Re: GIT for pdiff generation

2011-03-27 Thread Joerg Jaspert
>> Right now the source contents of unstable has, unpacked, 220MB. (Packed >> gzip its 28MB, while the binary contents per have each have 18MB >> packed). > That should not be a problem in any non-joke box. Unless you'll run it > in a memory-constrained vm or something. Well. For our archives it

Re: Packaging Openstack for Debian: anyone else interested?

2011-03-27 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
On Sun, 27 Mar 2011, Soren Hansen wrote: > >   NB checkout for fixes and alternative reimplementations (e.g. in > >   Python) > I'm reliably informed that git can't work with tildes in tags correct! > (specifically in the context of git-bzr, at least). We a tag in bzr for > each version we uploa

Re: Packaging Openstack for Debian: anyone else interested?

2011-03-27 Thread Ben Finney
Thomas Goirand writes: > Frankly, I think it's silly that there's both Git, HG and Bzr around. > It's a loss of time for everyone, when all of the above 3 seems very > close from each other in terms of functionality. The same argument applies to Debian .deb, Red Hat .rpm, and so on. The function

Re: Processed: Re: Processed: reassign 619520 to general

2011-03-27 Thread Vincent Lefevre
reassign 619520 ethtool severity 619520 normal thanks On 2011-03-25 09:18:04 +, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: > Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > > > reassign 619520 guessnet > Bug #619520 [general] eth0 is not activated early enough, causing a delay in > the Ethernet de

Suggestion to remove (eventually) libtar from Debian

2011-03-27 Thread Magnus Holmgren
libtar popped up on wnpp-alert, so I ITAd it, but now I'm having second thoughts. I've done one upload now though. - No new releases since 2003. Upstream hasn't bothered building a dynamic library, that's a Debian patch (and a corresponding patch in other distros). - libarchive is superior (I s

Re: Packaging Openstack for Debian: anyone else interested?

2011-03-27 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 01:04:45AM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: > I'm considering packaging Openstack cloud computing system for > Debian. There's already another DD that expressed his interest for it. So, I've met a couple of times during the last year people from Rackspace (the company behind Op

Re: Packaging Openstack for Debian: anyone else interested?

2011-03-27 Thread Soren Hansen
Let me put this differently.. If there's a DD out there who wants to work *with* us and get OpenStack (and all its dependencies, which is really the tedious part) into Debian, I'd the *thrilled* to work with you. There's a number of things that are needed, new packages as well as patches to existi

Bug#619848: ITP: starpu -- Task scheduler for heterogeneous multicore machines

2011-03-27 Thread Samuel Thibault
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Samuel Thibault * Package name: starpu Version : 0.4 Upstream Author : Cedric Augonnet * URL : http://starpu.gforge.inria.fr/ * License : LGPL Programming Lang: C Description : Task scheduler for heterogeneous m

Re: GIT for pdiff generation

2011-03-27 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sun, 27 Mar 2011, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > Right now the source contents of unstable has, unpacked, 220MB. (Packed > gzip its 28MB, while the binary contents per have each have 18MB > packed). That should not be a problem in any non-joke box. Unless you'll run it in a memory-constrained vm or so

Re: Packaging Openstack for Debian: anyone else interested?

2011-03-27 Thread Soren Hansen
2011/3/27 Yaroslav Halchenko : >> Also, Openstack is using bzr, and I know only (CVS and) Git. Does >> anyone have good pointers to documentation not aimed at newbies, so >> I don't waste my time too much? > > few blunt cents: I would just > > 1. use something like >   https://github.com/yarikoptic

Re: Packaging Openstack for Debian: anyone else interested?

2011-03-27 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 03/28/2011 02:57 AM, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: few blunt cents: I would just 1. use something like https://github.com/yarikoptic/git-bzr to not mess with learning bzr and operate in GIT (unless upstream relies on some bzr mechanism to embed versioning during build etc) Good idea

Re: Packaging Openstack for Debian: anyone else interested?

2011-03-27 Thread Soren Hansen
2011/3/27 Thomas Goirand : > I already started in fact. I took the work made in Ubuntu, and did a > bit of rework (I didn't like the rules.tiny debhelper style with so > many overrides, or the fact that the rules didn't use setup.py...). For years, Debian Developers have shouted and screamed whene

Re: Packaging Openstack for Debian: anyone else interested?

2011-03-27 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
> Is there anyone else interested? I might open a new project on > Alioth for that, if we are a lot. If we are only 2, then colab-maint > will be enough, I guess. I just wanted to express THANKS for the effort to get openstack in Debian. It would be great, and thanks for taking care about it > A

Bug#619837: ITP: pastix -- Parallel sparse matrix package

2011-03-27 Thread Pierre Saramito
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Pierre Saramito * Package name: pastix Version : 3184 Upstream Author : Faverge Mathieu , Henon Pascal , Lacoste Xavier , Ramet Pierre * URL : http://pastix.gforge.inria.fr/ * License : CeCILL-C-V2 Programmin

Packaging Openstack for Debian: anyone else interested?

