Re: Bug#846237: ITP: ondir -- Automate tasks specific to certain directories in the shell

2016-11-29 Thread Julian Taylor
On 11/29/2016 03:41 PM, Christian Seiler wrote: (Forwarding because I forgot to Cc debian-devel@.) ondir is a small program to automate tasks specific to certain directories. It works by executing scripts in directories when you enter and leave them. It may be used to set environment variables o

Re: Minutes from the "32bit architectures in Debian"-bof

2015-08-26 Thread Julian Taylor
On 26.08.2015 21:08, Josh Triplett wrote: > Andreas Barth wrote: >> Specific issues: >> - for i386, there is still sold new hardware with 32bit-only. Are >> there open issues for i386 (apart from the 32bit-generic ones)? >> Discussion that we need to get rid of it one day should be started. >

Re: Heads up: Upcoming dpkg-buildpackage -j precedence change

2015-05-13 Thread Julian Taylor
On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 2:21 PM, Guillem Jover wrote: > IMO dpkg-buildpackage should assume yes, in the same way it assumes > packages are cross-buildable, and we don't go around marking them as > such. But I guess for Debian that depends on how much of our packaging > and upstream build systems

Re: Architectures where unaligned access is (not) OK?

2014-11-23 Thread Julian Taylor
On 23.11.2014 23:11, Simon McVittie wrote: > On 23/11/14 17:55, Simon McVittie wrote: >> Unfortunately, on my x86-64 laptop, my patched liblzo2 with >> -DLZO_CFG_NO_UNALIGNED on all architectures seems to be half as fast as >> the unpatched one > [...] >> I'm trying out a slightly different approac

Re: Architectures where unaligned access is (not) OK?

2014-11-21 Thread Julian Taylor
On 21.11.2014 18:01, Jakub Wilk wrote: > * Felipe Sateler , 2014-11-21, 14:04: >> Sparc is definitely not ok. For evidence, see #721617, liblo was >> trying to fetch a double from a 4-byte aligned address. Experience >> with liblo shows that other architectures are just fine (or at least >> are jus

Re: Bug#757941: static linking: alternatives for glibc?

2014-10-07 Thread Julian Taylor
On 07.10.2014 08:07, Paul Wise wrote: > On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 1:58 PM, Michael Tokarev wrote: > >> apps becomes huge in size > > I wonder if LTO would help with the size issues, theoretically all the > code from the static glibc that isn't used by busybox-static would be > stripped out of the re

Re: possible MBF: automatically detecting unused build dependencies

2014-07-07 Thread Julian Taylor
On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 2:23 PM, Johannes Schauer wrote: > Hi, > > Quoting Julian Taylor (2014-07-07 14:14:20) > >> If so that might explain why your pass2 did not remove these, but so far I >> know we have no way to declare this state in our control, we only have &g

Re: possible MBF: automatically detecting unused build dependencies

2014-07-07 Thread Julian Taylor
On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 1:51 PM, Johannes Schauer wrote: > > Can you spot obvious mistakes in the results or in the procedure used to > generate them? > There seem to be a bunch of false positives for virtual/metapackages: ==> python-numpy_1.8.1-1.arch-all.unusedbd <== gfortran=4:4.8.2-4 python-

Re: dh_shlibdeps warnings on buildd about undefined OpenMP symbols

2014-06-10 Thread Julian Taylor
On 10.06.2014 00:45, Leo Singer wrote: > Hi, > > In healpix-cxx, I'm getting warnings from dh_shlibdeps about missing OpenMP > symbols. See, for example, this excerpt from > https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=healpix-cxx&arch=i386&ver=3.11.2-6&stamp=1401836504: > >> dpkg-shlibdeps:

Re: Why not 03 ?

2014-06-01 Thread Julian Taylor
On 01.06.2014 05:39, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Sun, Jun 01, 2014 at 12:37:18AM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: >> ]] Steve Langasek > >>> FWIW, the recent port of Ubuntu to ppc64el uses -O3 as the default, because >>> IBM has broad experience in resolving performance issues for their own >>> hardw

Re: Why not 03 ?

