Bug#835086: Bug#941708: ITP: nextcloud-server -- Nextcloud folder synchronization tool (server)

[Anthony DeRobertis]

You should fix the project license on GitLab, right now it's showing all rights 
reserved. That should be in the project settings somewhere... 

Also, have you seen ? That appears like it'll 
eventually allow a non-downloader package.

Bug#405625: ITP: omfs-source -- Optimized MPEG Filesystem (OMFS) Linux kernel driver [source]

[Anthony DeRobertis]

Joseph Nahmias wrote:
> OMFS is a module for the Linux 2.6 kernel.  It is used by MythTV and
> the Rio Karma digital audio player.
>   

But what, prey tell, does it do? And did you mean ReplayTV, not MythTV?




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Bug#396117: ITP: cpufreq-detect -- detect CPU frequency control driver

[Anthony DeRobertis]

Peter Palfrader wrote:
> How come it never outputs p4_clockmod?  I use that happily on several
> different machines.
>   

I can confirm I've tried it on a machine. The performance impact was
substantial (at least if I allowed it to go to its lowest speed); the
power consumption difference was immeasurable[0].

Have you actually measured the power savings?



[0] Immeasurable as in the measurement equipment (an UPS with load
indication, in this case) could not notice any difference. The same UPS
does notice a substantial difference with K8 chips.


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Bug#375047: ITP: srtp -- Secure RTP (SRTP) and UST Reference Implementations

[Anthony DeRobertis]

Jonas Smedegaard wrote:

> (Include the long description here.)
>   
Yes. Please do so.

Writing the long description in the ITP allows debian-devel to help spot
any mistakes in, and make suggestions for improvement to, the long
description.


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Bug#373824: RFH: ntp -- Network Time Protocol: network utilities

[Anthony DeRobertis]

Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: normal
>
> We could use a few more people to help with the ntp package.  We have a
> new mailing list and a subversion repository hosted under the pkg-ntp
> project on alioth.  There is a boatload of bugs to deal with, most of
> which are not that hard but need someone with a little time and
> dedication to evaluate them.
Hmmm, IANADD, but I'd like to help out as much as I can. I have
subscribed to the mailing list.


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Bug#320672: ITP: leo -- English-German dictionary using dict.leo.org

[Anthony DeRobertis]

Helge Kreutzmann wrote:

>  leo is a program for the command line which translates German words

leo is a command-line program that translates...

>  into their English counterpart and vice versa using dict.leo.org.

Suggestion: "Equivalent" instead of "counterpart."

> This packages needs libnet-dict-leo-perl.

Is that already packaged or ITP'd?


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Bug#320637: ITP: lltag -- Massive and magic command-line mp3/ogg file tagger

[Anthony DeRobertis]

Brice Goglin wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Brice Goglin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 
> 
> * Package name: lltag
>   Version : 0.6.1-1
>   Upstream Author : Brice Goglin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> * URL : http://bgoglin.free.fr/lltag/
> * License : GPL
>   Description : Massive and magic command-line mp3/ogg file tagger

I don't think "massive" is the right word here, unless this program is
300MB, in which case I question if it should be put in the archive.

Also, "magic" is not a very useful description of the program.

> 
>  lltag is a command-line tool to set ID3 tags of mp3 files
>  and Ogg tags. It may be used to tag multiples files at
>  once by comparing their filename or pathname with
>  different formats.
>  Formats may be either passed on command-line or guess
>  by the program automagically.

Strike the last sentence. Usage information doesn't belong here.
Instead, put "by compare their ... against a configurable list of
formats." in the sentence above.


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Bug#320623: ITP: monouml -- computer-aided software engineering (CASE) friendly tool

[Anthony DeRobertis]

David Moreno Garza wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: David Moreno Garza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 
> 
> * Package name: monouml
>   Version : 0.1a
>   Upstream Author : Mario Carrión <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, and others.
> * URL : http://monouml.sf.net/
> * License : GPL and LGPL
>   Description : computer-aided software engineering (CASE) friendly tool
> 
> CASE tool based on the mono Framework.

CASE? It looks like you're trying to continue the short description in
the extended description (you expanded the acronym there). Don't do
that. See Policy 3.4 for why.

> .
> Designed for allowing to all UNIX/Linux developers faster computer
> systems design using a friendly GUI application.

This is awkward, to say the least. Consider asking
debian-l10n-english@lists.debian.org for help phrasing this.

> Not only a diagramming
> tool but rather a complete CASE tool based on the OMG standars and 
> fully compatible with propietary tools.

OMG standards? What are those? "The description field needs to make
sense to anyone, even people who have no idea about any of the things
the package deals with." from Policy 3.4.2.


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Bug#315903: ITP: evilfinder -- proves that any given subject is evil

[Anthony DeRobertis]

W. Borgert wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: "W. Borgert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 
> Package name: evilfinder

Best. Package. Ever.


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Bug#203896: Processed: I'll take yydecode

[Anthony DeRobertis]

Martin Michlmayr wrote:

>>sharutils contains the only "uudecode" in Debian, so I'm not sure what
>>the commentor in the bug was talking about.
> 
> 
> OK, interesting.

