Re: Bug#692863: ITP: heimdall -- tool for flashing firmware on Samsung Galaxy S devices

2012-11-09 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 5:57 AM, Jeremy Bicha wrote: > There's another ITP that suggested heimdall-flash: > http://bugs.debian.org/644520 Marcin Juszkiewicz was also packaging this and I suggested android-tools-heimdall since we also have android-tools-adb and android-tools-fastboot. -- bye, p

Re: Where could I upload x32 port bootstrap?

2012-11-09 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Fri, 2012-11-09 at 14:06:15 -0800, Daniel Schepler wrote: > I've asked a couple people in private mail about this, and haven't > gotten any answer, so I thought I'd ask here for ideas. Where would > be a good place to upload what I have so far from bootstrapping an x32 > port of Debian? S

Re: Where could I upload x32 port bootstrap?

2012-11-09 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Nov 09, Daniel Schepler wrote: > I've asked a couple people in private mail about this, and haven't > gotten any answer, so I thought I'd ask here for ideas. Where would > be a good place to upload what I have so far from bootstrapping an x32 > port of Debian? Nowhere, until we decide if and

Bug#692864: RFP: mdpress -- create Impress.js slideshows with Markdown

2012-11-09 Thread Axel Beckert
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Control: block -1 by 623914 * Package name: mdpress Version : 0.0.12 Upstream Author : Aditya Bhargava * URL or Web page : https://github.com/egonSchiele/mdpress#readme * License : MIT Description : create Impress.js slideshows with M

Where could I upload x32 port bootstrap?

2012-11-09 Thread Daniel Schepler
I've asked a couple people in private mail about this, and haven't gotten any answer, so I thought I'd ask here for ideas. Where would be a good place to upload what I have so far from bootstrapping an x32 port of Debian? So far I have over 13000 source packages built, so the total size is likely

Re: Bug#692863: ITP: heimdall -- tool for flashing firmware on Samsung Galaxy S devices

2012-11-09 Thread Jeremy Bicha
On 9 November 2012 16:43, Steve Langasek wrote: > * Package name: heimdall > Version : 1.4~rc2 > Upstream Author : Benjamin Dobell > * URL : http://www.glassechidna.com.au/products/heimdall/ > * License : MIT/X11 > Programming Lang: C++ > Description : t

Bug#692863: ITP: heimdall -- tool for flashing firmware on Samsung Galaxy S devices

2012-11-09 Thread Steve Langasek
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Steve Langasek * Package name: heimdall Version : 1.4~rc2 Upstream Author : Benjamin Dobell * URL : http://www.glassechidna.com.au/products/heimdall/ * License : MIT/X11 Programming Lang: C++ Description : tool fo

Bug#692860: ITP: ITP: gimp-qmlexporter -- GIMP plugin to export layers and Text as QT-Quick (QML)

2012-11-09 Thread Joseph Mills
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Joseph Mills * Package name: ITP: gimp-qmlexporter Version : 0.0.1-10 Upstream Author : Jens Bache-Wiig * URL : http://qt.gitorious.org/qt-labs/gimp-qmlexporter * License : (GPLV3+) Programming Lang: (Python) Descrip

Re: Something like nocompress DEB_BUILD_OPTION

2012-11-09 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Fri, 2012-11-09 at 10:16:21 +, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: > On 9 November 2012 09:37, Simon McVittie wrote: > > (It's possible that "faster" presets don't actually give you more > > performance if the time to write out the .deb is dominated by I/O, > > though.) > > True about I/O. Does d

Re: Something like nocompress DEB_BUILD_OPTION

2012-11-09 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Fri, 2012-11-09 at 15:52:53 +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Fri, Nov 09, 2012 at 12:26:19PM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: > > | dpkg-deb: building package `linux-image-3.6-trunk-amd64' in > > `test.gzip.deb'. > > | dpkg-deb -Zgzip -b debian/linux-image-3.6-trunk-amd64 test.gzip.deb > > 62

Re: What is the use case for Policy §7.6.2 ?

2012-11-09 Thread Don Armstrong
On Fri, 09 Nov 2012, Russ Allbery wrote: > That makes sense to me on first glance. I can't think of a case > where I'd want to use Provides/Conflicts/Replaces with non-virtual > packages rather than using a transitional package. I'm currently using this in the case of unscd and nscd. It's useful

Re: What is the use case for Policy §7.6.2 ?

