Bug#807241: ITP: archlinux-xdg-menu -- Convert freedesktop files to a format used by various WMs
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Nicholas Bamber
* Package name: archlinux-xdg-menu
Version : 0.7.6.2
Upstream Author : Sergej Pupykin
* URL : https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xdg-menu
* License : GPL
Programming Lang: Perl
Description : Convert freedesktop files to a format used by various WMs
xdg-menu generates menus for WMs using the Free Desktop menu standard. You can
install archlinux-xdg-menu from the official repositories.
The following WMs are supported:
twm
ion3
WindowMaker
fvwm2
icewm
blackbox
fluxbox
openbox
awesome
KDE, Gnome, Xfce, Enlightenment are already XDG compatible.
I am considering adding it to the Perl Debian group repository.
Getting hold of the source code takes a bit of hunting down,
but actually it is an Archlinux community project, so there maybe similar
projects.
What archlinux actually stores is the file:
https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/any/archlinux-xdg-menu/
Clicking on the "Source link" ultimately takes you to the PKGBUILD file:
https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/tree/trunk/PKGBUILD?h=packages/archlinux-xdg-menu
This specifies a location and a current version:
pkgver=0.7.6.2
source=("http://archlinux-stuff.googlecode.com/files/arch-xdg-menu-$pkgver.tar.gz";)
md5sums=('e4aadc2a05a8e8330c95c22548a4fcfb')
Bug#802225: ITP: libchatbot-eliza-perl -- Chatbot::Eliza
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas Bamber * Package name: libchatbot-eliza-perl Version : 1.05 Upstream Author : Neil Bowers URL : http://search.cpan.org/~neilb/Chatbot-Eliza-1.05/lib/Chatbot/Eliza.pm * License : (GPL or Artistic) Programming Lang: (Perl) Description : Chatbot::Eliza clone of classic AI program
Re: mass bug filing about packages manipulating/deleting shipped files
> I think it would be worth asking the release team about this. Fixing > them all might well take a while. These bugs were all presumably in > squeeze and if there are many of them delaying wheezy doesn't make > sense. Moreover as I understand it the version of piuparts that runs these tests is not yet in sid. Surely it is unreasonable to expect people to fix these bugs - in the middle of a freeze no less - without this tool. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/50620dde.3080...@periapt.co.uk
Bug#686485: ITP: license-reconcile -- Reconcile license/copyright between package source and debian/copyright file
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas Bamber * Package name: license-reconcile Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : Nicholas Bamber * URL : https://github.com/periapt/license-reconcile * License : Perl Programming Lang: Perl Description : Reconcile license/copyright between package source and debian/copyright file I have a development version finding many discrepancies between the mysql source and copyright. Currently it only actually reconciles the license data and is generally unusable. It is probably a month a month away from upload. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120902072333.6694.73926.reportbug@beaumont.periapt
Bug#683173: ITP: mysqlreport -- friendly report of important MySQL status values
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas Bamber * Package name: mysqlreport Version : 3.5 Upstream Author : Daniel Nichter * URL : http://hackmysql.com/mysqlreport * License : GPL Programming Lang: Perl Description : friendly report of important MySQL status values This is already in the mysql-5.5 package. However as it is actually a separate source I think it would be better managed as a separate package. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120729121841.32635.14487.reportbug@taylor.periapt
Bug#678460: RFH: maradns -- simple security-focused Domain Name Service server
Package: wnpp Severity: normal I request assistance with maintaining the maradns package. The reason is mainly lack of time and having someone to talk to about it would add some interest. The package is in reasonably good shape except that we need to plan a transition to the 2.0 version (currently in experimental). I had been thinking of working hard to get a smooth upgrade. I no longer believe this is worthwhile. It just requires a new maradns2 package. The duende package can be shared between the two. A new package also gives an opportunity to clean up the config. The package description is: An easy to configure DNS server that functions as a recursive and/or authoritative name server. Maradns is optimised for serving a small number of domains quickly and efficiently. Well suited to host your own private DNS server for making up subdomains with minimal fuss. Maradns is security-aware by utilising a special string library which is resistant to buffer overflows and mandating to run as an unprivileged user. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120621230951.25743.82870.reportbug@taylor.periapt
Bug#668565: ITP: libgedcom-perl -- interface to genealogy GEDCOM files
Package: wnpp Owner: Nicholas Bamber Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libgedcom-perl Version : 1.16 Upstream Author : Paul Johnson * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Gedcom/ * License : Perl Programming Lang: Perl Description : interface to genealogy GEDCOM files The Gedcom modules provide an interface to read, verify and manipulate Gedcom files. The Gedcom format is the standard format for storing genealogical data such a family trees, a person's birth, marriage, children and death and background research. Package: wnpp Owner: Nicholas Bamber Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libgedcom-perl Version : 1.16 Upstream Author : FIXME * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Gedcom/ * License : FIXME Programming Lang: Perl Description : interface to genealogy GEDCOM files The Gedcom modules provide an interface to read, verify and manipulate Gedcom files. The Gedcom format is the standard format for storing genealogical data such a family trees, a person's birth, marriage, children and death and background research.
Re: really? (Debian Policy and LSB)
Ah thanks. YEs that rings a bell now.
On 11/04/12 21:04, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
Hi,
On Wed, 11 Apr 2012, Nicholas Bamber wrote:
Hmm... This contradicts section 6.1 of the Debian policy.
"The package management system looks at the exit status from these
scripts. It is important that they exit with a non-zero status if
Here "these scripts" refer to "package maintainer scripts"
({pre,post}{inst,rm}) and not to "init scripts". So there's no
contradiction.
The problem of using "set -e" in init script is even documented
in policy 9.3.2:
http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-opersys.html#s-writing-init
| Be careful of using set -e in init.d scripts. Writing correct init.d
| scripts requires accepting various error exit statuses when daemons are
| already running or already stopped without aborting the init.d script, and
| common init.d function libraries are not safe to call with set -e in
| effect[72]. For init.d scripts, it's often easier to not use set -e and
| instead check the result of each command separately.
|
| [72] /lib/lsb/init-functions, which assists in writing LSB-compliant
| init scripts, may fail if set -e is in effect and echoing status messages
| to the console fails, for example.