2014-05-30 Thread Julian Taylor
On 30.05.2014 09:40, Xavier Roche wrote: > On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 11:10:29AM +1000, Russell Stuart wrote: >> In particular -O3 turns on auto-vectorisation. It can provide a big >> speed up to programs that can take advantage of it > [...] >> As others have pointed our -O3 turns on optimisations t

Re: Having fun with the following C code (UB)

2014-04-14 Thread Julian Taylor
On 14.04.2014 14:26, Raphael Geissert wrote: > Russ Allbery wrote: >> Shachar Shemesh writes: >>> Do you really want to get a "Warning: signed integer overflow yields >>> undefined behavior" on this function? >> >> I would certainly like to be able to enable such a thing. I write a lot >> of code

Re: jquery debate with upstream

2014-03-12 Thread Julian Taylor
On 12.03.2014 16:47, Paul Tagliamonte wrote: > Also archive size, for what it's worth. > > Shipping GBs of DLLs, minified JS and other sourceless nonsense > is totally a waste of everyone's time and storage space. this is not a good argument, the best you can usually get out of upstreams it to s

Re: Best-practice / howto packaging of CGI-based Web app ?

2014-02-09 Thread Julian Taylor
On 06.02.2014 01:58, Paul Wise wrote: > On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 8:43 AM, Paul Wise wrote: > >> Which CGI are we talking about? Perhaps we can give more specific advice. > > I guess you mean Online Python Tutor (#737732). > > Looking at the git repo, it includes a lot of embedded code copies of >

Re: autopkgtest + chroot howto ? - Was: Re: Is it possible to run autopkgtest without a virtual machine ?

2014-02-07 Thread Julian Taylor
On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 2:09 PM, Antonio Terceiro wrote: > On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 06:09:51PM +0100, Martin Pitt wrote: > > I advise to use the schroot runner instead. schroots are easy to set > > up these days with mk-sbuild, and with some additional love (like > > installing and configuring apt-c

Re: amd64 arch and optimization flags?

2014-02-05 Thread Julian Taylor
On 06.02.2014 00:39, Jaromír Mikeš wrote: > > Hi all, > > I would like to add some optimization flags for amd64 arch in some > packages (mostly LV2 nad LADSPA plugins). > I found these as candidates for amd64 arch: > > -msse > -msse2 > -mfpmath=sse this is enabled by default on amd64 > -ffast-

Re: [mass bug] New license problem/sourceless fil/privacy problems detected by lintian

2014-01-16 Thread Julian Taylor
On 16.01.2014 19:37, Bálint Réczey wrote: > Hi Bastien, > > 2014/1/15 Bastien ROUCARIES : >> Hi, > >> >> Moreover lintian detect minified javascript (based on extension).[4] >> I am slowly manually checking if source is present and fill bug when >> appropriate. >> I plan to detect more minified ja

Re: automake transition breakages

2013-09-30 Thread Julian Taylor
On 30.09.2013 16:58, Eric Dorland wrote: > Doing a rebuild is something I could try for next time. I'm not really > familiar with how to do that though, can you point me in the right > direction? What sort of lintian checks did you have in mind? At minimum the packages using Werror should be test

Re: lintian: what means pkg-config-multi-arch-wrong-dir?

2013-09-29 Thread Julian Taylor
On 29.09.2013 14:08, Olе Streicher wrote: > Paul Wise writes: >> On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 7:31 PM, Olе Streicher wrote: >>> While the library is architecture specific, the pkgconfig file is not. > >> Looks like it is to me, which is what lintian is complaining about: >> [...] >> libdir=${prefix}/l

Re: Bug#722156: ITP: binaryornot -- Ultra-lightweight pure Python package to check if a file is binary or text.

