Bug#490907: ITP: openturns -- Open source initiative to Treat Uncertainties, Risks?N Statistics

2008-07-15 Thread Christophe Prud'homme
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org --- Please fill out the fields below. --- Package name: openturns Version: 0.12.0 Upstream Author: - Électricité de France (EDF), the main electricity generation and distribution company in France; -

Re: Changes detected by lintian on rebuilt packages

2008-07-15 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 09:53:30PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > On 12/07/08 at 18:50 -0500, Raphael Geissert wrote: > > Because some packages FTBFS, there are some missing build logs[3], and > > because there are some manpage warnings that are/not found either on > > lintian.d.o's results or the

Re: Help: Strange 64bit issue

2008-07-15 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, 11 Jul 2008, Manuel Prinz wrote: > >> With these fixes it still did not build on my system. I needed to change >> the Build-Depends on lib64z1-dev into zlib1g-dev to get it to build in a >> clean pbuilder chroot. > > Well, I guess that lib64z1-de

Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Xen status in lenny?

2008-07-15 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Bastian Blank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 09:53:25PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: >> What are the plans for Xen for lenny? Is this situation likely to change >> before the release? > > It will ship the hypervisor and a domU kernel. For dom0 it will need > either the etch

Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Xen status in lenny?

2008-07-15 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 12/07/08 at 19:39 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 12:10:28AM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > We (Debian) should make a clear statement that users of Debian as dom0 > > will have at least one supported configuration at any time during the > > lenny lifetime. > > What I do

Re: Changes detected by lintian on rebuilt packages

2008-07-15 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 15/07/08 at 10:33 +0100, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 09:53:30PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > On 12/07/08 at 18:50 -0500, Raphael Geissert wrote: > > > Because some packages FTBFS, there are some missing build logs[3], and > > > because there are some manpage warnings that

Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Xen status in lenny?

2008-07-15 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Tuesday 15 July 2008 13:08, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > How/if we will support Xen in lenny is more a policy decision than a > technical decision, even if it has important technical aspects. > > Even if it's not optimal, I agree with do-ocracy for technical > decisions. However, using it for everyth

Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Xen status in lenny?

2008-07-15 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 15/07/08 at 14:01 +0200, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: > Xen is just one solution to virtualisation. I may agree that a general > decision to support virtualisation on Debian could be a policy decision, but > whether we'll support one specific technology, for which there are many > alternatives, is

Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Xen status in lenny?

2008-07-15 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 01:08:23PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > On 12/07/08 at 19:39 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 12:10:28AM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > > We (Debian) should make a clear statement that users of Debian as dom0 > > > will have at least one supported

Re: Xen status in lenny?

2008-07-15 Thread Bastian Blank
On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 09:53:25PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > What are the plans for Xen for lenny? Is this situation likely to change > before the release? As we have seen, there is no real plan. So lets summarize the possibilities: Option 1: Use alternatives == Well,

Bug#490949: ITP: libpetal-utils-perl -- Useful template modifiers for Petal

2008-07-15 Thread Damyan Ivanov
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Damyan Ivanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libpetal-utils-perl Version : 0.06 Upstream Author : William McKee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Steve Purkis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Peta

Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Xen status in lenny?

2008-07-15 Thread John Goerzen
Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > On 15/07/08 at 14:01 +0200, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: > - KVM: is very promising but is it really a valid alternative *now* > for current Xen users? That is an interesting question. We are doing some research on that topic right now. I've migrated some VMware and xen stuff

Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Xen status in lenny?

2008-07-15 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 02:54:09PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > On 15/07/08 at 14:01 +0200, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: > > Xen is just one solution to virtualisation. I may agree that a general > > decision to support virtualisation on Debian could be a policy decision, > > but > > whether we'll s

Bug#490953: ITP: lua-base64 -- base64 library for the lua language

2008-07-15 Thread Enrico Tassi
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Enrico Tassi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: lua-base64 Version : 1.0 Upstream Author : Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo * URL : http://www.tecgraf.puc-rio.br/~lhf/ftp/lua/#lbase64 * License : Public Domain Programming L

Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Xen status in lenny?

