Bug#502183: ITP: ExactImage -- A fast, modern and generic image processing library

2008-10-14 Thread Steve Greenland
On 14-Oct-08, 04:59 (CDT), Robert Wohlrab [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Description: ExactImage is a fast, modern and generic image processing library. It can be used with different frontends to replace Imagemagick with some faster and more specialised tools.

Bug#492157: ITP: apollo -- The Apollo Solr Server

2008-07-24 Thread Steve Greenland
On 23-Jul-08, 22:47 (CDT), Paul Waite [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * License : GPL, Apache 2.0, CDDL 1.0, BSD, MIT Really? All of those? Programming Lang: (C, C++, C#, Perl, Python, etc.) Really? All of those? Description : The Apollo Solr Server The Apollo Solr Server is a

Bug#490997: ITP: mayanna -- A fork of gimmie, an elegant desktop organizer

2008-07-16 Thread Steve Greenland
On 15-Jul-08, 16:03 (CDT), Julian Andres Klode [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Julian Andres Klode [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Package name: mayanna Version : 0.2.8 Upstream Author : Seif Lotfy [EMAIL PROTECTED] and others * URL :

Bug#486127: ITP: sock -- make a customized traffic over network

2008-06-13 Thread Steve Greenland
On 13-Jun-08, 10:05 (CDT), Joao Eriberto Mota Filho [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Package name: sock Version : 0.3 Upstream Author : Willian Richard Stevens, Mike Borella and Christian Kreibich. * URL : http://www.icir.org/christian/sock.html * License :

Bug#485553: ITP: charybdis -- fast, scalable irc server

2008-06-10 Thread Steve Greenland
On 10-Jun-08, 06:38 (CDT), William Pitcock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - openvpn (may or may not have exception, more checking needed) The copyright file has the necessary exceptions. Steve -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Bug#481980: RFP: Jubler -- Jubler Subtitle Editor

2008-05-19 Thread Steve Greenland
Katsaloulis [EMAIL PROTECTED]] URL: [http://www.jubler.org] License: [GPL] No brackets, please. Description: [Subtitle Editor] Needs a better short description, and a long description. -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating

Bug#477106: ITP: codecgraph -- generate a routing graph for an Intel-HDA codec

2008-04-20 Thread Steve Greenland
is capitilized.) Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Bug#475834: ITP: nlkt -- non-linear visual keyboard trainer

2008-04-13 Thread Steve Greenland
://sourceforge.net/projects/nlkt/ * License : GPL 2+ Programming Lang: C++ Description : non-linear visual keyboard trainer nlkt is a lightweight keyboard trainer (touch-typing tutor). Should begin with Nlkt. Yes, English is weird. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony

Bug#475822: ITP: fwsnort -- Fwsnort translates Snort rules into iptables rules.

2008-04-13 Thread Steve Greenland
a English sentences always begin with a capital letter. You might want to break up that description into a couple of paragraphs, as it's pretty dense. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying

Bug#475719: ITP: robotfactory -- Help Pedro to build robots in his factory (game)

2008-04-12 Thread Steve Greenland
, in English, the first word of a sentence is always capitalized.) Also, the whole long description is misformated - every line should begin with a space. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying

Bug#468183: Many packaged programs that are doing the same thing

2008-03-07 Thread Steve Greenland
. OTOH, I think it would be completely reasonable for the security team to object. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net

Bug#464388: RFP: alfresco -- open source enterprise content management

2008-02-06 Thread Steve Greenland
of the policy manual. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Bug#463973: ITP: deejayd -- A media player daemon

2008-02-04 Thread Steve Greenland
implementation. Thanks, Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Bug#461104: RFP: label -- Set or change label to partition disk

2008-01-17 Thread Steve Greenland
] I realize this is just an RFP, but the proposed package name is way too generic. Something like 'partlabel' or 'disklabel' would be better. It also seems a rather trivial script for its own package... Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable

Bug#460672: RFP: pymills -- James Mills Python Library

2008-01-14 Thread Steve Greenland
libraries and modules for the Python programming language. English sentences begin with capital letters. Yes, even when the word is not normally capitalized. Regards, Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds

Bug#457473: ITP: extended_threading -- Extension of the python threading api

2007-12-22 Thread Steve Greenland
to have to do it eventually, why not now? Is there some sort of fierce competition in ITPs that I'm unaware of? Regards, Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world

Bug#457473: ITP: extended_threading -- Extension of the python threading api

2007-12-22 Thread Steve Greenland
are not) - safe object based locks to help debug lock code. Excellent. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Bug#456959: RFP: wnpp -- makehuman: software for the modelling of 3-Dimensional characters

2007-12-18 Thread Steve Greenland
the package name in the short description. Please use standard English capitalization rules. I assume it's a straight dump of the upstream website. Those are rarely suitable for Debian (or Ubuntu) packages. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable

Bug#455064: ITP: sofa-framework -- SOFA is an Open Source framework primarily targeted at real-time simulation, with an emphasis on medical simulation.

