Bug#306268: ITP: connect -- Establish socket connection using SOCKS4 or 5 and HTTP tunnel.
On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 12:33:06AM +0200, Christoph Berg wrote: > Re: Peter Samuelson in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > * Package name: connect > > > Version : 1.93 > > > > That's a terrible package name. What will the GNUSTEP people do if > > they ever want to package something that manages SMB client mounts? > > That's what upstream calls the program (actually connect.c), and > package names are first-come first-serve. Peter's complaint is a legitimate and important one--it really is a terrible package name--so please don't dismiss it. Package names are a shared namespace, and must be chosen intelligently. -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#296369: ITP: spin -- Powerfull model checking and software verification tool
On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 02:31:03AM +0100, Eike Dehling wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Eike Dehling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > * Package name: spin > Version : 4.2.4 > Upstream Author : Bell-Labs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * URL : http://www.spinroot.com/ > * License : Free(as in, no license) for non-commercial use, > commercial use requires this license: > > http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/what/spin/spin_license.html This license is non-free, and probably not sufficient to allow redistribution in non-free, either. Please see: http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2004/01/msg00267.html -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#294559: Public domain licensing
On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 03:12:32PM +0100, Martin Samuelsson wrote: > It have been claimed that PD is a vague definition and the way GNU > defines freedom, PD is only almost free because future versions might > not be free. But that only applies do derived works, right? My > understanding is that once released under the public domain, the > public's right to that release can't be revoked? Have I gotten that > entirely wrong? I've never heard of this. Public domain works are free. One theoretical problem with public domain software: not all jurisdictions, as far as I vaguely understand, actually have a notion of "releasing your work into the public domain". A problem some authors have (and probably should have!) is that simply saying "released into the public domain" isn't disclaiming warranty, so the author might be inviting legal trouble onto himself. For both of these reasons, I usually recommend that people who want to permissively free a work use the MIT license, or the 2-clause BSD license, which are well-established, simple licenses that allow pretty much anything. However, I've never heard any serious claim that works released into the public domain aren't free, and I've never heard of "revoking a work from the public domain" (if you could do that, it was never in the public domain to begin with). -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#239415: Is the LLVM Release License DFSG-compatible?
romote products derived from this
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The following pieces of software have additional or alternate copyrights,
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System Library llvm/lib/System
Compiler Driver llvm/tools/llvmc
PowerPC Backend llvm/lib/Target/PowerPC
bzip2: llvm/lib/Support/bzip2/LICENSE
Autoconf: llvm/autoconf
llvm/projects/ModuleMaker/autoconf
llvm/projects/sample/autoconf
Burg: llvm/utils/Burg
GNU Libc: llvm/runtime/GCCLibraries/libc
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Glenn Maynard
Bug#251229: ITP: libloki -- The Loki C++ patterns library
On Thu, May 27, 2004 at 10:06:28PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > containing flexible implementations of common design patterns and > idioms. It is an essential library for modern C++ programming and > exposes many cool features of the language, declaring it as non-dead > after all. This seems to imply that this declaration needs to be made; it doesn't. :) (The fact that this has different implementations for different compilers made me delete it pretty quickly, though. Gross.) -- Glenn Maynard
Bug#239653: ITP: fcracklib -- a Free/Fast Zip Password Cracker
On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 10:06:53PM +0100, Francesco Donadon wrote: > Package name: fcrackzip > Version : 0.3 > Upstream Author : Marc Lehmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > URL : http://www.goof.com/pcg/marc/fcrackzip.html > License : GPL > Description : a Free/Fast Zip Password Cracker Is "free" really an intesting thing to put in a Debian package description? > fcrackzip is a free password cracker for zip files. > > It is able to perform brute force or dictionary based attacks and allows > to resume the cracking from the point when it was interrupted. > (only manually at the moment, but automatic resuming it's a planned > feature). There are several of these; how about mentioning in the description the features that make this stand out from the others (john, crack)? All I see in this description is a feature that it doesn't have. -- Glenn Maynard
Bug#201448: [Stepmania-devs] Debian package
