Re: [Debian-med-packaging] Question about proper archive area for packages that require big data for operation

2013-04-23 Thread Olivier Sallou
On 04/23/2013 11:48 AM, Laszlo Kajan wrote: > Dear Russ, Debian Med Team, Charles! > > (Please keep Tobias Hamp in replies.) > > @Russ: Please allow me to include you in a discussion about a few > bioinformatics packages that depend on big, but free data [2]. I have cited > your opinion [3] in th

Bug#706060: ITP: lxc-docker -- the Linux container runtime

2013-04-23 Thread Daniel Mizyrycki
Package: wnpp Version: N/A; reported 2013-04-23 Severity: wishlist Owner: Daniel Mizyrycki X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name : lxc-docker Version : 0.1.8 Upstream Author : dotCloud Inc * URL : http://github.com/dotcloud/docker * License : Apache-2.0 Description : Docker:

Re: RFC: initramfs-tools support for early firmware loading

2013-04-23 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 23 Apr 2013, Julien Cristau wrote: > On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 19:23:50 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > As of Linux kernel 3.9, support for supplying early firmware data to the > > kernel has been added. Currently, it is used for early microcode updates > > for Intel processors

Bug#706048: ITP: nsnake -- classic snake game with textual interface

2013-04-23 Thread Alexandre Dantas
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alexandre Dantas * Package name: nsnake Version : 1.6 Upstream Author : Alexandre Dantas * URL : http://www.alexdantas.net/projects/nsnake/ * License : GPL3 Programming Lang: C Description : classic snake game w

Re: Bug#705954: ITP: ms-sys -- writes Microsoft compatible boot records

2013-04-23 Thread Michael Prokop
* Joao Eriberto Mota Filho [Mon Apr 22, 2013 at 01:57:16PM -0300]: > * Package name: ms-sys > Version : 2.3.0 > Upstream Author : Henrik Carlqvist > * URL : http://ms-sys.sf.net > * License : GPL2 > Programming Lang: C > Description : writes Microsoft c

Re: NEW processing during freezes

2013-04-23 Thread Russ Allbery
Joachim Breitner writes: > sounds good in theory, but in practice, when I want to upgrade foo, > which happens to have a new dependency on bar, which needs baz, which > needs qux, then I really want to get this done in one rush, and not wait > for three NEW processings in between. I go through t

Re: [Debian-med-packaging] Question about proper archive area for packages that require big data for operation

2013-04-23 Thread Russ Allbery
Laszlo Kajan writes: > On 23/04/13 18:48, Russ Allbery wrote: >> Discussing it on debian-devel seems right, but I would also draw it to >> ftp-master's attention, since they're the people who have to worry >> about archive size). We can easily move on to modifying Policy if >> there's a consensu

Re: [Debian-med-packaging] Question about proper archive area for packages that require big data for operation

2013-04-23 Thread Laszlo Kajan
Dear Russ! Thank you for getting back to me. On 23/04/13 18:48, Russ Allbery wrote: > Laszlo Kajan writes: > >> This email is to continue the discussion about free packages that depend >> on big (e.g. >400MB) free data outside 'main'. These packages apparently >> violate policy 2.2.1 [0] for in

Re: NEW processing during freezes

2013-04-23 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, Am Dienstag, den 23.04.2013, 15:15 + schrieb Thorsten Glaser: > So, normally, you can only upload a new version of foo after bar gets > available on your regular mirror. (Making it temporarily available > locally for development is, of course, okay – just don’t upload that.) sounds good i

Re: [Debian-med-packaging] Question about proper archive area for packages that require big data for operation

2013-04-23 Thread Laszlo Kajan
Hello Benjamin! On 23/04/13 15:13, Benjamin Drung wrote: > Am Dienstag, den 23.04.2013, 13:51 +0200 schrieb Laszlo Kajan: >> Hello Andreas! >> >> On 23/04/13 12:23, Andreas Tille wrote: >>> On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 11:48:05AM +0200, Laszlo Kajan wrote: This email is to continue the discus

Bug#706042: ITP: grapefruit -- Python module to manipulate color information easily

2013-04-23 Thread Simon Chopin
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Simon Chopin Control: block 705947 by -1 * Package name: grapefruit Version : 0.1~a3 Upstream Author : Xavier Basty * URL : https://github.com/xav/Grapefruit * License : Apache 2.0 Programming Lang: Python Description

Re: RFC: initramfs-tools support for early firmware loading

2013-04-23 Thread Julien Cristau
On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 19:23:50 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > As of Linux kernel 3.9, support for supplying early firmware data to the > kernel has been added. Currently, it is used for early microcode updates > for Intel processors, and ACPI table overrides. > > This is a very im

Bug#706030: ITP: libstring-diff-perl -- simple diff for strings

2013-04-23 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jonas Smedegaard * Package name: libstring-diff-perl Version : 0.06 Upstream Author : Kazuhiro Osawa * URL : https://github.com/yappo/p5-String-Diff/tree * License : Artistic or GPL-1+ Programming Lang: Perl Descript

Bug#706029: ITP: libxxx-perl -- debug viewer for Perl data structure

2013-04-23 Thread Dominique Dumont
Package: wnpp Owner: Dominique Dumont Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libxxx-perl Version : 0.18 Upstream Author : Ingy d�t Net * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/XXX/ * License : Ar

Re: Question about proper archive area for packages that require big data for operation

2013-04-23 Thread Russ Allbery
Laszlo Kajan writes: > This email is to continue the discussion about free packages that depend > on big (e.g. >400MB) free data outside 'main'. These packages apparently > violate policy 2.2.1 [0] for inclusion in 'main' because they require > software outside the 'main' area to function. They d

Re: NEW processing during freezes

2013-04-23 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Joachim Breitner debian.org> writes: > The (luxury) problem is that I got used to it and began uploading the > new (and NEW) dependency bar of package foo along with the new version > of foo (instead of uploading bar first, wait for NEW processing and only I think you shouldn’t do that anyway.

