Re: Introducing Build-Recommends / Build-Core-Depends?

2011-08-14 Thread Neil Williams
On Sun, 14 Aug 2011 17:54:55 -0500 Peter Samuelson wrote: > [Andreas Barth] > > Introducing Build-Recommends / Build-Core-Depends > > > > We should be able to specify in the package saying "only these > > build-dependencies are needed to get a functionally working package". > > For such an build

Re: The archive now supports xz compression

2011-08-14 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Adam Borowski | Does someone have an estimate how many core-hours would an archive rebuild | on such a machine take? Folks on IRC quoted numbers like "340", "240 on a | very fast box", "more like 1500" -- too divergent for my liking. The | first number, 340, would mean switching to x

Recent upgrade problems

2011-08-14 Thread Philip Ashmore
Hi there. I ran synaptic and it did the following (from /var/log/apt/history.log) Start-Date: 2011-08-15 03:06:42 Commandline: synaptic Install: xulrunner-5.0:amd64 (5.0-6, automatic), libmozjs5d:amd64 (5.0-6, automatic) Upgrade: python-coherence:amd64 (0.6.6.2-5, 0.6.6.2-6), openprinting-ppd

Bug#637849: ITP: python-ordereddict -- Drop-in substitute for Python 2.7's collections.OrderedDict

2011-08-14 Thread Janos Guljas
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Janos Guljas * Package name: python-ordereddict Version : 1.1 Upstream Author : Raymond Hettinger * URL : http://pypi.python.org/pypi/ordereddict/ * License : MIT/X Programming Lang: Python Description : Drop-in s

Re: Bug#601596: RFH: festival -- General multi-lingual speech synthesis system

2011-08-14 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 09:33:50AM +0800, YunQiang Su wrote: > Would you found a TTS team? > and invite all TTS packager to join it? This would be the ideal solution. I'd love it for people interested to come forward in this effort. Thanks! Kumar -- /* * Oops. The kernel tried to access some b

Re: Bug#601596: RFH: festival -- General multi-lingual speech synthesis system

2011-08-14 Thread YunQiang Su
Would you found a TTS team? and invite all TTS packager to join it? -- YunQiang Su -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAKcpw6XUKSML+O-2a1Q+m1DoaLivBMY=

Re: support for installing unconfigured systems (VM images, Debian Live images, preinstalled mobile/tablet images)

2011-08-14 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Aug 14, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > Yes, because the upstream maintainers decided that the current scheme > > cannot work and will remove support for it. > > I do not know how long it will be feasible to keep it as a Debian patch. > It works today for many users. I don't see why it would stop wo

Re: The archive now supports xz compression

2011-08-14 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Roger Leigh [Sun, Aug 14 2011, 11:01:11PM]: > On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 09:19:02PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > On 11/08/11 at 19:52 +, Philipp Kern wrote: > > Wouldn't it be better to get more buildds for those archs, then? > > That would be a totally appropriate use of Debian m

Re: The archive now supports xz compression

2011-08-14 Thread Joey Hess
Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Nope, sorry. I was referring to things like GNOME shipping only .tar.xz. > I mean they would not take such a decision if getting an xz decompressor > was a pain on many systems. There is a large distance between systems on which users are likely to build gnome from scratch

Bug#637835: ITP: squeak-plugins-scratch -- Squeak plugins for the Scratch programming environment

2011-08-14 Thread Miriam Ruiz
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Miriam Ruiz * Package name: squeak-plugins-scratch Version : 1.4.0.2~svn.r80 Upstream Author : Scratch on Linux * URL : http://info.scratch.mit.edu/Scratch_on_Linux * License : MIT/X Programming Lang: C Description

Re: The archive now supports xz compression

2011-08-14 Thread Adam Borowski
On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 11:01:11PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > Possibly a stupid question here but: Given that we are now autosigning > builds, why can't the slower arches use gzip, and then after upload > they could be recompressed with xz (and resigned) on a faster arch? > This would allow xz com

Re: The archive now supports xz compression

2011-08-14 Thread Adam Borowski
On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 09:19:02PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > On 11/08/11 at 19:52 +, Philipp Kern wrote: > > On 2011-08-11, Adam Borowski wrote: > > >> Think of both user systems and the Debian buildds which will waste more > > >> time - an especially bad problem on slower architectures.

Re: Introducing Build-Recommends / Build-Core-Depends?

2011-08-14 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Andreas Barth] > Introducing Build-Recommends / Build-Core-Depends > > We should be able to specify in the package saying "only these > build-dependencies are needed to get a functionally working package". > For such an build, the packages which are not needed for building > working core package

Re: Release Update: Goals, Arches, Rolling, Removals

2011-08-14 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Luk Claes , 2011-08-13, 23:34: As noted in our previous mail [0DAY:DDA], bug #625449 has been opened against developers-reference. This now seems to be drawing itself to a conclusion. We would still welcome use of delayed queues where appropriate, but this also formalises the policy over the

Re: The archive now supports xz compression

2011-08-14 Thread Roger Leigh
On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 09:19:02PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > On 11/08/11 at 19:52 +, Philipp Kern wrote: > > On 2011-08-11, Adam Borowski wrote: > > >> Think of both user systems and the Debian buildds which will waste more > > >> time - an especially bad problem on slower architectures.

