Bug#612694: ITP: scanmonitord -- scanner button daemon
Hi, On Thursday 10 February 2011 01.32:12 Jakub Wilk wrote: Description : scanner button daemon Scanmonitord is a daemon which runs device monitors on one or more devices. [...] I'm curious (and you might want to add it to the description): does this tie in with modern desktop systems via DBUS or whatever, or is this a standalone thing? cheers -- vbi -- The ants in France, stay mainly on the plants. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Bug#566126: ITP: openpgm -- Implementation of the Pragmatic General Multicast protocol
Hi Steven, On Thursday 13 January 2011 13.18:58 Steven McCoy wrote: A year later and I have a basic Autoconf/Automake system in trunk for OpenPGM ready to package for Debian. Nice to see progress, note that I'm not involved in zeromq packaging anymore (except to sponsor the odd upload) because I didn't follow up on my plans to do cool stuff with zeromq. So my interest on getting involved in openpgm packaging is similarly limited at this time. Still, it would obviously be nice to have openpgm available in Debian, so maybe somebody else is interested in working with you on this and/or sponsor your upload. cheers -- vbi -- featured product: the GNU Compiler Collection - http://gcc.gnu.org signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Bug#607699: RFP: opennx -- Open Source NX Client
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: opennx Version : 0.16 Upstream Author : ?? * URL : http://opennx.net/ * License : LGPL Programming Lang: C++ (with wxwidgets) Description : Open Source NX Client OpenNX is a Free / Open client to NX based terminal servers. It should be able to replace NoMachine's non-free nxclient. Upstream already provides Debian pacages, but I haven't investigated them yet; I have seen that there's a directory wxWidgets patches on the sourceforce download page, looks like it's required to patch wxwidgets. So packaging this might not be trivial... cheers - -- vbi -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk0QT2oACgkQKqpm2L3fmXqRJgCfVD+zU+GH+NwfDZiTIvzkqsQM lLQAoIltu6q6kZcLlG+G7TJPG2XW2z+f =5m2D -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20101221065544.5660.60336.report...@localhost
Bug#607043: ITP: jwhoisserver -- Java Whois Server - a small whois server written in java
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Adrian von Bidder avbid...@fortytwo.ch -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 +++ * Package name: jwhoisserver Version : 3.3.0 or newer Upstream Author : Klaus Zerwes zero-sys.net zero...@users.sourceforge.net * URL : http://jwhoisserver.net/ * License : Affero GPL Programming Lang: Java Description : Java Whois Server - a small whois server written in java Java Whois Server - a small, fast and highly configurable RFC 3912 compliant whois server written in java and using RDBMS (mysql,postgresql,hsqldb,sqlite,firebird) as a storage engine. +++ I'm currently working with Klaus and several friendly people on IRC to improve the package since I don't know dbconfig and Java, which the package uses. If somebody else wants to continue who knows more about the technology: don't hesitate, I'm not keen on maintaining this package. We're using it at work, so having it in Debian would be nice. Current status of my work is at https://fortytwo.ch/hg/pkg-jwhoisserver. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk0HKswACgkQKqpm2L3fmXqXtwCgjFLQ+VNKV8xcQ1mIY3U/Ckl2 ixMAoLroIAv7AH6n+AqZSylCzDbZOZj1 =rGqJ -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20101214082912.5924.3667.report...@localhost
Bug#587505: O: zeromq
Package: wnpp Severity: normal -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I had hoped to be able to do more than just play around with zeromq for a short time, but can't find the time. I had hoped to avoid filing an orphaning bug since Mato offered to continue packaging, but I've not heard from him so far. http://lists.zeromq.org/pipermail/zeromq-dev/2010-May/003747.html Note that I'm still willing to sponsor package uploads, but since I'll not really use 0mq, I'll only be able to ceck basic packaging related things. (Mato: I'd find it cool if you could apply as Debian Maintainer or Debian Developer so sponsoring your uploads would only be a temporary solution.) cheers - -- vbi -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: get my key from http://fortytwo.ch/gpg/92082481 iEYEARECAAYFAkwp1KIACgkQKqpm2L3fmXr8WwCeOq05oKqu3CVVWqcItimAFTML URsAn1Si6zTQyTlG92PUON0Ook8PQcHG =Wh6A -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100629111032.10388.48158.report...@localhost
Bug#566126: retitle
