Debugging Survey

2014-09-24 Thread Benjamin Siegmund
Dear Debian Developers, since 1974 researchers and software developers try to ease software debugging. Over the last years, they created many new tools and formalized methods. We are interested if these advancements have reached professional software developers and how they influenced their approa

Bug#762752: ITP: pyoperators -- Operators and solvers for high-performance computing.

2014-09-24 Thread Ghislain Antony Vaillant
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ghislain Antony Vaillant * Package name: pyoperators Version : 0.12.13 Upstream Author : Pierre Chanial * URL : http://pchanial.github.io/pyoperators/ * License : CeCILL-B Programming Lang: Python Description : Op

Bug#762725: ITP: apt-dater-host -- host helper application for apt-dater

2014-09-24 Thread Patrick Matthäi
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Patrick Matthäi" * Package name: apt-dater-host Version : 1.0.0~ Upstream Author : Thomas Liske * URL : https://github.com/DE-IBH/apt-dater-host * License : GPL2+ Programming Lang: Perl Description : host helper

Re: FSF position on non-free software and Debian (was: FSF and Debian join forces to help free software users find the hardware they need)

2014-09-24 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 08:28:24PM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > Wouter Verhelst writes: > > > This paragraph is phrased carefully so as to make it ambiguous whether > > the FSF acknowledges that Debian's main repository is the only place > > packages come from by default. Do they? > > They do, in

Re: Possible abuse of dpkg-deb -z9 for xz compressed binary packages

2014-09-24 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Thu, 25 Sep 2014, Thomas Goirand wrote: > On 09/02/2014 09:39 PM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > For -z9, it is as bad as ~670MiB to > > compress, and ~65MiB to decompress. > > I'd say this really depends on what you do. For what I do (eg: OpenStack > packages), I don't see how 65MB cou

Re: Possible abuse of dpkg-deb -z9 for xz compressed binary packages

2014-09-24 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 09/04/2014 04:58 PM, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > On 09/04/2014 10:49, Thorsten Glaser wrote: >> On Wed, 3 Sep 2014, Christian Kastner wrote: >>> That is the key question, and I believe considering the worst possible >>> cost -- a package that cannot be unpacked, as in #757740 -- the >>> trade-off

Re: Possible abuse of dpkg-deb -z9 for xz compressed binary packages

2014-09-24 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 09/04/2014 03:10 AM, Christian Kastner wrote: > Benefits: from the numbers posted in this thread, the size savings > compared to the default compression level for some sample packages are > somewhere around 3% to 4%. I claim that *practical* benefits from this > saving are insignificant to minor

Re: Possible abuse of dpkg-deb -z9 for xz compressed binary packages

2014-09-24 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 09/03/2014 01:49 PM, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > Decompression costs were mentioned too, and they always matter I don't agree. Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Re: Possible abuse of dpkg-deb -z9 for xz compressed binary packages

2014-09-24 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 09/02/2014 09:39 PM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > For -z9, it is as bad as ~670MiB to > compress, and ~65MiB to decompress. I'd say this really depends on what you do. For what I do (eg: OpenStack packages), I don't see how 65MB could be a problem. I do compress with -z9, and have no in

Re: Request when replying to bugs: include the package name / topic.

2014-09-24 Thread Neil Williams
On Wed, 24 Sep 2014 18:30:28 +0100 Neil Williams wrote: One other idea - maybe the top level reply link (the one showing the bug number at the very top of the page) could use the current bug title as the subject of the reply rather than leaving it blank? -- Neil Williams = http://

Re: Request when replying to bugs: include the package name / topic.

2014-09-24 Thread Neil Williams
On Wed, 24 Sep 2014 19:10:54 +0200 Jakub Wilk wrote: > * David Prévot , 2014-09-24, 06:32: > >Or convince the BTS maintainers that #744339 is actually worth > >fixing (the subjects already get mangled to add the bug number one > >can already see in the To: field anyway, adding the package name on

Re: Request when replying to bugs: include the package name / topic.

2014-09-24 Thread Jakub Wilk
* David Prévot , 2014-09-24, 06:32: Or convince the BTS maintainers that #744339 is actually worth fixing (the subjects already get mangled to add the bug number one can already see in the To: field anyway, adding the package name on top or instead of it wouldn’t be such a bad move IMHO). So

Re: Request when replying to bugs: include the package name / topic.

2014-09-24 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Emilio Pozuelo Monfort , 2014-09-24, 12:10: On 24/09/14 11:46, Neil Williams wrote: can people from this list *please* include something specific to the actual package/topic in the Subject of emails to bug reports? At the very least, something in the first few lines of the content saying wha

Re: Possible abuse of dpkg-deb -z9 for xz compressed binary packages

2014-09-24 Thread Hideki Yamane
Hi, It's not abuse, "possible" abuse (IMO, at least :) - xz -z9 is very efficient for some cases (e.g. huge font package) - good for mirror infrastructures and low-bandwidth client On Thu, 4 Sep 2014 10:49:59 +0200 Thorsten Glaser wrote: > Such as mips? Surely it would be not comfortable