2008-07-15 Thread Bastian Blank
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 05:22:55PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > One big difference between Xen and KVM is the fact that KVM always requires > hardware virtualization (HVM) support from the CPU. It uses the the qemu device emulation code, which is security wise one large catastrophe. Okay, Xen

Re: Bug#490857: ITP: watermelons -- watermelon bouncing game

2008-07-15 Thread unifoundry
> Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:56:47 +0800 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Bug#490857: ITP: watermelons -- watermelon bouncing game > CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org > > On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 3:43 AM, Peter De Wachter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Re: Bug#490857: ITP: watermelons -- watermelon bouncing game

2008-07-15 Thread Evgeni Golov
On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 08:05:21 -0700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:56:47 +0800 > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: Bug#490857: ITP: watermelons -- watermelon bouncing game > > CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org > > > >

Bug#490970: ITP: sunpinyin-slm -- Sunpinyin statistical language model training tools

2008-07-15 Thread Kov Chai
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Kov Chai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: sunpinyin-slm Version : 1.0 Upstream Author : Lei Zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/input-method * License : LGPL/CDDL Dual license Prog

Policy restriction to depend on font packages

2008-07-15 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi people. Policy 11.8.5.1 says: "If one or more of the fonts so packaged are necessary for proper operation of the package with which they are associated the font package may be Recommended; if the fonts merely provide an enhancement, a Suggests rel

Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Xen status in lenny?

2008-07-15 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 09:24:08AM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: > Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > On 15/07/08 at 14:01 +0200, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: > > - KVM: is very promising but is it really a valid alternative *now* > > for current Xen users? > > That is an interesting question. We are doing some

Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Xen status in lenny?

2008-07-15 Thread John Goerzen
Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 09:24:08AM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: > > Xensource has a developer working on getting xen patches ported to Linux > pv_ops framework and integrated into upstream (vanilla) kernel. That is, to me, only mildly encouraging. 2.6.18 came out on Sept.

Re: Changes detected by lintian on rebuilt packages

2008-07-15 Thread Raphael Geissert
Thanks to everyone for their comments. Thinking a little bit more, I believe writing some kind of report might be of more use. Of course if I find something really relevant I might end up filing a couple of bugs (I remember seeing something that looked like a library name being changed in the reb

Re: Changes detected by lintian on rebuilt packages

2008-07-15 Thread Raphael Geissert
Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > On 12/07/08 at 18:50 -0500, Raphael Geissert wrote: >> Because some packages FTBFS, there are some missing build logs[3], and >> because there are some manpage warnings that are/not found either on >> lintian.d.o's results or the archive rebuild's results I can't even >> es

Re: Changes detected by lintian on rebuilt packages

2008-07-15 Thread Julien Cristau
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 13:43:05 -0500, Raphael Geissert wrote: > Hope nobody will object if the report is sent in the next Misc Developer > News :). > It doesn't need to be on -devel-announce. Just send it here. Cheers, Julien -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: Changes detected by lintian on rebuilt packages

2008-07-15 Thread Raphael Geissert
Russ Allbery wrote: > Raphael Geissert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Because some packages FTBFS, there are some missing build logs[3], and >> because there are some manpage warnings that are/not found either on >> lintian.d.o's results or the archive rebuild's results I can't even >> estimate

Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Xen status in lenny?

2008-07-15 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 12:49:07PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: > Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 09:24:08AM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: > > > > > Xensource has a developer working on getting xen patches ported to Linux > > pv_ops framework and integrated into upstream (vanilla) k

sysklogd/rsyslog switch

2008-07-15 Thread Joerg Jaspert
Heya World, I just did the requested switch, sysklogd/klogd are now priority extra, rsyslog (not its -mysql -pgsql packages) are now priority important. If something else, like Tasks or so, needs to be changed too: Whoever needs to do that please do it. Thanks. -- bye, Joerg [ New Maintainer Pr

Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Xen status in lenny?