Cheers,
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really? (Debian Policy and LSB)
tag 621020 +moreinfo thanks Regarding #621020 "/etc/init.d/mysql uses "set -e" for most of the script, but that is not compatible with the LSB library /lib/lsb/init-functions. This particularly causes problems whenever log_end_msg is called with a nonzero argument, as log_end_msg will return that argument and halt the script. So there are several chunks of code that will never be called (some informational messages and the stop-using-kill bit)." Hmm... This contradicts section 6.1 of the Debian policy. "The package management system looks at the exit status from these scripts. It is important that they exit with a non-zero status if there is an error, so that the package management system can stop its processing. For shell scripts this means that you almost always need to use set -e (this is usually true when writing shell scripts, in fact). It is also important, of course, that they exit with a zero status if everything went well." Copying "debian-devel" for more general comments. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f85dd6c.6020...@periapt.co.uk
Bug#646751: ITP: libcgi-application-plugin-actiondispatch-perl -- attribute extension for CGI::Application
Package: wnpp Owner: Nicholas Bamber Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libcgi-application-plugin-actiondispatch-perl Version : 0.98 Upstream Author : Jason Yates * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/CGI-Application-Plugin-ActionDispatch/ * License : Artistic or GPL-1+ Programming Lang: Perl Description : attribute extension for CGI::Application CGI::Application::Plugin::ActionDispatch adds attribute based support for parsing the PATH_INFO of the incoming request. The interface is inspired by Catalyst. This plugin is plug and play and will interrupt the default behavior of CGI::Application and works with mod_perl. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4ea85ed7.3080...@periapt.co.uk
Bug#641887: ITP: libcrypt-rc4-perl -- Perl implementation of the RC4 encryption algorithm
Package: wnpp Owner: Nicholas Bamber Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libcrypt-rc4-perl Version : 2.02 Upstream Author : Kurt Kincaid (sifuk...@yahoo.com) * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Crypt-RC4/ * License : Artistic or GPL-1+ Programming Lang: Perl Description : Perl implementation of the RC4 encryption algorithm A simple implementation of the RC4 algorithm, developed by RSA Security, Inc. Here is the description from RSA's website: RC4 is a stream cipher designed by Rivest for RSA Data Security (now RSA Security). It is a variable key-size stream cipher with byte-oriented operations. The algorithm is based on the use of a random permutation. Analysis shows that the period of the cipher is overwhelmingly likely to be greater than 10100. Eight to sixteen machine operations are required per output byte, and the cipher can be expected to run very quickly in software. Independent analysts have scrutinized the algorithm and it is considered secure. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4e7449b6.8050...@periapt.co.uk
Re: Bug#639535: ITP: libdebian-copyright-perl -- perl module to parse, merge and write Debian copyright files
CPAN bug: http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70544 On 28/08/11 06:19, Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 10:08:55PM +0100, Nicholas Bamber a écrit : >> >> * Package name: libdebian-copyright-perl >> Version : 0.1 >> Upstream Author : Nicholas Bamber >> * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Debian-Copyright/ >> * License : GPL-2+ >> Programming Lang: Perl >> Description : perl module to parse, merge and write Debian >> copyright files >> >> Debian::Copyright can be used for the representation, manipulation and >> merging of Debian copyright files in an object-oriented way. It provides >> easy >> reading and writing of the debian/copyright file found in Debian source >> packages. > > Dear Nicholas, > > thanks for producing this parser. Perhaps the description could include the > keywords “machine-readable” and “DEP 5” to make it easier to find. > > By the way, since the version of DEP 5 that is distributed in the > debian-policy > package uses extensively the word “paragraph” instead of “stanza”, perhaps you > could either update the terminology in your documentation or add a note that > stanza and parargraph are synonymous. > > Have a nice day, > -- Nicholas Bamber | http://www.periapt.co.uk/ PGP key 3BFFE73C from pgp.mit.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4e5a02fe.4060...@periapt.co.uk
Bug#639535: ITP: libdebian-copyright-perl -- perl module to parse, merge and write Debian copyright files
Package: wnpp Owner: Nicholas Bamber Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libdebian-copyright-perl Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : Nicholas Bamber * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Debian-Copyright/ * License : GPL-2+ Programming Lang: Perl Description : perl module to parse, merge and write Debian copyright files Debian::Copyright can be used for the representation, manipulation and merging of Debian copyright files in an object-oriented way. It provides easy reading and writing of the debian/copyright file found in Debian source packages. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4e595ce7.6080...@periapt.co.uk
Bug#630874: ITP: libcgi-application-plugin-configauto-perl -- Plugin that adds Config::Auto support to CGI::Application
Package: wnpp Owner: Nicholas Bamber Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libcgi-application-plugin-configauto-perl Version : 1.33 Upstream Author : Mark Stosberg * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/CGI-Application-Plugin-ConfigAuto/ * License : Artistic or GPL-1+ Programming Lang: Perl Description : Plugin that adds Config::Auto support to CGI::Application This is being split out from a bundle. CGI::Application::Plugin::ConfigAuto adds easy access to config file variables to your CGI::Application modules. Lazy loading is used to prevent the config file from being parsed if no configuration variables are accessed during the request. In other words, the config file is not parsed until it is actually needed. The Config::Auto package provides the framework for this plugin. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4dfc6f2e.4010...@periapt.co.uk
Bug#630870: ITP: libcgi-application-plugin-autorunmode-perl -- CGI::App plugin to automatically register runmodes
Package: wnpp Owner: Nicholas Bamber Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libcgi-application-plugin-autorunmode-perl Version : 0.18 Upstream Author : Thilo Planz, * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/CGI-Application-Plugin-AutoRunmode/ * License : Perl Programming Lang: Perl Description : CGI::App plugin to automatically register runmodes This package is being split out from its current bundle package. The CGI::Application::Plugin::AutoRunmode plugin for CGI::Application provides easy ways to setup run modes. You can just write the method that implements a run mode. You do not have to explicitly register it with CGI::Application anymore. You can either flag methods in your CGI::App subclass with the "Runmode" or "StartRunmode" attributes or simply declare that every method in a class is a run mode. You can also assign a delegate object, all whose methods will become runmodes. You can also mix both approaches. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4dfc64f9.6070...@periapt.co.uk
Bug#623832: ITP: libfile-type-webimages-perl -- tool for determining web image file types using magic
Package: wnpp Owner: Nicholas Bamber Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libfile-type-webimages-perl Version : 1.01 Upstream Author : Mark Stosberg * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/File-Type-WebImages/ * License : Artistic or GPL-1+ Programming Lang: Perl Description : tool for determining web image file types using magic File::Type::WebImages mime_type() can use either a filename, or file contents, to determine the type of a file. The process involves looking the data at the beginning of the file, sometimes called "magic numbers". -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4db2e066.7010...@periapt.co.uk
