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Bernd Zeimetz | 1 Jun 01:27
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Re: Wanted: introductory page for all teams


> So consider this a +1 for me to get write access to all DD by default in
> our website.

for the content I'm pretty sure that's a good idea. Giving all DDs
access to the css could result in a new design every week. Although that
sounds like an interesting thing to watch ;)

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Rene Mayorga | 1 Jun 01:52
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ITP: rsstail - Text based RSS feeder

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Rene Mayorga <rmayorga <at> debian.org.sv>

* Package name    : rsstail
* Version         : 1.1
* Upstream Author : Folkert van Heusden <folkert <at> vanheusden.com>
* URL             : http://www.vanheusden.com/rsstail/
* License         : GPLv2
* Description     : (see below)

rsstail is a simple text based RSS feeder.

It's provide an ouput similar to the 'tail' command to fecth news from a 
RSS feed.

--- System information. ---
Architecture: powerpc
Kernel:       Linux 2.6.18.3-ch2.0

Debian Release: lenny/sid
  500 unstable        mirrors.kernel.org 

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Russ Allbery | 1 Jun 02:13
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Re: Is there a way to positively, uniquely identify which Debian release a program is running on?

Gabor Gombas <gombasg <at> sztaki.hu> writes:
> On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 04:46:30PM -0400, Kris Deugau wrote:

>> However, there doesn't seem to be any single, consistent,
>> doesn't-change-for-the-life-of-the-release, programmatically possible
>> (never mind *easy* just yet...) method to find out if I'm on Debian
>> sarge, etch, lenny, or some third-party Debian-derived distribution.

> Your approach is wrong. Many machines have packages installed from
> multiple distributions simultaneously (sarge+etch, sarge+backports,
> etch+backports, etch+lenny, lenny+sid, sid+experimental are probably the
> most common combinations nowadays). Backported packages may even be
> compiled locally so they may not have any distribution associated with
> them at all.

Hm, it's often not a good idea to tell people that they're doing something
wrong just because it doesn't work globally with everyone's systems.  It
can come across poorly, and often what they're asking for makes perfect
sense in their environment.  If we as a project can't provide them with
the right tool because it doesn't make sense in our context, that's a good
response, but just telling them they're taking the wrong approach isn't
particularly useful.

For example, at Stanford, while some of our staff workstations do have
those package mixes, our servers are either sarge or etch.  Asking whether
a given server is sarge or etch is a quite reasonable and rational
question with a well-defined response.  And it is very useful for us to be
able to select, inside Puppet, whether a given system is sarge or etch (to
take an obvious example, we want to maintain sources.list via Puppet, but
we don't want Puppet to convert a sarge system to an etch system or vice
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Charles Plessy | 1 Jun 02:29
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Bug#426957: ITP: rnahybrid -- Fast and effective prediction of microRNA/target duplexes

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Charles Plessy <charles-debian-nospam <at> plessy.org>

  Package name    : rnahybrid
  Version         : 2.1
  Upstream Author : Marc Rehmsmeier, Peter Steffen, Matthias Hoechsmann
  URL             : http://bibiserv.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de/rnahybrid/
  License         : GPL
  Programming Lang: C
  Description     : Fast and effective prediction of microRNA/target duplexes

 RNAhybrid is a tool for finding the minimum free energy hybridisation of a
 long and a short RNA. The hybridisation is performed in a kind of domain mode,
 ie. The short sequence is hybridised to the best fitting part of the long one.
 The tool is primarily meant as a means for microRNA target prediction.
 .
 Public research assisted by RNAhybrid should cite:
 Marc Rehmsmeier, Peter Steffen, Matthias Höchsmann, Robert Giegerich
 Fast and effective prediction of microRNA/target duplexes
 RNA, 10:1507-1517, 2004.
 .
  Homepage: http://bibiserv.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de/rnahybrid/submission.html

I am a bit into miRNA those days and found this program, which is
piece-of-cake to package. It has already manpages - that is quite
exceptional in the field... The package is indeed ready, and I will
forward it to my sponsor when I will have solved a problem of watch
file.
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Ryan Kavanagh | 1 Jun 02:45
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ITP: aoeui -- Lightweight, unobtrusive, Dvorak-optimized text editor

