Re: length of a package extended description

2015-01-11 Thread Don Armstrong
On Mon, 12 Jan 2015, Paul Wise wrote: > On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 9:56 PM, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > > Some texlive-* packages (and perhaps others) have a huge extended > > description, e.g. more than 1900 lines for texlive-latex-extra! > > Sounds like a symptom of bundling lots of CTAN packages in

Re: length of a package extended description

2015-01-11 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 9:56 PM, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > Some texlive-* packages (and perhaps others) have a huge extended > description, e.g. more than 1900 lines for texlive-latex-extra! Sounds like a symptom of bundling lots of CTAN packages into one Debian package. Personally I think it would

Re: length of a package extended description

2015-01-11 Thread Philipp Kern
On 2015-01-11 10:37, Matthias Urlichs wrote: Don Armstrong: Every extra line is only an extra byte, after all. Empty lines, however, require three. (Space period LF) Somebody needed to point that out, of course. In compression they will most certainly map to a single byte. Yes, this would no

Re: length of a package extended description

2015-01-11 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 01/09/2015 09:03 PM, Norbert Preining wrote: > Hi everyone, > > (I am not subscribed to Cc, due to obvious reasons, so please Cc > me any further *relevant* remarks - I don't care for the rants) > > concerning Vincent's email: he mentioned that: >> but the maintainer disagrees. > but he did no

Processed: Re: Bug#775123: (no subject)

2015-01-11 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > reassign 775123 src:linux Bug #775123 [general] (no subject) Bug reassigned from package 'general' to 'src:linux'. Ignoring request to alter found versions of bug #775123 to the same values previously set Ignoring request to alter fixed versions

Bug#775123: (no subject)

2015-01-11 Thread Mattia Rizzolo
reassign 775123 src:linux forcemerge 774436 775123 thanks On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 01:19:35PM -0600, Robert wrote: > Subject: general: Thinkpad will not wake since Debian 7.8 upgrade, must hard > boot computer. > Package: general > Severity: important > > Dear Maintainer, > > What led up to

Bug#775123: (no subject)

2015-01-11 Thread Robert
Subject: general: Thinkpad will not wake since Debian 7.8 upgrade, must hard boot computer. Package: general Severity: important Dear Maintainer, What led up to the situation? I upgraded to Deb 7.8 during normal update What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ine

Re: length of a package extended description

2015-01-11 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Sun, 2015-01-11, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: > On 10 January 2015 at 17:27, Guillem Jover wrote: > > I think fixing translator tools would be an improvement, because it > > would reduce translator work in other situations too, by chunking the > > description on long lists (and not necess

Re: length of a package extended description

2015-01-11 Thread Joe Dalton
You definitely need to see/know about the surrounding context. (it might be done differently than today, but the need is there). bye Joe Danish On 10 January 2015 at 17:27, Guillem Jover wrote: > So, no, "fixing" the "translators tools" is not an option. Whether or > not texlive-* pac

Re: length of a package extended description

2015-01-11 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On 10 January 2015 at 17:27, Guillem Jover wrote: > > > So, no, "fixing" the "translators tools" is not an option. Whether or > > not texlive-* packages are "too long" is a debate I already had with > > Norbert in the bug report he mentioned. He gave a rationale which > > doesn't entirely satisfi

Bug#775110: ITP: wmcube -- spinning 3D object that shows the current CPU load

2015-01-11 Thread Doug Torrance
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Doug Torrance * Package name: wmcube Version : 1.0.0 Upstream Author : Cezary M. Kruk * URL : http://linux-bsd-unix.strefa.pl/index.en.html * License : GPL-3 Programming Lang: C Description : spinning 3D object t

Re: length of a package extended description

2015-01-11 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Don Armstrong: > Every extra line is only an extra byte, after all. > Empty lines, however, require three. (Space period LF) > It would probably be ideal if there was a better way of indicating which > latex modules were in each texlive package than currently, but until a > better method is

Re: Removal of ntop

2015-01-11 Thread Ludovico Cavedon
On Wed Jan 07 2015 at 11:11:08 AM Javier Fernandez-Sanguino < j...@computer.org> wrote: > > With the upcoming ntopng, will ntop upstream still provide security > support for previous ntop releases (i.e to version 5.0 which is in testing) > ? > No. > If upstream is *not* going to provide security