Re: how to add small console application to debian linux distribution?

Hi, it's nice that you want to make the software available for others, but this task is simply way to simple to have a special package for it. The whole thing can be done with a few shell commands, so there is no need for a tool in my opinion. For example a perl oneliner doing the line

Re: Pimp your shell - Debian developer tips?

On 5/27/20 9:06 PM, Otto Kekäläinen wrote: > Hello! > > Do we have Debian devs here who have pimped their shell heavily with custom > prompts, colors, command line fonts, shell window title hacks, perhaps > using zsh etc? Have you written blogs about you experiences, can you share > some good

Bug#950922: ITP: bustools -- program for manipulating BUS files for single cell RNA-Seq datasets

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alexandre Mestiashvili X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: bustools Version : 0.40.0 Upstream Author : Páll Melsted * URL : https://bustools.github.io/ * License : BSD Programming Lang: C++

Re: Difficult Packaging Practices (OT)

On 5/28/19 9:48 AM, Thomas Dettbarn wrote: > Hello. > > > This is slightly off-topic, and I have not been on this mailinglist > since this thread started. Nevertheless, I would like to express my > support for changing the packaging practices. > > Over the last two weeks, I tried creating ports

Re: Consensus Call: Do We Want to Require or Recommend DH; comments by 2019-06-16

On 5/27/19 6:29 AM, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Sun, May 26, 2019 at 07:28:55PM +0200, Vincent Bernat wrote: >>> We "uphold this reputation" by maintaining many packages, which is >>> good. >> >> Do we? I am now using nix to get packages for stuff not in Debian. Our >> package count is

Bug#927419: Subject: ITP: libtest-mockdatetime-perl -- mock DateTime->now calls during tests

Package: wnpp Owner: Alexandre Mestiashvili Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libtest-mockdatetime-perl Version : 0.02-1 Upstream Author : Wolfgang Kinkeldei * URL :

Bug#924749: ITP: hd-idle -- Spin down idle [USB] hard disks

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alex Mestiashvili * Package name: hd-idle Version : 1.05 Upstream Author : Christian Mueller * URL : http://hd-idle.sourceforge.net/ * License : GPLv2 Programming Lang: C Description : Spin down idle [USB] hard

Re: Potentially insecure Perl scripts

On 1/24/19 2:40 AM, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2019-01-23 17:23:10 +0100, Alex Mestiashvili wrote: >> On 1/23/19 4:44 PM, Vincent Lefevre wrote: >>> On 2019-01-23 15:32:00 +, Ian Jackson wrote: >>>> This is completely mad and IMO the bug is in perl, not in al

Re: Potentially insecure Perl scripts

On 1/23/19 6:23 PM, Colin Watson wrote: > On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 06:09:39PM +0100, Alex Mestiashvili wrote: >> On 1/23/19 5:31 PM, Colin Watson wrote: >>> On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 05:23:10PM +0100, Alex Mestiashvili wrote: >>>> On 1/23/19 4:44 PM, Vincent Lefevre wrot

Re: Potentially insecure Perl scripts

On 1/23/19 5:31 PM, Colin Watson wrote: > On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 05:23:10PM +0100, Alex Mestiashvili wrote: >> On 1/23/19 4:44 PM, Vincent Lefevre wrote: >>> I agree that it would be better to drop this "feature" of Perl. >>> It is probably never used, and pro

Re: Potentially insecure Perl scripts

On 1/23/19 4:44 PM, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2019-01-23 15:32:00 +, Ian Jackson wrote: >> This is completely mad and IMO the bug is in perl, not in all of the >> millions of perl scripts that used <> thinking it was a sensible thing >> to write. > > I agree that it would be better to drop

Re: Potentially insecure Perl scripts

On 1/23/19 2:05 PM, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > Hi, > > I've just reported > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=920269 > > against gropdf (also reported upstream to bug-groff), about the use of > the insecure null filehandle "<>" in Perl, which can lead to arbitrary > command

Bug#902010: ITP: krop -- tool to crop PDF files

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alex Mestiashvili X-Debbugs-Cc: ames...@rsh2.donotuse.de, debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: krop Version : 0.5.0 Upstream Author : Armin Straub * URL : https://github.com/arminstraub/krop * License : GPLv3

