Bug#628548: ITP: r-bioc-limma -- linear models for microarray data

2011-05-29 Thread Charles Plessy
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Charles Plessy Package name: r-bioc-limma Version : 3.8.2 Upstream Author : Gordon Smyth URL : http://bioinf.wehi.edu.au/limma/ License : GPL, LGPL Programming Lang: R, C Description : linear models for mic

Re: Multiarch bootstrapping

2011-05-29 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 04:06:28PM +0200, Luk Claes wrote: > On 05/28/2011 03:32 PM, David Kalnischkies wrote: > > On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 14:48, Luk Claes wrote: > >> It seems that the main blocker at the moment is bug #618288 in apt. > > Fixed in branch for a while, just not yet uploaded. [0]

Bug#628528: ITP: aspell-sr -- Aspell dictionary for Serbian language

2011-05-29 Thread Filip Brcic
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Filip Brcic -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: aspell-sr Version : 0.02 Upstream Author : Goran Rakic * URL : http://srpski.org/aspell/ * License : LGPL Description : Aspell dictionary

Re: System users: removing them

2011-05-29 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Roger Leigh wrote: > We could add special behaviour to adduser to unlock the account > if it already exists when run in the postinst. However, most > postinsts wrap the call to adduser with a check for whether the > account already exists, so it would not be called without an > update to every pr

Re: Bug#621833: System users: removing them

2011-05-29 Thread Roger Leigh
On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 12:09:40PM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > (culled cc list of a few people I know read -devel) > Roger Leigh wrote: > > > Given the need to consider unlocking as well as locking, I'm not sure > > it's worth adding special support to deluser: the typical logic used > > to cr

Re: Synching packaging-dev with Developers' Reference (Re: packaging-dev meta package)

2011-05-29 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Mon, 30 May 2011, Osamu Aoki wrote: > I looked into Debian policy and developers-reference just to be sure. > Then, I realized that it may be a good idea to make a longer list of > packages for packaging as long as it is properly maintained together with > the list in the developers-reference AP

Re: Lintian auto-rejects

2011-05-29 Thread Russ Allbery
Michael Meskes writes: >> As far as I know, the FTP masters still use 2.4.3 (before the leading >> "/" and "./" was removed from file names and before the merge of >> embedded-$lib -> embedded-library). > Right, this is wha I expected as the source of the problem. Is there a > reason why the sys

Re: DEP-5 format definition hell

2011-05-29 Thread Russ Allbery
Thomas Goirand writes: > P.S: What's blocking DEP5 from reaching the policy? > I think it's great the way it is right now already... It's already in the Policy package and was aging there for one release to be sure we didn't mess anything up when rewriting it to DocBook. Please review the versi

Re: Lintian auto-rejects

2011-05-29 Thread Michael Meskes
> As far as I know, the FTP masters still use 2.4.3 (before the leading > "/" and "./" was removed from file names and before the merge of > embedded-$lib -> embedded-library). Right, this is wha I expected as the source of the problem. Is there a reason why the system uses an older version? Are w

Re: Lintian auto-rejects

2011-05-29 Thread Michael Meskes
On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 05:35:27PM +0200, Luk Claes wrote: > Not all of the rejections are weak rejections you can override: > > http://ftp-master.debian.org/#rejections Right, but my one is listed as nonfatal and the email even said I should override if I need this. Michael -- Michael Meskes M

Re: DEP-5 format definition hell

2011-05-29 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 05/29/2011 11:53 PM, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 01:57:29PM +0200, Sven Hoexter wrote: > >> I currently see a wild mix of different format definitions used by people >> hitting debian-mentors. While I personally don't care as long as >> the copyright file is complete I don

Re: System users: removing them

2011-05-29 Thread Jonathan Nieder
(culled cc list of a few people I know read -devel) Roger Leigh wrote: > Given the need to consider unlocking as well as locking, I'm not sure > it's worth adding special support to deluser: the typical logic used > to create the user will be insufficient to unlock, so it's no less > the effort to

Re: Alioth status update, take 3

2011-05-29 Thread Andrew Starr-Bochicchio
On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 4:35 PM, Roland Mas wrote: > - repository browsers for the major SCM tools are also available from >  wagner, see http://anonscm.debian.org/ for the links. There seems to be an issue with loggerhead (the VCS browser for bzr). Some repositories show up, but not all. Notably

