Re: Whether remotely running software is considered "software" for Debian.

2017-08-14 Thread Ben Finney
"Dr. Bas Wijnen" writes: > I'm referring to policy 2.2, which lists what software belongs in main > and what belongs in contrib. While this is not voted on and it does > not follow directly from the SC, I thought there was agreement that > what's in Policy 2.2 is a good way to determine where sof

libgda with ui support.

2017-08-14 Thread Pavlo Solntsev
Hello, I am not sure where I should direct my question. There is a bug #862251 for libgda-5.0 package. UI modules are not compiled and not available. Basically, I have to manually compile those. The bug is sitting for 90 days without any comment. I understand, that people may be busy with other dut

Bug#872148: ITP: octave-tisean -- nonlinear time series analysis for Octave

2017-08-14 Thread Rafael Laboissière
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Rafael Laboissiere * Package name: octave-tisean Version : 0.2.3 Upstream Author : Piotr Held * URL : https://octave.sourceforge.io/tisean/index.html * License : GPLv4+ Programming Lang: C++, Fortran, Octave Descrip

Re: fdisk becoming non-essential, dependencies needed.

2017-08-14 Thread Andreas Henriksson
On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 05:11:53PM +0200, Andreas Henriksson wrote: > Hello, > > A new version 2.29.2-3 of src:util-linux was recently uploaded to > experimental[1]. The plan is to ship those changes in Buster. [...] Following up on my previous mail to debian-devel-announce An initial set of

Re: Whether remotely running software is considered "software" for Debian.

2017-08-14 Thread Dr. Bas Wijnen
On Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 08:58:00AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > "Dr. Bas Wijnen" writes: > > > What seems to be the dispute is whether software that runs on a remote > > system is still "software" for the purpose of our rules. > > That is not in dispute, it seems to me. The rules of the Debian Pro