2007-12-10 Thread Steve Greenland
, particularly medical simulation Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Bug#452153: ITP: haf-marketing-release -- Set of meta packages for Hildon desktop

2007-11-20 Thread Steve Greenland
environment? If so, it would be good to mention it in the descriptions. Regards, Steve, N800 owner/user -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net

Bug#450781: ITP: Plasmidomics -- gui for plasmid and vector map drawing with postscript export / debian-med

2007-11-13 Thread Steve Greenland
. Long description isn't formatted correctly. See section 5.6.13 of the policy manual. (It's entirely possible that you know this, and your control file is correct. But there's no way for me to tell...) Regards, Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable

Bug#450781: ITP: Plasmidomics -- gui for plasmid and vector map drawing with postscript export / debian-med

2007-11-13 Thread Steve Greenland
. If you haven't looked at the Debian New Maintainers Guide, you might want to: http://www.us.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/index.en.html Regards, Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying

Bug#450781: ITP: Plasmidomics -- gui for plasmid and vector map drawing with postscript export / debian-med

2007-11-10 Thread Steve Greenland
open source since it's in Debian. Suggestion: Description: draw plasmid and vector maps with high-quality graphics export. 3. You're missing a long description. Regards, Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus

Bug#447514: ITP: apt-cacher-ng -- Caching proxy for distribution of software packages

2007-10-23 Thread Steve Greenland
^ Original, as in the 4-clause anti-advertising version? It's your code, your license choice, of course, but it's so rarely used these days, I kind of wondered... Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims

Bug#447014: ITP: detox -- utility to cleanup filenames from problematic characters

2007-10-17 Thread Steve Greenland
) or not (not). Finally, watch out for the 80 char line-length. Regards, Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Bug#446766: ITP: qavimator -- a BVH animation editor for 3D virtual worlds such as secondlife

2007-10-15 Thread Steve Greenland
editor... Also, please reformat to fit in an 80-character line. Oh, and either secondlife needs to be capitalized in the short description, or lowercased in the long. Regards, Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus

Bug#446791: ITP: python-pycg -- NVIDIA's Cg 1.4 for Python

2007-10-15 Thread Steve Greenland
as way to get some of the package basics right before you upload debs and people spend time translating them. The sooner you find and fix a bug, the easier it is. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims

Bug#446766: ITP: qavimator -- a BVH animation editor for 3D virtual worlds such as secondlife

2007-10-15 Thread Steve Greenland
, since our exchange is in the bug log. Just make sure that you get the fixes into the package/templates before anyone spends time translating. That's why I (when I notice) send these kinds of trivial fixes to the ITP, so that they get fixed before a real upload. Steve -- Steve Greenland

Bug#445866: ITP: perforce -- closed source revision control system

2007-10-10 Thread Steve Greenland
of this argument, really, but if you really think it's a problem: What if someone needed to access an existing Perforce repository? They could download and install the client from Perforce? Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating

Bug#443904: ITP: jugglemaster -- graphical siteswap simulator

2007-10-10 Thread Steve Greenland
not to include it in the long description? If you would like to sponsor this package or know a sponsor, please let me know. Sorry, can't help there. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying

Bug#444334: ITP: libmowgli -- a high performance development framework for C

2007-09-28 Thread Steve Greenland
, the first letter of a sentence is always capitilized. Thus, the beginning of your long description should be Mowgli is a devlopement framework for C (The short description, OTOH, is not a sentence, and so should NOT be capitalized. Isn't English fun?) Regards, Steve -- Steve Greenland

Bug#443904: ITP: jugglemaster -- graphical siteswap simulator

2007-09-24 Thread Steve Greenland
explicitly may be a bit much. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Bug#443619: RFP: epdfview -- ePDFView is a free lightweight PDF document viewer

