Bug#576241: ITP: ns2 -- Ns is a discrete event simulator targeted at networking research

2010-04-01 Thread syq
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: syq * Package name: ns2 Version : 2.35~RC2 Upstream Author : The ns Team * URL : http://www.isi.edu/nsnam/ns/ * License : GPL, LGPL, BSD, MIT/X, etc Programming Lang: C, C++, TCL Description : Ns is a discrete ev

Work-needing packages report for Apr 2, 2010

2010-04-01 Thread 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: 594 (new: 12) Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 139 (new: 11) Total number of packages reque

Bug#573070: ITP: hivex -- Windows Registry "hive" extraction library

2010-04-01 Thread TJ
* Package name: hivex Version : 1.2.1 Upstream Author : R. Jones * URL : http://git.annexia.org/?p=hivex.git;a=summary http://libguestfs.org/download/ * License : LGPL 2.1 Programming Lang: C Description : Windows Registry "hive" extra

Re: Xen support on Squeeze

2010-04-01 Thread Micah Anderson
"Nikita V. Youshchenko" writes: >> We have had to carry that patch without any upstream support (or sharing >> with Novell, which eventually released SLES 11 with 2.6.27). As a >> result, the xen-flavour kernels for lenny are very buggy, particularly >> for domains with multiple vCPUs (though th

Re: Advice needed on howto take care about /usr/share/pyshared/scikits

2010-04-01 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
On Thu, 01 Apr 2010, Matthias Klose wrote: > Upstream is aware of the problem, > http://python.org/dev/peps/pep-0382/, but still lacks an > implementation. Apparently (thanks to a reminder from Josselin) it seems I am fine shipping NO scikits/__init__.py at all ;) pysupport would take care about

Bug#576215: ITP: cpan -- All possible perl modules you could ever need

2010-04-01 Thread Josselin Mouette
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Josselin Mouette * Package name: cpan Version : 20100401 Upstream Author : Many * URL : http://www.cpan.org/ * License : Multiple Programming Lang: C, Perl Description : All possible perl modules you could ever

Re: About new source formats for packages without patches

2010-04-01 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 09:01:31AM -0400, James Vega wrote: > On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 08:47:28PM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 11:18:30AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > > On Wed, 31 Mar 2010, Niels Thykier wrote: > > > > That being said, I would (as it is no

Bug#576214: ITP: libticket-simple-perl -- A basic ticket system

2010-04-01 Thread Xavier Oswald
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Xavier Oswald * Package name: libticket-simple-perl Version : 0.0.2 Upstream Author : Christian Kuelker * URL : http://release.cipux.org/ * License : GPL-2+ Programming Lang: Perl Description : A basic ticket s

Re: Advice needed on howto take care about /usr/share/pyshared/scikits

2010-04-01 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
Thank you Matthias! On Thu, 01 Apr 2010, Matthias Klose wrote: > This is a simple, robust way of packaging this file. You don't need > to package this as a separate source, usually it can be built as a > separate binary from some source which is common to all of these > packages (as e.g. done in z

Re: Bits from the Release Team: Scheduling, transitions, how to help

2010-04-01 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 09:57:12AM +0200, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > * Tcl/Tk 8.4/8.5 > Tcl 8.3 will be replaced by newer versions. This transition is > currently staged in experimental. Note that this will imply soon a good bounce of NMUs for experimental. If your packages depends direc

Bug#576194: ITP: mercurial-hgshelve -- scalable distributed version control system (shelve extension)

2010-04-01 Thread Javi Merino
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Javi Merino Owner: Javi Merino * Package name: mercurial-hgshelve Version : 1.4 Upstream Author : TK Soh * URL : http://bitbucket.org/tksoh/hgshelve/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: Python Description : scala

Re: Advice needed on howto take care about /usr/share/pyshared/scikits

2010-04-01 Thread Matthias Klose
On 31.03.2010 18:18, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: Dear Debianizers, NB. I have asked similar question at debian-python [1] but had no replies, so re-posting to -devel now I am ITPing python-scikits-learn and possibly few other python-scikits-* packages in the future. All of the packages woul

Bug#576184: ITP: jidanni -- a natural intelligence to find many bugs

2010-04-01 Thread Paul Wise
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: jidanni Upstream Author : Dan Jacobson * URL : http://jidanni.org/comp/bug_reporter.html * License : public domamin (not copyrightable) Programming Lang: neural network Description : natural intelligence to find m

Re: Hadoop in Debian, was:Re: Hardware trouble ries.debian.org

2010-04-01 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
In article <20100331224108.ga9...@varinia.lobefin.net> you wrote: > Hadoop is not a POSIX file system, as far as I'm aware. As ftp-master > makes heavy use of things like file locks and hard links, I doubt hadoop > would work without a significant rewrite of the software. And HDFS is optimized fo

Re: Bits from the Release Team: Scheduling, transitions, how to help

2010-04-01 Thread Samuel Thibault
Adam D. Barratt, le Thu 01 Apr 2010 09:57:12 +0200, a écrit : > * GNU/kFreeBSD-* > The release of these two new architectures looks promising, but they > are still far away from full archive coverage. It seems that much > could be gained by fixing some key packages. What is the target BTW?

Bug#576160: ITP: tclcl -- TclCL (Tcl with classes) is a Tcl/C++ interface

2010-04-01 Thread syq
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: syq * Package name: tclcl Version : 1.19 Upstream Author : Ron Frederick * URL : http://otcl-tclcl.sourceforge.net/tclcl/ * License : BSD Programming Lang: C, C++, TCL Description : TclCL (Tcl with classes) is a

Re: Re: Bug#575938: ITP: dh-autoreconf -- debhelper add-on to call autoreconf and clean up after the build

2010-04-01 Thread Fabian Greffrath
It seems that we could also read the requested versions of automake and autoconf from debian/control and export them automatically using: [...] Does this sound like a good idea? IMHO this sounds like a very good idea. Consequently, dh_autoreconf should become a no-op if autoconf is missing f