Re: Bug#538802: ITP: mercury -- The Mercury programming system, a pure logical/functional programming language.

2009-07-27 Thread Paul Bone
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 08:35:14AM +0200, Reinhard Tartler wrote: > Paul Bone writes: > > > This is mostly correct. Mercury is indeed self-hosting and was > > previously included in Debian. Mercury has a number of different > > backends two of these target C, high-level C and low-level C. The

Bug#538944: ITP: libdata-formvalidator-constraints-datetime-perl -- D::FV constraints for dates and times

2009-07-27 Thread Jonathan Yu
Package: wnpp Owner: Jonathan Yu Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: libdata-formvalidator-constraints-datetime-perl Version : 1.09 Upstream Author : Michael Peters * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Data-FormValidator-Const

Bug#538943: ITP: libdbix-class-encodedcolumn-perl -- Extension to automatically encode column values

2009-07-27 Thread Jonathan Yu
Package: wnpp Owner: Jonathan Yu Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: libdbix-class-encodedcolumn-perl Version : 0.2 Upstream Author : Guillermo Roditi * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/DBIx-Class-EncodedColumn/ * Licens

Bug#538942: ITP: libcatalyst-plugin-setenv-perl -- Perl module to automatically set up the environment

2009-07-27 Thread Jonathan Yu
Package: wnpp Owner: Jonathan Yu Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: libcatalyst-plugin-setenv-perl Version : 0.03 Upstream Author : Marcus Ramberg * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Catalyst-Plugin-Setenv/ * License

Bug#538939: ITP: libmodule-pluggable-ordered-perl -- Perl module to load plugins in a specified order

2009-07-27 Thread Jonathan Yu
Package: wnpp Owner: Jonathan Yu Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: libmodule-pluggable-ordered-perl Version : 1.5 Upstream Author : Christopher Nehren * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Module-Pluggable-Ordered/ * License

Re: Bug#538802: ITP: mercury -- The Mercury programming system, a pure logical/functional programming language.

2009-07-27 Thread Paul Bone
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 05:13:06PM +, brian m. carlson wrote: > On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 05:34:44PM +1000, Paul Bone wrote: > > * Package name: mercury > > Version : 0.13.1-rotd20090725 > > Upstream Author : Mercury Group > > * URL : http://www.mercury.csse.unimelb.e

Bug#538914: ITP: kcemu -- A software emulator for microcomputers made in the former state of East Germany

2009-07-27 Thread Adrian Glaubitz
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Adrian Glaubitz * Package name: kcemu Version : 0.4.2 Upstream Author : Torsten Paul * URL : http://kcemu.sourceforge.net/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: C Description : A software emulator for microcomputers

Re: Debian, universal operating system?

2009-07-27 Thread Aigars Mahinovs
On Jul 26, 12:30 am, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: > ## BANNER {http://www.debian.org/banners/3.1/sarge-ban1-6.png} > > Universal operating system #...@! > > First of all, let's make it clear, Debian is not THE universal operating > system. I mean it is definitely not the one and only OS. > > Is Debian an

Processed: Re: Bug#538897: World and group readable home directories in a default install

2009-07-27 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > reassign 538897 general Bug #538897 [unknown] World and group readable home directories in a default install Warning: Unknown package 'unknown' Bug reassigned from package 'unknown' to 'general'. Bug #538897 [general] World and group readable hom

Bug#538880: ITP: leo -- Literate Editor with Outlines

2009-07-27 Thread Ville M. Vainio
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Ville M. Vainio" * Package name: leo Version : 4.6 Upstream Author : Edward Ream * URL : http://webpages.charter.net/edreamleo/front.html * License : MIT/X Programming Lang: Python Description : Literate Editor

Bug#538881: ITP: libweed0 -- Library for inclusion of plugins into LiVES

2009-07-27 Thread Harry Rickards
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Harry Rickards * Package name: libweed0 Version : 1.0.0 Upstream Author : Gabriel Finch * URL : http://lives.sourceforge.net * License : GPLv3 Programming Lang: C Description : Library for inclusion of plugins in

Re: Bug#538857: rocksndiamonds: post-installation fails

2009-07-27 Thread Dmitry E. Oboukhov
>> The site www.artsoft.org is (temporary?) down. Why do You think it >> must be another way? Postinst returns error code because it can't >> download resource. Other packages (for example msttcorefonts) have >> the same behaviour. GLB> Do You think I shouldn't have report that problem? I think th

Re: Bug#538802: ITP: mercury -- The Mercury programming system, a pure logical/functional programming language.