Bug#620180: ITP: liblwp-protocol-https-perl -- https driver for LWP::UserAgent
Package: wnpp Owner: Nicholas Bamber Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: liblwp-protocol-https-perl Version : 6.02 Upstream Author : Gisle Aas * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/LWP-Protocol-https/ * License : Artistic or GPL-1+ Programming Lang: Perl Description : https driver for LWP::UserAgent The LWP::Protocol::https module provide support for using https schemed URLs with LWP. LWP::Protocol::https is a plug-in to the LWP protocol handling, so you don't use it directly. Once the module is installed LWP is able to access sites using HTTP over SSL/TLS. If hostname verification is requested by LWP::UserAgent's ssl_opts, and neither SSL_ca_file nor SSL_ca_path is set, then SSL_ca_file is implied to be the one provided by Mozilla::CA. If the Mozilla::CA module isn't available SSL requests will fail. Either install this module, set up an alternative SSL_ca_file or disable hostname verification. This module used to be bundled with the libwww-perl, but it was unbundled in v6.02 in order to be able to declare its dependencies properly for the CPAN tool-chain. Applications that need https support can just declare their dependency on LWP::Protocol::https and will no longer need to know what underlying modules to install. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4d938237.7070...@periapt.co.uk
Bug#619336: ITP: libhttp-negotiate-perl -- implementation of content negotiation
Package: wnpp Owner: Nicholas Bamber Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libhttp-negotiate-perl Version : 6.00 Upstream Author : Gisle Aas * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/HTTP-Negotiate/ * License : Artistic or GPL-1+ Programming Lang: Perl Description : implementation of content negotiation HTTP::Negotiate provides a complete implementation of the HTTP content negotiation algorithm. Content negotiation allows for the selection of a preferred content representation based upon attributes of the negotiable variants and the value of the various Accept* header fields in the request. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4d89332d.4080...@periapt.co.uk
Bug#619335: ITP: libhttp-cookies-perl -- HTTP cookie jars
Package: wnpp Owner: Nicholas Bamber Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libhttp-cookies-perl Version : 6.00 Upstream Author : Gisle Aas * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/HTTP-Cookies/ * License : Artistic or GPL-1+ Programming Lang: Perl Description : HTTP cookie jars This class is for objects that represent a "cookie jar" -- that is, a database of all the HTTP cookies that a given LWP::UserAgent object knows about. Cookies are a general mechanism which server side connections can use to both store and retrieve information on the client side of the connection. For more information about cookies refer to http://curl.haxx.se/rfc/cookie_spec.html> and http://www.cookiecentral.com/>. HTTP::Cookies also implements the new style cookies described in RFC 2965. The two variants of cookies are supposed to be able to coexist happily. Instances of the class HTTP::Cookies are able to store a collection of Set-Cookie2: and Set-Cookie: headers and are able to use this information to initialize Cookie-headers in HTTP::Request objects. The state of a HTTP::Cookies object can be saved in and restored from files. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4d892b9e.7060...@periapt.co.uk
Bug#619059: ITP: libmozilla-ca-perl -- Mozilla's CA cert bundle in PEM format
Package: wnpp Owner: Nicholas Bamber Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libmozilla-ca-perl Version : 20110301 Upstream Author : Gisle Aas * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Mozilla-CA/ * License : MPL-1.1 or GPL-2+ or LGPL-2.1+ Programming Lang: Perl Description : Mozilla's CA cert bundle in PEM format Mozilla::CA provides a copy of Mozilla's bundle of Certificate Authority certificates in a form that can be consumed by modules and libraries based on OpenSSL. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4d8670ef.5010...@periapt.co.uk
Bug#618281: ITP: libwww-robotrules-perl -- database of robots.txt-derived permissions
Package: wnpp Owner: Nicholas Bamber Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libwww-robotrules-perl Version : 6.01 Upstream Author : Gisle Aas * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/WWW-RobotRules/ * License : Artistic or GPL-1+ Programming Lang: Perl Description : database of robots.txt-derived permissions WWW::RobotRules parses /robots.txt files as specified in "A Standard for Robot Exclusion", at <http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/norobots.html> Webmasters can use the /robots.txt file to forbid conforming robots from accessing parts of their web site. The parsed files are kept in a WWW::RobotRules object, and this object provides methods to check if access to a given URL is prohibited. The same WWW::RobotRules object can be used for one or more parsed /robots.txt files on any number of hosts. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4d7d4a16.50...@periapt.co.uk
Bug#617975: ITP: libnet-http-perl -- module providing low-level HTTP connection client
Package: wnpp Owner: Nicholas Bamber Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libnet-http-perl Version : 6.00 Upstream Author : Gisle Aas * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Net-HTTP/ * License : Artistic or GPL-1+ Programming Lang: Perl Description : module providing low-level HTTP connection client The Net::HTTP class is a low-level HTTP client. An instance of the Net::HTTP class represents a connection to an HTTP server. The HTTP protocol is described in RFC 2616. The Net::HTTP class supports HTTP/1.0 and HTTP/1.1. Net::HTTP is a sub-class of IO::Socket::INET. You can mix its methods with reading and writing from the socket directly. This is not necessarily a good idea, unless you know what you are doing. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4d7c1511.7070...@periapt.co.uk
Bug#617974: ITP: libfile-listing-perl -- module to parse directory listings
Package: wnpp Owner: Nicholas Bamber Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libfile-listing-perl Version : 6.00 Upstream Author : Gisle Aas * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/File-Listing/ * License : Artistic or GPL-1+ Programming Lang: Perl Description : module to parse directory listings File::Listing exports a single function called parse_dir(), which can be used to parse directory listings. The first parameter to parse_dir() is the directory listing to parse. It can be a scalar, a reference to an array of directory lines or a glob representing a filehandle to read the directory listing from. The second parameter is the time zone to use when parsing time stamps in the listing. If this value is undefined, then the local time zone is assumed. The third parameter is the type of listing to assume. Currently supported formats are 'unix', 'apache' and 'dosftp'. The default value 'unix'. Ideally, the listing type should be determined automatically. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4d7c0e76.5080...@periapt.co.uk
Bug#617707: ITP: libfile-listing-perl -- module to parse directory listings
Package: wnpp Owner: Nicholas Bamber Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libfile-listing-perl Version : 6.00 Upstream Author : Gisle Aas * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/File-Listing/ * License : Artistic or GPL-1+ Programming Lang: Perl Description : module to parse directory listings File::Listing exports a single function called parse_dir(), which can be used to parse directory listings. The first parameter to parse_dir() is the directory listing to parse. It can be a scalar, a reference to an array of directory lines or a glob representing a filehandle to read the directory listing from. The second parameter is the time zone to use when parsing time stamps in the listing. If this value is undefined, then the local time zone is assumed. The third parameter is the type of listing to assume. Currently supported formats are 'unix', 'apache' and 'dosftp'. The default value 'unix'. Ideally, the listing type should be determined automatically. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4d792590.1020...@periapt.co.uk
