Re: About valid and invalid user names

2005-02-05 Thread Alastair McKinstry
s problematic. Fortunately it also supports the Correct (TM) way of doing it, foo:bar . ':' is definitely not allowed in usernames in POSIX. I can dig out the actual spec, if necessary. Regards Alastair McKinstry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

#284724: Interpretation of NON-BREAK SPACE

2005-02-12 Thread Alastair McKinstry
:space:] be treated as a token seperator in shells/languages, or just the ASCII SPACE? Regards Alastair McKinstry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: #284724: Interpretation of NON-BREAK SPACE

2005-02-12 Thread Alastair McKinstry
On Sath, 2005-02-12 at 11:07 +0100, Giuseppe Sacco wrote: > Il giorno sab, 12-02-2005 alle 09:43 +0000, Alastair McKinstry ha > scritto: > [...] > > Does anyone have copies (or pointers to free versions of) SUS and any > > rulings on this matter? What are developers opi

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-14 Thread Alastair McKinstry
nst it. Expect patches in BTS two weeks after sarge releases. Also, I am planning on obsoleting console-tools and console-data and transitioning to kbd; again, small but base change; see code ASAP to test for breakages. Regards Alastair McKinstry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-14 Thread Alastair McKinstry
es needs to be thought through, or at least explained, better. As it is, if I was an SCC arch maintainer, trying to remain in sync with FCC changes sounds impossible under this scheme; it will drive the SCC archs away from debian so that they have some time to themselves to stabilise. > - David Nusinow > > -Alastair McKinstry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-14 Thread Alastair McKinstry
should do what we can to keep minor ports _within_ debian, even mostly symbolic gestures such as keeping Debian SCC ports in ftp.debian.org/ports rather than 'offsite' in scc.debian.org, etc. (Note: I agree that mirrors should be capable of doing partial mirrors, rather than having to mirr

Re: post-sarge transitions: slang

2005-03-17 Thread Alastair McKinstry
On CÃad, 2005-03-16 at 02:33 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > Hi Alastair, > > On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 12:30:58PM +, Alastair McKinstry wrote: > > >* Steve Langasek > > > > > >| If you are planning any other transitions that will affect a lot of > >

Re: How to define a release architecture

2005-03-22 Thread Alastair McKinstry
that its OK to release if we have a given stock of replacement hardware available (e.g. given our good relationship with HP, its likely we could get sufficient Alpha hardware for several years after HP finally stop shipping Alphas). > Cheers, > > Peter (p2). Regards Alastair McKinstry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Proposal: Bringing volatile in shape for sarge

2005-05-24 Thread Alastair McKinstry
ome applications may break if a new currency name, for example, appears. As iso-codes contains only the data and translations of the data, it should be safe by design to upgrade. Regards Alastair McKinstry On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 10:31 +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > Hi, > > finally, sarge

Mass bug-filing: slang2

2005-06-19 Thread Alastair McKinstry
slang2 in the archive does not have fribidi support yet; I am porting that patch from slang1 forward to 2.0.4, the next release of slang2 due out this weekend). Regards Alastair McKinstry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Cont

Re: libslang2 breaks jed

2006-08-17 Thread Alastair McKinstry
Jörg Sommer wrote: > Hi, > > I've two problems with libslang2. The first is, the package libslang2 > includes a patch that changes the behaviour of a function. But jed > expects the function behaviour as given in the original slang2 library. > I've reported this bug #369152, 80 days ago, but the ma

static linking and opportunistic dynamic linking problem

2006-12-14 Thread Alastair McKinstry
compiled into libnewt.a ? - Should the static version of libnewt be built differently so as to not call dlopen()? - if so, any recommendations on how? - Is the bug in partimage? Regards Alastair McKinstry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: static linking and opportunistic dynamic linking problem

2006-12-15 Thread Alastair McKinstry
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) writes: > > >> On Dec 14, Alastair McKinstry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >>> So where do people think the bug lies? >>> - Should libdl be compiled into libnewt.a

Re: Getting rid of circular dependencies, stage 4

2006-05-10 Thread Alastair McKinstry
Bill Allombert wrote: Hello Debian developers, Here the lists of packages involved in circular dependencies listed by maintainers. Alastair McKinstry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> console-common console-tools Ok, console-common will depend on ( kbd | console-tools) in th

Re: Debootstrap, Sid, and console-tools-libs

2003-07-02 Thread Alastair McKinstry
s well, but on libpam0g not > console-tools-libs. Any work around would be appreciated. > > Thanks, > -- > Matthew P. McGuire 1024D/E21C0E88 > CB82 7859 26B2 95E3 1328 5198 D57A D072 E21C 0E88 > When choice matters, choose Debian. > > > -- Alastair McKinstry

Re: Current linux console screen blanking period?

