Re: jpeg8 vs jpeg-turbo

2013-04-26 Thread Ondřej Surý
On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 11:50 PM, Bill Allombert wrote: > On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 10:10:42PM +0800, Aron Xu wrote: >> On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 9:19 PM, Bill Allombert >> wrote: >> > >> > As IJG libjpeg maintainer, my plan is to move to libjpeg9 which has more >> > feature. >> > >> >> From a user'

Re: not co-installable Multi-Arch:same packages

2013-04-26 Thread Andreas Beckmann
On 2013-04-25 22:09, Jakub Wilk wrote: > * Andreas Beckmann , 2013-04-25, 21:27: >> trying to overwrite shared '/usr/lib/debug/usr/lib/libffi.so.5.0.10', >> which is different from other instances of package libffi5-dbg:i386 > > #650106 > >> Maybe this shouldn't have been MA:same. > > There's no

Re: Bug#706160: general: it should be easier for ordinary developers to work with Debian packages

2013-04-26 Thread Peter Samuelson
[James Cloos] > And where does one find dh_make? > > Searching on goog suggests it would be part of debhelper. But it isn't: Someone suggested 'apt-file', but in this case the simpler thing is: apt-cache search dh_make -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org wi

Re: Bug#706160: general: it should be easier for ordinary developers to work with Debian packages

2013-04-26 Thread Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez
On 27/04/13 01:46, James Cloos wrote: >> "CALP" == Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez writes: > > CALP> This can be even more simple: > > CALP> dh_make -f ../foo-1.tar.gz > CALP> dpkg-buildpackage > > And where does one find dh_make? > > Searching on goog suggests it would be part of debhelper. B

Re: not co-installable Multi-Arch:same packages

2013-04-26 Thread Andreas Beckmann
[adding -release@] Hi, a few Multi-Arch: same packages have all their dependencies satisfied, but are not co-installable because they got binNMUs. A sourceful no-change upload to rebuild them should restore co-installability. I've identified 8 source packages where this would help: bogl clutter

Re: Bug#706160: general: it should be easier for ordinary developers to work with Debian packages

2013-04-26 Thread James Cloos
> "CALP" == Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez writes: CALP> This can be even more simple: CALP> dh_make -f ../foo-1.tar.gz CALP> dpkg-buildpackage And where does one find dh_make? Searching on goog suggests it would be part of debhelper. But it isn't: :; dpkg -L debhelper|grep dh_make /usr/bin/

Re: jpeg8 vs jpeg-turbo

2013-04-26 Thread Pau Garcia i Quiles
On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 11:50 PM, Bill Allombert < bill.allomb...@math.u-bordeaux1.fr> wrote: > So I do not think it is fair to restrict JPEG support in Debian to 1998 > image > processing technology. > > According to this mail by the Fedora KDE maintainer, ISO rejected the latest changes introdu

Re: [Debian-med-packaging] Question about proper archive area for packages that require big data for operation

2013-04-26 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 03:21:43PM +0200, Laszlo Kajan wrote: > Dear FTP Masters! > > On 23/04/13 15:13, Benjamin Drung wrote: > [...] > > You can use xz for the source and binary package to reduce the size. The > > default compression level for xz reduces the size of the source tarball > > from 4

Re: jpeg8 vs jpeg-turbo

2013-04-26 Thread Wookey
+++ Bill Allombert [2013-04-26 23:50 +0200]: > > So I do not think it is fair to restrict JPEG support in Debian to 1998 image > processing technology. Neither does anyone else, which is why they want to be able to use the SIMD features in their CPUs for (much) faster JPEG processing. So far a

Re: Bug#706160: general: it should be easier for ordinary developers to work with Debian packages

2013-04-26 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On 26-04-13 21:43, Ben Longbons wrote: > From: Christian PERRIER >> I'm definitely sure that a bug report is not the way to achieve >> anything here. > Okay, continuing this on-list instead of in the bug report. Everyone, > please keep me on the CC list, I missed half of these replies. > > As Wou

Re: jpeg8 vs jpeg-turbo

2013-04-26 Thread Bill Allombert
On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 10:10:42PM +0800, Aron Xu wrote: > On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 9:19 PM, Bill Allombert > wrote: > > > > As IJG libjpeg maintainer, my plan is to move to libjpeg9 which has more > > feature. > > > > From a user's prospective, I don't think adding bunches of not widely > used f

Bug#706240: ITP: node-read-package-json -- Read package.json for npm module for Node.js

2013-04-26 Thread Jérémy Lal
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Jérémy Lal" * Package name: node-read-package-json Version : 0.3.1 Upstream Author : Isaac Z. Schlueter * URL : https://github.com/isaacs/read-package-json * License : BSD-2-clause Programming Lang: JavaScript Descr

Re: GSoC/debian.org SIP/XMPP infrastructure

2013-04-26 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Daniel Pocock > I'd also be keen to know how different teams (e.g. DSA) would want to > interact with students proposing such projects, as it is inevitable that > this would involve some server resources and technical changes. DSA is reachable at debian-ad...@lists.debian.org, so inquries sho