Bug#617646: ITP: liblwp-mediatypes-perl -- module to guess media type for a file or a URL
Package: wnpp Owner: Nicholas Bamber Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: liblwp-mediatypes-perl Version : 6.01 Upstream Author : Gisle Aas * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/LWP-MediaTypes/ * License : Artistic or GPL-1+ Programming Lang: Perl Description : module to guess media type for a file or a URL LWP::MediaTypes provides functions for handling media (also known as MIME) types and encodings. The mapping from file extensions to media types is defined by the media.types file. If the ~/.media.types file exists it is used instead. For backwards compatibility it will also look for ~/.mime.types. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4d78945c.3040...@periapt.co.uk
Bug#617601: ITP: libhttp-date-perl -- module of date conversion routines
Package: wnpp Owner: Nicholas Bamber Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libhttp-date-perl Version : 6.00 Upstream Author : Gisle Aas * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/HTTP-Date/ * License : Artistic or GPL-1+ Programming Lang: Perl Description : module of date conversion routines HTTP::Date provides functions that deal the date formats used by the HTTP protocol (and then some more). Only the first two functions, time2str() and str2time(), are exported by default. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4d77e9b1.8090...@periapt.co.uk
Bug#616492: ITP: libtest-pod-no404s-perl -- Test::Pod::No404s
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas Bamber * Package name: libtest-pod-no404s-perl Version : 0.01 Upstream Author : Apocalypse * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Test-Pod-No404s/ * License : Perl Programming Lang: Perl Description : Test::Pod::No404s Checks POD for http 404 links -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110304220131.22783.6056.reportbug@leonhartsberger.periapt
Bug#616490: ITP: libtest-autoloader-perl -- Test::AutoLoader
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas Bamber * Package name: libtest-autoloader-perl Version : 0.03 Upstream Author : Benjamin Warfield * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Test-AutoLoader/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: Perl Description : Test::AutoLoader testing utility for autosplit/autoloaded modules -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110304214532.21751.54661.reportbug@leonhartsberger.periapt
Bug#616470: ITP: libgetopt-usaginator-perl -- create usage function for applications
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas Bamber * Package name: libgetopt-usaginator-perl Version : 0.0012 Upstream Author : Robert Krimen * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Getopt-Usaginator/ * License : Perl Programming Lang: Perl Description : create usage function for applications Getopt::Usaginator -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110304183418.29722.81784.reportbug@leonhartsberger.periapt
Bug#615825: ITP: libdevel-argnames-perl -- Devel::ArgNames
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas Bamber * Package name: libdevel-argnames-perl Version : 0.03 Upstream Author : Yuval Kogman * URL : http://searh.cpan.org/dist/Devel-ArgNames/ * License : Perl Programming Lang: Perl Description : Devel::ArgNames figure out names of variables -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110228101340.8653.12946.reportbug@leonhartsberger.periapt
Bug#615820: ITP: libsub-prototype-perl -- set a subroutines prototype
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas Bamber * Package name: libsub-prototype-perl Version : 0.02 Upstream Author : Florian Ragwitz * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Sub-Prototype/ * License : Perl Programming Lang: Perl Description : set a subroutines prototype Sub::Prototype -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110228085116.21237.2320.reportbug@leonhartsberger.periapt
Bug#615559: ITP: libio-handle-util-perl -- IO::Handle::Util perl pakage
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas Bamber * Package name: libio-handle-util-perl Version : 0.01 Upstream Author : Yuval Kogman * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/IO-Handle-Util/ * License : Perl Programming Lang: Perl Description : IO::Handle::Util perl pakage utilities for IO::Handle objects -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110227121951.11412.52080.reportbug@leonhartsberger.periapt
Bug#615502: ITP: libtest-cpan-meta-yaml-perl -- validate a META.yaml file from CPAN
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas Bamber * Package name: libtest-cpan-meta-yaml-perl Version : 0.17 Upstream Author : Barbie * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Test-CPAN-Meta-YAML/ * License : Perl Programming Lang: Perl Description : validate a META.yaml file from CPAN validate a META.yaml file from CPAN -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110226233019.2653.55351.reportbug@leonhartsberger.periapt
Bug#615002: ITP: libjson-pp-perl -- yet another json package
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas Bamber * Package name: libjson-pp-perl Version : 2.27104 Upstream Author : Makamaa hannyaharamitu * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/JSON-PP/ * License : Perl Programming Lang: Perl Description : yet another json package needed for a module upgrade -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110224202647.2689.49533.reportbug@leonhartsberger.periapt
Bug#612229: ITP: maradns2 -- new major release of the Simple Security focused DNS server
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas Bamber * Package name: maradns2 Version : 2.0.02 Upstream Author : Sam Trenholme * URL : http://maradns.org/download.html * License : BSD Programming Lang: C Description : new major release of the Simple Security focused DNS server This is an iteration of the maradns package but is sufficiently different to be worth its own package. It will coexist with maradns for a while. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110206230323.2609.51449.reportbug@leonhartsberger.periapt
Bug#611209: ITP: libcpan-meta-yaml-perl -- Read and write a subset of TAML for cPAN meta files
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas Bamber * Package name: libcpan-meta-yaml-perl Version : 0.003 Upstream Author : David Golden * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/CPAN-Meta-YAML/ * License : Perl Programming Lang: Perl Description : Read and write a subset of YAML for CPAN meta files Needed for Module::Build -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110126184923.20771.73692.reportbug@leonhartsberger.periapt
Bug#611207: ITP: libperl-ostype-perl -- map perl operating system names to generic types
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas Bamber * Package name: libperl-ostype-perl Version : 1.002 Upstream Author : David Golden * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Perl-OSType/ * License : Perl Programming Lang: Perl Description : map perl operating system names to generic types This is needed for the latest version of Module::Build -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110126182940.20740.45160.reportbug@leonhartsberger.periapt
Bug#609562: ITP: libconfig-merge-perl -- Load a directory worth of config files
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas Bamber * Package name: libconfig-merge-perl Version : 1.01 Upstream Author : Clinton Gormley * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Config-Merge/ * License : perl Programming Lang: perl Description : Load a directory worth of config files This was requested by Yvon Grall. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110110165332.31236.70357.report...@leonhartsberger.periapt