Re: e2dis: a Jigdo-like tool for Ext2+ FS images

2011-08-14 Thread Steve McIntyre
Ivan Shmakov wrote: > > Jigdo has to “discover” octet sequences on an image with > hashing, which is computationally expensive. Yes. > IIRC, Debian's genisoimage(1) was altered to prepare a Jigdo's > .template file as part of the image generation, which is much >

Re: The archive now supports xz compression

2011-08-14 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 09:19:02PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > Of course, it might require finding more buildd maintainers. But I must > admit that I have no idea what buildd admins spend time on, and how it's > possible to help them. "A life in the day of a buildd maintainer" would not be a ba

Re: Bug#601596: RFH: festival -- General multi-lingual speech synthesis system

2011-08-14 Thread Kumar Appaiah
retitle 601596 O: festival -- General multi-lingual speech synthesis system thanks Dear Debian developers and contributors, (Apologies for the cross post) On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 12:46:36PM -0500, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > I request assistance with maintaining the festival (and speech-tools) > pack

Re: The archive now supports xz compression

2011-08-14 Thread Philipp Kern
On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 09:19:02PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > On 11/08/11 at 19:52 +, Philipp Kern wrote: > > On 2011-08-11, Adam Borowski wrote: > > >> Think of both user systems and the Debian buildds which will waste more > > >> time - an especially bad problem on slower architectures.

Re: The archive now supports xz compression

2011-08-14 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 11/08/11 at 19:52 +, Philipp Kern wrote: > On 2011-08-11, Adam Borowski wrote: > >> Think of both user systems and the Debian buildds which will waste more > >> time - an especially bad problem on slower architectures. > > The gain is especially meaningful for slower architectures, as they

Processed: tagging 637805

2011-08-14 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > tags 637805 - lfs Bug #637805 [general] general: can't mount a usb drive as a non-root user Removed tag(s) lfs. > thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. -- 637805: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?

Bug#637805: general: can't mount a usb drive as a non-root user

2011-08-14 Thread Rudy Klein
Package: general Severity: normal Tags: lfs whan i plug a usb hard drive when logged as a non-root user, i have this error message: Error mounting: mount exited with exit code 1: helper failed with: Error opening '/dev/sdc1': Permission denied Failed to mount '/dev/sdc1': Permission denied Please

Re: mentors.debian.net runs the debexpo code now

2011-08-14 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> Arno Töll writes: > On 13.08.2011 17:36, Ivan Shmakov wrote: I wonder, is it possible to add a bit more magic to debexpo, so that the comments made via the Web interface would be forwarded to the list, and vice versa? >> This task is indeed in my queue, but I won't p

Re: e2dis: a Jigdo-like tool for Ext2+ FS images

2011-08-14 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> Adam Borowski writes: > On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 03:07:24PM +0700, Ivan Shmakov wrote: >> BTW, I've just announced [1] the availability of the code which >> (given some attention and care) may be turned into a Jigdo-like >> suite for Ext2+ FS images. >> (The casuality of fragmentati

Re: mentors.debian.net runs the debexpo code now

2011-08-14 Thread Arno Töll
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Ivan, On 13.08.2011 17:36, Ivan Shmakov wrote: > >> I wonder, is it possible to add a bit more magic to debexpo, so that > >> the comments made via the Web interface would be forwarded to the > >> list, and vice versa? ... > This task is i

Re: e2dis: a Jigdo-like tool for Ext2+ FS images

2011-08-14 Thread Adam Borowski
On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 03:07:24PM +0700, Ivan Shmakov wrote: > BTW, I've just announced [1] the availability of the code which > (given some attention and care) may be turned into a Jigdo-like > suite for Ext2+ FS images. > > (The casuality of fragmentation on such filesys

Bug#637765: ITP: pcsc-cyberjack -- REINER SCT cyberJack USB chipcard reader user space driver

2011-08-14 Thread Reinhard Tartler
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Reinhard Tartler * Package name: pcsc-cyberjack Version : 3.99.5final.SP02 Upstream Author : Matthias Bruestle, Harald Welte, Martin Preuss (supp...@reiner-sct.com) * URL : http://www.reiner-sct.de/ * License : LGPL 2.1+

Bug#637761: ITP: cavalry -- Mounts a web site.

2011-08-14 Thread Misha Strong
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Misha Strong * Package name: cavalry Version : 1.0.14 Upstream Author : Nice Versa (Pty) Ltd. * URL : http://niceversa.dyndns.info/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: Pascal Description : Mounts a web site. Do y

e2dis: a Jigdo-like tool for Ext2+ FS images

2011-08-14 Thread Ivan Shmakov
BTW, I've just announced [1] the availability of the code which (given some attention and care) may be turned into a Jigdo-like suite for Ext2+ FS images. (The casuality of fragmentation on such filesystems greatly reduces the applicability of the FS-agnosti