Bug#724641: ITP: lua-redis -- pure Lua client library for the Redis advanced key-value database

2013-09-25 Thread Victor Seva
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Victor Seva * Package name: lua-redis Version : 2.0.4 Upstream Author : Daniele Alessandri * URL : https://github.com/nrk/redis-lua * License : MIT/X11 Programming Lang: lua Description : pure Lua client library

Re: Removing some kernel-related virtual packages

2013-09-25 Thread Paul Wise
Do you also plan to get rid of these? They appear to be designed to block auto-removal of installed linux-image-* and linux-header-* packages. /etc/kernel/postinst.d/apt-auto-removal /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/01autoremove-kernels -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Removing some kernel-related virtual packages

2013-09-25 Thread Ben Hutchings
I'd like to stop the binary packages built from linux providing the following virtual packages: * linux-image As explained in #724569, any relations on a virtual package prevent auto-removal of all providing packages, so in this case linux-image-* packages must be manually removed to avoid fillin

Bug#724633: ITP: repetier-host -- Host controller for RepRap style 3D printer like mendel, prusa and huxley.

2013-09-25 Thread Zlatan Todoric
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Zlatan Todoric * Package name: repetier-host Version : 0.90b Upstream Author : Repetier * URL : https://github.com/repetier/Repetier-Host * License : ASL2.0 Programming Lang: C# Description : Host controller for

Re: Bug#724631: ITP: slic3r -- Tool to convert a digital 3D model into printing instructions for 3D printer

2013-09-25 Thread Zlatan Todoric
RepRap (Prusa Mendel, MendelMax, Huxley, Tantillus...), Ultimaker, Makerbot, Lulzbot AO-100, TAZ, MakerGear M2, Rostock, Mach3, Bukobot and lots more. And even DLP printers. As it is written on their website. It will be added to long description (thanks for suggestion!). Cheers, zlatan On Thu

Re: Bug#724631: ITP: slic3r -- Tool to convert a digital 3D model into printing instructions for 3D printer

2013-09-25 Thread Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
On Thursday 26 September 2013 02:21:00 Zlatan Todoric wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Zlatan Todoric > > * Package name: slic3r > Version : 0.9.10b > Upstream Author : Alessandro Ranellucci > * URL : http://slic3r.org/ > * License : AGPLv3

Bug#724631: ITP: slic3r -- Tool to convert a digital 3D model into printing instructions for 3D printer

2013-09-25 Thread Zlatan Todoric
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Zlatan Todoric * Package name: slic3r Version : 0.9.10b Upstream Author : Alessandro Ranellucci * URL : http://slic3r.org/ * License : AGPLv3 Programming Lang: C++, Perl Description : Tool to convert a digital 3D

Re: Replacing unrar-free with unar wrapper

2013-09-25 Thread Matt Kraai
Hi, On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 09:39:12AM +0200, Dominik George wrote: > I think I will send a first patch against unar's Vcs-Git in the course > of today. Besides, I would really like to hear the unar maintainer's > thoughts ☺. I'm one of the unar package maintainers and would be happy to include a

Re: qmake and "make dist"

2013-09-25 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 09/25/2013 09:00 PM, Daniel Pocock wrote: > Is there any convenient way that upstream can generate a clean tarball > with qmake? In general, is it sufficient to work with a > github-generated tarball for the tag on a qmake project? Not tested - and I havent used qmake for some longish time, b

Re: Decision on R datasets

2013-09-25 Thread Faheem Mitha
Hi Charles (and everyone else), On Sun, 22 Sep 2013 12:28:11 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > Hi Paul, FTP team and everybody, > first, let me underline that if the FTP team wants to disuss and > amend its decision, I will be happy to participate. > I think that the only good solution is to enga

Re: qmake and "make dist"

2013-09-25 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 9:06 PM, Sune Vuorela wrote: > Unless for autotools projects where you might want to store pregenerated > files in the tarball, I've never seen the reason for make dist. For several of my (admittedly autotools) upstreams I add git2cl in the dist-hook and now that I have pa