2007-09-23 Thread Steve Greenland
on the distinction between short description and long description. And about not repeating the package name in the short description. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over

Bug#434525: ITP: swing-layout -- Extensions to Swing layout

2007-07-25 Thread Steve Greenland
: This package provides the following functionality: Regards, Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Bug#433143: ITP: bzr-rebase -- Rebase plugin for Bazaar

2007-07-17 Thread Steve Greenland
change from 'baz' (aka bazaar the old SCM tool) to 'bzr' (the new SCM tool)? That seems like a bad idea. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen

Bug#433472: ITP: dirbuster -- Directory file brute forcing, with a twist

2007-07-17 Thread Steve Greenland
? If I'm the sys admin, then it's a lot easier for me to 'ls -R' and look at the configuration files to find what URLs might be in play. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over

Bug#433143: ITP: bzr-rebase -- Rebase plugin for Bazaar

2007-07-17 Thread Steve Greenland
with bzr. Or, just include in the bazaar package long description This is baz, not bzr. You probably want the bzr package, instead. Or, just have 'bazaar' depend on *both* baz and bzr. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system

Bug#429818: ITP: qemulator -- it's a free solution for easy setup and management of qemu

2007-06-20 Thread Steve Greenland
: it's a free solution for easy setup and management of qemu I can't really say why this Description seems wrong (except for the redundant free), but it really doesn't fit the style, somehow. A simpler easy setup and management of qemu feels better. Regards, Steve -- Steve Greenland

Bug#428212: ITP: linky -- an Iceweasel extension to handle web and image links

2007-06-09 Thread Steve Greenland
: an Iceweasel extension to handle web and image links Aren't iceweasel extension packages supposed to be named 'iceweasel-foo'? (No idea if there's actual policy, just looking at the existing packages) Thus Package name : iceweasel-linky Regards, Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill

Bug#427871: ITP: skytools -- Skytools is tools for replication and failover

2007-06-07 Thread Steve Greenland
. Also, don't put the package name in the short desciption. Thus: Description: tools for PostgreSQL database replication and failover Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over

Bug#419200: ITP: paris-traceroute -- A new version of the well known traceroute

2007-04-16 Thread Steve Greenland
implementation of traceroute. The full detail with technical explanations is available at http://www.paris-traceroute.net/newtraceroute.htm Your long description is malformed - the lines are too long and each line should begin with a space. Regards, Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony

Bug#416397: ITP: haproxy -- fast and reliable load balancing reverse proxy

2007-03-28 Thread Steve Greenland
. Any webservice that uses the (supposed) client IP for anything other than amusement value is broken, given NAT and client proxies. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over

Bug#411708: ITP: ultrastar-ng -- free C++ Linux based clone of UltraStar

2007-02-20 Thread Steve Greenland
descriptions for a karaoke game. So perhaps something like Description: karaoke game that allows user supplied songs might be more informative. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying

Bug#409341: ITP: hgview -- Graphical viewer for distributed version content managment tools

2007-02-02 Thread Steve Greenland
besides mercurial? A quick glance at hgview.py implies otherwise. 3. In anycase, explicitly list the supported DSCM systems. Tools such as doesn't help the user. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims

Bug#408119: ITP: chessdb -- ChessDB is a free chess database which can be used on Microsoft Windows, Linux, Apple Macs running OS X as well as most if not all modern UNIX versions.

2007-01-23 Thread Steve Greenland
highlights. Regards, Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Bug#392665: O: nvi - 4.4BSD re-implementation of vi

2006-10-12 Thread Steve Greenland
Package: wnpp Severity: normal Effectively dead upstream; probably worth keeping in Debian, though, as there are many who still prefer it to vim. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying

Bug#392666: O: dgpsip - Correct GPS location with DGPS signal from internet

2006-10-12 Thread Steve Greenland
Package: wnpp Severity: normal This is probably useless now that selective availability has been turned off, but I'm orphaning it in case there's someone out there actually using it. If nobody picks it up, probably just remove from Debian. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill

Bug#392671: O: ee - An easy editor for novices and compuphobics

2006-10-12 Thread Steve Greenland
Package: wnpp Severity: normal Not dead upstream, but finished. Contact me for copy of CVS repository. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen

