http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.general hourly 1 1901-01-01T00:00+00:00 http://gmane.org/img/gmane-25t.png http://gmane.org http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.general/173186 <pre>Package: general Severity: minor Dear Maintainer, *** Please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** * What led up to the situation? * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)? * What was the outcome of this action? * What outcome did you expect instead? *** End of the template - remove these lines *** </pre> Shankar Menon 2012-05-26T14:27:41 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.general/173180 <pre>Hi, I generated a list of source packages which have been removed from unstable, but are still kept into experimental for some reason. I excluded those which seem maintained, and generated a dd-list of the remaining ones. I will file removal bugs for them within the end of June if nobody claims they should be kept around. Albin Tonnerre &lt;lutin&lt; at &gt;debian.org&gt; python-ecore (U) python-evas (U) Charles Fry &lt;cfry&lt; at &gt;debian.org&gt; libjgrapht-java (U) Cyril Brulebois &lt;kibi&lt; at &gt;debian.org&gt; xserver-xorg-video-v4l (U) David Nusinow &lt;dnusinow&lt; at &gt;debian.org&gt; xserver-xorg-video-v4l (U) Debian freesmartphone.org Team &lt;pkg-fso-maint&lt; at &gt;lists.alioth.debian.org&gt; zhone Debian Java Maintainers &lt;pkg-java-maintainers&lt; at &gt;lists.alioth.debian.org&gt; libjgrapht-java Debian Pkg-e Team &lt;pkg-e-devel&lt; at &gt;lists.alioth.debian.org&gt; python-ecore python-evas Debian X Strike Force &lt;debian-x&lt; at &gt;lists.debian.org&gt; xserver-xorg-video-v4l Guido Günther &lt;agx&lt; at &gt;sigxcpu.org&gt; iceowl Jakub Wilk &lt;jwilk&lt; at &gt;debian.org&gt; re2 (U) Jan Lübbe &lt;jluebbe&lt; at &gt;debian.org&gt; python-ecore (U) python-evas (U) Joachim Breitner &lt;nomeata&lt; at &gt;debian.org&gt; zhone (U) Luca Capello &lt;luca&lt; at &gt;pca.it&gt; zhone (U) Marc Haber &lt;mh+debian-packages&lt; at &gt;zugschlus.de&gt; rageircd Michael Koch &lt;konqueror&lt; at &gt;gmx.de&gt; libjgrapht-java (U) Nikita V. Youshchenko &lt;yoush&lt; at &gt;debian.org&gt; zhone (U) Simon Richter &lt;sjr&lt; at &gt;debian.org&gt; misdn-kernel misdn-user Stefano Rivera &lt;stefanor&lt; at &gt;debian.org&gt; re2 Steffen Moeller &lt;moeller&lt; at &gt;debian.org&gt; libjgrapht-java (U) Thierry Randrianiriana &lt;randrianiriana&lt; at &gt;gmail.com&gt; qpopper Timo Jyrinki &lt;timo&lt; at &gt;debian.org&gt; zhone (U) Cheers, Luca </pre> Luca Falavigna 2012-05-26T10:09:53 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.general/173166 <pre>Hi there. I recently had cause to search for an environment variable to see if it was being set. As a result I noticed that the environment has become a bit of a dumping ground for installed programs where configuration files would have been a cleaner option. Looking for an override in the environment is of course a good idea, but setting default values in the environment that could be 1. hard coded in the programs as defaults 2. stored in a configuration file 3. sourced from a configuration script is a bit sloppy. On my machine running "set &gt; set.txt &amp;&amp; ls -lsa set.txt" reveals that my environment contains 225517 of "stuff" - some of it is even being taken up by exported function definitions! That's 225517 bytes that needs to be copied every time a script runs. Regards, Philip Ashmore </pre> Philip Ashmore 2012-05-26T02:50:02 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.general/173164 <pre>Hi there. First, here's what I'm talking about - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permalink Unfortunately Wikipedia doesn't offer permalinks itself, so hopefully the above link won't "rot". This was initially in reference to the recent spat of comments/opinions to "Re: Moving /tmp to tmpfs makes it useful". It's sometimes amusing to watch as helpful enthusiasts try to unravel a problem. I nearly deleted the entire thread without giving it a moments thought - I get a lot of message list email. What I noticed by its absence was that no-one linked to official Debian policy detailing the choices made and their justification. Then it struck me that if such a document existed, it would be subject to change as Debian policy