Bug#1029596: ITP: scmutils -- scheme mathematical library

2023-01-25 Thread Benda Xu
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Benda Xu X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, s...@l.airelinux.org * Package name: scmutils Version : 20220518 Upstream Contact: Gerald Jay Sussman * URL : https://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/gjs/6946 * License

Bug#1027051: ITP: cl-fiasco -- a test framework for Common Lisp

2022-12-27 Thread Benda Xu
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Benda Xu X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-common-l...@lists.debian.org * Package name: cl-fiasco Version : 0~git20221227 Upstream Contact: João Távora * URL : https://github.com/joaotavora/fiasco * License

Re: Thanks and Decision making working group (was Re: General Resolution: Statement regarding Richard Stallman's readmission to the FSF board result)

2021-04-18 Thread Benda Xu
Hi Jonathan, Jonathan Carter writes: > On 2021/04/18 13:20, Debian Project Secretary - Kurt Roeckx wrote: >> The details of the results are available at: >> https://www.debian.org/vote/2021/vote_002 > > Thanks for all your work on this vote, I believe that you made excellent > decisions as proje

Re: NEW queue almost empty

2020-11-08 Thread Benda Xu
Christian Kastner writes: > The NEW queue length is down a single digit, from ~500 not all too > long ago. That's an amazing effort by ftp-master that must have > consumed a *lot* of energy. > > THANK YOU! > > https://ftp-master.debian.org/new.html That's a good news for the bullseye freeze! Ku

Re: Summary: BLAS/LAPACK Ecosys Massive Update

2019-10-29 Thread Benda Xu
Hi Mo, Mo Zhou writes: > Hi fellow developers, > > A good news especially for Debian scientific computing users. > I shall call it a massive update, even if the whole update > was decomposed into many tiny steps where some of them > had already been finished 1 year ago. > > [...] Congratulation

Re: Please stop hating on sysvinit (was Re: do packages depend on lexical order or {daily,weekly,monthly} cron jobs?)

2019-08-09 Thread Benda Xu
Dear Simon, Simon Richter writes: > The sanest thing we could do in Debian is to teach start-stop-daemon > to parse systemd .service files and pull its command line arguments > from there, so we could use service definitions as init scripts with a > #! line. > > For that to happen, we'd have to

Re: Challenge from Julia's non-standard vendored openblas"64_"

2019-07-30 Thread Benda Xu
Hi Mo, Mo Zhou writes: > 64-bit version without symbol mangling will run into problem as long > as the user tries to install some fundamental .jl packages with the > Julia's built-in package manager. Does Julia's built-in package manager support to build packages from source, like R? If so, th

Re: SIMDebian: Debian Partial Fork with Radical ISA Baseline

2019-02-08 Thread Benda Xu
Hi Mo, Mo Zhou writes: > For most programs the "-march=native" option is not expected to bring any > significant performance improvement. However for some scientific applications > this proposition doesn't hold. When I was creating the tensorflow debian > package, I observed a significant perfor

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-16 Thread Benda Xu
Hi Petter, (Dropping backports) Petter Reinholdtsen writes: >> 1. systemd-shim is not necessary, even for DEs (except GNOME3). >> 2. sysvinit-core is very stable and do not need new uploads. > > Thank you for expressing so well the cause of the fate for sysvinit in > Debian. It seem clear its p

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-16 Thread Benda Xu
Hi Thorsten, Thorsten Glaser writes: > … this applies to the shim only. I was a bit surprised seeing on > someone else’s system that it was no longer installable, but almost > all systemd-free systems of people I know do not use the shim anyway, > so I’d take the Subject line with a few grains o

Gentoo/Android | Debian/Android (Was: Missing: Mobile Debian-Solution referring to Smartphone Operating Systems)

2018-08-15 Thread Benda Xu
Hi Paul and friends on -devel, Paul Wise writes: > Please take a look > these pages: > > https://wiki.debian.org/Mobile > https://postmarketos.org/ I would like to append the list with https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Android and a project "portage-powered android" under Gentoo GSOC2018

Re: Is missing SysV-init support a bug?

2018-01-01 Thread Benda Xu
Josh Triplett writes: > It seems far harder to do so for a service that provides no > daemonization support at all, expects socket or D-Bus activation, > integrates with containerization, or otherwise makes use of the > variety of mechanisms that make it far easier to write more capable > and sec

Re: User-installable Debian packages?

2017-07-30 Thread Benda Xu
Hi Simon, Simon McVittie writes: > Flatpak's approach to this is to use bind-mounts (in a new mount > namespace set up by bubblewrap) so that the "app" (the leaf package, > together with any libraries that are bundled with it) always appears > to be installed in --prefix=/app, which can safely b

Re: User-installable Debian packages?

2017-07-30 Thread Benda Xu
Hi Steffen, Steffen Möller writes: > This is good to hear. While I like all that I read about Gentoo, I do > not know about how well equipped it is with packages in computational > biology [edit: I had a look at > https://packages.gentoo.org/categories/sci-biology and am impressed, > well done!]

Re: User-installable Debian packages?

2017-07-30 Thread Benda Xu
Hi Steffen, Steffen Möller writes: > I just had a quick look and it seems really nice, indeed! Thank you tons for > pointing that out to us. Has anybody already tried that with Debian? I am one of a few guys behind that project. Gentoo Prefix with its own libc runs on Debian very well, the exp

Bug#761146: ITP: casacore-data -- Data for Common Astronomy Software Applications core library

2014-09-10 Thread Benda Xu
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Benda Xu * Package name: casacore-data Version : 0 Upstream Author : Australia Telescope National Facility * URL : https://code.google.com/p/casacore * License : LGPL Programming Lang: none Description : Data for

Bug#704519: ITP: scim-bridge -- IME server of scim-bridge communicate with SCIM

2013-04-02 Thread Benda Xu
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Benda Xu Please readopt the removed scim-bridge package[1]. I have made a package in mentors.debian.org[2]. The reason for removal of the package was that no one wanted to work on this and upstream was inactive. Now upstream has one or two active