Re: We need a global decision about R data in binary format, and stick to it.

On Monday 05 August 2013 17:48:27 Paul Wise wrote: > On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 4:28 PM, Sune Vuorela wrote: > > What about svg files that are converted into png's and then manually > > adjusted? > > I'd say the "source" is the combination of the SVG files plus the adjusted > PNGs. > > I guess you ar

Bug#719655: ITP: svnstsw -- SVNServe Tunnel-mode Setuid/setgid Wrapper

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Geoffrey Thomas * Package name: svnstsw Version : 1.4 Upstream Author : Richard Hansen * URL : http://www.ir.bbn.com/~rhansen/svnstsw/ * License : 3-clause BSD Programming Lang: C Description : SVNServe Tunnel-m

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

The Wanderer wrote: > [...] and the "proprietary"[0] interfaces they seem to > use [...] > > [...] > > [0] Meaning approximately "we create our own language and talk it to > ourselves, and anyone else who wants to talk to us has to learn our > language", not intending to imply "undocumented" or "l

Re: arm laptops and d-i

Adam Borowski (2013-08-14): > I loathe laptops, and thus didn't own one. Needing one for DebConf (and > this time no friend had a working one for me to borrow), instead of getting > an used x86 one, I bought a $150 13.3" android thing. Because, you know, > installing a certain universal operatin

arm laptops and d-i

I loathe laptops, and thus didn't own one. Needing one for DebConf (and this time no friend had a working one for me to borrow), instead of getting an used x86 one, I bought a $150 13.3" android thing. Because, you know, installing a certain universal operating system should be easy, especially i

Bug#719654: ITP: mpv -- video player based on MPlayer/mplayer2

Package: wnpp Owner: Alessandro Ghedini Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: mpv Version : 0.1.0 Upstream Author : mpv team * URL : http://mpv.io/ * License : GPL-2+ Programming Lang: C Description : video playe

Re: UTF-8 in jessie (debhelper and BOM)

On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 01:44:03PM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > But I do not understand goal #5. Why "MUST"? Do you have rationale? > > On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 03:50:19PM +0200, Florian Lohoff wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 02:51:52AM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > > > I propose the following s

OEDb.org's General Science OpenCourseWare Page

Hi there, My name is Xavier Gray, I am a researcher of Open Education Database (OEDb.org). Over the years, we've built a comprehensive OpenCourseWare (OCW) portal featuring courses from leading universities in an array of topics. I came across your site,lists.debian.org/debian-user/2002/07/msg

Re: jessie release goal: verbose build logs

Joey Hess writes: > Joey Hess wrote: >> (The implementation needs to be improved; it should read both stdout >> and stderr and multiplex them properly. And it should check if stdout >> is not to a TTY, and if so avoid munging the build log output. The only >> other problem is that `make` outputs

Re: jessie release goal: verbose build logs

Joey Hess wrote: > (The implementation needs to be improved; it should read both stdout and > stderr and multiplex them properly. And it should check if stdout is not > to a TTY, and if so avoid munging the build log output. The only other > problem is that `make` outputs the lines it runs to stder

Bug#719645: ITP: fedmsg-meta-debian -- Debian-specific processors for the FedMsg bus

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Simon Chopin * Package name: fedmsg-meta-debian Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : Simon Chopin * URL : http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=users/laarmen-guest/fedmsg-meta-debian.git;a=summary * License : Expat Programmin

Re: jessie release goal: verbose build logs

Joey Hess wrote: > Making all builds verbose by default has both advantages and > disadvantages. > > The disadvantages include making builds possibly so noisy that when one > runs them during daily work, once ignores all output. Including > important compiler warnings. > > (This is the same reaso

Bug#719637: ITP: python-virtualenv-clone -- A script for cloning a non-relocatable virtualenv

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jan Dittberner * Package name: python-virtualenv-clone Version : 0.2.4 Upstream Author : Edward George * URL : https://pypi.python.org/pypi/virtualenv-clone * License : MIT Programming Lang: Python Description :

Re: Opt-out or Opt-in vebose build logs Re: jessie release goal: verbose build logs

On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 08:30:16PM +0200, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: > In controlled environments, one doesn't get to re-run a build, as the > instances are stripped-down and destroyed on build failure E.g. all > the jenkins instances running debian package builds, PPAs, > auto-package-tests, automate

Re: Opt-out or Opt-in vebose build logs Re: jessie release goal: verbose build logs

On 13 August 2013 19:59, Julien Cristau wrote: > [why oh why are you breaking threading?] > > On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 19:51:52 +0200, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: > >> We have build log analyzers running for the build logs. And the >> important compiler warnings (errors) fail the build. >> If we make t

Re: Opt-out or Opt-in vebose build logs Re: jessie release goal: verbose build logs

