Re: "Hijacking packages for fun and profit" BoF at DebConf

2012-07-20 Thread Bart Martens
On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 07:24:15PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > Hi folks, > Hello, I have not attended the "Hijacking packages for fun and profit" BoF at DebConf, but I would like to share some thoughts on what I read in Steve McIntyre's report. It's a good title, that draws attention. :-) >

Re: AArch64 planning BoF at DebConf

2012-07-20 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 02:12:41AM +0100, Wookey wrote: > tools POV). The one _good_ reason for using the aarch64 name is avoiding > accidental matches with arm* in various bits of configery so leaving > that alone probably makes sense despite the silly name. How much of the arm* silliness is the

Re: EFI BoF at DebConf

2012-07-20 Thread Steve Langasek
Hi Steve, Thanks for the summary of the EFI BoF. If you don't mind, I'm going to piggy-back on this to provide a bit more info about Secure Boot. Some of this is just expanding on your notes with clarifications; other bits are new information I've gleaned while attending the UEFI Summer Summit t

Re: AArch64 planning BoF at DebConf

2012-07-20 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, 21 Jul 2012, Wookey wrote: > Arm64 everywhere would have been neater but unless someone is > volunteering for a massive argument and changing upstream gcc and No way. it is difficult to do better at this kind of thing than Linus, and he has already said his piece :-p It won't be aarch64

Re: ARM port(s) BoF at DebConf

2012-07-20 Thread Wookey
+++ Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton [2012-07-20 21:27 +0100]: > On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 12:54 AM, Hideki Yamane wrote: > > As I've posted during DebConf(*), Maybe OpenBlocks can solve this problem. > > It has 2GB RAM, reliable production use and we can buy it NOW. > > > > *) http://lists.debian.o

Re: AArch64 planning BoF at DebConf

2012-07-20 Thread Wookey
+++ Henrique de Moraes Holschuh [2012-07-20 16:55 -0300]: > On Fri, 20 Jul 2012, Steve McIntyre wrote: > > Naming > > == > > > > Naming issues: ARM are calling the new 64-bit architecture > > AArch64. Other people don't like that and various other names have > > been proposed for use elsewhere

Re: [Arm-netbook] ARM port(s) BoF at DebConf

2012-07-20 Thread Nobuhiro Iwamatsu
Hi, I have a spec sheet to devices for English. I ask whether this can be distributed. Please wait. Nobuhiro 2012/7/21 Dr. David Alan Gilbert : > * Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton (l...@lkcl.net) wrote: >> On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 12:54 AM, Hideki Yamane wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > On Thu, 19 Jul 20

Re: debian-cd BoF at DebConf

2012-07-20 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hello, directing this mail to -dpkg@, which hopefully makes sense. Steve McIntyre (21/07/2012): > On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 09:01:21PM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > >Hi! > > > >On Wed, 2012-07-18 at 17:19:40 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > >> CD sizing problems > >> == > > > >> Ther

Re: [Arm-netbook] ARM port(s) BoF at DebConf

2012-07-20 Thread Dr. David Alan Gilbert
* Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton (l...@lkcl.net) wrote: > On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 12:54 AM, Hideki Yamane wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Thu, 19 Jul 2012 18:35:44 +0100 > > Steve McIntyre wrote: > >> buildds > >> === > >> > >> Both armel and armhf are doing well, covering ~96% of the archive. We > >

Re: debian-cd BoF at DebConf

2012-07-20 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 09:01:21PM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: >Hi! > >On Wed, 2012-07-18 at 17:19:40 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> CD sizing problems >> == > >> There has been much discussion about switching packages over to using >> xz compression instead of gzip by default, inc

Re: debian-cd BoF at DebConf

2012-07-20 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 03:01:37PM -0600, Paul Wise wrote: >On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 10:19 AM, Steve McIntyre wrote: > >> Here's a summary of what we discussed in the debian-cd BoF [1] last >> week (9th July). Thanks to the awesome efforts of the DebConf video >> team, the video of the session is a

EFI BoF at DebConf

2012-07-20 Thread Steve McIntyre
[ Please note the cross-post and Reply-To ] Hi folks, Here's a summary of what we discussed in the EFI BoF [1] last week (9th July). Thanks to the awesome efforts of the DebConf video team, the video of the session is already online [2] in case you missed it. I've also attached the Gobby notes th