Re: Re: /etc/profile.d
Adam, Thanks for the explanation. I'm glad I avoided the hassle of raising a bug report on this occasion. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4d2ae50b.2000...@periapt.co.uk
/etc/profile.d
According to #370348, since 5.3 base-files has supported /etc/profile sourcing /etc/profile.d. I am using version 6.0. However /etc/profiles seems to be doing no such thing. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4d2ad805.3040...@periapt.co.uk
Bug#609172: ITP: libvendorlib-perl -- Package to enforce only core and vendor perl module usage
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas Bamber * Package name: libvendorlib-perl Version : 0.05 Upstream Author : Rafael * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/vendorlib/ * License : perl Programming Lang: perl Description : Package to enforce only core and vendor perl module usage This simply manipulates @INC based upon what is in %Config. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110107015035.11324.56148.report...@leonhartsberger.periapt
Bug#609043: ITP: libstring-dirify-perl -- convert a string into a directory like name
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas Bamber * Package name: libstring-dirify-perl Version : 1.01 Upstream Author : Ron Savage * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/String-Dirify * License : Artistic_1 Programming Lang: perl Description : convert a string into a directory like name -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110105180534.27755.77331.report...@leonhartsberger.periapt
Bug#608899: ITP: libtest-image-gd-perl -- module for testing images using GD
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas Bamber * Package name: libtest-image-gd-perl Version : 0.03 Upstream Author : Stevan Little * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Test-Image-GD/ * License : perl Programming Lang: perl Description : module for testing images using GD -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110104134206.13494.6349.report...@leonhartsberger.periapt
Bug#608897: ITP: libcgi-minimal-perl -- a lightweight cgi form processing package
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas Bamber * Package name: libcgi-minimal-perl Version : 1.29 Upstream Author : Benjamin Franz * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/CGI-Minimal/ * License : perl Programming Lang: perl Description : a lightweight cgi form processing package -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110104133359.13467.56432.report...@leonhartsberger.periapt
Bug#608896: ITP: libtext-lorem-perl -- generate random latin looking text
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas Bamber * Package name: libtext-lorem-perl Version : 0.3 Upstream Author : Adeola Awoyemi * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Text-Lorem/ * License : perl Programming Lang: perl Description : generate random latin looking text -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110104132722.13431.24362.report...@leonhartsberger.periapt
Bug#608883: ITP: libtest-cgi-multipart-perl -- test posting of multipart data
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas Bamber * Package name: libtest-cgi-multipart-perl Version : 0.0.3 Upstream Author : Nicholas Bamber * URL : http://search.cpan.otg/dist/Test-CGI-Multipart/ * License : perl Programming Lang: perl Description : test posting of multipart data -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110104114746.15048.63304.report...@leonhartsberger.periapt
Bug#608882: ITP: libcgi-application-plugin-ajaxupload-perl -- run mode to handle a file upload and return a JSON response
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas Bamber * Package name: libcgi-application-plugin-ajaxupload-perl Version : 0.0.3 Upstream Author : Nicholas Bamber * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/CGI-Application-Plugin-AJAXUload/ * License : perl Programming Lang: perl Description : run mode to handle a file upload and return a JSON response -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110104114102.15020.77630.report...@leonhartsberger.periapt
Bug#608880: ITP: libgeo-google-mapobject-perl -- code to help manage the server side of google maps api
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas Bamber * Package name: libgeo-google-mapobject-perl Version : 0.06 Upstream Author : Nicholas Bamber * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Geo-Google-MapObject/ * License : perl Programming Lang: perl Description : code to help manage the server side of google maps api -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110104113321.7699.84986.report...@leonhartsberger.periapt
Bug#608877: ITP: libtie-persistent-perl -- persistent data structures via tie made easy
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas Bamber * Package name: libtie-persistent-perl Version : 1.00 Upstream Author : Roland Giersig * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Tie-Persistent/ * License : perl Programming Lang: perl Description : persistent data structures via tie made easy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110104104803.4553.67387.report...@leonhartsberger.periapt
Bug#608838: ITP: libhtml-template-pluggable-perl -- extends HTL::Template with plugin support
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas Bamber * Package name: libhtml-template-pluggable-perl Version : 0.17 Upstream Author : Rhesa Rozedaal * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/HTML-Template-Pluggable/ * License : perl Programming Lang: perl Description : extends HTL::Template with plugin support I will also bundle the related Helpers modules. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110103212535.19845.41393.report...@leonhartsberger.periapt
Bug#608825: ITP: libtest-mocktime-datecalc-perl -- fake time for Date::Calc functions
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas Bamber * Package name: libtest-mocktime-datecalc-perl Version : 5 Upstream Author : Kevin Ryde * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Test-MockTime-DateCalc * License : GPL3 Programming Lang: perl Description : fake time for Date::Calc functions another module I a using -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110103182913.8133.65136.report...@leonhartsberger.periapt
Bug#608824: ITP: libtest-html-w3c-perl -- wrapper for testing purposes around W3C service
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas Bamber * Package name: libtest-html-w3c-perl Version : 0.3 Upstream Author : Victor * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Test-HTML-W3C/ * License : perl Programming Lang: perl Description : wrapper for testing purposes around W3C service 'orrible little module, but I'm currently using -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110103182224.8095.10181.report...@leonhartsberger.periapt
Bug#606511: ITP: libcgi-application-plugin-tt-perl -- Add template toolkit support to CGI::Application
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas Bamber * Package name: libcgi-application-plugin-tt-perl Version : 1.05 Upstream Author : Cees Hek * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/CGI-Application-Plugin-TT/ * License : perl Programming Lang: perl Description : Add template toolkit support to CGI::Application This module is currently in libcgi-application-exta-plugin-bundle-perl however there is now a related LastModified module whch can be packaged as a component. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20101209212655.6243.87268.report...@leonhartsberger.periapt
Bug#606508: ITP: libcgi-application-plugin-authorization-perl -- authoriation framework for CGI::Application
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas Bamber * Package name: libcgi-application-plugin-authorization-perl Version : 0.07 Upstream Author : Cees Hek * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/CGI-Application-Plugin-Authorization/ * License : perl Programming Lang: perl Description : authoriation framework for CGI::Application This is currently part of libcgi-application-extra-plugin-bundle-perl but will be moved out because there is now an active directory driver. The latter will be included as a component. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20101209211936.6188.95182.report...@leonhartsberger.periapt
