Work-needing packages report for Jul 18, 2008

2008-07-17 Thread wnpp
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: 486 (new: 6) Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 123 (new: 17) Total number of packages reques

Bug#491262: ITP: nose-scenario -- test scenario adaptation plugin for nose

2008-07-17 Thread Ben Finney
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: nose-scenario Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://pypi.python.org/pypi/nose_scenario/ * License : GPL-2+ Programming Lang: Python

Re: Xen status in lenny?

2008-07-17 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > right but still no excuse to bring in a patch set that is *known* > to not be merged upstream. Isnt that the most obvious reason to distribute an additional patched kernel? There is a user need and a patch.. Gruss Bernd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [E

Re: Include on first iso: m-a, build essential, kernel headers

2008-07-17 Thread peter green
It looks like the search you tried is just broken. The search tool works but it is rather dumb and the instructions are misleading. _i386 will only find packages with _i386 in the filename. So it will NOT find arch all packages like module-assistant. There does not seem to be a way to search fo

Re: Xen status in lenny?

2008-07-17 Thread maximilian attems
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 12:45:21AM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 05:34:28PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > > That SLES forward-port for 2.6.26 is not acceptable based on Debian kernel > > patch policy: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianKernelPatchAcceptanceGuidelines > > Which

Re: Xen status in lenny?

2008-07-17 Thread Bastian Blank
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 05:34:28PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > That SLES forward-port for 2.6.26 is not acceptable based on Debian kernel > patch policy: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianKernelPatchAcceptanceGuidelines Which is only the case for the main images. We have support for additional feat

Re: RFC: libprojectM, new upstream version.

2008-07-17 Thread William Pitcock
On Thu, 2008-07-17 at 19:18 +0200, Francesco Namuri wrote: > Il giorno mer, 16/07/2008 alle 17.46 -0500, William Pitcock ha scritto: > > Hi, > > > > On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 22:59 +0200, Francesco Namuri wrote: > > > Hi, > > > I've packaged the new version of this library, the upstream author has > >

Re: sysklogd/rsyslog switch

2008-07-17 Thread Michael Biebl
Jonas Meurer wrote: On 17/07/2008 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Wed, 16 Jul 2008, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: Well, it doesn't affect upgrades. And for new installs, _all_ the packages are new, so this falls under the case of Debian picking one alt

Re: sysklogd/rsyslog switch

2008-07-17 Thread Jonas Meurer
On 17/07/2008 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Wed, 16 Jul 2008, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > > > Well, it doesn't affect upgrades. And for new installs, _all_ the > > > packages are new, so this falls under the case of Debian picking one > > > alte

Re: Bootstrapping (was Re: ITP: MUMPS -- ...)

2008-07-17 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 17 Jul 2008, Ron Johnson wrote: IIRC (and I very well might not), doesn't gcc also bootstrap itself? Sure. The problem is that there was an initial bootstrap at some point in time and you can relay on a working gcc in Debian since ages. This is not the case for GT.M and even if I wou

Re: Bug#491156: ITP: postgresql-8.3-plr -- Procedural language interface between PostgreSQL 8.3 and R

2008-07-17 Thread Adeodato Simó
> Andreas Tille wrote: > > (see #228074, which can not be reopened because it is archived). Bugs can be "unarchive"d, and then reopened now. -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es Debian Developer adeodato at debian.org Man

Bug#491220: ITP: unicap -- library to access different kinds of video capture devices

2008-07-17 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jonas Smedegaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: unicap Version : 0.2.24 Upstream Author : Arne Caspari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://unicap-imaging.org/ * License : GPL-2+ Programming Lang: C Description

Bootstrapping (was Re: ITP: MUMPS -- ...)

2008-07-17 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/17/08 02:05, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Wed, 16 Jul 2008, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> Mumps is a computer language. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUMPS > > And there is a GPLed implementation of this at > >http://sourceforge.net/projects/fis-gt

Re: RFC: libprojectM, new upstream version.

2008-07-17 Thread Francesco Namuri
Il giorno mer, 16/07/2008 alle 17.46 -0500, William Pitcock ha scritto: > Hi, > > On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 22:59 +0200, Francesco Namuri wrote: > > Hi, > > I've packaged the new version of this library, the upstream author has > > changed the SONAME, and so I've changed the name of the lib and -data

Re: sysklogd/rsyslog switch

2008-07-17 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 16 Jul 2008, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > > Well, it doesn't affect upgrades. And for new installs, _all_ the > > packages are new, so this falls under the case of Debian picking one > > alternative of something as a default. > > Well, if Debian def

Re: Debian release versioning

2008-07-17 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 07:46:54AM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > Agreed. > > Also, I really dislike the "use .5 for -and-a-half releases" in the > original proposal. For one thing you cannot exclude the risk that 5 point > releases would be needed for one reason or another before an +1/2 > release.

Re: Debian release versioning

2008-07-17 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 11:21:30PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > I'm not sure sure that we want to have a hole in our versioning scheme. > Since "lenny+1/2" is just another stable update, let's just number it > like a stable update. So we don't end up with users thinking "You > released 5.0, 5.1,

RE: font policy changes

2008-07-17 Thread unifoundry
> Original Message > Subject: Re: font policy changes > From: Julien Cristau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Thu, July 17, 2008 1:38 am > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 00:19:39 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: Xen status in lenny?

