Re: FYI: VCS choice these days

2008-05-23 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 02:05:14PM +1000, Brian May wrote: > Osamu Aoki wrote: >> Shorter summary of vote data goes as: >> >> cvs 5% >> subversion9% >> git-core 3% >> mercurial 0.6% >> darcs 0.3% >> bzr 0.3% >> > Does monotone not get a mention? or w

Re: FYI: VCS choice these days

2008-05-23 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 12:31:09PM -0400, Felipe Sateler wrote: > Osamu Aoki wrote: > > > Then you are voting for mercurial if you participated in popcon. > > > > vote: number of people who use this package regularly; > > Note that the vote is not that reliable either: it needs atime, which is

Bug#482555: ITP: patman -- DNA pattern matcher for short sequences

2008-05-23 Thread Charles Plessy
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Package name: patman Version : 1.2 Upstream Author : Kay Pruefer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Udo Stenzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> URL : http://bioinf.eva.mpg.de/patman/ License : GPL-2+ Prog

Re: what about an special QA package priority?

2008-05-23 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 05:21:07PM -0300, Luciano Bello wrote: > I was thinking about the Debian/OpenSSL debacle. Clearly it not easy to > manage a hard meticulous QA process in all packages. In the other hand, there > are packages more critical than others, which are more delicate to secur

Re: what about an special QA package priority?

2008-05-23 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 20 May 2008, Luciano Bello wrote: > - It should be checked with debugging tools (like valgrind :P) > - It should a public VCS These should be encouraged, and in the cases where packages aren't in a public VCS or QAed properly before upload, the deficiencies should be politely pointed out

Re: what about an special QA package priority?

2008-05-23 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 06:03:51PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > So, basically, I welcome your proposal, but IMO its simplest and most > effective implementation would be: ``packages scoring high in popcon > have to be maintained by teams using some Vcs-*''. Why do you want to force the use o

Bug#482589: ITP: shrewsoft-vpn-client -- free IPsec client including graphical user interface

2008-05-23 Thread bernat
Package: wnpp Owner: Vincent Bernat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Severity: wishlist * Package name: shrewsoft-vpn-client Version : 2.0.3 Upstream Author : Shrew Soft * URL or Web page : http://shrew.net/?page=software * License : other Description : IPsec client including grap

Re: Re: packages up for adoption

2008-05-23 Thread Bart Samwel
Hi Michael, Michael Meskes wrote: > Sorry guys, apparently this email of mine didn't make it to the list. > Thus sending it again. Need to figure out what's going on as this > happened twice. > > Am Mittwoch, 21. Mai 2008 20:53:51 schrieb Joey Hess: >> I'll no longer be maintaining the following

Re: packages up for adoption

2008-05-23 Thread David Watson
* Joey Hess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I'll no longer be maintaining the following packages. I plan to orphan > them next week and hope to find new maintainers for them before then. > > rss2email I'll take rss2email if no one else wants to. -- David Watson - Debian GNU/Linux Developer [EMAIL

Bug#482596: ITP: octave-xraylib -- Bindings to the Xraylib functions

2008-05-23 Thread Ólafur Jens Sigurðsson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Debian Octave Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [N.B.: This ITP was generated automatically from a template, even though the DOG does intend to package the described software for Debian. We apologize for the glitches in the text below.] * Package name: octave

Re: what about an special QA package priority?

2008-05-23 Thread Luciano Bello
El Vie 23 May 2008, Don Armstrong escribió: > > - It should maintained by a team > > Team maintenance doesn't automatically make a package better.[1] > Furthermore, I don't believe there are many (possibly any!) packages > in Debian where the package is "important" and the current maintainer > wou

Bug#482612: ITP: libdevel-calltrace-perl -- Perl code tracer

2008-05-23 Thread Antony Gelberg
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Antony Gelberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libdevel-calltrace-perl Version : 1.0 Upstream Author : Robert Spier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and Jesse Vincent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://search.cpan.or

Bug#482614: ITP: octave-symband -- Linear Algebra for Symmetric Banded Matrices

2008-05-23 Thread Ólafur Jens Sigurðsson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Debian Octave Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [N.B.: This ITP was generated automatically from a template, even though the DOG does intend to package the described software for Debian. We apologize for the glitches in the text below.] * Package name: octave

Bug#482613: ITP: octave-triangular -- Simple example of a user type implementing a simple matrix type for triangular matrices