Re: DEP-5 format definition hell

2011-05-29 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 01:57:29PM +0200, Sven Hoexter wrote: > I currently see a wild mix of different format definitions used by people > hitting debian-mentors. While I personally don't care as long as > the copyright file is complete I don't think this fulfills the goal of > this DEP. This is

Re: Lintian auto-rejects

2011-05-29 Thread Luk Claes
On 05/29/2011 05:31 PM, Michael Meskes wrote: > I received an auto-reject because of a lintian error message that, as my > system > says, is correctly overridden. Could anyone please tell me which lintian > version we use to determine auto-rejection and also which lintian version > we're > suppos

Synching packaging-dev with Developers' Reference (Re: packaging-dev meta package)

2011-05-29 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, I understand intent is a good one but the proposed list seems not so well thought though. Unless inclusion criteria is clearly defined, it becomes just another random bloated list of packages. My first reaction was that, if we are to have such package, we just need to depends on build-essent

Re: Lintian auto-rejects

2011-05-29 Thread Niels Thykier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 2011-05-29 17:31, Michael Meskes wrote: > I received an auto-reject because of a lintian error message that, as my > system > says, is correctly overridden. Could anyone please tell me which lintian > version we use to determine auto-rejection an

Lintian auto-rejects

2011-05-29 Thread Michael Meskes
I received an auto-reject because of a lintian error message that, as my system says, is correctly overridden. Could anyone please tell me which lintian version we use to determine auto-rejection and also which lintian version we're supposed to prepare overrides for? Should the version be the same

Re: Multiarch bootstrapping

2011-05-29 Thread Luk Claes
On 05/29/2011 05:02 PM, Andreas Metzler wrote: > Luk Claes wrote: >> Currently there are still some outstanding issues before we can really >> start using multiarch. You can find the status at the wiki page [1]. > >> It seems that the main blocker at the moment is bug #618288 in apt. > >> Please

Re: Multiarch bootstrapping

2011-05-29 Thread Andreas Metzler
Luk Claes wrote: > Currently there are still some outstanding issues before we can really > start using multiarch. You can find the status at the wiki page [1]. > It seems that the main blocker at the moment is bug #618288 in apt. > Please help to fix the outstanding bugs for the build tools (pm

Re: Alioth status update, take 3

2011-05-29 Thread Roland Mas
Yaroslav Halchenko, 2011-05-23 22:39:48 -0400 : > on a related note (although not as critical as restoration of > git://git.d.o which I expect to impact thousands: > > $> grep git:// > /var/lib/apt/lists/debian.lcs.mit.edu_debian_dists_sid_main_source_Sources | > wc -l > 3716 > > ) > > where pr

Re: Behaviour of dpkg-source with "3.0 (quilt)" and VCS and automatic patches

2011-05-29 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Raphael Hertzog writes: > Hello, > > from time to time I hear some rumblings about how "3.0 (quilt)" mixes > badly with VCS. Indeed, one of the primary goals of the format > was to not require prior knowledge of the patch system to be able to > modify a package. And it's the case since you can do

Re: Behaviour of dpkg-source with "3.0 (quilt)" and VCS and automatic patches

2011-05-29 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Cyril Brulebois writes: > Hi, > > Raphael Hertzog (29/05/2011): >> from time to time I hear some rumblings about how "3.0 (quilt)" >> mixes badly with VCS. Indeed, one of the primary goals of the format >> was to not require prior knowledge of the patch system to be able to >> modify a package.

Re: Multiarch bootstrapping

2011-05-29 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
> Currently there are still some outstanding issues before we can really > start using multiarch. Is there anything upstream maintainers should be doing in order to help? (Except writing makefiles that allow easy cross-compilation, of course.) -- Juliusz pgpmIaWRYiIGs.pgp Description: PGP signa

ICU 4.8 in experimental

2011-05-29 Thread Jay Berkenbilt
[I am not currently subscribed to debian-devel, so please CC me on any response that I need to see.] I have uploaded ICU 4.8 to experimental. If you have a package that depends on ICU, please try testing with this version. I will coordinate with the release team to upload to unstable as soon as

Re: Behaviour of dpkg-source with "3.0 (quilt)" and VCS and automatic patches

2011-05-29 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Raphael Hertzog [110529 10:53]: > I see 2 ways to solve this: > a/ detect the common VCS and make --unapply-patches the default in that >case (but it would require a --no-unapply-patches for the people who >keep the patches applied in their VCS) I'd be very disappointed if the more cons