2008-07-15 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Lucas Nussbaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 15/07/08 at 14:01 +0200, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: >> Xen is just one solution to virtualisation. I may agree that a general >> decision to support virtualisation on Debian could be a policy decision, but >> whether we'll support one specific technolo

Bug#490997: ITP: mayanna -- A fork of gimmie, an elegant desktop organizer

2008-07-15 Thread Julian Andres Klode
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Julian Andres Klode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: mayanna Version : 0.2.8 Upstream Author : Seif Lotfy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and others * URL : http://code.google.com/p/mayanna/ * License : LGPL Programming Lang: Pyt

Re: Policy restriction to depend on font packages

2008-07-15 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: > Some of them: fontconfig-config, blender, openjdk-6-jre, > openoffice.org-core, vlc. And, as I understand, it leads to 93 bugs of > "serious" severity and yet another pain for release team. ttf-opensymbol comes out of openoffice.org itself (easily checkable) and i

Re: Policy restriction to depend on font packages

2008-07-15 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Eugene V. Lyubimkin] > Should I mass-file the bugs or this situation can be resolved > through different approach? Your message was a bit short on exactly what problem you are trying to solve. How is the font dependency affecting users of the packages? I suspect fontconfig-config work on the f

Re: Policy restriction to depend on font packages

2008-07-15 Thread Russ Allbery
Rene Engelhard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ttf-opensymbol comes out of openoffice.org itself (easily checkable) and > is needed for basic operation. You won't get any bullet in OOos lists > without it. Even if you're running an X font server on a different host that is providing that font? Doe

Bug#491008: ITP: qutim -- new instant messenger written in C++ and Qt4

2008-07-15 Thread Alexander Gerasiov
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alexander GQ Gerasiov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: qutim Upstream Author : Rustam Chakin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.qutim.org/ * License : GPL v2 or later Programming Lang: C++ Description : new instant me

Re: Policy restriction to depend on font packages

2008-07-15 Thread Miriam Ruiz
2008/7/15 Eugene V. Lyubimkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Then I searched the Debian archive (in case of TrueType fonts): > > $ grep-aptavail -F Depends "ttf-" -s Package | wc -l > 93 > > $ grep-aptavail \( -F Recommends "ttf-" --or -F Suggests "ttf-" \) > - --and ! -F Depends "ttf-" -s Package | wc -l

Re: Policy restriction to depend on font packages

2008-07-15 Thread Julien Cristau
[dropping -release from Cc] On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 15:11:44 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Rene Engelhard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > ttf-opensymbol comes out of openoffice.org itself (easily checkable) and > > is needed for basic operation. You won't get any bullet in OOos lists > > withou

Re: Status of Emdebian {ARM}

2008-07-15 Thread Loïc Minier
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008, Neil Williams wrote: > 1. gtk+2.0 fails to cross-build because the patches now try to build the > udeb which comes up against a bug in dpkg-cross. I've uploaded the > new version (including a couple of other bug fixes) today. (A late > problem in apt-cross has delayed things s

ITP: MUMPS -- MUltifrontal Massively Parallel sparse direct Solver

2008-07-15 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Package name: mumps Version: 4.7.3 Author: Patrick Amestoy et al. License: public domain URL: http://mumps.enseeiht.fr/ Description: MUltifrontal Massively Parallel sparse direct Solver MUMPS implements a direct solver for large sparse linear systems, with a parti

Bug#491025: ITP: biojava-live -- Java API to develop tools for bioinformatics research

2008-07-15 Thread Steffen Moeller
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Steffen Moeller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: biojava-live Version : 1.6.0 * URL : http://www.biojava.org * License : LGPL Programming Lang: Java Description : Java API to develop tools for bioinformatics resea

Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Xen status in lenny?

2008-07-15 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 05:22:55PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > Hopefully Jeremy Fitzhardinge (from Xensource) and others can get the > important Xen kernel features ported to pv_ops framework and integrated > into vanilla linus kernels soon.. > > Status/todo: > http://wiki.xensource.com/xen