itself evolved, making any old links nonsensical or misleading. So what I'm requesting is that Debian documentation be "permalink friendly" i.e. that Debian documentation pages provide permalinks. It would be even better if they also mentioned the version(s) of Debian they apply to. This could be done using the "wayback machine" - here's an interesting example. http://wayback.archive.org/web/*/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Using_the_Wayback_Machine From this it's possible to specify a permalink URL even to sites without permalinks, but note that a version being referenced might be missed or duplicated, so this isn't an ideal solution. Regards, Philip Ashmore </pre> Philip Ashmore 2012-05-26T02:03:06 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.general/173125 <pre>Hi there, this Bugreport (see below) seems to break the bts [1] just for the record. kind regards, Michael [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=674515 ------------------------------------------------------------ Beginn der weitergeleiteten Nachricht: Datum: Fri, 25 May 2012 09:22:18 +0200 Von: Michael Stummvoll &lt;michael&lt; at &gt;stummi.org&gt; An: submit&lt; at &gt;bugs.debian.org Betreff: /bin/htpasswd exists in apache2-utils ans mini-httpd Package: mini-httpd,apache2-utils Severity: normal Dear Maintainers, two different binaries with the same name /bin/htpasswd are provided by apache2 and mini-httpd. If you install mini-httpd after apache2 the htpasswd from mini-httpd will override the file from apache2. The file from apache2 is downward-compatible to the from mini-httpd. This means it provides all the options like mini-httpd, but mini-httpd does not provide all options from apache2. So it doesn't make any sense the the htpasswd from mini-httpd overrides that from apache2. I think thats a bug. It could be resolved by let the packages conflict or let mini-httpd provide something like mini-htpasswd (which could get linked to htpasswd as long as apache2 does not exists) kind regards, Michael Stummvoll </pre> Michael Stummvoll 2012-05-25T12:40:27 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.general/173079 <pre>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: 425 (new: 31) Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 163 (new: 0) Total number of packages requested help for: 60 (new: 0) Please refer to http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ for more information. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The following packages have been orphaned: aqualung (#673944), orphaned 2 days ago Description: Gapless Gtk-based audio player Installations reported by Popcon: 366 bkhive (#673945), orphaned 2 days ago Description: Dump the syskey bootkey from a Windows NT/2K/XP system hive Installations reported by Popcon: 162 cobalt-panel-utils (#673959), orphaned 2 days ago Description: System utilities for Sun Cobalt's LCD and LEDs Installations reported by Popcon: 5 createrepo (#673958), orphaned 2 days ago Description: generates the metadata necessary for a RPM package repository Installations reported by Popcon: 162 fortune-mod (#673585), orphaned 5 days ago Description: provides fortune cookies on demand Installations reported by Popcon: 14876 gnade (#673750), orphaned 3 days ago Description: GNat Ada Database Environment Installations reported by Popcon: 21 gprbuild (#673751), orphaned 3 days ago Description: a multi-language extensible build tool Installations reported by Popcon: 99 hellanzb (#673946), orphaned 2 days ago Description: Newzbin (nzb) &amp; BinNews (bns) files downloader and post-processor Installations reported by Popcon: 316 ink (#673949), orphaned 2 days ago Description: tool for checking the ink level of your local printer Installations reported by Popcon: 147 leds-alix (#673960), orphaned 2 days ago Description: Source for the LEDs driver of PCEngines ALIX 2/3 boards Installations reported by Popcon: 16 libapache2-mod-authnz-external (#673655), orphaned 4 days ago Description: authenticate Apache against external authentication services Installations reported by Popcon: 148 libapache2-mod-authz-unixgroup (#673654), orphaned 4 days ago Description: access control based on on unix group membership for Apache Installations reported by Popcon: 57 libaunit (#673752), orphaned 3 days ago Description: AUnit, a unit testing framework for Ada Installations reported by Popcon: 13 libbash (#673653), orphaned 4 days ago Description: a tool that enables bash dynamic-like shared libraries Installations reported by Popcon: 32 libinklevel (#673952), orphaned 2 days ago Description: development files for libinklevel5 Installations reported by Popcon: 327 museek+ (#673872), orphaned 3 days ago Description: Client for the SoulSeek peer-to-peer network (server daemon) Installations reported by Popcon: 101 opentoken (#673753), orphaned 3 days ago Description: OpenToken lexical analysis library for Installations reported by Popcon: 8 ovito (#674283), orphaned today Description: visualization and analysis tool for atomistic simulation data Installations reported by Popcon: 7 pwauth (#673652), orphaned 4 days ago Description: authenticator for mod_authnz_external and the Apache HTTP Daemon Installations reported by Popcon: 142 python-yenc (#673948), orphaned 2 days ago Description: yEnc encoding/decoding extension for Python Installations reported by Popcon: 865 pythondialog (#673962), orphaned 2 days ago Description: Python module for making simple Text/Console-mode user interfaces Installations reported by Popcon: 121 qfreefax (#673951), orphaned 2 days ago Description: GUI for fax fonctionality provided by French ISP "Free" Installations reported by Popcon: 26 qink (#673953), orphaned 2 days ago Description: Simple printer ink level monitor based on libinklevel and Qt4 Installations reported by Popcon: 76 ripole (#673950), orphaned 2 days ago Description: Extract attachments from OLE2 data files (ie, MS Office docs) Installations reported by Popcon: 567 samdump2 (#673963), orphaned 2 days ago Description: Dump Windows 2k/NT/XP password hashes Installations reported by Popcon: 167 stymulator (#673964), orphaned 2 days ago Description: Curses based player and converter for the YM chiptune format Installations reported by Popcon: 17 tcpflow (#673637), orphaned 4 days ago Description: TCP flow recorder Installations reported by Popcon: 705 teamspeak-client (#673967), orphaned 2 days ago (non-free) Description: VoIP chat for online gaming Installations reported by Popcon: 176 teamspeak-server (#674287), orphaned today (non-free) Description: VoIP chat for online gaming (server) Installations reported by Popcon: 45 weplab (#673977), orphaned 2 days ago Description: tool designed to break WEP keys Installations reported by Popcon: 343 yum-metadata-parser (#673978), orphaned 2 days ago Description: A fast metadata parser for YUM Installations reported by Popcon: 787 394 older packages have been omitted from this listing, see http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/orphaned for a complete list. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ No new packages have been given up for adoption, but a total of 163 packages are awaiting adoption. See http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/rfa_bypackage for a complete list. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ For the following packages help is requested: apt-xapian-index (#567955), requested 843 days ago Description: maintenance tools for a Xapian index of Debian packages Installations reported by Popcon: 55851 asymptote (#517342), requested 1182 days ago Description: script-based vector graphics language inspired by MetaPost Installations reported by Popcon: 3279 athcool (#278442), requested 2767 days ago Description: Enable powersaving mode for Athlon/Duron processors Installations reported by Popcon: 89 balsa (#642906), requested 242 days ago Description: An e-mail client for GNOME Installations reported by Popcon: 258 bastille (#592137), requested 656 days ago Description: Security hardening tool Installations reported by Popcon: 220 boinc (#511243), requested 1232 days ago Description: BOINC distributed computing Installations reported by Popcon: 1802 cardstories (#624100), requested 395 days ago Description: Find out a card using a sentence made up by another player Installations reported by Popcon: 6 chromium-browser (#583826), requested 725 days ago Description: Chromium browser Installations reported by Popcon: 10620 cryptsetup (#600777), requested 582 days ago Description: configures encrypted block devices Installations reported by Popcon: 7902 debtags (#567954), requested 843 days