2003-07-31 Thread Alastair McKinstry
you could probably read the default from /etc/console-tools/config ; within d-i , I'd presume since we'd just assume the kernel value. Regards, Alastair -- Alastair McKinstry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG Key fingerprint = 9E64 E714 8E08 81F9 F3DC 1020 FA8E 3790 9051 38F4 He that w

Re: [PROPOSAL] Debian Release Plan

2003-08-02 Thread Alastair McKinstry
Alastair > -- > Nathanael Nerode > http://home.twcny.rr.com/nerode/neroden/fdl.html -- Alastair McKinstry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG Key fingerprint = 9E64 E714 8E08 81F9 F3DC 1020 FA8E 3790 9051 38F4 He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from

Re: vancouver revisited

2005-08-24 Thread Alastair McKinstry
Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote: Em Seg, 2005-08-22 às 00:34 +0300, Riku Voipio escreveu: jffs2 image, which is then flashed to a pile of devices. Walking through d-i every time would be very clumsy, so there is no use for a working installer for those systems. There's no use for a full

Re: Standardizing ~/.cache/ and similar things.

2005-09-19 Thread Alastair McKinstry
On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 15:17 +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote: > #include > * Faré [Sun, Sep 18 2005, 07:43:43PM]: > > Dear Debian developers, > > > > here is a proposal I submit for inclusion in the debian policy: > > > > PROPOSAL 1: ~/.cache/${package_name}/ > > There is no point in moving everything

Re: Standardizing ~/.cache/ and similar things.

2005-09-19 Thread Alastair McKinstry
Ron Johnson wrote: On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 07:55 +0200, Sylvain LE GALL wrote: Hello, On Sun, Sep 18, 2005 at 07:43:43PM -0400, Faré wrote: Dear Debian developers, here is a proposal I submit for inclusion in the debian policy: PROPOSAL 1: ~/.cache/${package_name}/

Re: Standardizing ~/.cache/ and similar things.

2005-09-19 Thread Alastair McKinstry
Marco d'Itri wrote: On Sep 19, Alastair McKinstry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Unlike Marco, I do see a lot of value in reorganising at least _some_ of the 'configuration' files of users: seperating out .mozilla web caches and .evolution IMAP caches greatly relieves th

Re: slgdbm_1.6-2_i386.changes is NEW

2005-09-27 Thread Alastair McKinstry
Rafael Laboissiere wrote: [Moving this discussion to debian-devel. The context is the recent upload of the slgdbm package, which is the fisrt package in Debian to provide an SLang2 module. Please, keep Cc: to [EMAIL PROTECTED] * G. Milde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-09-27 08:19]: On 26.09.0

Re: Packages that need to be rebuilt agaisnt libssl0.9.8

2005-10-06 Thread Alastair McKinstry
On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 11:24 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > Is there any chances of versioning openssl symbols properly? > > I am not asking for 0.9.7 and 0.9.8 to coexist (although versioned symbols > would make that trivial), but PLEASE version the symbols. > > Suggested version tag

mail server broken: are debian reject messages logged ?

2009-07-13 Thread Alastair McKinstry
o the NEW queue in this period, and they have disappeared: I think they must have been rejected. Are the ftp master messages logged anywhere ? I'd like to know why they were rejected. Regards Alastair McKinstry mckins...@debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.

Bug#540182: ITP: libgctp -- General Cartographic Transformation Package Library

2009-08-06 Thread Alastair McKinstry
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alastair McKinstry * Package name: libgctp Version : 1.0 Upstream Author : Abe_Taaheri abe_taah...@raytheon.com * URL : http://gcmd.nasa.gov/records/USGS-GCTP.html * License : Mixed public-domain and BSD Programming

Bug#540545: ITP: grads -- Grid Analysis and Display System for earth science data

2009-08-08 Thread Alastair McKinstry
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alastair McKinstry * Package name: grads Version : 2.0 Upstream Author : NASA Advanced Information Systems Research Program * URL : http://www.iges.org/grads/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: C Description

