Re: Parallellizing the boot in Debian Squeeze - ready for wider testing

2010-05-09 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sat, May 08, 2010 at 07:07:44PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > Perhaps you are right. Perhaps we should do a poll to collect > information on how testers experience their boot with > CONCURRENCY=makefile, to make it easier to switch with some confidence > that it would work for most users.

Re: Parallellizing the boot in Debian Squeeze - ready for wider testing

2010-05-09 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sun, May 09, 2010 at 08:06:12AM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > I just filed an ITP on systemd and am planning on Amazing!, thanks for this. > making it installable alongside with sysvinit, switchable with > init=/sbin/systemd when booting. Eventually, I guess either using > alternatives for

Re: perl: 64-bit integers and long doubles

2010-05-09 Thread Stefan Fritsch
On Wednesday 05 May 2010, Brendan O'Dea wrote: > > It would be possible to choose these settings separately for each > > architecture. Should I exclude the 'smaller' architectures > > (armel, mips*?) > > You could ask debian-...@lists.debian.org and the other ports > lists, but it seems reasonable

Re: Parallellizing the boot in Debian Squeeze - ready for wider testing

2010-05-09 Thread Luca Niccoli
On 8 May 2010 19:07, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > Perhaps you are right.  Perhaps we should do a poll to collect > information on how testers experience their boot with > CONCURRENCY=makefile, to make it easier to switch with some confidence > that it would work for most users. :) It just came t

Re: perl: 64-bit integers and long doubles

2010-05-09 Thread Florian Weimer
* Stefan Fritsch: > I may be a bit late to this discussion, but aren't 64bit ints (and > especially pack/unpack "Q") very useful for 64bit file pointers and > such? IMHO, this means that they would also be very useful on > "smaller" architectures like arm. Yes, they are, and that's where I hav

Re: perl: 64-bit integers and long doubles

2010-05-09 Thread Florian Weimer
* Niko Tyni: > I wasn't initially going for long doubles, but several upstream > developers recommended that they be enabled together. > > http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2010-04/msg00773.html This shows that long doubles are not backwards-compatible. 8-) The root cause

Re: Parallellizing the boot in Debian Squeeze - ready for wider testing

2010-05-09 Thread Cesare Leonardi
On 08/05/2010 19:07, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: Perhaps we should do a poll to collect information on how testers experience their boot with CONCURRENCY=makefile, to make it easier to switch with some confidence that it would work for most users. :) If that helps, reading this thread i've set t

Re: Parallellizing the boot in Debian Squeeze - ready for wider testing

2010-05-09 Thread Marco d'Itri
On May 09, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > I've just read a few days ago the design document of systemd; AFAIU it > requires anyhow patching various daemons, no matter how trivial the > patches are. Patching the daemons is needed if you want it to open the listening sockets for them. If you do not, i

Re: Parallellizing the boot in Debian Squeeze - ready for wider testing

2010-05-09 Thread Marc Haber
On Thu, 06 May 2010 21:11:56 +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: >These days, the init.d script dependencies in Squeeze are quite >complete, so complete that it is actually possible to run all the >init.d scripts in parallell based on these dependencies. If you want >to test your Squeeze system, ma

Re: Parallellizing the boot in Debian Squeeze - ready for wider testing

2010-05-09 Thread Marc Haber
On Sat, 8 May 2010 11:51:22 +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: >On Sat, May 08, 2010 at 11:37:10AM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: >> So it is the classical desktop vs. server situation. For my Debian >> servers, that get booted at most once a month, I don't give a damn >> about a faster boot. >> >> I _do

Re: Parallellizing the boot in Debian Squeeze - ready for wider testing

2010-05-09 Thread Marc Haber
On Sat, 8 May 2010 11:47:40 +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: >As far as I'm concerned, "faster boot" is irrelevant. Using an init >daemon that actually does its job of supervising services, and lets us >get rid of most of the stupidity and boilerplate of init scripts, otoh, >is overdue. What is so b

Re: Parallellizing the boot in Debian Squeeze - ready for wider testing

2010-05-09 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Stefano Zacchiroli] > If you are ready to monitor the issue closely, I don't see any problem > in switching the default now in unstable, see how it goes, and then > decide later on if revert back to the current default in Squeeze > time. Ideally, you should probably communicate a on the matter whe

Re: Parallellizing the boot in Debian Squeeze - ready for wider testing

2010-05-09 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sun, May 09, 2010 at 01:24:49PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > > CONCURRENCY=makefile > Where is this documented? According to <4be43663.6000...@free.fr> and #576788, it is not. But I'm sure Petter welcome patches on this. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Un

