Re: using perl in preinst script

2010-12-29 Thread Peter Samuelson
> On 2010-12-28, Carsten Hey wrote: > > system. The remaining perl library packages could be removed after > > installing debconf-english. [Philipp Kern] > "You don't care about non-native speakers?" SCNR. That's not how I read it at all. I think he's just saying, debconf-i18n requires perl,

Re: Bug#518696: ITP: parallel -- build and execute command lines from standard input in parallel

2010-12-29 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Kurt Roeckx (30/12/2010): > Do you know about parallel in moreutils? Is there an advantage over > that one? The bug log answers the former (yes). The 4 options mentioned in moreutils's manpage seem to have an equivalent in GNU parallel, according to the first link under “Documentation”. KiBi.

Re: Bug#518696: ITP: parallel -- build and execute command lines from standard input in parallel

2010-12-29 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 10:28:16PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Hello, > > Time has passed and parallel became a GNU project: > > http://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/ > > I guess packaging it can be reconsidered? Do you know about parallel in moreutils? Is there an advantage over that one?

Re: Bug#518696: ITP: parallel -- build and execute command lines from standard input in parallel

2010-12-29 Thread R. Andrew Bailey
On 29/12/10 15:28 -0600, Samuel Thibault wrote: Hello, Time has passed and parallel became a GNU project: http://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/ I guess packaging it can be reconsidered? Samuel I've been working on a package for parallel, but I'm a newbie maintainer so it'll probably turn

Re: Bug#518696: ITP: parallel -- build and execute command lines from standard input in parallel

2010-12-29 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Time has passed and parallel became a GNU project: http://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/ I guess packaging it can be reconsidered? Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Arc

Bug#608317: ITP: python-mahotas -- Efficient Image Processing Library for Python

2010-12-29 Thread Luis Pedro Coelho
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Luis Pedro Coelho I am proposing to package mahotas, which was created by me. * Package name: python-mahotas Version : 0.6.2 Upstream Author : Luis Pedro Coelho * URL : http://packages.python.org/mahotas/ * License : (

Bug#608299: ITP: libcgi-emulate-psgi-perl -- PSGI adapter for CGI

2010-12-29 Thread Dominic Hargreaves
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Dominic Hargreaves * Package name: libcgi-emulate-psgi-perl Version : 0.10 Upstream Author : Tatsuhiko Miyagawa * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/CGI-Emulate-PSGI/ * License : Perl Programming Lang: Perl Descriptio

Bug#608297: ITP: libstarlet-perl -- a simple, high-performance PSGI/Plack HTTP server

2010-12-29 Thread Dominic Hargreaves
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Dominic Hargreaves * Package name: libstarlet-perl Version : 0.13 Upstream Author : Kazuho Oku * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Starlet/ * License : Perl Programming Lang: Perl Description : a simple, high-per

Bug#608294: ITP: libencode-perl -- provides interfaces between Perl's strings and the system

2010-12-29 Thread Dominic Hargreaves
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Dominic Hargreaves * Package name: libencode-perl Version : 2.41 Upstream Author : Dan Kogai * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Encode/ * License : Perl Programming Lang: Perl Description : provides interfaces b

Safe File Update (atomic)

2010-12-29 Thread Olaf van der Spek
Since the introduction of ext4, some apps/users have had issues with file corruption after a system crash. It's not a bug in the FS AFAIK and it's not exclusive to ext4. Writing a temp file, fsync, rename is often proposed. However, the durable aspect of fsync isn't always required and this way has

Re: using perl in preinst script

2010-12-29 Thread Neil Williams
On Tue, 28 Dec 2010 15:07:56 -0800 Russ Allbery wrote: > Carsten Hey writes: > > > We are not that far away from being able to implement this plan. The principle reason to consider not having perl / perl-base installed as part of a minimal base system (note that I don't claim that this involve

Bug#608285: ITP: libconcurrentlinkedhashmap-java -- A high performance version of java.util.LinkedHashMap for use as a software cache

