Re: Proposed new release goal: Dependency/file list predictability

2007-06-23 Thread Enrico Zini
On Fri, Jun 22, 2007 at 11:25:44PM +0100, Enrico Zini wrote: > - compute a "delicateness" index of a package by summing the SAT >temperature of all packages that depend on it, and then give special >attention to the most "delicate" packages to see RC bugs, maintainer >activity and so

binNUMUs - all-depends-any

2007-06-23 Thread Gerrit Pape
Hi, I know that the git-core package doesn't support binNMUs, and AFAIK there's no convenient way to change that, as it builds arch: all package that depend on the specific arch: any package. http://bugs.debian.org/423041 Loosening the dependencies as suggested in http://wiki.debian.org/binNMU i

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Package

2007-06-23 Thread Sebastiaan Couwenberg
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Charles Plessy wrote: > Distribution of this software is prohibited. It may only be > obtained by downloading from Stanford's web site > (http://folding.stanford.edu and pages linked therein). > > I guess that in that case, there would be a lin

Re: binNUMUs - all-depends-any

2007-06-23 Thread Russ Allbery
Gerrit Pape <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, I know that the git-core package doesn't support binNMUs, and AFAIK > there's no convenient way to change that, as it builds arch: all package > that depend on the specific arch: any package. > http://bugs.debian.org/423041 > Loosening the dependenc

Re: binNUMUs - all-depends-any

2007-06-23 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
Gerrit Pape <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, I know that the git-core package doesn't support binNMUs, and AFAIK > there's no convenient way to change that, as it builds arch: all package > that depend on the specific arch: any package. > > http://bugs.debian.org/423041 > > Loosening the dependen

Re: transition of packages into testing

2007-06-23 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 05:01:20PM -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > Thanks for the reply. After posting the question, to my embarrassment, I > found out that this criterion is explained in developers-reference. I have > two other related questions. The page shows that it is not yet built for >

Re: transition of packages into testing

2007-06-23 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Fri, Jun 22, 2007 at 01:58:56AM +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > On to, 2007-06-21 at 17:01 -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > > 1) How can I request for a new build on ia64? or will it happen > > automatically? > > This is outside my area of expertese, but I would assume that the > buildds do

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Package

2007-06-23 Thread Magnus Holmgren
Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] doesn't update its client regularly. The release cycle is > possibly > slower than Debian Stable. There has been talk of v6 for several years > now, and I think that version just recently went into alpha testing if > it made it that far (I'm no long

Bug#430206: ITP: iodine -- tool for tunneling IPv4 data through a DNS server

2007-06-23 Thread gregor herrmann
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: gregor herrmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: iodine Version : 0.4.0 Upstream Author : Bjorn Andersson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Erik Ekman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://code.kryo.se/iodine * License

Re: Proposed new release goal: Dependency/file list predictability

2007-06-23 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Sat, Jun 23, 2007 at 09:35:25AM +0100, Enrico Zini wrote: > On Fri, Jun 22, 2007 at 11:25:44PM +0100, Enrico Zini wrote: > > > - compute a "delicateness" index of a package by summing the SAT > >temperature of all packages that depend on it, and then give special > >attention to the mo

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Package

2007-06-23 Thread Guilherme de S. Pastore
Em Sáb, 2007-06-23 às 12:59 +0100, Chris Lamb escreveu: > Charles Plessy wrote: > > > as said in another mail, [EMAIL PROTECTED] is definitely non-free. Hovever, > > if Debian would become an "authorized distributor", the licence would be > > suitable for non-free. > > What about Debian derivativ

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Package

2007-06-23 Thread Chris Lamb
Charles Plessy wrote: > as said in another mail, [EMAIL PROTECTED] is definitely non-free. Hovever, > if Debian would become an "authorized distributor", the licence would be > suitable for non-free. What about Debian derivatives? /Lamby -- Chris Lamb, Leamington Spa, UK

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Package

2007-06-23 Thread Sebastiaan Couwenberg
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Magnus Holmgren wrote: > Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote: > Has there been any talk about moving to the BOINC infrastructure? There used to be work on a BOINC [EMAIL PROTECTED] client, but this work has stopped due to personnel turnover. See: http://fah

Re: Bug#430206: ITP: iodine -- tool for tunneling IPv4 data through a DNS server

2007-06-23 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Hamish Moffatt | How is iodine different from nstx? - Works on !i386 - Source code that does not make me cry and run away. It's slightly less performant (in my experience), but I still much prefer it. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are --

