Work-needing packages report for Aug 15, 2008

2008-08-14 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: 468 (new: 18) Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 120 (new: 3) Total number of packages reques

Re: Upcoming changes to supported architectures

2008-08-14 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 05:51:00AM +0200, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > > I feel I'm missing the full rationale for this change. What are the new > > architectures in the pipe that space needs to be made for? > There are multiple bugs in the ftp.debian.org pseudopackage about > architectures wanting to

Bug#495172: ITP: pysoy -- high-level 3D game engine for Python

2008-08-14 Thread Miriam Ruiz
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Miriam Ruiz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: pysoy Version : 1.0~beta2 Upstream Author : Arc Riley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and others * URL : http://www.pysoy.org/ * License : GPL 3 or above Programming Lang: C, Python

Re: Upcoming changes to supported architectures

2008-08-14 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 11478 March 1977, Steve Langasek wrote: >> - If an architecture fails to be included in 2 successive official >>releases, it is moved out of the official archive (and away from the >>ftp-master.debian.org host). >> - We (as in ftpteam) are happy to help in any possible way in a mo

Re: Upcoming changes to supported architectures

2008-08-14 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 08:58:12PM +0200, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > with the Lenny release upcoming we are thinking about larger changes to > the Debian archive, of which one point is "Clean up the supported > architecture list to free up space for new ones". > So we had a few discussions during Deb

re: FTBS twice - what is the priority for it?

2008-08-14 Thread peter green
>I am preparing an upload to Sid, with the intent of getting it into Lenny, for a package of mine (to solve bug #493061 for >fakeroot-ng, if it matters). While working on it, I found out that the package also has a FTBS twice bug, which resulted >from empty lines (with no leading tab character) i

Re: FTBS twice - what is the priority for it?

2008-08-14 Thread Carl Fürstenberg
On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 22:51, Shachar Shemesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I am preparing an upload to Sid, with the intent of getting it into Lenny, > for a package of mine (to solve bug #493061 for fakeroot-ng, if it matters). > While working on it, I found out that the package also

Re: FTBS twice - what is the priority for it?

2008-08-14 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Shachar Shemesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (14/08/2008): > Hi all, Hi, > Do I open a FTBS twice bug for the package and upload the fix? If so, > what priority should the new bug be? I saw FTBS bugs ranging from > "wishlist" to "important". I don't think it is an actual policy > violation (am I wrong? Ca

FTBS twice - what is the priority for it?

2008-08-14 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Hi all, I am preparing an upload to Sid, with the intent of getting it into Lenny, for a package of mine (to solve bug #493061 for fakeroot-ng, if it matters). While working on it, I found out that the package also has a FTBS twice bug, which resulted from empty lines (with no leading tab cha

Bug#495148: ITP: reviewboard -- Web-based code review tool

2008-08-14 Thread Chris Lamb
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Chris Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: reviewboard Version : 1.0~svn Upstream Authors: Review Board Developers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.review-board.org/ * License : MIT Programming Lang: Python D

Bug#495105: ITP: scidavis -- application for scientific data analysis and visualization

2008-08-14 Thread Frank S. Thomas
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Package name: scidavis Version : 0.1.3 Upstream Authors: Tilman Benkert, Knut Franke * URL : http://scidavis.sourceforge.net/ * License : GPL-2+ Programming Lang:

Bug#495093: ITP: hcluster -- Python functions for agglomerative clustering

2008-08-14 Thread Michael Hanke
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Michael Hanke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: hcluster Version : 0.1.8 Upstream Author : Damian Eads <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://code.google.com/p/scipy-cluster/ * License : BSD Programming Lang: Python Desc

Re: Possible mass bug filing: embedding perl hangs on hppa without PERL_SYS_INIT3

2008-08-14 Thread Niko Tyni
On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 12:48:32PM +0200, Sebastian Harl wrote: > On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 10:59:38PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote: > > as seen in #486069, since Perl 5.10.0, embedding Perl hangs on hppa > > in pthread_mutex_lock() inside perl_parse() if PERL_SYS_INIT3() hasn't > > been called. > > Ther

Re: A tool for tracking masked updates to stable packages

2008-08-14 Thread Brian May
Frans Pop wrote: However, I would actually prefer this to be integrated in the regular package management frontends (e.g. aptitude) rather than a separate tool. aptitude will show that different versions of a package are available. Unfortunately it won't show where these different versions co

Re: issues with aptitude dist-upgrade from etch to lenny

2008-08-14 Thread Brian May
Henning Glawe wrote: i worked around this by installing perl-base from lenny using dpkg. which also failed due to the dependency loop between perl and perl-base. dpkg --configure perl perl-base perl-modules then put the perl back to a usable state (as dependency loops are fine, as long as dpkg

Re: issues with aptitude dist-upgrade from etch to lenny

2008-08-14 Thread Tim Dijkstra
Henning Glawe schreef: > Moin, > seems like in the dist-upgrade from etch to lenny is one very annoying > (and old, AFAIR I hit it already in woody->sarge and sarge->etch) > problem: perl is in an unusable state during the upgrade and causes > maintainer scripts to fail. > > I was following way: >

Re: issues with aptitude dist-upgrade from etch to lenny

2008-08-14 Thread Henning Glawe
On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 09:12:03PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote: > On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 03:40:15PM +0200, Henning Glawe wrote: > > the maintainer-script errors were perl-related: the interpreter could not > > find modules (all from perl-base) in @INC. > > further investigation showed that perl-base wa