Bug#617337: ITP: ctk -- A set of common support code for medical imaging, surgical navigation, and related purposes

2011-03-15 Thread Ron Johnson
On 03/08/2011 02:46 AM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mathieu Malaterre * Package name: ctk Version : 0.1.0 Upstream Author : CommonTK (https://github.com/commontk/) * URL : http://www.commontk.org * License : Apache 2.0

Bug#608202: ITP: fuse-emulator-utils -- ZX Spectrum emulator library - Utilities

2010-12-30 Thread Ron Johnson
On 12/28/2010 11:04 AM, Alberto Garcia wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alberto Garcia * Package name: fuse-emulator-utils Version : 1.0.0 Upstream Author : Philip Kendall * URL : http://fuse-emulator.sourceforge.net/ * License : GPL2 Progra

Bug#606750: ITP: liblognorm -- Log normalizing library

2010-12-13 Thread Ron Johnson
On 12/13/2010 01:50 PM, Pierre Chifflier wrote: On 12/12/2010 06:23 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: On 12/11/2010 07:41 AM, Pierre Chifflier wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Pierre Chifflier * Package name: liblognorm Version : 0.1.0 Upstream Author : Rainer Gerhards

Bug#606750: ITP: liblognorm -- Log normalizing library

2010-12-12 Thread Ron Johnson
On 12/11/2010 07:41 AM, Pierre Chifflier wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Pierre Chifflier * Package name: liblognorm Version : 0.1.0 Upstream Author : Rainer Gerhards * URL : http://liblognorm.sourceforge.net/ * License : LGPL 2.1 Programm

Bug#605914: ITP: librecad -- 2D CAD program (qt4 port of QCad)

2010-12-04 Thread Ron Johnson
On 12/04/2010 12:13 PM, Scott Howard wrote: On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 12:59 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: Why the "lib"? -- Seek truth from facts. Hmm, it's libreCAD (as in free CAD). :) I can't find policy saying it can't be named libre*, but I also can't find

Bug#605914: ITP: librecad -- 2D CAD program (qt4 port of QCad)

2010-12-04 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/21/2010 11:29 AM, Scott Howard wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Scott Howard * Package name: librecad Version : 1.0.0beta4 (won't propagate to testing until it's out of beta) Upstream Author : Ries van Twisk * URL : http://www.caduntu.org/ * Lice

Bug#581244: ITP: poliqarp -- utilities for large corpora processing

2010-05-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/11/2010 05:16 PM, Jakub Wilk wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jakub Wilk * Package name : poliqarp Version : 1.3.9 (yet to be released) Upstream Author : Jakub Wilk et al. * URL : http://poliqarp.sourceforge.net/ * License : GPLv2 Programming Lang: C Description : suite of

Bug#544539: RFP: Linux Unified Kernel

2009-09-01 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-09-01 05:29, Ivan Borzenkov wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-de...@lists.debian.org --- Please fill out the fields below. --- Package name: Linux Unified Kernel Version: 0.2.4-1 Upstream Author: Insigma li...@insigma.com.cn URL: http://

Bug#541106: ITP: trend -- a general-purpose, efficient trend graph

2009-08-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-08-11 13:35, Yuri D'Elia wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Yuri D'Elia" * Package name: trend Version : 1.0 Upstream Author : Yuri D'Elia * URL : http://www.thregr.org/~wavexx/software/trend/ * License : LGPL Programming Lang: C++ D

Bug#538171: ITP: makefs -- create a file system image from a directory tree

2009-07-24 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-07-23 13:50, Thorsten Glaser wrote: [snip] Description : create a file system image from a directory tree NetBSD® makefs(8) creates a file system image from a directory tree without the need for superuser privileges. The MirBSD version fixes ECMA 119, SUSP and RRIP (Rock Ridge) co

Bug#507932: ITP: sdlmess -- SDL port of MESS emulator (based on MAME)

