Re: Can a leaf package require SSE2 on i386?

2014-09-14 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 2:47 AM, Sébastien Villemot wrote: > The bottom line is that julia needs SSE2 (and porting it to the x87 FPU > requires changes that are beyond what I am willing/able to do, see [1] > for more details). And the presence of SSE2 is not guaranteed on the > i386 architecture.

Re: Can a leaf package require SSE2 on i386?

2014-09-14 Thread Balint Reczey
Hi, On Sep 14, 2014 9:16 AM, Michael Gilbert wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 2:47 AM, Sébastien Villemot  wrote: > > The bottom line is that julia needs SSE2 (and porting it to the x87 FPU > > requires changes that are beyond what I am willing/able to do, see [1] > > for more details). And t

Re: Can a leaf package require SSE2 on i386?

2014-09-14 Thread Jackson Doak
The package infernal has also dropped i386 support for this reason. Using it's example, this can cause issues for downstreams with i386 arch:all builders. Just something to consider On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 6:07 PM, Balint Reczey wrote: > Hi, > On Sep 14, 2014 9:16 AM, Michael Gilbert wrote: > >

Re: Trimming priority:standard

2014-09-14 Thread Ralf Jung
Hi, from personal experience, I agree that the packages with priority standard need to be reconsidered. I don't really care about bc, dc, w3m and similar tools - I never use then, but then, they only need a few KiB so I wouldn't mind if they were installed nontheless. However, there are 4 packages

Re: Can a leaf package require SSE2 on i386?

2014-09-14 Thread Bastien ROUCARIES
On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 8:47 AM, Sébastien Villemot wrote: > Hi, > > As the maintainer of julia (a technical computing language built on top > of LLVM), I am wondering whether I should continue supporting the i386 > architecture. > > The bottom line is that julia needs SSE2 (and porting it to the

Bug#761498: ITP: piqi-ocaml -- Provides OCaml Bindings to the Piqi Serialization Format

2014-09-14 Thread Matthew Maurer
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Matthew Maurer * Package name: piqi-ocaml Version : 0.7.2 Upstream Author : Anton Lavrik * URL : http://piqi.org * License : Apache-2.0 Programming Lang: OCaml Description : Provides OCaml Bindings to the Piqi Se

Bug#761506: ITP: r-cran-acepack -- GNU R package for regression transformations

2014-09-14 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Package: wnpp Owner: Dirk Eddelbuettel Severity: wishlist * Package name: r-cran-acepack Version : 1.3.3.3-1 Upstream Author : Phil Spector, Jerome Friedman, Robert Tibshirani, and Thomas Lumley * URL or Web page : http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/acepack/index.html * Licen

Re: Bug#761348: ftp.debian.org: need machine-readable metadata about suites & repositories

2014-09-14 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Paul, On Samstag, 13. September 2014, Paul Wise wrote: > Various places in Debian infrastructure (QA especially) hard-code > aspects of the Debian archive (suite, code, component, arch names etc). > This is a problem because after new suites or architectures are added, > we have lots of places

Re: Bug#761348: ftp.debian.org: need machine-readable metadata about suites & repositories

2014-09-14 Thread Paul Wise
[Drop the bug since it seems OT there] On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 9:02 PM, Holger Levsen wrote: > we have the python-distro-info package which at least holds some of that info. > > how/where would you see that in your "picture"? That has the same problem; it hardcodes information about the archive

Bug#761512: ITP: previsat -- satellite tracking software for observing purposes

2014-09-14 Thread Georges Khaznadar
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Georges Khaznadar * Package name: previsat Version : 3.3.0.7 Upstream Author : Astropedia * URL : http://astropedia.free.fr * License : GPL3+ Programming Lang: C++ Description : satellite tracking software for ob

Re: Can a leaf package require SSE2 on i386?

2014-09-14 Thread Adrien Clerc
Le 14/09/2014 08:47, Sébastien Villemot a écrit : > So I have two options: either ship a i386 package that only works on > SSE2 processors (ideally giving a meaningful error message when run on > older CPUs); or drop support for i386, which is a disservice to our > users (the few who have a SSE2-ca

Re: PackageKit cleanup: Do you use these functions?

