Re: Bug#593339: RFP: freeorion -- FreeOrion is a free, open source, turn-based space empire and galactic conquest computer game

2011-02-04 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 6:40 AM, Adam Borowski wrote: > * [a show stopper] it requires Nvidia's CG Toolkit -- non-free >  non-distributable.  The upstream is in love in that piece of crock, and >  declares it is and should be mandatory. Looks like that is no longer required since November 2010:

Re: Bug#611828: ITP: probalign -- multiple sequence alignment using partition function posterior probabilities

2011-02-04 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Fri, Feb 04, 2011 at 10:33:05AM +0100, Tanguy Ortolo a écrit : > > Le mercredi 02 février 2011, andr...@an3as.eu a écrit : > > Description : multiple sequence alignment using partition function > > posterior probabilities > > Is that about DNA sequences? I think this should be explicite

Re: Bug#612031: RFP: xscope -- Monitor X11/Client conversations

2011-02-04 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi, Arnout Engelen (05/02/2011): > Package name: xscope > Version: 1.3 > Upstream Author: James Peterson, MCC, Keith Packard > URL: http://xorg.freedesktop.org/archive/individual/app/ > License: X might not deserve its own package. I guess it could be shipped in one of the x11-* bundles. KiBi.

Bug#612031: RFP: xscope -- Monitor X11/Client conversations

2011-02-04 Thread Arnout Engelen
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org --- Please fill out the fields below. --- Package name: xscope Version: 1.3 Upstream Author: James Peterson, MCC, Keith Packard URL: http://xorg.freedesktop.org/archive/individual/app/ License: X Description: Monitor X1

Re: does aptitude really need to lock the status database when downloading?

2011-02-04 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Simon Chopin] > But I believe what Stanislas mean is to unpack while downloading the > rest of the packages. I often wondered why it wasn't the case, but > I've assumed so far that there was probably a reason I just could not > think of :) I think it is because, in the general case, it is not a

Re: does aptitude really need to lock the status database when downloading?

2011-02-04 Thread Fernando Lemos
On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 5:10 PM, Simon Chopin wrote: [...] >> > As Julian Taylor mentioned, there is also another side of the same >> > problem: aptitude itself can be improved so that it is able to >> > download and unpack in parallel. If it were doing this then the lock >> > would be justified. >

Re: does aptitude really need to lock the status database when downloading?

2011-02-04 Thread Simon Chopin
Hi ! On Fri, Feb 04, 2011 at 09:47:21AM -0200, Fernando Lemos wrote: > On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 6:57 AM, Stanislav Maslovski [...] > > As Julian Taylor mentioned, there is also another side of the same > > problem: aptitude itself can be improved so that it is able to > > download and unpack in para

Re: there is /usr/lib64 symlink but no /usr/local/lib64

2011-02-04 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Yaroslav Halchenko | please do not slap me too hard (only so that I feel your warm carrying | touch): | | is there a rationale for: on amd64 Debian systems having | | /lib64 -> /lib Yes, it's required by the ABI, unfortunately. | /usr/lib64 -> /usr/lib Not really, apart from some broken s

Bug#612014: ITP: phpunit-selenium -- Selenium RC integration for PHPUnit

2011-02-04 Thread Olivier Berger
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Olivier Berger * Package name: phpunit-selenium Version : 1.0.2 Upstream Author : Sebastian Bergmann * URL : http://www.phpunit.de/ * License : BSD Programming Lang: PHP Description : Selenium RC integration for

Re: Upcoming FTPMaster meeting

2011-02-04 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
On 2011-02-04 07:27, Philipp Kern wrote: > On 2011-02-03, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > > * Leaf packages. that is, the possibility of having small packages in > > the archive, without bloating the packages files as a "full package" > > would. Somehow, less information stored for them. Like only "Pac

Re: does aptitude really need to lock the status database when downloading?

2011-02-04 Thread Stanislav Maslovski
On Fri, Feb 04, 2011 at 09:47:21AM -0200, Fernando Lemos wrote: > On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 6:57 AM, Stanislav Maslovski > wrote: > [...] > >> If you want to have that level of control, why don't you just check it > >> manually? Use --download-only with apt-get (no dpkg locking this way) > >> and whe

Preparing GSoC 2011: bring in your project ideas!

2011-02-04 Thread Obey Arthur Liu
Hello all! It's the time of the year again and we have to prepare a list of project ideas to submit our application. It's simple: what project would you want to get done and how can you help? Cheers Arthur PS.: This is only about project ideas. If you are interested in providing feedback about

Re: there is /usr/lib64 symlink but no /usr/local/lib64

2011-02-04 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
I guess then it might be sensible to get /usr/local/lib64 -> /usr/local/lib . ok -- lets see what libc6 maintainers think about that http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=612000 On Fri, 04 Feb 2011, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > aren't we diverging from FHS: > > If directories /li

Re: does aptitude really need to lock the status database when downloading?

2011-02-04 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Friday 04 February 2011 12.47:21 Fernando Lemos wrote: > do, say, an "apt-get upgrade", apt prepares an upgrade "plan" that > uses a given set of packages. If apt wouldn't lock [...] > new plan would have to be created, the user would > have to be asked for confirmation again. Doesn't sound that

Re: does aptitude really need to lock the status database when downloading?

