Bug#834702: ITP: golang-github-circonus-labs-circonusllhist -- implementation of Circonus log-linear histograms

[Dmitry Smirnov]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Dmitry Smirnov 
X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, 
pkg-go-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org

   Package name: golang-github-circonus-labs-circonusllhist
Version: 0.0~git20160526
Upstream Author: Circonus, Inc
License: BSD-3-Clause
URL: https://github.com/circonus-labs/circonusllhist
Description: implementation of Circonus log-linear histograms
 A Golang implementation of Circonus log-linear histograms.


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Bug#834710: ITP: python-codicefiscale -- Generate and validate Italian "codice fiscale"

[Elena ``of Valhalla'']

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: "Elena ``of Valhalla''" 

* Package name: python-codicefiscale
  Version : 0.9
  Upstream Author : Emanuele Rocca
* URL : https://github.com/ema/pycodicefiscale
* License : LGPL-2.1+
  Programming Lang: Python
  Description : Generate and validate Italian "codice fiscale"

 This Python library works with Italian fiscal codes for natural persons
 (the local equivalent to SSN in the USA) and allows one to:
  * generate a realistic code from given data;
  * calculate the control code;
  * extract data from an existing code: birthday and sex.

AFAIK in Debian there is another package, python-stdnum, which supports
the italian codice fiscale, but it can only validate the check digit and
extract the birth date and gender.

pycodicefiscale is also able to generate a code from its component parts
(name, surname, birth date and place and gender); as long as the user
adds a data source for the place codes (which can be had under a free
license - CC-BY 3.0 - from an official source)

There can be a bit of controversy on whether this is a good thing, since
the actual official code can be different from the calculated one (in
case of homonymy and errors), but is sometimes useful to check for
typing errors and this calculation is done on most italian websites /
tools that collect such data.

I plan to maintain this inside the python-modules-team

Re: Does anybody plan to keep using sbuild with Squeeze or older chroots?

[Holger Levsen]

On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 12:19:02PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 1:24 AM, Johannes Schauer wrote:
> > does anybody plan to use sbuild in Stretch with Debian Squeeze or older
> > chroots?
> ISTR folks on IRC mentioning they are still supporting clients on
> lenny and older.
 
at least when I'm in such situations, I usually have a build environment
from that suite as well, so I think josch can go ahead and drop
squeeze support in sid+stretch.


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Re: spammers closing bugs in BTS

[Holger Levsen]

On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 06:14:38PM +0200, Daniel Pocock wrote:
> I received a notification that a bug was closed.
> 
> The email that closed the bug was a spam email sent to the address
>   (bug-number)-d...@bugs.debian.org
[...]
> Maybe time to start requiring PGP signatures on control emails to the BTS?

there are >80 bugs in the BTS and you evidence abuse on one single bug and
that causes you to suggest to change workflows which have worked for many
years?

don't you think you are reacting a bit too fast?


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Bug#834720: ITP: r-bioc-savr -- GNU R parse and analyze Illumina SAV files

[Andreas Tille]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Andreas Tille 

* Package name: r-bioc-savr
  Version : 1.10.0
  Upstream Author : R. Brent Calder 
* URL : http://bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/savR.html
* License : AGPL
  Programming Lang: GNU R
  Description : GNU R parse and analyze Illumina SAV files
 This BioConductor module enables to parse Illumina Sequence Analysis
 Viewer (SAV) files, access data, and generate QC plots.


Remark: The package will be maintained by the Debian Med team at
   svn://anonscm.debian.org/debian-med/trunk/packages/R/r-bioc-savr/trunk/

Bug#834723: ITP: forge -- high performance OpenGL visualization

[Ghislain Antony Vaillant]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Ghislain Antony Vaillant 

* Package name: forge
  Version : 1.0
  Upstream Author : ArrayFire
* URL : https://github.com/arrayfire/forge
* License : BSD
  Programming Lang: C, C++
  Description : high performance OpenGL visualization

Long-Description:
 A prototype of the OpenGL interop library that can be used with
 ArrayFire. The goal of Forge is to provide high performance OpenGL
 visualizations for C/C++ applications that use CUDA/OpenCL.
 Forge uses OpenGL >=3.3 forward compatible contexts, so please make
 sure you have capable hardware before trying it out.

This library is required to enable the graphics component of ArrayFire.

Re: spammers closing bugs in BTS

[Vincent Lefevre]

On 2016-08-17 14:47:24 -0500, Don Armstrong wrote:
> All of that said, we certainly do appreciate better anti-spam SA rules
> for the BTS, and we do already give negative scores for messages which
> have things which look like PGP signatures and/or come from an address
> which is in the whitelist. This enables us to be slightly more punitive
> with some of the rulesets that we have in place.

Reject mail with "X-PHP-Originating-Script:", at least for -done?
I quite often see this in spam not caught by the filters, and I
suppose that PHP scripts do not send mail to the BTS; well, this
should be easy to see with the archives.