2009-07-27 Thread brian m. carlson
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 05:34:44PM +1000, Paul Bone wrote: > * Package name: mercury > Version : 0.13.1-rotd20090725 > Upstream Author : Mercury Group > * URL : http://www.mercury.csse.unimelb.edu.au/ > * License : GPL2 > Programming Lang: Mercury > Descript

Bug#538854: ITP: swiginac -- Python interface to GiNaC

2009-07-27 Thread Johannes Ring
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Package name: swiginac Version: 1.5.1 Upstream authors: Ola Skavhaug and Ondrej Certik URL: http://swiginac.berlios.de/ License: GPL Description: Python interface to GiNaC Swiginac is a Python interface to GiNaC, built w

Bug#538853: ITP: scitools -- Python library for scientific computing

2009-07-27 Thread Johannes Ring
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Package name: scitools Version: 0.6 Upstream authors: Hans Petter Langtangen, Johannes H. Ring, Ilmar Wilbers, and Rolv E. Bredesen URL: http://scitools.googlecode.com/ License: BSD Description: Python library for scienti

Bug#538852: ITP: stardict-english-tradchinese -- Stardict package for English to and from Traditional Chinese dictionaries

2009-07-27 Thread LIU Qi
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: LIU Qi * Package name: stardict-english-tradchinese Version : 20090727-1 Upstream Author : Paul Denisowski, Fu Jianjun, Hu Zheng * URL : http://stardict.sourceforge.net/Dictionaries_zh_TW.php * License : GPL-2, CEDICT

Bug#538849: ITP: stardict-english-simpchinese -- Stardict package for English to and from Simplified Chinese dictionaries

2009-07-27 Thread LIU Qi
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: LIU Qi * Package name: stardict-english-simpchinese Version : 20090727-1 Upstream Author : Paul Denisowski, Ma Suan, Fu Jianjun, Hu Zheng * URL : http://stardict.sourceforge.net/Dictionaries_zh_CN.php * License : GPL-2

Re: Comments on the "Changing the default system shell" talk

2009-07-27 Thread Luk Claes
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Luk Claes writes: Manoj Srivastava wrote: On Sun, Jul 26 2009, Luk Claes wrote: Goswin von Brederlow wrote: A faster and smaller default system shell is important to a lot of our users. I see this asserted a lot. I am pretty sure that the average user v

Re: Comments on the "Changing the default system shell" talk

2009-07-27 Thread Luk Claes
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Manoj Srivastava writes: On Sun, Jul 26 2009, Raphael Geissert wrote: Goswin von Brederlow wrote: So the deconf thing is purely a temporary thing and goes away. There won't be a choice left. Users will just get /bin/sh pointing to dash period. No, /bin/sh is sh

Re: Comments on the "Changing the default system shell" talk

2009-07-27 Thread Luk Claes
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Raphael Hertzog writes: I just would like it to be even better. And I haven't seen any real constructive discussion about different methods of providing /bin/sh. Mostly just angry replies along the lines of "We don't want to break things. We do it this way." without d

Re: Comments on the "Changing the default system shell" talk

2009-07-27 Thread Luk Claes
Jonathan Wiltshire wrote: On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 05:08:20PM +0200, Luk Claes wrote: On upgrades you are asked if you want to have dash as default system shell unless you have dash already installed, then we leave it as is. On my unstable box I received dash a few days ago, because an upload o

Re: Switching /bin/sh to dash without dash essential

2009-07-27 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 05:10:59PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > You're correct of course. If we want to go this way there should be two > questions: one for the system shell to use and one for the default user > shell, each with per-arch defaults. Do you really think that the latter warrants a ques

Re: Comments on the "Changing the default system shell" talk

2009-07-27 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 11:15:35AM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 02:07:05AM +0200, Steve Langasek wrote: > > You think the average user doesn't care about getting 50% faster boot > > speeds? > I don't get why you people keep repeating that it's only about faster boots. > A

Re: Debian, universal operating system?

2009-07-27 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-07-27 01:11, George Danchev wrote: Quoting "Ron Johnson" : On 2009-07-26 17:00, Miles Bader wrote: Chris Lamb writes: Agreed. IMHO, it is one of those phrases (along with "Our priority is our users") that actually means extremely little in practice, except for generating lots of ho

Re: Comments on the "Changing the default system shell" talk

2009-07-27 Thread Adam Borowski
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 02:07:05AM +0200, Steve Langasek wrote: > You think the average user doesn't care about getting 50% faster boot > speeds? I don't get why you people keep repeating that it's only about faster boots. All shell scripts receive a speed boost. -- 1KB // Microsoft

Re: Comments on the "Changing the default system shell" talk

2009-07-27 Thread sean finney
On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 11:47:00PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > You think the average user doesn't care about getting 50% faster boot > > speeds? > > Now, where do you get the 50% faster speedup? I seem to recall > a post on this list which reported much more modest speedups, and >

Re: waf into NEW, please test it with your packages

2009-07-27 Thread Luca Falavigna
Ryan Niebur ha scritto: > It doesn't work with midori apparently... Right, I prepared a patch to build with 0.1.7, but I noticed new upstream version (0.1.8) builds correctly. If you plan to upgrade to the new version, you should not have any issue with waf Debian package. Thanks for testing! Reg

Bug#538802: ITP: mercury -- The Mercury programming system, a pure logical/functional programming language.

2009-07-27 Thread Paul Bone
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Paul Bone -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: mercury Version : 0.13.1-rotd20090725 Upstream Author : Mercury Group * URL : http://www.mercury.csse.unimelb.edu.au/ * License : GPL2 Programmi