retitle 566126 RFP: openpgm -- Implementation of the Pragmatic General Multicast protocol thanks Just had a quick look at openpgm source code. Does look a bit scary since I don't know scons or cmake, and the number of compiler warnings the build spits out is a bit too high for my taste. In addition, openpgm is apparently linked statically. So I'll not package this, but just use the version included with zeromq for now. cheers -- vbi -- featured product: PostgreSQL - http://postgresql.org signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Bug#519583: Proprosed package
On Sunday 03 January 2010 03.46:03 D Haley wrote:
A proposal for review has been uploaded to mentors:
http://mentors.debian.net/cgi-bin/sponsor-pkglist?action=details;package=
opticalraytracer
Some build dependency is missing:
+++
~/tmp/opticalraytracer-2.7$ debuild
dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -D -us -uc
dpkg-buildpackage: set CFLAGS to default value: -g -O2
dpkg-buildpackage: set CPPFLAGS to default value:
dpkg-buildpackage: set LDFLAGS to default value:
dpkg-buildpackage: set FFLAGS to default value: -g -O2
dpkg-buildpackage: set CXXFLAGS to default value: -g -O2
dpkg-buildpackage: source package opticalraytracer
dpkg-buildpackage: source version 2.7-1
dpkg-buildpackage: source changed by D Haley my...@yahoo.com
dpkg-buildpackage: host architecture i386
fakeroot debian/rules clean
QUILT_PATCHES=debian/patches quilt --quiltrc /dev/null pop -a -R || test $? = 2
No patch removed
rm -rf .pc debian/stamp-patched
dh_testdir
dh_testroot
rm -f build-stamp configure-stamp
# Add here commands to clean up after the build process.
ant clean
Unable to locate tools.jar. Expected to find it in
/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/lib/tools.jar
Buildfile: build.xml
...
+++
tools.jar is in openjdk-6-jdk (or, probably, some of the other jdk
packages, so a more generic dependency like openjdk-6-jdk | java-sdk
would be nice. But I'm not sure which of java-sdk or java{2,5,6}-sdk
is the right one to depend on.
Similarly: ant-optional is needed because of the junit framework.
And: javahelper, because of jh_depends.
Other than that: package works for me.
(Won't sponsor it, though, since I don't know enough about Java to feel
confident.)
cheers
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Bug#519583: Don't have time
retitle 519583 RFP: opticalraytracer -- A Utility that analyzes systems of lenses. thanks I won't have time for this package anytime soon :-( -- vbi -- Now, with penguins, (cuddly such), contented means it has either just gotten laid, or it's stuffed on herring. Take it from me, I'm an expert on penguins, those are really the only two options. -- Linus Torvalds signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Bug#544176: O: postgrey -- greylisting implementation for Postfix
Package: wnpp Severity: normal Heyho! Sibnce the packaging team on alioth (pkg-postgrey) was formed, there has been no further action. I still hope they will pick up the pieces soon-ish and address the too large (for such a small package) number of open bugs. In the mean time, I hereby declare postgrey orphaned. If somebody who is not currently in pkg-postgrey wants to take the package, I'm happy to add him. Some more info on http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-postgrey-devel/2009-May/00.html cheers -- vbi -- featured product: Debian GNU/Linux - http://debian.org signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Bug#531754: ITP: webkitkde -- WebKit plug-in for Konqueror
Package: wnpp Owner: Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder avbid...@fortytwo.ch Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-...@lists.debian.org * Package name: webkitkde (like upstream svn dir; binary: konq-plugin-webkit like konq-plugins) Version : svn snapshots Upstream Author : Various, see source package * URL : http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/WebKit * License : LGPL Programming Lang: C++ Description : WebKit plug-in for Konqueror A Plug-In for the Konqueror web browser, allowing the WebKit HTML renderer to be used instead of the traditional KHTML. . NOTE: This is a highy experimental software and may not work as well as expected. (Yes, I want to include the NOTE. I'll also keep it in sid, or even experimental if discussion shows this is preferred.) Preliminary package: http://fortytwo.ch/debian/webkitkde hg-buildpackage repository: https://fortytwo.ch/hg/pkg-webkit (contrary to hg-buildpackage docs: this is a combined debian and upstream repo and I'll create an upstream branch when I import the next svn snapshot.) Feedback very welcome; see especially the shlib-dependency and the lintian overrides noted in the source package. (I've just packaged a few arch:all perl scripts so far, so ...) Yes, I know that a few build-deps are probably missing, don't waste your energy on that. cheers -- vbi -- Les axiomes sont des créations libres de l'esprit humain. -+- Albert Einstein, La géométrie et l'expérience -+- signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Bug#474965: Packaging libxml-feedpp-perl