2008-07-17 Thread Peter Jordan
Pasi Kärkkäinen, 07/17/2008 04:34 PM: > On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 09:09:52PM +0200, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: >> Bastian Blank wrote: >> Since there's now a sixth option - the forward-ported XenSource patch to >> SLES's 2.6.26 - could we test this patch before we decide on a plan? >> >> To me using

Re: Xen status in lenny?

2008-07-17 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 09:09:52PM +0200, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: > Bastian Blank wrote: > > Xen got a often used technique in the last two years. All of the large > > distributions got some sort of support for it. Debian Etch have full > > support for it. There was several requests of various pe

Bug#491190: ITP: bzr-avahi -- mDNS plugin for Bazaar

2008-07-17 Thread Jelmer Vernooij
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jelmer Vernooij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: bzr-avahi Version : 0.0.1 Upstream Author : James Henstridge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Robert Collins <[EMAIL

Re: Debian release versioning

2008-07-17 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 06:09:09PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > So lenny will be Debian 5.0. Many people have questioned this > choice, given how we onconsistently went ...-2.0-2.1-2.2-3.0-3.1-4.0 > in the last decade, but it's the RM's choice and not to be debated. Looks consistent to me. 1.0

Re: RFC: libprojectM, new upstream version.

2008-07-17 Thread Francesco Namuri
Il giorno mer, 16/07/2008 alle 19.37 -0500, William Pitcock ha scritto: > On Thu, 2008-07-17 at 00:57 +0200, Francesco Namuri wrote: > > Il giorno mer, 16/07/2008 alle 17.46 -0500, William Pitcock ha scritto: > > > Hi, > > > > > > On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 22:59 +0200, Francesco Namuri wrote: > > > >

Re: Bug#491156: ITP: postgresql-8.3-plr -- Procedural language interface between PostgreSQL 8.3 and R

2008-07-17 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 17 Jul 2008, Adam D. Barratt wrote: #228074 is an RFA for the package, filed in January 2004 and with no sign of any interest. Well, we might start nitpicking about the past whether an RFAed package that is actively updated by its mainteiner is "interest in maintenance" or not. I'd pr

Re: Re: Include on first iso: m-a, build essential, kernel headers

2008-07-17 Thread Hendrik Sattler
Zitat von "brian m. carlson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 09:53:24PM +0200, richs wrote: I think that including headers, m-a and build essential would be a good move for the developers. Other distros have out-of-the-box non-free and proprietary apps/drivers/codecs, I woul

Re: Bug#491156: ITP: postgresql-8.3-plr -- Procedural language interface between PostgreSQL 8.3 and R

2008-07-17 Thread Adam D. Barratt
Andreas Tille wrote: On Thu, 17 Jul 2008, Thomas Viehmann wrote: The package was removed after noone was interested in maintaining it for four(!) years. Huh? [...] * Orphan package (see #228074). -- Martin Pitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun, 30 Dec 2007 20:38:42 +0100 That's about 6 month

Re: Bug#491156: ITP: postgresql-8.3-plr -- Procedural language interface between PostgreSQL 8.3 and R

2008-07-17 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 17 Jul 2008, Thomas Viehmann wrote: The package was removed after noone was interested in maintaining it for four(!) years. Huh? plr (1:8.2.0.7-2) unstable; urgency=low * Orphan package (see #228074). -- Martin Pitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun, 30 Dec 2007 20:38:42 +0100 That's a

Re: Bug#491156: ITP: postgresql-8.3-plr -- Procedural language interface between PostgreSQL 8.3 and R

2008-07-17 Thread Thomas Viehmann
Hi Andreas, Andreas Tille wrote: > This package was removed from Debian (see #228074, which can not be > reopened because it is archived). The reason that it is RC buggy) is > void because #461995 took me 1 Minute to fix (well, you can blame me > for not having this done before the removal - the

Bug#491156: [RKI-Spam-Verdacht]ITP: postgresql-8.3-plr -- Procedural language interface between PostgreSQL 8.3 and R

2008-07-17 Thread Andreas Tille
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: postgresql-8.3-plr Version : 8.3.0.6 Upstream Author : Joe Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.joeconway.com/plr/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: C Descript

Re: font policy changes

2008-07-17 Thread Julien Cristau
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 00:19:39 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What I meant by "don't work" is that, as you mention, these two options > are no-ops. > > According to the update-fonts-dir(1) man page, these options should not > be no-ops: > === > update-fonts-dir creates a fonts.di

RE: font policy changes

2008-07-17 Thread unifoundry
> Original Message > Subject: Re: font policy changes > From: Julien Cristau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Wed, July 16, 2008 8:47 am > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 08:37:12 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: ITP: MUMPS -- MUltifrontal Massively Parallel sparse direct Solver

2008-07-17 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 16 Jul 2008, Ron Johnson wrote: Mumps is a computer language. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUMPS And there is a GPLed implementation of this at http://sourceforge.net/projects/fis-gtm which would be really interesting to package for the Debian Med project. The problem is the boot