Bug#831995: ITP: parsnp -- rapid core genome multi-alignment

2016-07-21 Thread Andreas Tille
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andreas Tille * Package name: parsnp Version : 1.2 Upstream Author : Todd J Treangen * URL : https://github.com/marbl/parsnp * License : BSD Programming Lang: C, Python Description : rapid core genome multi-align

Bug#832005: ITP: r-cran-tibble -- GNU R Simple Data Frames

2016-07-21 Thread Andreas Tille
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andreas Tille * Package name: r-cran-tibble Version : 1.1 Upstream Author : Hadley Wickham, Romain Francois, Kirill Müller, RStudio * URL : https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/tibble * License : MIT/X Programming La

Re: New default -fdebug-prefix-map build flag for dpkg

2016-07-21 Thread Mattia Rizzolo
On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 08:57:01AM +, Mattia Rizzolo wrote: > Hi *, > > As part of the Reproducible Builds effort [0], we would like to enable > a new default build flag from the reproducible/fixdebugpath feature > area in order to prevent issues with build paths. [...] > clang 3.8 supports

TMPDIR - Do we also need a drive backed TPMDIR ?

2016-07-21 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
Hi, http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=831998 This bug is an example of the problem. I am bringing it here to know views of fellow developers. I am not sure if there's an fd.o defined standard for environment variables, but a quick web search pointed to the IEEE and Open Group lin

Re: TMPDIR - Do we also need a drive backed TPMDIR ?

2016-07-21 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
On Thu, 2016-07-21 at 17:19 +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > > I am not sure if there's an fd.o defined standard for environment variables, > but > a quick web search pointed to the IEEE and Open Group link. > http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/V1_chap08.html > > None of th

Re: TMPDIR - Do we also need a drive backed TPMDIR ?

2016-07-21 Thread Neil Williams
On Thu, 21 Jul 2016 17:19:27 +0530 Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > Hi, > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=831998 > > This bug is an example of the problem. I am bringing it here to know > views of fellow developers. > > > I am not sure if there's an fd.o defined standard for envi

Re: TMPDIR - Do we also need a drive backed TPMDIR ?

2016-07-21 Thread Ian Jackson
Ritesh Raj Sarraf writes ("Re: TMPDIR - Do we also need a drive backed TPMDIR ?"): > Some more search pointed the following link that talks about /var/tmp ... > So this could be the answer to DTMPDIR (Disk TMPDIR). You are using `survives reboots' as a proxy for `on disk'; and using `on disk' as

Re: TMPDIR - Do we also need a drive backed TPMDIR ?

2016-07-21 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On Thu, 2016-07-21 at 13:15 +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > > Now, back to the actual problem. For many applications, we rely on > > the TMPDIR environments. Tools like Python's modules help use these > > variables and not worry about the underneath pl

Re: TMPDIR - Do we also need a drive backed TPMDIR ?

2016-07-21 Thread Dmitry Bogatov
> > Should there be another TPMDIR? Like DTMPDIR, pointing to the > > underneath disk, where size is limited by the capacity available to > > partition/disk ? Why? How would you define line between 'TMPDIR' and 'DTMPDIR'? For example, I, as happy owner of 8GB RAM, is perfectly fine with 3GB in /

Re: TMPDIR - Do we also need a drive backed TPMDIR ?

2016-07-21 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2016-07-21 18:19:43 +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA512 > > On Thu, 2016-07-21 at 13:15 +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > > > Now, back to the actual problem. For many applications, we rely on > > > the TMPDIR environments. Tools like Python's modules

Re: TMPDIR - Do we also need a drive backed TPMDIR ?

2016-07-21 Thread Philip Hands
Ritesh Raj Sarraf writes: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA512 > > On Thu, 2016-07-21 at 13:15 +0100, Neil Williams wrote: >> > Now, back to the actual problem. For many applications, we rely on >> > the TMPDIR environments. Tools like Python's modules help use these >> > variables

Re: TMPDIR - Do we also need a drive backed TPMDIR ?