2010-12-29 Thread Miguel Landaeta
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Miguel Landaeta * Package name: libconcurrentlinkedhashmap-java Version : 1.1 Upstream Author : Ben Manes * URL : http://code.google.com/p/concurrentlinkedhashmap/ * License : Apache-2.0 Programming Lang: Java Descri

Bug#608284: ITP: xhtmlrenderer -- An XML/XHTML/CSS 2.1 Renderer written in Java

2010-12-29 Thread Miguel Landaeta
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Miguel Landaeta * Package name: xhtmlrenderer Version : R8 Upstream Author : Joshua Marinacci * URL : https://xhtmlrenderer.dev.java.net/ * License : LGPL-2.1 Programming Lang: Java Description : An XML/XHTML/CSS

Bug#608280: ITP: libnatpmp -- a portable and fully compliant implementation of NAT-PMP

2010-12-29 Thread Thomas Goirand
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Thomas Goirand * Package name: libnatpmp Version : 20101211 Upstream Author : Thomas BERNARD * URL : http://miniupnp.free.fr/ * License : BSD Programming Lang: C Description : a portable and fully compliant imple

Re: Full install/removal/upgrade test results available

2010-12-29 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mercredi 29 décembre 2010 à 14:19 +0100, Mike Hommey a écrit : > xulrunner has a file trigger for components in > /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.1/components, so that it registers them in > compreg.dat and xpti.dat. This means it has to load the components to > get their registration information. But th

Bug#608270: ITP: minissdpd -- keep memory of all UPnP devices that announced themselves

2010-12-29 Thread Thomas Goirand
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Thomas Goirand * Package name: minissdpd Version : 1.0 Upstream Author : Thomas Bernard * URL : http://miniupnp.free.fr/ * License : BSD Programming Lang: C Description : keep memory of all UPnP devices that anno

Re: Full install/removal/upgrade test results available

2010-12-29 Thread Mike Hommey
On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 01:52:13PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le mercredi 29 décembre 2010 à 12:50 +, Ian Jackson a écrit : > > If so, that's a bug in python-xpcom. Any package which registers a > > hook with another package must be prepared for its hook to be run even > > when the regis

Re: Full install/removal/upgrade test results available

2010-12-29 Thread Mike Hommey
On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 12:50:06PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: > Mike Hommey writes ("Re: Full install/removal/upgrade test results > available"): > > On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 11:59:16PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: > > > So the problem is that python-xpcom does not work when it has been > > > previousl

Re: Full install/removal/upgrade test results available

2010-12-29 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mercredi 29 décembre 2010 à 14:14 +0100, Mike Hommey a écrit : > Which would also mean firing dpkg-trigger in python-xpcom.postinst, too. > > This all looks like overcomplication to circumvent an imho design flaw in > python packages. Call it a design flaw, but no package is expected to actua

Re: Full install/removal/upgrade test results available

2010-12-29 Thread Ian Jackson
Mike Hommey writes ("Re: Full install/removal/upgrade test results available"): > On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 11:59:16PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: > > So the problem is that python-xpcom does not work when it has been > > previously installed, and then during an upgrade the new version has > > been unp

Re: Full install/removal/upgrade test results available

2010-12-29 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mercredi 29 décembre 2010 à 12:50 +, Ian Jackson a écrit : > If so, that's a bug in python-xpcom. Any package which registers a > hook with another package must be prepared for its hook to be run even > when the registering package is not configured. If this is a problem, > arrangements sh

Bug#608257: ITP: libdist-zilla-plugin-changelogfromgit-perl -- Build a Changes file from a project's git log

2010-12-29 Thread Alessandro Ghedini
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alessandro Ghedini * Package name: libdist-zilla-plugin-changelogfromgit-perl Version : 0.002 Upstream Author : Rocco Caputo * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Dist-Zilla-Plugin-ChangelogFromGit/ * License : GPL-1+ or