Bug#595820: ITP: woof -- A small, simple, stupid webserver to share files

2010-09-09 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 04:58:21PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: Incoming code of possible security significance should be reviewed for at least common classes of security holes. Instead, we get a thread where the ITPer is required to prove that nothing in Debian can do what his package does. You

Bug#595820: ITP: woof -- A small, simple, stupid webserver to share files

2010-09-09 Thread Andrea Gasparini
Long Description: Woof (Web Offer One File) is a tool to copy files between hosts. It can serve a specified file on HTTP,just for a given number of times, and then shutdown. It can be easily used to share files across the computers on a net, and given that the other ends should have just a

Bug#595820: ITP: woof -- A small, simple, stupid webserver to share files

2010-09-08 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 08:03:14PM +0200, Salvo Tomaselli wrote: This would already reduce the load on the FTP, release and security teams, and allow their members to do more useful things. And would lead many people to choose other distributions that offer more than merely core packages.

Bug#595820: ITP: woof -- A small, simple, stupid webserver to share files

2010-09-08 Thread Joey Hess
Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: That is: considering that introducing a new web server in the archive will potentially increase the work of the security team, it must be worth. You know, introducing any package that is capable of network traffic in either direction can potentially increase the work

Bug#595820: ITP: woof -- A small, simple, stupid webserver to share files

2010-09-07 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Sep 07, Andrea Gasparini ga...@yattaweb.it wrote: Brian, it lacks the long description, right, we'll provide one asap. Though, it serves just one file a given number of times, and then shutdown. It's something useful for distributing file in a LAN, if you don't want to install and setup

Bug#595820: ITP: woof -- A small, simple, stupid webserver to share files

2010-09-07 Thread Andrea Gasparini
Andrea Colangelo wrote, Tuesday 07 September 2010 * URL : http://www.home.unix-ag.org/simon/ http://www.home.unix-ag.org/simon/woof.html Josselin Mouette wrote, Tuesday 07 September 2010: Oh yeah. We didn’t have enough webservers in the archive. Joss, you could even be right,

Bug#595820: ITP: woof -- A small, simple, stupid webserver to share files

2010-09-07 Thread Salvo Tomaselli
On Tuesday 07 September 2010 00:22:26 brian m. carlson wrote: We have a lot of web servers in Debian. Could you provide a long description for the package that helps an adminstrator decide why she might want to install woof instead of some other lightweight web server? I maintain a similar

Bug#595820: ITP: woof -- A small, simple, stupid webserver to share files

2010-09-07 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mardi 07 septembre 2010 à 10:25 +0200, Salvo Tomaselli a écrit : I maintain a similar package (weborf), but yet with some differences. Weborf uses a basedirectory param while woof can use a directory or a file. Weborf will not limit the number of connections. Woof would tar a directory

Bug#595820: ITP: woof -- A small, simple, stupid webserver to share files

2010-09-07 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
[ adding back the ITP to Cc: ] On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 10:56:15AM +0200, Salvo Tomaselli wrote: The default installation of lighttpd would put itself in the autostart, maybe i just wanted to share a file and it would take time for me to change the configuration for avoiding autostart and

Bug#595820: ITP: woof -- A small, simple, stupid webserver to share files

2010-09-07 Thread Holger Levsen
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Bug#595820: ITP: woof -- A small, simple, stupid webserver to share files

2010-09-07 Thread Mauro Lizaur
2010-09-07, Stefano Zacchiroli: [ adding back the ITP to Cc: ] On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 10:56:15AM +0200, Salvo Tomaselli wrote: The default installation of lighttpd would put itself in the autostart, maybe i just wanted to share a file and it would take time for me to change the

Bug#595820: ITP: woof -- A small, simple, stupid webserver to share files

2010-09-07 Thread Andrea Gualano
Hi all, I've been using woof for quite a bit of time now, and I find it very useful. It's not meant as a substitute for a full-fledged webserver, it's a tool to transfer files to/from other computers and devices. I find it quite handy and simple, and I don't know of any other tool with a

Bug#595820: ITP: woof -- A small, simple, stupid webserver to share files

2010-09-06 Thread Andrea Colangelo
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andrea Colangelo war...@ubuntu.com * Package name: woof Version : 2009.12.27 Upstream Author : Simon Budig si...@budig.de * URL : http://www.home.unix-ag.org/simon/ * License : GPL2 Programming Lang: Python

Bug#595820: ITP: woof -- A small, simple, stupid webserver to share files

2010-09-06 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le lundi 06 septembre 2010 à 23:55 +0200, Andrea Colangelo a écrit : Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andrea Colangelo war...@ubuntu.com * Package name: woof Version : 2009.12.27 Upstream Author : Simon Budig si...@budig.de * URL :

Bug#595820: ITP: woof -- A small, simple, stupid webserver to share files

2010-09-06 Thread brian m. carlson
On Mon, Sep 06, 2010 at 11:55:51PM +0200, Andrea Colangelo wrote: * Package name: woof Version : 2009.12.27 Upstream Author : Simon Budig si...@budig.de * URL : http://www.home.unix-ag.org/simon/ * License : GPL2 Programming Lang: Python Description

Bug#595820: ITP: woof -- A small, simple, stupid webserver to share files

2010-09-06 Thread Mauro Lizaur
2010-09-06, brian m. carlson: On Mon, Sep 06, 2010 at 11:55:51PM +0200, Andrea Colangelo wrote: * Package name: woof Version : 2009.12.27 Upstream Author : Simon Budig si...@budig.de * URL : http://www.home.unix-ag.org/simon/ * License : GPL2