Bug#862235: ITP: node-dot -- Concise and fast javascript templating

2017-05-09 Thread Pirate Praveen
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Pirate Praveen X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: node-dot Version : 1.1.1 Upstream Author : Laura Doktorova * URL : http://github.com/olado/doT * License : Expat Programming Lang: JavaScript

Re: Forward porting a package

2017-05-09 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Wed, 2017-05-10 at 00:38 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: > On Tue, 09 May 2017 at 22:48:23 +, Boylan, Ross wrote: > > I'm a little nervous about doing a chroot when the host system and > > the one in the chroot are from so many generations apart. > > wheezy (Debian 7) to jessie (Debian 8) is o

Re: Forward porting a package

2017-05-09 Thread Boylan, Ross
Oops, I misspoke, the old system is Debian 5, lenny. The system the disks are on is running Debian 7, wheezy. And the system I am targetting is Debian 8, jessie. So the chroot would be lenny while the real system wouldl be wheezy. The wheezy system already hosts VM's with libvirt. But getting th

Re: Forward porting a package

2017-05-09 Thread Simon McVittie
On Tue, 09 May 2017 at 22:48:23 +, Boylan, Ross wrote: > I'm a little nervous about doing a chroot when the host system and > the one in the chroot are from so many generations apart. wheezy (Debian 7) to jessie (Debian 8) is only one release cycle. I would expect a wheezy chroot to run well o

Re: Forward porting a package

2017-05-09 Thread Boylan, Ross
Thanks Ben and Chris for your suggestions. I tried auto(re)conf and have worked through quite a few issues, though it seems many remain. Maybe time for another approach, like running the old cyrus in a chroot. 1. The macros in the project aclocal directory were not being included because a) m

Re: Forward porting a package

2017-05-09 Thread Chris Lamb
Ben Hutchings wrote: > > Any suggestions?  Would rerunning autoconf be likely to help? > [...] > > Something like that. You might need to use autoreconf, or > ./autogen.sh, rather than invoking autoconf directly. See for more in this area. Regards, --

Re: Forward porting a package

2017-05-09 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Tue, 2017-05-09 at 19:41 +, Boylan, Ross wrote: > I am trying to build db4.2 in jessie, although the package is from > wheezy.  I only need db4.2-util.  I got the source and modified > changed tcl8.4 to tcl8.6 in rules and control.  But the build > (invoked with dpkg-buildpackage) fails whil

Forward porting a package

2017-05-09 Thread Boylan, Ross
I am trying to build db4.2 in jessie, although the package is from wheezy. I only need db4.2-util. I got the source and modified changed tcl8.4 to tcl8.6 in rules and control. But the build (invoked with dpkg-buildpackage) fails while running configure with checking size of char *... 0 checki

Bug#862198: ITP: python-bayespy -- variational Bayesian inference tools for Python

2017-05-09 Thread Ghislain Antony Vaillant
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ghislain Antony Vaillant * Package name: python-bayespy Version : 0.5.6 Upstream Author : Jaakko Luttinen * URL : https://www.bayespy.org/ * License : Expat Programming Lang: Python Description : variational Baye