Work-needing packages report for Aug 19, 2016

2016-08-18 Thread wnpp
The following is a listing of packages for which help has been requested through the WNPP (Work-Needing and Prospective Packages) system in the last week. Total number of orphaned packages: 860 (new: 14) Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 171 (new: 8) Total number of packages reques

Bug#834778: ITP: bloscpack -- CLI interface and serialization format for Blosc

2016-08-18 Thread Daniel Stender
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Daniel Stender Control: block -1 by 834777 * Package name: bloscpack Version : 0.10.0 Upstream Author : Valentin Hänel * URL : https://github.com/Blosc/bloscpack * License : Expat Programming Lang: Python Description

Bug#834777: ITP: python-blosc -- official Python bindings for Blosc

2016-08-18 Thread Daniel Stender
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Daniel Stender Control: block -1 by 834318 * Package name: python-blosc Version : 1.4.1 Upstream Author : Francesc Alted Valentin Hänel * URL : https://github.com/Blosc/python-blosc * License : Expat

Re: Bug#834756: ITP: powershell -- scripting language interpreter built on .NET

2016-08-18 Thread Christoph Egger
Marcin Kulisz writes: > Most likely I'm missing something but what's the use case for Powershell on I don't know, what's the usecase for tcsh or lua? Christoph -- 9FED 5C6C E206 B70A 5857 70CA 9655 22B9 D49A E731 Debian Developer | Lisp Hacker | CaCert Assurer

Incentives for participation in FLOSS communities

2016-08-18 Thread Katja Gucek
Hi, this is the first time I am posting on this list. I am just conducting a thesis research at Faculty of Social Sciences, Cultural Studies Department - University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, Europe. In the research I am interested in incentives for voluntary participation in projects or communities

Re: Bug#834756: ITP: powershell -- scripting language interpreter built on .NET

2016-08-18 Thread Marcin Kulisz
On 2016-08-18 16:27:23, Luke W Faraone wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Luke W Faraone > > * Package name: powershell > Version : 6.0.0~alpha9 > Upstream Author : Microsoft > * URL : https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell > * License : Ex

Bug#834756: ITP: powershell -- scripting language interpreter built on .NET

2016-08-18 Thread Luke W Faraone
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Luke W Faraone * Package name: powershell Version : 6.0.0~alpha9 Upstream Author : Microsoft * URL : https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell * License : Expat Programming Lang: C# Description : scripting languag

Re: spammers closing bugs in BTS

2016-08-18 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Daniel Pocock dijo [Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 06:38:35PM +0200]: > I was only talking about control emails (e.g. the -done address and > control@). The requirements for opening bugs or submitting comments > (without pseudo-headers) could remain as they are. > > Maybe it could insist that emails from a

Re: spammers closing bugs in BTS

2016-08-18 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2016-08-18 16:13:29 +0200, Patrick Matthäi wrote: > > Am 18.08.2016 um 15:48 schrieb Vincent Lefevre: > > Reject mail with "X-PHP-Originating-Script:", at least for -done? > > I quite often see this in spam not caught by the filters, and I > > suppose that PHP scripts do not send mail to the BT

Re: spammers closing bugs in BTS

2016-08-18 Thread Patrick Matthäi
Am 18.08.2016 um 15:48 schrieb Vincent Lefevre: > Reject mail with "X-PHP-Originating-Script:", at least for -done? > I quite often see this in spam not caught by the filters, and I > suppose that PHP scripts do not send mail to the BTS; well, this > should be easy to see with the archives. Then y

Re: spammers closing bugs in BTS

2016-08-18 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2016-08-17 14:47:24 -0500, Don Armstrong wrote: > All of that said, we certainly do appreciate better anti-spam SA rules > for the BTS, and we do already give negative scores for messages which > have things which look like PGP signatures and/or come from an address > which is in the whitelist.

Bug#834723: ITP: forge -- high performance OpenGL visualization

2016-08-18 Thread Ghislain Antony Vaillant
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ghislain Antony Vaillant * Package name: forge Version : 1.0 Upstream Author : ArrayFire * URL : https://github.com/arrayfire/forge * License : BSD Programming Lang: C, C++ Description : high performance OpenGL vi

Bug#834720: ITP: r-bioc-savr -- GNU R parse and analyze Illumina SAV files

2016-08-18 Thread Andreas Tille
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andreas Tille * Package name: r-bioc-savr Version : 1.10.0 Upstream Author : R. Brent Calder * URL : http://bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/savR.html * License : AGPL Programming Lang: GNU R Description

Re: spammers closing bugs in BTS

2016-08-18 Thread Holger Levsen
On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 06:14:38PM +0200, Daniel Pocock wrote: > I received a notification that a bug was closed. > > The email that closed the bug was a spam email sent to the address > (bug-number)-d...@bugs.debian.org [...] > Maybe time to start requiring PGP signatures on control emails to t

Re: Does anybody plan to keep using sbuild with Squeeze or older chroots?

2016-08-18 Thread Holger Levsen
On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 12:19:02PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 1:24 AM, Johannes Schauer wrote: > > does anybody plan to use sbuild in Stretch with Debian Squeeze or older > > chroots? > ISTR folks on IRC mentioning they are still supporting clients on > lenny and older. at

Bug#834710: ITP: python-codicefiscale -- Generate and validate Italian "codice fiscale"

2016-08-18 Thread Elena ``of Valhalla''
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Elena ``of Valhalla''" * Package name: python-codicefiscale Version : 0.9 Upstream Author : Emanuele Rocca * URL : https://github.com/ema/pycodicefiscale * License : LGPL-2.1+ Programming Lang: Python Description

Bug#834702: ITP: golang-github-circonus-labs-circonusllhist -- implementation of Circonus log-linear histograms

2016-08-18 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Dmitry Smirnov X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, pkg-go-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org Package name: golang-github-circonus-labs-circonusllhist Version: 0.0~git20160526 Upstream Author: Circonus, Inc License: BSD-3-Clause