Re: [Idea] Debian User Repository? (Not simply mimicing AUR)

2019-04-08 Thread Mo Zhou
nt (virtually) zero-overhead naive prototype, still allows the reuse of existing debian packaging scripts and documentations. Plus, letting users write PKGBUILD doesn't help them learn Debian packaging at all... On Mon, Apr 08, 2019 at 03:29:12PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Sun, Apr 7, 2019 at

Re: [Idea] Debian User Repository? (Not simply mimicing AUR)

2019-04-07 Thread Mo Zhou
Hi, As you wish, I added a disclaimer to the toolkit, and replaced every single "Debian" keyword in the repo with "D**ian", except for those in disclaimer. ``` Everything included in this repository is totoally unrelated to the Debian Project, or any OFFICIAL Debian development. Debian Project is

Re: [Idea] Debian User Repository? (Not simply mimicing AUR)

2019-04-07 Thread Mo Zhou
overhead. If I were a rookie, I'd really like single-file specifications which allows simple copy&pasting. On Mon, Apr 08, 2019 at 04:54:51AM +, Mo Zhou wrote: > On Sun, Apr 07, 2019 at 04:31:24PM +0200, Jonathan Carter wrote: > > +1, it's a good idea and I've th

Re: [Idea] Debian User Repository? (Not simply mimicing AUR)

2019-04-07 Thread Mo Zhou
On Sun, Apr 07, 2019 at 04:31:24PM +0200, Jonathan Carter wrote: > +1, it's a good idea and I've thought of it before as well. Nice! > Reading some of the initial replies to your post, it seems like people > don't entirely understand what you mean by an AUR-like service. This > would definitely

Re: [Idea] Debian User Repository? (Not simply mimicing AUR)

2019-04-07 Thread Mo Zhou
asn’t joined Debian yet... > > Ondrej -- Ondřej Surý > > > On 7 Apr 2019, at 15:26, Mo Zhou wrote: > > > > Can we implement it?

Re: [Idea] Debian User Repository? (Not simply mimicing AUR)

2019-04-07 Thread Mo Zhou
On Sun, Apr 07, 2019 at 10:05:35PM +0800, Shengjing Zhu wrote: > > Why not just start this as a personal project? And prove it works. This is going to be a non-trivial initial work. On a non-business and free-software basis, listen to the others first would be very helpful. Positive feedbacks alw

Re: [Idea] Debian User Repository? (Not simply mimicing AUR)

2019-04-07 Thread Mo Zhou
Hi, This single sentence is quite ambiguous to non-native english speakers. At the first glance I interpreted the sentence as "This will only lead to flamewars" due to the meaning of bikeshed[1]. However, I got a hint from a fellow developer and learned that "Bikeshed" has its own meaning unde

[Idea] Debian User Repository? (Not simply mimicing AUR)

2019-04-07 Thread Mo Zhou
Hi folks, The absense of a centralized, informal Debian package repository where trusted users could upload their own packaging scripts has been long-forgotten. As an inevitable result, many user packaging scripts exist in the wild, scattered like stars in the sky, with varied packaging quality. T

Re: is Wayland/Weston mature enough to be the default desktop choice in Buster?

2019-04-05 Thread Mo Zhou
Hi, > I think the default should be reconsidered. I second that since I always refuse to use Wayland, due to 1. Gnome's keyboard configuration under wayland is definitely rubbish. I need extremely high keyboard repeat rate and short latency: xset r rate 160 160 The fastest repeat ra

Bug#925534: ITP: jsonnet -- The data templating language

2019-03-26 Thread Mo Zhou
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mo Zhou * Package name: jsonnet Version : x.y.z Upstream Author : Google * URL : https://github.com/google/jsonnet * License : Apache-2.0 Programming Lang: C++, Python Description : The data templating language

Re: Bug#925288: ITP: diff-so-fancy -- Good-lookin' diffs. Actually… nah… The best-lookin' diffs.