Re: Parallellizing the boot in Debian Squeeze - ready for wider testing

2010-05-09 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: On Sun, May 09, 2010 at 01:24:49PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: CONCURRENCY=makefile Where is this documented? According to <4be43663.6000...@free.fr> and #576788, it is not. But I'm sure Petter welcome patches on this. FWIW, it appears to be documented in README.Deb

Re: Parallellizing the boot in Debian Squeeze - ready for wider testing

2010-05-09 Thread David Weinehall
On Sun, May 09, 2010 at 10:01:09AM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Sat, May 08, 2010 at 07:07:44PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > Perhaps you are right. Perhaps we should do a poll to collect > > information on how testers experience their boot with > > CONCURRENCY=makefile, to make i

Re: Parallellizing the boot in Debian Squeeze - ready for wider testing

2010-05-09 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Stefano Zacchiroli | I've just read a few days ago the design document of systemd; AFAIU it | requires anyhow patching various daemons, no matter how trivial the | patches are. No, it doesn't require it, but it allows it. Cutting and pasting from Lennart's blog post: An ideal daemon for u

ITP: gnome-media-player -- GNOME Media Player is a simple media player for GNOME that supports playing media using the vlc, xine and gstreamer engines.

2010-05-09 Thread Bilal Akhtar
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Bilal Akhtar * Package name: gnome-media-player Version : 0.1.2 Upstream Author : Michael Lamothe * URL : https://launchpad.net/gnome-media-player * License : GPLv3 Programming Lang: C++ Description : GNOME Media

Re: ITP: gnome-media-player -- GNOME Media Player is a simple media player for GNOME that supports playing media using the vlc, xine and gstreamer engines.

2010-05-09 Thread Julien Cristau
On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 18:25:15 +0300, Bilal Akhtar wrote: > Description : GNOME Media Player is a simple media player for > GNOME that supports playing media using the vlc, xine and gstreamer > engines. This is not a short description. Try to make it fit in a line. > > GNOME Media Playe

Re: Parallellizing the boot in Debian Squeeze - ready for wider testing

2010-05-09 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Cesare Leonardi [Sun, May 09 2010, 12:26:36PM]: > Here what i've measured, from the Grub start to the Gdm prompt, in > either case starting from a completely power off machine: > Without concurrency: 33 sec. > With concurrency (try 1): 29 sec. > With concurrency (try 2): 31 sec. Sim

Bug#580891: ITP: autojump -- shell extension to jump to frequently used directories

2010-05-09 Thread Tanguy Ortolo
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Tanguy Ortolo Owner: Tanguy Ortolo * Package name: autojump Version : 8 Upstream Author : Joel Schaerer * URL : http://wiki.github.com/joelthelion/autojump/ * License : GPL3 Programming Lang: Shell, Python Descripti

Re: Bug#579569: ITP: ants -- advanced normalization tools for brain and image mapping

2010-05-09 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
Thanks Frank! On Sun, 02 May 2010, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: > > Description : advanced normalization tools for brain and image mapping > > The ANTS package is designed to enable researchers with advanced tools for > > brain and image mapping. > This paragraph could be written in a way to clari

Bug#580895: ITP: unittest2 -- backport of the enhanced unittest testing framework in Python 2.7

2010-05-09 Thread Sandro Tosi
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Sandro Tosi Owner: Sandro Tosi * Package name: unittest2 Version : 0.4.1 Upstream Author : Michael Foord * URL : http://pypi.python.org/pypi/unittest2 * License : Python Programming Lang: Python Description : ba

Re: Parallellizing the boot in Debian Squeeze - ready for wider testing

2010-05-09 Thread Raphael Geissert
Eduard Bloch wrote: > with concurency: 30s > with concurency and without readahead: 28s Interesting, a regression. Is that readahead from readahead-fedora? Were the 30 seconds measured by following the instructions from /usr/share/doc/readahead-fedora/README.bootchart ? Cheers, -- Raphael Geiss

Bug#580905: ITP: autodock-vina -- analysis of ligand binding to protein structure

2010-05-09 Thread Michael Banck
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Michael Banck * Package name: autodock-vina Version : 1.1.1 Upstream Author : Oleg Trott * URL : http://vina.scripps.edu/index.html * License : Apache 2.0 Programming Lang: C++ Description : analysis of ligand b