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From: Ryan Kavanagh <ryanakca <at> kubuntu.org>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit <at> bugs.debian.org>
Subject: ITP: aoeui -- Lightweight, unobtrusive, Dvorak-optimized text editor
Message-ID: <20070601000746.20717.52750.reportbug <at> sampi>
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Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 20:07:46 -0400
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Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Ryan Kavanagh <ryanakca <at> kubuntu.org>

* Package name    : aoeui
  Version         : 1.0~alpha5
  Upstream Author : Peter Klausler <peter <at> klausler.com>
* URL             : http://aoeui.sourceforge.net/
* License         : GPL
  Programming Lang: C
  Description     : Lightweight, unobtrusive, Dvorak-optimized text editor

 A lightweight and unobtrusive text editing program that is optimized
 for fast editing by users of the Dvorak keyboard layout.

- -- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers feisty-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'feisty-updates'), (500, 'feisty-security'),
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Steve Langasek | 1 Jun 03:42
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Re: ldbl128 transition for alpha, powerpc, sparc, s390

On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 11:36:55PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote:
> With glibc-2.5 and gcc-4.1.2 (and gcc-4.2), the `long double' data
> type did change from a 64bit representation to a 128bit representation
> on alpha, powerpc, sparc, s390. To allow partial upgrades of packages,
> we will need to rename all packages holding libraries with the long
> double data type in their API.  Both libc and libstdc++ do not need to
> be renamed, because they support both representations. Attached you
> can find a list of packages with header files in /usr/include matching
> 'long *double'. If a library package is built from the same source as
> well, it has to be renamed, however the list may have false positives.

> Still unsure about how to handle extension modules in scripting
> languages; looking at python it may be sufficient to add conflicts
> with all extension modules exposing the long double datatype in their
> APIs.

> I plan to submit bug reports with severity `serious' for all source
> packages matching the above description (although if somebody wants to
> handle this transition, please go ahead).

<snip>

> lsb-build-base2
> lsb-build-base3

<snip>

Given what the LSB is, I expect that at least these packages need to be
updated to build using the old ABI.  How can this be done?
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Petter Reinholdtsen | 1 Jun 07:49
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Re: Better documenting what does not work in Etch.


[Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña]
> Actually, the website has errata pages for each release work at the
> wiki could be a basis for an updated page at the website.

Yes.  I suggest using <URL:http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEtch> for this
purpose.

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wnpp | 1 Jun 08:26
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Work-needing packages report for Jun 1, 2007

The following is a listing of packages for which help has been requested
through the WNPP (Work-Needing and Prospective Packages) system in the
last week.

Total number of orphaned packages: 397 (new: 1)
Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 82 (new: 2)
Total number of packages requested help for: 38 (new: 0)

Please refer to http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ for more information.

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The following packages have been orphaned:

   initng (#426268), orphaned 4 days ago
     Installations reported by Popcon: 119

396 older packages have been omitted from this listing, see
http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/orphaned for a complete list.

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The following packages have been given up for adoption:

   lcab (#426304), offered 4 days ago
     Description: create cabinet (.cab) archives
     Reverse Depends: pocketpc-cab
     Installations reported by Popcon: 110

   pocketpc-cab (#426305), offered 4 days ago
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Raphael Hertzog | 1 Jun 08:33
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Re: Wanted: introductory page for all teams

On Fri, 01 Jun 2007, Bernd Zeimetz wrote:
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> > So consider this a +1 for me to get write access to all DD by default in
> > our website.
> 
> for the content I'm pretty sure that's a good idea. Giving all DDs
> access to the css could result in a new design every week. Although that
> sounds like an interesting thing to watch ;)

That's simply not true. When everybody had access to the debian-cd
repository, they didn't change randomly stuff to suit their taste.
When they knew the changes to have a bigger impact, they consulted others
first.

It's exactly the same with the CSS and the design of the website. I know
several committers wo have an alternative (though similar) design/CSS for
the site, yet they didn't commit it because no consensus emerged from
-www.

Cheers,
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Steve Langasek | 1 Jun 08:42
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Re: ldbl128 transition for alpha, powerpc, sparc, s390

On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 11:36:55PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote:
> php4-dev

This package is EOL and will not be fixed for this transition (assuming it
applies).

> php5-dev

This is a false positive, the only use of 'long double' in the php5 header
files is in a macro definition.

Please exclude these packages from your mass filing.

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