Bug#822289: ITP: golang-github-docker-go-events -- Composable event distribution for Go
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Tim Potter X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, pkg-go-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org * Package name: golang-github-docker-go-events Version : 0.0~git20160331.0.882f161-1 Upstream Author : Stephen Day and Andrea Luzzardi * URL : https://github.com/docker/go-events * License : Apache-2.0 Programming Lang: Go Description : Composable event distribution for Go The go-events package implements a composable event distribution package for Go. It was originally created to implement the notifications in Docker Registry 2, but is now used in other components of the Docker ecosystem. signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail
Re: Bug#822221: ITP: flipcoin -- flip an adjustable coin for random exit status
On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 02:45:59PM +0200, Jakub Wilk wrote:
> > fp = fopen("/dev/urandom", "rb");
> > if (fp == NULL) {
> > fprintf(stderr, "Error: Cannot open /dev/urandom.\n");
>
> The error message doesn't say what the error was, or what program caused
> this error.
While we are at it, instead of opening /dev/urandom, use the getrandom()
function if it's available. The latter has more chance of working in
chroots that don't have a /dev.
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Met vriendelijke groet / with kind regards,
Guus Sliepen
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Re: Bug#822221: ITP: flipcoin -- flip an adjustable coin for random exit status
On 22/04/16 14:48, Adam Borowski wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 11:11:39PM -0700, Rudi Cilibrasi wrote:
>> * Package name: flipcoin
>> * URL : https://github.com/rudi-cilibrasi/flipcoin
>> Description : flip an adjustable coin for random exit status
>>
>> This command-line utility can be used to simulate a coin flip to get
>> a random exit status. The probability of success is adjustable using
>> an optional command line parameter.
> [...]
>> This package is a useful core utility for shell scripts that need to
>> do things in a way that is decorrelated in time and infrequent. Usage is
>> simple at the shell prompt:
>>
>> if flipcoin ; then echo heads ; else echo tails ; fi
>
> Sorry, but I don't believe that someone writing shell scripts is likely to
> not know one of many ways to do this, be it $RANDOM, perl, awk, or, if you
> really want to require something non-essential, rolldice.
>
> Thus, please reconsider the point of packaging this.
>
>
> Meow!
>
Indeed. With bash:
flipcoin() { return $(($RANDOM % 2)); }
if flipcoin ; then echo heads ; else echo tails ; fi
:)
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Re: Bug#822221: ITP: flipcoin -- flip an adjustable coin for random exit status
* Anthony DeRobertis , 2016-04-22, 09:09: memset(&maxInt, 0xff, sizeof(maxInt)); "maxInt = -1" is would be a more obvious way to write it, IMHO. Both pale in comparison to UINT32_MAX, also found in . Meh. The advantage of the existing code is that it doesn't repeat the size of valInt/maxInt anywhere. If you were going to give op on this nice property, you might as well get rid of maxInt completely, and instead of: ((double) maxInt)+1.0 write: 0x1P32
Re: Bug#822221: ITP: flipcoin -- flip an adjustable coin for random exit status
On 04/22/2016 08:45 AM, Jakub Wilk wrote: memset(&maxInt, 0xff, sizeof(maxInt)); "maxInt = -1" is would be a more obvious way to write it, IMHO. Both pale in comparison to UINT32_MAX, also found in .
Bug#822246: ITP: qt5ct -- Qt5 configuration tool
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer" * Package name: qt5ct Version : 0.22 Upstream Author : Ilya Kotov , * URL : https://sourceforge.net/projects/qt5ct * License : BSD-2-clause Programming Lang: C++ Description : Qt5 configuration tool This program allows users to configure Qt5 settings like theme, fonts and icons under a desktop envrionment/window manager without a suitable Qt platform plugin.