2016-07-21 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2016-07-21 15:24:10 +0200, Philip Hands wrote: > It's configurable. > > See TMPFS_SIZE in /etc/defaults/tmpfs If you mean /etc/default/tmpfs, it doesn't work with systemd (as documented), and there's the global problem with swap. > And it'll cheerfully use swap, so just make sure you have eno

Re: TMPDIR - Do we also need a drive backed TPMDIR ?

2016-07-21 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On Thu, 2016-07-21 at 13:38 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > You are using `survives reboots' as a proxy for `on disk'; and using > `on disk' as a proxy for `has enough space for large amounts of data'. Yes. :-) > I don't think this is a good approach.

Bug#832033: ITP: python-cotyledon -- framework for defining long-running services

2016-07-21 Thread Thomas Goirand
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Thomas Goirand * Package name: python-cotyledon Version : 1.2.6 Upstream Author : Mehdi Abaakouk * URL : https://github.com/sileht/cotyledon * License : Apache-2.0 Programming Lang: Python Description : framework

Re: TMPDIR - Do we also need a drive backed TPMDIR ?

2016-07-21 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi Dmitry, On Thu, 2016-07-21 at 16:06 +0300, Dmitry Bogatov wrote: > > > > Should there be another TPMDIR? Like DTMPDIR, pointing to the > > > underneath disk, where size is limited by the capacity available to > > > partition/disk ? > > Why? How

Re: TMPDIR - Do we also need a drive backed TPMDIR ? [and 1 more messages]

2016-07-21 Thread Ian Jackson
Philip Hands writes ("Re: TMPDIR - Do we also need a drive backed TPMDIR ?"): > It's configurable. > See TMPFS_SIZE in /etc/defaults/tmpfs A sensible question to ask is whether the default is right. I recently installed stretch on a new laptop with a large SSD and 16G of RAM. I set it up with 27

Re: TMPDIR - Do we also need a drive backed TPMDIR ?

2016-07-21 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On Thu, 2016-07-21 at 15:24 +0200, Philip Hands wrote: > It's configurable. > > See TMPFS_SIZE in /etc/defaults/tmpfs > > And it'll cheerfully use swap, so just make sure you have enough swap > for your use case, and set the limit to suit your need

Re: TMPDIR - Do we also need a drive backed TPMDIR ?

2016-07-21 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
On Thu, 2016-07-21 at 15:42 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2016-07-21 15:24:10 +0200, Philip Hands wrote: > > It's configurable. > >  > > See TMPFS_SIZE in /etc/defaults/tmpfs > > If you mean /etc/default/tmpfs, it doesn't work with systemd > (as documented), and there's the global problem wit

Re: Running without swap messages]

2016-07-21 Thread Jonathan McDowell
On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 04:24:36PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > Uhhh. You run your systems with no swap at all ? > > That's your prerogative, of course. But it's far from a default (or > recommended) configuration. I think that if you configure your system > without swap, it is up to you do what

Re: TMPDIR - Do we also need a drive backed TPMDIR ?

2016-07-21 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
On Thu, 2016-07-21 at 21:22 +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > On Thu, 2016-07-21 at 15:42 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > On 2016-07-21 15:24:10 +0200, Philip Hands wrote: > > > It's configurable. > > >  > > > See TMPFS_SIZE in /etc/defaults/tmpfs > >  > > If you mean /etc/default/tmpfs, it doesn

Re: Running without swap messages]

2016-07-21 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
On Thu, 2016-07-21 at 16:58 +0100, Jonathan McDowell wrote: > > I run my laptop without swap and with /tmp on tmpfs; I have 16G RAM. I > have not noticed problems. I do this because I'm using a single SSD and > I'd rather not end up hammering the SSD if something is doing insane > things with memo

Bug#832042: ITP: ignition-msgs -- Standard set of message definitions, used by Ignition Transport, and other applications

2016-07-21 Thread Jose Luis Rivero
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jose Luis Rivero * Package name: ignition-msgs Version : 0.1.0 Upstream Author : Open Source Robotics Foundation * URL : http://ignitionrobotics.org/libraries/common * License : Apache * Programming Lang: C++ Descriptio

Re: TMPDIR - Do we also need a drive backed TPMDIR ?