ago Description: Enables support for package tags Installations reported by Popcon: 2539 doc-central (#566364), requested 852 days ago Description: web-based documentation browser Installations reported by Popcon: 206 elvis (#432298), requested 1781 days ago Description: powerful clone of the vi/ex text editor (with X11 support) Installations reported by Popcon: 352 fbcat (#565156), requested 862 days ago Description: framebuffer grabber Installations reported by Popcon: 162 flightgear (#487388), requested 1433 days ago Description: Flight Gear Flight Simulator Installations reported by Popcon: 848 freeipmi (#628062), requested 364 days ago Description: GNU implementation of the IPMI protocol Installations reported by Popcon: 1312 gnat-4.4 (#539633), requested 1500 days ago Description: backport bug fixes from trunk (GCC 4.5) Installations reported by Popcon: 1669 gnat-gps (#496905), requested 1365 days ago Description: co-maintainer needed Installations reported by Popcon: 423 gnupg (#660685), requested 94 days ago Description: GNU privacy guard - a free PGP replacement Installations reported by Popcon: 124100 golang (#668870), requested 39 days ago Installations reported by Popcon: 213 grub2 (#248397), requested 2936 days ago Description: GRand Unified Bootloader Installations reported by Popcon: 114217 hfsprogs (#557892), requested 911 days ago Description: mkfs and fsck for HFS and HFS+ file systems Installations reported by Popcon: 1165 hotkey-setup (#483107), requested 1458 days ago Description: auto-configures laptop hotkeys Installations reported by Popcon: 3920 irssi-scripts (#663577), requested 73 days ago Description: collection of scripts for irssi Installations reported by Popcon: 1036 isdnutils (#661110), requested 90 days ago Description: ISDN utilities Installations reported by Popcon: 8155 jove (#470185), requested 1537 days ago Description: Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs - a compact, powerful editor Installations reported by Popcon: 1131 lesstif2 (#551853), requested 946 days ago Description: OSF/Motif 2.1 implementation released under LGPL Installations reported by Popcon: 17270 libapache2-mod-python (#516501), requested 1188 days ago Description: Python-embedding module for Apache 2 Installations reported by Popcon: 19299 libcap2 (#534999), requested 1061 days ago Description: support for getting/setting POSIX.1e capabilities Installations reported by Popcon: 116451 libnss-db (#624768), requested 389 days ago Description: NSS module for using Berkeley Databases as a naming service Installations reported by Popcon: 2605 libreoffice (#419523), requested 1865 days ago Description: office productivity suite Installations reported by Popcon: 47374 link-grammar (#556010), requested 923 days ago Description: Carnegie Mellon University's link grammar parser for English Installations reported by Popcon: 13401 logcheck (#539944), requested 1024 days ago Description: mails anomalies in the system logfiles to the administrator Installations reported by Popcon: 5090 loop-aes-utils (#385614), requested 2093 days ago Description: Tools for mounting and manipulating filesystems Installations reported by Popcon: 320 mdadm (#537993), requested 1037 days ago Description: tool to administer Linux MD arrays (software RAID) Installations reported by Popcon: 16159 mediawiki-extensions (#484545), requested 1450 days ago Description: set of extensions for MediaWiki Installations reported by Popcon: 452 monotone (#574609), requested 797 days ago Description: a distributed version (revision) control system; more maintainers needed Installations reported by Popcon: 286 mtr (#527482), requested 1113 days ago Description: Full screen ncurses and X11 traceroute tool Installations reported by Popcon: 16887 munin (#655889), requested 131 days ago Description: please help keeping munin 2.0 in shape Installations reported by Popcon: 8620 nas (#354174), requested 2282 days ago Description: The Network Audio System Installations reported by Popcon: 59374 netdisco-mibs-installer (#661290), requested 89 days ago Description: Netdisco MIB bundle installer package Installations reported by Popcon: 98 nn (#470187), requested 1537 days ago Description: Heavy-duty USENET news reader (curses-based client) Installations reported by Popcon: 100 openbox (#566900), requested 