Re: "Hijacking packages for fun and profit" BoF at DebConf

2012-07-20 Thread Kumar Appaiah
Dear debian-devel, On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 07:24:15PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > Here's a summary of what we discussed in the BoF [1] last week (12th > July). Thanks to the awesome efforts of the DebConf video team, the > video of the session is already online [2] in case you missed it. I've >

Re: ARM port(s) BoF at DebConf

2012-07-20 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 12:54 AM, Hideki Yamane wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, 19 Jul 2012 18:35:44 +0100 > Steve McIntyre wrote: >> buildds >> === >> >> Both armel and armhf are doing well, covering ~96% of the archive. We >> don't have any ARM server hardware yet, so we're stuck using >> developm

Re: AArch64 planning BoF at DebConf

2012-07-20 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 20 Jul 2012, Steve McIntyre wrote: > Naming > == > > Naming issues: ARM are calling the new 64-bit architecture > AArch64. Other people don't like that and various other names have > been proposed for use elsewhere. Debian/Ubuntu developers have already > picked the name "arm64" in dpk

"Hijacking packages for fun and profit" BoF at DebConf

2012-07-20 Thread Steve McIntyre
Hi folks, Here's a summary of what we discussed in the BoF [1] last week (12th July). Thanks to the awesome efforts of the DebConf video team, the video of the session is already online [2] in case you missed it. I've also attached the Gobby notes that were taken during the session. I'd like to ex

Bug#682245: ITP: libc++ -- LLVM C++ Standard library

2012-07-20 Thread Sylvestre Ledru
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Sylvestre Ledru * Package name: libc++ Version : 1.0~svn160132 Upstream Author : Many people (and no, not only Apple) * URL : http://libcxx.llvm.org, http://libcxxabi.llvm.org * License : BSD Programming Lang: C++ Des

Bug#682242: ITP: python-biom -- observation contingency tables for biological samples

2012-07-20 Thread Steffen Moeller
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Steffen Moeller * Package name: python-biom Version : 1.0.0 * URL : http://biom-format.org/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: Python Description : observation contingency tables for biological sampleS The B

Re: debian wiki BoF at DebConf

2012-07-20 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 02:01:04PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: ... > > i18n/l10n: Moin is not great at supporting these for page content. We > have proposed solutions to make this better: > > Proposal #1 http://wiki.debian.org/DebianWiki/I18n > > Proposal #2 http://wiki.debian.org/De

AArch64 planning BoF at DebConf

2012-07-20 Thread Steve McIntyre
[ Please note the cross-post and Reply-To ] Hi folks, Here's a summary of what we discussed in the AArch64 port planning BoF [1] last week (10th July). Thanks to the awesome efforts of the DebConf video team, the video of the session is already online [2] in case you missed it. I've also attached

Re: debian wiki BoF at DebConf

2012-07-20 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 02:01:04PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >[ Please note the cross-post and Reply-To ] > > Anti-spam > - > Much of the work we've done has been to deal with the ever-present > spam problem. The main thrust of that is to stop drive-by spammers > by making it harder

debian wiki BoF at DebConf

2012-07-20 Thread Steve McIntyre
[ Please note the cross-post and Reply-To ] Hi folks, Here's a summary of what we discussed in the debian wiki BoF [1] last week (13th July). Thanks to the awesome efforts of the DebConf video team, the video of the session is already online [2] in case you missed it. I've also attached the Gobby

Bug#682213: ITP: trimmomatic -- flexible read trimming tool for Illumina NGS data

2012-07-20 Thread Steffen Moeller
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Steffen Moeller * Package name: trimmomatic Version : 0.22 * URL : http://www.usadellab.org/cms/index.php?page=trimmomatic * License : GPL-3+ Programming Lang: Java Description : flexible read trimming tool for Illu

Re: MATE Desktop Environment in Debian

2012-07-20 Thread Dmitry Shachnev
I agree with Josselin here. There is no point in forking gconf and other libraries. Even worse, this will increase the incompatibility between different desktops. For example, an app making use of "gconftool-2" will not work when there's "mateconftool-2" in the system instead. If you want to fix a

Bug#682205: ITP: heasoft-fv -- General FITS file browser/editor/plotter with a gui

2012-07-20 Thread Ole Streicher
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ole Streicher * Package name: heasoft-fv Version : 5.3 Upstream Author : William Pence, Pan Chai * URL : http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/software/lheasoft/ftools/fv/ * License : MIT Programming Lang: tcl/tk, C Desc