Bug#547375: ITP: mdm -- Utilities for single-host parallel shell scripting

2009-09-19 Thread Chuan-kai Lin
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Chuan-kai Lin" * Package name: mdm Version : 0.1.2 Upstream Author : "Chuan-kai Lin" * URL : http://mdm.berlios.de/ * License : Apache License 2.0 Programming Lang: C Description : Utilities for single-host par

Re: Quick analysis of the Python dist-packages transition

2009-09-19 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 09:18:16PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > If there are no objections, I will submit a MBF for those 75 packages > in a few days. Many thanks for the investigation. I concur that we have already waited too much for Python 2.6, so please go ahead. In filing the bugs, pleas

opposition against clamav-data in debian volatile (was: Packages that download/install unsecured files)

2009-09-19 Thread Marc Haber
On Fri, 18 Sep 2009 15:56:07 + (UTC), Philipp Kern wrote: >On 2009-09-18, Tom Feiner wrote: >> Looks like this method works well for clamav-data and other similar packages >> which needs to update databases frequently on stable/oldstable. > >clamav-data is scheduled for deletion as soon as vo

clamav-data (was: Packages that download/install unsecured files)

2009-09-19 Thread Marc Haber
On Fri, 18 Sep 2009 19:06:21 +0300, Tom Feiner wrote: >Philipp Kern wrote: >> clamav-data is scheduled for deletion as soon as volatile moves onto >> ftp-master, so that's no precedent. (I.e. there is opposition against >> daily builds entering the archive without real developers signing them.) >

Re: libjpeg62-dev -> libjpeg-dev transition

2009-09-19 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 01:08:12AM +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 12:04:32AM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > > Dear developers, > > > > There is a new version of libjpeg in the archive (JPEG7), but is it > > not yet cleared for building packages against it. > > > > If your

Re: libjpeg62-dev -> libjpeg-dev transition

2009-09-19 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 11:47:35AM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 01:08:12AM +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 12:04:32AM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > > > Dear developers, > > > > > > There is a new version of libjpeg in the archive (JPEG7), but is

Re: libjpeg62-dev -> libjpeg-dev transition

2009-09-19 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 01:01:38PM +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 11:47:35AM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 01:08:12AM +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > > On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 12:04:32AM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > > > > Dear developers, > >

Re: libjpeg62-dev -> libjpeg-dev transition

2009-09-19 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 01:01:38PM +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 11:47:35AM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > > Actually, I have already done a test-rebuild of all the packages that > > build-depends on libjpeg62-dev or libjpeg-dev against a modified > > libjpeg7-dev > > tha

Re: libjpeg62-dev -> libjpeg-dev transition

2009-09-19 Thread Andreas Barth
* Pierre Habouzit (madco...@madism.org) [090919 01:08]: > I'll put blocks in my hint file to be sure that both those packages will > migrate in testing together (I'm unsure if britney is clever enough to > block them until all the binNMUs are done, I don't think it is). Then > please ask for binNMU

Re: opposition against clamav-data in debian volatile (was: Packages that download/install unsecured files)

2009-09-19 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Sat, 19 Sep 2009, Marc Haber wrote: > Why does the person responsible for these uploads not know about this > opposition? Why was the person doing the significant work not informed > about the fact that every single minute put into the package is wasted > anyway? Because nothing happened yet a

Re: libjpeg62-dev -> libjpeg-dev transition

2009-09-19 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, 19 Sep 2009, Andreas Barth wrote: > * Pierre Habouzit (madco...@madism.org) [090919 01:08]: > > I'll put blocks in my hint file to be sure that both those packages will > > migrate in testing together (I'm unsure if britney is clever enough to > > block them until all the binNMUs are done,

Re: libjpeg62-dev -> libjpeg-dev transition

2009-09-19 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 02:11:30PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > 2) Package too large to be tested: > openoffice.org: too large Nonsense. You could speed up the build and make it use less hd space like we do for buildd builds (lang=en-US). That's visible from the source package. (Still build

Re: libjpeg62-dev -> libjpeg-dev transition

2009-09-19 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 04:45:23PM +0200, Rene Engelhard wrote: > There's no reason for skipping openoffice.org. And openoffice.org is a clear Actually, there is, as installing libjpeg7-dev would break some of OOos r-b-deps... Will try hack around this for trying a build with libjpeg7 (it's

Re: libjpeg62-dev -> libjpeg-dev transition

2009-09-19 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 04:45:23PM +0200, Rene Engelhard wrote: > Hi, > > On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 02:11:30PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > > 2) Package too large to be tested: > > openoffice.org: too large > > Nonsense. You could speed up the build and make it use less > hd space like we do for

Re: libjpeg62-dev -> libjpeg-dev transition

2009-09-19 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 04:56:11PM +0200, Rene Engelhard wrote: > Hi, > > On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 04:45:23PM +0200, Rene Engelhard wrote: > > There's no reason for skipping openoffice.org. And openoffice.org is a clear > > Actually, there is, as installing libjpeg7-dev would break some of OOos >

Re: Transitional (dummy) packages considered silly

2009-09-19 Thread Magnus Holmgren
On fredagen den 18 september 2009, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: > Magnus Holmgren wrote: > > I propose a new control field called e.g. Supersedes that will provide > > the same semantics. In its simplest form, a renamed package will declare > > that it Supersedes the old package name. That will be co