On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 04:56:59PM -0500, William F. Reading wrote: > >So, when I saw the Stepmania release for GNU/Linux, and I was so happy > >that I want package this software into a Debian Package. > >But, to do a Debian package, the software have to compile. So, I > >download the sources of stepmania, and run the configure script, but, > >it > >doesn't work ! > >I saw that you use autoconf/automake, and I try to copy some files, but > >... it doesn't work, and, I can't compile the software. > > > >So, if you can send me a version, which can be compiled, it will be > >very > >good ;-) As I pointed out in Debian ITP #201448, it won't be possible to package StepMania for distribution in Debian for some time, since we don't have a theme appropriate for main. If you want to package it for general use (not for inclusion in Debian), that's fine, but I'd recommend waiting for a release. I'd suggest that one should have sufficient experience to report problems correctly--you didn't give any hint of what didn't work--and a good understanding of build processes and autoconf before making Debian packages, though. -- Glenn Maynard
Bug#201448: ITP: stepmania
StepMania has plenty of advantages. However, until it has a free theme, it's not suitable for inclusion in Debian. This isn't nearly as much work as, say, making a free data set for Quake, but it still hasn't yet been done. I'll let you know if it happens, though. By the way, I hadn't heard anything about this. It's nice to let the development team of projects know that you're intending to package their software. For future reference, the appropriate list for that is [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Don't send mail to individual developers; if you do that, nobody else will hear of it.) -- Glenn Maynard, SM team
Bug#190909: ITP: libxml-libxml-common-perl -- Perl module for common routines & constants for XML::LibXML et al
On Sat, Apr 26, 2003 at 08:35:56PM -0500, Ardo van Rangelrooij wrote: > * Package name: libxml-libxml-common-perl I'm sure you're just being consistent, or conforming with policy, but these "libxml-libxml" package names look almost as absurd as binutils "2.13.90.0.18-1.7 Super Turbo Edition" versioning ... -- Glenn Maynard
Bug#180507: ITP: v2strip -- Removes ID3v2 tags from MP3 files
On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 10:46:41PM +0100, Christian Garbs [Master Mitch] wrote: > v2strip is definitely "small and handy" compared to the other > solutions (just think about all the libs you'd have to install > otherwise). Thinking of "one tool for one purpose", this might > sometimes be better than the other all-purpose packages. > > Is this a "valid" reason for a new package? Not for me (installing small libraries isn't a big deal; that's why we have apt), but it's not my decision. :) -- Glenn Maynard
Bug#180507: ITP: v2strip -- Removes ID3v2 tags from MP3 files
On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 09:48:38PM +0100, Christian Garbs wrote: > Package name: v2strip > Version : 0.2.10-1 > Upstream Author : Mats Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > URL : http://www.geocities.com/matsp888/unix/ > License : GPL > Description : Removes ID3v2 tags from MP3 files > > v2strip is a little utility that removes ID3v2 tags from MP3 files to > provide backward compatibility for applications not yet supporting > these tags. > > > The package is already finished and lintian-clean. You can have a > look at it here: Er. Both /usr/bin/id3convert -2 --strip (libid3-dev) and /usr/bin/id3v2 --delete-v2 (id3v2) will do this; why another? Also, id3v2 is designed to not interfere with applications that don't support them. Why not file bugs against the programs that are having trouble with them? -- Glenn Maynard
Bug#176733: ITP: bittorrent -- scatter-gather network file transfer
On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 04:35:37PM -0600, Michael Janssen wrote: > Package: wnpp > Version: unavailable; reported 2003-01-14 > Severity: wishlist > > * Package name: bittorrent > Version : 3.1 > Upstream Author : Bram Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * URL : http://bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent > * License : MIT > Description : scatter-gather network file transfer Geez. This thing is just begging to meet APT. :) -- Glenn Maynard
Bug#178321: ITP: aspell-uk -- The Ukrainian dictionary for GNU Aspell
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 10:08:39PM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: > * Package name: aspell-uk > Version : 0.50-3 > Upstream Author : Ukrainian Ispell Dictionary Development Team > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * URL : http://aspell.net/ > * License : GPL/LGPL > Description : The Ukrainian dictionary for GNU Aspell Most people read "uk" as United Kingdom; this is confusing. Isn't "ua" more appropriate? -- Glenn Maynard
Bug#164175: ITP: wfmath -- The World Forge math library
On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 08:12:30PM +0200, Michael Koch wrote: > build these shapes (points, vectors, matricies). s/matricies/matrices/ -- Glenn Maynard
Bug#161621: ITP: cl-inflate -- Common Lisp module to decompress a gzip, winzip, or jar file
On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 03:34:45AM -0600, Kevin M. Rosenberg wrote: > Description : Common Lisp module to decompress a gzip, winzip, or jar > file s/winzip/zip/; Winzip is an application, not a file format. -- Glenn Maynard
Bug#82613: Crack license, is it free?