2019-03-23 Thread Mo Zhou
control: reassign -1 git control: severity -1 wishlist control: retitle -1 please privde separated binary package for diff-highlight On Sat, Mar 23, 2019 at 10:51:14AM +, Simon McVittie wrote: > On Sat, 23 Mar 2019 at 07:41:06 +0000, Mo Zhou wrote: > > In fact the diff-highlight

Re: Bug#925288: ITP: diff-so-fancy -- Good-lookin' diffs. Actually… nah… The best-lookin' diffs.

2019-03-23 Thread Mo Zhou
Hello guys, To my surprise multiple people expressed their interest in productivity-friendly diff highlighting. So let me write a brief summary on this topic, after some investigation. Mattia told me privately about the alternative of diff-so-fancy: diff a b | colordiff | diff-highlight | les

Bug#925288: ITP: diff-so-fancy -- Good-lookin' diffs. Actually… nah… The best-lookin' diffs.

2019-03-22 Thread Mo Zhou
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mo Zhou * Package name: diff-so-fancy Version : 1.2.5 Upstream Author : * URL : https://github.com/so-fancy/diff-so-fancy * License : MIT Programming Lang: Perl Description : Good-lookin' diffs. Actually

Re: How to deal with meaningless SOVERSION bumps from upstream?

2019-03-21 Thread Mo Zhou
Hi, I realized that it's too late to ask the upstream to revert the SONAME bump. And I decided to bump the soversion after the Buster release. On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 06:49:39PM +0100, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > On 3/19/19 2:25 AM, Mo Zhou wrote: > > Hello guys, > > >

How to deal with meaningless SOVERSION bumps from upstream?

2019-03-18 Thread Mo Zhou
Hello guys, I'm talking about the src:double-conversion package (popcon >= 70k), and a choice for the post-Buster stage. The upstream doesn't follow semantic versioning convention at all. Recently they have changed the SOVERSION to 3: https://github.com/google/double-conversion/commit/4199ef3d456

Bug#924647: ITP: gpustat -- just less than nvidia-smi

2019-03-15 Thread Mo Zhou
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mo Zhou * Package name: gpustat Version : 0.5.0 Upstream Author : https://github.com/wookayin * URL : https://github.com/wookayin/gpustat * License : expat Programming Lang: py Description : just less than nvidia

Bug#924645: ITP: python-pynvml -- Python3 bindings to the NVIDIA Management Library

2019-03-15 Thread Mo Zhou
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mo Zhou * Package name: python-pynvml Version : 7.352.0 Upstream Author : NVIDIA * URL : * License : BSD-3-Clause Programming Lang: Description : Python3 bindings to the NVIDIA Management Library https

Support status for isolation-machine feature from Debian Infra?

2019-03-08 Thread Mo Zhou
Hi folks, As we know the Debian CI Infrastructure, which runs autopkgtest upon relevant package updates to help us improve distribution quality. However, it still doesn't support the isolation-machine feature, which associates to tests that require interaction with the kernel, such as kernel modul

Re: Tell me about your salsa experience

2019-03-06 Thread Mo Zhou
Hi Alexander, On Wed, Mar 06, 2019 at 07:05:34PM +0100, Alexander Wirt wrote: > Thats where you come in, please tell me how tools like salsa, alioth, > git, tracker and so on changed to way you work. I want to know everything, > the good, the bad and so on. I started to use Alioth since 2014 an

Bug#923027: ITP: python-fire -- library for automatically generating command line interfaces (CLIs) from absolutely any Python object.