2012-11-09 Thread Russ Allbery
Josselin Mouette writes: > the Debian policy makes a special case of the > Provides/Conflicts/Replaces combination, allowing to replace a package > by another. > The document mentions the case of a virtual package, for which this is > nice and all, but it is still allowed for other packages. >

Re: major linux problems summary 2012

2012-11-09 Thread Philipp Kern
On Fri, Nov 09, 2012 at 02:36:24PM +0200, Riku Voipio wrote: > Perhaps we should stop pretending Linux runs on any random hardware, and > tell people to buy machines with Linux pre-installed? System76 [1], > Google [2], Dell, HP, Acer, and others do already so. Dell's shipping a "heavily patched"[

Re: IPv6, tentative addresses, bind(), wheezy

2012-11-09 Thread Marc Haber
On Sun, 04 Nov 2012 15:34:26 +, Ben Hutchings wrote: >This wouldn't solve the problem that the UDP servers have, which is that >they need to be able to send replies from the same address the request >was sent to. Right. Grüße Marc -- -- !! No courtesy cop

Re: Bug#692830: ITP: nemo -- File manager for cinnamon

2012-11-09 Thread Jon Dowland
On Fri, Nov 09, 2012 at 05:27:03PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Yes, that's correct. But that's only one of the points of my > criticism. I am in general not very much convinced by the quality of > the packages in Linux Mint. Neither am I. I did look at cinnamon and muffin briefly, sa

Re: Bug#692830: ITP: nemo -- File manager for cinnamon

2012-11-09 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, On Fri, Nov 09, 2012 at 05:47:56PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On Fri, Nov 09, 2012 at 05:39:40PM +0100, Michael Banck wrote: > > If people think it is worth keeping the nautilus codebase around, I > > think it would be ok to have it packaged, > > Hmm, are the GNOME developers

Re: Bug#692830: ITP: nemo -- File manager for cinnamon

2012-11-09 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On Fri, Nov 09, 2012 at 05:39:40PM +0100, Michael Banck wrote: > You critized their packaging, but this appears to be an upstream fork > which is not just a sed regexp to replace the name. I am just sharing my experiences so far. I tried to help them to fix issues in mdm and my commits were rever

Re: Bug#692830: ITP: nemo -- File manager for cinnamon

2012-11-09 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, On Fri, Nov 09, 2012 at 05:27:03PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On Fri, Nov 09, 2012 at 04:23:16PM +, Jon Dowland wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 09, 2012 at 05:06:57PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > > I don't think it is currently a sensible decision to introduce > > > du

Re: Bug#692830: ITP: nemo -- File manager for cinnamon

2012-11-09 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On Fri, Nov 09, 2012 at 04:23:16PM +, Jon Dowland wrote: > On Fri, Nov 09, 2012 at 05:06:57PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > I don't think it is currently a sensible decision to introduce > > duplicate GNOME3 packages into Debian. Nautilus 3.4 is currently > > available through GNO

Re: RFC on MBF (non-freeness of "The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil")

2012-11-09 Thread Jon Dowland
CCing Ansgar On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 04:25:51PM +0100, Leo 'costela' Antunes wrote: > Ansgar has recently made an MBF against all packages including the > problematic JSON license term "The Software shall be used for Good, not > Evil". I've found one of these - #692614 - is the whole set collecte

Re: Bug#692830: ITP: nemo -- File manager for cinnamon

2012-11-09 Thread Jon Dowland
On Fri, Nov 09, 2012 at 05:06:57PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > I don't think it is currently a sensible decision to introduce > duplicate GNOME3 packages into Debian. Nautilus 3.4 is currently > available through GNOME3, so this would introduce redundancy. wheezy will have 3.4 but 3.

Re: Bug#692830: ITP: nemo -- File manager for cinnamon

2012-11-09 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On Fri, Nov 09, 2012 at 03:59:00PM +0100, Nicolas Bourdaud wrote: > > Nemo is a complete fork of Nautilus 3.4 and its goal is to extend the Cinnamon > user experience to desktop and file management. I don't think it is currently a sensible decision to introduce duplicate GNOME3 packages into Debi

Re: Something like nocompress DEB_BUILD_OPTION

2012-11-09 Thread Dmitrijs Ledkovs
On 9 November 2012 14:52, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Fri, Nov 09, 2012 at 12:26:19PM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: >> | dpkg-deb: building package `linux-image-3.6-trunk-amd64' in >> `test.gzip.deb'. >> | dpkg-deb -Zgzip -b debian/linux-image-3.6-trunk-amd64 test.gzip.deb >> 62.96s user 1.78s syst

Re: major linux problems summary 2012

2012-11-09 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2012-11-09 14:36:24 +0200, Riku Voipio wrote: > On Sun, Nov 04, 2012 at 12:03:37PM +0100, Karol Szkudlarek wrote: [...] > > and about touchpad: > > > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/606238 [...] > Perhaps we should stop pretending Linux runs on any random hardware, and >

