Bug#873569: ITP: libmediawiki -- KDE C++ interface for MediaWiki based web service

2017-08-28 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Steve M. Robbins" * Package name: libmediawiki Upstream Author : Team maintained; see https://github.com/KDE/libmediawiki/blob/master/AUTHORS * URL : https://cgit.kde.org/libmediawiki.git * License : GPL Programmi

Re: HEADSUP: mails sent to n...@bugs.debian.org are NOT sent to the submitter

2016-12-27 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Fully support Ian's proposed change. I've been around Debian for 16 years and I STILL find this behaviour irritating because it is contrary to my expectations. -Steve signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: "PIE by default" transition is underway -- wiki needs updating

2016-10-26 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 05:26:24AM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > My point was that, yes we have changed to generating relocatable code > but that is still targetted for executables only, which preserves the > current behavior, [...] But something must have changed with how a static lib is now com

"PIE by default" transition is underway -- wiki needs updating

2016-10-24 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Hi, I haven't been paying close attention to the "PIE by default" [1] discussions, so I may have missed the memo, but: it seems the transition is underway? I've seen two bugs already claiming "static library foo must be compiled with -fPIC" -- because some reverse dependency now fails to buil

uscan download from sourceforge doesn't download what you expect!

2016-10-15 Thread Steve M. Robbins
... at least not for boost. I downloaded the latest release manually by following the links from boost.org to https://sourceforge.net/projects/boost/files/boost/1.62.0/ boost_1_62_0.tar.bz2/download Then I remembered that Dimitri had written a watch file to use the Files- Excluded facility. So

Bug#838150: ITP: itktools -- command line tools based on the ITK, intended for image processing

2016-09-17 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Steve M. Robbins" * Package name: itktools Version : 0.3.2 Upstream Author : Marius Staring, Stefan Klein, David Doria * URL : https://github.com/ITKTools/ITKTools * License : Apache 2.0 Programmi

Bug#808434: ITP: libkgeomap -- Libkgeomap is a wrapper around different world-map components, to browse and arrange photos over a map.

2015-12-19 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Steve M. Robbins" * Package name: libkgeomap Version : 15.12.0 Upstream Author : Several; part of Digikam/KDE project * URL : https://github.com/KDE/libkgeomap * License : GPL v2+ Programming Lang: C++ D

GCC 5 / libstdc++ abi wiki: can FIXMEs be fixed?

2015-07-05 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Hi, I've heard rumours that GCC 5 is coming :-) I help maintain several C++ libraries and expect some work is required to get through this GCC transition. I'd like to understand what I'm doing and do it right the first time. I'm just an average C++ programmer, not an avid follower of GCC nor

Re: Debian upload but no email response ?

2015-06-09 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On June 10, 2015 12:26:22 AM Gert Wollny wrote: > at least geomview is still in the upload queue [1]. It seems that the > *.changelog file is missing. Maybe your upload didn't finish properly? The problem turned out to be that I mistakenly used my old key. Thanks to Ansgar for pointing me in th

Debian upload but no email response ?

2015-06-09 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Hi, It used to be that after I "dput" an upload, I'd get an email within the hour saying my upload was received. I have made two uploads this week but saw no such email. I can see that the emails are still being generated [1]. This is my first upload since the last release freeze started. Ha

Re: Non-source Javascript files in upstream source (was: lintian "source-is-missing" for jquery -- was Re: Bug#744699: Frets On Fire bug report 744699)

2014-04-25 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On April 25, 2014 11:02:29 PM Ben Finney wrote: > Neil Williams writes: > > On Fri, 25 Apr 2014 01:16:04 +0100 > > > > Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote: > > > I don't think that we should go and do the tedious work of repack > > > thousands of packages because of this, with no real benefit in

Re: lintian "source-is-missing" for jquery -- was Re: Bug#744699: Frets On Fire bug report 744699

2014-04-25 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On April 25, 2014 04:40:26 PM Neil Williams wrote: > Jeroen Dekkers wrote: > > part. But if the minified javascript files in the upstream tarball > > aren't used when building the binary packages because the javascript > > libraries are already packaged in Debian, then it isn't possible that > >