Bug#605530: ITP: libcgi-application-plugin-authentication-perl -- CGI::Application authentication module
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas Bamber * Package name: libcgi-application-plugin-authentication-perl Version : 0.19 Upstream Author : Nicholas Bamber * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/CGI-Application-Plugin-Authentication/ * License : Perl Programming Lang: Perl Description : CGI::Application authentication module This module is already in libcgi-application-extra-plugin-bundle-perl. However this is the largest module in that package and that is a large and unwieldy package. However this package will still be a bundle because it will include all the modules on CPAN that are within the CGI::Application::Plugin::Authentication name space. To faciliate this it will use the pkg-components tool and in fact will be the first package to do so. On account of the complexities inherent in trying to split up a large package this package will initially be uploaded only to experimental. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20101130222930.11622.25751.report...@leonhartsberger.periapt
Bug#605522: ITP: libcgi-application-plugin-anytemplate-perl -- use any template system from within CGI::Application
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas Bamber * Package name: libcgi-application-plugin-anytemplate-perl Version : 0.18 Upstream Author : Michael Graham * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/CGI-Application-Plugin-AnyTemplate/ * License : Perl Programming Lang: Perl Description : use any template system from within CGI::Application This module is already packaged in libcgi-application-extra-plugin-bundle-perl. However that is a large and unwieldy package and this is one of the largest modules in that package and would stand much better on its own. However on account of the complexity of splitting packages I will upload to experimental only. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20101130221140.4900.46111.report...@leonhartsberger.periapt
Bug#605137: ITP: libcss-dom-perl -- implementation of the DOM interface to CSS
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas Bamber * Package name: libcss-dom-perl Version : 0.13 Upstream Author : Father Chrysostomos * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/CSS-DOM/ * License : perl Programming Lang: perl Description : implementation of the DOM interface to CSS needed for w3c-linkchecker -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20101127185033.32110.71366.report...@leonhartsberger.periapt
Bug#605064: ITP: libtest-identity-perl -- assert the referential identity of a reference
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas Bamber * Package name: libtest-identity-perl Version : 0.01 Upstream Author : Paul Evans * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Test-Identity/ * License : Perl Programming Lang: Perl Description : assert the referential identity of a reference needed to upgrade IO::Async -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20101126212226.3393.31457.report...@leonhartsberger.periapt
Bug#605062: ITP: libtest-database-perl -- facilitates testing against several databases
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas Bamber * Package name: libtest-database-perl Version : 1.11 Upstream Author : Phillpe Bruhat * URL : http://seach.cpan.org/dist/Test-Database * License : perl Programming Lang: perl Description : facilitates testing against several databases This module is needed to upgrade libdatetime-format-dbi-perl. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20101126211543.3356.63511.report...@leonhartsberger.periapt
Bug#602040: ITP: libmodule-starter-plugin-simplestore-perl -- Three methods for managing Module::Starter templates
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas Bamber * Package name: libmodule-starter-plugin-simplestore-perl Version : 0.143 Upstream Author : Ricardo Signes * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Module-Starter-Plugin-SimpleStore/ * License : perl Programming Lang: perl Description : Three methods for managing Module::Starter templates 1.) Store templates in a file 2.) store templates in a directory 3.) store templates in the module _DATA_ file -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20101031224336.8049.27812.report...@leonhartsberger.periapt
Bug#602027: ITP: libmodule-starter-plugin-tt2-perl -- TT2 templates for Module::Starter::Template
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas Bamber * Package name: libmodule-starter-plugin-tt2-perl Version : 0.125 Upstream Author : Ricardo Signes * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Module-Starter-Plugin-TT2/ * License : perl Programming Lang: perl Description : TT2 templates for Module::Starter::Template Very sensible approach for building on Module::Starter. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20101031214308.7474.94225.report...@leonhartsberger.periapt
Bug#601498: ITP: pkg-components -- support for packaging components
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas Bamber * Package name: pkg-components Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : Nicholas Bamber * URL : http://github.com/periapt/pkg-components/ * License : Artistic Programming Lang: perl Description : support for packaging components This is a Debhelper plugin I am developing to provide packaging support for packages with multiple upstream tarballs. It builds on the support available in 3.0 (quilt) format. The README file gives a fairly accurate picture of the current status. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20101026182246.2374.97674.report...@leonhartsberger.periapt
Re: Thinking about bundles
Raphael, Thanks for the feedback. However I have to say that Debian as a whole cannot have it both ways. Either ftp-master lifts the restriction on small modules or there has to be decent support for "components". I have started work on this (http://github.com/periapt/pkg-components/blob/master/TODO) though I have some way to go. (And it is not my highest priority). Catalyst is not actually the best example in some ways of the utter horribleness of bundles. It is actually a coherent set of modules even if they are not distributed that way on CPAN. I prefer CGI::Application and the current package structure there is much worse. Development/Debugging tools that one might reasonably want to keep off a production machine are mixed in with core modules. In another of the bundles modules are grouped together that are not even necessarily compatible. For example no one is going to use both "AnyTemplate" and "TT". So yes if the ftp-master's restriction is going to be lifted then fine. The whole business of bundles can die. However I do not seriously believe that will happen. And if you actually (clothes peg tightly fastened onto nose) look into these modules and try to maintain one it gets worse. Having the tools in Debian but not officially encouraged might be a workable compromise if it comes to it. Raphael Hertzog wrote: On Thu, 09 Sep 2010, Nicholas Bamber wrote: I have recently looked into a number of bundle packages. All of them have different implementations of the debian/rules although the ones I looked at had clearly once had a common parent. Hence I have been kept awake at night thinking how this situation might be improved. In the article, I mentionned that bundling unrelated software is not a good idea in general (mainly because there's no common software version to use). So I think that we should not create any infrastructure to make it even easier to create those bundles. Cheers, <>
Thinking about bundles
I have been looking into the packaging of bundles - that is packages
that have multiple upstream sources. There was recently an article on
the subject:
http://raphaelhertzog.com/2010/09/07/how-to-use-multiple-upstream-tarballs-in-debian-source-packages/
.
