Re: speed of COW directory copying: XFS 20x slower than ext3

2007-09-16 Thread Ondrej Certik
Does this possibly have to do with buffer flushing choices by the filesystem? Maybe xfs syncs after some operations (like rm -rf) that ext3 Probably not. does not. Try adding 'sync' after both steps and see if that changes performance. I did, see Note 3 in the wiki. It's actually XFS,

Re: RFS: QtOctave -- A Qt front-end to Octave

2007-09-16 Thread Nicolas Pettiaux
2007/6/21, Rafa Rodriguez Galván [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, Jordi and guys of the Debian Octave Group. I'm a member of this group (not DD), though my obligations have made me less active in the last year. Between them, I'm the responsible of the Free Software Office of the Cadiz University

Re: RFS: php-numbers-roman

2007-09-16 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Sunday 16 September 2007 01:56, Raphael Geissert wrote: I think you should talk to upstream and get them to use some other license like LGPL or BSD. The ftp-master's take a particularly hard line on this license and it may require justifying later on if they decide to get picky. I've

Sponsor for multipipe

2007-09-16 Thread Christopher Zimmermann
Hi! I just packaged the small multipipe tool from http://sourceforge.net/projects/multipipe. It can send its stdin to several other commands like this: cat blub |multipipe 'cat /dev/null' 'less' 'wc' I find this little tool very handy in many cases. Something like this should be available in

Re: RFS: php-numbers-roman

2007-09-16 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
Hi Yann, It's one of the packages suggested by the php-image-graph package which is already in Debian. Graphes can optionally have their axes graduated using roman numbers by using the Image_Graph_DataPreprocessor_RomanNumerals preprocessor. But in fact, I packaged it because it's a

Re: Sponsor for multipipe

2007-09-16 Thread Patrick Schoenfeld
Hi, Christopher Zimmermann schrieb: I just packaged the small multipipe tool from http://sourceforge.net/projects/multipipe. IANADD but anyways, here are some (hopefully useful) comments: At first: You would help potential sponsors a lot if you could post more information about your package /

Re: Sponsor for multipipe

2007-09-16 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 04:32:13PM +0200, Christopher Zimmermann wrote: Hi! I just packaged the small multipipe tool from http://sourceforge.net/projects/multipipe. It can send its stdin to several other commands like this: cat blub |multipipe 'cat /dev/null' 'less' 'wc' Neat. You can

Re: RFS: pyxplot

2007-09-16 Thread Piotr Ożarowski
2007/9/15, Ondrej Certik [EMAIL PROTECTED]: * the package looks good, it is lintian/linda clean and builds in cowbuilder I will check and upload it this evening * Why not to join the PAPT team and let it maintain as part of it? http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/PythonAppsPackagingTeam

Re: RFS: php-numbers-roman

2007-09-16 Thread Yann Rouillard
Le dimanche 16 septembre 2007 à 16:30 +0200, Thijs Kinkhorst a écrit Because re-doing the packaging of this is not that difficult, I'd suggest to just leave the package for now. If someone actually wants to use the functionality they can make the upload, especially because of the highly

Re: RFS: php-numbers-roman

2007-09-16 Thread Gregory Colpart
Hello, On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 06:19:20PM +0200, Yann Rouillard wrote: After Raphael's advice, I searched a bit and according to: http://ftp-master.debian.org/REJECT-FAQ.html A pear package with php license would be rejected. There are already some pear packages with php licence in Debian

Re: RFS: php-numbers-roman

2007-09-16 Thread Yann Rouillard
Le dimanche 16 septembre 2007 à 16:26 +0200, Thijs Kinkhorst a écrit : On Sunday 16 September 2007 01:56, Raphael Geissert wrote: I think you should talk to upstream and get them to use some other license like LGPL or BSD. The ftp-master's take a particularly hard line on this license

Re: Sponsor for multipipe

2007-09-16 Thread Stefan Fritsch
Hi, On Sunday 16 September 2007, Christopher Zimmermann wrote: I just packaged the small multipipe tool from http://sourceforge.net/projects/multipipe. It can send its stdin to several other commands like this: cat blub |multipipe 'cat /dev/null' 'less' 'wc' I find this little tool very

Re: RFS: mirmon

2007-09-16 Thread Mario Iseli
On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 01:55:03AM +0900, Hideki Yamane wrote: Dear mentors, Hello Hideki I'm looking for a sponsor for my package mirmon. It is useful for minitoring mirror servers. For example, I'm using this for monitoring Japanese Debian mirrors. see