Re: jquery debate with upstream

2014-03-12 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On March 12, 2014 03:29:52 PM Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: > Le mercredi, 12 mars 2014, 12.58:51 Ian Jackson a écrit : > > If an interpretation of the DFSG suggests that we should be doing work > > which does not further those objectives, then I think that > > interpretation is a misreading. > > S

Re: jquery debate with upstream

2014-03-11 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 02:34:47PM -0400, Paul Tagliamonte wrote: > You may think a line is somewhere, but the DFSG is interpreted by the > ftp-masters, so the question isn't what paultag or ian says, but what > the ftp-masters say :) I don't accept that. The interpretation must come from a conc

Re: jquery debate with upstream

2014-03-10 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On March 11, 2014 10:50:10 AM Paul Wise wrote: > On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 7:43 AM, Ben Finney wrote: > > I'd love to see clarification of the ftp-team's position on obfuscated > > files in source packages, preferably in an official location for future > > reference. Recalling that the context of th

Re: jquery debate with upstrea

2014-03-10 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On March 10, 2014 06:27:01 PM Joachim Breitner wrote: > Also, am I too pragmatic in suggesting that we should accept non-source > files in tarballs if they are legally distributed and not used during > the build (especially not included in the binary packages)? I generally take that approach.

Re: think twice before enabling -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 for C projects without thorough build-time testing

2013-09-22 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On September 21, 2013 09:04:23 PM Bernhard R. Link wrote: > * Kees Cook [130921 17:08]: > > In a theoretical sense, sure. In this particular case, why bother breaking > > it when it's a trivial 1 line fix? My original approach was to fix it in > > libc and do a mass bug filing. Everyone wins. If w

Re: Re: R 3.0.0 and required rebuilds of all reverse Depends: of R

2013-03-31 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Philipp Kern wrote: > Thanks for trading the R release cycle with Debian's and for > delaying the release. The harm has already been done, so somebody > should probably go and create a transition tracker for it? Rather than accept the harm, surely the release team could simply roll back the uploa

Re: pbuilder + ccache suddenly fails

2012-06-02 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Sat, Jun 02, 2012 at 12:08:24PM -0500, Steve M. Robbins wrote: > How do I disable ccache inside pbuilder? OK, I figured this out. The workaround is detailed in #675691. Cheers, -Steve signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: pbuilder + ccache suddenly fails

2012-06-02 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Sun, May 06, 2012 at 05:33:10PM -0400, Andres Mejia wrote: > On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 2:40 PM, Steve M. Robbins wrote: > > On Sun, May 06, 2012 at 01:21:57PM -0400, Andres Mejia wrote: > >> On Sat, May 5, 2012 at 9:57 PM, Steve M. Robbins wrote: > >> > I'

Re: Bug#675577: libgmp-dev: arch-dependent files in "Multi-Arch: same" package

2012-06-02 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Sat, Jun 02, 2012 at 10:54:13AM +0200, Jakub Wilk wrote: > Package: libgmp-dev > Version: 2:5.0.5+dfsg-2 > User: multiarch-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org > Usertags: multiarch > > libgmp-dev is marked as "Multi-Arch: same", but the following files > are architecture-dependent: > > /usr/include/

Re: pbuilder + ccache suddenly fails

2012-05-06 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Sun, May 06, 2012 at 01:21:57PM -0400, Andres Mejia wrote: > On Sat, May 5, 2012 at 9:57 PM, Steve M. Robbins wrote: > > I've routinely used pbuilder to build packages for years. > > Yesterday, I have started to see the following failure: > > > > ccache: FA

pbuilder + ccache suddenly fails

2012-05-05 Thread Steve M. Robbins
I've routinely used pbuilder to build packages for years. Yesterday, I have started to see the following failure: ccache: FATAL: Failed to create /var/cache/pbuilder/ccache/0/f: Permission denied Any idea what's going on? Google found only one other mention of this [1]. Thanks, -Steve [1] ht

Time to remove 32/64-bit variants of GMP?

