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

2013-04-24 Thread Olе Streicher
Olivier Sallou writes: > Indeed, many bioinformatics programs relies on external data. But I am afraid > that if we start to add some data packages, we will open an endless open > door BioInformatics datasets are large, and becoming huge and numerous. > This size will be an issue for Debian mi

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

2013-04-24 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le mardi, 23 avril 2013 12.23:23, Andreas Tille a écrit : > I would even go that far that it might make sense to package these data > and upload it to demonstrate that we should *really* create a solution > for such cases if they will increase in the number and size of data > packages. Isn't that

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

2013-04-24 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 09:32:52AM +0200, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: > Le mardi, 23 avril 2013 12.23:23, Andreas Tille a écrit : > > I would even go that far that it might make sense to package these data > > and upload it to demonstrate that we should *really* create a solution > > for such cases

Re: alternative debian/rules

2013-04-24 Thread Riku Voipio
On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 09:38:14AM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > Well yes, but if you do even small things such as generate the > package manually instead of using debhelper, prepare to be shouted > at by the British Cabal with threats of using superpowers to remove > such packages from Debian.

jpeg8 vs jpeg-turbo

2013-04-24 Thread Ondřej Surý
Hi Bill and Debian Developers, while doing work on GD Library 2.1.0 it was discovered there's encoding incompatibility introduced by libjpeg8/9 [1]. While doing further research I have found that Fedora has switched to libjpeg-turbo[2] (for reasoning please read the referred email). Ubuntu (and St

Re: jpeg8 vs jpeg-turbo

2013-04-24 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 11:23:04AM +0200, Ondřej Surý wrote: > A. Add libjpeg-turbo to Debian archive (that's easy) Not really (especially if you want it to ship libjpeg.so.* too). -- WBR, wRAR -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tr

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

2013-04-24 Thread Simon McVittie
On 23/04/13 10:48, Laszlo Kajan wrote: > free packages that depend on big (e.g. >400MB) free data outside 'main' This comes up in the Games Team, too. Here are some possibilities you might not have considered: * Package a small "demo" data-set (enough to test that the package is working correc

Re: jpeg8 vs jpeg-turbo

2013-04-24 Thread Ondřej Surý
On Wed, 24 Apr 2013 15:30:46 +0600, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 11:23:04AM +0200, Ondřej Surý wrote: > > A. Add libjpeg-turbo to Debian archive (that's easy) > Not really (especially if you want it to ship libjpeg.so.* too). We have a plenty of libraries (and other packages

Bug#706068: ITP: SQL Workbench/J -- A free, DBMS-independent, cross-platform SQL tool

2013-04-24 Thread debian-bugs
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: sqlworkbenchj Version : 114 Upstream Author : Thomas Kellerer * URL : http://www.sql-workbench.net * License : Apache License, Version 2.0 Programming Lang: Java Description : A free, DBMS-independent, cr

Re: alternative debian/rules

2013-04-24 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 04/22/2013 06:09 PM, Jakub Wilk wrote: > #690381 Gosh, what a shocking thread... I didn't read until end, but nearly at half of it, it felt bad already. > Thorsten, you should have kept your custom debian/rules. If it > prevented incompetent developers from NMUing the package, then all > good

Re: Bug#602034: jpeg8 vs jpeg-turbo

2013-04-24 Thread Mike Gabriel
Hi Ondřej, I have just uploaded libjpeg-turbo to Debian and it still hovers in NEW [1]. On Mi 24 Apr 2013 11:23:04 CEST Ondřej Surý wrote: Debian has already open ITP[3] #602034 for libjpeg-turbo, which support libjpeg62 API/ABI and also some important bits of libjpeg8. As libjpeg is one of th

Bug#706070: ITP: ruby-memoize -- Ruby library providing speed up methods at the cost of memory (or disk space)

2013-04-24 Thread HIGUCHI Daisuke (VDR dai)
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "HIGUCHI Daisuke (VDR dai)" -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 * Package name: ruby-memoize Version : 1.3.1 Upstream Author : Daniel J. Berger * URL : http://www.rubyforge.org/projects/shards * License : Ar