Bug#541074: ITP: libdap -- Scientific Network Data Access Protocol library

2009-08-11 Thread Alastair McKinstry
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alastair McKinstry * Package name: libdap Version : 3.9.3 Upstream Author : OpenDAP * URL : http://www.opendap.org * License : GPL, W3C Programming Lang: C++ Description : Scientific Network Data Access Protocol

Re: Recommendations for man pages in Debian (was: Debian Policy 3.8.3.0 released: localized manpages)

2009-08-18 Thread Alastair McKinstry
It's only unambiguous if you know the convention being adopted /is/ ISO-8601. In an ideal world, we could have a standardised date format which the man program can transform into the date representation of the user's locale thus satisfying all requirements. ??? Thats what ISO-8601 is. There

Re: ITP: liblocale-us-perl -- Module for United States state identification

2009-08-22 Thread Alastair McKinstry
Hi, A larger version of this idea exists in the iso-codes package, with the iso-code subdivision codes for all countries, see /usr/share/xml/iso-codes/iso_3166-2.xml For each US state it has the 2nd-level code , so US-MI is Michigan, for example. Similar 2nd-level codes exist for each cou

Bug#546183: ITP: libsx -- Simple X library

2009-09-11 Thread Alastair McKinstry
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alastair McKinstry * Package name: libsx Version : 2.05 Upstream Author : Jean-Pierre Demailly * URL : ftp://ftp.ac-grenoble.fr/ge/Xlibraries/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: C Description : Simple X library

Re: embedded copies of Unicode data?

2009-10-15 Thread alastair . mckinstry
Hi, I'd like to point out we have a package unicode-data, which has the up-to-date unicode data files in it. I think we should file wishlist bugs against packages using their own copies of this data. Regards Alastair McKinstry > There are several copies of the Unicode data files in the

Bug#412488: ITP: midas -- the European Southern Observatory Munich Image Data Analysis System

2007-02-26 Thread Alastair McKinstry
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alastair McKinstry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: midas Version : 2006.09 Upstream Author : The European Southern Observatory * URL : http://www.eso.org/projects/esomidas/ * License : GPL Programming L

Bug#414623: ITP: zope-ploneformgen -- A generic Plone form generator

2007-03-12 Thread Alastair McKinstry
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alastair McKinstry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: zope-ploneformgen Version : 1.0.3 Upstream Author : Plone Collective * URL : http://plone.org/products/ploneformgen * License : GPL Programming Lang:

Bug#414625: ITP: zope-cmfbibliographyat -- A Bibliography management product for Zope/CMF/Plone

2007-03-12 Thread Alastair McKinstry
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alastair McKinstry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: zope-cmfbibliographyat Version : 0.8.0 Upstream Author : Raphael Ritz, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://plone.org/products/cmfbibliographyat * License

Bug#414627: ITP: zope-atextensions -- Extensions to Archetypes in Zope

2007-03-12 Thread Alastair McKinstry
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alastair McKinstry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: zope-atextensions Version : 0.8.0 Upstream Author : Raphael Ritz, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://plone.org/products/atextensions * License : GPL

Bug#414628: ITP: zope-scriptablefields -- Zope tool bundle for working with component Logic

2007-03-12 Thread Alastair McKinstry
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alastair McKinstry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: zope-scriptablefields Version : 1.0 Upstream Author : Sidnei da Silva, Daniel Nouri, Jens W. Klein * URL : http://plone.org/products/ploneformgen/scriptablefields/ * L

slang : sid transitions still frozen?

2007-05-21 Thread Alastair McKinstry
Hi, I'm the maintainer of slang2. I uploaded version 2.0.7 19 days ago, and according to http://ftp-master.debian.org/testing/update_excuses.html.gz#slang2 its blocked by the etch freeze... Is this still the case, or a false alarm? Regards Alastair McKinstry # slang2 (2.0.6-4 to 2.

