New virtual package ‘adventure’

2016-04-19 Thread Ben Finney
Howdy all, The classic game “Adventure” has an existing implementation in Debian, and I am packaging another implementation (‘python-adventure’) which hews closer to the original PDP-10 implementation's behaviour. I have worked with the maintainer of the existing Debian package ‘bsdgames’, to mak

Re: Packaging of static libraries

2016-04-19 Thread Nikolaus Rath
On Apr 19 2016, Bas Wijnen wrote: > On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 02:57:00PM +0200, Vincent Danjean wrote: >> > If users have such specialized needs, I think it is not only reasonable >> > that >> > they build their own versions of their libraries; I expect them to prefer >> > that. >> > So we should

Re: Packaging of static libraries

2016-04-19 Thread Bas Wijnen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 10:13:28PM +0200, Vincent Danjean wrote: > The initial argument was: > > We in Debian are in a good position to defend our users from the > > fallout from this problem. We could change our default compiler > > options to favour

Re: Packaging of static libraries

2016-04-19 Thread Vincent Danjean
Le 19/04/2016 19:57, Bas Wijnen a écrit : > You seem to suggest that we should compile for > maximum performance, at the cost of security, because some people want that. No. Reread what I wrote. I think security is important but this is only one thing between many. I'm convinced that we cou

Re: Packaging of static libraries

2016-04-19 Thread Bas Wijnen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 02:57:00PM +0200, Vincent Danjean wrote: > > If users have such specialized needs, I think it is not only reasonable that > > they build their own versions of their libraries; I expect them to prefer > > that. > > So we should

Re: tzdate 2016d update (released 2016-04-17) for future time stamps

2016-04-19 Thread Noel Torres
Aníbal Monsalve Salazar escribió: On Tue, 2016-04-19 08:08:22 -0430, German Cardozo wrote: Hi! A new version of tzdata is available, tzdata2016d (released 2016-04-17). The latest version affecting future time stamps: America/Caracas Asia/Magadan Asia/Tomsk In Venezuela we are very intereste

Re: tzdate 2016d update (released 2016-04-17) for future time stamps

2016-04-19 Thread Aníbal Monsalve Salazar
On Tue, 2016-04-19 08:08:22 -0430, German Cardozo wrote: > Hi! > > A new version of tzdata is available, tzdata2016d (released > 2016-04-17). > > The latest version affecting future time stamps: > America/Caracas > Asia/Magadan > Asia/Tomsk > > In Venezuela we are very interested in the update of t

tzdate 2016d update (released 2016-04-17) for future time stamps

2016-04-19 Thread German Cardozo
Hi! A new version of tzdata is available, tzdata2016d (released 2016-04-17). The latest version affecting future time stamps: America/Caracas Asia/Magadan Asia/Tomsk In Venezuela we are very interested in the update of this package on Debian 7 and 8 will be soon, because we have many machines in

Research Impact Conference; July 2016, Manchester

2016-04-19 Thread Open Forum Events
Research Impact Conference: Delivering Excellence 5th July 2016, Manchester Conference Centre, Manchester Research Impact: Delivering Excellence will explore REF case studies and testimonials to help researchers effectively measure and evidence impact, offering practical guidance on delivering hi