Bug#392672: O: positron - synchronization manager for the Neuros Audio Computer

2006-10-12 Thread Steve Greenland
Package: wnpp Severity: normal Probably dead upstream after version 1.1; Pierre Habouzit was kind enough to do an NMU taking this to 1.1 and the new Python policy, his patch is at bug #380895 Contact me for a CVS repository. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims

Bug#383940: ITP: aa -- astronomical almanac - calculate planet and star positions

2006-08-29 Thread Steve Greenland
On 28-Aug-06, 20:08 (CDT), James R. Van Zandt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steve Greenland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 20-Aug-06, 15:43 (CDT), James R. Van Zandt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: aa computes the orbital positions of planetary bodies and performs In English, the beginning

Bug#384401: ITP: rash -- Rash is a PHP/MySQL script for the management of quotes

2006-08-24 Thread Steve Greenland
in use at http://www.bash.org -- but designed as an entirely seperate piece of code. It is *highly* customizable to any layout you want to throw at it. Need a blank line between paragraphs. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating

Bug#383940: ITP: aa -- astronomical almanac - calculate planet and star positions

2006-08-21 Thread Steve Greenland
name for the package. However, if it's widely known in the field, it's probably okay. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net

Bug#362266: ITP: scribus-ng -- developmental version of the desktop publishing program Scribus

2006-04-15 Thread Steve Greenland
inclusion into the Debian distribution. Then why not just upload it as the new version of 'scribus' in unstable? Why do we need a whole new package? Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying

Bug#361253: ITP: zenoss -- Zenoss is a powerful, integrated, easy-to-use IT infrastructure monitoring software product.

2006-04-07 Thread Steve Greenland
? Web based? How is it configured? Any autodetection capabilities? Please save the marketing nonsense for the upstream website, and provide the Debian users with enough info to determine if the tool is something they might be able to use. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates

Bug#359345: ITP: dbdesigner -- DBDesigner 4 is a visual database design system that integrates database design, modeling, creation and maintenance into a single, seamless environment.

2006-03-28 Thread Steve Greenland
it supports. Is it really mysql only? Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Bug#359340: ITP: opencity -- a 3D city simulator game

2006-03-27 Thread Steve Greenland
: I think it's okay to say If you want SimCity 4, this isn't it, but that's hardly a complete description. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen

Bug#355030: ITP: ultimate-othello -- classic othello game with nice graphics

2006-03-02 Thread Steve Greenland
On 02-Mar-06, 15:01 (CST), Jari Aalto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The ultimate othello game with aqua-friendly graphics, full cocoa interface and animations. And how is that relevant to a Debian GNU/Linux user? Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making

Bug#353365: ITP: gt5 -- Terminal program for visual disk usage with navigation

2006-02-18 Thread Steve Greenland
program brings to mind a terminal emulator to a lot of people, I would guess. Also, the first character in the short description should be lowercase. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying

Bug#344991: ITP: dotproject -- Web-based project management tool

2005-12-28 Thread Steve Greenland
Public License version 2 or later Description : Web-based project management tool Ummm, where's the long description? Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over

Bug#340624: ITP: sendcard -- web-based virtual greeting card (e-card) software

2005-11-25 Thread Steve Greenland
. Suitable for large or small sites, it is very easy to setup, and comes with an installation wizard. What could be easier? I know the usual criteria for Debian packages are Free and Someone is willing to maintain it, do we really want spam generation systems in Debian? Steve -- Steve Greenland

Bug#340624: ITP: sendcard -- web-based virtual greeting card (e-card) software

2005-11-25 Thread Steve Greenland
Unsolicited Crap E-mail is more correct, but it's still UCE. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Bug#338657: ITP: Buoh -- Buoh is a reader for online strips comics, designed to work well under the GNOME Desktop

2005-11-11 Thread Steve Greenland
Repeats the package name, too long, and online strips comics is not the standard English phrase. Perhaps: Description: online comic-strip reader for GNOME works? (Include the long description here.) Yes, please do :-) -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making

Bug#338094: ITP: sword-comm-scofield -- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition for SWORD

2005-11-09 Thread Steve Greenland
it's related to the Christian Bible, but making it explicit would be nice. You might also say what version of the Bible is considered; presumably (from the dates) KJV? Also, neither Edition nor Based should be capitalized. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims

Bug#335367: ITP: abakus -- KDE calculator

2005-10-23 Thread Steve Greenland
descriptions unless I can offer something better, but I'm at a complete loss on this one. Not as blindess? because of its it is...? Anybody? Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take