On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 05:19:03AM -0400, Zephaniah E. Hull wrote: > The give away here may be problematic, however see below: > > 5. You may charge a reasonable copying fee for any distribution of this > > Package. You may charge any fee you choose for support of this Package. > > YOU MAY NOT CHARGE A FEE FOR THIS PACKAGE ITSELF. However, you may > > distribute this Package in aggregate with other (possibly commercial) > > programs as part of a larger (possibly commercial) software distribution > > provided that YOU DO NOT ADVERTISE this package as a product of your > > own. > > This is decidedly not DFSG free, it can go in non-free but it can't go > in main. What part of this is not DFSG-free? -- Glenn Maynard
Bug#155396: ITP: iso-codes -- Collection of ISO code lists and their translations
On Sun, Aug 04, 2002 at 01:26:52PM +0200, Alastair McKinstry wrote: > * Package name: iso-codes > Version : 1.0 > Upstream Author : Alastair McKinstry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * URL : http://www.saorleir.com/iso-codes Not Found The requested URL /iso-codes was not found on this server. > * License : GPL > Description : Collection of ISO code lists and their translations > > This package is (to be) a collection of ISO code lists: > - ISO 639 Language codes > - ISO 3166 Country codes > - ISO 3166-2 country code subdivisions > - ISO 4217 Currency codes > > and their translations (50+ languages so far). > These codes are repeated in several places in Debian - multiple programs > contain their own lists (gnome, apache, gnumeric, ...) and their > translations; the plan is to have one list, with other packages using > it. Are all of the programs in main that can make use of this data GPL-compatible Does it matter? I don't know how GPL-compatibility works when it comes to simple data. -- Glenn Maynard
Bug#145628: ITP: hdico -- Search a definition in the french online Hachette dictionnary
On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 12:29:06AM +0200, Julien Danjou wrote: > Package: wnpp > Version: N/A; reported 2002-05-03 > Severity: wishlist > > * Package name: hdico > Version : 0.0.4 > Upstream Author : Julien Danjou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * URL : http://hno3.org/hdico/ > * License : GPL > Description : Search a definition in the french online Hachette > dictionnary Out of curiosity, does this do anything dict does not? Is this separate util just to support a different server type, or does it do more than that? (Also, is the description accurate? I'm assuming it means "search for a definition", but it seems to say "search definitions".) -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#140332: ITP: pureftpd -- PureFTPd - A fast, standard compliant, production quality FTP server.
On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 03:45:57PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > > Description : PureFTPd - A fast, standard compliant, production > > quality FTP server. > > > > Pure-FTPd is a fast, production-quality, standards-conformant FTP > > server based upon Troll-FTPd. Unlike other popular FTP servers, it has > > no known security flaws, is trivial to set up and is especially > > designed for modern Linux kernels (setfsuid, sendfile, capabilities). > > . > "Unlike other popular FTP servers" is not a really useful description. > But please describe it in terms of what it offers, rather than how it > compares to others. "No known security flaws" is meaningless, anyway. If there was a known security flaw in a program, I'd expect it to be fixed; *every* program should be able to say this except for the (hopefully brief) periods between bug discovery and bug fixing. (And "unlike other popular FTP servers" frankly comes across to me as, well, petty.) And "especially designed for modern Linux kernels" comes across negatively to me--being designed for a specific kernel implies nonportable elements. Design for modern Unixes; support individual kernel features as appropriate. -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
