[01:03] <ScottK> Logan_: Does your libfakekey merge add anything of significant value?  It seemed to me like something that could wait for "S".
[01:05] <Logan_> ScottK: The main, important change is that it fixes a misleading package description.
[01:06] <ScottK> Logan_: libfakekey-dev is a documentation package?
[01:07] <Logan_> No, libfakekey-doc is.
[01:07] <ScottK> Ah, misreading the diff.
[01:07] <ScottK> Thanks.
[01:09] <ScottK> Accepted (along with your others)
[01:26] <Logan_> Thanks Scott. :)
[01:39] <ScottK> Keep them coming.
[07:24] <dholbach> good morning
[18:58] <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.
[18:59] <jtaylor> you can request it
[19:00] <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?
[19:01] <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
[19:02] <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.
[19:03] <jfcaron> Instead of making,like, folders.
[19:04] <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.
[19:05] <jtaylor> unfortunately its not in my field anymore, so I don't really feel comfortable packaging it
[19:05] <jtaylor> also probably no time
[19:07] <jtaylor> you might want to try in #debian-science on oftc
[19:08] <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". = )
[19:09] <ScottK> jfcaron: There is a Debian Science team that might be interested in that.
[19:09] <ScottK> RIght, already been said.
[19:11] <jfcaron> And they are on oftc, not on freenode?
[19:11] <jtaylor> yes
[19:11] <jtaylor> or irc.debian.org (an alias)
[19:12] <jtaylor> the irc channel is not very active, the mailing list might be better
[19:13] <jtaylor> though you'll likely get the same answer, sponsoring ok, but the work packaging/maintenance needs to be done by you
[19:14] <jfcaron> Figures.  I'm having trouble compiling it for myself though. =\
[20:17] <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?