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Yaroslav Halchenko | 1 Dec 06:35
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Bug#559006: ITP: mlpy -- high-performance Python package for predictive modeling

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Yaroslav Halchenko <debian <at> onerussian.com>

* Package name    : mlpy
  Version         : 2.1.0
  Upstream Author : mlpy Developers - FBK-MPBA <albanese <at> fbk.eu>
* URL             : https://mlpy.fbk.eu/
* License         : GPL-3+
  Programming Lang: C, Python
  Description     : high-performance Python package for predictive modeling
 mlpy provides high level procedures that support, with few lines of
 code, the design of rich Data Analysis Protocols (DAPs) for
 preprocessing, clustering, predictive classification and feature
 selection. Methods are available for feature weighting and ranking,
 data resampling, error evaluation and experiment landscaping.
 .
 mlpy includes: SVM (Support Vector Machine), KNN (K Nearest
 Neighbor), FDA, SRDA, PDA, DLDA (Fisher, Spectral Regression,
 Penalized, Diagonal Linear Discriminant Analysis) for classification
 and feature weighting, I-RELIEF, DWT and FSSun for feature weighting,
 *RFE (Recursive Feature Elimination) and RFS (Recursive Forward
 Selection) for feature ranking, DWT, UWT, CWT (Discrete, Undecimated,
 Continuous Wavelet Transform), KNN imputing, DTW (Dynamic Time
 Warping), Hierarchical Clustering, k-medoids, Resampling Methods,
 Metric Functions, Canberra indicators.
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Frank Lin PIAT | 1 Dec 08:29
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Re: bug #551926: python-pip and pip: error when trying to install together

On Sun, 2009-11-29 at 21:17 -0500, Jonathan Yu wrote:
> Hi:
> 
> [Cc'ing Adam Kennedy since I'm not sure if he's subscribed to debian-devel]
> 
> Since Adam mentions that Perl's pip predates Python's pip by a
> significant margin, I think we should close this issue by renaming
> Python's installer back to pyinstall. It doesn't seem fair for someone
> who came on the scene later (who didn't do the appropriate research,
> and who, when prompted with the problem, decided to proceed with pip
> anyway) to be able to usurp the namespace from Perl.

Some facts:
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pip
 - It's in the archive since 2002-08
 - It never entered testing or stable
 - It's average popcon since 2004 is about 10 (out of 70000)
 - It's popularity suddenly increased in Octobre (reaching 68)

python-pip
- It's in the archive since 2009-04
- It is in testing
- It's popcon is slowly and constantly increasing, reaching 57/70000

Why (perl) pip popcon suddenly[1] reached 68? Is it due to the new
version, or is it due to people installing it by mistake?

Non-factual!
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Sebastian Heinlein | 1 Dec 09:32
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Re: Bug#558797: ITP: sessioninstaller -- APT based installer using PackgeKit's session DBus API

On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 05:56:18PM +0100, Julian Andres Klode wrote:
>   Description     : APT based installer using PackgeKit's session DBus API
>  sessioninstaller makes use of PackageKit's DBus information to allow
>  distribution neutral software management hooks for upstream software on
>  APT based systems without loosing the interactiveness.

A better description would be:

Sessioninstaller allows applications to easily install additional
software (e.g. extensions or GSreamer codecs) by calling a simple
distribution neutral D-Bus interface.

The confirmation, error reporting and progress notification of the
installation is handled by sessioninstaller. Currently it comes only
with a GTK based user interface.

The D-Bus interface is developed under the PackageKit umbrella and is
available on the session bus. The reference implementation can be
found in gnome-packagekit. It was also adpoted by KPackageKit.

In contrast to gnome-packagekit and KPackageKit it doesn't use the
PackageKit daemon for querying and installation, but instead makes
use of APT and aptdaemon directly (alternatively synaptic can be
used).

Cheers,

Sebastian
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Tim Retout | 1 Dec 12:39
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Re: bug #551926: python-pip and pip: error when trying to install together

On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 08:29:48AM +0100, Frank Lin PIAT wrote:
> Why (perl) pip popcon suddenly[1] reached 68? Is it due to the new
> version, or is it due to people installing it by mistake?

The Debian 'pip' package from 2002 was not the same program as
today's 'pip'; that one eventually got removed from the archive.
So the popcon numbers are not directly comparable.

Regarding whether we should package these tools at all, I could
note that the Perl policy makes provisions for users who install
modules from CPAN [0], and this seems like just a special case to me.

[0] http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/perl-policy/ch-site.html

So I think we need to keep both tools, and should focus on resolving
the overlapping binary names.