850 days ago Description: standards compliant, fast, light-weight, extensible window manager Installations reported by Popcon: 5777 openldap (#512360), requested 1220 days ago Description: OpenLDAP server, libraries, and utilities Installations reported by Popcon: 117986 openscenegraph (#392266), requested 2053 days ago Description: 3d scenegraph Installations reported by Popcon: 628 openssl (#332498), requested 2422 days ago Description: Secure Socket Layer (SSL) binary and related cryptographic tools Installations reported by Popcon: 119635 par2cmdline (#673225), requested 7 days ago Description: Parity Archive Volume Set, for checking and repair of files Installations reported by Popcon: 2197 php5 (#664595), requested 66 days ago Description: server-side, HTML-embedded scripting language Installations reported by Popcon: 54402 ppp (#589632), requested 675 days ago Description: Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) - daemon Installations reported by Popcon: 53458 proftpd-dfsg (#519175), requested 1171 days ago Description: versatile, virtual-hosting FTP daemon Installations reported by Popcon: 8184 pyro (#530280), requested 1097 days ago Description: distributed object system for Python Installations reported by Popcon: 1097 quilt (#543541), requested 1003 days ago Description: Tool to work with series of patches Installations reported by Popcon: 12138 rng-tools (#630920), requested 341 days ago Description: Daemon to use a Hardware TRNG Installations reported by Popcon: 617 scim (#661106), requested 90 days ago Description: smart common input method platform Installations reported by Popcon: 11057 screen (#654116), requested 143 days ago Description: terminal multiplexor with VT100/ANSI terminal emulation Installations reported by Popcon: 40428 sepolgen (#483641), requested 1455 days ago Description: A Python module used in SELinux policy generation Installations reported by Popcon: 7785 serna-free (#640976), requested 258 days ago Description: Graphical XML editor Installations reported by Popcon: 54 spice (#671627), requested 19 days ago Description: Simple Protocol for Independent Computing Environment Installations reported by Popcon: 3752 sql-ledger (#472709), requested 1521 days ago Description: A web based double-entry accounting program Installations reported by Popcon: 81 wine (#479659), requested 1479 days ago Description: Windows API implementation Installations reported by Popcon: 14039 xml-core (#660687), requested 94 days ago Description: XML infrastructure and XML catalog file support Installations reported by Popcon: 100571 See http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested for more information. </pre> wnpp< at >debian.org 2012-05-25T00:26:10 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.general/173074 <pre>I've read across different debates about whether using tmpfs is good or bad but I could not find the most important reason, so here it is... Reason ====== What's a temporary file? Really, why would applications temporarily store its data in a file? They do that to *free some memory*. Placing those files back to memory renders the whole process of writing the file useless. If the files are small and can stay in memory why would application save it to file? Moving /tmp to tmpfs is effectively the same as suggesting to delete /tmp, because there's no use for it as a temporary files storage any more. FHS === Filesystem Hierarchy Standard defines two directories for temporary files: /var/tmp — for files that should be preserved between reboots /tmp — for files that should not be preserved between reboots It's simple and clear. Since it's only reasonable to store large data sets in temporary files, standard sets no size limits for these files. So if application's author had actually read FHS he should expect these directories to handle large files. Who uses /tmp ============= Let's check the real world and see what applications actually use /tmp. When you copy files in `mc` they're copied over /tmp/mc-username (to handle some complex cases, like copying from inside iso-image to ssh). When you click on a file in Firefox and select "Open with", Firefox stores that file in /tmp. You cannot assume these files to be small. When you watch large videos, adobe flash stores downloaded part of it as something like /tmp/FlashXXG49VWF. Archive managers may unpack archives to /tmp. CD burners store iso-files there. Image processing software was already mentioned in this list. All these files may be large, but should not be preserved on reboot, so according to FHS they should go to /tmp. And the most important thing: file managers, browsers, image editors, cd burners — these are not some rare scientific stuff, but a common programs, that most people use every day. Putting them on a small tmpfs will break them. Putting them on large tmpfs may slow down or freeze the system due to heavy swapping. Suggestion ========== Do not mount /tmp as tmpfs by default. Instead... Debian already allows custom partitioning during the system install. For example it's possible to mount /tmp on a separate partition. The suggestion is to extend partitioner with a new option "Configure tmpfs partitions". That option should allow to mount anything as tmpfs (not just /tmp, but also /var/run, /media, /opt or whatever the user might want). It would be nice to have the `size` option there as well. In that case most users won't get new problems. But really smart people, that really know what they're doing, will be able to put /tmp on tmpfs with the options they need. PS: To save some discussion time I'll try to answer the most common questions I've seen: Q: I extremely care about my / fs and want to use it as rarely as possible. A: There're a lot of options: * symlink or mount-bind /tmp to i.e. /home/tmp * have /tmp on a separate partition (common and probably best solution) * you hate partitions? make /home/tmp_ext3fs.img and loop-mount it. That would solve your problem without making your system unstable because of high memory usage, or break programs because of no free space in /tmp. Q: /tmp on tmpfs increases apps performance. A: What apps? Real apps don't write files during performance-critical operations. Even if they do, they write large files. And large files are written faster when they're written on real disk, rather then swapped out and slow down the entire system (see the "Who uses /tmp" part). The apps that can really benefit from tmpfs are too rare. And we're talking about default settings and most common cases. Q: gcc writes small files in /tmp A: usually it does not, especially when used with -pipe option Q: Solaris uses /tmp in tmpfs for years. A: Yes. And Linux uses it on extfs for years. And, BTW, Linux's faster than Solaris: http://www.tux.org/lkml/#s9-12 Solaris had no such a fast extfs, so it had to use tmpfs instead. :) Q: But still solaris uses /tmp in tmpfs and has no problems A: That's not true. Solaris users/admins actually have problems because of the whole swap space being exhausted by a few iso-files in /tmp. The matter is that /tmp is being tmpfs under Solaris for so long that solaris admins are used to look for free space in /tmp and fix the problems, that linux users never had. I don't want to get used to problems, do you? Q: I'm a smart man, I know what I'm doing, what apps I'm breaking and what consequences my decision might have, but I still need my /tmp in tmpfs. A: Then you should do that. In those rare cases when defaults need to be changed they should be changed. That's it. Thanks for reading. PS: should I had filled this as a bugreport? </pre> Serge 2012-05-24T23:22:24 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.general/173070 <pre>Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Clint Byrum &lt;spamaps&lt; at &gt;debian.org&gt; * Package name : txaws Version : 0.2.3 Upstream Author : txAWS Developers &lt;txaws-tech&lt; at &gt;lists.launchpad.net&gt; * URL : https://launchpad.net/txaws * License : MIT / X / Expat License Programming Lang: Python Description : Twisted-based Asynchronous Libraries for Amazon Web Services Twisted-based Asynchronous Libraries for Amazon Web Services and Eucalyptus private clouds. This project's goal is to have a complete Twisted API representing the spectrum of Amazon's web services as well as support for Eucalyptus clouds. </pre> Clint Byrum 2012-05-24T18:28:49 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.general/173069 <pre>Hi, as Apache 2.4 transition has been delayed, should not created bugs, set with Important severity be lowered ? or closed and reopen when transition will occur? I have several packages impacted. Thanks Olivier </pre> Olivier Sallou 2012-05-24T16:05:53 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.general/173067 <pre>Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: John Millikin &lt;jmillikin&lt; at &gt;gmail.com&gt; * Package name : haskell-chell-quickcheck Version : 0.2 Upstream Author : John Millikin &lt;jmillikin&lt; at &gt;gmail.com&gt; * URL : https://john-millikin.com/software/chell/ * License : Expat Programming Lang: Haskell Description : QuickCheck support for the Chell testing library Companion package to libghc-chell, to support running tests written with QuickCheck. </pre> John Millikin 2012-05-24T14:33:41 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.general/173066 <pre>Package: general Severity: important Tags: squeeze </pre> Olaf Ruehenbeck 2012-05-24T14:30:02 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.general/173065 <pre>Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Vincent Danjean &lt;vdanjean&lt; at &gt;debian.org&gt; * Package name : libmath-tamuanova-perl Version : 1.0.1 Upstream Author : Vincent Danjean &lt;Vincent.Danjean&lt; at &gt;ens-lyon.org&gt; * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Math-TamuAnova/ * License : Same as perl (Artistic + GPL1+) Programming Lang: C, Perl Description : Perl extension for the tamuanova library Math::TamuAnova allows you to use the tamu-anova library from perl programs. . TAMU ANOVA is a C library that allows one to compute both single and two factor ANOVA (Analysis of Variance). Note: this is a small wrapper to call functions of tamuanova (already packaged for a long time) from perl programs. It will be required for the new version of altree (another Debian package). I already uploaded this new package a few minutes ago but I welcome any remarks (rephrasing of the long description for example) and I will take them into account for the next upload. Regards, Vincent </pre> Vincent Danjean 2012-05-24T14:08:25 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.general/173064 <pre>Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: John Millikin &lt;jmillikin&lt; at &gt;gmail.com&gt; * Package name : chell-hunit Version : 0.2 Upstream Author : John Millikin &lt;jmillikin&lt; at &gt;gmail.com&gt; * URL : https://john-millikin.com/software/chell-hunit/ * License : Expat Programming Lang: Haskell Description : HUnit support for the Chell testing library Companion package to libghc-chell, to support running tests written with HUnit. </pre> John Millikin 2012-05-24T14:02:02 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.general/173063 <pre>Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: John Millikin &lt;jmillikin&lt; at &gt;gmail.com&gt; * Package name : haskell-chell Version : 0.3 Upstream Author : John Millikin &lt;jmillikin&lt; at &gt;gmail.com&gt; * URL : https://john-millikin.com/software/chell/ * License : Expat Programming Lang: Haskell Description : Haskell library for simple and intuitive automated testing Chell is a simple and intuitive library for automated testing. It natively supports assertion-based testing, and can use companion libraries such as libghc-chell-quickcheck to support more complex testing strategies. </pre> John Millikin 2012-05-24T14:00:33 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.general/173062 <pre>Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: John Millikin &lt;jmillikin&lt; at &gt;gmail.com&gt; * Package name : haskell-knob Version : 0.1.1 Upstream Author : John Millikin * URL : https://john-millikin.com/software/knob/ * License : Expat Programming Lang: Haskell Description : Haskell library for memory-backed handles Create memory-backed Handles, referencing virtual files. This is mostly useful for testing Handle-based APIs without having to interact with the filesystem. </pre> John Millikin 2012-05-24T13:59:14 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.general/173058 <pre>Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ron &lt;ron&lt; at &gt;debian.org&gt; * Package name : opus-tools Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : Xiph.Org * URL : http://www.xiph.org/ * License : 2-clause BSD Programming Lang: C Description : Opus codec command line tools This package provides the reference implementations of encoder and decoder utilities for libopus. People implementing their