Re: howto avoid "apt-get update" going guru?

2016-07-06 Thread Josh Triplett
Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > I personally recommend using deb.debian.org. That works nicely, thanks! Seems to have decent performance. I couldn't find any announcement or documentation of this, other than that on the site itself, though I did find a use of it in a recent announcement of dbgsym packa

Re: [MBF]: Building arch:all and arch:any without build-{arch,indep} targets

2016-07-06 Thread Niels Thykier
Sven Joachim: > On 2016-07-06 02:51 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > >> [...] >> This has happened now with the upload of dpkg 1.18.8. > > Anyone volunteering to upgrade the severity of those 82 bugs to serious? > > Cheers, >Sven > > > 1. > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?t

Re: howto avoid "apt-get update" going guru?

2016-07-06 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Josh Triplett > Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > > I'd not actively recommend people use httpredir.debian.org as it's > > somewhat sporadically maintained. > > Do you have any more details on that? Does a better alternative exist? I personally recommend using deb.debian.org. > I still have hopes t

Re: [MBF]: Building arch:all and arch:any without build-{arch,indep} targets

2016-07-06 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2016-07-06 02:51 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > On Sun, 2016-04-03 at 17:29:32 +, Niels Thykier wrote: >> The targets are "officially" mandatory and have been since 3.9.4 >> (released in September 2012). Currently lintian and dpkg still forgive >> their absence to avoid auto-rejects and FTB

Re: Thinking about a "jessie and a half" release

2016-07-06 Thread Teemu Likonen
Steve McIntyre [2016-07-04 14:01:03+01] wrote: > it might be useful to do a "jessie and a half" release, [...] That's > *basically* just like a normal jessie release, but with a few key > updates: > > * backports kernel > * rebuilt d-i to match that kernel > * X drivers > * ... (other things t

Re: Thinking about a "jessie and a half" release

2016-07-06 Thread Breno Leitao
On 07/05/2016 07:43 PM, Steve McIntyre wrote: On Tue, Jul 05, 2016 at 04:15:36PM -0300, Breno Leitao wrote: Steve, On 07/04/2016 10:01 AM, Steve McIntyre wrote: A lot of arm64 machine users would benefit from this, and maybe owners of very recent amd64 machines too. ppc64el port would take b

Bug#830127: ITP: sagecal -- GPU/MIC accelerated radio interferometric calibration program

2016-07-06 Thread Gijs Molenaar
Package: wnpp Owner: Gijs Molenaar Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-as...@lists.debian.org, debian-pyt...@lists.debian.org * Package name: sagecal Version : git, unversioned Upstream Author : Sarod Yatawatta * URL : https://sourcefo

Bug#830126: IT: purify -- Next-generation radio interferometric imaging

2016-07-06 Thread Gijs Molenaar
Package: wnpp Owner: Gijs Molenaar Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-as...@lists.debian.org, debian-pyt...@lists.debian.org * Package name: purify Version : git, unversioned Upstream Author : Rafael Carrillo, Jason McEwen, Yves Wiaux * URL

Bug#830125: IT: oskar -- Oxford's Square Kilometre Array Radio-telescope simulator

2016-07-06 Thread Gijs Molenaar
Package: wnpp Owner: Gijs Molenaar Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-as...@lists.debian.org, debian-pyt...@lists.debian.org * Package name: oskar Version : 2.6.1 Upstream Author : The University of Oxford * URL : http://www.oerc.ox.a

Bug#830124: ITP: wsclean -- a fast widefield interferometric imager

2016-07-06 Thread Gijs Molenaar
Package: wnpp Owner: Gijs Molenaar Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-as...@lists.debian.org, debian-pyt...@lists.debian.org * Package name: wsclean Version : 1.11 Upstream Author : André Offringa * URL : https://sourceforge.net/proje

Bug#830123: ITP: casarest -- old AIPS++ code not included in casacore, mainly lwimager

2016-07-06 Thread Gijs Molenaar
Package: wnpp Owner: Gijs Molenaar Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-as...@lists.debian.org, debian-pyt...@lists.debian.org * Package name: casarest Version : 1.4.1 Upstream Author : Gijs Molenaar * URL : https://github.com/casacore/

Bug#830122: ITP: casasynthesis -- CASA modules needed for processing synthesis data

2016-07-06 Thread Gijs Molenaar
Package: wnpp Owner: Gijs Molenaar Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-as...@lists.debian.org, debian-pyt...@lists.debian.org * Package name: casasynthesis Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : Gijs Molenaar * URL : https://github.com/radio-

Bug#830120: ITP: aoflagger -- RFI detector for astronomical radio observations

2016-07-06 Thread Gijs Molenaar
Package: wnpp Owner: Gijs Molenaar Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-as...@lists.debian.org, debian-pyt...@lists.debian.org * Package name: aoflagger Version : 2.8.0 Upstream Author : André Offringa * URL : https://sourceforge.net/pr

Bug#830118: ITP: python-casacore -- Python bindings for casacore

2016-07-06 Thread Gijs Molenaar
Package: wnpp Owner: Gijs Molenaar Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-as...@lists.debian.org, debian-pyt...@lists.debian.org * Package name: python-casacore Version : 2.1.1 Upstream Author : Ger van Diepen, Malte Marquarding, Gijs Molenaar * URL

Re: Thinking about a "jessie and a half" release

2016-07-06 Thread Holger Levsen
On Wed, Jul 06, 2016 at 08:55:39AM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > ACK - I'm not wedded to the name in the slightest. It's more a > proposal of what we're going to do. ok, cool. > >maybe "jessie+bpo-installer" would be a better fit? > Maybe that fits, but it's horrid name. I don't think it's tha

Re: Thinking about a "jessie and a half" release

2016-07-06 Thread Tixy
On Wed, 2016-07-06 at 08:55 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > On Wed, Jul 06, 2016 at 07:33:38AM +, Holger Levsen wrote: [...] > > I'd like to suggest *not* to call it jessie+half, as we have used > >that term already (for etch+half) and there we had a frozen/stable kernel, > >not a moving target

Re: Thinking about a "jessie and a half" release

2016-07-06 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Wed, Jul 06, 2016 at 07:33:38AM +, Holger Levsen wrote: >On Tue, Jul 05, 2016 at 11:43:14PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> >I assume "forking" the kernel for jessie+½ as done for etch-and-half is >> >the plan already? (forking as in using a new source package…) >> God, no - really *not* tha

Re: Thinking about a "jessie and a half" release

2016-07-06 Thread Holger Levsen
On Tue, Jul 05, 2016 at 11:43:14PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > >I assume "forking" the kernel for jessie+½ as done for etch-and-half is > >the plan already? (forking as in using a new source package…) > God, no - really *not* that way at all. I'm thinking of using the > kernel in backports at th