Re: Potential issues for most ports (Was: Re: Bits from the Release Team (Jessie freeze info))

2013-11-05 Thread Andreas Beckmann
On 2013-11-05 21:13, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Tue, 05 Nov 2013, Wouter Verhelst wrote: >> Yes, I think that's a good idea; it would avoid issues where >> maintainers are waiting on porters and vice versa, since the >> reassigning of a bug to a port pseudopackage would make it clear who's >> waitin

Re: Bug#728809: ITP: ndt -- A network diagnostic tool.

2013-11-05 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On Tue, Nov 05, 2013 at 08:33:14PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > Op 05-11-13 19:52, Dominic Hamon schreef: > > Package: wnpp > > Severity: wishlist > > Owner: Dominic Hamon > > > > * Package name: ndt > > Version : 3.6.5.2 > > * URL : http://www.internet2.edu/performan

Re: Jessie release goal: DNSSEC as default recursive resolver

2013-11-05 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 12:08 AM, Thomas Goirand wrote: > I'd find it very nice if we had, by default, DNSSEC resolving in Debian, I've been running this configuration for a while (using unbound on my laptop) and during my recent travels in Europe I discovered networks that are problematic in som

Re: Bug#727708: tech-ctte: Decide which init system to default to in Debian.

2013-11-05 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Tue, Nov 05, 2013 at 11:43:16PM +0100, Marko Randjelovic wrote: > On Sat, 26 Oct 2013 11:07:36 +0200 > Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > > I think that it would be a failure of the Debian project if we had to have > > a GR > > about such a technical decision. I think that we need to trust that the >

Re: Bug#727708: tech-ctte: Decide which init system to default to in Debian.

2013-11-05 Thread Marko Randjelovic
On Sat, 26 Oct 2013 11:07:36 +0200 Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > I think that it would be a failure of the Debian project if we had to have a > GR > about such a technical decision. I think that we need to trust that the > Technical Committee will make the right decision. A GR about this will likely >

Re: Potential issues for most ports (Was: Re: Bits from the Release Team (Jessie freeze info))

2013-11-05 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 05 Nov 2013, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > Well, I did ask for the creation of port-specific tags back at > debconf8 (if I'm not mistaken), but you told me to go for usertags > instead ;-) Sounds familiar. Usertags have the advantage of not requiring me to do any work. But presumably at the tim

Re: Potential issues for most ports (Was: Re: Bits from the Release Team (Jessie freeze info))

2013-11-05 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Op 05-11-13 20:40, Steven Chamberlain schreef: [pseudopackages] > Would that be only for generic issues with a port, not specific to a > package? I doubt this would be used much. These bugs might typically > be reassigned to kernel packages or eglibc anyway. Eventually, yes, but that doesn't mat

Re: Potential issues for most ports (Was: Re: Bits from the Release Team (Jessie freeze info))

2013-11-05 Thread Steven Chamberlain
Hi, On 05/11/13 18:50, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Tue, 05 Nov 2013, Don Armstrong wrote: >> This sounds like a case where we should turn these usertags into fully >> fledged tags. [Or alternatively, they should just be made usertags under >> the debian-po...@lists.debian.org user or similar.] Eith

Re: Bug#728809: ITP: ndt -- A network diagnostic tool.

2013-11-05 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Op 05-11-13 19:52, Dominic Hamon schreef: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Dominic Hamon > > * Package name: ndt > Version : 3.6.5.2 > * URL : http://www.internet2.edu/performance/ndt/ > * License : BSD > Programming Lang: C, C++, Java > Descript

Re: Potential issues for most ports (Was: Re: Bits from the Release Team (Jessie freeze info))

2013-11-05 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Op 05-11-13 19:50, Don Armstrong schreef: > On Tue, 05 Nov 2013, Don Armstrong wrote: > >> On Tue, 05 Nov 2013, Niels Thykier wrote: >>> In this regard; I am guilty of filing some those bugs without tagging >>> them. Honestly, adding the tags get a bit in the way right now. If a >>> package FTBFS

Re: Bug#728776: RFP: f-irc -- an irc-client for the console/terminal

2013-11-05 Thread Andrei POPESCU
Control: reassign -1 wnpp On Ma, 05 nov 13, 13:41:00, Folkert van Heusden (Hackerspace Gouda) wrote: > Package: f-irc > > > Subject: RFP: f-irc -- an irc-client for the console/terminal Please note that RFP bugs should be filed against the wnpp pseudo-package (I already took care of this one).