Regards,

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Jochen Friedrich | 1 Dec 13:40
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Bug#559039: ITP: snmp-mibs-downloader -- Downloads RFCs and IANA Docs containing MIBs and extracts them

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Jochen Friedrich <jochen <at> scram.de>

* Package name    : snmp-mibs-downloader
  Version         : 1.0
  Upstream Author : Jochen Friedrich <jochen <at> scram.de>
* URL             : http://git.debian.org/?p=collab-maint/snmp-mibs-downloader.git
* License         : BSD
  Programming Lang: bash
  Description     : Downloads RFCs and IANA Docs containing MIBs and extracts them

This package contains a script which downloads RFCs containing SNMP MIB
files and extracts them into /usr/share/mibs/ietf. It also downloads the
most current MIBs from IANA and extracts them into /usr/share/mibs/iana.

Strictly, the MIBs are not necessary for SNMP operations, but they contain
names and descriptions for the SNMP OID tree.
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Mathieu Malaterre | 1 Dec 15:03
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doxygen + dot => anti-aliased png (was Re: Ridiculously large packages)

Hi there,

On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 5:39 PM, Mathieu Malaterre
<mathieu.malaterre <at> gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 4:21 PM, Frans Pop <elendil <at> planet.nl> wrote:
>> On Friday 20 November 2009, Steve McIntyre wrote:
>>> If you ever want this to be available on Debian CDs, you're going to
>>> have to do something about the size. For now, I'm going to blacklist
>>> this package altogether.
>>
>> Even though they do technically still fit on a CD, you may want to consider
>> excluding the following packages as well, as including them essentially
>> means having roughly 4 CD images dedicated to 9 packages.
>>
>> 534777750 vtk-doc_5.2.1-11_all.deb
>
> Slightly off topic, but I have been login some recommendations to
> divide the size of this package by at least a factor of 2.
>
> Reference (will be updated whenever tracking system process my mail) :
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?package=vtk-doc

Just for reference. Some package (such as vtk-doc) became very large
due to a minor change in doxygen/dot. Now PNG files are generated
using cairo which by default is doing antialiasing. Using :

  dot -Tpng:gd output.png input.dot

force the use of libgd to create the png file. The file size was
reduced by a factor of 10 on the small experiments I played with.
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Julian Andres Klode | 1 Dec 16:21
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Re: Bug#558797: ITP: sessioninstaller -- APT based installer using PackgeKit's session DBus API

On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 09:32:10AM +0100, Sebastian Heinlein wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 05:56:18PM +0100, Julian Andres Klode wrote:
> >   Description     : APT based installer using PackgeKit's session DBus API
> >  sessioninstaller makes use of PackageKit's DBus information to allow
> >  distribution neutral software management hooks for upstream software on
> >  APT based systems without loosing the interactiveness.
> 
> A better description would be:
> 
> Sessioninstaller allows applications to easily install additional
> software (e.g. extensions or GSreamer codecs) by calling a simple
> distribution neutral D-Bus interface.
> 
> The confirmation, error reporting and progress notification of the
> installation is handled by sessioninstaller. Currently it comes only
> with a GTK based user interface.
Shouldn't this by 'only comes' instead of 'comes only'?

> 
> The D-Bus interface is developed under the PackageKit umbrella and is
> available on the session bus. The reference implementation can be
> found in gnome-packagekit. It was also adpoted by KPackageKit.
> 
> In contrast to gnome-packagekit and KPackageKit it doesn't use the
> PackageKit daemon for querying and installation, but instead makes
> use of APT and aptdaemon directly (alternatively synaptic can be
> used).

Thanks! The description I added was copied from the one found I found
in an old bzr revision. Send me a message when you have something
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Fabian Greffrath | 1 Dec 17:16
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Re: Bug#559039: ITP: snmp-mibs-downloader -- Downloads RFCs and IANA Docs containing MIBs and extracts them

Dear Jochen,

> This package contains a script which downloads RFCs containing SNMP MIB
> files and extracts them into /usr/share/mibs/ietf. It also downloads the
> most current MIBs from IANA and extracts them into /usr/share/mibs/iana.
>
> Strictly, the MIBs are not necessary for SNMP operations, but they contain
> names and descriptions for the SNMP OID tree.

a non-technical user won't understand even one word of this package 
description. Please do at least tell what the abbreviations stand for.

Cheers,
Fabian

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Guus Sliepen | 1 Dec 17:34
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Re: doxygen + dot => anti-aliased png (was Re: Ridiculously large packages)

On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 03:03:37PM +0100, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:

> Just for reference. Some package (such as vtk-doc) became very large
> due to a minor change in doxygen/dot. Now PNG files are generated
> using cairo which by default is doing antialiasing. Using :
> 
>   dot -Tpng:gd output.png input.dot
> 
> force the use of libgd to create the png file. The file size was
> reduced by a factor of 10 on the small experiments I played with.
> 
> There is currently no easy way to update doxygen script to use this
> trick (*). DD & DM have to resort hacking the DOT_PATH and have a fake
> DOT script calling dot with the proper parameter.

Perhaps it is better to generate SVG files? This will preserve the anti-aliased
look, scale much better, and is probably even smaller than non-anti-aliased
PNG.

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