Re: Bug#430206: ITP: iodine -- tool for tunneling IPv4 data through a DNS server

2007-06-23 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le samedi 23 juin 2007 à 13:01 +0200, gregor herrmann a écrit : > Description : tool for tunneling IPv4 data through a DNS server > > This is a piece of software that lets you tunnel IPv4 data through a > DNS server. This can be usable in different situations where > internet access is fi

Re: Bug#430206: ITP: iodine -- tool for tunneling IPv4 data through a DNS server

2007-06-23 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sat, Jun 23, 2007 at 01:01:40PM +0200, gregor herrmann wrote: > * Package name: iodine > Version : 0.4.0 > Upstream Author : Bjorn Andersson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Erik Ekman > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * URL : http://code.kryo.se/iodine > * License

Bug#430335: ITP: nsd3 -- authoritative name domain server

2007-06-23 Thread Pierre Habouzit
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Pierre Habouzit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: nsd3 Version : x.y.z Upstream Author : NLnet Labs * URL : http://www.nlnetlabs.nl/nsd/ * License : Mostly BSD with some bits in GPLv2 Programming Lang: C Description

Re: I don't understand Debian

2007-06-23 Thread Alex Queiroz
Hallo, On 6/22/07, Sam Leon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: There is nothing wrong with debian and if your are talking about windows then you are not even used to the "linux way" Wow, I've not seen a moronic argument like this in a while. -- -alex http://www.ventonegro.org/ -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: Bug#430206: ITP: iodine -- tool for tunneling IPv4 data through a DNS server

2007-06-23 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sat, 23 Jun 2007 14:57:01 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > Description : tool for tunneling IPv4 data through a DNS server > How does it compare to nstx ? On Sat, 23 Jun 2007 23:05:18 +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > How is iodine different from nstx? Thanks for your questions. I've

Re: binNUMUs - all-depends-any

2007-06-23 Thread Gerrit Pape
On Sat, Jun 23, 2007 at 11:31:49AM +0200, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: > Gerrit Pape <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Hi, I know that the git-core package doesn't support binNMUs, and AFAIK > > there's no convenient way to change that, as it builds arch: all package > > that depend on the specific

Re: Official presentation template

2007-06-23 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Sat, Jun 23, 2007 at 03:41:19PM +0100, Mario Iseli wrote: > in a few weeks I will go to give a little talk about Debian packaging > on a swiss CCC event. Having presentations and tell the people > anything about a special Debian topic is a common task for many people > on this list, I think. Now

Re: Bug#430266: ldbl128 transition for alpha, powerpc, sparc, s390

2007-06-23 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Sat, Jun 23, 2007 at 03:48:06PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: > Discussed in http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2007/05/msg01173.html There's not a lot of discussion there -- just an announcement really. > With glibc-2.5 and gcc-4.1.2 (and gcc-4.2), the 'long double' > data type did change

Official presentation template

2007-06-23 Thread Mario Iseli
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, in a few weeks I will go to give a little talk about Debian packaging on a swiss CCC event. Having presentations and tell the people anything about a special Debian topic is a common task for many people on this list, I think. Now my question:

Bug#430339: ITP: ttf-konatu -- TrueType Font originally for BeOS

2007-06-23 Thread Hideki Yamane (Debian-JP)
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Hideki Yamane (Debian-JP)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: ttf-konatu Version : 20 Upstream Author : Mitiya Masuda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.masuseki.com/rnote.php?u=be/konatu.htm * License : Creative Com

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Package

2007-06-23 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le vendredi 22 juin 2007 à 14:20 -0400, Zachary Palmer a écrit : > This software package has pretty much the best reason for > being closed source that I've encountered; they want to prevent > falsified results from damaging the research. This is probably one of the worst excuses I could find. T

re: ldbl128 transition for alpha, powerpc, sparc, s390

2007-06-23 Thread Ron
Hi, Looking at my packages that doko flagged for this transition, I see at least one place where on some platforms (though not for any Debian arch) a long double may be passed to an api function as a vararg. If there are other such packages they may not have been caught by his scan for 'long *do

Re: Official presentation template

2007-06-23 Thread Sebastian Harl
Hi, On Sat, Jun 23, 2007 at 03:41:19PM +0100, Mario Iseli wrote: > Now my question: Is there an official template > for Debian related presentations which is open to use? If not, are > there maybe any volunteers which would create one? The problem is that > I'm not very creative in relation to suc

Re: Proposed new release goal: Dependency/file list predictability

2007-06-23 Thread Bill Allombert
On Fri, Jun 22, 2007 at 09:37:39PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > > af: > > > files list differ: > > > -./usr/lib/menu > > > -./usr/lib/menu/af > > > +./usr/share/menu > > > +./usr/share/menu/af > > > > Non-ancient debhelper. > > Still, what do we want to do about those? This should be fixed