Bug#335260: ITP: dnspython -- DNS toolkit for Python

2005-10-23 Thread Steve Greenland
: ^^ The little '*' means the field is not optional. :-) Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Bug#326691: ITP: freebob -- FreeBoB aims to provide a free driver implemenation for the BeBob

2005-09-05 Thread Steve Greenland
about: Description: a free driver for BeBob IEEE 1394 breakout boxes Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Bug#323076: ITP: dealer -- bridge hand generator

2005-08-16 Thread Steve Greenland
On 14-Aug-05, 11:09 (CDT), Christoph Berg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * License : Public domain with some files GPLv2+ Doesn't that effectively reduce to GPLv2+? Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus

Bug#319256: ITP: nadoka - IRC Client Server Program

2005-07-20 Thread Steve Greenland
. You define and customize these responses in Ruby. Nadoka is conceptually similar to Madoka, an older proxy written in Perl. (I'm sure there's an IRC-specific term for specially formatted requests, but I can't think of it at present.) Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates

Bug#302309: ITP: bcron -- Bruce's cron system

2005-04-07 Thread Steve Greenland
. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Bug#301700: ITP: update-manager -- a GNOME application that manages apt updates

2005-03-28 Thread Steve Greenland
-- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Bug#297629: ITP: gallery2 -- web-based photo album written in PHP

2005-03-01 Thread Steve Greenland
. There are are several web photo albums in Debian. Another one that's likely to be popular and well supported long term won't hurt. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world

Bug#290614: ITP: bazaar -- arch-based distributed revision control system

2005-01-19 Thread Steve Greenland
that I had previously read about bazaar). Perhaps Description: alternate implementation of arch with a superior UI would be better? Perhaps not... I agree that it's hard to describe in 80 chars. Regards, Steve Random Thoughts R Us Greenland -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates

Bug#283005: ITP: vhcs -- Virtual Hosting Control System

2004-12-31 Thread Steve Greenland
it be possible to have a description of what the package *does*, rather than marketing gobbledy-gook? Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net

Bug#220345: Status of this ITP?

2004-12-08 Thread Steve Greenland
going to CC debian-devel, at least have the courtesy to mention what the hell you're babbling about, instead of forcing us to go look up the bug number. Get off your ass. Ah. I see. Courtesy is not your strong point. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making

Bug#284313: ITP: gcursor -- gtk2 tool to configure Xcursors themes (introduced in XFree86 4.3 iirc).

2004-12-05 Thread Steve Greenland
themes The long description needs a *lot* of work, as it is not even close to grammatically correct. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen

Bug#277766: ITP: moniwiki [*snip*]

2004-10-22 Thread Steve Greenland
with the MoinMoin. MoniWiki WikiFormattingRules were inspired and adopted from MoinMoin. Check MoniWikiFeatures to see what MoniWiki has to offer. Please read the Debian Policy manual, especially on the difference between the short description and the long description. :-) Steve -- Steve

Bug#275371: ITP: bandersnatch -- Bandersnatch is a complete logging system for jabber conversations with database backend

2004-10-08 Thread Steve Greenland
-visible database Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net

Bug#267694: ITP: wininfo -- displays information about X windows under the mouse cursor

2004-08-24 Thread Steve Greenland
? Is this package really different than the xwininfo in xbase-clients? Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net

Bug#258746: ITP: nufw -- NuFW, an Authentication Firewall Suite for Linux

2004-07-12 Thread Steve Greenland
clients are available for Windows and Linux. That's a nice manifesto, but doesn't really measure up as a useful description. General note to ITPers: copying the frontpage of a project webpage for the long description is almost *never* the right thing to do. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony

Bug#257249: ITP: gfs - Global file system

2004-07-02 Thread Steve Greenland
description. Plus, you're missing several fields from the ITP. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net

Bug#252632: ITP: wmtemp -- WindowMaker dock applet displaying lm_sensors temperature values

2004-06-05 Thread Steve Greenland
... Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net

Bug#244682: ITP: aewan -- Ascii-art Editor

2004-04-19 Thread Steve Greenland
. Irrelevant to the consumer of a Debian package. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net

Bug#239548: ITP: gnome-keyring -- gnome keyring system is a program that keep password and other secrets for

2004-03-23 Thread Steve Greenland
other packages?), or both. Regards, Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net

