Re: Raising minimum CPU requirement for i386 kernel

2009-05-25 Thread Philipp Kern
On 2009-05-25, Mazen NEIFER wrote: > You're right, most of them don't. This just means that the stat is not > representative, but just a lower bound. I personally have an i486, > without popcon. > > In addition, think about poor countries in Africa or Asia, you will > probably find a large market

Bug#530578: ITP: libgtk2-unique-perl -- Perl module for single instance applications

2009-05-25 Thread Ryan Niebur
Package: wnpp Owner: Ryan Niebur Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: libgtk2-unique-perl Version : 0.01 Upstream Author : Emmanuel Rodriguez * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Gtk2-Unique/ * License : Artistic | GPL-

Re: Debian source code search engine

2009-05-25 Thread Peter De Wachter
Op Mon, 25 May 2009 03:36:28 +0100 schreef Ben Hutchings : > Cool - that looks really useful. However, it looks like you're just > running "dpkg-source -x" to unpack packages. This misses any Debian > changes made using a patch system. Unfortunately there is no standard > mechanism to apply pat

Re: Debian source code search engine

2009-05-25 Thread Peter De Wachter
Op Mon, 25 May 2009 07:30:57 +0100 schreef Neil Williams : > I'm coming up with "nothing found" for symbols that should have been > found. You're right, it seems some directories aren't being indexed. I haven't figured out why yet. > Also, when the search fails, the page appears to report that

Re: Raising minimum CPU requirement for i386 kernel

2009-05-25 Thread Mazen NEIFER
Le lundi 25 mai 2009 à 15:03 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow a écrit : > "J.A. Bezemer" writes: > > > On Sun, 24 May 2009, Bastian Blank wrote: > > > >> Hi folks > >> > >> I would like to raise the minimum CPU requirement for the shipped Linux > >> kernels in the i386 port to i686 (with cmov). > > [

Re: Debian @Linuxtag 2009 - Last call for help

2009-05-25 Thread Alexander Wirt
Leo 'costela' Antunes schrieb am Monday, den 25. May 2009: Hi Leo, > Alexander Wirt wrote: > > I think that two people are not enough to run a booth. If this call for > > help does not succeed I'll have to cancel the booth. So if you are in Berlin > > during June 24th - 27th please be so kind an

Re: Raising minimum CPU requirement for i386 kernel

2009-05-25 Thread Mike Bird
On Mon May 25 2009 06:03:40 Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > And how many people with such low power systems do run popcon? How > many use a custom kernel? OTOH, none of the non-cmov i386 systems here run popcon either. --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org

Bug#530549: ITP: glosung -- dispay words from the bible for each day (also known as Losungen)

2009-05-25 Thread Dmitrijs Ledkovs
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Dmitrijs Ledkovs -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 * Package name: glosung Version : 3.4.1 Upstream Author : Eicke Godehardt * URL : http://www.godehardt.org/losung.html * License : GPL-2+ Programming La

Re: Debian @Linuxtag 2009 - Last call for help

2009-05-25 Thread Leo 'costela' Antunes
Alexander Wirt wrote: > I think that two people are not enough to run a booth. If this call for > help does not succeed I'll have to cancel the booth. So if you are in Berlin > during June 24th - 27th please be so kind and participate to the Debian > booth. You don't have to be a Linux/Debian exper

Re: Who uses @packages.d.o mail?

2009-05-25 Thread Antonio Radici
Hi, I've always found @packages.debian.org as the easiest way to contact the maintainer and anyone involved, for example if I'm working on a particular package I'll contact the co-maintainers using that mailing list. It is also good because you don't need to request for a mailing list where

Re: Debian source code search engine

2009-05-25 Thread Julien Cristau
On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 11:01:55 +0200, Javier Fernandez-Sanguino wrote: > Is there a way to tell 'make' to execute all the dependencies for a > target but not go through the target itself? > That way you'd execute build-stamp, but not build. Not much of a gain. Cheers, Julien -- To UNSUBSCR

Bug#530539: ITP: pslist -- utility that lists, kills, or renices a process and its descendants

2009-05-25 Thread Peter Pentchev
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Peter Pentchev * Package name: pslist Version : 1.2 Upstream Author : Peter Pentchev * URL : http://devel.ringlet.net/sysutils/pslist/ * License : BSD-2 Programming Lang: Perl Description : utility that lists, k

Re: Debian source code search engine

2009-05-25 Thread Michael Banck
On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 11:01:55AM +0200, Javier Fernandez-Sanguino wrote: > Is there a way to tell 'make' to execute all the dependencies for a > target but not go through the target itself? It is not forbidden to unpack and patch the upstream source in the build target, AFAIK. Michael -- To

Re: Raising minimum CPU requirement for i386 kernel

2009-05-25 Thread Matthew Johnson
On Mon May 25 15:03, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > And how many people with such low power systems do run popcon? How > many use a custom kernel? Oh, I'm sure the numbers aren't very accurate, but I don't think that disproves his point. They're probably not going to be out by a factor of 60... Ma

RE : Who uses @packages.d.o mail?