Hi, Thanks a lot for your comments! On Wednesday 16 April 2008 19.15:45 gregor herrmann wrote: The build-dependency on quilt and debian/patches.mk seem unnecessary but probably they are preparations for fixing the manpage problem? It's really just something from my hgdebuild script that I'm developing - and preparation for when I need to fix upstream bugs. (But I should probably fix my script to omit those in case where there are no patches against upstream...) debian/copyright could be converted to the new machine-readable format. Which I have yet to look at, yes. One lintian warning on the binary package: W: libxml-feedpp-perl: manpage-has-errors-from-man usr/share/man/man3/XML::FeedPP.3pm.gz invalid option -wmac I don't get this warning when running lintian against the .changes file. Probably depends on the man/groff version then. Since it's a pure perl package I have to admin that I've not built this in a sid chroot (and you can all flame me now :-) ObDisclaimer: If you want to share the reponsibility for the package feel free to put it into the pkg-perl group's svn repository: http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebianPerlGroup But then I'd feel obligated to read the mailing list, for which I lack the time. Patches bugs (NMUs if necessary) still welcome, though. And besides, having just decided that I'd go with mercurial and develop my very own hgdebuild, I'll not do svn anymore :-) cheers -- vbi -- Compile with -wIngo. -- tilladam in kmail's changelog signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Bug#474965: Packaging libxml-feedpp-perl
Yodel! I'd be happy if anybody could have a quick look at my XML::FeedPP package and offer comments. The package is a dh-make-perl generated package, edited a little bit. No changes to upstream so far. http://fortytwo.ch/debian/libxml-feedpp-perl/ One lintian warning on the binary package: W: libxml-feedpp-perl: manpage-has-errors-from-man usr/share/man/man3/XML::FeedPP.3pm.gz invalid option -wmac No idea what's that about. cheers -- vbi -- Frija (free' ya) was the wife sneeze of Woden and the queen count of the spread gods. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Bug#432697: btrfs packaging
retitle 432697 RFP: btrfs -- Checksumming Copy on Write Filesystem tags 432697 -pending thanks Hi all, Some of you may be aware that I created Debian packages for btrfs (the new filesystem created by folks at Oracle). I have, however, come to the conclusion that I need to reduce the time spent in front of computers outside of business hours for a time, so I decided not to upload the packages (actually: decided to have Ganneff reject them, they already were uploaded, but not yet out of the NEW queue.) Anyway: if anybody feels inclined to take over, the packages are at http://fortytwo.ch/debian/btrfs/. I will losely follow btrfs development, and if you're not yet a Debian developer but have passed TS / PP, I might agree to sponsor the packages. A big thank you for the comments I got from you (Kel Daniel). For whoever might pick up the pieces: http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2007/07/msg00180.html contains these comments. Pending: rename the btrfs-modules-source package to btrfs-modules (I've already uploaded to NEW at that point and decided not to bother.) Greetings Thanks for all the Fish -- vbi -- Could this mail be a fake? (Answer: No! - http://fortytwo.ch/gpg/intro) signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Bug#432697: ITP: btrfs
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: btrfs Version : 0.5 Upstream Author : Oracle * URL : http://oss.oracle.com/projects/btrfs/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: C Description : Checksumming Copy on Write Filesystem (Experimental!) Btrfs is a new filesystem that is designed to be scalable, efficient and fast. Notable features include very fast offline filesystem check, online filesystem checking, checksumming of all metadata and fast, writable filesystem snapshots. . This package contains the helper programs (mkfs, fsck, btrfsctl) used to work with btrfs filesystems. . IMPORTANT: The Btrfs disk format is not yet finalized, and it currently does not handle disk full conditions at all. Things are under heavy development, and Btrfs is not suitable for any uses other than benchmarking and review. . Web page: http://oss.oracle.com/projects/btrfs/ In fact, preliminary packages are already available at http://fortytwo.ch/debian/btrfs Review of these packages welcome. (Yes, they're not signed. -EMYMISTAKE) cheers -- vbi -- pub 1024D/92082481 2002-02-22 Adrian von Bidder [EMAIL PROTECTED] Key fingerprint = EFE3 96F4 18F5 8D65 8494 28FC 1438 5168 9208 2481 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Bug#403584: RFH: apt-cacher -- caching proxy system for Debian package and source files
