Re: Increasing minimum 'i386' processor

2011-11-19 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Sat, 19 Nov 2011, Ben Hutchings wrote: > Also possibly: > 6. DM&P/SiS Vortex86 and Vortex86SX. These supposedly have all >586-class features except an FPU, and we could probably keep FPU >emulation for them. FWIW, I do run Debian on such systems albeit with a custom kernel. Given those

Re: Bug#649257: ITP: php-numbers-words -- Numbers_Words package provides methods for spelling numerals in words.

2011-11-19 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 11/19/2011 08:17 PM, David Dumortier wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: David Dumortier > > * Package name: php-numbers-words > Version : 0.16.2 > Upstream Author : Piotr Klaban, Kouber Saparev, Marcelo Subtil Marcal, Igor > Feghali > * URL : http:

Bug#649345: ITP: ngraph-gtk -- create scientific 2-dimensional graphs

2011-11-19 Thread Koichi Akabe
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Koichi Akabe * Package name: ngraph-gtk Version : 6.06.02 Upstream Author : Ito Hiroyuki * URL : http://homepage3.nifty.com/slokar/ngraph/ngraph-gtk.html * License : GPL-2 Programming Lang: C Description : creat

Bug#649342: ITP: freecode-submit -- remote submission of release updates to Freecode.com

2011-11-19 Thread Francois Marier
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Francois Marier * Package name: freecode-submit Version : 2.3 Upstream Author : Eric S. Raymond * URL : http://www.catb.org/~esr/freecode-submit/ * License : BSD Programming Lang: Python Description : remote subm

Bug#649338: ITP: pxe-kexec -- Retrieves PXE configuration file and kexec entries

2011-11-19 Thread Dave Walker (Daviey)
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Dave Walker (Daviey)" * Package name: pxe-kexec Version : 0.2.4 Upstream Author : Bernhard Walle * URL : http://pxe-kexec.berlios.de/ * License : GPL-2.0+ Programming Lang: C++ Description : Retrieves PXE config

Re: bits from the DPL for October 2011 and others

2011-11-19 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 05:32:35PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Hi, > > this isn't quite on topic and you are just the last in a long list of > "bits from xyz" but I think it has to be said: Thanks for keeping us > informed. > > I think this year has been the most informative ever, at lea

Re: Increasing minimum 'i386' processor

2011-11-19 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Sat, 2011-11-19 at 22:42:11 +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > The i386 architecture was the first in Linux and in Debian, but we have > long since dropped support for the original i386-compatible processors > and now require a minimum of a 486-class processor. > > I think it is time to increas

Re: Distribution and support for Debian-502-i386-netinst

2011-11-19 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 11:45:12PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >Goswin von Brederlow writes: > >> Steve McIntyre writes: >> >>> Marc Haber wrote: On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 20:26:33 +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > >I can't imagine why you would expect this to work. I woul

Re: Increasing minimum 'i386' processor

2011-11-19 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2011-11-20 at 00:55 +0200, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote: > Ben Hutchings writes: > > 5. AMD/NSC Geode GX1, Geode SC1100, Elan SC4xx and SC5xx > > Does this mean that "AMD Geode LX" as mentioned in > http://pcengines.ch/alix.htm still works? [...] Yes, the later 'Geode' processors are 686-c

Re: Increasing minimum 'i386' processor

2011-11-19 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Ben Hutchings writes: > 5. AMD/NSC Geode GX1, Geode SC1100, Elan SC4xx and SC5xx Does this mean that "AMD Geode LX" as mentioned in http://pcengines.ch/alix.htm still works? damager:~$ cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 5 model : 10 m

Re: Distribution and support for Debian-502-i386-netinst

2011-11-19 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Goswin von Brederlow writes: > Steve McIntyre writes: > >> Marc Haber wrote: >>>On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 20:26:33 +, Ben Hutchings >>> wrote: I can't imagine why you would expect this to work. >>> >>>I wouldn't. The site was just surprised by the point release and did >>>notice the depl

Increasing minimum 'i386' processor

2011-11-19 Thread Ben Hutchings
The i386 architecture was the first in Linux and in Debian, but we have long since dropped support for the original i386-compatible processors and now require a minimum of a 486-class processor. I think it is time to increase the minimum requirement to 586-class, if not for wheezy then immediately

ITP: esys-particle -- HPC Discrete Element Modelling Software

2011-11-19 Thread Anton Gladky
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Anton Gladky * Package name: esys-particle Version : 2.1 Upstream Author : Esys-Particle team * URL : https://launchpad.net/esys-particle * License : Open Software License version 3.0 Programming Lang: C++, Python De

Re: Bug#649274: Forming a new upstream for timidity (and reporting various issues with current deb pkg)

2011-11-19 Thread Geoffrey Thomas
On Sat, 19 Nov 2011, Neil Williams wrote: CC'ing the only person to express some interest. Geoffrey, if you are no longer interested in timidity, despite signs of interest from a possible new upstream, please retitle #585039 as O: instead of ITA: Thanks for Ccing me. The "real world" had caugh