2012-03-28 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Similar to a recent question from J. Berkenbilt [1], I'd like to understand whether there is still value in producing 32- and 64-bit variants of the GMP packages. GMP is already Multi-Arch enabled, but it still produces a 32-bit library for certain 64-bit architectures and, similarly, a 64-bit lib

Re: Bug#657949: Cannot install libhdf5-mpi-dev and libnetcdf-dev

2012-02-01 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Hi, I'd like to contribute towards a solution for this. I'm forwarding to debian-devel to get some others' ideas. On Wed, Feb 01, 2012 at 09:57:39AM +0100, Sylvestre Ledru wrote: > Le mardi 31 janvier 2012 à 21:56 -0600, Steve M. Robbins a écrit : > > Naively, I don

Re: [pkg-boost-devel] Boost defaults change (1.46.1 --> 1.48)

2011-12-28 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 12:47:34PM +0100, Rene Engelhard wrote: > But what worries me more is that you AGAIN ignored > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=652681. I was working off a rebuild of SID. Perhaps my last message didn't clearly state that. So all the bugs reported were f

Re: [pkg-boost-devel] Boost defaults change (1.46.1 --> 1.48)

2011-12-27 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 11:20:16AM -0600, Steve M. Robbins wrote: > On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 04:45:21PM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > On 26/12/11 at 22:40 -0600, Steve M. Robbins wrote: > > > > It would be quite helpful to do a rebuild of the 237 boost reverse >

Re: Boost defaults change (1.46.1 --> 1.48)

2011-12-27 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 06:32:16PM +, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > On Tue, 2011-12-27 at 10:52 -0600, Steve M. Robbins wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 10:42:07AM +0100, Rene Engelhard wrote: > > > Will 1.46 be around long enough that reverting to 1.46 is an option there? &

Re: Boost defaults change (1.46.1 --> 1.48)

2011-12-27 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 04:45:21PM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > On 26/12/11 at 22:40 -0600, Steve M. Robbins wrote: > > It would be quite helpful to do a rebuild of the 237 boost reverse > > dependencies. Lucas Nussbaum seems to be able to do this: can you run > > a rebui

Re: Boost defaults change (1.46.1 --> 1.48)

2011-12-27 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 11:28:14AM +0100, Thomas Krennwallner wrote: > As long as something depends on 1.46, I assume that it should be > around. The current situation is sub-optimal, because almost everything > depends on the non-versioned boost libs of boost-defaults, despite > boost's tendency

Re: Boost defaults change (1.46.1 --> 1.48)

2011-12-27 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 10:42:07AM +0100, Rene Engelhard wrote: > Hi, > > > I'd like to point out that any resulting build failures are quite easy > > to fix: either > > (a) contact package upstream for boost 1.48 changes; or > > It is? #652681 doesn't look like it. I'll just note that an Inte

Boost defaults change (1.46.1 --> 1.48)

2011-12-26 Thread Steve M. Robbins
:15PM -0600, Steve M. Robbins wrote: > On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 10:33:26PM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: > > I heard of at least two failures in the last couple of hours: > > libreoffice (#652681), and wesnoth (#652677). As such, I'd appreciate > > if you could: > > -

Re: Heads-up: Boost defaults changing from 1.46 to 1.48

2011-12-20 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 10:33:26PM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: > On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 21:23:49 -0600, Steve M. Robbins wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Boost 1.48 was uploaded to sid about 9 days ago so it should > > transition to "testing" in the next day

Heads-up: Boost defaults changing from 1.46 to 1.48

2011-12-10 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Hi, Boost 1.48 was uploaded to sid about 9 days ago so it should transition to "testing" in the next day or so. My plan is to update the default boost version to 1.48 immediately following this transition. I'd appreciate feedback on any build failures with 1.48 for boost-using packages. Thanks,

Re: buildd machines vs. resource-hungry packages (ITK)

2011-09-17 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 10:06:58PM -0500, Steve M. Robbins wrote: > The main culprit behind the resource usage is the wrappers for Tcl, > Java, and Python. The underlying ITK codebase consists of heavily > templated C++ libraries. The wrapping process generates a huge amount > o

buildd machines vs. resource-hungry packages (ITK)

2011-09-16 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Hi, I am having a huge problem getting insighttoolkit (ITK) to build due to the fact that it takes a huge amount of disk, memory, and time to build. In fact, the build is now generally failing because either disk or memory is exhausted. The main culprit behind the resource usage is the wrappers

Re: Anonymous read-only access and Vcs-* [Re: Alioth status update, take 3]

