Re: DM upload permission

2013-03-05 Thread Carlo Segre
a part is required. That is, your command would be: --- Archive: ftp.debian.org Uploader: Carlo Segre Action: dm Fingerprint: 8CCC1BA8590FF029D17C708FC1BCD3C72AA28B6B Allow: nexus --- Thanks, this is very helpful Note, you can al

DM upload permission

2013-03-04 Thread Carlo Segre
Hello All: I have been a sponsor for a DM's uploads of the nexus package and we have come across a new policy which defines a way of giving permission to a DM for a specific package. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2012/09/msg8.html I have studied the above thread and any

Bug#645835: ITP: python-wxmpl -- Painless matplotlib embedding in wxPython

2011-10-18 Thread Carlo Segre
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Carlo Segre * Package name: python-wxmpl Version : 2.0.0 Upstream Author : Carlo Segre * URL : http://csrri.iit.edu/~wxmpl * License : MIT/X Programming Lang: Python Description : Painless matplotlib embedding

Bug#592197: ITP: libterm-twiddle-perl -- Twiddles a thingy while-u-wait

2010-08-07 Thread Carlo Segre
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Carlo Segre * Package name: libterm-twiddle-perl Version : 2.71 Upstream Author : Scott Wiersdorf * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Term-Twiddle/ * License : Artistic Programming Lang: Perl Description

Bug#592190: ITP: libterm-sk-perl -- Perl extension for displaying a progress indicator on a terminal

2010-08-07 Thread Carlo Segre
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Carlo Segre * Package name: libterm-sk-perl Version : 0.06 Upstream Author : Klaus Eichner * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Term-Sk/ * License : Artistic Programming Lang: Perl Description : Perl extension

Bug#586938: ITP: flotr -- JavaScript plotting library based on the Prototype Framework

2010-06-23 Thread Carlo Segre
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Carlo Segre * Package name: flotr Version : 0.2 Upstream Author : Bas Wenneker * URL : http://code.google.com/p/flotr/ * License : MIT Programming Lang: JavaScript Description : plotting library for the

Re: Naming policy for Perl modules (mass bug filing)

2010-03-24 Thread Carlo Segre
On Wed, 24 Mar 2010, Stéphane Glondu wrote: Carlo Segre a écrit : 2. the ifeffit source package is contrib and cannot be built by the autobuilders because of its build time dependence on pgplot5. The latter is causing me much grief and needs to be solved before I work on consistency issues

Re: Naming policy for Perl modules (mass bug filing)

2010-03-23 Thread Carlo Segre
On Tue, 23 Mar 2010, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: Jozef Kutej writes: Ansgar Burchardt wrote: the Debian Perl Policy asks for packages for the Foo::Bar module to be Perl module packages *should* be named... :) "Non-conformance with guidelines denoted by should (or recommended) will generally

Re: definition of contrib & buildd inconsistency

2010-03-22 Thread Carlo Segre
Hi Marc: On Mon, 22 Mar 2010, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: Carlo Segre writes: An alternative which would remove the inconsistency is to make the decision that contrib packages will not be built by the officeial buildd network but have to be built as non-free packages a

Re: definition of contrib & buildd inconsistency

2010-03-21 Thread Carlo Segre
On Sun, 21 Mar 2010, Steve Langasek wrote: On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 04:37:25PM -0500, Carlo Segre wrote: * free packages which require contrib, non-free packages or packages which are not in our archive at all for compilation or execution, There is apparently an ambiguity here

definition of contrib & buildd inconsistency

2010-03-21 Thread Carlo Segre
Hello All: The definition of the contrib section of the archive reads [0] Examples of packages which would be included in contrib are: * free packages which require contrib, non-free packages or packages which are not in our archive at all for compilation or execution, There i

Re: Bits from the FTPMaster meeting

2009-11-18 Thread Carlo Segre
On Mon, 16 Nov 2009, Steffen Joeris wrote: On Mon, 16 Nov 2009 02:04:28 pm Carlo Segre wrote: On Sun, 15 Nov 2009, Joerg Jaspert wrote: The current "winning" opinion is to go with the source+throw away binaries route. We are close to being able to achieve this, it is simply that

Re: Bits from the FTPMaster meeting

2009-11-15 Thread Carlo Segre
On Sun, 15 Nov 2009, Joerg Jaspert wrote: The current "winning" opinion is to go with the source+throw away binaries route. We are close to being able to achieve this, it is simply that it has not yet been enabled. Before any version of this can be enabled, buildd autosigning needs to be imple

Bug#552476: ITP: libgraphics-gnuplotif-perl -- A dynamic Perl interface to gnuplot