Re: ITP: liblocale-us-perl -- Module for United States state identification

2007-11-18 Thread Alastair McKinstry
be". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Regards, Alastair -- Alastair McKinstry , <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://blog.scealnetworks.com Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist - Kenneth Boulter, Economist. --

Bug#584636: ITP: cmor -- Climate Model Ouput Rewriter

2010-06-05 Thread Alastair McKinstry
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alastair McKinstry * Package name: cmor Version : 2.0 Upstream Author : Charles Doutriaux * URL : http://www2-pcmdi.llnl.gov/cmor * License : "Unrestricted" (BSD-like ?) Programming Lang: C, pytho

Bug#584637: ITP: cdat -- Climate Data Analysis Tools

2010-06-05 Thread Alastair McKinstry
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alastair McKinstry * Package name: cdat Version : 5.2 Upstream Author : Dean Williams (william...@llnl.gov) * URL : http://www2-pcmdi.llnl.gov/cdat * License : BSD Programming Lang: python, c, fortran Description

Bug#587422: ITP: ferret-viz -- Interactive data visualization and analysis environment, for gridded and non-gridded climate data

2010-06-28 Thread Alastair McKinstry
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alastair McKinstry * Package name: ferret-viz Version : 6.2 Upstream Author : NOAA * URL : http://ferret.pmel.noaa.gov/Ferret/home * License : Public Domain / Programming Lang: Fortran Description : Interactive

Bug#587494: ITP: xgks -- X11 Graphical Kernel System

2010-06-29 Thread Alastair McKinstry
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alastair McKinstry * Package name: xgks Version : 2.6 Upstream Author : UCAR/Unidata * URL : http://xgks.sourceforge.net/ * License : BSD Programming Lang: C, Fortran Description : X11 Graphical Kernel System

Problem with gfortran and pkg-config

2010-07-29 Thread Alastair McKinstry
onfig removes -I/usr/include from the Cflags line in pkg-config. Which is wrong, gfortran not reading /usr/include by default, or pkg-config for removing /usr/include from CFLAGS ? Regards, Alastair -- Alastair McKinstry http://blog.sceal.ie Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forev

Bug#599747: ITP: SILO -- A mesh and field I/O library and scientific database

2010-10-10 Thread Alastair McKinstry
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alastair McKinstry * Package name: SILO Version : 4.8 Upstream Author : LLNL * URL : https://wci.llnl.gov/codes/silo/ * License : BSD (3-clause) Programming Lang: C Description : A mesh and field I/O library and

Bug#602285: ITP: spherepack -- Speherical math operations library for geophysics

2010-11-03 Thread Alastair McKinstry
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alastair McKinstry * Package name: spherepack Version : 3.2 Upstream Author : John C. Adams and Paul N. Swarztrauber, UCAR.edu * URL : http://www.cisl.ucar.edu/css/software/spherepack/ * License : BSD Programming Lang

strange failures on lxdebian and asdfasdf.debian.net for cmor

2010-11-20 Thread Alastair McKinstry
not zelenka or zandonai)? -- Alastair McKinstry , , http://blog.sceal.ie Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist - Kenneth Boulter, Economist. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org wi

Re: strange failures on lxdebian and asdfasdf.debian.net for cmor

2010-12-07 Thread Alastair McKinstry
/4.4.5 -L/usr/lib/gcc/i486-kfreebsd-gnu/4.4.5 -L/usr/lib/gcc/i486-kfreebsd-gnu/4.4.5/../../.. -lnetcdf /tmp/ccgbAyMN.o -lcmor -lnetcdf -ludunits2 -lossp-uuid -lm -lgcc --as-needed -lgcc_s --no-as-needed -lc -lgcc --as-needed -lgcc_s --no-as-needed /usr/lib/gcc/i486-kfreebsd-gnu/4.4.5/crtend.o

Re: [console-data] upgrade problem in preconfigure

2002-12-06 Thread Alastair McKinstry
> > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Alastair McKinstry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG Key fingerprint = 9E64 E714 8E08 81F9 F3DC 1020 FA8E 3790 9051 38F4 He that would make his own

Re: [console-data] upgrade problem in preconfigure

2002-12-07 Thread Alastair McKinstry
-arranged a little) > > On Fri, 2002-12-06 at 11:52, Arnaud Vandyck wrote: > > > I just point my apt source list to test unstable and console-data does > > > not like it!... Here is the message and dselect just stop (I have to > > > C-c to get out): > > >

Re: [desktop] Patched kernels

2003-04-14 Thread Alastair McKinstry
.6 kernel for normal use for those that want it? > There are some advantages; eg in the kbd-chooser, the new input API lists attached keyboards in /proc; I can ask / skip the keyboard question based on this, or autodetect better (eg present a list of PS2 or USB keyboards, or both, or neither .. -

Re: Accepted arcboot 0.3.6 (mips source)