2011-06-07 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Tollef, > ]] Ben Finney > > | Neither the VCS repository link nor the VCS browse link work for > | http://packages.qa.debian.org/c/comixcursors.html>. > > These have been fixed now. > > | The VCS browse link doesn't work for > | http://packages.qa.debian.org/l/lojban-common.html>. > > Ditto. Gr

Re: glibc: causes segfault in Xorg

2011-05-07 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Sat, May 07, 2011 at 12:25:15PM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 02:30:35PM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > > Le 04/05/2011 07:42, Steve M. Robbins a écrit : > > > P.S. I tried rebuilding glibc myself locally, but gcc also segfaults > > > in t

Re: glibc: causes segfault in Xorg

2011-05-04 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 01:34:15PM +0200, sean finney wrote: > And furthermore, even if Debian chooses to "fix" this, upstreams will > be forced to eventually cater to the default glibc behavior for every > other libc distro out there that does not have their own "fix" (and > non-libc OS's where t

Re: glibc: causes segfault in Xorg

2011-05-04 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 12:29:50PM +0200, Julien BLACHE wrote: > "Steve M. Robbins" wrote: > > Hi, > > > I'm with Linus on this: let's just revert to the old behaviour. A > > tiny amount of clock cycles saved isn't worth the instability. >

Re: glibc: causes segfault in Xorg

2011-05-03 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 12:10:48AM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Sounds like http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12518 > which is fixed (sort of) by commit 0354e355 (2011-04-01). Oh my word. So glibc 2.13 breaks random binaries that happened to incorrectly use memcpy() instead of me

Re: Static libraries in development packages

2011-04-16 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 09:55:34AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > "Steve M. Robbins" writes: > > >> As I've come to understanding, nowadays many libraries doesn't allow > >> trivial static linkage, > > > > I don't follow; i

Re: Static libraries in development packages

2011-04-16 Thread Steve M. Robbins
> As I've come to understanding, nowadays many libraries doesn't allow > trivial static linkage, I don't follow; it's generally as simple as using -static on the link line. Pretty trivial. > and that it's generally not recommended to > link statically in packages. That is completely separate f

Boost packages status

2011-03-12 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Hi, I'm cc-ing to debian-devel since I expect others are wondering about the Boost status. On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 05:43:11PM +0100, Olaf van der Spek wrote: > Hi Steve, > > 1.42 still appears to be the latest version available in Debian (unstable). > Could 1.46.1 be uploaded? I assume you're

What's up with buildd logs?

2011-02-25 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Hi, The buildd system is generally quite fabulous, but why does https://buildd.debian.org/build.cgi?pkg=insighttoolkit show version 3.8.0-1? This version is neither sid, not stable, nor oldstable. Thanks, -Steve signature.asc Description: Digital signature

RFH: kseg migration to qt4

2011-02-20 Thread Steve M. Robbins
tags 604479 + help thanks The Debian Qt/KDE team is planning to remove the KDE3 and Qt3 libraries from Debian shortly. The package kseg uses Qt3 presently and needs to be modified to build with Qt4. I'm not actively using kseg and don't have time to spend modifying it. I'm looking for someone t

how come the buildd machines can't find python-vtk?

2011-02-17 Thread Steve M. Robbins
I uploaded insighttoolkit the other day, but the buildd machines refuse to build it, claiming an installability problem [1]: insighttoolkit/alpha dependency installability problem: insighttoolkit (= 3.20.0-8) build-depends on one of: - python-vtk (= 5.4.2-8) This is repeated for all ar

Re: patch removal of --unified-reject-files breaks quilt

2011-02-12 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 03:53:34AM +0100, gregor herrmann wrote: > On Sat, 12 Feb 2011 20:17:35 -0600, Steve M. Robbins wrote: > > > Suddenly, I can't apply my quilt patches: > > > > steve@riemann{insighttoolkit-3.20.0}quilt push -a > > Applying patch metai

Re: [Insight-developers] ITK 3.20.0 python WrapITK wrappers fail to build: too big?