Re: opposition against clamav-data in debian volatile (was: Packages that download/install unsecured files)

2009-09-19 Thread Philipp Kern
On 2009-09-19, Marc Haber wrote: > On Fri, 18 Sep 2009 15:56:07 + (UTC), Philipp Kern > wrote: >>On 2009-09-18, Tom Feiner wrote: >>> Looks like this method works well for clamav-data and other similar packages >>> which needs to update databases frequently on stable/oldstable. >>clamav-data

Re: libjpeg62-dev -> libjpeg-dev transition

2009-09-19 Thread Rene Engelhard
On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 05:05:11PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > Actually I tried to build it twice and it failed with "disk full" error. Anyway, when hacking around the build-dep problem openoffice.org builds with libjpeg7-dev. Didn't try the "working" part yet as I only tried with a 3.2 snapsho

Re: libjpeg62-dev -> libjpeg-dev transition

2009-09-19 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 02:32:51PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > * Pierre Habouzit (madco...@madism.org) [090919 01:08]: > > I'll put blocks in my hint file to be sure that both those packages will > > migrate in testing together (I'm unsure if britney is clever enough to > > block them until all t

Re: The 'git' Debian package in squeeze

2009-09-19 Thread Ian Beckwith
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 12:30:11PM +0100, Jon Dowland wrote: > I believe the upstream was last modified in 1997. So that's > 12 years of "seniority", but it's also 12 years in which > the upstream source was essentially unmaintained. If we > really did decide that our priority was packages, rather

Re: The 'git' Debian package in squeeze

2009-09-19 Thread Ian Beckwith
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 11:23:52AM -0400, Marvin Renich wrote: > gnuit already Conflicts and Replaces git (< 4.9.2-1). It also Provides > git. This Provides should, I believe, be removed for either squeeze or > squeeze+1. My recent upload of gnuit (4.9.5-2, which just hit testing), removes the P

Re: libjpeg62-dev -> libjpeg-dev transition

2009-09-19 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-09-19 19:20 +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 02:32:51PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: >> * Pierre Habouzit (madco...@madism.org) [090919 01:08]: >> > I'll put blocks in my hint file to be sure that both those packages will >> > migrate in testing together (I'm unsure i

Re: libjpeg62-dev -> libjpeg-dev transition

2009-09-19 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 07:20:40PM +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 02:32:51PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > > * Pierre Habouzit (madco...@madism.org) [090919 01:08]: > > > I'll put blocks in my hint file to be sure that both those packages will > > > migrate in testing toget

Bug#547434: ITP: libslab -- beautification app library file

2009-09-19 Thread Julian Andres Klode
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Julian Andres Klode * Package name: libslab Version : 2.27.19 Upstream Author : Novell, Inc. and others * URL : http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/libslab/ * License : LPGL-2+ Programming Lang: C Description :

Re: Transitional (dummy) packages considered silly

2009-09-19 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
Magnus Holmgren wrote: > On fredagen den 18 september 2009, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: >> Magnus Holmgren wrote: >>> I propose a new control field called e.g. Supersedes that will provide >>> the same semantics. In its simplest form, a renamed package will declare >>> that it Supersedes the old pac

Re: Transitional (dummy) packages considered silly

2009-09-19 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 11:52:23PM +0200, Magnus Holmgren wrote: > When a binary package is renamed or split, as well as if several packages are > merged under a new name, transitional packages are normally created, which > depend on the new packages, which in turn Replaces and Conflicts with, an

Re: Transitional (dummy) packages considered silly

2009-09-19 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-09-19 21:18 +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > Note that transitional packages are seamless for users. When users has > foo in $stable, and foo gets renamed into bar in $stable +1, then there > is that: > > $stable: package foo > $stable + 1: foo Depends bar, bar {replaces foo, provides foo,

Re: Transitional (dummy) packages considered silly

2009-09-19 Thread Anton Piatek
2009/9/19 Sven Joachim : > On 2009-09-19 21:18 +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > >> Note that transitional packages are seamless for users. When users has >> foo in $stable, and foo gets renamed into bar in $stable +1, then there >> is that: >> >> $stable: package foo >> $stable + 1: foo Depends bar,

Re: Transitional (dummy) packages considered silly

2009-09-19 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
Anton Piatek wrote: >> This should really be done by the package management, not by the user. > > It sounds like you are describing the following: >>> $stable: package foo > manually installed >>> $stable + 1: foo Depends bar, bar {replaces foo, provides foo, conflicts >>> foo} > foo should now b

Bug#547449: ITP: trac-xmlrpc -- XML-RPC interface to the Trac wiki and issue tracking system

2009-09-19 Thread W. Martin Borgert
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "W. Martin Borgert" Package name: trac-xmlrpc Version : 1.0.6 Upstream Author : Alec Thomas URL : http://trac-hacks.org/wiki/XmlRpcPlugin License : BSD Programming Lang: Python Description : XML-RPC interface to the Trac

Re: libjpeg62-dev -> libjpeg-dev transition

2009-09-19 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 07:40:28PM +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 07:20:40PM +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 02:32:51PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > > > * Pierre Habouzit (madco...@madism.org) [090919 01:08]: > > > > I'll put blocks in my hint fil