2019-02-23 Thread Mo Zhou
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mo Zhou * Package name: python-fire Version : 0.1.3 Upstream Author : google * URL : https://github.com/google/python-fire * License : apache-2 Programming Lang: Python Description : library for automatically

Bug#922952: ITP: simdjson -- Parsing gigabytes of JSON per second

2019-02-22 Thread Mo Zhou
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mo Zhou * Package name: simdjson Version : git master Upstream Author : Daniel Lemire * URL : https://github.com/lemire/simdjson * License : Apache-2 Programming Lang: C++ Description : Parsing gigabytes of JSON

Re: IBM POWER9 SIMD support? (Was: SIMDebian: ...)

2019-02-16 Thread Mo Zhou
Hi Kingsley, On Sat, Feb 16, 2019 at 11:43:46AM -0800, Kingsley G. Morse Jr. wrote: > My understanding is IBMs "POWER9" CPUs > > 1.) have SIMD instructions[1] and > > 2.) are used by the new, and very cool, open > *hardware* Talos II workstations[2], which > > 3.) already r

Bug#922002: ITP: gotop -- terminal based graphical activity monitor inspired by gtop and vtop

2019-02-10 Thread Mo Zhou
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mo Zhou * Package name: gotop Version : 2.0.1 Upstream Author : Caleb Bassi * URL : https://github.com/cjbassi/gotop * License : AGPL-3.0 Programming Lang: Go Description : terminal based graphical activity

Re: SIMDebian: Debian Partial Fork with Radical ISA Baseline

2019-02-08 Thread Mo Zhou
On Sat, Feb 09, 2019 at 01:14:43PM +0800, Benda Xu wrote: > Hi Mo, > > Very interesting initiative. I understand it will Intel-specific for > the moment. What is your vision in opitmizing with AMD CPUs? Thanks for your interest. This project didn't mention AMD CPU because I have no experience a

Re: SIMDebian: Debian Partial Fork with Radical ISA Baseline

2019-02-08 Thread Mo Zhou
Hi Drew, On Sat, Feb 09, 2019 at 01:07:47PM +1100, Drew Parsons wrote: > On 2019-02-09 03:25, Mo Zhou wrote: > > I think it would be more constructive to provide arch-specific packages for > eigen/blas etc on amd64 which Conflict/Replace/Provide the standard > packages. >

SIMDebian: Debian Partial Fork with Radical ISA Baseline

2019-02-08 Thread Mo Zhou
Hi folks, For most programs the "-march=native" option is not expected to bring any significant performance improvement. However for some scientific applications this proposition doesn't hold. When I was creating the tensorflow debian package, I observed a significant performance gap between gener

Re: Is multiple-layers of alternatives a good thing to users?

2019-02-04 Thread Mo Zhou
Hi Guus, On Mon, Feb 04, 2019 at 07:55:41AM +0100, Guus Sliepen wrote: > > libblis.so.2 libblis2 #MINVER# > > If the ABI and API are the same for all variants, a much better > solutions seems to me to have a single libblis2 that can switch at > runtime between the different variants, perhaps usi

Re: Is multiple-layers of alternatives a good thing to users?

2019-02-03 Thread Mo Zhou
Hi Ian and Thibaut, Inspired by Thibaut's comment, I worked out a good solution for the co-installation problem, which only results in a single layer of alternatives. Thibaut's proposed layout: > Package: libblis2-openmp, Provides: libblas.so.3, libblis.so.2 > Package: libblis2-pthread, Prov

Is multiple-layers of alternatives a good thing to users?

2019-01-31 Thread Mo Zhou
Hi devel, A user suggested[1] that the 6 variants[2] of BLIS should be co-installable. However, making them co-installable would result in multiple layers of alternatives in the update-alternatives system and will possibly confuse users, as discussed in [3]. I wrote this mail in case anyone has a

Re: [Pkg-julia-devel] julia_1.0.0-1_amd64.changes REJECTED

2018-12-20 Thread Mo Zhou
Hi, On Thu, Dec 20, 2018 at 09:01:06PM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: > > One of Julia's tests checks this, and hence autopkgtests fail if debug > > symbols are missing from sys.so, which is compiled from .jl scripts, not > > C/CXX source. > > This could be also interpreted as "this test is broken".