2011-02-12 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 10:15:12AM +0100, Ga?tan Lehmann wrote: > > Steve, Luis, > > Splitting ImageToImageFilterB into smaller modules seems to be the > way to go in ITK v3. The attached patch should help! Thanks, Gaetan! I'm building ITK with this patch now for upload to Debian so we'll know

patch removal of --unified-reject-files breaks quilt

2011-02-12 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Hi, Suddenly, I can't apply my quilt patches: steve@riemann{insighttoolkit-3.20.0}quilt push -a Applying patch metaio-test-vtk_source.patch patch: unrecognized option '--unified-reject-files' patch: Try `patch --help' for more information. Patch metaio-test-vtk_source.patch does not app

ITK 3.20.0 python WrapITK wrappers fail to build: too big?

2011-02-08 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Hi, The Debian build of ITK 3.20.0 fails to build on the powerpc build daemon [1] with the diagnostic: [ 23%] Building CXX object Wrapping/WrapITK/Modules/Base/CMakeFiles/_BasePython.dir/wrap_itkImageToImageFilterBPython.o cd /build/buildd-insighttoolkit_3.20.0-6-powerpc-m2NGDH/insighttoolkit-

How to build a 32-bit package in Debian?

2011-01-16 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Hi, I've recently adopted a package (nyquist) that only builds in 32-bit mode. I'm struggling with supporting it on amd64 and other 64-bit architectures in Debian. First: yes, clearly the code should be migrated to 64-bits. Upstream is aware of that and it's a nontrivial effort. I'm interested

Re: Release Update: deep freeze, remaining bugs, schedule, themes and Wheezy

2010-12-26 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Hi, This release update announced: As hinted in the previous release update, now is the time to decide exactly what is going in to squeeze and what isn't. Here's what we're going to propose regarding the remaining RC bugs. We'll be working against the list of RC bugs affecting S

Bug#607030: ITP: elastix -- toolbox for rigid and nonrigid registration of images

2010-12-13 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Steve M. Robbins" * Package name: elastix Version : 4.4 Upstream Author : Stefan Klein and Marius Staring * URL : http://elastix.isi.uu.nl/ * License : BSD Programming Lang: C++ Description : toolbox

What to do about Bug #557495?

2010-11-28 Thread Steve M. Robbins
The list of RC squeeze bugs in the UDD http://udd.debian.org/bugs.cgi is growing alarmingly. However, I found one that doesn't seem like it belongs there so I'd like to ask what to do about it. Bug #557495 describes an undeclared conflict between packages: libctapimkt0-dev/1.0.1-1 libtowit

Oops: I broke the lenny --> squeeze update

2010-11-21 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Hi, I just received notice (bug 603579) that upgrade lenny to squeeze will break if a boost package containing an "rtupdate" script is installed. In stable there are four such packages: libboost-python-dev libboost-dbg libboost-python1.35-dev libboost1.35-dbg The issue is that the rtupd

Re: bits from the DPL: sprints, events, delegations, assets

2010-11-13 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 09:34:02PM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: > On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 14:26:39 -0600, Steve M. Robbins wrote: > > > So I looked at [2], clicked through to the Universal Debian Database > > [3], selected Sort By "last modified", and clicked Search

Re: bits from the DPL: sprints, events, delegations, assets

2010-11-13 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Hi, On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 04:49:04AM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > Squeeze Release > === > > The monthly RFH section is once more for the Squeeze Release. Trying to > read Release Team minds, I get something like: ? the RC bug count [1] is > proceedings in the right direction,

Re: try to rebuild base.tgz (re: Does not install in pbuilder)

2010-11-11 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 11:25:50PM +0900, Hideki Yamane wrote: > Hi, > > I got the same issue with ca-certficates-java and pbuilder, but after > re-create base.tgz, it has gone away. Could you try to do that, please? Thanks for the tip! Indeed, re-creating base.tgz using "pbuilder --create" di

two new annoying svn-buildpackage behaviours

2010-11-06 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Hi, I was working on gmp and insighttoolkit packages today and ran into two new behaviours of svn-buildpackage that are very annoying. I checked the obvious candidates that I could think of (svn-buildpackage, pbuilder, dpkg, devscripts) but didn't see any recent changelog messages that appear ala