2009-10-26 Thread Carlo Segre
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Carlo Segre * Package name: libgraphics-gnuplotif-perl Version : 1.5 Upstream Author : Dr.-Ing. Fritz Mehner * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Graphics-GnuplotIF/ * License : Artistic | GPL-1+ Programming Lang

Re: Release architectures

2009-10-07 Thread Carlo Segre
hi Andi: On Wed, 7 Oct 2009, Andreas Barth wrote: Hi, since our recent release update, things have been moving a bit. We'd like to give you the basic status of all our architectures for Squeeze, for details please see the individual mails (and "basic status" doesn't cover all details of cours

Building contrib packages

2009-05-10 Thread Carlo Segre
Hi All: I have been maintaining a contrib package which, unfortunately, depends on a non-free package, pgplot5, to be built. This invariably causes problems because contrib packages are autobuilt by the normal buildd network and some, not all, of the buildd machines do not include the non-fr

Re: ITH: xournal

2009-04-01 Thread Carlo Segre
Hi Charles: On Thu, 2 Apr 2009, Charles Plessy wrote: Thanks a lot for your action. Any chance to hijack into an existing packaging team ? I have no objection to comaintaining this, or even handing it off to a team. I am not sure I want to join another team though as I am a bit overcomm

ITH: xournal

2009-04-01 Thread Carlo Segre
Hi All: I am intending to hijack xournal. The current version has been NMUed for almost 1 year and the maintainer's (Mathieu Bouchard) email bounces. There is some urgency to this because the newest version of GTK in sid breaks the ability of xournal to read PDF files for annotation. This c

Re: Bug#517945: ITP: libxray-absorption-perl -- x-ray absorption data for the elements

2009-03-05 Thread Carlo Segre
Hi Andreas: On Tue, 3 Mar 2009, Andreas Tille wrote: On Mon, 2 Mar 2009, Carlo Segre wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Carlo Segre * Package name: libxray-absorption-perl Version : 2.0.1 Upstream Author : Bruce Ravel * URL : http://cars9

Bug#517947: ITP: libxray-spacegroup-perl -- symmetry operations for the crystal space groups

2009-03-02 Thread Carlo Segre
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Carlo Segre * Package name: libxray-spacegroup-perl Version : 0.1.1 Upstream Author : Bruce Ravel * URL : http://cars9.uchicago.edu/svn/libperlxray * License : Artistic Programming Lang: Perl Description

Bug#517946: ITP: libxray-scattering-perl -- x-ray scattering data for the elements

2009-03-02 Thread Carlo Segre
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Carlo Segre * Package name: libxray-scattering-perl Version : 0.2.2 Upstream Author : Bruce Ravel * URL : http://cars9.uchicago.edu/svn/libperlxray * License : Artistic Programming Lang: Perl Description : x

Bug#517945: ITP: libxray-absorption-perl -- x-ray absorption data for the elements

2009-03-02 Thread Carlo Segre
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Carlo Segre * Package name: libxray-absorption-perl Version : 2.0.1 Upstream Author : Bruce Ravel * URL : http://cars9.uchicago.edu/svn/libperlxray * License : Artistic Programming Lang: Perl Description : x

Bug#517943: ITP: libchemistry-formula-perl -- enumerate elements in a chemical formula

2009-03-02 Thread Carlo Segre
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Carlo Segre * Package name: libchemistry-formula-perl Version : 1.0.1 Upstream Author : Bruce Ravel * URL : http://cars9.uchicago.edu/svn/libperlxray * License : Artistic Programming Lang: Perl Description

Bug#492673: ITP: libregexp-optimizer-perl -- optimizes regular expressions

2008-07-27 Thread Carlo Segre
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Carlo Segre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libregexp-optimizer-perl Version : 0.15 Upstream Author : Dan Kogai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Regexp-Optimizer/ * License

Bug#492388: ITP: fox -- Free Objects for Xtallography

2008-07-25 Thread Carlo Segre
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Carlo Segre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: fox Version : 1.7.7.0 Upstream Author : Vincent Favre-Nicolin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://objcryst.sourceforge.net/Fox/FoxWiki * License : GPL Program

Bug#492376: ITP: libwwwbrowser-perl -- Platform independent means to start a WWW browser

2008-07-25 Thread Carlo Segre
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Carlo Segre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libwwwbrowser-perl Version : 2.23 Upstream Author : Slaven Rezic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://user.cs.tu-berlin.de/~eserte/src/perl/WWWBrowser/ * License

Re: pbuilder build with passing -sa option

2007-11-18 Thread Carlo Segre
On Sun, 18 Nov 2007, Jens Peter Secher wrote: On 17/11/2007, Piotr Roszatycki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I give up. I really don't know how to pass "-sa" option to dpkg-buildpackage when I use pbuilder build *.dsc I use eg. pdebuild --configfile ~/debian/stable-pbuilderrc --debbuildopts '-

