Can a leaf package require SSE2 on i386?

2014-09-13 Thread Sébastien Villemot
Hi, As the maintainer of julia (a technical computing language built on top of LLVM), I am wondering whether I should continue supporting the i386 architecture. The bottom line is that julia needs SSE2 (and porting it to the x87 FPU requires changes that are beyond what I am willing/able to do, s

Re: Lower severity/importance of bug #704019

2014-09-13 Thread Paul Wise
I would ping the reporter and tag the bug moreinfo, then wait a week and if there is no response, close the bug. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.d

Lower severity/importance of bug #704019

2014-09-13 Thread Braiam Peguero
This bug [1] has been open for a very long time, and through the problem can be said to be easy to spot (flash), the reporter hasn't confirmed if this is indeed the cause of his problem, nor offer a clear way to reproduce the issue (the title, may suggest that there's something special that needs t

Re: Trimming priority:standard

2014-09-13 Thread Josh Triplett
Vincent Danjean wrote: > On 12/09/2014 18:41, Josh Triplett wrote: > > ...I think this makes more sense: *neither* version of Make should have > > priority standard. Bug filed. > > [And lots of other utility also requested to be removed from Standard > priority..] > > When I see that 'make' an

Re: upgrades must not change the installed init system [was: Re: Cinnamon environment now available in testing]

2014-09-13 Thread Marc Haber
On Sat, 13 Sep 2014 05:58:11 +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote: >Marc Haber: >> sysvinit init scripts will suffer heavy bitrot in jessie+1. >> >Possibly. But let's get Jessie out the door first … So that it'll be completely impossible to roll back? Not that I seriously believe that we got the balls

Re: Trimming priority:standard

2014-09-13 Thread Cameron Norman
El vie, 12 de sep 2014 a las 10:12 , Theodore Ts'o escribió: On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 03:12:47PM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: (Admittedly, cron has to be Priority:important anyway, to support logrotate - until/unless someone adds a logrotate.timer for systemd, and makes its cron job early-

Re: improving downloader packages (was: Re: holes in secure apt)

2014-09-13 Thread Jakub Wilk
* David Kalnischkies , 2014-06-18, 14:11: [0] And his skepticism was reinforced by (independent) discovery of this bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/1098738 *sigh* and this is still open? 8-O Before someone is rushing to work on that (sorry, I was dreaming)… we actua

Re: Trimming priority:standard

2014-09-13 Thread Vincent Danjean
On 12/09/2014 18:41, Josh Triplett wrote: > ...I think this makes more sense: *neither* version of Make should have > priority standard. Bug filed. [And lots of other utility also requested to be removed from Standard priority..] When I see that 'make' and other well-known programs should not

Re: upgrades must not change the installed init system [was: Re: Cinnamon environment now available in testing]

2014-09-13 Thread lee
Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez writes: > On 09/09/14 22:34, Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez wrote: >> I truly believe that making systemd the default without asking the user >> to test it first, is going to cause more breakage and angry users than >> doing it the other way. > > s/making systemd the defaul

abstraction library and linkage

2014-09-13 Thread Timo Weingärtner
Hi, consider a library libabstr implementing an interface and a library libimplX that is currently used by libabstr to actually do stuff. The public headers are called abstr.h and implX.h libabstr could be designed in basically two different ways: 1: * abstr.h contains just prototypes, perhaps

Re: Trimming priority:standard

2014-09-13 Thread Joerg Jaspert
> Just wait for systemd-emacs. It would obsolete... all of gnuserv! Silly people. https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/systemd-emacs-daemon/ http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsAsDaemon#toc8 https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2014-01/msg00996.html -- bye, Joerg It's not that I'm a

Bug#761369: ITP: timberwolf -- Placement for digital VLSI design

2014-09-13 Thread ruben . undheim
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: ruben.undh...@gmail.com * Package name: timberwolf Version : 6.3.5 Upstream Author : Yale University * URL : http://opencircuitdesign.com/magic/archive/ (folder for upstream tar-ball - no known web-page) * License : Yale

Bug#761368: ITP: qflow -- An Open-Source Digital Synthesis Flow

2014-09-13 Thread ruben . undheim
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: ruben.undh...@gmail.com * Package name: qflow Version : 1.0.85 Upstream Author : Tim Edwards * URL : http://opencircuitdesign.com/qflow/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: C, Tcl, sh Description : A Digital Synthe

Bug#761365: ITP: yosys -- A framework for Verilog RTL synthesis

2014-09-13 Thread ruben . undheim
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: ruben.undh...@gmail.com * Package name: yosys Version : 0.3.0+20140904git01ef34c Upstream Author : Clifford Wolf * URL : http://www.clifford.at/yosys/ * License : ISC License Programming Lang: C++ Description : A

Bug#761364: ITP: abc -- A System for Sequential Synthesis and Verification

2014-09-13 Thread ruben . undheim
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: ruben.undh...@gmail.com * Package name: abc Version : 1.01-20140822hg4d547a5e065b Upstream Author : Berkeley Logic Synthesis and Verification Group * URL : http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~alanmi/abc/ * License : MIT-similar

Bug#761362: ITP: istsos -- Sensor Observation Service Data Management System

2014-09-13 Thread Johan Van de Wauw
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Johan Van de Wauw * Package name: istsos Version : 2.1.1 Upstream Author : Istituto Scienze della Terra: * URL : https://geoservice.ist.supsi.ch/projects/istsos/ * License : GPLv2 Programming Lang: Python Description

Bug#761351: ITP: qmenu -- Tool to create simple menus for terminal interfaces

2014-09-13 Thread Andrea Colangelo
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andrea Colangelo * Package name: qmenu Version : 5.0.1 Upstream Author : Stefano Teodorani * URL : https://github.com/teopost/qmenu * License : GPL3 Programming Lang: C Description : Tool to create simple menus f

Re: rc bugs

2014-09-13 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2014-09-11, Brian May wrote: > My reading of the criteria is it depends on your interpretation of "makes > unrelated software on the system break". What does "unrelated" mean? In > this case it seems they are related as package Y depends on package X. Or > maybe it means "unrelated" as in gene

Bug#761348: ftp.debian.org: need machine-readable metadata about suites & repositories

2014-09-13 Thread Paul Wise
Package: ftp.debian.org Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Various places in Debian infrastructure (QA especially) hard-code aspects of the Debian archive (suite, code, component, arch names etc). This is a problem because after new suites or architectures are added, we