2003-04-30 Thread Alastair McKinstry
k for arcboot? ( I do not have a mips box to test, but could write the package for testing). Regards, Alastair McKinstry On Tue, 2003-04-29 at 09:17, Guido Guenther wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Format: 1.7 > Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2003 22:01:14 +0200 > S

Bug#522772: ITP: CDO -- Climate Data Operators

2009-04-06 Thread Alastair McKinstry
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alastair McKinstry * Package name: CDO Version : 1.3.0 Upstream Author : Uwe Schulzweida uwe.schulzwe...@zmaw.de * URL : http://www.mpimet.mpg.de/fileadmin/software/cdo/ * License : GPL2 Programming Lang: C

Bug#522775: ITP: EMOSLIB -- ECMWF Interpolation Library

2009-04-06 Thread Alastair McKinstry
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alastair McKinstry * Package name: EMOSLIB Version : 000360 Upstream Author : European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecasts * URL : http://www.ecmwf.int/products/data/software/interpolation.html * License : LGPL v2

Bug#522984: ITP: magics++ -- Meteorological plotting software

2009-04-07 Thread Alastair McKinstry
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alastair McKinstry * Package name: magics++ Version : 2.6.4 Upstream Author : ECMWF * URL : http://www.ecmwf.int/products/data/software/magics++.html * License : Apache license, version 2. Programming Lang: C, Fortran

Bug#529453: ITP: GeoNetwork -- Catalog application to manage spatially referenced resources through the web

2009-05-19 Thread Alastair McKinstry
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alastair McKinstry * Package name: GeoNetwork Version : 2.2.0 Upstream Author : e.taffour...@brgm.fr * URL : http://geonetwork-opensource.org> * License : GPL Programming Lang: Java Description : Cata

Bug#530247: ITP: hdf-eos -- Extension to HDF4 to support Earth Observing System datatypes

2009-05-23 Thread Alastair McKinstry
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alastair McKinstry * Package name: hdf-eos Version : 2.15v1.00 Upstream Author : Hughes and Applied Research Corporation * URL : http://hdfeos.org/software.php * License : BSD Programming Lang: C Description

Bug#531032: ITP: zygrib -- Weather data visualization: GRIB file viewer

2009-05-29 Thread Alastair McKinstry
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alastair McKinstry * Package name: zygrib Version : 3.4.Â1 Upstream Author : Dominique Hausser * URL : http://www.zygrib.org/ * License : GPL-3 Programming Lang: C/C++ Description : Weather data visualization

Bug#531673: ITP: oasis3 -- Coupler for exchanging fields between components of Earth system models

2009-06-03 Thread Alastair McKinstry
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alastair McKinstry * Package name: oasis3 Version : 3.3 Upstream Author : Sophie Valcke * URL : http://www.prism.enes.org/PAEs/coupling_IO/software_OASIS3.php * License : GPL-2 Programming Lang: Fortran

Bug#531959: ITP: g2clib -- GRIB2 encoder/decoder library from NCEP

2009-06-05 Thread Alastair McKinstry
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alastair McKinstry * Package name: g2clib Version : 1.1.8 Upstream Author : NCEP (National Centres for Environmental Protection) * URL : http://www.nco.ncep.noaa.gov/pmb/codes/GRIB2/ * License : Public Domain

Bug#531982: ITP: ncl -- NCAR Command Language and NCAR graphics

2009-06-05 Thread Alastair McKinstry
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alastair McKinstry * Package name: ncl Version : 5.1.0 Upstream Author : NCA * URL : http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/overview.shtml * License : BSD + advertising clause Programming Lang: C + Fortran Description : NCAR

Bug#532430: ITP: udunits -- Library for the programatic handling of units of physical quantities

2009-06-09 Thread Alastair McKinstry
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alastair McKinstry * Package name: udunits Version : 2.1.7 Upstream Author : UCAR * URL : http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/udunits/ * License : BSD Programming Lang: DaCDaC(C, C++, C#, Perl, Python, etc

Bug#532858: ITP: vis5d+ -- Vis5d, a free OpenGL-based volumetric visualization program for scientific datasets in 3+ dimensions.