Re: [Pkg-julia-devel] julia_1.0.0-1_amd64.changes REJECTED

2018-12-20 Thread Mo Zhou
Hi, On Thu, Dec 20, 2018 at 09:29:15PM +0100, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > Hi, > > Mo Zhou writes: > > Another fortnight has passed. Any update? > > Sorry for taking so long; I wanted to put this on our meeting agenda, > but currently don't find much time... > >

Re: [Pkg-julia-devel] julia_1.0.0-1_amd64.changes REJECTED

2018-12-20 Thread Mo Zhou
") to NEW queue. Only in this way can I get rid of the fear that Julia wouldn't enter Buster in time... Sigh... On Mon, Dec 17, 2018 at 12:38:25PM +, Mo Zhou wrote: > Hi, > > Another fortnight has passed. Any update? > > I've just uploaded Julia 1.0.3 to the N

Re: [Pkg-julia-devel] julia_1.0.0-1_amd64.changes REJECTED

2018-12-17 Thread Mo Zhou
55PM +0000, Mo Zhou wrote: > Hi Bastian, > > I've uploaded julia_1.0.2-1 to unstable (NEW) yesterday. There are > already six uploads being piled up in NEW. These uploads already have > been tested by Ubuntu devel extensively, and are suitable for the > Buster release. &

Bug#916514: ITP: gym -- A toolkit for developing and comparing reinforcement learning algorithms.

2018-12-15 Thread Mo Zhou
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mo Zhou * Package name: gym Version : 0.10.9 Upstream Author : OpenAI * URL : https://gym.openai.com/ * License : MIT/Expat Programming Lang: Python Description : A toolkit for developing and comparing

Re: python3-tensorflow; lintian tag for pretrained neural net

2018-12-10 Thread Mo Zhou
Hi -science and -devel, this section is for -science As said by Yunqiang, tensorflow itself is a very complex system and it is even worse that we have to write our own build system for it. Our current build system for Tensorflow 1.X (in e

Bug#915979: ITP: cpuinfo -- CPU INFOrmation library

2018-12-08 Thread Mo Zhou
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mo Zhou * Package name: cpuinfo Version : git HEAD Upstream Author : PyTorch developers * URL : https://github.com/pytorch/cpuinfo * License : BSD-2-Clause Programming Lang: C Description : CPU INFOrmation

Re: [Pkg-julia-devel] julia_1.0.0-1_amd64.changes REJECTED

2018-11-30 Thread Mo Zhou
Hi Bastian, I've uploaded julia_1.0.2-1 to unstable (NEW) yesterday. There are already six uploads being piled up in NEW. These uploads already have been tested by Ubuntu devel extensively, and are suitable for the Buster release. I totally understand that for traditional C/C++ shared object, str

Bug#915011: ITP: onnx -- Open Neural Network Exchange

2018-11-29 Thread Mo Zhou
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mo Zhou * Package name: onnx Version : 1.3.0 Upstream Author : Facebook and Microsoft * URL : https://onnx.ai/ * License : Expat Programming Lang: C++, Python Description : Open Neural Network Exchange Open

Re: RFC: Naming convention for ILP64 variant of BLAS/LAPACK

2018-10-23 Thread Mo Zhou
On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 02:12:16PM +, Mo Zhou wrote: > (1) bin:libblas3 from src:lapack > (2) bin:libatlas3-base from src:atlas > (3) bin:libopenblas-base from src:openblas > (4) bin:libblis1 from src:blis [WIP] > (5) bin:libmkl-rt from src:intel-mkl

Re: RFC: Naming convention for ILP64 variant of BLAS/LAPACK

2018-10-23 Thread Mo Zhou
100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > On Mon, 2018-10-22 at 15:07 +, Mo Zhou wrote: > > > > Here are some references: > > > > > > > > 1. > > > > https://software.intel.com/en-us/mkl-linux-developer-guide-using-the-ilp64-interface-vs-lp64-interf

