| ScottK | Logan_: Does your libfakekey merge add anything of significant value? It seemed to me like something that could wait for "S". | 01:03 |
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| Logan_ | ScottK: The main, important change is that it fixes a misleading package description. | 01:05 |
| ScottK | Logan_: libfakekey-dev is a documentation package? | 01:06 |
| Logan_ | No, libfakekey-doc is. | 01:07 |
| ScottK | Ah, misreading the diff. | 01:07 |
| ScottK | Thanks. | 01:07 |
| ScottK | Accepted (along with your others) | 01:09 |
| Logan_ | Thanks Scott. :) | 01:26 |
| ScottK | Keep them coming. | 01:39 |
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| dholbach | good morning | 07:24 |
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| jfcaron | Is it possible to request a package be created for an obscure open source program? | 18:58 |
| jfcaron | I am finding it very difficult to compile myself. | 18:58 |
| jtaylor | you can request it | 18:59 |
| jtaylor | but its very unlikely that someone will do it if its so obscure | 19:00 |
| jfcaron | Hrm. It is this scientific program for simulating gaseous ionization detectors: http://garfield.web.cern.ch/garfield/ | 19:00 |
| jtaylor | uh garfield | 19:00 |
| jfcaron | It needs cernlib and gsl and stuff. | 19:00 |
| jtaylor | I used that as a student :) | 19:00 |
| jfcaron | Hah, maybe not so obscure then? | 19:00 |
| jfcaron | I know about a dozen scientists who have struggled with installing it. | 19:01 |
| jtaylor | unfortunately a common problem with science software | 19:01 |
| jtaylor | especially if 1 Sep 1984 | 19:01 |
| jtaylor | *Created | 19:02 |
| jfcaron | Yar. You even have to manually download badly-named files and rename them yourself. | 19:02 |
| jfcaron | Because the author called them garfadd-9_linux.car or whatever and you need to remove the "_linux" part. | 19:02 |
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| jfcaron | Instead of making,like, folders. | 19:03 |
| jtaylor | I think I never had to install it, only use it | 19:04 |
| jtaylor | which was bad enough :) | 19:04 |
| jfcaron | There is a newish ROOT/C++ based version available, but it is not complete. | 19:04 |
| jtaylor | unfortunately its not in my field anymore, so I don't really feel comfortable packaging it | 19:05 |
| jtaylor | also probably no time | 19:05 |
| jtaylor | you might want to try in #debian-science on oftc | 19:07 |
| jtaylor | but don't expect much, it would be best if you package it and search a sponsor there | 19:08 |
| jfcaron | Ok. I am trying to do a manual installation on a virtual Ubuntu 12 LTS. Then I can distribute the virtual machine file as a "packaged garfield". = ) | 19:08 |
| ScottK | jfcaron: There is a Debian Science team that might be interested in that. | 19:09 |
| ScottK | RIght, already been said. | 19:09 |
| jfcaron | And they are on oftc, not on freenode? | 19:11 |
| jtaylor | yes | 19:11 |
| jtaylor | or irc.debian.org (an alias) | 19:11 |
| jtaylor | the irc channel is not very active, the mailing list might be better | 19:12 |
| jtaylor | though you'll likely get the same answer, sponsoring ok, but the work packaging/maintenance needs to be done by you | 19:13 |
| jfcaron | Figures. I'm having trouble compiling it for myself though. =\ | 19:14 |
| quidnunc | DinstallException: 'Unknown distribution "quantal-backports" in "/var/cache/archive/mini-dinstall/incoming/gpac_0.5.0+svn4288~dfsg1-1ubuntu1~ubuntu12.10.1_source.changes | 20:17 |
| quidnunc | ^ How do I fix this? | 20:17 |
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