2009-06-12 Thread Alastair McKinstry
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alastair McKinstry * Package name: vis5d+ Version : 1.2.0 Upstream Author : Bill Hibbard * URL : http://vis5d.sourceforge.net * License : GPL Programming Lang: C Description : Vis5d, a free OpenGL-based

Maps within Debian

2009-06-16 Thread Alastair McKinstry
x27;m not familiar with the history of "gmt" beyond the README. Any ideas or recommendations as to how to proceed? Regards Alastair McKinstry **

maps / coastline files within Debian

2009-06-16 Thread Alastair McKinstry
x27;m not familiar with the history of "gmt" beyond the README. Any ideas or recommendations as to how to proceed? Regards Alastair McKinstry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Unicode 7.0 released - some packages contain outdated embedded data copies

2014-06-18 Thread Alastair McKinstry
ed be the best way to do it, some packages already do > IIRC. In any case the data shouldn't be embedded in the upstream > VCS/tarball since it is externally maintained and can therefore easily > get out of date. > -- Alastair McKinstry, , , https://diaspora.sceal.ie/u/amckinstry

Re: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-26 Thread Alastair McKinstry
e servers as a dependency of many packages, but udev itself is disabled in scripts as it keeps crashing on my hardware. (Old powerpc server). > > > -- > Alastair McKinstry, , , https://diaspora.sceal.ie/u/amckinstry > A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilizatio

Re: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-27 Thread Alastair McKinstry
On 26/06/2014 17:43, Paul Wise wrote: > On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 10:58 PM, Alastair McKinstry wrote: > >> udev itself is disabled in scripts as it keeps crashing >> on my hardware. (Old powerpc server). > Which bug number is this? > This is a bug that I _think_ (following t

Re: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-27 Thread Alastair McKinstry
rite out an API such that it remains possible to do such things. We need to recognise that systemd is a major change, crossing a line compared to a usual package or set of packages (even big ones like KDE, GNOME) and apply a larger "design process" of some kind in Debian to enable us

Re: New dash in experimental

2014-10-20 Thread Alastair McKinstry
(actually, for > rebuilds like this, using snapshot.d.o as the *only* entry in > sources.list, for both deb and deb-src, is the way to go) as during > the initial rebuild against the new dash version, to diff failures. > (Or rebuild stock archive first, filter out failures, then rebuild &g

Bug#668596: ITP: irods -- Data grid storage management system

2012-04-13 Thread Alastair McKinstry
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alastair McKinstry * Package name: irods Version : 3.1 Upstream Author : DICE research group * URL : http://www.irods.org/ * License : BSD Programming Lang: C Description : Data grid storage management system

Bug#668598: ITP: ecaccess -- clients to access ECMWF facilities

2012-04-13 Thread Alastair McKinstry
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alastair McKinstry * Package name: ecaccess Version : 4.0.0 Upstream Author : laurent.goug...@ecmwf.int * URL : http://www.ecmwf.int/services/ecaccess * License : Perl Artistic License Programming Lang: Perl

Bug#669260: ITP: pygrib -- python library for reading/writing GRIB files

2012-04-18 Thread Alastair McKinstry
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alastair McKinstry * Package name: pygrib Version : 1.9.3 Upstream Author : Jeff Whittaker * URL : https://pygrib.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/docs/index.html * License : BSD Programming Lang: Python Description

console-tools removal from sid / wheezy?

2012-05-02 Thread Alastair McKinstry
: > On 2011-10-19 14:35 +0200, Alastair McKinstry wrote: > >> I propose to remove console-tools from sid, in favour of kbd. >> This is long planned: console-tools has been dead upstream for many >> years, with only Debian and derivatives >> still using it; For squeeze, k

Build environment bug: 675125

2012-06-19 Thread Alastair McKinstry
d environment is the real culprit and I can't assign a bug to it yet until I pin it down. Has anyone seen a similar issue elsewhere, or got a hint as to how to handle it? I want to make sure we don't just freeze on the current slang but ship the broken environment. best regards Al

Bug#679237: ITP: ecflow -- Work flow controller for running programs based on time or dependencies

2012-06-27 Thread Alastair McKinstry
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alastair McKinstry * Package name: ecflow Version : 2.0.30 Upstream Author servic...@ecmwf.int * URL : http://software.ecmwf.int/wiki/display/ECFLOW/Home * License : Apache Programming Lang: python, C++ Description

Re: versioned dependency on the libhdf5-7 virtual package

2012-09-14 Thread Alastair McKinstry
ny chance this issue will be rectified? (Or should I file bug > reports against these packages?) > > TIA. > > [1] news:udlvci28as8@dr-wily.mit.edu > http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.science/5353 > [2] http://bugs.debian.org/680400 > -- Alast

Bug#709631: ITP: cdftools -- A fortran package for diagnostics of ocean model output

2013-05-24 Thread Alastair McKinstry
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alastair McKinstry * Package name: cdftools Version : 3.0 Upstream Author : Jean-Marc.Molines * URL : http://servforge.legi.grenoble-inp.fr/projects/CDFTOOLS * License : GPL Programming Lang: Fortran Description

gfortran: binNMU needed?