[There is a X-debbugs-cc header which allows easier handling of bug mail gated to the lists] On Monday 18 December 2006 10:16, Eduard Bloch wrote: And/Or help developing or rewritting the incomplete designated successor, apt-cacher-ng (currently C++ with some sugar). Not to dissuade anyone from yet another interesting project (I have my own share of reinvent-the-wheel projects), but I think yet another new apt cache project needs some justification. What are the downsides of approx and apt-proxy that merit the effort of rewriting apt-cacher? (I assume the current apt-proxy codebase is not up to your standards if a rewrite has been found necessary.) cheers -- vbi -- Some of you may have heard of this crazy company called SCO (aka Smoking Crack Organization) who seem to have a hard time believing that open source works better than their five engineers do. -- Linus Torvalds pgpJQU8O74oHb.pgp Description: PGP signature
Bug#401157: ITP: ingres -- Ingres 2006 Business Open Source Database
On Wednesday 06 December 2006 10:32, you wrote: Adrian von Bidder wrote: Yuck! Have a cup of tea please. I intend to help both debian and ingres by packaging this beast, not start just-another-flamewar on which dbms has the longest toes. I certainly didn't intend to start a flamewar, sorry if I came across a bit aggressive. I just tried to point out in what ways your proposed description is unsatisfactory to me. Ingres is certainly a piece of software worth having in Debian, and since the package description is usually the first thing people see, it is quite important that it gives enough of the right kind of information. Ingres is arguably the oldest dbms in operation, Put that sentence in the description and probably one of the most mature ones at that. That perhaps not - maturity is always a matter of judgment. Are there any good comparisons? (Note that I do not doubt the maturity of Ingres!) It's been in production since the 1960's and was Michael Stonebrakers brainchild before he initiated postquel which led to postgres. Put that in. Ingres is a vastly scalable, Again: scalability is unclear how to measure, and all serious databases scale. ansi SQL-92 compatible database server. Put that in. It has a C2 security clearance Put that in, if your package actually stands up to the claim. Such clearance usually comes with specific versions, or even with specific versions deployed on specific platforms, so you'll have to be careful. and has been in used in mission critical deployments such as aerospace route-planning for Lufthansa for decades. (MS Windows is being used to drive US war ships, I'm told. Mission critical, too.) It was bought by Relational Technologies, then by CA, and now spun off into a GPL product maintained and supported by the Ingres Corporation. They are currently stil struggling to embrace the FOSS strategy as part of their corporate culture, so the FOSS community surrounding it is still kind of meagre. I'd leave that out. It can do large-scale clustering. dito It can even cluster hybrid databases such as oracle, mssql, sybase, etc in a single cluster. It needs a proprietary extension to do so though. Now *that's* worth mentioning, even with the proprietary extension disclaimer. It can do multi-master replication using a two-phase commit setup to ensure replication of transactions to all nodes. 2PC is becoming standard, but I'd still mention it since not all db products have it. It can do updates on view of view of view... Another feature I think is worth mentioning, some other dbs don't even have simple updateable views. It can do table based, column based, and value based partitioning. dito. Just some of the things that caught my attention, and by no means a definitive list. Obviously you'll not be able to put the whole feature catalog in the descripton, even though it's called long description... :-) Still, just to make my point: with these comments, I get the information that * Ingres is an old project, the parent of Postgresql * it does SQL92 * can, with some extension, cluster heterogenous db (it might not be such a godd idea to put in the description, on second thought. README.Debian perhaps.) * supports distributed environments through 2PC * has state of the art features such as partitioning and updateable views. Most of this is interesting to me when I pick a database system, whereas phrases like scaleable, use in middion critical systems etc. are just noise because there is just no way to tell what they mean, exactly. I hope you see what I mean. Friendly greetings -- vbi -- Could this mail be a fake? (Answer: No! - http://fortytwo.ch/gpg/intro) pgpSxjvNipPPj.pgp Description: PGP signature
Bug#401157: ITP: ingres -- Ingres 2006 Business Open Source Database
