Re: need help of R language expert

2010-02-08 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Tue, 9 Feb 2010, Atsuhito Kohda wrote: Hi all, I, a maintainer of TeXmacs, have got an FTBFS bug#551254 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=551254 I temporarily remove a problematic patch but clearly it is not a real fix. A plugin of R seems not to work anymore. CC:ing Mako

need help of R language expert

2010-02-08 Thread Atsuhito Kohda
Hi all, I, a maintainer of TeXmacs, have got an FTBFS bug#551254 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=551254 I temporarily remove a problematic patch but clearly it is not a real fix. A plugin of R seems not to work anymore. I don't know R language at all so request a help of R lan

Re: why are the watchdog drivers blacklisted?

2010-02-08 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 09 Feb 2010, Darren Salt wrote: > I demand that Guillem Jover may or may not have written... > > On Mon, 2010-02-08 at 20:15:30 +0100, Michael Meskes wrote: > >> Please keep in mind the OOM killer will only influence watchdog if it > >> happens to kill it. If you happen to run out of memory

Bug#568953: ITP: commons-exec -- a library to reliably execute external processes from within the JVM

2010-02-08 Thread Peter Collingbourne
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Peter Collingbourne * Package name: commons-exec Version : 1.0.1 Upstream Author : Siegfried Goeschl : Sebastian Bazley : Brett Leslie Porter : Niall Kegan Pemberton

Re: why are the watchdog drivers blacklisted?

2010-02-08 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Guillem Jover may or may not have written... > On Mon, 2010-02-08 at 20:15:30 +0100, Michael Meskes wrote: >> Please keep in mind the OOM killer will only influence watchdog if it >> happens to kill it. If you happen to run out of memory though, you can >> tell watchdog to test if e

Bug#568952: RFH: nvidia-graphics-drivers -- Developer needed to take on major role in packaging team

2010-02-08 Thread Randall Donald
Package: wnpp Severity: normal X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Greetings, I am placing this Request for Help as I can no longer do the majority of the work on the NVIDIA packages. Although some people have offered time and work over recent years, there really needs to be another Devel

Re: git and quilt

2010-02-08 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sun, 07 Feb 2010, David Bremner wrote: > On Mon, 08 Feb 2010 09:26:14 +1100, Ben Finney > wrote: > > With Bazaar, one doesn't need to rebase to achieve this. The ???loom??? > > plugin allows for tracking changes against upstream revisions, while > > *preserving* the history of changes, and gen

Bug#568929: ITP: modmucadmin -- Additional ejabberd commands and WebAdmin pages for Multi User Conference (MUC) rooms

2010-02-08 Thread Lee Azzarello
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Lee Azzarello * Package name: modmucadmin Version : 0.0.20091117 Upstream Author : Badlop * URL : http://www.ejabberd.im/mod_muc_admin * License : GPL Programming Lang: Erlang Description : Additional ejabberd c

Re: why are the watchdog drivers blacklisted?

2010-02-08 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Mon, 2010-02-08 at 20:15:30 +0100, Michael Meskes wrote: > Please keep in mind the OOM killer will only influence watchdog if it happens > to kill it. If you happen to run out of memory though, you can tell watchdog > to > test if enough free mem is available. The OOM killer can be disabl

Re: why are the watchdog drivers blacklisted?

2010-02-08 Thread Michael Meskes
On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 04:12:10PM +, Mark Brown wrote: > The core problem with watchdog WRT stuff like that that is that it's a > fairly small program and doesn't monitor the state of the rest of Plus it locks itself into main memory and will not suffer from swappiness itself. > userspace so

Re: why are the watchdog drivers blacklisted?

2010-02-08 Thread Michael Meskes
On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 04:02:17PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > I am not aware of any other users of /dev/watchdog. There used to be other programs accessing it, but maybe they all vanished. > I use the default configuration. The system is broken enough that new The default configuration in Debi

Bug#568905: ITP: neercs -- experimental screen clone with improvements

2010-02-08 Thread Sam Hocevar
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Sam Hocevar * Package name: neercs Version : 0.0 (SVN snapshot) Upstream Author : Sam Hocevar Jean-Yves Lamoureux Pascal Terjan * URL : http://caca.zoy.org/wiki/neercs * License : W

Re: why are the watchdog drivers blacklisted?

