Re: bc is not in linux-source debs.Recommended, neither in Documentation/Changes

2013-07-03 Thread Darac Marjal
On Tue, Jul 02, 2013 at 11:33:20PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: Regid Ichira wrote: I didn't get response for a similar post on http://lists.debian.org/debian-kernel/2013/06/msg01262.html. Is it because the answers are too obvious? Probably because debian-kernel is overwhelmed with the

Re: bc is not in linux-source debs.Recommended, neither in Documentation/Changes

2013-07-02 Thread Regid Ichira
On Tue, 2 Jul 2013 08:14:40 +0900, Joel Rees wrote: 1. What exactly are you concerned about that we can do something about on the users list? Has bc been dropped from being a default part of the most basic install? bc is priority standard. Doesn't that mean that there are Debian

Re: bc is not in linux-source debs.Recommended, neither in Documentation/Changes

2013-07-02 Thread Joel Rees
On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 7:19 AM, Regid Ichira regi...@nt1.in wrote: On Tue, 2 Jul 2013 08:14:40 +0900, Joel Rees wrote: 1. What exactly are you concerned about that we can do something about on the users list? Has bc been dropped from being a default part of the most basic install?

Re: bc is not in linux-source debs.Recommended, neither in Documentation/Changes

2013-07-02 Thread Bob Proulx
Regid Ichira wrote: I didn't get response for a similar post on http://lists.debian.org/debian-kernel/2013/06/msg01262.html. Is it because the answers are too obvious? Probably because debian-kernel is overwhelmed with the daily grind of urgent bug reports. What you are asking about is

bc is not in linux-source debs.Recommended, neither in Documentation/Changes

2013-07-01 Thread Regid Ichira
I didn't get response for a similar post on http://lists.debian.org/debian-kernel/2013/06/msg01262.html. Is it because the answers are too obvious? bc, an arbitrary precision calculator language, is a kernel build dependency since a long time ago. Should it be added to: 1. The

Re: bc is not in linux-source debs.Recommended, neither in Documentation/Changes

2013-07-01 Thread Joel Rees
bc is a great shell calculator gadget! It also needs to be completely re-written. Re-designed, too, which probably factored into the motivations for writing Python and Ruby. Heh. bc is one of those tools you want to fix, but aren't sure how, and so you keep using it and keep ignoring that you