Re: Bug#706160: general: it should be easier for ordinary developers to work with Debian packages

2013-04-26 Thread Ben Longbons
From: Christian PERRIER >I'm definitely sure that a bug report is not the way to achieve >anything here. Okay, continuing this on-list instead of in the bug report. Everyone, please keep me on the CC list, I missed half of these replies. As Wouter mentioned, coming up to $DISTRO and saying >that

GSoC/debian.org SIP/XMPP infrastructure

2013-04-26 Thread Daniel Pocock
Several students have inquired about the possibility of doing a real-time communication (RTC) project for GSoC, one has already started his application[1] and a few others have been corresponding with me by email. Rather than letting the students guess what we need or want, I'm hoping some peopl

Re: Bug#706160: general: it should be easier for ordinary developers to work with Debian packages

2013-04-26 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 02:20:53PM +0200, Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez wrote: > dh_make -f ../foo-1.tar.gz > dpkg-buildpackage I think one valid point the OP makes which each of these suggestions — in isolation — seem to miss, is there are *too many ways to do it*. The suggestions you (and others)

Re: [Debian-med-packaging] Question about proper archive area for packages that require big data for operation

2013-04-26 Thread Laszlo Kajan
Dear FTP Masters! On 23/04/13 15:13, Benjamin Drung wrote: [...] > You can use xz for the source and binary package to reduce the size. The > default compression level for xz reduces the size of the source tarball > from 415 MB to 272 MB: > > $ ls -1s --si metastudent-data_1.0.0.tar* > 823M metas

Re: Bug#602034: jpeg8 vs jpeg-turbo

2013-04-26 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 02:27:47PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > > > It boils down to "jpeg6-2 is the only important thing. Forget about > > > jpeg8 and jpeg9, which bring incompatible changes". > > There are other features in newer libjpeg that packages do need, even > > when not using exotic JPEG

Re: Bug#602034: jpeg8 vs jpeg-turbo

2013-04-26 Thread Adam Borowski
On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 12:29:27PM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: > On 25/04/13 20:39, Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote: > > It boils down to "jpeg6-2 is the only important thing. Forget about > > jpeg8 and jpeg9, which bring incompatible changes". > > There are other features in newer libjpeg that package

Re: Bug#706160: general: it should be easier for ordinary developers to work with Debian packages

2013-04-26 Thread Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez
On 25/04/13 19:18, Wouter Verhelst wrote: >> Gentoo: >> > - vim foo-1.ebuild; ebuild foo-1.ebuild manifest; emerge foo >> > - That may look like oversimplification, but the contents of >> > foo-1.ebuild really are very simple. > By that rationale, building a Debian package s

Re: Bug#602034: jpeg8 vs jpeg-turbo

2013-04-26 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Fri, 2013-04-26 at 12:29 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: > On 25/04/13 20:39, Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote: > > It boils down to "jpeg6-2 is the only important thing. Forget about > > jpeg8 and jpeg9, which bring incompatible changes". > > There are other features in newer libjpeg that packages do ne

Re: Bug#602034: jpeg8 vs jpeg-turbo

2013-04-26 Thread Simon McVittie
On 25/04/13 20:39, Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote: > It boils down to "jpeg6-2 is the only important thing. Forget about > jpeg8 and jpeg9, which bring incompatible changes". There are other features in newer libjpeg that packages do need, even when not using exotic JPEG-like formats. For instance, ioq

Re: Bug#602034: jpeg8 vs jpeg-turbo

2013-04-26 Thread Mike Gabriel
Hi all, On Do 25 Apr 2013 22:29:53 CEST Michael Biebl wrote: Am 25.04.2013 20:49, schrieb Mike Gabriel: Can this be a proposal? Package libjpeg and libjpeg-turbo using an alternatives setup and thus, making both libs installable in parallel. Packagers can then build-depend on one or the other

Bug#706204: ITP: sgabios -- A bios option rom to provide legacy serial console for x86

2013-04-26 Thread Daniel Beyer
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Daniel Beyer * Package name: sgabios Version : 2010.04.22 Upstream Author : Nathan Laredo * URL : https://code.google.com/p/sgabios/ * License : Apache-2.0 Programming Lang: C Description : A bios option rom to

Re: GSoC project: fedmsg for the Debian infrastructure

2013-04-26 Thread Olivier Berger
Hi. Daniel Pocock writes: > > Red Hat promotes a number of messaging solutions, I've used several of > these things commercially - they publish a very interesting roadmap[1]: > - - HornetQ "new ultra high performance enterprise grade messaging" > - - MRG Messaging (based on Qpid) "Exploits Linux-

Re: [Soc-coordination] GSoC project: fedmsg for the Debian infrastructure

2013-04-26 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Simon Chopin said: > Quoting Stephen Gran (2013-04-25 21:17:29) > > This one time, at band camp, Simon Chopin said: > > > The thing itself is based on the ZeroMQ protocol. > > > > One of the principles, up to now, of system design for the debian.org > > infrastructure