[why oh why are you breaking threading?] On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 19:51:52 +0200, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: > We have build log analyzers running for the build logs. And the > important compiler warnings (errors) fail the build. > If we make this opt-in, we will fail to achieve this goal. As when on

Opt-out or Opt-in vebose build logs Re: jessie release goal: verbose build logs

On 13 August 2013 14:36, Joey Hess wrote: > Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: >> Is there any reason this hasn't been applied yet? >> Can I NMU this, as debhelper is marked as LowNMU package. > > Not for reasons such as allowing patches like this. > Ok. > Making all builds verbose by default has both adva

Re: UTF-8 in jessie

On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 05:58:20PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 03:50:19PM +0200, Florian Lohoff wrote: > > 5. All programs consuning UTF8 Text must understand a BOM. > > I'm afraid I don't agree here: BOMs are nasty stuff that serve no purpose > once you standardize on UT

the local host/domainname - 127.0.0.1 vs. 127.0.1.1; Debian Reference updated.

Hi, On Mon, Aug 05, 2013 at 01:08:28PM -0400, Thomas Hood wrote: > > /etc/hosts like these per default: > > 127.0.0.1 localhost > > 127.0.1.1 . > > As also described in the Debian reference[2]. > That's not entirely accurate. Wheezy and Ubuntu Desktop install > an /etc/hosts like the following, w

Re: jessie release goal: verbose build logs

Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: > Is there any reason this hasn't been applied yet? > Can I NMU this, as debhelper is marked as LowNMU package. Not for reasons such as allowing patches like this. Making all builds verbose by default has both advantages and disadvantages. The disadvantages include making

Bug#719595: ITP: mussort -- simple tool that sorts a music collection

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Sascha Steinbiss * Package name: mussort Version : 0.3 Upstream Author : Eskild Hustvedt * URL : http://random.zerodogg.org/mussort * License : GPL Programming Lang: Perl Description : simple tool that sorts a mu

Re: UTF-8 in jessie

On 2013-08-13 10:25:31 +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > Vincent Lefevre vinc17.net> writes: > > > If scripts intend to use LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 to force everything to > > the standard locale with UTF-8 support, then the glibc should > > be modified to regard C.UTF-8 like C w.r.t. $LANGUAGE. I mean: > >

Re: jessie release goal: verbose build logs

On 17 June 2013 23:58, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: > tags 680686 patch > thanks > > On 14 June 2013 12:35, Matthias Klose wrote: >> >> - Fix debhelper not passing --disable-silent-rules by default. >>#680686 >>I think cdbs already does this. > > Patch attached for autoconf dh build system. c

Re: Switching default dpkg-source compressor for V2+ formats to xz

On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 10:41:13AM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > In any case I think trying to standardize on a single compressor across > the board is a good thing xz supports null-compressed chunks but currently (AFAIK) doesn't expose any way to force them. That'd be an equivalent to uncompress

Re: UTF-8 in jessie

Vincent Lefevre vinc17.net> writes: > If scripts intend to use LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 to force everything to > the standard locale with UTF-8 support, then the glibc should > be modified to regard C.UTF-8 like C w.r.t. $LANGUAGE. I mean: Ouch! Scripts do, and this *is* how C.UTF-8 was intended: to behav

Re: UTF-8 in jessie

On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 5:56 PM, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > Florian Lohoff zz.de> writes: > >> 5. All programs consuning UTF8 Text must understand a BOM. > > The kernel doesn’t, start there: > > tglase@tglase:~$ mksh -c 'print '\''\ufeff#!/bin/sh\necho foo'\' >x; chmod +x > x; ./x > ./x: line 1: #

Re: Switching default dpkg-source compressor for V2+ formats to xz

On Tue, 2013-08-13 at 11:12:16 +0900, Mike Hommey wrote: > On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 03:52:51AM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > > I'd like to switch the default dpkg-source compressor to xz for V2+ > > (not for V1) source formats, as suggested by Ansgar Burchardt in [0]. > > > > [0]

Bug#719572: ITP: ruby-unicode -- Unicode string manipulation library for Ruby

Subject: ITP: ruby-unicode -- Unicode string manipulation library for Ruby X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Package: wnpp Owner: Per Andersson Severity: wishlist * Package name: ruby-unicode Version : 0.4.4 Upstream Author : Yoshida Masato * URL : http://ww

Re: UTF-8 in jessie

Quoting Charles Plessy (ple...@debian.org): > Hi Christian, > > what I am proposing is a task that install all languages. I made a bit of > research earlier, and it is not as simple as installing all the existing > tasks, > as the result on my computer was that some browsers started to display

Re: Bug#719556: ITP: logcat-color -- a colorful alternative to "adb logcat"

On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 11:14:14PM -0400, Luke Faraone wrote: > This package is designed to be used in conjunction with the Android > "adb" utility to view logs on an Android device or emulator. Why does it not mention this in the package name? And is there a reason not to publish this in the adb