Re: ca-certificates-java does not install in pbuilder

2010-11-06 Thread Steve M. Robbins
More information ... On Sat, Nov 06, 2010 at 02:54:22PM -0500, Steve M. Robbins wrote: > > failed (VM used: java-6-openjdk). > > dpkg: error processing ca-certificates-java (--configure): > > subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 > >

ca-certificates-java does not install in pbuilder

2010-11-06 Thread Steve M. Robbins
pbuilder itself or a third package. Has anyone else seen/solved this? Thanks, -Steve On Sat, Nov 06, 2010 at 02:24:51PM -0500, Steve M. Robbins wrote: > Package: ca-certificates-java > Version: 20100412 > Severity: important > > I routinely build insighttoolkit using pbuilder. Ins

Bug#599880: ITP: mriconvert -- medical image file conversion utility that converts DICOM files to other formats

2010-10-11 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Steve M. Robbins" * Package name: mriconvert Version : 2.0 Upstream Author : Jolinda Smith joli...@uoregon.edu * URL : http://lcni.uoregon.edu/~jolinda/MRIConvert/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: C++ D

Bug#598556: ITP: insightapplications -- InsightToolKit (ITK) based medical imaging applications

2010-09-29 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Steve M. Robbins" * Package name: insightapplications Version : 3.20.0 Upstream Author : The Insight Consortium and Contributors * URL : http://itk.org/ITK/resources/applications.html * License : BSD (http://w

Seeking machines for nightly builds of ITK

2010-08-02 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Hi, The insighttoolkit package is a large and active code base. They use a system of nightly build/test on a variety of machines [1] to ensure that the code works on all supported platforms. I run a build on my amd64 machine -- configured as the Debian ITK packages -- to expose issues early.

Priority dependence

2010-07-18 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Hi, The discussion surrounding why aptitude is priority 'important' [1] is very enlightening. Thanks to all contributors. With respect to the priority of libboost-iostreams, the consensus seems to be to raise it. On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 02:18:52AM +0200, Steve Langasek wrote: > [ ... ] on ba

Re: aptitude (priority important) depends on libboost-iostreams (priority optional)

2010-07-15 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Folks, The package "aptitude" is priority "important" and depends on libboost-iostreams, which is "optional". This is a violation of Policy section 2.5. The request of Bug #588608 is to raise the priority of libboost-iostreams to "important". Reading Policy, I note that "important" means:

Re: Confused by .la file removal vs static linking support

2010-05-02 Thread Steve M. Robbins
I'm a little alarmed at the attitude that "no one cares about static linking" so that it's okay to drop the .a files. Likely relatively few people care, but there are some that do. One example is scientific users that need to ensure reproducibility of computer experiments [1] over many years: one

Re: Re: Flag images

2010-02-15 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Paul, I read through the links you provided. There was a cogent argument against using flags to symbolize a language. I would accept that. However, while I understand your argument about losing contributors, I'm not completely convinced that using a flag chosen by country X to represent country

experimental buildd link gone?

2010-02-13 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Hi, The "links" box of the PTS used to have a link to the experimental buildd logs. I think I used it last week but today it is not there; c.f. http://packages.qa.debian.org/g/gmp.html How can I see the logs? Thanks, -Steve signature.asc Description: Digital signature

New GMP version 5.0.0 available in experimental: please test

2010-01-10 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Upstream released a new GMP version 5.0.0 with a scary-sounding caveat: The 5.0.0 release contain a very large amount of new code, and countless improvements to existing code, please see below for the complete list. No past GMP release has contained more new code than 5.0.0. Most

renamings to remove extensions

2009-09-28 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Hi, I agree with Charles: this is unncessary, unproductive busy-work. On the other hand, Section 10.4 says only "the script name should not include an extension". So you can leave the extension for compatibility with the rest of the world. It is a bug, but Section 1.1 says: Non-conformance w

Bug#547611: RFH: geomview -- interactive geometry viewing program

2009-09-20 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Package: wnpp Severity: normal Hi, I'd appreciate someone to help with maintenance of geomview. The package description is: Geomview is interactive geometry software which is particularly appropriate for mathematics research and education. In particular, geomview can display things in hyperbo

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-08-03 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 03:31:57PM +0200, Paul Wise wrote: > On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 3:24 PM, Steve M. Robbins wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 03:08:02AM +0200, Meike Reichle wrote: > >> Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes > > > > I believe this is a

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-08-03 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Hi, On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 03:08:02AM +0200, Meike Reichle wrote: > - > The Debian Project http://www.debian.org/ > Debian adopts time-based release freezes pr...@debian.org > J

Re: Who uses @packages.d.o mail?