2009-05-25 Thread Jonathan Lafontaine
spam getting worst than I thought! as long as the white list do not grow up... De : Stephen Gran [sg...@debian.org] Date d'envoi : 22 mai 2009 17:30 À : dda Objet : Who uses @packages.d.o mail? Hello all, So I've looked through a few weeks of mail logs to

Re: Raising minimum CPU requirement for i386 kernel

2009-05-25 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
"J.A. Bezemer" writes: > On Sun, 24 May 2009, Bastian Blank wrote: > >> Hi folks >> >> I would like to raise the minimum CPU requirement for the shipped Linux >> kernels in the i386 port to i686 (with cmov). > [..] > > Popcon gives us some rough numbers to think about: > > linux-image-2.6-686

Re: Debian @Linuxtag 2009 - Last call for help

2009-05-25 Thread Sebastian Rose
Alexander Wirt writes: > Hi, > > okay - this is my last call for help. Currently I have one, maybe two people > that want to help on the Linuxtag [1] booth on June 24th - 26th [2] in > Berlin, Germany. Linuxtag is the largest Linux and Open Source in Germany > whith 10.000 expected visitors. > I

Re: Packaging the nusoap PHP lib instead of embedded copies ?

2009-05-25 Thread Olivier Berger
Le dimanche 24 mai 2009 à 09:28 +0200, Patrick Schoenfeld a écrit : > Hi Olivier, > > > > > FYI, the package has been made, sponsored, uploaded and accepted > > (thanks, that was quick ;), and is now available at : > > http://packages.qa.debian.org/n/nusoap.html > > I have mixed feeling about t

Re: Debian source code search engine

2009-05-25 Thread Javier Fernandez-Sanguino
2009/5/25 Ben Hutchings : > On Sun, 2009-05-24 at 22:31 +0200, Peter De Wachter wrote: >> I've set up a search engine which indexes Debian's source code: >> >>   http://walrus.rave.org/source/ >> >> Currently, unstable main and contrib are indexed, in total 70 gigabytes >> of source. (It would prob

Re: Raising minimum CPU requirement for i386 kernel

2009-05-25 Thread J.A. Bezemer
On Sun, 24 May 2009, Bastian Blank wrote: > Hi folks > > I would like to raise the minimum CPU requirement for the shipped Linux > kernels in the i386 port to i686 (with cmov). [..] Popcon gives us some rough numbers to think about: linux-image-2.6-68649518 linux-image-2.6-486

Bug#530504: ITP: libmath-rectorreal-perl -- Perl Module to handle 3D Vector Mathematics

2009-05-25 Thread Wen Heping
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Wen Heping * Package name: libmath-rectorreal-perl Version : 1.02 Upstream Author : Anthony Thyssen * URL : http://search.cpan.org/~anthony/Math-VectorReal-1.02/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: Perl Description

Re: Raising minimum CPU requirement for i386 kernel

2009-05-25 Thread Matthew Johnson
On Sun May 24 19:41, Otavio Salvador wrote: > On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Bastian Blank wrote: > > Hi folks > > > > I would like to raise the minimum CPU requirement for the shipped Linux > > kernels in the i386 port to i686 (with cmov). For now I will not propose > > a change of the default

Delayed NMU's for cross-build support

2009-05-25 Thread Neil Williams
The following bugs for cross-build support have been open for at least 300 days now and I propose to start doing delayed NMU's for each package in the next few days. (dd-list output below.) 284167: acl 285418: mawk 451159: diffutils 451175: ed 451181: iputils 451222: libjpeg6b 451277: fontconfig 4

Re: Raising minimum CPU requirement for i386 kernel

2009-05-25 Thread Philipp Hübner
Hi, Bastian Blank schrieb: > This means that Debian will get uninstallable on the following CPUs: > - Intel i486, > - Intel Pentium (MMX), > - AMD K5, > - AMD K6(-2, -3), Many schools are using LTSP on Debian (Edu) and have this hardware as their thinclients. Would be a shame if all those school

Re: Raising minimum CPU requirement for i386 kernel

2009-05-25 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 9:07 PM, Bastian Blank wrote: > - VIA C3 before Nehemiah and > - National Semiconductor Geode (GXm, GXLV, GX1 and GX2). That affects XO-1 hardware being manufactured now, and C3s are among the viable CPUs for low cost, low dissipation "school server" style hardware. On th