2013-07-07 Thread Alastair McKinstry
different version of GNU Fortran Known packages: netcdf, grib-api I think these can be fixed with a simple binNMU; is one planned? More long-term, is there anything we can do about this? A more stable version of the 'mod' file? Best regards Alastair -- Alastair McKinstry , , http:/

Bug#644096: ITP: vistrails -- Scientific visualisation workflow tool

2011-10-02 Thread Alastair McKinstry
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alastair McKinstry * Package name: vistrails Version : 2.0.alpha Upstream Author : U. of Utah * URL : http://www.vistrails.org * License : BSD Programming Lang: python Description : Scientific visualisation

Re: Bits from dpkg developers - dpkg 1.16.1

2011-10-03 Thread Alastair McKinstry
security-sensitive; they are likely to be built by the user, used by that particular user alone, and hence should not be built with any security features( eg PIE) that cause performance degradation. -- Alastair McKinstry , , http://blog.sceal.ie Anyone who believes exponential growth can

A Common cmake config directory

2011-10-05 Thread Alastair McKinstry
XDMFConfig.cmake -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1867 Jul 15 14:02 XDMFLibraryDepends.cmake These are arch-dependent and will need their own new directory under multiarch. Are there any standards yet (or planned) for such files? /usr/lib/$(DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH)/cmake ? -- Alastair McKinstry , , http

Bug#644586: ITP: exodusII -- Finite element analysis storage library

2011-10-07 Thread Alastair McKinstry
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alastair McKinstry * Package name: exodusII Version : 5.1 Upstream Author : Gregory Sjaardema * URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/exodusii/ * License : BSD Programming Lang: C Description : Finite element

Re: Coinstallability of Fortran libraries built with different compilers

2011-10-21 Thread Alastair McKinstry
ctly for Intel compilers; e.g. /usr/lib/i386-linux-intel/pkgconfig contains the .pc files for the Intel versions; we can either then set the PKG_CONFIG_PATH or use the 'cross-compiler pkgconfig' to get pkg-config to Do The Right Thing. Regards Alastair Ciao, Enrico -- Alastair

Re: Coinstallability of Fortran libraries built with different compilers

2011-10-23 Thread Alastair McKinstry
the chain of C dependencies. Ciao, Enrico -- Alastair McKinstry , , http://blog.sceal.ie Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist - Kenneth Boulter, Economist. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...

Bug#646433: ITP: gadap -- GrADS support package for access to OpenDAP station data

2011-10-24 Thread Alastair McKinstry
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alastair McKinstry * Package name: gadap Version : 2.0 Upstream Author : Institute of Global Environment and Society (IGES) * URL : http://www.iges.org/grads/gadoc/supplibs.html * License : GPL Programming Lang: C

Bug#649074: ITP: drslib -- python library for processing climate data with the Data Reference Syntax

2011-11-17 Thread Alastair McKinstry
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alastair McKinstry * Package name: drslib Version : 0.3.0a3 Upstream Author : Stephen Pascoe * URL : http://esgf.org/esgf-drslib-site/ * License : BSD Programming Lang: Python Description : python library for

Bug#649690: ITP: metaconfig -- python ConfigParser bootstraping library

2011-11-23 Thread Alastair McKinstry
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alastair McKinstry * Package name: metaconfig Version : 0.1.4a1 Upstream Author : Stephen Pascoe * URL : http://pypi.python.org/pypi/metaconfig * License : BSD Programming Lang: Python Description : python

Bug#650261: ITP: thredds -- Data server (middleware) for scientific data

2011-11-28 Thread Alastair McKinstry
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alastair McKinstry * Package name: thredds Version : 4.2.9 Upstream Author : UCAR * URL : http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/tds/ * License : MIT Programming Lang: Java Description : Data server (middleware