Bug#628482: ITP: libunicode-linebreak-perl -- UAX #14 Unicode Line Breaking Algorithm

2011-05-29 Thread Emmanuel Bouthenot
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Emmanuel Bouthenot * Package name: libunicode-linebreak-perl Version : 0.0.20110426 Upstream Author : Hatuka*nezumi - IKEDA Soji * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Unicode-LineBreak/ * License : GPL2+ or Artistic Prog

Re: Behaviour of dpkg-source with "3.0 (quilt)" and VCS and automatic patches

2011-05-29 Thread Benjamin Drung
Am Sonntag, den 29.05.2011, 10:53 +0200 schrieb Raphael Hertzog: > Again to cope with the scenario explained at the start of this mail, > once a user has made modifications we must ensure that they end up in a > proper patch in debian/patches/. Right now this is entirely automatic, > the generated

DEP-5 format definition hell

2011-05-29 Thread Sven Hoexter
Hi, I currently see a wild mix of different format definitions used by people hitting debian-mentors. While I personally don't care as long as the copyright file is complete I don't think this fulfills the goal of this DEP. It would be nice if the involved people would clarify what should be used.

Re: Bug#621833: System users: removing them

2011-05-29 Thread Roger Leigh
On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 12:04:35PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > On Sun, May 01, 2011 at 03:06:00PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > > Steve Langasek writes ("Re: Bug#621833: System users: removing them"): > > > On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 09:31:47PM +0200, sean finney wrote: > > > > I second your original pr

Re: Bug#621833: System users: removing them

2011-05-29 Thread Roger Leigh
On Sun, May 01, 2011 at 03:06:00PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > Steve Langasek writes ("Re: Bug#621833: System users: removing them"): > > On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 09:31:47PM +0200, sean finney wrote: > > > I second your original proposal though, that packages must not delete > > > system users that

Re: consolekit makes trouble

2011-05-29 Thread Simon McVittie
On Sun, 29 May 2011 at 10:08:23 +0200, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: > kdm: :0[21175]: Cannot open ConsoleKit session: Unable to open session: > Failed > to execute program /usr/lib/dbus-1.0/dbus-daemon-launch-helper: Succes Reinstall the package that owns that file (which is "dbus"). If that doesn't h

Re: Behaviour of dpkg-source with "3.0 (quilt)" and VCS and automatic patches

2011-05-29 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi, Raphael Hertzog (29/05/2011): > from time to time I hear some rumblings about how "3.0 (quilt)" > mixes badly with VCS. Indeed, one of the primary goals of the format > was to not require prior knowledge of the patch system to be able to > modify a package. thanks for trying to improve the s

Re: Behaviour of dpkg-source with "3.0 (quilt)" and VCS and automatic patches

2011-05-29 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le dimanche 29 mai 2011 à 10:53 +0200, Raphael Hertzog a écrit : > b/ modify dpkg-source --before-build to keep a trace of the fact that >it applied the patches (for example by creating >.pc/dpkg-source-auto-applied) and in that case have dpkg-source >--after-build unapply the patches

Re: consolekit makes trouble

2011-05-29 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Du, 29 mai 11, 10:08:23, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: > > P.S. Sorry, if I sent this wrong, debian-u...@lists.debian.org claimed my e- > mail as spam. - subscribe to whitelist@l.d.o - if you still have troubles contact listmaster@l.d.o Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users an

Behaviour of dpkg-source with "3.0 (quilt)" and VCS and automatic patches

2011-05-29 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hello, from time to time I hear some rumblings about how "3.0 (quilt)" mixes badly with VCS. Indeed, one of the primary goals of the format was to not require prior knowledge of the patch system to be able to modify a package. And it's the case since you can do: - dpkg-source -x - modify files - d

consolekit makes trouble

2011-05-29 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Hello list, I am really despaired! Due to a defective RAM, my /usr was corrupted, and so I had to reinstall the system from scratch. I installed debian/testing completely new (except /home, which is on a separate partition). As I am courious, I saved my package list by dpkg --get-selections >

Re: Unable to ssh to alioth

2011-05-29 Thread Andreas Metzler
Andreas Tille wrote: [...] > I can confirm that I was able to checkout and commit to svn.debian.org until > yesterday evening. Now it fails and the reason seems to be: > ~$ ssh -v svn.debian.org > ... > debug1: ssh_rsa_verify: signature correct > debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS sent > debug1: expecting