However one must notice this quote:
"The supplementary tarball is now part of the source package but we’re
not making anything useful out of it. *We have to modify debian/rules*
... to install the new files in the binary package."
I have recently looked into a number of bundle packages. All of them
have different implementations of the debian/rules although the ones I
looked at had clearly once had a common parent. Hence I have been kept
awake at night thinking how this situation might be improved. The
following proposal draws upon the ideas I have picked up from those bundles.
All those bundles were perl ones though I think I have managed to make
this proposal language neutral.
Proposal: dh_components
Purpose: Support for additional components in debian/rules
To be activated one would need to run "dh --with components $@" and also
there would have to be a "debian/components" directory.
Directory structure
debian/components/ rules
" / " / copyright.in
" / " / [component1] / rules
" / " / " / control
" / " / " / copyright
" / " / " /patches
" / " / " /watch
For each component there would be directory below the debian/components
directory. Files that could be in an individual directory are as follows:
watch: Just the same as a normal watch file.
patches: Just the same as a normal quilt patches directory
copyright: This would not be a full copyright file. It would consist
only of the stanzas relevant to the component.
control: This would be in the same format as the main control file but
would only accept certain fields - namely a long description fragment
and various dependencies such a Depends, Recommends, Suggests, Conflicts
etc. Build dependencies would not be supported as there would be no way
such information could be used.
rules: This would be an executable description described in more detail
later.
Of the above file I think only the copyright and control files would be
mandatory. There would optionally be a rules file at the
debian/components directory.
The '--with' option
===
There would need to be a 'Debian/Debhelper/Sequence/components.pm' the
sole purpose of which would be to install the 'dh_components' hook just
before 'dh_installdocs'.
The 'uscan_components' script
===
This would be a wrapper around uscan. It would iterate through the
components and run 'uscan --watchfile [file]' specifying the components
watch file and passing on any arguments that make sense. It would make
sense to integrate this functionality into uscan, but this script would
be a work around whilst the project is experimental.
The 'dh_components' script
==
This would have three jobs:
* Patching together the copyright file from a template
'debian/components/copyright.in' and the copyright files in the
component directories.
* Patching together various variable substitutions such as
${components:Depends}, ${components:Recommends}, ${components:Conflicts}
and notably ${components:Description} from the component control files.
These should be used in the main debian/control file.
* Running the build process for each component. The build process would
consist of the following phases:
1.) *copy* from the component source directory to a build area
2.) *patch* the source in the build area using the components patches
directory. This includes a link from [component source
copy]/debian/patches to [component patches area] so that the quilt
config which works for the main package should also work for the component.
3.) *configure* the copy in the build area
4.) *build* the source in the build area
5.) *test* the source in the build area
6.) *install* the source from the build area to the package install area
(usually debian/[package]/...).
Exactly how this would work would depend on the combination of the rules
file in the "components" directory and the component "rules" files in
each individual components directory. This would allow some components
to be handled in a standard package wide manner and others to get
special treatment -- possibly only at one build stage. There would also
be arguments to instruct dh_components to only handle certain components
and only certain tasks or build stages. This would be useful in
debugging and managing component patches (see below)
The 'rules' file
=
The 'rules' file must be an executable script. The spec is intended to
make it easily implementable as a make file though this should not be
assumed. It should pick up the component being worked on from the
DH_COMPONENT environment variable and the build stages 1-6 should all be
targets. The rules file is not required to implement all six targets but
it must imple
Bug#594854: ITP: libexporter-renaming-perl -- Allow renaming of symbols on import
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas Bamber * Package name: libexporter-renaming-perl Version : 1.19 Upstream Author : Anno Siegel * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Exporter-Renaming * License : Perl Programming Lang: Perl Description : Allow renaming of symbols on import Required by an existing module -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100830082413.7955.69571.report...@leonhartsberger.periapt
Bug#594767: ITP: libapache-htgroup-perl -- Manage Apache authentication group files
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas Bamber * Package name: libapache-htgroup-perl Version : 1.22 Upstream Author : Rich Bowen * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Apache-Htgroup/ * License : Perl Programming Lang: Perl Description : Manage Apache authentication group files Required to upgrade some CGI::Aplication modules -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100829094307.8652.60066.report...@leonhartsberger.periapt
Bug#594764: ITP: libtest-weaken-perl -- Test that freed memory objects really were freed
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas Bamber * Package name: libtest-weaken-perl Version : 3.004000 Upstream Author : Jeffrey Kegler * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Test-Weaken * License : Perl Programming Lang: Perl Description : Test that freed memory objects really were freed Seems to be needed to fix some CGI::Application modules -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100829092428.8317.54251.report...@leonhartsberger.periapt
Bug#594699: ITP: libtest-regression-perl -- test library for comparing output against normative output
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas Bamber * Package name: libtest-regression-perl Version : 0.5 Upstream Author : Nicholas Bamber * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Test-Regression/ * License : Perl Programming Lang: Perl Description : test library for comparing output against normative output Needed for upgrade of existing modules -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100828134246.18047.52193.report...@leonhartsberger.periapt
Bug#594523: ITP: libhtml-scrubber-perl -- A package to clean up HTML
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas Bamber Useful in creating web form bckends to a rich text editor. The package itself seems to be rather dead and there are a number of bugs in rt which could probably be usefully fixed as patches. * Package name: libhtml-scrubber-perl Version : 0.08 Upstream Author : D.H * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/HTML-Scrubber/ * License : Perl Programming Lang: Perl Description : A package to clean up HTML -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100826172543.2545.38512.report...@leonhartsberger.periapt
Bug#592986: ITP: w3c-sgml-lib -- DTDs etc for W3C markup validator
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas Bamber * Package name: w3c-sgml-lib Version : 1.1 Upstream Author : http://www.w3.org * URL : http://validator.w3.org/dist * License : W3C-SOFTWARE Programming Lang: SGML/XML/DTD etc Description : DTDs etc for W3C markup validator These are the files required for the W3C markup validator. They are distributed by w3.org as a separate tarball and I propose packaging them separately as they may be useful to others. I already have them working in my own test environment. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100814195939.13189.87314.report...@leonhartsberger.periapt
Re: less is somehow in a sour state
I don't see how you can really have packages maintained by more than one
person. I reckon the always has to be one person responsible. So I was
wondering exactly what extra privileges those persons would have.