Re: Bug#706014: ITP: re-name -- mass rename tool using regular expression

2013-04-23 Thread Simon McVittie
On 23/04/13 15:27, Joao Eriberto Mota Filho wrote: > Re-name (regular expression (re)name) is a tool to rename files. It can > change, lowercase and uppercase a batch of files, or modify their ownership. Is this significantly better than the rename(1) (aka prename(1)) tool that's supplied with P

Bug#706014: ITP: re-name -- mass rename tool using regular expression

2013-04-23 Thread Joao Eriberto Mota Filho
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Joao Eriberto Mota Filho * Package name: re-name Version : 1.99.2 Upstream Author : Andy Xuming * URL : http://rename.sf.net * License : GPL3 Programming Lang: C Description : mass rename tool using regular expre

Bug#706009: ITP: grr -- web-based resource reservation system

2013-04-23 Thread Georges Khaznadar
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Georges Khaznadar * Package name: grr Version : 1.9.7e Upstream Author : Laurent Delineau * URL : http://grr.mutualibre.org/ * License : GPL-2.0 Programming Lang: PHP Description : web-based resource reservation

Re: [Debian-med-packaging] Question about proper archive area for packages that require big data for operation

2013-04-23 Thread Benjamin Drung
Am Dienstag, den 23.04.2013, 13:51 +0200 schrieb Laszlo Kajan: > Hello Andreas! > > On 23/04/13 12:23, Andreas Tille wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 11:48:05AM +0200, Laszlo Kajan wrote: > >> > >> This email is to continue the discussion about free packages that > >> depend on big (e.g. >400MB)

Re: R 3.0.0 and required rebuilds of all reverse Depends: of R

2013-04-23 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2013-04-23 14:23:57 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 09:53:05AM +, Sune Vuorela wrote: > > On 2013-04-18, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > >> Oh, that's a good point. Yes, I hadn't thought about that specific case > > >> for testing ABI breakage in experimental.

Re: Bug#705879: moreinfo

2013-04-23 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 12:09:49AM +1000, Dmitry Smirnov wrote: > On Mon, 22 Apr 2013 17:50:37 Holger Levsen wrote: > > ah! thanks for summarizing why this is not a bug, but rather a feature > > (UUIDs > > for partitions) made for this situation not being used! > > For the record about a year ag

Re: alternative debian/rules

2013-04-23 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 11:23:51AM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 01:46:20PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 02:28:18PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > > % ls -lh debian/rules > > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 mrvn users 1 Apr 16 12:27 debian/rules -> /us

Re: R 3.0.0 and required rebuilds of all reverse Depends: of R

2013-04-23 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 09:53:05AM +, Sune Vuorela wrote: > On 2013-04-18, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > >> Oh, that's a good point. Yes, I hadn't thought about that specific case > >> for testing ABI breakage in experimental. > > > > But then that simply is a broken upload. It will break hor

Re: R 3.0.0 and required rebuilds of all reverse Depends: of R

2013-04-23 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 12:16:11PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote: > On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 10:56:34AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 02, 2013 at 02:28:23PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > > > Niko Tyni writes: > > > > > > > FWIW, I've done ABI-incompatible uploads of perl to experiment

Re: [Debian-med-packaging] Question about proper archive area for packages that require big data for operation

2013-04-23 Thread Laszlo Kajan
Hello Andreas! On 23/04/13 12:23, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 11:48:05AM +0200, Laszlo Kajan wrote: >> >> This email is to continue the discussion about free packages that depend on >> big (e.g. >400MB) free data outside 'main'. > > In your practical case is this data say <500

Re: Derivatives, MongoDB and freezes

2013-04-23 Thread Neil McGovern
On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 11:58:33PM -0700, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Steve Langasek wrote: > > But for new packages, where Canonical is striking out on its own > > to deliver significant new functionality and the folks working on these > > packages are not DDs, there's a clear pragmatic a

Re: Question about proper archive area for packages that require big data for operation

2013-04-23 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 11:48:05AM +0200, Laszlo Kajan wrote: > > This email is to continue the discussion about free packages that depend on > big (e.g. >400MB) free data outside 'main'. In your practical case is this data say <500MB? Are we talking about compressed or uncompressed data (= >40

Question about proper archive area for packages that require big data for operation

2013-04-23 Thread Laszlo Kajan
Dear Russ, Debian Med Team, Charles! (Please keep Tobias Hamp in replies.) @Russ: Please allow me to include you in a discussion about a few bioinformatics packages that depend on big, but free data [2]. I have cited your opinion [3] in this discussion before. You are on the technical committee

Processed: Re: Bug#705982: Wireless connection drops and will NOT re-connect -- Debian/Wheezy RC1 64 bit

2013-04-23 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing control commands: > reassign -1 general Bug #705982 [unknown] Wireless connection drops and will NOT re-connect -- Debian/Wheezy RC1 64 bit Warning: Unknown package 'unknown' Bug reassigned from package 'unknown' to 'general'. Ignoring request to alter found versions of bug #705982 to