Re: What about use xml for descriptions of packages?

2008-05-25 Thread Manuel Prinz
Am Sonntag, den 25.05.2008, 14:40 +0200 schrieb Fernando Cerezal: > I'm thinking about advantages and disadvantages of write the > description of the packages using XML. I like XML but it's a huge pain to write by hand. The current format is easy to read, easy to write and easy to parse. This is i

Re: What about use xml for descriptions of packages?

2008-05-25 Thread Manuel Prinz
First of all, I did not get it in my first reply that you spoke from a translaters point of view. I just have a very limited view on translation work, so my arguments may not be correct. Am Sonntag, den 25.05.2008, 16:05 +0200 schrieb Fernando Cerezal: > How can a program know if > > * A descrip

Re: Help with #472953

2008-06-19 Thread Manuel Prinz
Hi Enrico! Am Donnerstag, 19. Juni 2008 23:42:01 schrieb Enrico Zini: > Most important thing, I need the output of these two commands: > > ls /var/lib/apt/lists/*i18n_Translation* /var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.de.debian.org_debian_dists_sid_main_i18n_Translation-de > grep -h ^Description- /var/lib/

Re: Bug#540813: ITP: gamessq -- gamess scheduling frontend

2009-08-11 Thread Manuel Prinz
Am Dienstag, den 11.08.2009, 11:00 +0200 schrieb Michael Banck: > Well, for general-purpose job scheduling, see recent threads on > debian-science. There are at least slurm-llnl and gridengine (though > both very heavy-weight), Though SLURM is not the smallest resource manager around, it's very,

Re: Help: Strange 64bit issue

2008-07-11 Thread Manuel Prinz
Hi Andreas! Am Dienstag, den 08.07.2008, 14:26 +0200 schrieb Andreas Tille: > On Mon, 7 Jul 2008, William Pitcock wrote: > > > If you do build-depends on gcc-multilib and g++-multilib, it should fix > > this problem. > > As I said it fixes the build problem - but now I have a package with a > no

Re: Should the X packages pre-depend on awk?

2008-07-31 Thread Manuel Prinz
Hi Jörg! Am Donnerstag, den 31.07.2008, 09:27 + schrieb Jörg Sommer: > recently, I've installed a new system with a minimal configuration. Then > I've imported my old package selection with dpkg --set-selections and run > apt-get dselect-upgrade. This replaced the mawk package by the gawk > pa

Re: ITP: mpi-defaults -- Meta-packages depending on appropriate MPI -dev and -bin packages for each platform

2008-11-20 Thread Manuel Prinz
Am Mittwoch, den 19.11.2008, 09:05 -0600 schrieb Dirk Eddelbuettel: > I think we should put either debian or mpi first. How about > > mpi-default-{dev,bin} > > or even > > mpi-debian-default-{dev,bin} > > to make it even clearer that it is just 'us' (ie Debian) defining a d

Re: ITP: mpi-defaults -- Meta-packages depending on appropriate MPI -dev and -bin packages for each platform

2008-11-20 Thread Manuel Prinz
Am Donnerstag, den 20.11.2008, 09:45 -0500 schrieb Adam C Powell IV: > It uses the PETSc system, which Build-Depends on an arch-dependent MPI > implementation, then rules uses readlink to determine which one is the > default alternative, and sets substvars appropriately, whether openmpi, > lam, or

ITP: libpj-java -- The Parallel Java Library

2007-07-24 Thread Manuel Prinz
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Manuel Prinz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libpj-java Version : 20070703 Upstream Author : Alan Kaminsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.cs.rit.edu/~ark/pj.shtml * License : GPL Programmin

Re: Installation of Recommends by default on October 1st

2007-08-02 Thread Manuel Prinz
Russ Allbery wrote: > I think it's also particularly annoying for our two major recommended > package installation interfaces, aptitude and apt-get, to do the opposite > thing by default with this core of a feature. What a recipe for > confusion for the average user who doesn't know the history an

Re: Installation of Recommends by default on October 1st

2007-08-02 Thread Manuel Prinz
Michael Tautschnig wrote: > Please consider two things: > - More than 90% of all processors are installed in embedded systems (of > course, > only on pretty few of them Debian is installed) > - (Debian) Linux is still more widely spread on server systems than on > Desktops > ([1,2] sorry, bot

Bug#441136: ITP: jfftw -- Java library to perform Fast Fourier Transformations (FFT)

2007-09-06 Thread Manuel Prinz
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Manuel Prinz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: jfftw Version : 20070725 Upstream Author : Will Hossack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.ph.ed.ac.uk/~wjh/teach

Re: Packages with empty directories

2007-11-21 Thread Manuel Prinz
Am Mittwoch, den 21.11.2007, 05:11 +0100 schrieb Michael Biebl: > All of my packages listed there are false positives. What I noticed > though, are a lot of packages, shipping empty /usr/sbin, /usr/bin/, > /usr/lib/ or /usr/include directories. > This directories, very likely, come from dh-make *.d

Re: Is tabular data in binary format acceptable for Debian ?

2010-01-20 Thread Manuel Prinz
Am Mittwoch, den 20.01.2010, 11:22 +0100 schrieb Andreas Tille: > On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 07:07:38PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > this time, I disagree with you: all the above is a lot of work that I am not > > willing to do. A user of the R software is able to do this conversion by > > himself

Re: Is tabular data in binary format acceptable for Debian ?

2010-01-20 Thread Manuel Prinz
Am Mittwoch, den 20.01.2010, 15:42 +0100 schrieb Andreas Tille: > Yes, but you can not assume that ftpmaster is an R *user* Of course I can't but I do not see why ftpmasters should care how to extract data from these files. The only relevant information to them is that the data is the preferred fo

Re: Proposal of two new control fields: Build-Recommends and Build-Suggests [long reading]

2009-02-10 Thread Manuel Prinz
Hi Fabian! Am Dienstag, den 10.02.2009, 13:25 +0100 schrieb Fabian Greffrath: > Steve Langasek schrieb: > > This is a very bad idea. It interferes with reproducibility of binary > > builds, which is a very important property of Debian packages. Packages > > must *not* build differently based on

Re: MPI binaries location

2009-03-11 Thread Manuel Prinz
Hi Jean! Am Dienstag, den 10.03.2009, 17:29 +0100 schrieb Jean Parpaillon: > I'm currently packaging hpcc (HPC Challenge Benchmark). Several binary > packages will be available, each one with different mpi implementations. Is > there a preferred place to put mpi binaries ? I've seen that each mp

Re: Alioth - Convert SVN repo to Git

2009-03-24 Thread Manuel Prinz
Am Dienstag, den 24.03.2009, 14:40 +0100 schrieb Sandro Tosi: > Additionally, I'm looking for a post-commit hook that can send the > commit diff via email to a ml + tagpending the bugs in the diff. I'm > pretty sure someone out there has this script ready yet, so let's > share :) If you have your

Bug#627391: ITP: prank -- The Probabilistic Alignment Kit for biological sequences

2011-05-20 Thread Manuel Prinz
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Manuel Prinz * Package name: prank Version : 100802 Upstream Author : Ari Loytynoja * URL : http://www.ebi.ac.uk/goldman-srv/prank/src/prank/ * License : GPL2+ Programming Lang: C++ Description : Probabilistic