2009-05-23 Thread Steve M. Robbins
I use b...@packages.debian.org to contact the maintainer of "blah". I use this to alert maintainers of reverse build-deps when I do something drastic to one of the libraries I maintain. I'm open to other options, of course. What is the recommended practice for this scenario? Thanks, -Steve si

NEW processing

2009-03-24 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Is the NEW queue going to get processed any time soon? There are 215 packages waiting [1] about half of which have been there 3 or more weeks. Last time I asked [2], the result was a large thread discussing what manual work is done in processing NEW. I suggest reading through that thread before

NEW processing

2008-12-02 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Hello, Is the NEW queue going to get processed any time soon? There's a load of packages that are 3 weeks or more old. Thanks, -S signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: can buildd logs be sorted (again)?

2008-11-24 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 08:04:46PM +0100, Adeodato Sim?? wrote: > * Steve M. Robbins [Wed, 29 Oct 2008 01:42:06 -0500]: > > > Hi, > > > The buildd log pages, e.g. [1], used to be sorted by package version > > (or maybe build date). However that is no longer the cas

canonical list of port-specific CPP symbols

2008-11-10 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Hi, Is there a canonical list of symbols defined by each of the Debian architectures, e.g. do I test for Sparc using __sparc or __sparc__ ? How about m68k, hppa, etc? My first guess was that would be contained on http://ports.debian.org/ but no such luck. Thanks, -Steve signature.asc Descri

Who owns /etc/default/locale?

2008-11-09 Thread Steve M. Robbins
I have two systems. Both track unstable, and have package locales at version 2.0.16. On one system, package locales owns /etc/default/locale, on the other, it doesn't. Should the file be owned by locales or not? Could the situation arise by upgrades? One system is 4 years old (upgraded weekl

can buildd logs be sorted (again)?

2008-10-28 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Hi, The buildd log pages, e.g. [1], used to be sorted by package version (or maybe build date). However that is no longer the case. Can this be fixed? The current situation is less than useful since the latest build is buried in other output. Thanks, -Steve [1] http://buildd.debian.org/build.

parallel builds using DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS

2008-10-15 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Hi, The Policy Manual [1] gives the following recipe for supporting parallel make: ifneq (,$(filter parallel=%,$(DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS))) NUMJOBS = $(patsubst parallel=%,%,$(filter parallel=%,$(DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS))) MAKEFLAGS += -j$(NUMJOBS) endif Unfortunately, for packages that use recursive m

Debian tcl/tk policy: where to put shared libs?

2008-05-11 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Hi, I need some help packaging Tcl language bindings for ITK [1]. I've read the policy (in package tcl-doc) but I'm not sure whether I'm doing the right thing. I am essentially tcl illiterate, so please explain things in full. Examples help. ITK generates about 9 shared libs and 4 .tcl files, i

Re: [pkg-boost-devel] Bug#473752: Bug#473752: Bug#473752: Boost 1.35 has been released

2008-05-06 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 06:16:04PM +0200, Domenico Andreoli wrote: > On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 12:15:39AM -0500, Steve M. Robbins wrote: > > My headache now is that there are 13 -dev packages in Boost. One > > (libboost1.35-dev) contains 60+ header-only libraries, while the > >

Re: [pkg-boost-devel] Bug#473752: Bug#473752: Bug#473752: Boost 1.35 has been released

2008-05-02 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 01:14:45PM +0200, Domenico Andreoli wrote: > On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 12:22:24AM -0500, Steve M. Robbins wrote: > > > > In contrast, the alternative strategy of having all the libfoo-dev > > (1.34.1) packages conflict with libfoo1.35.0-dev packages

Re: [pkg-boost-devel] Bug#473752: Bug#473752: Bug#473752: Boost 1.35 has been released

2008-04-28 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 03:43:35PM -0500, Steve M. Robbins wrote: > On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 12:20:39PM +0200, Domenico Andreoli wrote: > > > I think new and separate boost-1.35 package is the best option we have: > > > > 1. It may be uploaded now and released wit