2014-09-14 Thread Philipp Kern
On 2014-09-12 14:03, Guido Günther wrote: On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 01:43:01PM +0200, Matthias Klumpp wrote: [..snip..] The problem with restarting applications and subsystems is that you never know if the loose state information if you just restart them (e.g. Inkscape going down on upgrade would

Re: Trimming priority:standard

2014-09-14 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sat, Sep 13, 2014 at 11:17:34AM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: > I'm not arguing that "standard" should have nothing in it; it should > have things that the vast majority of users will 1) expect to find > present without having to install them and 2) actually use or care > about. I sympathize with

Re: Can a leaf package require SSE2 on i386?

2014-09-14 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le dimanche 14 septembre 2014 à 07:47 +0100, Sébastien Villemot a écrit : > So I have two options: either ship a i386 package that only works on > SSE2 processors (ideally giving a meaningful error message when run on > older CPUs); or drop support for i386, which is a disservice to our > users Th

locale choices: , C, C.UTF-8, en_US.UTF-8 and availability

2014-09-14 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, This post is about Debian packaging. (Not about user configuration) As I understand for the locale value: LANG = , or C System can always be set to this way and the system acts 100% POSIX manner. No locale data generation is required. Non-ASCII characters may not be processed as UTF-8 en

Re: Bug#761348: ftp.debian.org: need machine-readable metadata about suites & repositories

2014-09-14 Thread Matthias Klumpp
2014-09-14 15:08 GMT+02:00 Paul Wise : > [Drop the bug since it seems OT there] > > On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 9:02 PM, Holger Levsen wrote: > >> we have the python-distro-info package which at least holds some of that >> info. >> >> how/where would you see that in your "picture"? > > That has the sa

Re: Bug#752450: ftp.debian.org: please consider to strongly tighten the validity period of Release files

2014-09-14 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 13616 March 1977, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: [ Not doing a full quote, but keeping quite a bit of context for debian-devel readers ] > As Jakub Wilk pointed out[1] these are the current validity periods > for Release files: > unstable, experimental: 7 days > testing: 7 days > wheezy:

Bug#761599: ITP: kcm-ufw -- KDE Control Center module for the Uncomplicated Firewall

2014-09-14 Thread Shawn Sörbom
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Shawn Sörbom" * Package name: kcm-ufw Version : 0.4.3-1 Upstream Author : Craig Drummond * URL : http://kde- apps.org/content/show.php/UFW+KControl+Module?content=137789 * License : GPL-3 Programming Lang: python, QT

Re: Bug#752450: ftp.debian.org: please consider to strongly tighten the validity period of Release files

2014-09-14 Thread Stefan Lippers-Hollmann
Hi On Sunday 14 September 2014, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > On 13616 March 1977, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > > [ Not doing a full quote, but keeping quite a bit of context for > debian-devel readers ] > > > As Jakub Wilk pointed out[1] these are the current validity periods > > for Release fi

Re: Bug#752450: ftp.debian.org: please consider to strongly tighten the validity period of Release files

2014-09-14 Thread Philipp Kern
On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 09:52:00PM +0200, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > Also, going down to such small intervals means we MUST resign, even if > there is no update at all in the archive (so an extra cronjob, just to > be sure). That's no problem in the main archive, there is always enough > going on, but

Re: Trimming priority:standard

2014-09-14 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le vendredi, 12 septembre 2014, 13.55:53 Joey Hess a écrit : > Theodore Ts'o wrote: > > One thought... there will probably be trademark concerns with > > "unix".[1] So we might have to choose a name for the tasksel task > > to be someting like "unix-like". > > Or we could just call it "standard sy

Re: Trimming priority:standard

2014-09-14 Thread James McCoy
On Sat, Sep 13, 2014 at 12:58:04PM +0200, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: > Le vendredi, 12 septembre 2014, 13.55:53 Joey Hess a écrit : > > Theodore Ts'o wrote: > > > One thought... there will probably be trademark concerns with > > > "unix".[1] So we might have to choose a name for the tasksel task >

Re: Trimming priority:standard

2014-09-14 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Josh Triplett > - mlocate. We don't need a "locate" in standard; anyone who actually > uses locate (and wants the very significant overhead of running a > locate daemon) can easily install this. There is no «locate daemon» in mlocate. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just