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Re: spammers closing bugs in BTS

[Patrick Matthäi]

Am 18.08.2016 um 15:48 schrieb Vincent Lefevre:
> Reject mail with "X-PHP-Originating-Script:", at least for -done?
> I quite often see this in spam not caught by the filters, and I
> suppose that PHP scripts do not send mail to the BTS; well, this
> should be easy to see with the archives.
Then you would exclude people using (PHP based) Webmailers / Colab. suites.

Re: spammers closing bugs in BTS

[Vincent Lefevre]

On 2016-08-18 16:13:29 +0200, Patrick Matthäi wrote:
> 
> Am 18.08.2016 um 15:48 schrieb Vincent Lefevre:
> > Reject mail with "X-PHP-Originating-Script:", at least for -done?
> > I quite often see this in spam not caught by the filters, and I
> > suppose that PHP scripts do not send mail to the BTS; well, this
> > should be easy to see with the archives.
> Then you would exclude people using (PHP based) Webmailers / Colab. suites.

I don't think so. In my own archives, all the messages with
the above header have been sent automatically, not directly
by a human. In particular, webmailers don't seem to use this
header.

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Re: spammers closing bugs in BTS

[Gunnar Wolf]

Daniel Pocock dijo [Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 06:38:35PM +0200]:
> I was only talking about control emails (e.g. the -done address and
> control@).  The requirements for opening bugs or submitting comments
> (without pseudo-headers) could remain as they are.
> 
> Maybe it could insist that emails from addresses known to be DDs have
> to be signed.  This would prevent people impersonating DDs.

Ummm... I'd set the bar a bit lower - If mails closing a bug were
required to be from an identity that had already corresponded to such
bug report. Of course, we would probably be tying the verification to
the sender mail address, and that can be problematic if I tend to mail
from different addresses, but it'd be a point to later work on
(i.e. maybe also match on sender name, or such).

So, if I were to close a bug I had not previously interacted with,
maybe it would be required for me to send a mail stating "I will soon
close this bug" five minutes before actually closing it. Or maybe
adding a 'X-not-a-robot' pseudoheader.

Bug#834756: ITP: powershell -- scripting language interpreter built on .NET

[Luke W Faraone]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Luke W Faraone 

* Package name: powershell
  Version : 6.0.0~alpha9 
  Upstream Author : Microsoft
* URL : https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell
* License : Expat
  Programming Lang: C#
  Description : scripting language interpreter built on .NET

Microsoft recently released PowerShell as free software, and this month
announced support for Linux platforms.

>From a parausal of the source code, it appears to be suitable for inclusion in
Debian.

Re: Bug#834756: ITP: powershell -- scripting language interpreter built on .NET

[Marcin Kulisz]

On 2016-08-18 16:27:23, Luke W Faraone wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Luke W Faraone 
> 
> * Package name: powershell
>   Version : 6.0.0~alpha9 
>   Upstream Author : Microsoft
> * URL : https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell
> * License : Expat
>   Programming Lang: C#
>   Description : scripting language interpreter built on .NET
> 
> Microsoft recently released PowerShell as free software, and this month
> announced support for Linux platforms.
> 
> >From a parausal of the source code, it appears to be suitable for inclusion 
> >in
> Debian.

Most likely I'm missing something but what's the use case for Powershell on
Debian?
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Incentives for participation in FLOSS communities

[Katja Gucek]

Hi,

this is the first time I am posting on this list. I am just conducting a
thesis research at Faculty of Social Sciences, Cultural Studies Department
- University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, Europe.

In the research I am interested in incentives for voluntary participation
in projects or communities developing or supporting Free/ Libre or
Open-Source software (FLOSS) products or movement – whether it is a
software, web, hardware, hacker space, movement supporting or promoting
free and open philosophy or events regarding this topic.

I'd like to ask everyone who see themselves in this topic, to fill out the
questionnaire (takes about 6 minutes). The survey is expected to be online
until 22st August 2016.

Link to the questionnaire:
https://www.1ka.si/a/102463

Thank you so much in advance. Your help and answers are very valuable.

If this mail is inappropriate for this list, I deeply apologize.

Katja Guček
Ljubljana, Slovenija (Europe)

Re: Bug#834756: ITP: powershell -- scripting language interpreter built on .NET

[Christoph Egger]

Marcin Kulisz  writes:
> Most likely I'm missing something but what's the use case for Powershell on

I don't know, what's the usecase for tcsh or lua?

  Christoph

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Bug#834777: ITP: python-blosc -- official Python bindings for Blosc

[Daniel Stender]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Daniel Stender 
Control: block -1 by 834318

* Package name: python-blosc
  Version : 1.4.1
  Upstream Author : Francesc Alted 
Valentin Hänel 
* URL : https://github.com/Blosc/python-blosc
* License : Expat
  Programming Lang: Python
  Description : official Python bindings for Blosc

Blosc [1] is a meta-compressor library which carries out the actual
compression/decompression in the processor cache. This is the official
Python bindings package.

I'm going to maintain this within the DPMT. The binary is going to be
python3-blosc (maybe also a Python 2 package).

