@lists.debian.org * Package name: jgrapht Version : 1.5.1 Upstream Author : Abdallah Atouani and collaborators * URL : https://jgrapht.org/ * License : LGPL-2.1 or EPL-2.0 Programming Lang: Java Description : Java library of graph theory data structures and algorithms JGraphT is a free Java class library that provides mathematical graph-theory objects and algorithms. In JGraphT, a graph is defined as a set of vertices connected by a set of edges. It is possible to define graphs, to modify, compare or generate them, to run many algorithms through them. One may also import or export graphs. The library is needed for the packaging of biojava5, which is an aim of the Debian med team. It is also a nice adddition to Debian to have this Java library to tackle graph theory problems. Many years ago, libgrapht0.6-java and libjgrapht0.8-java have been packaged because new upstream versions of jgrapht generally incorporated ABI changes. Now this seems not to be the case, hence this unversioned package name. The packaging will be done in the Debian-science team.
Bug#996989: ITP: fonts-lxgw-wenkai -- Chinese font "LXGW WenKai"
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: xiao sheng wen(肖盛文) X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, atzli...@sina.com * Package name: fonts-lxgw-wenkai Version : 1.110 Upstream Author : lxgw * URL : https://github.com/lxgw/LxgwWenKai * License : SIL-1.1 Description : Chinese font "LXGW WenKai" LxgwWenKai is an open-source Chinese font derived from Fontworks' Klee One. LXGW is an abbreviation for Chinese word Pinyin "Luo Xiao Gu Wu". . Include the following font files: . - LXGWWenKai-Bold.ttf - LXGWWenKai-Light.ttf - LXGWWenKaiMono-Bold.ttf - LxgwWenKaiMonoLatin-Bold.ttf - LxgwWenKaiMonoLatin-Light.ttf - LxgwWenKaiMonoLatin-Regular.ttf - LXGWWenKaiMono-Light.ttf - LXGWWenKaiMono-Regular.ttf - LXGWWenKai-Regular.ttf I intend to maintain this package as part of the Debian Font team. I need a sponsor.
Work-needing packages report for Oct 22, 2021
The following is a listing of packages for which help has been requested through the WNPP (Work-Needing and Prospective Packages) system in the last week. Total number of orphaned packages: 1266 (new: 2) Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 198 (new: 1) Total number of packages requested help for: 60 (new: 0) Please refer to https://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ for more information. The following packages have been orphaned: pytest-helpers-namespace (#996803), orphaned 3 days ago Reverse Depends: python3-pytestsalt Installations reported by Popcon: 9 Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/996803 python-yubico (#996759), orphaned 3 days ago Description: Tools for Yubico YubiKeys Reverse Depends: python-yubico-tools python3-ipalib Installations reported by Popcon: 90 Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/996759 1264 older packages have been omitted from this listing, see https://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/orphaned for a complete list. The following packages have been given up for adoption: unifrac (#996921), offered yesterday Reverse Depends: libssu-dev libssu-tools python3-unifrac Installations reported by Popcon: 3 Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/996921 197 older packages have been omitted from this listing, see https://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/rfa_bypackage for a complete list. For the following packages help is requested: apache2 (#910917), requested 1104 days ago Description: Apache HTTP Server Reverse Depends: apache2 apache2-ssl-dev apache2-suexec-custom apache2-suexec-pristine backuppc bfh-container-server courier-webadmin cvsweb debbugs-web doc-central (139 more omitted) Installations reported by Popcon: 98065 Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/910917 aufs (#963191), requested 488 days ago Description: driver for a union mount for Linux filesystems Reverse Depends: fsprotect Installations reported by Popcon: 10362 Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/963191 autopkgtest (#846328), requested 1786 days ago Description: automatic as-installed testing for Debian packages Reverse Depends: debci-worker sbuild-qemu Installations reported by Popcon: 1224 Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/846328 balsa (#642906), requested 3679 days ago Description: An e-mail client for GNOME Reverse Depends: balsa Installations reported by Popcon: 651 Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/642906 cargo (#860116), requested 1654 days ago Description: Rust package manager Reverse Depends: dh-cargo rust-all Installations reported by Popcon: 2636 Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/860116 courier (#978755), requested 294 days ago Description: Courier mail server Reverse Depends: courier-faxmail courier-filter-perl courier-imap courier-ldap courier-mlm courier-mta courier-pcp courier-pop courier-webadmin couriergrey (3 more omitted) Installations reported by Popcon: 942 Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/978755 cron (#984736), requested 228 days ago Description: new maintainer need Reverse Depends: apticron autolog backintime-common btrfsmaintenance buildd checksecurity clamtk cricket email-reminder exim4-base (20 more omitted) Installations reported by Popcon: 206795 Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/984736 cyrus-imapd (#921717), requested 986 days ago Description: Cyrus mail system - IMAP support Reverse Depends: cyrus-admin cyrus-caldav cyrus-clients cyrus-dev cyrus-imapd cyrus-murder cyrus-nntpd cyrus-pop3d cyrus-replication Installations reported by Popcon: 426 Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/921717 cyrus-sasl2 (#799864), requested 2220 days ago Description: authentication abstraction library Reverse Depends: 389-ds-base adcli autofs-ldap cyrus-caldav cyrus-clients cyrus-common cyrus-dev cyrus-imapd cyrus-imspd cyrus-murder (79 more omitted) Installations reported by Popcon: 206260 Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/799864 dbab (#947550), requested 663 days ago Description: dnsmasq-based ad-blocking using pixelserv Installations reported by Popcon: 5 Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/947550 debtags (#962579), requested 498 days ago Description: Debian Package Tags support tools Reverse Depends: packagesearch Installations reported by Popcon: 1513 Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/962579 dee (#831388), requested 1924 days ago Description: model to synchronize mutiple instances over DBus Reverse Depends: dee-tools gir1.2-dee-1.0 gir1.2-u
Re: Debian's branches and release model
Simon> However, the problem with freezing testing but not freezing Simon> unstable is that if you do that, all updates to testing Simon> during the freeze (to fix the release-critical bugs that stop Simon> it from already being ready for release) have to go into Simon> testing via testing-proposed-updates, which approximately Simon> nobody uses. Have we ever looked into getting more people to use TPU so it's a viable path? This issue comes up often enough that it's clear a significant chunk of the community wants it. I understand that it probably would take years to overcome all the obstacles-- I think there are several you didn't mention. But this has been going on for years, so I'm wondering if anyone has been willing to put in effort on things like trying to convince people to test out TPU, or making it easier to run QA/autopkgtest/etc against TPU, etc.