Re: qmake and "make dist"

2013-09-25 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 07:06:04PM +, Sune Vuorela wrote: > For all my qmake and cmake based projects, neither that has a make dist, > I've asked my VCS for a tarball of the tag and blessed that one as 'the > release'. +1 Anecdotally, one of my upstreams has a broken tarball which is a git ex

Re: think twice before enabling -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 for C projects without thorough build-time testing

2013-09-25 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 25 Sep 2013, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 09:38:18AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > > Thorsten Glaser writes: > > > Russ Allbery debian.org> writes: > > Programs that don't check the return status of functions that they think > > won't ever fail are a bit of a pet peeve of

Re: qmake and "make dist"

2013-09-25 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2013-09-25, Daniel Pocock wrote: > qmake doesn't appear to provide a "make dist" facility, at least not the > way the project is currently configured. Unless for autotools projects where you might want to store pregenerated files in the tarball, I've never seen the reason for make dist. For a

qmake and "make dist"

2013-09-25 Thread Daniel Pocock
upstream is using qmake for PostBooks qmake doesn't appear to provide a "make dist" facility, at least not the way the project is currently configured. Consequently, upstream tarballs tend to be snapshots of the developer workspace, in one case, even including things like submodules, .gitmodule

Re: Biological data being used by an unpublished research paper is considered proprietary

2013-09-25 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Steve Langasek > The real rationale is surely that, because facts are *not governed by > copyright*, any licensing claim over this data is ignorable. Copyrights are not the any type of «IP» that may require licensing. Database rights exist in Europe for instance. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is

Re: Biological data being used by an unpublished research paper is considered proprietary

2013-09-25 Thread Faheem Mitha
Hi Steve, On Wed, 25 Sep 2013, Steve Langasek wrote: On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 12:59:11PM +0100, Peter Rice wrote: On 16/09/2013 11:31, Faheem Mitha wrote: This is really not Debian-related, except insofar as the software in question is something that might have been in Debian one day. I t

Re: iproute transitional package going away...

2013-09-25 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 05:02:58PM +0200, Andreas Henriksson wrote: > Hello! > > I intend to drop the iproute transitional packages in Jessie+1. > > This message is here to give all 68 packages depending/recommending/suggesting > the old iproute package time to simply update their dependencies to

Re: think twice before enabling -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 for C projects without thorough build-time testing

2013-09-25 Thread Russ Allbery
Russ Allbery writes: > Adam Borowski writes: >> On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 09:38:18AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >>> Programs that don't check the return status of functions that they >>> think won't ever fail are a bit of a pet peeve of mine, in part >>> because it would make a lot of sense for lo

Re: think twice before enabling -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 for C projects without thorough build-time testing

2013-09-25 Thread Bastian Blank
On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 11:43:22AM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > No, the standard said it would either always fail or never, but independent > on the input data. Nope: | Upon successful completion, crypt() shall return a pointer to the | encoded string. The first two characters of the returned v

Re: think twice before enabling -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 for C projects without thorough build-time testing

2013-09-25 Thread Russ Allbery
Adam Borowski writes: > On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 09:38:18AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >> Programs that don't check the return status of functions that they >> think won't ever fail are a bit of a pet peeve of mine, in part because >> it would make a lot of sense for localtime() to be able to fail

Re: think twice before enabling -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 for C projects without thorough build-time testing

2013-09-25 Thread Adam Borowski
On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 09:38:18AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Thorsten Glaser writes: > > Russ Allbery debian.org> writes: > Programs that don't check the return status of functions that they think > won't ever fail are a bit of a pet peeve of mine, in part because it would > make a lot of sens

Re: think twice before enabling -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 for C projects without thorough build-time testing

2013-09-25 Thread Russ Allbery
Thorsten Glaser writes: > Russ Allbery debian.org> writes: >> (consider resource exhaustion errors in the crypt implementation, for > No, the standard said it would either always fail or never, but > independent on the input data. I believe that just because POSIX only documents one specific e

Re: Biological data being used by an unpublished research paper is considered proprietary

2013-09-25 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 12:59:11PM +0100, Peter Rice wrote: > On 16/09/2013 11:31, Faheem Mitha wrote: > >This is really not Debian-related, except insofar as the software in > >question is something that might have been in Debian one day. I talked > >about that with people on debian-med recently.