Thanks,
DS

[1] https://packages.qa.debian.org/c/c-blosc.html

Bug#834778: ITP: bloscpack -- CLI interface and serialization format for Blosc

[Daniel Stender]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Daniel Stender 
Control: block -1 by 834777

* Package name: bloscpack
  Version : 0.10.0
  Upstream Author : Valentin Hänel 
* URL : https://github.com/Blosc/bloscpack
* License : Expat
  Programming Lang: Python
  Description : CLI interface and serialization format for Blosc

Blosc [1] is a meta-compressor library which carries out the actual
compression/decompression in the processor cache. This is the official
CLI tool for dealing with *.blp files which features the serialization
of Numpy arrays.

I'm going to maintain this within the PAPT.

Thanks,
DS

Work-needing packages report for Aug 19, 2016

[wnpp]

The following is a listing of packages for which help has been requested
through the WNPP (Work-Needing and Prospective Packages) system in the
last week.

Total number of orphaned packages: 860 (new: 14)
Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 171 (new: 8)
Total number of packages requested help for: 48 (new: 0)

Please refer to http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ for more information.



The following packages have been orphaned:

   autotrace (#834306), orphaned 4 days ago
 Description: bitmap to vector graphics converter
 Reverse Depends: autotrace libautotrace-dev mftrace
 Installations reported by Popcon: 536

   boats (#834409), orphaned 3 days ago
 Description: race scenario drawing tool
 Installations reported by Popcon: 21

   calcoo (#834308), orphaned 4 days ago
 Description: Scientific calculator (GTK+)
 Installations reported by Popcon: 423

   ccbuild (#834636), orphaned yesterday
 Description: source scanning build utility for C++
 Installations reported by Popcon: 44

   dgen (#834312), orphaned 4 days ago (non-free)
 Description: Sega Genesis/MegaDrive emulator
 Installations reported by Popcon: 106

   giflib (#834410), orphaned 3 days ago
 Description: library for GIF images (debug)
 Reverse Depends: aseprite boats cgi-mapserver driftnet ecere-dev
   edisplay emacs24 emacs24-lucid exactimage fbi (88 more omitted)
 Installations reported by Popcon: 15667

   libcgic (#834166), orphaned 6 days ago
 Description: C library for developing CGI applications
 Reverse Depends: libcgic-dev
 Installations reported by Popcon: 25

   libtut (#834442), orphaned 3 days ago
 Description: elegant C++ unit test framework
 Installations reported by Popcon: 23

   libvc (#834311), orphaned 4 days ago
 Description: vCard library - development files
 Reverse Depends: libvc-dev
 Installations reported by Popcon: 47

   obmenu (#834307), orphaned 4 days ago
 Description: Graphical menu editor for openbox
 Installations reported by Popcon: 869

   ttf-staypuft (#834309), orphaned 4 days ago
 Description: Stay-Puft free TrueType font
 Installations reported by Popcon: 608

   wav2cdr (#834310), orphaned 4 days ago
 Description: Converts wav files into CD-ROM audio file format
 Installations reported by Popcon: 76

   xnbd (#834337), orphaned 4 days ago
 Description: Network Block Device client with support for live
   migration
 Reverse Depends: xnbd-client xnbd-server
 Installations reported by Popcon: 41

   zfs-fuse (#834130), orphaned 6 days ago
 Description: ZFS on FUSE
 Reverse Depends: libguestfs-zfs simplesnap zfsnap
 Installations reported by Popcon: 568

846 older packages have been omitted from this listing, see
http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/orphaned for a complete list.



The following packages have been given up for adoption:

   cgmanager (#834540), offered 2 days ago
 Description: Central cgroup manager daemon
 Reverse Depends: cgmanager cgmanager-tests libcgmanager-dev liblxc1
   libpam-cgm numad systemd-shim
 Installations reported by Popcon: 15618

   insserv (#834284), offered 4 days ago
 Description: boot sequence organizer using LSB init.d script
   dependency information
 Reverse Depends: file-rc openrc sysv-rc
 Installations reported by Popcon: 178174

   liblog4ada (#834509), offered 2 days ago
 Description: Ada library for flexible logging
 Reverse Depends: liblog4ada3-dev
 Installations reported by Popcon: 3

   libxmlezout (#834507), offered 2 days ago
 Description: Easy-to-use library for emitting XML from Ada programs
 Reverse Depends: liblog4ada3-dev libxmlezout4-dev
 Installations reported by Popcon: 1

   music123 (#834604), offered yesterday
 Description: Command-line shell for sound-file players
 Installations reported by Popcon: 170

   plastex (#834394), offered 3 days ago
 Description: LaTeX document processing framework in Python
 Installations reported by Popcon: 68

   polyorb (#834605), offered yesterday
 Description: Multiple-personality middleware for Ada
 Reverse Depends: libpolyorb-dbg libpolyorb3-dev polyorb-servers
 Installations reported by Popcon: 11

   startpar (#834283), offered 4 days ago
 Description: run processes in parallel and multiplex their output
 Reverse Depends: sysv-rc
 Installations reported by Popcon: 119326

163 older packages have been omitted from this listing, see
http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/rfa_bypackage for a complete list.



For the following packages help is requested:

   athcool (#278442), requested 4314 days ago
 Description: Enable powersaving mode for Athlon/Duron p