Bug#996973: ITP: msc-generator -- Draws signalling charts from textual description
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Gábor Németh X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, rody...@riseup.net * Package name: msc-generator Version : 7.0.1 Upstream Author : Zoltan Turanyi * URL : https://sourceforge.net/p/msc-generator/ * License : AGPL Programming Lang: C++ Description : Draws signalling charts from textual description Msc-generator is a program that parses textual Message Sequence Chart descriptions and produces graphical output in a variety of file formats. Msc-generator heavily borrows in concept from the 0.08 version of Michael C McTernan's mscgen. However, it has been completely rewritten from scratch and has a much more extensive (and only partially backwards compatible) language. The command-line interface is fully backwards compatible with mscgen, which enables using Msc-generator's commandline tool everywhere where you can use mscgen, but with the richer syntax. This includes the many tools integrated with mscgen, such as Doxygen, Sphinx and Msctexen. I am already packaging it in my Ubuntu Launchpad PPA, and it is used by some (including myself). I wish to bring it to Debian proper though. I can maintain the package myself, but need a sponsor.
Re: Debian's branches and release model
Thomas Goirand dijo [Wed, Oct 20, 2021 at 10:51:59PM +0200]: > >> That's obviously what I'm doing. But when there's 2 releases during the > >> freeze, it means one of them will never reach Unstable. > > > > Right, which makes perfect sense. > (...) > > I guess very few will, but if it's needed, it's available -- and > > the work for you when the freeze is done is much smaller (just > > re-target changelog, re-build, re-upload). > > > > What do you lose by those uploads not reaching unstable? > > Very simple: an upgrade path. In most OpenStack projects, you cannot > skip an OpenStack release, at least because of the db schema upgrades. Uff, that sounds quite ugly :-( ...And what about providing Openstack packages whose name includes the version, as Linux or PostgreSQL do? that way, if OpenStack releases twice a year and Debian every two years, Debian X can include the four OpenStack releases that have happened since Debian X-1... Or you can continue running your previous OpenStack release if you so want, for some extra years. It would be up to the sysadmin to jump from OpenStack a→b→c→d before upgrading to Debian X+1 (which ships with e, f, g, h). It seems as very little gain for the huge framework that OpenStack is. Now, OTOH, distribution maintainers could work together to pick migrations. If you can pick all the needed bits from the d→e migration and apply them in your postinst (if upgrading from d to f), you can effectively skip going through e. Of course, picking the migrations for every OpenStack release could allow you to build intelligent (although probably obese) maintainer scripts able to perform the needed updates you have, a→d, d→g, etc. I guess I'm just stating obvious bits... and that the OpenStack complexity would make this obviously harder. But if the process is automatizable, it is doable (of course, with enough developer resources). And fleshing out the needed migrations would benefit not only Debian, but every distribution carrying non-consecutive OpenStack packages.
Bug#996958: ITP: mumax -- GPU accelerated micromagnetic simulator
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Roland Mas X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: mumax Version : 3.10 Upstream Author : Arne Vansteenkiste * URL : https://github.com/mumax/3 * License : GPL-3 Programming Lang: Go Description : GPU accelerated micromagnetic simulator mumax3 is a GPU-accelerated micromagnetic simulation program developed at the DyNaMat group of Prof. Van Waeyenberge at Ghent University. A speed-up of the order of 100x compared to CPU-based simulations can easily be reached, even with relatively inexpensive gaming GPUs. Additionally, the software is optimized for low memory use and can handle about 16 million FD cells with 2GB of GPU RAM. Features: - Landau-Lifshitz micromagnetic formalism - Magnetostatic field - Heisenberg exchange - Arbitrary inter-region exchange like RKKY coupling - Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction - Spin-transfer torque (Zhang-Li and Slonczewski) - Uniaxial and cubic magnetocrystalline anisotropy - Thermal fluctuations (Brown) - Voronoi tessellation - Time- and space dependent material parameters - Arbitrary complex excitation (field, current) - Simulation window can automatically follow a moving domain wall - Edge charges can be removed to simulate an infinitely long geometry - Optional 1D, 2D or 3D periodic boundary conditions