Re: [pkg-boost-devel] Bug#473752: Bug#473752: Boost 1.35 has been released

2008-04-21 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 10:53:35PM +0200, Olaf van der Spek wrote: > Steve M. Robbins wrote: >> If we do decide to have co-installable -dev packages, the next >> question is how do we handle the current non-versioned includes and >> link libraries? Do we follow what gcc and p

Re: [pkg-boost-devel] Bug#473752: Bug#473752: Boost 1.35 has been released

2008-04-19 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 12:20:39PM +0200, Domenico Andreoli wrote: > I think new and separate boost-1.35 package is the best option we have: > > 1. It may be uploaded now and released with lenny without touching > any reverse dependency > 2. Never more huge transitions, reverse dependencies

Re: [pkg-boost-devel] Bug#473752: Boost 1.35 has been released

2008-04-11 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 03:13:15PM -0400, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote: > Samuel Tardieu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Package: boost > > Severity: wishlist > > > Boost 1.35 has been released and contains great enhancements. Could you > > please update the Debian package? > > Seconded--I've bee

Re: [pkg-boost-devel] Should we have two versions of Boost in the archive?

2008-03-30 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 07:38:14PM +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 05:22:45PM +0000, Steve M. Robbins wrote: > > Hello, > > > > A new version (1.35) of the Boost library collection was released > > yesterday. I'd like to get it package

Should we have two versions of Boost in the archive?

2008-03-30 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Hello, A new version (1.35) of the Boost library collection was released yesterday. I'd like to get it packaged for Debian ASAP. The question is: whether to simply replace the existing version (1.34.1) as we have always done, or to have the old and new both available in the library? In the past

Re: Bug#459511: Consider adding Perl License to common-licenses

2008-01-13 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 10:28:27AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > "Steve M. Robbins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 11:18:24PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > > >> I don't think it makes sense to include in common-licenses something &g

Re: Bug#436267: linux-image-2.6.22-1-686: IEEE1394 modules unbuilt in packaged kernel

2007-12-16 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 04:59:37PM +0100, maximilian attems wrote: > On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 09:50:56AM -0600, Steve M. Robbins wrote: > > > > Git repos are not relevant here. > > they are fucking important, but it seems that the firewire > lib maintainers are quite

Boost libraries name change (again)

2007-08-16 Thread Steve M. Robbins
**NOTE** **NOTE** **NOTE** **NOTE** **NOTE** **NOTE** **NOTE** The boost library short name has changed semantics in Debian. Prior to 1.34.0-1, the short name was multi-threaded. Now it is single threaded. **NOTE** **NOTE** **NOTE** **NOTE** **NOTE** **NOTE** **NOTE** Hello, A new versio

libsoqt change Qt3 -> Qt4: change package?

2007-08-16 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Hi, I need some guidance from library packaging gurus. Libsoqt is a library that is currently linked with Qt3. I've had a request to rebuild it with Qt4 instead (#415382) which can be done by simply changing the configuration. Can I simply upload the reconfigured shared library package, which

Re: uninstallable despite satisfying dependencies

2007-07-10 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 08:40:31PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > Hi Steve, > > On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 10:03:16PM -0500, Steve M. Robbins wrote: > > > How do I debug this situation: ipe won't install, yet I have the > > dependencies that "apt-get install&q

uninstallable despite satisfying dependencies

2007-07-10 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Hi, How do I debug this situation: ipe won't install, yet I have the dependencies that "apt-get install" complains about. Below, you will see that my attempt to install libipe1c2a claims to have three unmet dependencies. However, as you see by "dpkg --list", I *do* have these three packages at

Re: Bug#430266: ldbl128 transition for alpha, powerpc, sparc, s390

2007-06-23 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Sat, Jun 23, 2007 at 03:48:06PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: > Discussed in http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2007/05/msg01173.html There's not a lot of discussion there -- just an announcement really. > With glibc-2.5 and gcc-4.1.2 (and gcc-4.2), the 'long double' > data type did change

project machine architecture aliases

2006-03-26 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Hi, I have another "wishful thinking" idea for build machines to float. Suppose I get a bug report saying my package has failed to build on architecture glooble. I don't personally have a globle machine. To debug the problem, I need to fire up www.debian.org/devel, find the link to the list of

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