Re: RFC: Naming convention for ILP64 variant of BLAS/LAPACK

2018-10-23 Thread Mo Zhou
On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 07:58:38PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 07:55:10PM +0200, Sébastien Villemot wrote: > > For BLAS/LAPACK implementations implemented in C, like OpenBLAS, they > > will be compiled using LP64, and not ILP64. Only integers exposed > > through the interf

Re: RFC: Naming convention for ILP64 variant of BLAS/LAPACK

2018-10-23 Thread Mo Zhou
On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 09:57:56PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > > Proposal: > > > > * The "-ilp64" postfix should be appended to the SONAME of all the new > > shared objects that provide ILP64 interface. For example: > > > > libblas.so.3 (LP64) -> libblas-ilp64.so.3 (ILP64) > > > >

Re: RFC: Naming convention for ILP64 variant of BLAS/LAPACK

2018-10-22 Thread Mo Zhou
Hi Wookey and Bastian, On Sun, Oct 21, 2018 at 06:51:16PM +0100, Wookey wrote: > On 2018-10-21 17:16 +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > > Hi > > > > On Sun, Oct 21, 2018 at 09:51:15AM +, Mo Zhou wrote: > > > about naming convention of SONAME and package name. > &g

Re: Package deb with shared library

2018-10-22 Thread Mo Zhou
Hi Damir, On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 10:36:12AM +, Damir Porobic wrote: > I was not sure to which Mailing list my question belongs so I'm writing here, > if I should use a different list, let me know. According to the content of your mail I think debian-u...@lists.debian.org is a more proper pl

RFC: Naming convention for ILP64 variant of BLAS/LAPACK

2018-10-21 Thread Mo Zhou
Hi folks, This is an informal RFC about naming convention of SONAME and package name. As discussed in [1][2][3], Debian will need a set of ILP64[4] interface to BLAS/LAPACK in the future. However, adding this set of interface will bring changes and NEW binary packages to all packages that fill th

Bug#909457: ITP: blis -- BLAS-like Library Instantiation Software Framework

2018-09-24 Thread Mo Zhou
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-scie...@lists.debian.org Owner: Mo Zhou * Package name: blis Version : 0.4.1 Upstream Author : The University of Texas at Austin, HP Enterprise, AMD Inc. * URL : https://github.com/flame/blis * License

Pre- and post- Buster plans for Julia language related packaging

2018-09-12 Thread Mo Zhou
Hello folks, I think I should talk about the pre- and post- Buster plan for Debian's Julia related packages publically rather than inside the three-person Julia team, because neither me nor Graham is heavy Julia user. Peter is too busy. Any suggestion and feedback will help us make Julia related p

Bug#907040: ITP: vim-julia -- vim support for julia language

2018-08-23 Thread Mo Zhou
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mo Zhou * Package name: vim-julia Version : 0.0~git20180821.120a0b6 Upstream Author : Carlo Baldassi and other contributors * URL : https://github.com/JuliaEditorSupport/julia-vim * License : Expat Programming Lang

Bug#906265: RFH: julia -- ppc64el port of Julia language and LLVM-6.0

2018-08-16 Thread Mo Zhou
Package: wnpp Severity: normal I request assistance with maintaining the julia package. Specifically I need a ppc64el porter (or anyone who has root access to a ppc64el box) to help me: 1. Apply patch[1] to Debian's llvm-toolchain-6.0 (= 1:6.0.1-4) and build it. 2. Install the resulting llvm-6

Generating upstream version from git history with uscan

2016-06-08 Thread Mo Zhou
Hi folks, (Keep me in CC list please) I'm working on some packages whose upstream (github) doesn't make releases. So I need to invent upstream versions, that's OK. However when one is going to maintain a number of packages that watch is not present, upstream update tracking by hand would be a nig

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