Re: Man pages and UTF-8

2007-09-16 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 10:39:10AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 02:25:26AM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 09:55:44AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: Is this what your hack pipeline implements? If so, I'd love to see it; if not, I'm happy to implement

up-to-date policy for PHP PEAR modules

2007-09-16 Thread Gregory Colpart
Hello, (I apologize for cross-posting but I think this subject concerns webapps because original draft, pkg-php because it's the place for PHP PEAR modules and debian-mentors because there are a lot of ITP/RFS last weeks. Please respect the Reply-To/Mail-Followup-To, which is set to [EMAIL

Re: RFS: php-text-password

2007-09-16 Thread Gregory Colpart
Hello, On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 05:43:15PM -0400, Mark A. Hershberger wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for my package php-text-password. debian/control: * set a (versionned) depend on php-pear instead of php5 * change short description to PHP PEAR module for creating passwords * improve long

Re: RFS: php-i18nv2

2007-09-16 Thread Gregory Colpart
Hello, On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 05:46:40PM -0400, Mark A. Hershberger wrote: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package php-i18nv2. debian/control: * set a (versionned) depend on php-pear instead of php5 * improve short description and begin with PHP PEAR module for... * remove

Re: RFS: php-mdb2 (2nd attempt)

2007-09-16 Thread Gregory Colpart
Hello, On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 03:32:06PM -0400, Mark A. Hershberger wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for my package php-mdb2. debian/changelog: * it may be fun to have the date when you finish your package, use 'dch -r' before uploading for example ;-) debian/control: * set a versionned

Re: RFS: php-text-password

2007-09-16 Thread Mark A. Hershberger
Gregory Colpart [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: debian/control: * set a (versionned) depend on php-pear instead of php5 * change short description to PHP PEAR module for creating passwords * improve long description with real manual: http://pear.php.net/manual/en/package.text.text-password.php

Re: RFS: php-mdb2-driver-mysql (2nd Attempt)

2007-09-16 Thread Gregory Colpart
Hello, On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 03:36:51PM -0400, Mark A. Hershberger wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for my package php-mdb2-driver-mysql. I think all my comments for your php-mbd2 are useful for this one. In addition, your long description is so bad : you don't need repeat the short

Re: RFS: php-i18nv2

2007-09-16 Thread Mark A. Hershberger
Gregory Colpart [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: debian/control: debian/copyright: debian/README.Debian Ok. debian/postinst and debian/prerm: * you don't need this file because register/unregister is dealt with pear.mk cdbs class. BTW there ware some discussions about the way to

Re: RFS: php-i18nv2

2007-09-16 Thread Gregory Colpart
Hello, On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 09:43:18PM -0400, Mark A. Hershberger wrote: debian/postinst and debian/prerm: * you don't need this file because register/unregister is dealt with pear.mk cdbs class. BTW there ware some discussions about the way to install/remove modules and final

Re: RFS: php-mdb2 (2nd attempt)

2007-09-16 Thread Raphael Geissert
On 16/09/2007, Gregory Colpart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, [...] - there is a strange condition in license text: ---8--- // | Neither the name of Manuel Lemos, Tomas V.V.Cox, Stig. S. Bakken,| // | Lukas Smith nor the names of his contributors may be used to endorse | // | or

Re: RFS: php-net-pop3

2007-09-16 Thread Gregory Colpart
Hello, On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 04:23:27PM -0400, Mark A. Hershberger wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for my package php-net-pop3. debian/control: * set a (versionned) depend on php-pear * begin short description to PHP PEAR module for ... * add Homepage field debian/copyright: * you miss

Re: RFS: php-mdb2-driver-mysql (2nd Attempt)

2007-09-16 Thread Mark A. Hershberger
Gregory Colpart [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: More general comment: please don't ITP/RFS a package for just dh-make-php Foo_Bar.tgz. You should read packaging docs and be aware of what is a debian maintainer. Point taken. I do plan on packaging a GPLed application and framework that will use all

Re: RFS: php-mdb2 (2nd attempt)

2007-09-16 Thread Gregory Colpart
On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 08:48:11PM -0500, Raphael Geissert wrote: - there is a strange condition in license text: ---8--- // | Neither the name of Manuel Lemos, Tomas V.V.Cox, Stig. S. Bakken,| // | Lukas Smith nor the names of his contributors may be used to endorse | // | or

Re: RFS: php-mdb2-driver-mysql (2nd Attempt)

2007-09-16 Thread Gregory Colpart
Hello, On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 09:53:19PM -0400, Mark A. Hershberger wrote: More general comment: please don't ITP/RFS a package for just dh-make-php Foo_Bar.tgz. You should read packaging docs and be aware of what is a debian maintainer. Point taken. I do plan on packaging a GPLed