2011-03-27 Thread Thomas Goirand
Hi everyone, I'm considering packaging Openstack cloud computing system for Debian. There's already another DD that expressed his interest for it. I already started in fact. I took the work made in Ubuntu, and did a bit of rework (I didn't like the rules.tiny debhelper style with so many ove

Re: GIT for pdiff generation

2011-03-27 Thread Joerg Jaspert
>> As we are no git gurus ourself: Does anyone out there see any trouble >> doing it this way? It means storing something around 7GB of >> uncompressed text files in git, plus the daily changes happening to >> them, then diffing them in the way described above, however the >> archive wil

Processed: Re: either bash or dash should be enough

2011-03-27 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > # which packages are essential affects the entire distribution > reassign 619820 general Bug #619820 [dash] either bash or dash should be enough Bug reassigned from package 'dash' to 'general'. Bug No longer marked as found in versions dash/0.5.5.

Re: either bash or dash should be enough

2011-03-27 Thread Jonathan Nieder
# which packages are essential affects the entire distribution reassign 619820 general quit Hi, Harald Dunkel wrote: > I cannot remove dash nor bash. Both are marked as essential packages. > One shell should be enough for a minimal system. That's a good point. Raphael, do you remember why dash

GIT for pdiff generation (was: Meeting Minutes, FTPMaster meeting March 2011)

2011-03-27 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sun, 27 Mar 2011, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > - As there have been intermittent problems with the current tool which > generates the pdiff files (on occasion causing us to have to restart > the whole diff series), we looked into improving the situation. We > finally came up with the idea to sto

Re: Meeting Minutes, FTPMaster meeting March 2011

2011-03-27 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 12:27:15PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 10:56:28AM +0200, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > > - The long standing project of enabling autosigning for the buildds also > > got finished. That means that packages successfully built can now be > > uploaded automa

Re: Meeting Minutes, FTPMaster meeting March 2011

2011-03-27 Thread Philipp Kern
On 2011-03-27, Roger Leigh wrote: >> - The long standing project of enabling autosigning for the buildds also >> got finished. That means that packages successfully built can now be >> uploaded automatically, without waiting for the buildd admin to wake >> up/come back from holiday/whatever.

Re: Build-Essential

2011-03-27 Thread Neil Williams
On Sat, 26 Mar 2011 10:53:07 +0100 Joerg Jaspert wrote: > there are currently two ways to indicate what Debian considers > "Build-Essential". There is the package build-essential and there is > also a flag in the packages files. Wherever I do use build-essential in Emdebian scripts, it is the pa

Re: Meeting Minutes, FTPMaster meeting March 2011

2011-03-27 Thread Carsten Hey
Hi, are there any news about leaf packages and the new field "mainpackage:"? If so, will Wheezy contain packages using this new field? Did you decide about throwing away DD built binaries? * Joerg Jaspert [2011-03-27 10:56 +0200]: > - We had some discussion about accepting ddebs into the archi

Re: Who is (co-)maintaining lcdproc package ?

2011-03-27 Thread Dominique Dumont
Le vendredi 25 mars 2011 14:06:16, Xavier Oswald a écrit : > > Thanks to everyone for the past and future maintainership of lcdproc, > > which was a major cross-distro contribution to the project. > > lcdproc_0.5.4-2 uploaded. Source package is now archived on collab-maint: http://git.debian.org

Re: Meeting Minutes, FTPMaster meeting March 2011

2011-03-27 Thread Roger Leigh
On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 10:56:28AM +0200, Joerg Jaspert wrote: Just wanted to say congratulations to you all for for getting so much great stuff done in such a short time, and many thanks for all your hard work; it's much appreciated! > - The long standing project of enabling autosigning for the

Re: Build-Essential

2011-03-27 Thread Andreas Metzler
Joerg Jaspert wrote: > there are currently two ways to indicate what Debian considers > "Build-Essential". There is the package build-essential and there is > also a flag in the packages files. > We think it was used to be able to calculate the B-E packages by "just > looking at the packages file

Bug#619800: general: The touchpad's mouse clicks

2011-03-27 Thread Julien Viard de Galbert
On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 07:09:42AM +0200, ArGeMaNiA wrote: > Package: general > Severity: normal > > The touchpad's mouse click is enabled.Before login it doesn't effect.After > login it effects. > Hello, Which login manager (xdm, gdm, kdm ?) and which desktop environment are you using ? (GNOME,

Bug#619800: general: The touchpad's mouse clicks

2011-03-27 Thread ArGeMaNiA
Package: general Severity: normal The touchpad's mouse click is enabled.Before login it doesn't effect.After login it effects. -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.1 APT prefers squeeze-updates APT policy: (500, 'squeeze-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Li