2008-12-05 Thread Ron Johnson
On 12/05/08 16:38, Ludovic Lechapt wrote: [snip] License ( exactly the same as MAME http://mamedev.org/license.html ): == [snip] * Redistributions may not be sold, nor may they be used in a commercial product or activity. Isn't this anti-OSS? -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA

Bug#489824: ITP: pllua -- PL/Lua is an implementation of Lua as a loadable procedural language for PostgreSQL

2008-07-07 Thread Ron Johnson
SQL, including: > small memory footprint, simple syntax, lexical scoping, functions as > first-class values, and coroutines for non-preemptive threading. The similar Ruby deb-src package name is postgresql-plruby. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA "Kittens give Morbo gas. I

Bug#482913: ITP: daptup -- see changes in new & upgradeable lists after aptitude update

2008-05-25 Thread Ron Johnson
ude update" inside and then outputs two lists: > - packages came to archive with this update; > - new upgradeable packages. How is this different from apt-show-versions? - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA ESPN makes baseball players better. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE---

Bug#479206: ITP: libcurses-ui-poe-perl -- A subclass makes Curses::UI POE Friendly

2008-05-03 Thread Ron Johnson
his allows you to > use POE behind the scenes for things like networking clients, without > Curses::UI breaking your programs' functionality. I think you duplicated some sentences in the long description. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA We want... a Shrubbery!! -BEGIN PGP S

Bug#478783: ITP: sequel -- Lightweight database access toolkit for Ruby

2008-05-01 Thread Ron Johnson
7;t that compete in the mind-space with Sequel, which was the predecessor to SQL? Probably too late, though, since the project already exists... - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA We want... a Shrubbery!! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIGXb

Bug#474016: ITP: desktop-data-model -- a library for Mugshot and Online-Desktop

2008-04-02 Thread Ron Johnson
1.2.2 > Upstream Author: Mugshot Developers > URL: http://developer.mugshot.com That doesn't appear to be a valid address, It redirects to http://www.mugshot.com/ which seems to be just a bunch of links to scam and valid commercial web sites. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jeffer

Bug#471443: ITP: gnome-hdaps-applet -- HDAPS system applet for GNOME 2

2008-03-18 Thread Ron Johnson
Jon Escombe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * URL : http://www.dresco.co.uk/hdaps/ > * License : GPL > Programming Lang: C > Description : HDAPS system applet for GNOME 2 > > This applet shows status of hard disk protection for ThinkPad laptops. Please add a

Bug#468183: ITP: monkey -- small webserver based on the HTTP/1.1 protocol

2008-02-28 Thread Ron Johnson
at the wide latitude of software options for > a specific task is one of the greatest strengths of Debian. It's not "why should you *package* this s/w", it's "convince me that I should *use* this package". > As such, I think the revised description is perfectly ac

Bug#466078: RFP: sourcenav NG -- source code analysis tool

2008-02-16 Thread Ron Johnson
splay call trees. it is based upon the old > source navigator and strives to improve usability and performance. What language(s) does it support? - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA PETA - People Eating Tasty Animals -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux)

Bug#464169: ITP: vagalume -- A GTK+-based Last.fm client

2008-02-07 Thread Ron Johnson
> call jargon. I've *got* to disagree here. If you're taking the responsibility to search for and install apps, it is incumbent upon you to have *some* basic knowledge of your system. Among the most important is whether you have a GNOME/GTK or KDE/Qt system, and whether you run

Bug#464169: ITP: vagalume -- A GTK+-based Last.fm client

2008-02-06 Thread Ron Johnson
t for Last.fm media service" > > Is it necessary to say it's graphical provided that it's based on > GTK+? > > How about ... > > "Graphical GTK+-based client for the Last.fm online radio" > > Thanks for your suggestions I hate to sound like a gram

Bug#462606: ITP: dejima-mincho -- antiquated Japanese TrueType Mincho font, Dejima Mincho

