Accepted beignet 1.0.1-2 (source) into experimental

2015-02-16 Thread Rebecca N. Palmer
Maintainers pkg-opencl-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org Changed-By: Rebecca N. Palmer rebecca_pal...@zoho.com Description: beignet- OpenCL library for Intel GPUs - transitional dummy package beignet-dev - OpenCL library for Intel GPUs (development files) beignet-opencl-icd - OpenCL library for Intel

Re: Age of built packages to be part of the jessie release?

2014-11-22 Thread Rebecca N. Palmer
There's no limit on age, but an FTBFS is a serious bug; there are regular automated checks for this (e.g. https://bugs.debian.org/768691 ), but manual reports are also welcome. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Architectures where unaligned access is (not) OK?

2014-11-21 Thread Rebecca N. Palmer
https://wiki.debian.org/ArchitectureSpecificsMemo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/546f3ec4.5030...@zoho.com

Alioth down?

2014-11-19 Thread Rebecca N. Palmer
Anyone else seeing this problem? $ git pull fatal: unable to access 'https://anonscm.debian.org/git/pkg-opencl/beignet.git/': Failed to connect to anonscm.debian.org port 443: Connection refused https://alioth.debian.org/ in a browser gives can't establish a connection -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Should fast-evolving packages be backports-only?

2014-11-11 Thread Rebecca N. Palmer
It has been recently stated [0-1] that backports is enabled by default in Jessie. 1. Does that mean that if pkgX is in jessie-backports but not jessie, apt-get install pkgX will install it from -backports? 2. If so, when (if ever) is it appropriate to deliberately invoke that behaviour by

Re: release browser-related packages to stable?

2014-11-11 Thread Rebecca N. Palmer
Has there already been any further discussion about the solution for Xul extensions packaged in Debian? I haven't looked for the official discussion, but extensions have been updated in stable (to a new upstream version if necessary) when a browser update would otherwise break them: see e.g.

Re: Why not 03 ?

2014-05-30 Thread Rebecca N. Palmer
Bottom line: the vectorisation provided -O3 can provide big speed ups to some scientific programs, but it is ineffective on Debian because by necessity it tells gcc to compile code for lowest common denominator CPU which doesn't have the necessary instructions. Ineffective on i386, but amd64

Where have all the package VCSs gone?

2014-01-25 Thread Rebecca N. Palmer
Do they now require login, or is the server down? simgear$ git pull fatal: unable to access 'https://alioth.debian.org/anonscm/git/collab-maint/simgear.git/': The requested URL returned error: 403 http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/pkg-llvm/emscripten/trunk/: An Exception Has Occurred The

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