2013-09-08 Thread Julian Taylor
On 08.09.2013 16:40, Vincent Bernat wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Vincent Bernat > > * Package name: binaryornot > Version : 0.1.1 > Upstream Author : Audrey Roy > * URL : https://github.com/audreyr/binaryornot > * License : BSD > Prog

Re: Current and upcoming toolchain changes for jessie

2013-05-07 Thread Julian Taylor
On 05/07/2013 03:25 PM, Matthias Klose wrote: ... == binutils == binutils 2.23.2 will be uploaded to unstable after GCC 4.8 as the default on x86 reaches testing. Later updates will introduce binutils trunk leading to 2.24, later this year. fyi, this change will introduce a couple new FTBF

Re: 2013 sometimes still feels like 2003 or 1993 (Re: NEW processing during freezes

2013-05-04 Thread Julian Taylor
On 04.05.2013 11:10, Wookey wrote: > > I am huge fan of both building in clean environments _and_ being able > to build twice. I don't think there is any solution to this other than > testing it in an automated fashion. An sbuild or pbuilder option for > --build-twice would make testing a very sim

Re: Bug#706159: ITP: libzmq-libzmq2-perl -- Perl bindings to the libzmq 2.x library

2013-04-25 Thread Julian Taylor
On 25.04.2013 18:01, Alessandro Ghedini wrote: > Package: wnpp > Owner: Alessandro Ghedini > Severity: wishlist > X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org > > * Package name: libzmq-libzmq2-perl > Version : 1.07 > Upstream Author : Daisuke Maki > *

Re: ITP: libzeromq-perl -- A ZeroMQ2 wrapper for Perl

2012-05-10 Thread Julian Taylor
On 05/10/2012 05:53 PM, Harlan Lieberman-Berg wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: "Harlan Lieberman-Berg" > > Package name: libzeromq-perl > Version:0.21 > Upstream Author:Daisuke Maki > URL:http://search.cpan.org/dist/ZeroMQ/ > License:

Re: Bug#668126: ITP: python-odict -- Ordered dictionary in Python

2012-04-09 Thread Julian Taylor
On 04/09/2012 01:37 PM, TANIGUCHI Takaki wrote: >>>>>> On Mon, 09 Apr 2012 13:30:49 +0200 >>>>>> jtaylor.deb...@googlemail.com(Julian Taylor) said: > >> what is the advantage of this over the ordered dictionary which is >> builtin wheezy&

Re: Bug#668126: ITP: python-odict -- Ordered dictionary in Python

2012-04-09 Thread Julian Taylor
On 04/09/2012 04:01 AM, TANIGUCHI Takaki wrote: > Package: wnpp > Owner: tak...@debian.org > Severity: wishlist > > * Package name: python-odict > Version : 1.4.4 > Upstream Author : BlueDynamics Alliance > * URL or Web page : http://pypi.python.org/pypi/odict > * License :

Re: Enabling hardened build flags for Wheezy

2012-03-02 Thread Julian Taylor
On 03/02/2012 05:53 PM, Kees Cook wrote: > On Fri, Mar 02, 2012 at 09:12:16AM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote: >> On Thu, Mar 01, 2012 at 09:58:23PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: >>> Kees Cook writes: >>> Speaking to the false positives problem, I've discussed with some people the idea of having b

Re: Fwd: Re: BLAST+ speed & build issues

2011-08-04 Thread Julian Taylor
amic version will be so much slower when its running. You might be able to reduce startup time by only linking against the libraries you need or lazyly dynamically loading them. using ld --as-needed is the solution for the former, but see bug 633567 for problems with this. Best Regards, Julian Taylor signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Bug#618935: ITP: keepass2 -- password manager

2011-03-21 Thread Julian Taylor
. I think all these points warrant a little duplicate functionality in the archive. Best Regards, Julian Taylor

Bug#618935: ITP: keepass2 -- password manager

2011-03-19 Thread Julian Taylor
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Julian Taylor * Package name: keepass2 Version : 2.15 (not yet released) Upstream Author : Dominik Reichl * URL : http://keepass.info/ * License : GPL-2+ Programming Lang: C# Description : ITP: keepass2

Re: does aptitude really need to lock the status database when downloading?

2011-02-03 Thread Julian Taylor
On Fri, 2011-02-04 at 03:10 +0300, Stanislav Maslovski wrote: > Hi debian-devel, > > I wanted to ask this for quite a long time: Does aptitude (I think > apt-get does the same) really have to lock "the status database area" > when _downloading_ packages? > > For example, I am running an update on