Re: Debian as Software Appliance

2011-10-02 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 4:49 PM, Paul Wise wrote: > Thanks for your mail though, it was interesting to learn some more about > the use-cases for Emdebian, a blog post about that would be good. Folks who though Neil's mail were interesting might like to view his recent blog post on the topic: htt

Bug#644122: ITP: libalkimia -- Financial library common classes for KDE SC

2011-10-02 Thread Mark Purcell
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mark Purcell * Package name: libalkimia Version : 4.3.1 Upstream Author : Thomas Baumgart * URL : http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=137323 * License : LGPL Programming Lang: C++ Description : Financi

Re: Bits from dpkg developers - dpkg 1.16.1

2011-10-02 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sun, 02 Oct 2011, Florian Weimer wrote: > Couldn't we get rid of static libraries altogether, replacing static > linking with ahead-of-time dynamic linking? Well, the normal usecase for static libraries and static linking is to produce self-contained objects. If you can link a bunch of dynamic

Re: Bits from dpkg developers - dpkg 1.16.1

2011-10-02 Thread Andreas Barth
* Florian Weimer (f...@deneb.enyo.de) [111002 21:59]: > Couldn't we get rid of static libraries altogether, replacing static > linking with ahead-of-time dynamic linking? Could you explain what this means for people not so deep into that? (E.g. how is the linking done? When? What does that mean fo

Re: Bits from dpkg developers - dpkg 1.16.1

2011-10-02 Thread Florian Weimer
* Kees Cook: > When we decide to build an entire architecture as PIE, then we'll also need > to build those static libs with -fPIE too. Couldn't we get rid of static libraries altogether, replacing static linking with ahead-of-time dynamic linking? There's still a theoretical difference between

Bug#644096: ITP: vistrails -- Scientific visualisation workflow tool

2011-10-02 Thread Alastair McKinstry
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alastair McKinstry * Package name: vistrails Version : 2.0.alpha Upstream Author : U. of Utah * URL : http://www.vistrails.org * License : BSD Programming Lang: python Description : Scientific visualisation workf

Re: On Sid and Experimental

2011-10-02 Thread Manjul Apratim
On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 7:16 AM, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le dimanche 02 octobre 2011 à 02:36 -0400, Manjul Apratim a écrit : > > And now a lot of software in Sid is no more the latest that the FOSS > > world has to offer - to cite a few, Sid still has rhythmbox-0.12 while > > I have been using r

Bug#644075: ITP: lacewing -- Cross-platform, high-level networking library for C and C++

2011-10-02 Thread James McLaughlin
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: James McLaughlin * Package name: lacewing Version : 0.2.4 Upstream Author : James McLaughlin * URL : http://www.lacewing-project.org/ * License : BSD Programming Lang: C, C++ Description : Cross-platform, hig

Re: On Sid and Experimental

2011-10-02 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le dimanche 02 octobre 2011 à 02:36 -0400, Manjul Apratim a écrit : > And now a lot of software in Sid is no more the latest that the FOSS > world has to offer - to cite a few, Sid still has rhythmbox-0.12 while > I have been using rhythmbox-2.90 in both Ubuntu and Arch without > problems for quite

Re: On Sid and Experimental

2011-10-02 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hiya, Manjul Apratim wrote: > I cannot help but view too many apt pins > as an intentional recipe for disaster! If you really want to experience life on the edge, you can try this: echo 'APT::Default-Release "experimental";' \ >/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/preferexperimental.conf

Re: On Sid and Experimental

2011-10-02 Thread Martin Bagge / brother
On Sun, 2 Oct 2011, Manjul Apratim wrote: Therefore, from purely a user's perspective, I wonder about the daunting task of maintaining Testing/Sid/Experimental separately - with due respect, if Sid was itself Experimental, and Testing the stabler version of that (but < Stable) which would eventu

Bug#644050: ITP: prads -- pasive realtime asset detection system

2011-10-02 Thread Stig Sandbeck Mathisen
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Stig Sandbeck Mathisen * Package name: prads Version : 0.3.0 Upstream Author : Edward Bjarte Fjellskål , Kacper Wysocki * URL : http://github.com/gamelinux/prads * License : GPLv2+ Programming Lang: C Description

Re: On Sid and Experimental

2011-10-02 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Oct 02, 2011 at 02:36:03AM -0400, Manjul Apratim wrote: > My reason for harassing the venerable Debian developers on here is probably > not new and discussed time and again given the thoroughness with which > Debian does everything: the time that I was not following Debian has > witnessed t

Re: On Sid and Experimental (GNOME3 transition)

2011-10-02 Thread Neil Williams
On Sun, 2 Oct 2011 02:36:03 -0400 Manjul Apratim wrote: > cite a few, Sid still has rhythmbox-0.12 while I have been using > rhythmbox-2.90 in both Ubuntu and Arch without problems for quite some time OK, what that comes down to is the migration to libgtk3 from libgtk2 and gnome3 from gnome2. Th