Re: jpeg8 vs jpeg-turbo

2013-04-24 Thread Bill Allombert
On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 11:23:04AM +0200, Ondřej Surý wrote: > Hi Bill and Debian Developers, > > My proposal is: > A. Add libjpeg-turbo to Debian archive (that's easy) > B. Add required provides/alternatives for libjpeg62-dev and > libjpeg8-dev (where API/ABI match) > C. Decide which package shou

Bug#706077: ITP: yetris -- customizable Tetris(tm) on the console

2013-04-24 Thread Alexandre Dantas
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alexandre Dantas * Package name: yetris Version : 1.6 Upstream Author : Alexandre Dantas * URL : http://www.alexdantas.net/projects/yetris/ * License : GPL3 Programming Lang: C Description : customizable Tetris(

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

2013-04-24 Thread Laszlo Kajan
Hi Olivier! On 24/04/13 08:20, Olivier Sallou wrote: > > 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

Bug#706078: ITP: base91 -- base91 encoder/decoder

2013-04-24 Thread Franck
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Franck Routier * Package name: base91 Version : 0.6.0 Upstream Author : Joachim Henke * URL : http://base91.sourceforge.net/ * License : BSD Programming Lang: C Description : base91 encoder/decoder basE91 is an

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

2013-04-24 Thread Laszlo Kajan
Hello Didier! On 24/04/13 09:32, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: > Le mardi, 23 avril 2013 12.23:23, Andreas Tille a écrit : >> I would even go that far that it might make sense to package these data >> and upload it to demonstrate that we should *really* create a solution >> for such cases if they wi

Re: jpeg8 vs jpeg-turbo

2013-04-24 Thread Aron Xu
On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 9:19 PM, Bill Allombert wrote: > On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 11:23:04AM +0200, Ondřej Surý wrote: >> Hi Bill and Debian Developers, >> >> My proposal is: >> A. Add libjpeg-turbo to Debian archive (that's easy) >> B. Add required provides/alternatives for libjpeg62-dev and >> li

Re: Bug#602034: jpeg8 vs jpeg-turbo

2013-04-24 Thread Riku Voipio
On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 01:48:48PM +0200, Mike Gabriel wrote: > >C. Decide which package should provide default libjpeg-dev library > Last statement from Bill: libjpeg by IJG The current IJG has nothing to do with the IJG that originally created JPEG. The last activity of original IJG was in 19

Re: alternative debian/rules

2013-04-24 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Timo Juhani Lindfors , 2013-04-22, 13:22: Thorsten, you should have kept your custom debian/rules. If it prevented incompetent developers from NMUing the package, then all good for you and for Debian. Was there perhaps some emoticon missing? Sorry, yes, this one: :/ Uncommon debian/rules s

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

2013-04-24 Thread Olivier Sallou
On 04/24/2013 04:02 PM, Laszlo Kajan wrote: > Hello Didier! > > On 24/04/13 09:32, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: >> Le mardi, 23 avril 2013 12.23:23, Andreas Tille a écrit : >>> I would even go that far that it might make sense to package these data >>> and upload it to demonstrate that we should *r

Re: alternative debian/rules

2013-04-24 Thread Neil McGovern
On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 04:25:42PM +0200, Jakub Wilk wrote: > * Timo Juhani Lindfors , 2013-04-22, 13:22: > >>Thorsten, you should have kept your custom debian/rules. If it > >>prevented incompetent developers from NMUing the package, then > >>all good for you and for Debian. > >Was there perhaps s

Re: Bug#602034: jpeg8 vs jpeg-turbo

2013-04-24 Thread Mike Hommey
On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 05:01:50PM +0300, Riku Voipio wrote: > Libjpeg-turbo website [3] has all the signs of an healthy open source > project - A SVN repo with many commiters, bug tracker, a mailing list > with open discussion etc. libjpeg-turbo is also used by webkit, blink, and gecko. Mike -