On Friday 01 December 2006 11:10, Paul J Stevens wrote: The Ingres 2006 DBMS can support a wide range of applications, from ad hoc queries to large-scale, mission-critical production applications which require 24-hour-a-day, 7-day-a-week service. The Ingres 2006 Intelligent DBMS features a threaded, multi-server architecture which can fully harness the power of today's scalable multiprocessors. Yuck! The package description is intended to describe the package, not advertise for it. Please rework with that in mind. Is Ingres an SQL database or something other? What SQL dialect does it speak? SQL99? SQL92? Subset of the latter? Advertise, if you must, actual features not present in the other database systems - PostgreSQL and mysql both are used in a wide range of applications, from ad hoc queries to large-scale, mission-critical production applications which require 24-hour-a-day, 7-day-a-week service.. PostgreSQL has clustering support and uses the power of today's scalable multiprocessors fully if configured properly. (I have not much experience with Mysql, but I bet its proponents will tell you that it does that, too.) cheers -- vbi -- Today is Prickle-Prickle, the 47th day of The Aftermath in the YOLD 3172 pgpI3XzPDLFWs.pgp Description: PGP signature
Bug#362040: ITP: rt2x00 -- RT2400/2500/2570 wireless network drivers
On Wednesday 12 April 2006 00:23, Ben Hutchings wrote: * Package name: rt2x00 This package would contain version 2 of the rt2x00 drivers that are currently distributed as separate rt2400 and rt2500 packages (and a proposed rt2570 package). Did you talk with Aurelien (maintainer of rt2400-source/2500-source)? I'm just wondering - perhaps he has already worked on something like this, or planned to do so shortly? It probably belongs in experimental initially. I don't see why - there isn't an existing rt2x00 that would be replaced by a potentially non-working new version, so it won't do any harm in unstable, while getting wider exposure than it would in experimental. A 'don't migrate to testing' RC bug would be a good idea, though. greetings -- vbi -- Available for key signing in Zürich and Basel, Switzerland (what's this? Look at http://fortytwo.ch/gpg/intro) pgpOHIMLPcVd1.pgp Description: PGP signature
Bug#342547: ITP: asterisk-prompt-es -- Spanish prompts for the Asterisk PBX
On Thursday 08 December 2005 15.38, Victor Seva wrote: Version : x.y.z Upstream Author : Name [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://www.example.org/ * License : (GPL, LGPL, BSD, MIT/X, etc.) Please *do* take the 2 minutes it takes ... -- vbi -- Winter is the season in which people try to keep the house as warm as it was in the summer, when they complained about the heat. pgpUCts1dYyUp.pgp Description: PGP signature
Bug#337946: ITP: rapple -- XSLT-based web site generation system
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: rapple Version : currently CVS only, first distribution tarball in preparation Upstream Author : Alan Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://rapple.sourceforge.net/ * License : BSD Description : XSLT-based web site generation system (long description in preparation) (Upstream is a coworker, good cooperation should be possible.) cheers -- vbi -- featured link: http://www.pool.ntp.org pgpGMZccI2pJX.pgp Description: PGP signature
Bug#195948: Bug#335173: ITP: dspam -- Highly accurate and fast statistical spam filter
merge 335173 195948 thanks On Saturday 22 October 2005 12.08, Rudolf Weeber wrote: * Package name: dspam I am packaging this program, because we are using it the students' representation at university, and having a standardized, easy to install package would be very handy. Have you talked with all the other people who are interested in packaging dspam for Debian? (see http://bugs.debian.org/195948 - this ITP was already filed several times in the last 2 years.) greetings -- vbi -- Oxymoron: Microsoft Works. pgpQ9ZUSoaLU0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Bug#288769: cedilla - Debian packaging: bad news
retitle 288769 RFP: cedilla -- ascii to postscript renderer thanks Hi, Some of you might be aware that I intended to package cedilla, the Unicode-aware text renderer (and possible a2ps etc. replacement). Unfortunately, I don't see that I can spend the time to really know this package well enough to be able to package it - I'd have to learn at least enough about Lisp and the runtime framework to not embarass myself with trivial bugs on every update..., and frankly I don't care too much about Lisp. I still feel that cedilla (or some other Unicode aware text renderer) is needed in Debian, so I'm really sorry to leave this. greetings -- vbi -- The moon is made of green cheese. -- John Heywood pgpmvIc5xyGOI.pgp Description: PGP signature
Bug#312897: ITP: texlive -- The TeXlive system packaged for debian
On Monday 13 June 2005 09.41, frank wrote: [texlive vs. teTeX] Let me add some comments from my point of view (Debian teTeX maintainer). Sounds like packaging texlive and trying to get it really stable would be the thing to do, with the goal of phasing out teTeX for etch+1 Not becuase I don't value your work, Frank, but from what you said it sounds like texlive is a better maintained superset of teTeX - or are there reasons why somebody specifically would want to stick to teTeX (assuming a transition plan etc. etc. to solve all Debian/packaging specific issues.) greetings -- vbi [pity you couldn't make it on Saturday.] -- OpenPGP encrypted mail welcome - my key: http://fortytwo.ch/gpg/92082481 pgpUAoYheMCLJ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Bug#297438: remove pdp11-unix-v{5,6,7}: orphaned, non-free
