Re: Please add lzip support in the repository

2017-06-15 Thread Russ Allbery
writes: > First of all, thank you for your kind and sympathetic message. I'm > referring to the second option you mentioned. We are using gcc, and it > seems that a reason to not use lzip in gcc is that Debian doesn't > support source tarballs in lzip format. Oh, you're concerned with what upstr

Work-needing packages report for Jun 16, 2017

2017-06-15 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: 1079 (new: 9) Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 170 (new: 1) Total number of packages reques

Re: Please add lzip support in the repository

2017-06-15 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Thu, 15 Jun 2017, mariabi...@gmail.com wrote: > PS: lzip version available in Debian is 1.16, but the last one is 1.19. Maybe > it's time to update! :) lzip 1.19 is available just in Debian experimental, because we are in final-countdown nearly-absolute freeze: we will release the next Debian

Re: Please add lzip support in the repository

2017-06-15 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Thu, 15 Jun 2017, Christoph Biedl wrote: > Also I doubt the reduced disk space and network bandwitdth usage of any > new kid on the block (there's also zstd) really justifies the work > needed to implement the support in the many tools that deal with the > files. I might be convinced otherwise.

Re: Re: Please add lzip support in the repository

2017-06-15 Thread mariabisen
Hi, Russ Allbery wrote: > > Maria Bisen writes: > > It's been drawn to my attention the topic included in this thread: > > https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2017-06/msg00084.html > > I've got the feeling that the distribution the thread talks about is > > precisely yours, Debian's. As stated there,

Re: Re: Please add lzip support in the repository

2017-06-15 Thread mariabisen
Hi Guillem, Guillem Jover wrote: > On Thu, 2017-06-15 at 17:22:53 +0500, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 01:55:10PM +0200, Maria Bisen wrote: > > > It's been drawn to my attention the topic included in this thread: > > > > > > https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2017-06/msg00084.html

Re: "Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?"

2017-06-15 Thread Steven Chamberlain
Oh, regarding the Ubuntu installer: please configure the keyboard layout _before _prompting for the LUKS passphrase! and don't prompt for eCryptfs-protected /home, when LUKS is already configured. (Or remove support for this completely). If the user configured a network connection already, it w

Re: Please add lzip support in the repository

2017-06-15 Thread Russ Allbery
Maria Bisen writes: > It's been drawn to my attention the topic included in this thread: > https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2017-06/msg00084.html > I've got the feeling that the distribution the thread talks about is > precisely yours, Debian's. As stated there, giving support to lzip in > Debian see

Re: Please add lzip support in the repository

2017-06-15 Thread Ian Jackson
Stuart Prescott writes ("Re: Please add lzip support in the repository"): > > What is `apt-helper cat-file' and how does it help ? > > On stretch: > > $ apt-file search apt-helper > apt: /usr/lib/apt/apt-helper Ah. I looked on PATH. I expect "Front door" programs to be on PATH nowadays. > $ /

Re: Please add lzip support in the repository

2017-06-15 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Fri, 2017-06-16 at 00:35:37 +1000, Stuart Prescott wrote: > > What is `apt-helper cat-file' and how does it help ? > $ apt-file search apt-helper > apt: /usr/lib/apt/apt-helper > $ /usr/lib/apt/apt-helper download-file > http://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/sid/main/binary-amd64/Packages.x

Re: Please add lzip support in the repository

2017-06-15 Thread Stuart Prescott
> What is `apt-helper cat-file' and how does it help ? On stretch: $ apt-file search apt-helper apt: /usr/lib/apt/apt-helper $ /usr/lib/apt/apt-helper apt 1.4.6 (amd64) Usage: apt-helper [options] command apt-helper [options] cat-file file ... apt-helper [options] download-file uri

Re: Please add lzip support in the repository

2017-06-15 Thread Ian Jackson
Paul Wise writes ("Re: Please add lzip support in the repository"): > On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 9:05 PM, Christoph Biedl wrote: > > I'm not keen on extending regular expressions like > > > > \.(gz|bz2|lzma|xz)$ > > > > that I have in many places again and again. > > That sort of hard-coding shou

Re: Please add lzip support in the repository

2017-06-15 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Thu, 2017-06-15 at 17:22:53 +0500, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 01:55:10PM +0200, Maria Bisen wrote: > > It's been drawn to my attention the topic included in this thread: > > > > https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2017-06/msg00084.html > > > > I've got the feeling that the

Bug#864828: ITP: sogoupinyin-installer -- Sogou Pinyin Input Method installer

2017-06-15 Thread Shengjing Zhu
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Shengjing Zhu * Package name: sogoupinyin-installer Version : 2.1.0.0086~1 Upstream Author : Shengjing Zhu * URL : https://pinyin.sogou.com/linux/ * License : GPL-3 Programming Lang: Shell Description : Sogou Piny

Re: Please add lzip support in the repository

2017-06-15 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 9:05 PM, Christoph Biedl wrote: > I'm not keen on extending regular expressions like > > \.(gz|bz2|lzma|xz)$ > > that I have in many places again and again. That sort of hard-coding should stop, if you see it somewhere please switch to using apt, either via the apt lib

Re: Please add lzip support in the repository

2017-06-15 Thread Christoph Biedl
Maria Bisen wrote... > I've got the feeling that the distribution the thread talks about is > precisely yours, Debian's. As stated there, giving support to lzip in > Debian seems feasable and easy. Could it be possible, then, to add > lzip support? : ) If I understand correctly, it's about using

Re: Please add lzip support in the repository

2017-06-15 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 01:55:10PM +0200, Maria Bisen wrote: > It's been drawn to my attention the topic included in this thread: > > https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2017-06/msg00084.html > > I've got the feeling that the distribution the thread talks about is > precisely yours, Debian's. As stated th

Bug#864823: ITP: python-treetime -- inference of time stamped phylogenies and ancestral reconstruction

2017-06-15 Thread Andreas Tille
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andreas Tille * Package name: python-treetime Version : 0.0+20170607 Upstream Author : Pavel Sagulenko and Richard Neher * URL : https://github.com/neherlab/treetime * License : MIT Programming Lang: Python Descriptio

Please add lzip support in the repository

2017-06-15 Thread Maria Bisen
Hi Debian developers, It's been drawn to my attention the topic included in this thread: https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2017-06/msg00084.html I've got the feeling that the distribution the thread talks about is precisely yours, Debian's. As stated there, giving support to lzip in Debian seems feasab

Bug#864817: ITP: psyclone -- Domain-specific compiler for Finite Difference/Volume/Element Earth-system models in Fortran

2017-06-15 Thread Alastair McKinstry
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alastair McKinstry * Package name: psyclone Version : 1.4.1 Upstream Author : Rupert Ford * URL : https://github.com/stfc/PSyclone * License : BSD-3-Clause Programming Lang: Python Description : Domain-specific

Bug#864816: ITP: volume-key -- library and utility for manipulating storage encryption keys and passphrases

2017-06-15 Thread Martin Pitt
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Martin Pitt * Package name: volume-key Version : 0.3.9 Upstream Author : Miloslav Trmač https://releases.pagure.org/volume_key/ * License : GPL-2+ Programming Lang: C Description : Library/utility for manipulating storage enc

Bug#864815: ITP: libbytesize -- library for common operations with sizes in bytes

2017-06-15 Thread Martin Pitt
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Martin Pitt * Package name: libbytesize Version : 0.10 Upstream Author : Vratislav Podzimek URL : https://github.com/rhinstaller/libbytesize * License : LGPL-2.1+ Programming Lang: C Description : Library for c