2010-02-08 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 03:51:24PM +0100, Michael Meskes wrote: > On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 04:45:53AM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > > (BTW, is there any other watchdog daemon? The watchdog package reliably > > fails to detect when the system is half-killed by OOM.) > How about explaing your problem

Re: why are the watchdog drivers blacklisted?

2010-02-08 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Feb 08, Michael Meskes wrote: > On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 04:45:53AM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > > If the defaults for some drivers are wrong then I can't see why they > > should not be fixed, but if default configuration parameters are needed > > then they should be provided by the watchdog pa

Re: why are the watchdog drivers blacklisted?

2010-02-08 Thread Michael Meskes
On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 04:45:53AM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > If the defaults for some drivers are wrong then I can't see why they > should not be fixed, but if default configuration parameters are needed > then they should be provided by the watchdog package. If the watchdog package is the only

Bug#568866: RFA: systemtap -- instrumentation system for Linux 2.6

2010-02-08 Thread Eugeniy Meshcheryakov
It seems that this bug was not forwarded to debian-devel automatically. Let's try to do this now. 8 лютого 2010 о 14:06 +0100 Євгеній Мещеряков написав(-ла): > Package: wnpp > Severity: normal > > I request an adopter for the systemtap package. > > I have no time to properly support this package

Re: List of possible empty binary packages

2010-02-08 Thread Luca Falavigna
Reinhard Tartler ha scritto: >> http://packages.debian.org/sid/all/byobu-extras/filelist > > thanks, that's indeed correct. This is a transitional convenience > package for supporting partial upgrades for squeeze systems only. It was > never in lenny. Thanks for the clarification! It wasn't exclu

Re: List of possible empty binary packages

2010-02-08 Thread Reinhard Tartler
On Mo, Feb 08, 2010 at 12:46:10 (CET), Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Reinhard Tartler (08/02/2010): >> I don't understand why this package is claimed to be empty: >> >> http://packages.debian.org/sid/all/byobu/filelist > > Because of: > > http://packages.debian.org/sid/all/byobu-extras/filelist than

Re: List of possible empty binary packages

2010-02-08 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Reinhard Tartler (08/02/2010): > I don't understand why this package is claimed to be empty: > > http://packages.debian.org/sid/all/byobu/filelist Because of: http://packages.debian.org/sid/all/byobu-extras/filelist Mraw, KiBi. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: List of possible empty binary packages

2010-02-08 Thread Reinhard Tartler
On So, Feb 07, 2010 at 20:20:08 (CET), Luca Falavigna wrote: > Reinhard Tartler >byobu (U) I don't understand why this package is claimed to be empty: http://packages.debian.org/sid/all/byobu/filelist -- Gruesse/greetings, Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to de

Re: List of possible empty binary packages

2010-02-08 Thread Luca Falavigna
Stefano Zacchiroli ha scritto: > Is the code you used to detect this available somewhere? I wonder mainly > how did you check if the packages are metapackages/transitional. If it > is something you consider reliable, it would be worth to turn your code > into a lintian check, so that we avoid in th

Re: why are the watchdog drivers blacklisted?

2010-02-08 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Feb 07, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > I'd rather we had a watchdog mini policy that boils down to: As the udev and module-init-tools maintainer my goal is to support automatically loading all the drivers which their maintainers intended to be automatically loaded and blacklist until the

Re: List of possible empty binary packages

2010-02-08 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sun, Feb 07, 2010 at 08:20:08PM +0100, Luca Falavigna wrote: > I conducted an analysis to see if there are empty packages in the > archive which are not metapackages or transitional ones, and > then prepared a dd-list to show affected packages. Eya, thanks for this, very cool indeed. Is the co