Re: Distribution and support for Debian-502-i386-netinst

2011-11-19 Thread Marc Haber
On Sat, 19 Nov 2011 17:15:13 +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >Marc Haber writes: >> The solution would be to offer additional install media with >> additional support. The mere chance of introducing a regression is a >> risk which I think should not be taken by Debian. > >Or just keeping the o

Bug#649309: ITP: redsocks -- Daemon that transparently tunnels TCP connections through a SOCKS/HTTPS proxy

2011-11-19 Thread Apollon Oikonomopoulos
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Apollon Oikonomopoulos * Package name: redsocks Version : 0.2 Upstream Author : Leonid Evdokimov * URL : http://darkk.net.ru/redsocks * License : Apache License 2.0 Programming Lang: C Description : Daemon that

Re: bits from the DPL for October 2011 and others

2011-11-19 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Hi, this isn't quite on topic and you are just the last in a long list of "bits from xyz" but I think it has to be said: Thanks for keeping us informed. I think this year has been the most informative ever, at least that is how it feels to me. So to you and all the others please do keep up the "b

Re: Bug#649274: Forming a new upstream for timidity (and reporting various issues with current deb pkg)

2011-11-19 Thread John D. Hendrickson and Sara Darnell
my mistake. (an "install old libs" thing? an incompat lib mod should be a new major ver) Philipp Kern wrote: ~ Lack of IPv6 support is only critical if it causes data loss (like with libspf, By itself it's not a reason for removal, especially as we're not talking about ~ Kind regards Philipp

Re: Bug#649274: Forming a new upstream for timidity (and reporting various issues with current deb pkg)

2011-11-19 Thread Hans de Goede
Hi, On 11/19/2011 04:39 PM, Neil Williams wrote: On Sat, 19 Nov 2011 15:05:00 +0100 Hans de Goede wrote: This is a bit unusual bug-report I'm afraid normally I would've send this as an email to the Debian package maintainer of timidity, but it seems that timidity is currently orphaned in Debi

Re: Distribution and support for Debian-502-i386-netinst

2011-11-19 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Steve McIntyre writes: > Marc Haber wrote: >>On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 20:26:33 +, Ben Hutchings >> wrote: >>> >>>I can't imagine why you would expect this to work. >> >>I wouldn't. The site was just surprised by the point release and did >>notice the deployment failure well before the announcemen

Re: Towards multi-arch: "Multi-Arch: same" file conflicts

2011-11-19 Thread John D. Hendrickson and Sara Darnell
From: john hendrickson Josselin your response is obstructive rather than productive. If you have a vested interest in obstructed Debian you must make that known in the outset, capice? Josselin Mouette wrote: Or in legacy; I've read about wishes of their own patent problems, capice? But ads

Re: Distribution and support for Debian-502-i386-netinst

2011-11-19 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Marc Haber writes: > On Fri, 18 Nov 2011 19:48:24 +, Ben Hutchings > wrote: >>On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 05:59:59PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: >>> On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 20:43:32 +, "Adam D. Barratt" >>> wrote: >>> >but >>> >the kernel team have been very good in the past about fixing such thin

Re: Bug#649274: Forming a new upstream for timidity (and reporting various issues with current deb pkg)

2011-11-19 Thread Philipp Kern
On 2011-11-19, Neil Williams wrote: > If timidity doesn't get IPv6 support soon, it will end up being removed > from Debian due to other release requirements anyway. That is another > good reason to remove the current version of timidity unless someone > steps up to introduce the new upstream rele

Re: Bug#649274: Forming a new upstream for timidity (and reporting various issues with current deb pkg)

2011-11-19 Thread John D. Hendrickson and Sara Darnell
"If timidity doesn't get IPv6 support soon" ? I don't see IPv6 as important. It's a major maintenance burden (a hack to firewall, configure, ...), IPSs use it to dominate ISP sales, and so far no one claims to have a final spec on it. when is IPv4 over IPv6 a sin? are bsd sockets a sin (they

Re: Towards multi-arch: "Multi-Arch: same" file conflicts

2011-11-19 Thread Josselin Mouette
Or in legacy; I've read about wishes of their own patent problems, capice? But ads a login can get out and having to be opensuse deeply compatible yet high unix efficient, Switching to all the road? Grub and having to maintain and inodes would be my slice single project need change if MIS USED by

Re: Bug#649274: Forming a new upstream for timidity (and reporting various issues with current deb pkg)

2011-11-19 Thread Neil Williams
On Sat, 19 Nov 2011 15:05:00 +0100 Hans de Goede wrote: > This is a bit unusual bug-report I'm afraid normally I would've > send this as an email to the Debian package maintainer of > timidity, but it seems that timidity is currently orphaned in > Debian :| There has been no interest from anyone