New version of newt in experimental

2011-12-05 Thread Alastair McKinstry
are famous last words * BIDI: I've had to refresh this patch, and fix a crash in it. I don't know and LTR languages. Regards Alastair McKinstry -- Alastair McKinstry , , http://blog.sceal.ie Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either

Porter help needed: CCSEapps

2011-12-05 Thread Alastair McKinstry
ined(_CRAYT3E) || \ defined(__hpux) static const IntDescriptor nld(sizeof(long), IntDescriptor::NormalOrder); #endif return nld; } ie. whether the arch is little / big endian, supports IEEE arithmetic, etc. Can anyone help? Regards Alastair -- Alastair McKinstry , ,

Re: severity for bugs in ignoring TMP/TMPDIR?

2012-02-05 Thread Alastair McKinstry
s / . So I needed to get it to use an alternate $TMPDIR. Ignoring $TMPDIR is a critical severity bug for me. - Alastair -- Alastair McKinstry , , http://blog.sceal.ie Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist - Kenneth Boul

Re: Bug#657949: Cannot install libhdf5-mpi-dev and libnetcdf-dev

2012-02-07 Thread Alastair McKinstry
s such as compression that don't work in parallel netcdf). We need to come up with: (1) A bigger picture of where we want Debian to go (may involve upstream changes) (2) A plan for that we can do for the next release. Regards Alastair -- Alastair McKinstry , , http://blog.sceal.ie A

Re: Bug#657949: Cannot install libhdf5-mpi-dev and libnetcdf-dev

2012-02-08 Thread Alastair McKinstry
Hi Francesco, Do you recommend that we build the next NetCDF from 4.1.1 or should we use the 4.1.3 from experimental as the base? Regards Alastair On 2012-02-07 13:17, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > On Tue, Feb 07, 2012 at 09:28:00AM +0000, Alastair McKinstry wrote: >> On 2012-02

Bug#660347: ITP: python-cdo -- python wrapper for CDO climate Data Operators

2012-02-18 Thread Alastair McKinstry
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alastair McKinstry * Package name: python-cdo Version : 1.5.4 Upstream Author : uwe.schulzwe...@zmaw.de * URL : https://code.zmaw.de/projects/cdo * License : GPL Programming Lang: python Description : python

Bug#693829: ITP: python-iapws -- Python implementation of the international APWS-IF97 steam tables

2012-11-20 Thread Alastair McKinstry
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alastair McKinstry * Package name: python-iapws Version : 1.0.0 Upstream Author : jjgomera * URL : http://pypi.python.org/pypi/iapws * License : GPL Programming Lang: Python Description : Python implementation

Bug#693831: ITP: flextra -- Trajectory model for tracing air transport phenomena

2012-11-20 Thread Alastair McKinstry
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alastair McKinstry * Package name: flextra Version : 5.0 Upstream Author : Andreas Stohl * URL : http://transport.nilu.no/flexpart * License : GPL Programming Lang: Fortran Description : Trajectory model for

Bug#693833: ITP: flexpart -- Particle Dispersion model for tracing air transport phenomena

2012-11-20 Thread Alastair McKinstry
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alastair McKinstry * Package name: flexpart Version : 90.02 Upstream Author : Andreas Stohl * URL : http://transport.nilu.no/flexpart * License : GPL Programming Lang: Fortran Description : Particle Dispersion

Bug#693834: ITP: metview -- Interactive data visualization and analysis environment

2012-11-20 Thread Alastair McKinstry
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alastair McKinstry * Package name: metview Version : 4.3.4 Upstream Author : ECMWF http://www.ecmwf.int * URL : https://software.ecmwf.int/wiki/display/METV/Home * License : Apache Programming Lang: C++ Description

Bug#696238: ITP: python-gsw -- Python implementation of the Thermodynamic Equation of Seawater

2012-12-18 Thread Alastair McKinstry
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alastair McKinstry * Package name: python-gsw Version : 3.0.1 Upstream Author : Filipe Fernandes * URL : http://pypi.python.org/pypi/seawater/ * License : MIT Programming Lang: Python Description : Python

Re: openmotif is now LGPL, retirement of lesstif in jessie?

2012-12-23 Thread Alastair McKinstry
but may I (also with my > lesstif co-maintainer hat on) already suggest to get rid of lesstif for > jessie. > > What do you think? > > Paul > PS: how nice that the latest update to the policy already removed the > lesstif/openmotif text. > > [1] http://motif.i

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