Norbert Preining wrote:
On Mo, 02 Aug 2010, Nicholas Bamber wrote:
So you would want an extra control field "extra-contacts" being a list
of emails that would receive the same emails as the maintainer but would
have no special privileges with respect to uploading or ownership of the
package except possibly to orphan the package in some circumstances. Or
perhaps just a "subscribe to this package" button on PTS.
What are you talking about???
Andreas clearly stated:
" ... are maintained by more than one person ... "
Is that unclear? And before he proposed to move these kind of packages
to collab-maint.
Reading helps.
Best wishes
Norbert
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Re: less is somehow in a sour state
So you would want an extra control field "extra-contacts" being a list of emails that would receive the same emails as the maintainer but would have no special privileges with respect to uploading or ownership of the package except possibly to orphan the package in some circumstances. Or perhaps just a "subscribe to this package" button on PTS. Andreas Tille wrote: On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 06:46:44PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: No, *cc:ing* the maintainer on a mail sent to *debian-devel* does not make it clear that the question is directed *at the maintainer*. Formally you are right, but I would consider a maintainer as "not really interested" if he misses the chance to answer this kind of mails. That's why I come back to my initial proposal: We should try to reach a state where high popcon packages are maintained by more than one person, especially if the maintainer does not care about pings like "CCed in debian-devel mail about problems in his package". Kind regards Andreas. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4c56ab5b.1070...@periapt.co.uk
Would appreciate advice on Debian Policy and draft webapp sub policy
I am in the process of trying to fix the bugs associated with w3c-markup-validator. I have hit a particular problem as I look into #477792. The package requires a web server with CGI support and support for SSI includes. The dependencies specify a dependency on "apache2 | httpd". The latter conjunct makes no sense to me. The httpd virtual package explicitly does not provide CGI support - one needs httpd-cgi for that. So lets say I change the dependency to "apache2 | httpd-cgi". I suppose also the package should be tested against other web servers in httpd-cgi apart from apache. Now looking down the list in httpd-cgi 'tntnet' could my eye. Looking at its description I don't see how it can cope with cgi scripts not written explicitly for it. So I suspect either its description should be clarified or it should be removed from the httpd-cgi virtual package. Now how about the SSI include functionality? I assume (but do not know) that webservers other than apache2 support SSI. However it seems unlikely that all the servers do. So I believe that this dependency should be simplified to "apache2" but leaving the door open to adding additional conjuncts after suitable testing. Lets say that some how this was done and actually the dependency is now "apache2 | X". I am then left with the problem of making sure that the config is suitably adapted as necessary for webserver X. Now we come to the nub of the problem. The bug report suggests that the post install script should run "a2enmod include" (and then bounce the webserver). I looked for guidence in the policy manuals but could not find any indication of how to handle dependencies of this sort. Bouncing the webserver seems a bit drastic in some ways. Maybe the person in charge might want to install the modules during the day but bounce the web server late at night. It seems a big step to me for a package to take this choice away from a the person in charge. Assuming one does make the post install script work that way, what would the post remove script do? It cannot blindly run "a2dismod include". The more I think about this the worse it gets. I summary: * I believe the dependency should be tightened from "apache2 || httpd" to "apache2 || X" (which currently means "apache2"). * I believe that tntnet should be removed from the httpd-cgi virtual package. * I believe the w3c-markup-validator source package should generate a separate deb package for every supported web server. * What am I suppose to do with dependencies like that on "mod_include" being enabled? * Could we have all of this clarified in the draft webapp policy? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4c4ea962.6060...@periapt.co.uk
Bug#590079: ITP: w3c-linkchecker -- Script to check web links
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas Bamber * Package name: w3c-linkchecker Version : 4.6 Upstream Author : W3 * URL : http://validator.w3.org/docs/checklink.html#csb * License : W3C Programming Lang: perl Description : Script to check web links This package was peviously available under lenny, but was removed for FHS violations. I would like to fix them. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100723130424.4773.1059.report...@bishop.periapt
Re: How to make Debian more attractive for users
Okay so that's what I learnt in school today. Could we have a link to it on the from page? There is room in that red menu bar. Actually I tried to look for it under "support" and various other places, but I could not find it. Paul Wise wrote: On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 9:21 PM, Nicholas Bamber wrote: I reckon a forum would be much easier to finance (even with moderators) than a phone line. It could probably be integrated with one of the mailing lists which would go a long way to make it look friendlier. forums.debian.net has existed for years. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4c4862bb.6010...@periapt.co.uk
Re: How to make Debian more attractive for users
I reckon a forum would be much easier to finance (even with moderators) than a phone line. It could probably be integrated with one of the mailing lists which would go a long way to make it look friendlier. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4c4845f2.3050...@periapt.co.uk
Re: How to make Debian more attractive for users, was: Re: The number of popcon.debian.org-submissions is falling
I would have thought that would be really confusing. It sounds like "what is the purpose of this machine" question you get during installation. Better would be stable => solid, testing => edgy, unstable => bleeding_edge That said I think there is noting wrong with the current terms. Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: Hi all, and there is another point, I would like to mention. The naming of the repository is not well chosen, as it let new and unexperienced people to debian feel a wrong way. The names "stable" "testing" and "unstable" let the poeople think, debian is using crippled software, which is unstable, not well tested. In fact, even software from "unstable" is often running better, than other (including closed source) software. I suggest for this, to thinlk about other names, for example - stable = server - testing = desktop - unstable = super_modern Just an example. Have fun! Hans-J. Ullrich Just an example -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4c4840b2.1060...@periapt.co.uk