2008-02-06 Thread Ron Johnson
no need to call it calligraphy - that style's roughly what >> "Minchō" means (see "http://www.sljfaq.org/w/Minch%C5%8D";). >> >> So would that make it: >> >> Meiji-era Japanese TrueType Minchō font > > So, > "An

Bug#462606: ITP: dejima-mincho -- antiquated Japanese TrueType Mincho font, Dejima Mincho

2008-02-04 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/04/08 20:18, Hideki Yamane wrote: > Hi, > > On Sun, 03 Feb 2008 07:32:51 -0600 > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> Do you really mean antique-looking font? (I understand that >>>> language d

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

2008-02-04 Thread Ron Johnson
gt; "media player daemon" may be confusing with mpd. "daemon which plays > media in the background" may be better. More importantly: what is the benefit of deejayd over any other media player? *That* would be useful info for the Full Description. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jeffe

Bug#462606: ITP: dejima-mincho -- antiquated Japanese TrueType Mincho font, Dejima Mincho

2008-02-03 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/03/08 07:07, Hideki Yamane wrote: > On Fri, 25 Jan 2008 22:51:47 -0600 > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Do you really mean antique-looking font? (I understand that >> language differences play a part is slightly-misused words.) > > Its base font wa

Bug#463754: ITP: vamp-plugin-sdk -- audio analysis and feature extraction plugins (SDK)

2008-02-02 Thread Ron Johnson
gt; such as histograms, or curve data such as power or fundamental > frequency. I think it would be helpful to mention that Sonic Visualizer and Audacity use the VAMP plugin format. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA PETA - People Eating Tasty Animals -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Versi

Bug#463167: ITP: dsyslog -- a dumb syslog

2008-01-29 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/29/08 23:22, Robert Collins wrote: > On Tue, 2008-01-29 at 19:07 -0600, William Pitcock wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On Tue, 2008-01-29 at 18:54 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: >>>> dsyslog is a dumb, yet advanced syslog da

Bug#463167: ITP: dsyslog -- a dumb syslog

2008-01-29 Thread Ron Johnson
mming Lang: C > Description : a dumb syslog > dsyslog is a dumb, yet advanced syslog daemon, which supports infinite > rules and expandability through it's purely modular design. The default > configuration is a drop in replacement for syslogd. What's so dumb ab

Bug#462606: ITP: dejima-mincho -- antiquated Japanese TrueType Mincho font, Dejima Mincho

2008-01-25 Thread Ron Johnson
on "Tsukiji 3gou" and Kana is based > on > "Tsukiji 4gou". Do you really mean antique-looking font? (I understand that language differences play a part is slightly-misused words.) - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA "I'm not a vegetaria

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

2008-01-17 Thread Ron Johnson
#x27; or 'disklabel' would be better. > > It also seems a rather trivial script for its own package... Aren't there already ways to do this? For example, # tune2fs -L /dev/[sh]d[a-z][1-15] - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA "I'm not a vegetarian because I love an

Bug#458605: ITP: ziproxy -- a compression http proxy

2008-01-02 Thread Ron Johnson
res transparent proxy mode, preemptive name > resolution, operation in either daemon mode or (x)inetd mode, a detailed > access log with compression statistics, basic authentication, and more. I think that some verbiage designed to clarify that this is designed to go on the server side woul

Bug#453445: ITP: isoquery -- Search for various ISO codes (country, language, ...)

2007-11-29 Thread Ron Johnson
lable translations for > the ISO standard. Would it be simpler to just add this program to the iso-codes package? - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA %SYSTEM-F-FISH, my hovercraft is full of eels -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHTv1US9HxQb37XmcRA

Bug#452823: ITP: deliciousapi -- Unofficial Python API for retrieving data from del.icio.us for research

2007-11-25 Thread Ron Johnson
gt; > Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) > Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash > > > -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA %SYSTEM-F-FISH, my hovercraft is full of eels -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#452073: ITP: tokyo-cabinet -- Tokyo Cabinet Database format [successor of QDBM]

2007-11-20 Thread Ron Johnson
neither concept of data tables nor data types. >Records are organized in hash table or B+ tree. >. >This library is presented as the successor of QDBM from the same >author. Should the source package create separate bindings packages for each language? That's sta

Bug#447745: ITP: liboglappth -- A library for creating portable OpenGL applications with easy-to-code scene setup and selection operations.