retitle 297437 RM: pdp11-unix-v5 -- orphaned, non-free, virtually unused retitle 297438 RM: pdp11-unix-v6 -- orphaned, non-free, virtually unused retitle 297440 RM: pdp11-unix-v7 -- orphaned, non-free, virtually unused reassign 297437 ftp.debian.org reassign 297438 ftp.debian.org reassign 297440 ftp.debian.org thanks As stated, Kevin recently orphaned these non-free packages. Additionally, popcon shows almost no use, a query on d-devel brought exactly zero responses, a query on IRC brought a 'go for it' (not that this says much). On Wednesday 16 March 2005 14.37, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 02:33:06PM +0100, Adrian von Bidder wrote: So I close this (298030) bug and retitle/reassign the wnpp ones now? Wait any longer? d-d isn't usefully archived (that is, per issue), like a buglog is, for later review by QA and afterwards FTP-team. Yeah, retitle reassign the wnpp would be best, supplying a reason. Ok, I hope this does what I want the way you (QA) want it. The delay was: because snapshots.d.n doesn't archive non-free, I sent the question about removals additionally to all people who previously maintained the packages or filed bugs against it (4 people or so). 2 of the email addresses bounced, the others didn't react in the last 10 days. greetings -- vbi -- Die Zukunft kann man am besten voraussagen, indem man sie selbst gestaltet. -- Alan Kay pgprniFCVDSXS.pgp Description: PGP signature
Bug#297438: remove pdp11-unix-v{5,6,7}: orphaned, non-free
Hi Jeroen,
[removing pdp11-unix-v{5,6,7}]
On Saturday 12 March 2005 00.00, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote:
Please don't file a new bug for this, but rather retitle and reassign
the wnpp bugs appropriately,
Ok, shame on me, should've read the docs
prefereably by first mailing this to the
wnpp bugs,
Not clear what you mean here - first just suggest the removal just inside
the O: bugs? Doesn't get any audience at all.
and when you get no negative feedback in a few weeks or so,
you can reassign retitle appropriately.
I cc:ed the bug report to d-devel, there was no negative feedback - no
feedback at all, indeed. On IRC I received a 'go ahead' from at least one
person (not that this signifies much ;-)
So I close this (298030) bug and retitle/reassign the wnpp ones now? Wait
any longer?
See http://qa.debian.org/howto-remove.html
http://lists.debian.org/debian-qa/2004/09/msg00049.html (yes, that could
use some examples, look at http://bugs.debian.org/ftp.debian.org though
for examples)
Duly noted. Thanks.
greetings
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Bug#297438: The pdp11-unix-v{5,6,7} packages
Hi,
You have previously done some work on the pdp11-unix-v{5,6,7} packages
(previously simh-unix-images) - is there any value in keeping them?
Kevin has recently orphaned these packages, they're non-free, and -
according to popcon - barely anybody uses them. So I was going to file for
removal, since they can always be resurrected from snapshot.d.n - except
that snapshot apparently doesn't carry non-free. Query on IRC got a 'go
for it', and on d-devel got no response at all.
greetings
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Bug#290276: RFA: alevt -- X11 Teletext/Videotext browser
On Thursday 13 January 2005 11.22, Andreas Metzler wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: normal I request an adopter for the alevt package. I've got rid of the necessary hardware to use it. (TV is just not worth the tax/toll.) alevt is very little work, and upstream is responsive. I still have my TV card, though I rarely use it. I've subscribed to the pts now, I'll try to help with bugs since you haven't got the hardware - but I've never looked into alevt deeper than using it once every 2 or 3 months. I'd be happy if you'd keep the package for now (or, of course, find a willing maintainer.) cheers -- vbi -- featured product: the KDE desktop - http://kde.org pgpXFI6IGgsL9.pgp Description: PGP signature
Bug#191404: acknowledged by developer (Bug#191404: fixed in libwww-mechanize-perl 0.60-1)
On Monday 06 October 2003 08:03, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report #191404: ITP: libwww-mechanize-perl -- Automate interaction with websites, which was filed against the wnpp package. Wheee! Thanks. Thanks. (OTOH, I see that request-tracker3 has since been packaged, so I wonder if the current release doesn't require this library anymore...) cheers -- vbi -- Could this mail be a fake? (Answer: No! - http://fortytwo.ch/gpg/intro) pgpnET17nb5kL.pgp Description: signature