Re: ITP: pgplot-perl -- PGPLOT Perl module

2007-09-17 Thread Carlo Segre
Hi again Gürkan: On Tue, 18 Sep 2007, Gürkan Sengün wrote: Hello Carlo I have no objection to working on this, being the maintainer of pgplot5. The problem is that there is a bug filed against pgplot5 because it doesn't properly support libpgplot-perl (pgplot-perl or formerly pgperl) [0]

Re: ITP: pgplot-perl -- PGPLOT Perl module

2007-09-06 Thread Carlo Segre
Hi: On Thu, 6 Sep 2007, Gunnar Wolf wrote: (added [EMAIL PROTECTED] to the Cc:s) Gürkan Sengün dijo [Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 11:36:41AM +0200]: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: pgplot-perl Please use libpgplot-perl, following the current policy for Perl packages. Consider

Re: Getting Debian to use less power?

2007-05-12 Thread Carlo Segre
On Sat, 12 May 2007, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: The tool is said to work better if the kernel is compiled with CONFIG_TIMER_STATS, and if the kernel is using the NO_HZ option available in linux 2.6.21. Will these options be enabled in 2.6.21? In 2.6.20, CONFIG_TIMER_STATS is not and renders

Re: Need help with RC #396817

2006-12-18 Thread Carlo Segre
On Mon, 18 Dec 2006, John Goerzen wrote: On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 10:55:48AM -0600, Carlo Segre wrote: On Mon, 18 Dec 2006, John Goerzen wrote: Hi, #396817 was reported back in November. Ian Lynagh, maintainer of GHC, and I both believe that the build was proceeding normally and that on the

Re: Need help with RC #396817

2006-12-18 Thread Carlo Segre
On Mon, 18 Dec 2006, John Goerzen wrote: Hi, #396817 was reported back in November. Ian Lynagh, maintainer of GHC, and I both believe that the build was proceeding normally and that on the platform in question, it is not unreasonable to expect it to take quite a bit of time to compile that fil

Re: Need help with RC #396817

2006-12-18 Thread Carlo Segre
On Mon, 18 Dec 2006, John Goerzen wrote: 2) At least build and upload this package? Hi John: I have it building now. I'll let you know the outcome. Carlo -- Carlo U. Segre -- Professor of Physics Associate Dean for Special Projects, Graduate College Illinois Institute of Technology Vo

Re: List of packages with problems wrt release

2006-12-15 Thread Carlo Segre
On Fri, 15 Dec 2006, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: Carlo Segre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> libtk-png-perl (U): in unstable (2.005-3) but not in testing. A request for removal (#389676) has been filed as this is now included in perl-tk. Carlo -- Carlo U. Segre -- Professor of Physics Associate De

Re: out-of-date non-free packages

2006-11-29 Thread Carlo Segre
On Wed, 29 Nov 2006, Andreas Barth wrote: Hi, as all of you should know, packages in non-free are not build by the normal autobuilders for legal reasons. However, if a non-free package exist on different architectures, it need to be current to allow testing migration. On the other hand, there

Re: Bug#397873: ITP: sixpack -- A full-featured package for XAS analysis

2006-11-11 Thread Carlo Segre
regor herrmann wrote: On Sat, 11 Nov 2006 02:45:31 -0600, Carlo Segre wrote: I would prefer, however, to keep the package name as "sixpack" rather than change it. Just FYI: There is a package called 'sixpack' containing a BibTeX editor [0] but it's only 1) in my private

Re: Bug#397873: ITP: sixpack -- A full-featured package for XAS analysis

2006-11-11 Thread Carlo Segre
On Sat, 11 Nov 2006, Charles Plessy wrote: If there is no technical concern, I would suggest that your binary would be named SixPACK, to match what is used on upstream's website. I would be rather reluctant to rename the sixpack binary of EMBOSS, as it is a software suite which is very command

Re: Bug#397873: ITP: sixpack -- A full-featured package for XAS analysis

2006-11-10 Thread Carlo Segre
, Charles Plessy wrote: Le Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 05:10:40PM -0600, Carlo Segre a écrit : Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Carlo Segre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: sixpack Hi, I am preparing a package for "EMBOSS", the European Molecular Biology Open Source Softw

Bug#397873: ITP: sixpack -- A full-featured package for XAS analysis

2006-11-09 Thread Carlo Segre
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Carlo Segre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: sixpack Version : 0.57 Upstream Author : Sam Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www-ssrl.slac.stanford.edu/~swebb/sixpack.htm * License : BSD-type Prog

Re: How should we deal with 'pointless-on-this-arch' packages?