Re: problems in gjots2 and Debian

On 04/18/2018 05:01 PM, The Wanderer wrote: > On 2018-04-18 at 10:53, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > >> On Wed, 2018-04-18 at 10:45 -0400, The Wanderer wrote >> >>> On 2018-04-18 at 05:55, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > But that didn't happen, unless you put different meaning into Maintainer

Re: Default page view for salsa repositories

On 01/18/2018 12:15 PM, Alexander Wirt wrote: > On Thu, 18 Jan 2018, Arturo Borrero Gonzalez wrote: > >> On 18 January 2018 at 11:15, Alex Mestiashvili <ames...@rsh2.donotuse.de> >> wrote: >>> Hi All, >>> >>> while browsing through salsa.debi

Default page view for salsa repositories

Hi All, while browsing through salsa.debian.org packages I got a feeling that displaying upstream's Readme by default is not exactly relevant to Debian packages. I guess it would make more sense do display d/Readme.source if available or d/changelog instead. Or even something more advanced like

Re: Is missing SysV-init support a bug?

On 12/31/2017 07:19 PM, Michael Biebl wrote: > Am 30.12.2017 um 14:27 schrieb Alex Mestiashvili: >> On 12/30/2017 01:46 PM, Michael Biebl wrote: >>> Am 30.12.2017 um 13:02 schrieb Alex Mestiashvili: >>> >>>> There are some cases when using sysvini

Re: Is missing SysV-init support a bug?

On 12/30/2017 01:46 PM, Michael Biebl wrote: > Am 30.12.2017 um 13:02 schrieb Alex Mestiashvili: > >> There are some cases when using sysvinit is preferred over systemd. >> AFAIK there is no way drop some capabilities with systemd geared linux >> containers while it i

Re: Is missing SysV-init support a bug?

On 08/26/2016 01:47 AM, Robert Edmonds wrote: > Russ Allbery wrote: >> Robert Edmonds writes: >> >>> However, that was two years ago. How long should we be expected to >>> continue maintaining sysvinit scripts? >> >> My understanding of the feeling of the TC at the time is

Re: Help needed for #871234 FTBFS with GCC-7: error: type/value mismatch

On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 8:44 PM, Jeff Epler <jep...@unpythonic.net> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 05, 2017 at 01:55:58PM +0200, Alex Mestiashvili wrote: > > GHash.hh:91:44: error: type/value mismatch at argument 1 in template > > parameter list for 'template struct std::hash' > >

Help needed for #871234 FTBFS with GCC-7: error: type/value mismatch

Any help is greatly appreciated, here it the gcc's complain: In file included from gff.h:12:0, from gtf_tracking.h:12, from bundles.h:22, from replicates.h:10, from common.cpp:28: GHash.hh: In member function 'GHash::GHashEntry*

Can "PDB" license be considered free ?

Hi All, I am going to package a software with pdb files in the test suite and I wonder if the license below can be considered free. ftp://ftp.wwpdb.org/pub/pdb/advisory.txt http://www.rcsb.org/pdb/static.do?p=general_information/about_pdb/policies_references.html Thank you, Alex

Re: hdparm needs a new maintainer

On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 8:24 PM, Tobias Frost <t...@debian.org> wrote: > Am Dienstag, den 01.03.2016, 19:57 +0100 schrieb Alex Mestiashvili: > > On 03/01/2016 06:11 PM, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > On Tue, 01 Mar 2016, Alex Mestiashv

Re: hdparm needs a new maintainer

On 03/01/2016 06:11 PM, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Hello, > > On Tue, 01 Mar 2016, Alex Mestiashvili wrote: >> As there are at least 3 persons ( including me :) ) interesting in the >> package, I think it will be a good use case for a collab-maint repository. >> Furt

Re: hdparm needs a new maintainer

On 03/01/2016 10:13 AM, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Hello, > > hdparm is a popular package which has been recently orphaned (see > #816168). It provides an udeb so it might be needed/useful in the context > of debian-installer too. There are multiple reverse dependencies too. > > There are 4 RC