Re: Something like nocompress DEB_BUILD_OPTION

2012-11-09 Thread Bastian Blank
On Fri, Nov 09, 2012 at 12:26:19PM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: > | dpkg-deb: building package `linux-image-3.6-trunk-amd64' in `test.gzip.deb'. > | dpkg-deb -Zgzip -b debian/linux-image-3.6-trunk-amd64 test.gzip.deb 62.96s > user 1.78s system 101% cpu 1:03.77 total Some further tests show clearl

Bug#692830: ITP: nemo -- File manager for cinnamon

2012-11-09 Thread Nicolas Bourdaud
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicolas Bourdaud * Package name: nemo Version : 1.1.1 Upstream Author : Linux Mint Project * URL : https://github.com/linuxmint/nemo/ * License : GPL2+ Programming Lang: C Description : File manager for cinnamon

Bug#692829: ITP: pbsclusterviz -- PBS Cluster Visualisation

2012-11-09 Thread Paul Cochrane
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Paul Cochrane Package name: pbsclusterviz Version : 0.7a Upstream Author : Paul Cochrane URL : http://pbsclusterviz.sourceforge.net License : GPL Programming Lang: Python Description : PBS Cluster Visualisa

Re: major linux problems summary 2012

2012-11-09 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Fri, Nov 09, 2012 at 02:36:24PM +0200, Riku Voipio wrote: > Android didn't grab 75% of the market by providing android installation > instructions for iphones - it took the market with android preinstalled > on phones[3]. > [3] and lots of other reasons too but let us not spoil a great analogue

Re: major linux problems summary 2012

2012-11-09 Thread Riku Voipio
On Sun, Nov 04, 2012 at 12:03:37PM +0100, Karol Szkudlarek wrote: > and about graphics freeze: > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers/+bug/1033263 > > and about touchpad: > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/606238 > > and about cpu fan: > > h

Re: What is the use case for Policy §7.6.2 ?

2012-11-09 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
Hi Josselin! On Fri, 09 Nov 2012, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Fri, 09 Nov 2012, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > It looks to me that we should strictly favor the transitional package > > approach instead. Shouldn’t we entirely forbid the > > Provides/Conflicts/Replaces combination way of h

Re: What is the use case for Policy §7.6.2 ?

2012-11-09 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 09 Nov 2012, Josselin Mouette wrote: > It looks to me that we should strictly favor the transitional package > approach instead. Shouldn’t we entirely forbid the > Provides/Conflicts/Replaces combination way of handling upgrades, except > for virtual packages? And instantly break even furt

Re: Something like nocompress DEB_BUILD_OPTION

2012-11-09 Thread Bastian Blank
On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 04:33:42PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Oh, okay. It would actually be much easier to standardize a way to switch > to gzip compression than it would be to add a new concept of uncompressed > packages. The problem is: dpkg-deb with gzip is much slower than with bzip2 and x

Re: Something like nocompress DEB_BUILD_OPTION

2012-11-09 Thread Dmitrijs Ledkovs
On 9 November 2012 09:37, Simon McVittie wrote: > On 08/11/12 19:31, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: >> I would like to have a nocompress Debian build option that will skip >> any compression/optimisation at build time. > I am sorry if this was misleading. I am aware of the noopt option and I am aware th

Re: Bits from the release team - Freeze update

2012-11-09 Thread Neil McGovern
On Fri, Nov 09, 2012 at 06:54:23AM +0100, Christian PERRIER wrote: > Quoting Benjamin Drung (bdr...@debian.org): > > Am Donnerstag, den 08.11.2012, 20:35 + schrieb Jon Dowland: > > > On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 08:29:02PM +0100, Benjamin Drung wrote: > > > > Hm, I filed two unblock requests after t

Re: Bits from the release team - Freeze update

2012-11-09 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Christian PERRIER (09/11/2012): > Well, I bet that our estimated colleagues in the Release Team are not > robots […] [ OK ] Turing test. Mraw, KiBi. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

What is the use case for Policy §7.6.2 ?

2012-11-09 Thread Josselin Mouette
Hi, the Debian policy makes a special case of the Provides/Conflicts/Replaces combination, allowing to replace a package by another. The document mentions the case of a virtual package, for which this is nice and all, but it is still allowed for other packages. However, any versioned dependency

Re: Something like nocompress DEB_BUILD_OPTION

2012-11-09 Thread Simon McVittie
On 08/11/12 19:31, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: > I would like to have a nocompress Debian build option that will skip > any compression/optimisation at build time. That seems like mixing two orthogonal things: an uncompressed or fastest-possible-compression .deb or source package, and speeding up comp