2016-07-21 Thread Simon McVittie
On Thu, 21 Jul 2016 at 20:41:38 +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > On Thu, 2016-07-21 at 13:38 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > > Perhaps the right answer is instead that we should simply configure > > more swap by default ?  (IIRC tmpfs data can be swapped.) > > Yes. But that's not the default in our s

Re: TMPDIR - Do we also need a drive backed TPMDIR ? [and 1 more messages]

2016-07-21 Thread Simon McVittie
On Thu, 21 Jul 2016 at 16:24:36 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > I don't seem to be using tmpfs for /tmp by default. My /tmp seems to > be on /. I wonder if that's just because I'm not using systemd, or > whether it's because I did the partitioning by hand. tl;dr: the Debian default is the same as yo

Re: TMPDIR - Do we also need a drive backed TPMDIR ? [and 1 more messages]

2016-07-21 Thread Russ Allbery
Ian Jackson writes: > Uhhh. You run your systems with no swap at all ? > That's your prerogative, of course. But it's far from a default (or > recommended) configuration. I think that if you configure your system > without swap, it is up to you do whatever else is necessary to make it > work.

Re: TMPDIR - Do we also need a drive backed TPMDIR ?

2016-07-21 Thread Dmitry Bogatov
[2016-07-21 21:22] Gabor Gombas > > On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 04:06:26PM +0300, Dmitry Bogatov wrote: > > > For example, I, as happy owner of 8GB RAM, is perfectly fine with 3GB > > in /tmp, because I actually use less then 1Gb. On other hand, would I > > start 50 instances of Firefox, Gimp and othe

Bug#832054: ITP: libimporter-perl -- alternative but compatible interface to modules that export symbols

2016-07-21 Thread gregor herrmann
Package: wnpp Owner: gregor herrmann Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libimporter-perl Version : 0.014 Upstream Author : Chad Granum * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/Importer * License

Bug#832056: ITP: libcgi-github-webhook-perl -- Easily write CGI-based GitHub webhooks in Perl

2016-07-21 Thread Axel Beckert
Package: wnpp Owner: Axel Beckert Severity: wishlist * Package name: libcgi-github-webhook-perl Version : 0.06 Upstream Author : Axel Beckert * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/CGI-Github-Webhook * License : Artistic or GPL-1+ Programming Lang: Perl Desc

Re: TMPDIR - Do we also need a drive backed TPMDIR ?

2016-07-21 Thread Gabor Gombas
On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 04:06:26PM +0300, Dmitry Bogatov wrote: > For example, I, as happy owner of 8GB RAM, is perfectly fine with 3GB > in /tmp, because I actually use less then 1Gb. On other hand, would I > start 50 instances of Firefox, Gimp and other stuff, I would object > putting 3GB in my

Re: TMPDIR - Do we also need a drive backed TPMDIR ? [and 1 more messages]

2016-07-21 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, 2016-07-21 at 11:40 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Ian Jackson writes: > > > Uhhh.  You run your systems with no swap at all ? > > > That's your prerogative, of course.  But it's far from a default (or > > recommended) configuration.  I think that if you configure your system > > without s

Re: TMPDIR - Do we also need a drive backed TPMDIR ?