2008-05-23 Thread Ólafur Jens Sigurðsson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Debian Octave Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [N.B.: This ITP was generated automatically from a template, even though the DOG does intend to package the described software for Debian. We apologize for the glitches in the text below.] * Package name: octav

Bug#482617: ITP: octave-secs1d -- A Drift-Diffusion simulator for 1d semiconductor devices

2008-05-23 Thread Ólafur Jens Sigurðsson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Debian Octave Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [N.B.: This ITP was generated automatically from a template, even though the DOG does intend to package the described software for Debian. We apologize for the glitches in the text below.] * Package name: octave

Bug#482616: ITP: octave-secs2d -- A Drift-Diffusion simulator for 2d semiconductor devices

2008-05-23 Thread Ólafur Jens Sigurðsson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Debian Octave Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [N.B.: This ITP was generated automatically from a template, even though the DOG does intend to package the described software for Debian. We apologize for the glitches in the text below.] * Package name: octave

Bug#482618: ITP: octave-pdb -- Reads and display PDB-files from the Brookhaven protein databank

2008-05-23 Thread Ólafur Jens Sigurðsson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Debian Octave Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [N.B.: This ITP was generated automatically from a template, even though the DOG does intend to package the described software for Debian. We apologize for the glitches in the text below.] * Package name: octave

Bug#482615: ITP: octave-tcl-octave -- socket implementation of a tcl-octave connection

2008-05-23 Thread Ólafur Jens Sigurðsson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Debian Octave Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [N.B.: This ITP was generated automatically from a template, even though the DOG does intend to package the described software for Debian. We apologize for the glitches in the text below.] * Package name: octave

Re: what about an special QA package priority?

2008-05-23 Thread Don Armstrong
On Fri, 23 May 2008, Luciano Bello wrote: > Is not about accept help. It about considering the package as > unmaintained if there is not a team to maintain it. In same > packages, we can not depend on only two pairs of eyes. If there aren't enough people who are interested in maintaining packages

Bug#482619: ITP: octave-ocs -- Package for solving DC and transient MNA equation stemming from electrical circuit

2008-05-23 Thread Ólafur Jens Sigurðsson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Debian Octave Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [N.B.: This ITP was generated automatically from a template, even though the DOG does intend to package the described software for Debian. We apologize for the glitches in the text below.] * Package name: octave

Bug#482620: ITP: octave-multicore -- An Octave-forge package providing functions for

2008-05-23 Thread Ólafur Jens Sigurðsson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Debian Octave Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [N.B.: This ITP was generated automatically from a template, even though the DOG does intend to package the described software for Debian. We apologize for the glitches in the text below.] * Package name: octave

Bug#482622: ITP: octave-msh -- Package for creating and managing triangular and tetrahedral meshes for Finite Element or Finite Volume PDE solvers.

2008-05-23 Thread Ólafur Jens Sigurðsson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Debian Octave Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [N.B.: This ITP was generated automatically from a template, even though the DOG does intend to package the described software for Debian. We apologize for the glitches in the text below.] * Package name: octave

Re: SAGE packages for Debian

2008-05-23 Thread Timothy G Abbott
On Thu, 15 May 2008, Ondrej Certik wrote: On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 10:16 PM, Timothy G Abbott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: That's probably a good plan, especially since the sandbox is apparently going to be eliminated eventually (and it sounds like arpack and delaunay are on the list of things like

Patch peer review.

2008-05-23 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sat, May 24, 2008 at 01:38:27AM +0100, Don Armstrong a écrit : > > We need the people who are doing the review and have continuously > committed to doing the review before we block on the review. Hi all, peer-reviewed scientific research relies on intermediates to organise the reviewing proce

Bug#472706: ITA: bdfresize -- Resize BDF Format Font

2008-05-23 Thread Tatsuya Kinoshita
retitle 472706 ITA: bdfresize -- Resize BDF Format Font owner 472706 ! thanks I'm going to adopt the bdfresize package. My packages bitmap-mule and xfonts-jisx0213 depend on it. Thanks, -- Tatsuya Kinoshita pgp9xcVzQmQxr.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: what about an special QA package priority?

2008-05-23 Thread George Danchev
On Saturday 24 May 2008, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Fri, 23 May 2008, Luciano Bello wrote: --cut-- > > Of course at first is not easy. But we should go to an scenario > > where all the local patches was reported to upstream (to apply them > > in the next release) or be justified by more than one dev