2011-02-04 Thread Olaf van der Spek
On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 12:47 PM, Fernando Lemos wrote: >> This is possible, however, it is an extra busy work for a user. In any >> case, I think that holding a lock only for downloading is an overkill >> and this can be relaxed. > > As far as I can tell (and please correct me if I'm wrong), when

Re: does aptitude really need to lock the status database when downloading?

2011-02-04 Thread David Kalnischkies
On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 01:10, Stanislav Maslovski wrote: > For example, I am running an update on a slow connection and want to > uninstall or install with dpkg a few packages while the others are > being downloaded. Should not this be possible? I understand that there > can be a situation that a

Re: does aptitude really need to lock the status database when downloading?

2011-02-04 Thread Fernando Lemos
On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 6:57 AM, Stanislav Maslovski wrote: [...] >> If you want to have that level of control, why don't you just check it >> manually? Use --download-only with apt-get (no dpkg locking this way) >> and when it's done, use apt-get without it to install the packages after >> making

Re: Bug#611828: ITP: probalign -- multiple sequence alignment using partition function posterior probabilities

2011-02-04 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Tanguy, On Fri, Feb 04, 2011 at 10:33:05AM +0100, Tanguy Ortolo wrote: > Le mercredi 02 février 2011, andr...@an3as.eu a écrit : > > Description : multiple sequence alignment using partition function > > posterior probabilities > > Is that about DNA sequences? I think this should be exp

Re: Bug#611828: ITP: probalign -- multiple sequence alignment using partition function posterior probabilities

2011-02-04 Thread Tanguy Ortolo
Hello. Le mercredi 02 février 2011, andr...@an3as.eu a écrit : > Description : multiple sequence alignment using partition function > posterior probabilities Is that about DNA sequences? I think this should be explicited in the description, with something like: detect multiple sequence

Re: there is /usr/lib64 symlink but no /usr/local/lib64

2011-02-04 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Yaroslav Halchenko writes: > please do not slap me too hard (only so that I feel your warm carrying > touch): > > is there a rationale for: on amd64 Debian systems having > > /lib64 -> /lib > /usr/lib64 -> /usr/lib > > but no similar one for /usr/local/lib64, so that directory > /usr/local/lib64

Re: Upcoming FTPMaster meeting

2011-02-04 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Philipp Kern writes: > On 2011-02-03, Joerg Jaspert wrote: >> * Leaf packages. that is, the possibility of having small packages in >> the archive, without bloating the packages files as a "full package" >> would. Somehow, less information stored for them. Like only "Package", >> "Installe

Re: does aptitude really need to lock the status database when downloading?

2011-02-04 Thread Stanislav Maslovski
On Fri, Feb 04, 2011 at 10:00:40AM +0100, Olaf van der Spek wrote: > On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 9:57 AM, Stanislav Maslovski > wrote: > > This is possible, however, it is an extra busy work for a user. In any > > case, I think that holding a lock only for downloading is an overkill > > and this can be

Re: Misc Developer News (#24)

2011-02-04 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Stefano Zacchiroli writes: > On Wed, Feb 02, 2011 at 04:13:55PM +, Philipp Kern wrote: >> > http://wiki.debian.org/HowToRelease >> > (which has not been edited since 2009) >> If you start linking to the wiki, take the right page: >> http://wiki.debian.org/ReleaseTimetable > > Can the other pa

Re: does aptitude really need to lock the status database when downloading?

2011-02-04 Thread Adam Borowski
On Fri, Feb 04, 2011 at 10:00:40AM +0100, Olaf van der Spek wrote: > On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 9:57 AM, Stanislav Maslovski > wrote: > > This is possible, however, it is an extra busy work for a user. In any > > case, I think that holding a lock only for downloading is an overkill > > and this can be

Re: does aptitude really need to lock the status database when downloading?

2011-02-04 Thread Adam Borowski
On Fri, Feb 04, 2011 at 03:29:14AM +0100, Julian Taylor wrote: > On Fri, 2011-02-04 at 03:10 +0300, Stanislav Maslovski wrote: > > For example, I am running an update on a slow connection and want to > > uninstall or install with dpkg a few packages while the others are > > being downloaded. Should

Re: does aptitude really need to lock the status database when downloading?

2011-02-04 Thread Olaf van der Spek
On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 9:57 AM, Stanislav Maslovski wrote: > This is possible, however, it is an extra busy work for a user. In any > case, I think that holding a lock only for downloading is an overkill > and this can be relaxed. What if you would launch two download-only ops at the same time? I

Re: does aptitude really need to lock the status database when downloading?

2011-02-04 Thread Stanislav Maslovski
On Fri, Feb 04, 2011 at 01:21:07AM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote: > #include > * Stanislav Maslovski [Fri, Feb 04 2011, 03:10:54AM]: > > Hi debian-devel, > > > > I wanted to ask this for quite a long time: Does aptitude (I think > > apt-get does the same) really have to lock "the status database area