2007-10-23 Thread Ron Johnson
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * URL : http://bioinformatics.org/ghemical/ghemical/ > * License : GPL > Programming Lang: C++ > Description : A library [snip] operations. > > This library is required by ghemical 0.95. The short description is *way* too long. And

Bug#447158: ITP: debtree -- Show relationships between packages (.deb)

2007-10-18 Thread Ron Johnson
iz > package. What information is included in a graph can be varied using > command line options. If this is just a single shell script, would it more profitably be added to apt-rdepends or debian-goodies? -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit

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

2007-10-15 Thread Ron Johnson
: http://www.qavimator.org > * License : GPL > Programming Lang: C++ > Description : a BVH animation editor for 3D virtual worlds such as > secondlife > > qavimator is a QT, BVH animation editor and allows the creation > and editing of BVH avatar animation

Bug#444368: ITP: dvd95 -- DVD9 to DVD5 converter

2007-09-28 Thread Ron Johnson
o be as fast as possible. Upstream needs to be asked why they make the app faster. It's not like this is 1982 and it's loading overlays off of floppy disk. Viva shared objects!!! -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish,

Bug#443392: ITP: gitpkg -- helper scripts for maintaining packages with git

2007-09-20 Thread Ron Johnson
> . > gitpkg- creates a source package from tagged revisons. > git-debimport - creates a git repository from a set of existing packages. Is it proper to make a whole package for a couple of "simple scripts"? Maybe they could be rolled into git or git-buildpackage? - --

Bug#441448: ITP: ario -- A complete GTK2 client for MPD

2007-09-09 Thread Ron Johnson
mean "full featured"? > The interface used to browse the library is inspired by Rhythmbox but > Ario aims to be much lighter and faster. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for

Bug#440279: ITP: op -- sudo like controlled privilege escalation

2007-09-01 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/01/07 03:12, Alexander Wirt wrote: > Ron Johnson schrieb am Freitag, den 31. August 2007: > > *snip* > >>> The op tool provides a flexible means for system administrators >>> to grant access to certain roo

Bug#440279: ITP: op -- sudo like controlled privilege escalation

2007-08-31 Thread Ron Johnson
rtain root operations without having to > give them full superuser privileges. Different sets of users may > access different operations, and the security-related aspects of > each operation can be carefully controlled. > . > Homepage: http://swapoff.org/wiki/op "op"

Bug#439612: ITP: gunroar -- 360-degree gunboat shooter

2007-08-25 Thread Ron Johnson
the sea and our spaceship an armed boat. The player moves around in a > level generated randomly, and containing enemy islands, turrets and > enemy boats) and that never ends. Each enemy killed increments your > points according to the time it took you to destroy it and its size. It would be

Bug#437955: ITP: keysafe -- A safe to put your passwords in

2007-08-14 Thread Ron Johnson
e while logging in on websites. Can it plug into FF/Iceweasel? *That* would be *really* useful. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGwmws

Bug#435838: ITP: cpm -- Console Password Manager

2007-08-03 Thread Ron Johnson
s) to handle the user interface, libxml2 > to store the information, the zlib library to compress the data and the > library GpgMe to encrypt and decrypt the data securely. How is cpm better/different than pwsafe? -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a

Bug#435058: ITP: smolt -- Fedora hardware profiler

2007-07-28 Thread Ron Johnson
what kind of hardware that Debian users have? (And maybe how much more popular Debian is than Fedora?) - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/L

Bug#433727: ITP: freeplayer -- wrapper around vlc for French ADSL FreeBox

2007-07-19 Thread Ron Johnson
der "Free" (http://www.free.fr) > > > Improvements in the descriptions (short and long) are welcome. > > Preliminary packages can be found on my webpage : > http://www-id.imag.fr/~danjean/deb.html#freeplayer "freeplayer" seems *very* generic. Maybe freebox-pl