Bug#724604: ITP: libmini -- the libMini real-time terrain rendering system

2013-09-25 Thread Klee Dienes
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Klee Dienes * Package name: libmini Version : 10.10~20130925 Upstream Author : Stefan Roettger * URL : http://stereofx.org/terrain.html * License : GPL, LGPL, MIT, others Programming Lang: C, C++, others Description

iproute transitional package going away...

2013-09-25 Thread Andreas Henriksson
Hello! I intend to drop the iproute transitional packages in Jessie+1. This message is here to give all 68 packages depending/recommending/suggesting the old iproute package time to simply update their dependencies to use the new iproute2 package name. The fix is simple: sed -ie 's/iproute/iprou

Re: Upcoming changes in Tcl/Tk packaging

2013-09-25 Thread Sergei Golovan
Hi Wookey, On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 7:04 PM, Wookey wrote: > +++ Sergei Golovan [2013-09-25 12:25 +0400]: >> Hi fellow developers, >> >> I would like to introduce a few significant changes into Debian Tcl/Tk >> packages. > > Thank you for doing this work, and for this clear summary. > >> 1. Multia

Re: Upcoming changes in Tcl/Tk packaging

2013-09-25 Thread Wookey
+++ Sergei Golovan [2013-09-25 12:25 +0400]: > Hi fellow developers, > > I would like to introduce a few significant changes into Debian Tcl/Tk > packages. Thank you for doing this work, and for this clear summary. > 1. Multiarchifying Tcl/Tk. This means splitting out the libtcl8.5 > package wi

Re: Replacing unrar-free with unar wrapper

2013-09-25 Thread Dominik George
Hi, > This all sounds like a great idea, but I would suggest that rather than > attempt to be command-line compatible with the existing tool, you > clearly define a set of command line arguments and their corresponding > semantics that you *do* support, ensuring that it is an accurate and > correc

Re: Replacing unrar-free with unar wrapper

2013-09-25 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 04:30:59PM +0200, Dominik George wrote: > My proposal is to remove unrar-free from Debian, for the reasons > mentioned above, and add a patch to src:unar that include a wrapper > script that provides a command-line wrapper compatible to both > unrar-free and unrar-nonfree, s

Re: Upcoming changes in Tcl/Tk packaging

2013-09-25 Thread Andrew Shadura
Hello, On 25 September 2013 14:52, Sergei Golovan wrote: > There are about 30 packages left which unconditionally depend on > tcl8.4 or tk8.4. > We have to do some research and find how to port them to 8.5 or 8.6. When I have some free time, I occasionally port this or that package. Actually, I'

Re: Upcoming changes in Tcl/Tk packaging

2013-09-25 Thread Sergei Golovan
Hi Matthias, On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 1:39 PM, Matthias Klose wrote: > Am 25.09.2013 10:25, schrieb Sergei Golovan: >> Hi fellow developers, >> >> I would like to introduce a few significant changes into Debian Tcl/Tk >> packages. Some of them have quite significant impact on their reverse >> depe

Re: Upcoming changes in Tcl/Tk packaging

2013-09-25 Thread Sergei Golovan
Hi Cyril, On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 1:38 PM, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Hi Sergei, > > (replying to the first part only since it strikes me) > > Sergei Golovan (2013-09-25): >> 2. Renaming tcl8.5-dev and tk8.5-dev into libtcl8.5-dev and >> libtk8.5-dev respectively (the latter packages still provide