Bug#238864: ITP: mnews -- Text-based Mini NEWS-reader and also mail-reader

2004-03-19 Thread Steve Greenland
interface, where most actions are available at the press of a single key. mnews can read news via NNTP or directly from a local news spool. Beginning of the sentence should be capitalized, even when it's program name: Mnews can read news via NNTP Regards, Steve -- Steve Greenland

Bug#236298: ITP: xmms-stats -- Make stats of your preferred songs

2004-03-05 Thread Steve Greenland
in and correct the last sentence about what it actuall saves.) Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net

Bug#234477: ITP: logsurfer+ -- real-time system log monitor

2004-02-24 Thread Steve Greenland
of a particular language doesn't automagically make a program efficient. How about something like Logsurfer is written with a concern for efficiency, and easily support busy sites with a high amoutn of log traffic. Regards, Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims

Bug#225502: ITP: reoback -- REOBack (pronounced as ray-o-back), is a backup solution designed for Linux users/system admins.

2003-12-30 Thread Steve Greenland
is fine. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net

Bug#217169: ITP: gnue-appserver -- The core of the n-tier variant of the GNU Enterprise system

2003-10-23 Thread Steve Greenland
up to you. Steve [1] Yes, I see that your original is pretty much what's on the upstream site. It's awkward and inscrutable there, too. -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over

Bug#216776: ITP: smilutils -- DV command line utilities

2003-10-20 Thread Steve Greenland
description. I've no idea what this package is about. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net

Bug#211118: ITP: php-gtk -- PHP extension for GTK+ ....

2003-09-16 Thread Steve Greenland
the webserver locally. It is intended for creating standalone GUI applications. (Include the long description here.) Please read the debian maintainers guide and debian policy on how to write the short and long descriptions. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making

Bug#201561: ITP: elfutils -- Tools to read from and write to ELF files

2003-07-16 Thread Steve Greenland
don't object to you packaging this, but I've no idea why I would want to install it, given binutils. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen

Bug#188426: ITP: request-tracker3 -- Extensible Trouble Ticket System

2003-05-06 Thread Steve Greenland
is likely to fail (or at least be incomplete) in all but the most trivial cases. It's not *hard*, but it needs some site-specific hand-holding, and it needs *time* if the database is at all large. I think it's completely in-appropriate for a standard preinst/postinst upgrade. Regards, Steve -- Steve

Bug#192100: ITP: pyx -- Python graphics package

2003-05-06 Thread Steve Greenland
-policy.txt.gz. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net

Bug#190184: ITP: chandler -- personal information manager for email, calendars, contacts, tasks etc

2003-04-26 Thread Steve Greenland
-- it's not fair to the upstream to present works-in-progress as useful.) Regards, Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net

Bug#189249: ITP: ddrescue -- Like dd, dd_rescue does copy data from one file or block device to another

2003-04-16 Thread Steve Greenland
*] The long description is not a place for a discussion on how the program works, particularly one that begins the middle (what latter three features? I don't see any features listed). Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system

Bug#184923: ITP: gmodconfig -- Gmodconfig provides a simple way for end-users to download, install, configure, and update Linux kernel modules through an easy-to-use graphic interface.

2003-03-15 Thread Steve Greenland
language. Also, the antecedent for their is a little fuzzy, but I'm not sure I like in the user's native language any better. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over

Bug#181850: ITP: mordor -- Multi-user Dungeon game, based loosely on Tolkein

2003-02-21 Thread Steve Greenland
books' or on Lord of the Rings.? Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net

Bug#181839: ITP: slimp3 -- This is the SLIMP3 player server software

2003-02-21 Thread Steve Greenland
is not the place for installation/use instructions. * Optional HTTP interface - control the player and manage your * playlists from a web browser! This is only one item, not two. You might try something more like a description, rather than a bullet list of features. Steve -- Steve

Bug#180402: ITP: JFFNMS -- A web-based NMS (Network Management System) designed to mantain a IP SNMP / Syslog / Tacacs+ Network.

2003-02-10 Thread Steve Greenland
networks. and putting the details in the long descriptions? Have to think of something to put here, but it does lots. Heh. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world

Bug#180346: ITP: sim -- This is an ICQ client for KDE 3.x called SIM (Simple Instant Messenger)

2003-02-09 Thread Steve Greenland
. Probably s/ is//. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net

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