Re: Bug#822221: ITP: flipcoin -- flip an adjustable coin for random exit status
On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 11:11:39PM -0700, Rudi Cilibrasi wrote: > * Package name: flipcoin > * URL : https://github.com/rudi-cilibrasi/flipcoin > Description : flip an adjustable coin for random exit status > > This command-line utility can be used to simulate a coin flip to get > a random exit status. The probability of success is adjustable using > an optional command line parameter. [...] > This package is a useful core utility for shell scripts that need to > do things in a way that is decorrelated in time and infrequent. Usage is > simple at the shell prompt: > > if flipcoin ; then echo heads ; else echo tails ; fi Sorry, but I don't believe that someone writing shell scripts is likely to not know one of many ways to do this, be it $RANDOM, perl, awk, or, if you really want to require something non-essential, rolldice. Thus, please reconsider the point of packaging this. Meow! -- A tit a day keeps the vet away.
Re: Bug#822221: ITP: flipcoin -- flip an adjustable coin for random exit status
Hi Rudi!
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* Rudi Cilibrasi , 2016-04-21, 23:11:
* Package name: flipcoin
Version : 1.0.0
Upstream Author : Rudi Cilibrasi
* URL : https://github.com/rudi-cilibrasi/flipcoin
Um, this page says "0 releases". Has 1.0.0 actually been released?
I'm an enthusiast of small programs that do one thing well. But I'd
expect a program which is that short to be perfectly polished, and this
one is not. Here's my review of this code:
if (argc > 1)
probability = atof(argv[1]);
No error handling... I'd expect to see an error message when the
probability cannot be parsed, or it is out of range would be helpful, or
there are too many arguments.
memset(&maxInt, 0xff, sizeof(maxInt));
"maxInt = -1" is would be a more obvious way to write it, IMHO.
fp = fopen("/dev/urandom", "rb");
if (fp == NULL) {
fprintf(stderr, "Error: Cannot open /dev/urandom.\n");
The error message doesn't say what the error was, or what program
caused this error.
exit(2);
This exit code should be documented in the manpage.
if (fread(&valInt, 1, sizeof(valInt), fp) != sizeof(valInt)) {
fprintf(stderr, "Error: Cannot read from /dev/urandom.\n");
exit(2);
Same problems are above.
return ((probability * ((double) maxInt)+1.0) < valInt);
This is off-by-one, making the return value slightly biased towards 0.
Both COPYING and LICENSE exist and they are identical. Surely one would
be enough? :-)
There is no test suite...
All in all, I don't think this is mature enough to be uploaded to Debian
at this time.
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Jakub Wilk
Bug#822241: ITP: python-ufo2otf -- Take UFO font sources and generate OTF’s and webfonts
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Pierre Rudloff * Package name: python-ufo2otf Version : 0.2.2 Upstream Author : Eric Schrijver * URL : https://github.com/fonts/ufo2otf * License : BSD Programming Lang: Python Description : Take UFO font sources and generate OTF’s and webfonts Ufo2otf is a command line utility that takes UFO font sources and generates OTF’s and webfonts. This package could be useful in order to build packages for fonts that are distributed in UFO format. It is also quite useful for web developpers that need to build webfonts.
Bug#822226: ITP: pyzo -- Interactive editor for scientific Python
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ghislain Antony Vaillant * Package name: pyzo Version : 4.1 Upstream Author : the Pyzo development team * URL : http://www.pyzo.org/ * License : BSD Programming Lang: Python Description : Interactive editor for scientific Python Long-Description: Pyzo is a free and open-source computing environment based on Python. If you’re used to e.g. Matlab, Pyzo can be considered a free alternative. Essentially, Pyzo is a Python IDE, that plays well with conda to manage your Python packages (though it works with any Python interpreter), and has a website to help newcomers on their way. The IDE is aimed at interactivity and simplicity, and consists of an editor, a shell, and a set of tools to help the programmer in various ways. This project results in the merge of the pyzolib and iep projects, which are both packaged and currently maintained by myself under the Debian Science umbrella. Once the new pyzo application is packaged, both iep and pyzolib should be removed, since they are no longer actively maintained upstream.