Bug#428855: ITP: webkit -- HTML rendering engine library

2007-06-14 Thread Ron Johnson
o sid. A private reply to this ITP made me realize I didn't specify it: both the QT and Gtk backend will be provided. In the same package? If so, wouldn't that possible pull in packages unneeded by the rest of the system? -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish,

Bug#427293: ITP: plproxy -- PL/Proxy is a proxy language used for remote database

2007-06-02 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/02/07 18:48, Fernando Ike de Oliveira wrote: [snip] . It's will be to create with same signature as remote function to be called, so only destination info needs to be specify inside proxy function body. This is confusing grammar: "It's will be to create with"

Bug#426874: ITP: pkg -- High-level library for managing Debian package information

2007-06-01 Thread Ron Johnson
kg" too generic? Wouldn't "debpkg" be a better (since more specific and describing) name? That, too, I think is too generic. metadebpkg, maybe? -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good!

Bug#411454: ITP: pfstmo -- set of tone mapping operators

2007-02-19 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/19/07 02:20, Sebastian Harl wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Sebastian Harl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * Package name: pfstmo > Upstream Author : Grzegorz Krawczyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * URL : http://www.mpi-inf.mpg.de/resources/tmo/ > * License :

Bug#408118: 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 Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/23/07 10:26, zako wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: zako <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > * Package name: chessdb > Version : 3.6.9 > Upstream Author : David Kirkby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * URL : http://ch

Bug#404449: ITP: gprayer -- GNOME Islamic prayer times application

2006-12-24 Thread Ron Johnson
*extremely* generic name, and thus not accurate. gathan or gitl would be more appropriate names, I think. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is "common sense" really valid? For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that whites are superior to blac

Bug#391526: Any word on when this might hit NEW?

2006-11-08 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is "common sense" really valid? For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins are mud people. However, th

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

2006-08-20 Thread Ron Johnson
bodies and performs > rigorous coordinate reductions to apparent geocentric and topocentric "aa" is really ambiguous, since it could also mean, for example, "anti-aliased". Why not name it astronomical-almanac? - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is "common sense"

Bug#383595: ITP: aria2 -- High speed download utility

2006-08-18 Thread Ron Johnson
/www.metalinker.org > > Is it likely that people will be confused by this? Should I add > some information about this into the description? I was. But then maybe only DBAs would. Copyright overlap is what I'm thinking of, though. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is "commo

Bug#383595: ITP: aria2 -- High speed download utility

2006-08-18 Thread Ron Johnson
ed protocols are HTTP/HTTPS/FTP/BitTorrent and it also supports > Metalink. When first I read this, I immediately thought it Great News that I could download patches, documents, etc from the Oracle MetaLink support portal. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is "common sense"

Bug#376431: ITP: openwatcom -- C/C++ compiler and IDE that produce efficient, portable code

2006-07-02 Thread Ron Johnson
ompiler, you ensure that the possibly-modified cc will be available to recreate the executable. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is "common sense" really valid? For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that whites are superior to blacks, and that those wit

Bug#374373: ITP: googleearth-package -- utility for automatically building a Google Earth Debian package

2006-06-18 Thread Ron Johnson
n I tried to install it as root (using "su -" from an xterm window), it complained about not being able to find DISPLAY. Unlike Sun Java & Macromedia Flash, it uses a GUI installer. Since many (most?) desktop users install apps from within su or sudo'ed xterm windows, how will you

Bug#374373: ITP: googleearth-package -- utility for automatically building a Google Earth Debian package

2006-06-18 Thread Ron Johnson
Google and is 100% free. (For the curious, this is > appropriately destined for contrib.) Would "it" be put in /usr? The app seems to want to live somewhere under an individual's $HOME. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is "common sense" really valid? For exam