Re: Towards multi-arch: "Multi-Arch: same" file conflicts

2011-11-19 Thread John D. Hendrickson and Sara Darnell
not that i'm multi-lingual (i use google to translate!) don't we get all .mo avail. in packages already? (i hope) # locate "*.mo" | wc 13341 13341 648305 ... and if build/tar admins say "choose another method" why not try asking them what? can't i delete .mo locally if i'm bitwise despe

Re: Bug#648306: The mingw* mess in Debian

2011-11-19 Thread Stephen Kitt
On Mon, 14 Nov 2011 03:03:16 +1030, Ron wrote: > On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 01:17:43AM +0100, Stephen Kitt wrote: > > There is one major difference I know of: i686-pc-mingw32 (the official > > MinGW triplet) builds with Dwarf2 exception handling, whereas the > > -w64-mingw32 (the official MinGW-w64 t

Re: Towards multi-arch: "Multi-Arch: same" file conflicts

2011-11-19 Thread John D. Hendrickson and Sara Darnell
hi. i'm not an "admin" but. are you sure compression routines guarantee the same compression for the same file? and when given differing directory names? I have a hard time wrapping my head around your statement: gzip is "erroneous". Have fun, John Hendrickson look at my quick test ... #

Bug#649270: ITP: r-cran-rms -- Regression Modeling Strategies

2011-11-19 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Package: wnpp Owner: Dirk Eddelbuettel Severity: wishlist * Package name: r-cran-rms Version : 3.3-2-1 Upstream Author : Frank Harrell * URL or Web page : http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/wiki/Main/Rrms * License : GPL-2 Description : Regression Modeling Strategies

Bug#649260: ITP: wxgeometrie -- Swiss army knife for the math teacher

2011-11-19 Thread Georges Khaznadar
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Georges Khaznadar * Package name: wxgeometrie Version : 0.1.0+git20111014 Upstream Author : Nicolas Pourcelot * URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/wxgeometrie/ * License : GPL-2+ Programming Lang: Python Descript

Bug#649257: ITP: php-numbers-words -- Numbers_Words package provides methods for spelling numerals in words.

2011-11-19 Thread David Dumortier
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: David Dumortier * Package name: php-numbers-words Version : 0.16.2 Upstream Author : Piotr Klaban, Kouber Saparev, Marcelo Subtil Marcal, Igor Feghali * URL : http://pear.php.net/package/Numbers_Words * License : PHP P

Bug#649256: ITP: php-numbers-roman -- Provides methods for converting to and from Roman Numerals.

2011-11-19 Thread David Dumortier
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: David Dumortier * Package name: php-numbers-roman Version : 1.0.2 Upstream Author : David Costa, Klaus Guenther * URL : http://pear.php.net/package/Numbers_Roman * License : PHP Programming Lang: PHP Description :

Re: Towards multi-arch: "Multi-Arch: same" file conflicts

2011-11-19 Thread Josselin Mouette
Hi, Le jeudi 17 novembre 2011 à 20:03 +0100, Jakub Wilk a écrit : > http://people.debian.org/~jwilk/multi-arch/same-md5sums.txt > http://people.debian.org/~jwilk/multi-arch/same-md5sums.ddlist > > (If there is no MD5 sum information next to a file name, it means that > the sum for each architec

Bug#649254: ITP: php-image-color -- Manage and handles color data and conversions.

2011-11-19 Thread David Dumortier
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: David Dumortier * Package name: php-image-color Version : 1.0.4 Upstream Author : Jason Lotito, Andrew Morton, Ulf Wendel * URL : http://pear.php.net/package/Image_Color * License : PHP Programming Lang: PHP Descripti

Re: Distribution and support for Debian-502-i386-netinst

2011-11-19 Thread Marc Haber
On Fri, 18 Nov 2011 19:48:24 +, Ben Hutchings wrote: >On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 05:59:59PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: >> On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 20:43:32 +, "Adam D. Barratt" >> wrote: >> >but >> >the kernel team have been very good in the past about fixing such things >> >once they're aware of t

Re: Towards multi-arch: "Multi-Arch: same" file conflicts

2011-11-19 Thread Neil Williams
On Fri, 18 Nov 2011 23:39:20 -0600 Peter Samuelson wrote: > > [Jakub Wilk] > > The most common reasons for cross-architecture differences appear to > > be (in random order): > > > - Compiling GNU message catalogs with gettext, which uses native > > endianness (see bug #468209). (Hmm, I did get

Bug#649250: ITP: php-image-canvas -- providing a common interface to image drawing.

2011-11-19 Thread David Dumortier
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: David (dadu) Dumortier * Package name: php-image-canvas Version : 0.3.3 Upstream Author : Jesper Veggerby * URL : http://pear.php.net/package/Image_Canvas * License : LGPL Programming Lang: PHP Description : provi

Bug#649246: ITP: libjas-java -- Java object-oriented type-safe Algebra System

2011-11-19 Thread Giovanni Mascellani
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Package name: libjas-java Version: 2.4 Upstream Author: Heinz Kredel URL: http://krum.rz.uni-mannheim.de/jas/ License: GPL or LGPL Description: Java object-oriented type-safe Algebra Sy