Re: Bits from the Release

2013-09-25 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-09-03 13:49, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 05:09:22PM +0200, Niels Thykier wrote: >> How you can help (NEW-TEST-HELP) >> >> >> Add tests to your packages. The full specification for these >> tests are available from [AUTOPKG]. If yo

Re: think twice before enabling -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 for C projects without thorough build-time testing

2013-09-25 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Russ Allbery debian.org> writes: > (consider resource exhaustion errors in the crypt implementation, for No, the standard said it would either always fail or never, but independent on the input data. > Your proposed solution on libc-alpha was ingenious, but I think it breaks > the crypt contrac

Re: Upcoming changes in Tcl/Tk packaging

2013-09-25 Thread Andrew Shadura
Hello, On Sep 25, 2013 11:40 AM, "Matthias Klose" wrote: > Am 25.09.2013 10:25, schrieb Sergei Golovan: > > removing alternatives a lot. But later I'd like to have another > > transition (switching to 8.6 as default Tcl/Tk version). > Do you have numbers what will break with 8.6? Not many thing

Re: Upcoming changes in Tcl/Tk packaging

2013-09-25 Thread YunQiang Su
On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 5:39 PM, Matthias Klose wrote: > Am 25.09.2013 10:25, schrieb Sergei Golovan: >> Hi fellow developers, >> >> I would like to introduce a few significant changes into Debian Tcl/Tk >> packages. Some of them have quite significant impact on their reverse >> dependencies which

Re: Upcoming changes in Tcl/Tk packaging

2013-09-25 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-09-25 11:38, Cyril Brulebois wrote: >> > 3. Renaming tcl-dev and tk-dev into libtcl-dev and libtk-dev. Since >> > too many packages have versioned build-dependencies on tcl-dev or >> > tk-dev, I chose to retain tcl-dev and tk-dev packages (as >> > meta-packages which depend on libtcl-dev an

Re: Upcoming changes in Tcl/Tk packaging

2013-09-25 Thread Matthias Klose
Am 25.09.2013 10:25, schrieb Sergei Golovan: > Hi fellow developers, > > I would like to introduce a few significant changes into Debian Tcl/Tk > packages. Some of them have quite significant impact on their reverse > dependencies which will need a transition, I think. The proposed > changes are a

Re: Upcoming changes in Tcl/Tk packaging

2013-09-25 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi Sergei, (replying to the first part only since it strikes me) Sergei Golovan (2013-09-25): > 2. Renaming tcl8.5-dev and tk8.5-dev into libtcl8.5-dev and > libtk8.5-dev respectively (the latter packages still provide the > former as virtual packages to break as few packages as it could be). >

Re: Replacing unrar-free with unar wrapper

2013-09-25 Thread Dominik George
Hi, > Not directly related to this, I noticed that unar depends on > gnustep-base-runtime, which in turn spawns the gdomap daemon. Is this > thing needed at all? I also noticed that. It comes from ${shlibs:Depends} in the package, so I figure it is indeed needed (the runtime, not the gdomap daemo

Upcoming changes in Tcl/Tk packaging

2013-09-25 Thread Sergei Golovan
Hi fellow developers, I would like to introduce a few significant changes into Debian Tcl/Tk packages. Some of them have quite significant impact on their reverse dependencies which will need a transition, I think. The proposed changes are already in the experimental branch, so anyone could try an

Re: Replacing unrar-free with unar wrapper

2013-09-25 Thread Alberto Garcia
On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 04:30:59PM +0200, Dominik George wrote: > I found that the unar command from theunarchiver, which is even > recommended by the FSF [3], can handle multipart, modern RAR > archives just fine, only the command-line is incompatible to > unrar-free and unrar-nonfree [4]. Not d

Re: Replacing unrar-free with unar wrapper

2013-09-25 Thread Dominik George
Howdy, here is a short update on the progress of the compatibility script. I have put together a shell script that accepts all command-lines that unrar-free or unrar-nonfree would accept and correctly parses them into internal variables. Doing so, I found that: - Both unrar-free and unrar-nonfr