Re: Apt-Torrent project

2004-10-30 Thread Mike Furr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Arnaud Kyheng wrote: | Hello, | | I love the Debian project, and I have worked on a new development for | it: Apt-Torrent :) Thank you for your contribution. However, I looked at doing something similar to this a little while ago and found that bittorr

Re: Apt-Torrent project

2004-11-01 Thread Mike Furr
Arnaud Kyheng wrote: I don't agree with the little package problem with Bittorrent. With Bittornado I'm using as a backend, the super-seeder option answer to this problem since if the package is already well available on the network, it'll not answer to the client but let it download from peers.

Re: Bug#292541: RFP: pbzip2 -- Parallel bzip2 implementation

2005-01-29 Thread Mike Furr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 retitle 292541 ITP: pbzip2 -- Parallel bzip2 implementation thanks. Package name: pbzip2 Version: 0.9 Upstream Author: Jeff Gilchrist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> URL: http://compression.ca/pbzip2/ License: BSD-style license, same as bzip2 Description: parallel

Re: Bug#292541: RFP: pbzip2 -- Parallel bzip2 implementation

2005-01-29 Thread Mike Furr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Adam Heath wrote: | Is there a library version? No, perhaps the short description is misleading. pbzip2 works by splitting up a file into chunks and then encoding each chunk with a separate thread(via libbz2), so it is perhaps more described as a paral

Re: Bug#292541: RFP: pbzip2 -- Parallel bzip2 implementation

2005-01-29 Thread Mike Furr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thiemo Seufer wrote: | AFAICS this feature should be added to bzip2, and not go into a | separate binary/package. Since it does just use libbz2 this is a possibility. I will inquire to pbzip2 upstream if you plans to submit this feature to bzip2 upstre

Re: Bug#292541: RFP: pbzip2 -- Parallel bzip2 implementation

2005-01-29 Thread Mike Furr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Anibal Monsalve Salazar wrote: | Mike, I would like to make pbzip2 part of the bzip2 package. May I | take over your ITP report? Sure, that would be fine, take it. Since the RFP cc'd you and I didn't hear from anyone in a couple of days, I wasn't sure

Re: Bug#292541: RFP: pbzip2 -- Parallel bzip2 implementation

2005-01-30 Thread Mike Furr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: | On Sat, 29 Jan 2005, Mike Furr wrote: | Is this thing rsync-friendly? If it is... wow! Unlikely. The number of blocks is very small (O(# of threads)) so rsync would not be able to gain much performance in the

Bug#303971: ITP: ocaml-getopt -- command line parsing library for OCaml

2005-04-09 Thread Mike Furr
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mike Furr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Package name: ocaml-getopt Version : 0.0.20040811 Upstream Author : Alain Frisch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> URL : http://www.http://www.eleves.ens.fr/home/frisch/soft.html License

Bug#316561: ITP: omake -- build system with automated dependency analysis

2005-07-01 Thread Mike Furr
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mike Furr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: omake Version : 0.9.4 Upstream Author : Jason Hickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://omake.metaprl.org * License : GPL Description : build system wi

co-maint/adopter for vegastrike package

2003-09-07 Thread Mike Furr
and it off to another DD, or sponsor a prospective DD for a while. Drop me a line if you are interested, -- Mike Furr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Yet another g++ transition page

2005-07-18 Thread Mike Furr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Daniel Burrows wrote: > Whoops, I see. So, just to further my comprehension here, why doesn't apt > show up in the dependency tree of aptitude? Obviously libsigc has gone > through the transition already, so it's not listed, but I'm quite certain

Re: Yet another g++ transition page

2005-07-18 Thread Mike Furr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Daniel Burrows wrote: > I think you need to take virtual packages into account; apt-based stuff is > showing up in Level 1, which AIUI is wrong. Well, it does the best it can. It resolves all of the information it has available. However, for examp

Yet another g++ transition page

2005-07-18 Thread Mike Furr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 After starting writing a program to help me track my packages dependencies for the g++ transition, I decided to put up the results for the entire archive in case it was useful for others. http://people.debian.org/~mfurr/gxx/ The main differe

broken g++ transition packages

2005-07-19 Thread Mike Furr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The following is a list of packages which are linked against libstdc++5 on some architectures and libstdc++6 on others. This list only contains packages from Section: base/devel/libdevel/libs/oldlibs, as the full list contains many things waiting for

Re: Yet another g++ transition page

2005-07-21 Thread Mike Furr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Steve Langasek wrote: > Nice. :) Wishlist request: could you have it tally the total number of > packages whose transition depends on each package in the list, and print > that number next to the source package name? Better yet, could the list be > s

Re: NMUs wanted: C++ library packages in need of uploading

2005-08-07 Thread Mike Furr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > It would be great if someone could add a link to your updated graph > from http://people.debian.org/~mfurr/gxx/>. It would make sure > at least I find it when I need it. Done. I also added links to the two other transitio

Bug#417805: RFA: chromium -- Fast paced, arcade-style, scrolling space shooter

2007-04-04 Thread Mike Furr
Package: wnpp Severity: normal I request an adopter for the chromium package. The game is dead upstrem, but clearly still has a large set of users. It has recently been discovered that some of the music is non-free and some of the sounds are non-distributable. The issues are discussed in #385

Bug#417804: RFA: vegastrike -- A 3d space combat game

2007-04-04 Thread Mike Furr
Package: wnpp Severity: normal I request an adopter for the vegastrike suite of packages. The data package is pretty big weighing in at ~150MB making it one of the larger packages in Debian. It has a pretty good user base, and upstream is still active. However, development is quite slow now-a-

Bug#445039: ITP: ocaml-reins -- data structure library for OCaml

2007-10-02 Thread Mike Furr
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mike Furr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Package name: ocaml-reins Version : 0.1a Upstream Author : Mike Furr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> URL : http://ocaml-reins.sf.net License : LGPL 2.1 w/ standand OCaml linki

Re: Terraform up for adoption

2002-09-01 Thread Mike Furr
On Sun, 2002-09-01 at 09:49, Tomas Guemes wrote: > if no ones has any complain, i will close the bug and try to package > the new upstream version as soon as posible. Don't close the bug. Retitle to an ITA and then close it when you upload your new package. -m signature.asc Description: This