squeeze and the future of the alpha port, redux

2009-02-20 Thread Steve Langasek
Dear Alpha fans, In August of last year, I posed the question to the debian-alpha mailing list: should Debian continue to support an alpha port following the release of lenny? http://lists.debian.org/debian-alpha/2008/08/msg4.html As would be expected when making such a post to the debian

Re: Bug#516096: ITP: libibumad -- OpenFabrics Alliance InfiniBand umad (user MAD) library

2009-02-20 Thread Bernd Schubert
Guus Sliepen wrote: > On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 10:31:43AM +, Guy Coates wrote: > >> * Package name: libibumad >> Version : 1.2.3 >> Upstream Author : Voltaire, Inc. >> * URL : http://www.openfabrics.org > > I do not see a libibumad tarball there, I did find OFED-1.

Re: Bug#516096: ITP: libibumad -- OpenFabrics Alliance InfiniBand umad (user MAD) library

2009-02-20 Thread Guy Coates
> The problem is, there is nowhere a real description of what all these IB > libraries are actually doing. MAD = management datagram. As far as I > understand it, you need this library to send IB management packages from > user space. I've dug around the openfabrics website, and have unearthed be

Bug#516310: ITP: python-django-tinymce -- Django app allowing the use of TinyMCE in forms

2009-02-20 Thread Daniel Watkins
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Daniel Watkins * Package name: python-django-tinymce Version : 1.5 Upstream Author : Joost Cassee * URL : http://code.google.com/p/django-tinymce/ * License : MIT Programming Lang: Python Description : Django app

Re: Klear / Missing software in Debian?

2009-02-20 Thread Juhana Sadeharju
>It looked like a dead project to me some time ago, but maybe it has >changed (but definitely nobody is still interested in patches I sent >them). I see there are too many missing software. No need to add Klear. Kaffeine and Me-TV seems to be nearest equivalents. If Klear has good features compar

Bug#516330: ITP: python-django-filebrowser -- file management in the Django admin interface

2009-02-20 Thread Daniel Watkins
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Daniel Watkins * Package name: python-django-filebrowser Version : 0+svn264 Upstream Author : Patrick Kranzlmueller * URL : http://code.google.com/p/django-filebrowser/ * License : BSD Programming Lang: Python Descri

ITP: z88 -- Finite Element Analysis Program

2009-02-20 Thread Dominique Belhachemi
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Package name : z88 Version : 12.0.1 Upstream Author : Frank Rieg URL : http://z88.uni-bayreuth.de/ License : GPL-2 or any later version Description : Finite Element Analysis Z88 is a fast, powerful and compact Finite Element Analysis Program. It features 20 finite

Re: ucf: Diversion of /u/b/ucf by etcgit

2009-02-20 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Fri, Feb 20 2009, Jörg Sommer wrote: > I'm packaging etcgit [1], a system to manage configuration files in /etc > with git, similar to etckeeper. Etcgit tracks the original version of all > files and therefore, I have to wrap ucf to get the original version and > stop ucf from doing anything. T

Re: Forthcoming changes in kernel-package

2009-02-20 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Wed, Feb 18 2009, Theodore Tso wrote: > On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 12:14:49AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: >> Hi, >> >> This is a heads up for a major change in kernel-package, the >> tool to create user packaged kernel images and headers; which will >> make the make-kpkg script far l

Bug#516351: ITP: see -- lightweight Linux text file and man page viewer

2009-02-20 Thread Joop Stakenborg
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Joop Stakenborg * Package name: see Version : 0.53 Upstream Author : Mark Eriksen * URL : http://freshmeat.net/redir/see_/77806/url_homepage/index.html * License : GPL Programming Lang: C Description : lightweig

Re: lenny-backports started

2009-02-20 Thread Luk Claes
Alexander Wirt wrote: > Thanks to the unoffical buildd network we are also able to provide autobuild > packages for the following architectures: arm, armel, amd64, ppc, i386, ia64 > und alpha. Possibly mips and sparc will follow. You can find more > informations about the buildstatus of a package

Re: lenny-backports started

2009-02-20 Thread Alexander Wirt
Luk Claes schrieb am Friday, den 20. February 2009: > Alexander Wirt wrote: > > > Thanks to the unoffical buildd network we are also able to provide autobuild > > packages for the following architectures: arm, armel, amd64, ppc, i386, ia64 > > und alpha. Possibly mips and sparc will follow. You c

Re: Bug#516351: ITP: see -- lightweight Linux text file and man page viewer

2009-02-20 Thread Gustavo Noronha
On Fri, 2009-02-20 at 20:29 +0100, Joop Stakenborg wrote: > Description : lightweight Linux text file and man page viewer Is it really Linux-specific? Thanks, -- Gustavo Noronha Debian Project -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubsc

Re: Bug#516351: ITP: see -- lightweight Linux text file and man page viewer

2009-02-20 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 4:29 AM, Joop Stakenborg wrote: > * Package name: see mime-support already contains /usr/bin/see, so you'll probably need to rename it see-editor or something? -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.de

Re: Is the FHS dead ?

2009-02-20 Thread Theodore Tso
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 05:24:24PM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > Reiviving the FHS is great! Something that is bothering me a bit, > though, is that historically it seemed to try to cater to Unix in > general, not only Linux, even if most of the participants were coming > from the Linux world. So h

Bug#516390: ITP: libdata-stream-bulk-perl -- N at a time iteration API

2009-02-20 Thread Ryan Niebur
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Debian Perl Group * Package name: libdata-stream-bulk-perl Version : 0.03 Upstream Author : Yuval Kogman * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Data-Stream-Bulk/ * License : same as Perl Programming Lang: Perl Descripti