Re: jpeg8 vs jpeg-turbo

2013-04-24 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 04/24/2013 05:23 PM, Ondřej Surý wrote: > Hi Bill and Debian Developers, > > while doing work on GD Library 2.1.0 it was discovered there's > encoding incompatibility introduced by libjpeg8/9 [1]. While doing > further research I have found that Fedora has switched to > libjpeg-turbo[2] (for rea

Re: alternative debian/rules

2013-04-24 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 04/24/2013 10:39 PM, Neil McGovern wrote: > I'm sorry, but can I just clarify: do you think that it's an advantage > that your custom debian/rules prevents others from understanding your > package? > > Neil I don't think anyone ever wrote that. Jakub was quite clear, IMO. If you are scared by "

Re: jpeg8 vs jpeg-turbo

2013-04-24 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 11:12:33PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: > Just being curious... Is the -turbo called this was because it's faster? > How much faster is it then? Hi, Thomas, The very first hit on the duckduckgo.com search engine for search expression "libjpeg-turbo" (not including the quot

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

2013-04-24 Thread Laszlo Kajan
Hello Simon! Thank you for these suggestions. On 24/04/13 13:06, Simon McVittie wrote: > On 23/04/13 10:48, Laszlo Kajan wrote: >> free packages that depend on big (e.g. >400MB) free data outside 'main' > > This comes up in the Games Team, too. > > Here are some possibilities you might not have

Re: alternative debian/rules

2013-04-24 Thread Neil McGovern
On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 11:19:48PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: > On 04/24/2013 10:39 PM, Neil McGovern wrote: > > I'm sorry, but can I just clarify: do you think that it's an advantage > > that your custom debian/rules prevents others from understanding your > > package? > > > I don't think anyone

Re: alternative debian/rules

2013-04-24 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 04/25/2013 12:10 AM, Neil McGovern wrote: > If you're deliberately obfuscating debian/rules when there's no or very > little advantage, then you shouldn't be producing the package. I'm not the one claiming that using echo and cat is obfuscation! Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-deve

Re: alternative debian/rules

2013-04-24 Thread Neil McGovern
On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 01:25:00AM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: > On 04/25/2013 12:10 AM, Neil McGovern wrote: > > If you're deliberately obfuscating debian/rules when there's no or very > > little advantage, then you shouldn't be producing the package. > I'm not the one claiming that using echo an

Re: alternative debian/rules

2013-04-24 Thread Russ Allbery
Thomas Goirand writes: > Agreed. Especially when I see that this: > echo .nr g 2 | cat - cpio.1 | \ > gzip -n9 >debian/pax/usr/share/man/man1/paxcpio.1.gz > is called "obfuscation", then doom it as unacceptable for the archive. I'm generally in favor of using standardized packaging

Re: alternative debian/rules

2013-04-24 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Mon, 2013-04-22 at 09:38:14 +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > Adam Borowski angband.pl> writes: > > It can be done > > Well yes, but if you do even small things such as generate the > package manually instead of using debhelper, prepare to be shouted > at by the British Cabal with threats o

Re: alternative debian/rules

2013-04-24 Thread Russ Allbery
Neil McGovern writes: > On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 11:19:48PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: >> If you are scared by "echo x | cat - y", that it prevents you from >> understanding the rules files, then you shouldn't touch the package >> anyway. > If you're deliberately obfuscating debian/rules when t

Re: alternative debian/rules

2013-04-24 Thread Russ Allbery
Neil McGovern writes: > Perhaps you should go read the bug report first. As you seem to be > unwilling to actually do research, I'll include the relevant section for > your benefit: > - > 1: deliberate obfuscation for no benefit: > echo .nr g 2 | cat - cpio.1 | \ > gzip -n9 >debi

Re: alternative debian/rules

2013-04-24 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 12:05:30PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > For the record, I completely disagree with this packaging advice. Why > carry an upstream patch when you can handle this easily during build time? As much as I dislike quilt, at least it makes it easy to see what change Debian is mak