Re: PAM module packaging assistance

Hi, On 01/21/2016 07:54 AM, Karsten Rage wrote: > As stated here: > https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/distribute-deb/distribute-deb.html#packaging-thirdparty If you plan to get the package to Debian, I think the better place to start would be this link:

Re: Bug#787739: ITP: plip -- fully automated protein-ligand interaction profiler

On 06/05/2015 03:04 PM, Geert Stappers wrote: On Fri, Jun 05, 2015 at 02:08:37PM +0200, Simon Richter wrote: On 05.06.2015 11:25, Alex Mestiashvili wrote: This might be confusing to old people. PLIP is a protocol for transporting IP packets over the parallel port. I agree that the name

Re: Bug#787739: ITP: plip -- fully automated protein-ligand interaction profiler

On 06/04/2015 11:35 PM, Simon Richter wrote: Hi, On 04.06.2015 17:21, Alexandre Mestiashvili wrote: * Package name: plip This might be confusing to old people. PLIP is a protocol for transporting IP packets over the parallel port. Simon Hi Simon, I agree that the name is a bit

Bug#779014: ITP: subread -- toolkit for processing next-gen sequencing data

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alexandre Mestiashvili mailatgo...@gmail.com X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-...@lists.debian.org * Package name: subread Version : 1.4.6-p1 Upstream Author : shi at wehi dot edu dot au * URL :

Bug#751846: ITP: pyscanfcs -- data analysis software for perpendicular line scanning FCS

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alexandre Mestiashvili a...@biotec.tu-dresden.de * Package name: pyscanfcs Version : 0.2.2 Upstream Author : Paul Mueller paul.mueller{at}biotec.tu-dresden.de * URL : http://paulmueller.github.io/PyScanFCS * License :

Re: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

On 06/03/2014 01:38 PM, Mike Gabriel wrote: Dear all, the MATE Packaging Team is proud to announce that MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian. Finally!, actually I've been using mate-desktop since Debian dropped Gnome2 ( it was 1.4 at that time as far as I remember ). Thank you!

Re: Debian default desktop environment

My mother is using Debian 6 with Gnome 2. I don’t know if I will ever update this system. Gnome 3 is not a solution, and I’m not interested in teaching XFCE. Shade and sweet water! Stephan There is mate-desktop - http://mate-desktop.org/. and it is partially in Debian as far as I see.

Re: gnome is completely f^Mmessed up

On 06/08/2012 09:15 AM, Norbert Preining wrote: Hi everyone, is this only me or do I have the feeling that we are going down the trench with Gnome? Repeatedly: - first login: nautilus segfaults in libnautilus-fileroller.so after log out and log in it sometimes works starting it manually

Accepted libpam-abl 0.4.1-1 (source amd64)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 10:14:22 +0200 Source: libpam-abl Binary: libpam-abl Architecture: source amd64 Version: 0.4.1-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Alex Mestiashvili a...@biotec.tu-dresden.de Changed-By: Alex

Re: support for installing unconfigured systems (VM images, Debian Live images, preinstalled mobile/tablet images)

On 08/13/2011 06:15 PM, Colin Watson wrote: On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 02:55:51PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: There is a new network device naming scheme that uses physical location (slot number or firmware-provided port number) to name PCI network devices. So far this is implemented in

Accepted seq-gen 1.3.2-1 (source amd64)

Changed-By: Alex Mestiashvili a...@biotec.tu-dresden.de Description: seq-gen- simulate the evolution of nucleotide or amino acid sequences Closes: 617340 Changes: seq-gen (1.3.2-1) unstable; urgency=low . * Initial release (Closes: #617340) Checksums-Sha1

Accepted transtermhp 2.07-1 (source amd64)

...@lists.alioth.debian.org Changed-By: Alex Mestiashvili a...@biotec.tu-dresden.de Description: transtermhp - find rho-independent transcription terminators in bacterial genom Closes: 614382 Changes: transtermhp (2.07-1) unstable; urgency=low . * Initial release (Closes: #614382) Checksums-Sha1