2006-10-14 Thread Carlo Segre
On Sun, 15 Oct 2006, Charles Plessy wrote: The interest with debtags is that it allows to change the policy for a package without needing an upload or the intervention of the maintainer. This way, the decision of not building could be taken by the maintainer, and it could be reverted quickly by

Bug#373208: ITP: libstar-parser-perl -- STAR compliant data file parser for Perl

2006-06-13 Thread Carlo Segre
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Carlo Segre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libstar-parser-perl Version : 0.59 Upstream Author : Wolfgang Bluhm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://pdb.sdsc.edu/STAR/ * License : non-free Programmin

Bug#373207: ITP: ifeffit -- An interactive program for XAFS analysis

2006-06-13 Thread Carlo Segre
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Carlo Segre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: ifeffit Version : 1.2.9 Upstream Author : Matt Newville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://cars9.uchicago.edu/ifeffit/ * License : BSD-type Programming Lang

Bug#373211: ITP: horae -- interactive graphical processing and analysis of EXAFS data

2006-06-13 Thread Carlo Segre
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Carlo Segre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: horae Version : 062 Upstream Author : Bruce Ravel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://cars9.uchicago.edu/~ravel/software/packages/ * License : BSD-type Prog

Re: Use pbuilder, Luke... (Was: cleaning up lib*-dev packages?)

2006-05-14 Thread Carlo Segre
On Sun, 14 May 2006, Osamu Aoki wrote: On Sun, May 14, 2006 at 04:40:43PM +0200, Ondrej Sury wrote: ... e) it's difficult to install versions of packages not available from your regular sources.list. For example if you build a new (version of a) library package and then an application that uses

access to debian mirror pools

2005-09-20 Thread Carlo Segre
Hello All: I have noticed a behavior which I can't quite understand. I had noticed that some of my computers getting files from http.us.debian.org had consistently lower bandwidths than others pointed to the same source. I have investigated this by grabbing individual files with wget and I

Bug#310648: ITP: libchemistry-elements-perl -- Perl extension for working with Chemical Elements

2005-05-24 Thread Carlo Segre
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Carlo Segre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libchemistry-elements-perl Version : 0.91 Upstream Author : brian d foy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/B/BD/BDFOY/ * License : GP

Bug#309575: ITP: libtime-stopwatch-perl -- Use tied scalars as timers

2005-05-17 Thread Carlo Segre
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Carlo Segre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libtime-stopwatch-perl Version : 1.00 Upstream Author : Ilmari Karonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Time * License : GP

Bug#309574: ITP: libmath-combinatorics-perl -- Perform combinations and permutations on lists

2005-05-17 Thread Carlo Segre
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Carlo Segre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libmath-combinatorics-perl Version : 0.04 Upstream Author : Allen Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Math/ * License : GP

Bug#304291: ITP: libtk-splashscreen-perl -- Toplevel mega widget to display a splashscreen

2005-04-11 Thread Carlo Segre
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Carlo Segre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libtk-splashscreen-perl Version : 1.0 Upstream Author : Stephen O. Lidie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://cpan.perl.org/CPAN/authors/id/L/LU/LUSOL/ * License

Bug#304289: ITP: libtk-pod-perl -- Tk Pod browser widget with hypertext capability

2005-04-11 Thread Carlo Segre
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Carlo Segre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libtk-pod-perl Version : 0.9929 Upstream Author : Slaven Rezic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://cpan.perl.org/CPAN/authors/id/S/SR/SREZIC/ * License : GP

Bug#304288: ITP: libtk-histentry-perl -- Implements an entry widget with history

2005-04-11 Thread Carlo Segre
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Carlo Segre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libtk-histentry-perl Version : 0.42 Upstream Author : Slaven Rezic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://cpan.perl.org/CPAN/authors/id/S/SR/SREZIC/ * License : GP

Bug#304287: ITP: libtk-gbarr-perl -- Various Tk Perl widgets

2005-04-11 Thread Carlo Segre
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Carlo Segre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libtk-gbarr-perl Version : 2.06 Upstream Author : Slaven Rezic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://cpan.perl.org/CPAN/authors/id/S/SR/SREZIC/ * License : GP

Bug#302397: ITP: libmath-spline-perl -- Cubic spline interpolation of data

2005-03-31 Thread Carlo Segre
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Carlo Segre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libmath-spline-perl Version : 0.01 Upstream Author : John A.R. Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://search.cpan.org/authors/id/J/JA/JARW/ * License :

Re: cannot login in xdm anymore (upgrade potato -> potato)

2000-03-21 Thread Carlo Segre
g this on one of three machines which are presumabley set up in the same way, I am presuming that it is some incorrect configuration file somewhere. If anyone has an insight, I would appreciate it. My next move is to purge all X packages and reinstall... Carlo Segre Assoc. Prof. of Physics Illinois Institute of Technology