Bug#762697: ITP: jackson-jaxrs-providers -- Jackson JAX-RS providers

2014-09-24 Thread Timo Aaltonen
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Timo Aaltonen * Package name: jackson-jaxrs-providers Version : 2.4.2 Upstream Author : Tatu Saloranta * URL : http://wiki.fasterxml.com/JacksonHome * License : Apache 2.0 Programming Lang: Java Description : Jack

Re: new cowbuilder tool: make local package cache available

2014-09-24 Thread Thorsten Glaser
On Wed, 24 Sep 2014, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > Usage scenario here is mostly debian-ports: when building > packages that depend on each other, you no longer have to > wait until the first package is Installed until you can > build the second package³. It also makes older packages, Hrm. Just, there

new cowbuilder tool: make local package cache available

2014-09-24 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Hi *, I’ve just written a hookscript for pbuilder which makes the locally cached files available during a package build. Just chmod +x it, drop it into the --hookdir, and you’re set¹². Usage scenario here is mostly debian-ports: when building packages that depend on each other, you no longer have

Re: Seeking help with OpenVPN scripts and systemd

2014-09-24 Thread Simon McVittie
On 24/09/14 11:45, Martin Wuertele wrote: > Last time I used n-m for OpenVPN it could only launch one VPN, not > multiple ones. Has that changed? Yes, I've had home and office VPNs up at the same time. (Obviously if you have more than one VPN that wants to provide the default route, or more gener

Re: Request when replying to bugs: include the package name / topic.

2014-09-24 Thread Mattia Rizzolo
On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 12:32 PM, David Prévot wrote: > Or convince the BTS maintainers that #744339 is actually worth fixing > (the subjects already get mangled to add the bug number one can already > see in the To: field anyway, adding the package name on top or instead > of it wouldn’t be such

Re: Request when replying to bugs: include the package name / topic.

2014-09-24 Thread David Prévot
Hi, [Full quote of the intitial message for the benefit of the BTS archive.] > On 24/09/14 11:46, Neil Williams wrote: >> This is a particularly common problem with team maintenance packages or >> with psuedo-packages (like release.debian.org) where a lot of people >> may be on the list. >> >> Pl

Re: Seeking help with OpenVPN scripts and systemd

2014-09-24 Thread Martin Wuertele
* Philipp Kern [2014-09-11 09:15]: > Not everyone uses init scripts. There is e.g. also a plugin for > network-manager, in which case it will just work. Last time I used n-m for OpenVPN it could only launch one VPN, not multiple ones. Has that changed? Tough it seems systemd upstream is not happ

Re: Request when replying to bugs: include the package name / topic.

2014-09-24 Thread Ralf Jung
Hi, >> Or even better: properly set In-Reply-To / References. You can easily >> do this by downloading an email from the bug thread and replying to >> that. > > Good advice. It's as easy as: > > $ bts show --mbox > > or add the ‘--mailreader=foo’ option if you want a MUA other than Mutt.

Re: Request when replying to bugs: include the package name / topic.

2014-09-24 Thread Ben Finney
Emilio Pozuelo Monfort writes: > Or even better: properly set In-Reply-To / References. You can easily > do this by downloading an email from the bug thread and replying to > that. Good advice. It's as easy as: $ bts show --mbox or add the ‘--mailreader=foo’ option if you want a MUA other

FSF position on non-free software and Debian (was: FSF and Debian join forces to help free software users find the hardware they need)

2014-09-24 Thread Ben Finney
Wouter Verhelst writes: > This paragraph is phrased carefully so as to make it ambiguous whether > the FSF acknowledges that Debian's main repository is the only place > packages come from by default. Do they? They do, in their explanation of why Debian is not FSF endorsed. Debian's Social

Re: Request when replying to bugs: include the package name / topic.

2014-09-24 Thread Emilio Pozuelo Monfort
On 24/09/14 11:46, Neil Williams wrote: > This is a particularly common problem with team maintenance packages or > with psuedo-packages (like release.debian.org) where a lot of people > may be on the list. > > Please always include the package name / topic in the subject of the > email or, as a m

Re: FSF and Debian join forces to help free software users find the hardware they need

2014-09-24 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Hi Neil, On Mon, Sep 08, 2014 at 04:43:03PM +0100, Neil McGovern wrote: [...] > The compatibility information comes from users testing hardware on > systems running only free software. Previously, h-node site guidelines > required they be running one of the FSF's endorsed distributions [2]. > Whil

Request when replying to bugs: include the package name / topic.

2014-09-24 Thread Neil Williams
This is a particularly common problem with team maintenance packages or with psuedo-packages (like release.debian.org) where a lot of people may be on the list. Please always include the package name / topic in the subject of the email or, as a matter of last resort, in the first few lines of the

Re: Trimming priority:standard

2014-09-24 Thread Ralf Jung
Hi, > Le Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 07:22:11PM +0200, Marco d'Itri a écrit : >> On Sep 23, Ralf Jung wrote: >> >>> I've seen multiple machines, including older machines of myself, to be >>> under full disk load for at least several minutes due to (some form of) >>> locate - every time the cronjob runs.

Bug#762659: ITP: sahara -- data-intensive application cluster (Hadoop or Spark)

2014-09-24 Thread Thomas Goirand
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Thomas Goirand * Package name: sahara Version : 2014.2 Upstream Author : OpenStack Development Mailing List * URL : https://github.com/openstack/sahara * License : Apache-2.0 Programming Lang: Python Description