2016-07-21 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, 2016-07-21 at 21:22 +0200, Gabor Gombas wrote: > On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 04:06:26PM +0300, Dmitry Bogatov wrote: > > > For example, I, as happy owner of 8GB RAM, is perfectly fine with 3GB > > in /tmp, because I actually use less then 1Gb. On other hand, would I > > start 50 instances of F

Work-needing packages report for Jul 22, 2016

2016-07-21 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: 800 (new: 43) Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 171 (new: 2) Total number of packages reques

Re: TMPDIR - Do we also need a drive backed TPMDIR ? [and 1 more messages]

2016-07-21 Thread Vincent Lefevre
> Vincent Lefevre writes ("Re: TMPDIR - Do we also need a drive backed TPMDIR > ?"): > > On 2016-07-21 18:19:43 +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > > > Swap will come into effect when the kernel needs more memory. > > > > Anyway, even if it had worked, swap should not be a solution for the > > limi

Re: TMPDIR - Do we also need a drive backed TPMDIR ? [and 1 more messages]

2016-07-21 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2016-07-21 21:53:11 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > It's true that if the system has to swap a lot of data out then it is > likely to become unresponsive.  However, I think there are good reasons > to enable a small amount of swap space: > > - Some long-running applications have, effectively, mem

Summary of the ARM ports BoF at DC16

2016-07-21 Thread Steve McIntyre
[ Please note the cross-post and Reply-To ] Hi folks, As promised, here's a quick summary of what was discussed at the ARM ports BoF session in Cape Town. This year, unfortunately the session did not have video so I can't link to it. I've taken a copy of the Gobby notes from the session, alongsi

ARM64 (was: Summary of the ARM ports BoF at DC16)

2016-07-21 Thread Jeffrey Walton
> arm64 > = > > Most recent ARM port. All looking good now - we've been mostly able to > move on from Juno development platforms to real server hardware > now. We're using some APM Mustang machines and an AMD Seattle box > hosted by ARM and Linaro at the moment, and even real arm64 server > mac

Bug#832080: ITP: golang-github-jamesclonk-vultr --

2016-07-21 Thread Nicolas Braud-Santoni
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicolas Braud-Santoni Control: block 813502 by -1 * Package name: golang-github-jamesclonk-vultr Version : 1.8-1 Upstream Author : Fabio Berchtold * URL : https://github.com/jamesclonk/vultr * License : Expat Programmin

Bug#832081: ITP: golang-github-miekg-dns --

2016-07-21 Thread Nicolas Braud-Santoni
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicolas Braud-Santoni Control: block 813502 by -1 * Package name: golang-github-miekg-dns Version : 0.0~git20160614.0.5d001d0-1 Upstream Author : Miek Gieben * URL : https://github.com/miekg/dns * License : BSD-3 Progr

Bug#832082: ITP: golang-github-ovh-go-ovh --

2016-07-21 Thread Nicolas Braud-Santoni
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicolas Braud-Santoni Control: block 813502 by -1 * Package name: golang-github-ovh-go-ovh Version : 0.0~git20160604.0.d2b2eae-1 Upstream Author : OVH SAS * URL : https://github.com/ovh/go-ovh * License : BSD-3 Programm

Bug#832084: ITP: golang-github-jawher-mow.cli --

2016-07-21 Thread Nicolas Braud-Santoni
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicolas Braud-Santoni Control: block 832080 by -1 * Package name: golang-github-jawher-mow.cli Version : 0.0~git20160720.0.0de8a76-1 Upstream Author : Jawher Moussa * URL : https://github.com/jawher/mow.cli * License : E

Bug#832083: ITP: golang-github-weppos-dnsimple-go --

2016-07-21 Thread Nicolas Braud-Santoni
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicolas Braud-Santoni Control: block 813502 by -1 * Package name: golang-github-weppos-dnsimple-go Version : 0.0~git20160204.0.65c1ca7-1 Upstream Author : Scott Barron * URL : https://github.com/weppos/dnsimple-go * License

Bug#832086: ITP: vrfydmn -- Milter for ensuring email message from matches mail from

2016-07-21 Thread Scott Kitterman
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Scott Kitterman * Package name: vrfydmn Version : 0.7.1 Upstream Author : Christian Rößner * URL : https://github.com/croessner/vrfydmn * License : GPL 3+ Programming Lang: Python Description : Milter for ensurin