own support for Opus are encouraged to check their code for interoperability with these tools. </pre> Ron 2012-05-24T09:17:47 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.general/173056 <pre>Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Olivier Sallou &lt;osallou&lt; at &gt;debian.org&gt; * Package name : forester Version : 0.955 * URL : http://code.google.com/p/forester/ * License : LGPL Programming Lang: Java Description : library for phylogenomics and evolutionary biology research forester is a collection of open source libraries of Java software for phylogenomics and evolutionary biology research. For example, the tree viewer Archaeopteryx is based on forester. </pre> Olivier Sallou 2012-05-24T07:47:47 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.general/173055 <pre>Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Olivier Sallou &lt;osallou&lt; at &gt;debian.org&gt; * Package name : biojava3 Version : 3.0.4 Upstream Author : BioJava team * URL : http://www.biojava.org/ * License : LGPL Programming Lang: Java Description : Java API to develop tools for bioinformatics research rewrote from biojava1 BioJava is an open-source project dedicated to providing a Java framework for processing biological data. It includes objects for manipulating sequences, file parsers, DAS client and server support, access to BioSQL and Ensembl databases, and powerful analysis and statistical routines including a dynamic programming toolkit. . BioJava is provided by a vibrant community which meets annually at the Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC) that traditionally accompanies the Intelligent Systems in Molecular Biology (ISMB) meeting. Much like BioPerl, the employment of this library is valuable for everybody active in the field because of the many tricks of the trade one learns just by communicating on the mailing list. </pre> Olivier Sallou 2012-05-24T07:34:03 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.general/173054 <pre>Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Sergei Golovan &lt;sgolovan&lt; at &gt;debian.org&gt; * Package name : tktray Version : 1.3.9 Upstream Author : Anton Kovalenko &lt;anton&lt; at &gt;sw4me.com&gt; * URL : http://code.google.com/p/tktray/ * License : BSD Programming Lang: C Description : Freedesktop system tray icon support for Tcl/Tk on X11 Tktray is an extension that is able to create system tray icons. It follows http://www.freedesktop.org specifications. This protocol is supported by modern versions of KDE and GNOME panels, and by some other panel-like application. </pre> Sergei Golovan 2012-05-24T04:10:53 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.general/173050 <pre>Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Sergei Golovan &lt;sgolovan&lt; at &gt;debian.org&gt; * Package name : tkinspect Version : 5.1.6p10 Upstream Author : Sam Shen &lt;slshen&lt; at &gt;lbl.gov&gt;, John Robert Loverso &lt;john&lt; at &gt;loverso.southborough.ma.us&gt;, Pat Thoyts &lt;patthoyts&lt; at &gt;users.sourceforge.net&gt; * URL : http://tkcon.sourceforge.net/ * License : Public domain. Includes parts with BSD license Programming Lang: Tcl/Tk Description : Tk application inspector for developing in Tcl Tkinspect is a tool to permit one to inspect the contents of a separate running Tk application. It has views for the variables, arrays, procedures and other objects in the inspectee and communicates using the Tk send or tcllib comm commands. </pre> Sergei Golovan 2012-05-23T14:40:37 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.general/173046 <pre>Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: DebiChem Project &lt;debichem-devel&lt; at &gt;lists.alioth.debian.org&gt; * Package name : spglib Version : 1.0.8 Upstream Author : Atsushi Togo &lt;atz.togo&lt; at &gt;gmail.com&gt; * URL : http://spglib.sourceforge.net * License : BSDish Programming Lang: C Description : Crystal Symmetry Library Spglib is a library to find and handle crystal symmetries. . Features include: . * Identify space-group type * Find symmetry operations * Find a primitive cell * Search irreducible k-points * Refine crystal structure * Wyckoff position assignment </pre> Michael Banck 2012-05-20T18:35:54 Search the mailing list at Gmane query http://search.gmane.org/?group=$group=gmane.linux.debian.devel.general