Bug#580904: ITP: jigdofuse -- A FUSE based fs providing images offered by jigdo files

2010-05-09 Thread Mateusz Poszwa
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mateusz Poszwa Owner: Mateusz Poszwa * Package name: jigdofuse Version : 0.5 Upstream Author : Mateusz Poszwa * URL : http://old.pl.pl/src/c/JigdoFUSE/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: C Description : A FUSE ba

Re: Bug#579569: ITP: ants -- advanced normalization tools for brain and image mapping

2010-05-09 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Sun, 2010-05-09 at 12:36 -0400, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: > Thanks Frank! > > On Sun, 02 May 2010, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: > > > Description : advanced normalization tools for brain and image > > > mapping > > > The ANTS package is designed to enable researchers with advanced tools for > >

Re: perl: 64-bit integers and long doubles

2010-05-09 Thread Niko Tyni
On Sun, May 09, 2010 at 12:17:56PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > So it boils down to malloc granularity (I don't think Perl's allocator > is used on Debian). For that, I wrote this little test program: While we do use the system malloc(), I think Perl allocates bigger chunks at a time and thus

Re: perl: 64-bit integers and long doubles

2010-05-09 Thread Niko Tyni
On Sun, May 09, 2010 at 12:25:43PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Niko Tyni: > > > Given that we've already run into a dozen or so incompatibilities > > with just the CPAN modules, -Duselongdouble seems to be a pretty > > rare thing to do. I'm inclined to revert this setting. > > That is, 64 bi

Bug#580924: ITP: pyevolve -- Complete genetic algorithm framework written in pure python

2010-05-09 Thread Christian Kastner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Christian Kastner Owner: Christian Kastner * Package name: pyevolve Version : 0.6rc1 Upstream Author : Christian S. Perone * URL : http://pyevolve.sourceforge.net * License : PSF Programming Lang: Python Description

Re: Parallellizing the boot in Debian Squeeze - ready for wider testing

2010-05-09 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sat, May 08 2010, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On May 07, Julien Cristau wrote: > >> > - a decision to drop kfreebsd as a release architecture >> Since 1 and 2 aren't happening, I think we should consider going with >> the third option. > Me too, I believe that the people interested in kfreebsd-* ha

Re: bindv6only again

2010-05-09 Thread Salvo Tomaselli
On Saturday 08 May 2010 20:33:57 Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > It could add a file in /etc/sysctl.d/ to override the current > /etc/sysctl.d/bindv6only.conf setting, and disable > "net.ipv6.bindv6only = 1" when sun-java6 is installed. :) Wouldn't that introduce some strange heisenbug related to whi

Re: Bug#579569: ITP: ants -- advanced normalization tools for brain and image mapping

2010-05-09 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
On Sun, 09 May 2010, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: > The concept of "brain and image mapping" seems to be gone, I don't know > how important it is. imho it is ok if it made it cleaner > At the risk of being picky... ITK is quite technical. GUI might be more > explicit. Who said it is a GUI? ;-) --

Bug#580936: ITP: xen-qemu-dm-4.0 -- Xen Qemu Device Model virtual machine hardware emulator

2010-05-09 Thread Thomas Goirand
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Thomas Goirand * Package name: xen-qemu-dm-4.0 Version : 4.0.0 Upstream Author : Xen Devel * URL : http://www.xen.org/ * License : BSD, GPL v2, GPL v2 or later Programming Lang: C, C++ Description : Xen Qemu Devi

Re: Parallellizing the boot in Debian Squeeze - ready for wider testing

2010-05-09 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, May 09, 2010 at 02:45:39PM -0700, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > One of my concerns about upstart is that systems that want to > use SELinux and upstart _have_ to also use an initramfs, which is yet > another component of the system that has to be audited. There have > been patches p

Re: Parallellizing the boot in Debian Squeeze - ready for wider testing

2010-05-09 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sun, May 09 2010, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Sun, May 09, 2010 at 02:45:39PM -0700, Manoj Srivastava wrote: >> One of my concerns about upstart is that systems that want to >> use SELinux and upstart _have_ to also use an initramfs, which is yet >> another component of the system that

Re: Bug#579569: ITP: ants -- advanced normalization tools for brain and image mapping

2010-05-09 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Yaroslav Halchenko (deb...@onerussian.com): > Description: advanced normalization tools for brain and image analysis > Advanced Normalization Tools (ANTS) is an ITK-based suite of > normalization, segmentation and template-building tools for quantitative > morphometric analysis. > > be