Processed: Re: Bug#643712: general: GNOME or GTK tabs are very slow

2011-09-28 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > reassign 643712 gnome Bug #643712 [general] general: GNOME or GTK tabs are very slow Bug reassigned from package 'general' to 'gnome'. > thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. -- 643712: http://bugs.debian.org

Bug#643736: ITP: ocaml-zarith -- arithmetic and logical operations over arbitrary-precision integers

2011-09-28 Thread Mehdi Dogguy
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mehdi Dogguy * Package name: ocaml-zarith Version : 1.0 Upstream Author : Xavier Leroy and Antoine Mine * Url : https://forge.ocamlcore.org/projects/zarith/ * License : LGPL 2 with special linking exception Programming

Bug#643722: ITP: guacamole -- Guacamole Clientless Remote Desktop

2011-09-28 Thread Michael Jumper
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Michael Jumper * Package name: guacamole Version : 0.4.0 Upstream Author : Michael Jumper * URL : http://guacamole.sourceforge.net/ * License : AGPL-3 Programming Lang: Java Description : HTML5 web appi to access

Re: Bits from dpkg developers - dpkg 1.16.1

2011-09-28 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 06:01:54PM -0700, Kees Cook a écrit : > On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 08:17:54AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > Two hardening features are not enabled by default: PIE and bindnow. > > If your package supports PIE, you might want to consider enabling it. > > If the binarie

Re: Bits from dpkg developers - dpkg 1.16.1

2011-09-28 Thread Mike Hommey
On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 10:52:15PM +0300, Riku Voipio wrote: > On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 06:01:54PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote: > > Just to be explicit, PIE tends to have small (<1%) performance hits on > > register-starved architectures (i386) in most cases, for for certain work > > loads (e.g. python)

Bug#643712: general: GNOME or GTK tabs are very slow

2011-09-28 Thread David Rogers
Package: general Severity: important Dear Maintainer, For the last two days any GNOME or GTK program that I run that has tabs (e.g. gedit, nautilus, Iceweasel etc) have become very slow to open new tabs, switch between tabs or close tabs. Nautilus and Iceweasel work with no slow down at all as lo

Re: Bits from dpkg developers - dpkg 1.16.1

2011-09-28 Thread Riku Voipio
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 06:01:54PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote: > Just to be explicit, PIE tends to have small (<1%) performance hits on > register-starved architectures (i386) in most cases, for for certain work > loads (e.g. python) the hit is large (~15%). On architectures with plenty > of registers

Re: BTW question: how expensive is archive/unarchive

2011-09-28 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 10:00:11AM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Wed, 28 Sep 2011, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > > How expensive is this? Is archive/unarchive just a flag to prevent > > spam from getting entered into the bug report, or something more? > > It's mainly just a link/unlink with some inde

Re: BTW question: how expensive is archive/unarchive

2011-09-28 Thread Don Armstrong
On Wed, 28 Sep 2011, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > There are a bunch of bug reports where a bug was fixed in the stable > branch, and for whatever reason it wasn't obvious to BTS that the > bug was fixed in the development branch as well, so it shows a > picture like this: > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-

BTW question: how expensive is archive/unarchive

2011-09-28 Thread Theodore Ts'o
Hi there, There are a bunch of bug reports where a bug was fixed in the stable branch, and for whatever reason it wasn't obvious to BTS that the bug was fixed in the development branch as well, so it shows a picture like this: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/version.cgi?info=1;absolute=0;fixed=e2f

Re: Mobile UXes - From the DebConf11 BoF to the stars

2011-09-28 Thread Didier Raboud
Le vendredi, 9 septembre 2011 09.21:20, Luca Capello a écrit : > On Thu, 08 Sep 2011 10:36:17 +0200, Didier Raboud wrote: > > The main reference to build up this list has been > > http://wiki.debian.org/Smartphone, which is still a good reference! Now > > to the list. > > What about [1]? There is

lists.debian.org: Please create debian-mob...@lists.debian.org (was: Re: Mobile UXes - From the DebConf11 BoF to the stars)

2011-09-28 Thread Didier Raboud
Package: lists.debian.org Severity: normal Le jeudi, 8 septembre 2011 16.32:45, Stefano Zacchiroli a écrit : > I applaud this "merge" effort. Kudos! > > On Thu, Sep 08, 2011 at 10:36:17AM +0200, Didier Raboud wrote: > > c) Create a new Alioth project, 'mobile-ux', with associated > > mailing-list

Re: Bug#643669: ITP: pp-popularity-contest -- PredictProtein popularity contest

2011-09-28 Thread Simon McVittie
On Wed, 28 Sep 2011 at 16:38:11 +0200, Laszlo Kajan wrote: > Without the funding received based on the usage statistics you contribute by > installing this package none of the packages on Debian could have been made > available to you at no cost. I'm pretty sure that's not true. None of the Predic

Re: Eliminating bash scripts?

2011-09-28 Thread Simon McVittie
On Wed, 28 Sep 2011 at 13:01:45 +0200, Thomas Hood wrote: > * The package then has fewer dependencies > * ... and can then be installed on a system without bash. This doesn't help Debian directly, but it may help upstreams to be portable to operating systems with a reason to use a non-bash shell -

Bug#643669: ITP: pp-popularity-contest -- PredictProtein popularity contest

2011-09-28 Thread Laszlo Kajan
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Laszlo Kajan * Package name: pp-popularity-contest Version : 1.0.3 Upstream Author : Laszlo Kajan * URL : http://www.rostlab.org/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: C++ Description : PredictProtein popularity con

Re: Eliminating bash scripts?

2011-09-28 Thread Ian Jackson
Thomas Hood writes ("Eliminating bash scripts?"): > Recently I noticed some bug reports asking that scripts be > rewritten to run on (POSIX) sh. These weren't the familiar > (and completely justified) complaints about bashisms in scripts > shebanged #!/bin/sh. These were requests to rewrite #!/bin

Re: Eliminating bash scripts?

2011-09-28 Thread Neil Williams
On Wed, 28 Sep 2011 13:01:45 +0200 Thomas Hood wrote: > * The package then has fewer dependencies > * ... and can then be installed on a system without bash. Unless the package is doing a lot of clever stuff in shell (at which point it is possibly worth asking if the package should use a faster

Eliminating bash scripts?

2011-09-28 Thread Thomas Hood
Recently I noticed some bug reports asking that scripts be rewritten to run on (POSIX) sh. These weren't the familiar (and completely justified) complaints about bashisms in scripts shebanged #!/bin/sh. These were requests to rewrite #!/bin/bash scripts as #!/bin/sh scripts. Why do this? The fol

Re: Bits from dpkg developers - dpkg 1.16.1

2011-09-28 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Ian Jackson [110927 20:21]: > Bernhard R. Link writes ("Re: Bits from dpkg developers - dpkg 1.16.1"): > > CFLAGS and LDFLAGS (and CPPFLAGS and so on) are in my opionion normal > > things to be in a users environment, so a package's rules file should > > in my eyes not depend on them not being s

Bug#643630: ITP: librg-utils-perl -- parsers and format conversion utilities used by (e.g.) profphd

2011-09-28 Thread Laszlo Kajan
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Laszlo Kajan * Package name: librg-utils-perl Version : 1.0.41 Upstream Author : Burkhard Rost * URL : http://www.rostlab.org/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: Perl Description : parsers and format conversion u