Upstream packaging (was Re: Derivatives, MongoDB and freezes)

2013-04-24 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Sat, 2013-04-20 at 11:05:29 -0700, Clint Byrum wrote: > [...]. IMO this is why upstream packaging should be > embraced and enhanced rather than focusing on dpkg. I'm not sure if you refer to the tool here, or to the packaging work, doesn't change much anyway. > I once worked on the 'pkgme

Re: alternative debian/rules

2013-04-24 Thread Russ Allbery
Lars Wirzenius writes: > On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 12:05:30PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >> For the record, I completely disagree with this packaging advice. Why >> carry an upstream patch when you can handle this easily during build >> time? > As much as I dislike quilt, at least it makes it eas

Re: Upstream packaging

2013-04-24 Thread Russ Allbery
+1 to everything Guillem said. I particularly want to emphasize this part: Guillem Jover writes: > On Sat, 2013-04-20 at 11:05:29 -0700, Clint Byrum wrote: >> Where Debian's efforts should be focused is on things like license >> verification and helping bug reports and fixes get to upstream. >

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

2013-04-24 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi Alexandre, Am Dienstag, den 23.04.2013, 20:09 -0300 schrieb Alexandre Dantas: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Alexandre Dantas > > > * Package name: nsnake > Version : 1.6 > Upstream Author : Alexandre Dantas > * URL : http://www.alexdantas.net/proj

Re: jpeg8 vs jpeg-turbo

2013-04-24 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 24 avril 2013 13:08 CEST, Ondřej Surý  : > We have a plenty of libraries (and other packages) who do conflict > between themselves, so we know the drill. > > Also Debian no longer ships libjpeg62, so there's not conflict there > at least for baseline implementation (libjpeg62 API/ABI). Remember

Re: jpeg8 vs jpeg-turbo

2013-04-24 Thread Russ Allbery
Vincent Bernat writes: > ❦ 24 avril 2013 13:08 CEST, Ondřej Surý  : >> We have a plenty of libraries (and other packages) who do conflict >> between themselves, so we know the drill. >> >> Also Debian no longer ships libjpeg62, so there's not conflict there >> at least for baseline implementatio

Bug#706119: RFP: libgit2-glib -- GLib wrapper for libgit2

2013-04-24 Thread Thomas Bechtold
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Thomas Bechtold * Package name: libgit2-glib Version : 0.0.2 Upstream Author : Ignacio Casal Quinteiro * URL : http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/libgit2-glib * License : LGPL Programming Lang: C Description

Re: alternative debian/rules

2013-04-24 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 04/25/2013 01:52 AM, Neil McGovern wrote: > Perhaps you should go read the bug report first. As you seem to be > unwilling to actually do research, I'll include the relevant section for > your benefit: > - > 1: deliberate obfuscation for no benefit: > echo .nr g 2 | cat - cpio.1 | \ >

Re: alternative debian/rules

2013-04-24 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 01:52:36PM -0400, Neil McGovern a écrit : > > 1: deliberate obfuscation for no benefit: Hi everybody, Can everybody please avoid to guess or propagate guesses on other persons motivations ? I think that a discussion can not be constructive if it contains statements that

Re: NEW processing during freezes

2013-04-24 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On 23/04/2013 23:15, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > 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 processin

Re: jpeg8 vs jpeg-turbo

2013-04-24 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 03:11:53PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > >> We have a plenty of libraries (and other packages) who do conflict > >> between themselves, so we know the drill. > >> > >> Also Debian no longer ships libjpeg62, so there's not conflict there > >> at least for baseline implementati

Re: jpeg8 vs jpeg-turbo

2013-04-24 Thread Riku Voipio
On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 03:19:59PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > As IJG libjpeg maintainer, my plan is to move to libjpeg9 which has more > feature. Only the applications that actually want to experiment with libjpeg8/9 ABI should be using it - The 100% of current applications that work just l