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-11-05 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 29/10/13 at 22:42 +0100, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: > On 24/10/13 18:31, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > What's the the status of XFCE regarding accessibility? > > > > That was a big strengh of GNOME for a long time, though I've heard > > rumors (sorry not to be more specific) that gnome-shell has

Re: Potential issues for most ports (Was: Re: Bits from the Release Team (Jessie freeze info))

2013-11-05 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 05 Nov 2013, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Tue, 05 Nov 2013, Niels Thykier wrote: > > In this regard; I am guilty of filing some those bugs without tagging > > them. Honestly, adding the tags get a bit in the way right now. If a > > package FTBFS on 4 architectures, I have to dig up 3-4 differ

Re: Potential issues for most ports (Was: Re: Bits from the Release Team (Jessie freeze info))

2013-11-05 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 05 Nov 2013, Niels Thykier wrote: > In this regard; I am guilty of filing some those bugs without tagging > them. Honestly, adding the tags get a bit in the way right now. If a > package FTBFS on 4 architectures, I have to dig up 3-4 different > usertags (with different "user") and associat

Re: Potential issues for most ports (Was: Re: Bits from the Release Team (Jessie freeze info))

2013-11-05 Thread Ian Jackson
Niels Thykier writes ("Re: Potential issues for most ports (Was: Re: Bits from the Release Team (Jessie freeze info))"): > On 2013-11-03 16:03, Steven Chamberlain wrote: > > http://udd.debian.org/bugs.cgi?release=jessie_or_sid&merged=ign&fnewerval=7&kfreebsd=1&sortby=severity&sorto=desc&cseverity

Re: Jessie release goal: DNSSEC as default recursive resolver

2013-11-05 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Op 03-11-13 19:05, Marko Randjelovic schreef: > On Sun, 3 Nov 2013 12:32:40 +0100 > Bastian Blank wrote: > >> On Sun, Nov 03, 2013 at 11:15:36AM +0100, Marko Randjelovic wrote: >>> Just to say we should not expect to much from DNSSEC because DNSSEC is >>> centralized: >> >> Could you explain the

Re: Jessie release goal: DNSSEC as default recursive resolver

2013-11-05 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Op 03-11-13 16:21, Thomas Goirand schreef: > On 10/30/2013 10:56 PM, Wouter Verhelst wrote: >> At any rate, my main point was that we should not default to using a >> system-local recursive resolver which ignores the ISP-provided one, just >> because that's the "easiest" way to do DNSSEC these days

Re: half the size, ... but this is true for almost all binary packages

2013-11-05 Thread Joshuah Hurst
On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 4:26 PM, Osamu Aoki wrote: > Hi > > On Tue, Nov 05, 2013 at 01:14:28PM +0100, Joshuah Hurst wrote: > ... >> - Despite being much more powerful, the binary package should be half >> the size of the current 'unstable' Debian package size > > Yes. But this phenomenon is true f

Bug#728799: ITP: r-bioc-xvector -- BioConductor representation and manpulation of external sequences

2013-11-05 Thread Andreas Tille
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andreas Tille * Package name: r-bioc-xvector Version : 0.2.0-1 Upstream Author : H. Pages * URL : http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/XVector.html * License : Artistic-2.0 Programming Lang: R Desc

Bug#728797: ITP: python-mne -- Python modules for MEG and EEG data analysis

2013-11-05 Thread Alexandre Gramfort
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alexandre Gramfort * Package name: python-mne Version : 0.7.git Upstream Author : Alexandre Gramfort * URL : https://github.com/mne-tools/mne-python * License : BSD Programming Lang: Python Description : Python m

half the size, ... but this is true for almost all binary packages

2013-11-05 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi On Tue, Nov 05, 2013 at 01:14:28PM +0100, Joshuah Hurst wrote: ... > - Despite being much more powerful, the binary package should be half > the size of the current 'unstable' Debian package size Yes. But this phenomenon is true for almost all binary packages. I initially thought I broke the

New ksh/ksh93 package, half the size, ten times the features!!!!

2013-11-05 Thread Joshuah Hurst
FYI -- Forwarded message -- From: ольга крыжановская Date: 5 November 2013 02:15 Subject: astksh.2013-10-10 Debian prototype package To: Oliver Kiddle , Oliver Kiddle , Cedric Blancher , Giovanni Rapagnani , Phi Debian , WNPP Monitor I have uploaded a prototype of the new ksh De

Bug#728773: ITP: jdependency-- Java library analyzing class level dependencies

2013-11-05 Thread Emmanuel Bourg
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Emmanuel Bourg * Package name: jdependency Version : 0.7 Upstream Author : Torsten Curdt * URL : https://github.com/tcurdt/jdependency * License : Apache-2.0 Programming Lang: Java Description : Java library analy

announcing bootstrap.debian.net

2013-11-05 Thread Johannes Schauer
Hi, I cross posted the following message on my blog: http://blog.mister-muffin.de/2013/11/05/announcing-bootstrap.debian.net/ While [botch][1] produces loads of valuable data to help maintainers modifying the right source packages with build profiles and thus make Debian bootstrappable, it has s

Re: Potential issues for most ports (Was: Re: Bits from the Release Team (Jessie freeze info))

2013-11-05 Thread Lennert Van Alboom
On Tue, Nov 05, 2013 at 08:53:05AM +0100, Niels Thykier wrote: > [1] I certainly wouldn't have space for something like this: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Z800_2066_JKU.jpeg > > (and much less the money. Yeah I know that is technically not an s390, > but as I understand it, an s390 sho