Re: Standardizing the layout of git packaging repositories

2014-08-21 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Ian Jackson: > In order to generate the correct diff etc. you need the _tree(s)_ > corresponding to the .orig*.tar but in principle those could be > provided as git tree objects somehow. > s/ somehow//: An original-tar branch instead of the current semi-supported pristine-tar overkill, with t

Re: GHC FFI libraries depend on unversioned SO.

2014-08-21 Thread Sven Bartscher
On Wed, 20 Aug 2014 21:16:41 +0200 Sven Bartscher wrote: > Greetings, > > I noticed that libghc-regex-pcre-dev doesn't depend on libpcre6, which > causes it to fail at import. > I tried to fix that and noticed that ghc searches for the unversioned > SO (i.e. libpcre.so instead of libpcre.so.3).

Re: Reverting to GNOME for jessie's default desktop

2014-08-21 Thread Paul van der Vlis
Hello, Here my points about using Gnome 3.12: Gnome 3.12 depends on 3D video drivers or a emulation of that. In Gnome 3.4 (Wheezy) there was a "fallback mode", but that's gone. There is now something called "GNOME Classic" but that still needs 3D drivers. It's only more "classic" with menu's etc.

Re: Standardizing the layout of git packaging repositories

2014-08-21 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Scott Kitterman: > Whatever is "standardized" it really, really ought to produce a useful source > package as that's the preferred form of modification in the project. > I do wonder, though, how many DDs would rather switch to a preferred form of "the debian branch of a git repo, based on th

Bug#758827: ITP: lazr.config -- ini-file format handling supporting schemas and inheritance

2014-08-21 Thread Barry Warsaw
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Barry Warsaw -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 * Package name: lazr.config Version : 2.0 Upstream Author : lazr-develop...@lists.launchpad.net * URL : http://launchpad.net/lazr.config * License : LGPLv3 P

Bug#758828: ITP: lazr.delegates -- easily write objects that delegate behavior

2014-08-21 Thread Barry Warsaw
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Barry Warsaw -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 * Package name: lazr.delegates Version : 2.0 Upstream Author : lazr-develop...@lists.launchpad.net * URL : http://launchpad.net/lazr.delegates * License : LGPL

Re: Reverting to GNOME for jessie's default desktop

2014-08-21 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, 2014-08-21 at 17:56 +0200, Paul van der Vlis wrote: > Hello, > > Here my points about using Gnome 3.12: > > Gnome 3.12 depends on 3D video drivers or a emulation of that. In Gnome > 3.4 (Wheezy) there was a "fallback mode", but that's gone. There is now > something called "GNOME Classic"

Re: Reverting to GNOME for jessie's default desktop

2014-08-21 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeudi 21 août 2014 à 13:17 -0700, Ben Hutchings a écrit : > It works for me in a KVM/QEMU VM with cirrus emulation. That has no 3D > acceleration, and I am viewing the display with VNC. As I understand > it, the composition and animation effects are simplified when LLVMpipe > is being used, s

Work-needing packages report for Aug 22, 2014

2014-08-21 Thread wnpp
The following is a listing of packages for which help has been requested through the WNPP (Work-Needing and Prospective Packages) system in the last week. Total number of orphaned packages: 584 (new: 0) Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 140 (new: 3) Total number of packages request

Re: Standardizing the layout of git packaging repositories

2014-08-21 Thread Russ Allbery
Matthias Urlichs writes: > I do wonder, though, how many DDs would rather switch to a preferred > form of "the debian branch of a git repo, based on the upstream VCS, > with all changes as git commits". No debian/patches. Source format: a > tarball with the FOO.git directory (not compressed, as "

Re: Reverting to GNOME for jessie's default desktop

2014-08-21 Thread intrigeri
Hi, Paul van der Vlis wrote (21 Aug 2014 15:56:53 GMT) : > There is something called LLVMpipe, it's a software fallback when there > is no 3D video driver. [...] How does it work on older machines? I'm particularly interested in this question, e.g. on machines in the ThinkPad X32 / X60 / X61 clas

Re: Reverting to GNOME for jessie's default desktop

2014-08-21 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 07:27:14AM +0200, intrigeri a écrit : > > Paul van der Vlis wrote (21 Aug 2014 15:56:53 GMT) : > > There is something called LLVMpipe, it's a software fallback when there > > is no 3D video driver. [...] How does it work on older machines? > > I'm particularly interested i