Yeah, maybe uudecode isn't the package he's talking about. apt-cache
search yenc didn't help though. A quick check shows that we've had
sharutils upstream version 4.2.1 since at least potato[0], so I'm pretty
sure it doesn't have yEnc.

[0]
http://ftp.kulnet.kuleuven.ac.be/mirror/archive.debian.org/debian-archive/dists/potato/main/binary-i386/utils/


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Bug#203896: Processed: I'll take yydecode

[Anthony DeRobertis]

Martin Michlmayr wrote:
>>I currently use this package to handle yEnc files which pan proves 
>>unable to decode, e.g., because the first post is missing. Advantages 
>>over sharutils are, if nothing else, being less than an eighth the size.
> 
> 
> Can you please review bug #177370 and let me know whether it makes
> sense to keep this package (i.e. does uuencode/uudecode really have
> this functionality or not).

I just tried uudecode (from sharutils 1:4.2.1-13), and it does not seem
to support yEnc at all.

According to
http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_contents.pl?word=uudecode&searchmode=searchfiles&case=insensitive&version=unstable&arch=i386
sharutils contains the only "uudecode" in Debian, so I'm not sure what
the commentor in the bug was talking about.

I guess I should go ahead and start preparing an updated package for
yydecode.


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Bug#203896: Processed: I'll take yydecode

[Anthony DeRobertis]

Martin Michlmayr wrote:

> Can you please review bug #177370 and let me know whether it makes
> sense to keep this package (i.e. does uuencode/uudecode really have
> this functionality or not).

The main thing I've used yydecode for is that it has managed to handle
every broken, incomplete, mangled file I have thrown at it. I'll give
uudecode a spin on some when I come across them, or intentionally create
some and report back.



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Bug#203896: I'll take yydecode

[Anthony DeRobertis]

retitle 203896 ITA: yydecode -- decode yEnc archives
submitter 203896 !
thanks
I currently use this package to handle yEnc files which pan proves 
unable to decode, e.g., because the first post is missing. Advantages 
over sharutils are, if nothing else, being less than an eighth the size.

Installed-Size: 44  (yydecode)
Installed-Size: 388 (sharutils)
I'll need a sponsor once I prepare a package. cc'd to debian-mentors.
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Bug#309562: RFP: libcrypt-random-perl -- Cryptographically Secure, True Random Number Generator.

[Anthony DeRobertis]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

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  Version : 1.25
  Upstream Author : Vipul Ved Prakash, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* URL : http://search.cpan.org/~vipul/Crypt-Random-1.25/
* License : "same terms as Perl itself"
  Description : Cryptographically Secure, True Random Number Generator.

Crypt::Random is an interface module to the /dev/random device found on
most modern unix systems. It also interfaces with egd, a user space
entropy gathering daemon, available for systems where /dev/random (or
similar) devices are not available. When Math::Pari is installed,
Crypt::Random can generate random integers of arbritary size of a given
bitsize or in a specified interval.

- -- System Information:
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  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (130, 'unstable'), (120, 'experimental')
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Bug#304833: RFP: reveng-tools -- collection of linux firmware reverse engineering tools

[Anthony DeRobertis]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

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* Package name: reveng-tools
  Version : r787
  Upstream Author : Harald Welte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* URL : https://svn.gnumonks.org/trunk/reveng-tools/
* License : GPL
  Description : collection of linux firmware reverse engineering tools

Tools to aid in finding potential GPL infringements in embedded
firmware including:

magic_ofs   tries to find 'magic' bytes at every offset within a given
file.  works like 'file', just at every offset instead only
at the beginning.

blft_decompress extract a bFLT executable with gzip'ed sections

cramfs_extract  extract a cramfs (Compressed ROMFS) filesystem independent
of the host endinanness

romfsc  check (and extract) a ROMFS filesystem.  Supposed to work
similar to cramfsck, including the '-x' option for extract.



- -- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (130, 'unstable'), (120, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.10-bohr
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Bug#304266: ITP: sdate -- never ending september date

[Anthony DeRobertis]

Josselin Mouette wrote:
Is there any real-life use for this program?
Is there any real-life use for filters?
/usr/games/jethro
/usr/games/kraut
/usr/games/cockney
/usr/games/jive
/usr/games/nyc
/usr/games/ken
/usr/games/ky00te
/usr/games/newspeak
/usr/games/eleet
/usr/games/b1ff
/usr/games/chef
/usr/games/jibberish
/usr/games/upside-down
/usr/games/rasterman
/usr/games/studly
/usr/games/fudd
/usr/games/censor
/usr/games/spammer
/usr/games/uniencode
Though, rather than having a seperate package for this, it'd probably be 
better to add it to some other package of small toys.

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Bug#283994: ITP: glastree -- builds live backup trees, with branches for each day

[Anthony DeRobertis]

Matthew Palmer wrote:



Sounds like you need to expand your repertoire a bit. 


Possibly so, but unfortunately my time is a finite. There are far too 
many languages (even in debian main) for me to learn them all.


Can you imagine a world in which your argument was taken at face value? 
There would be a reimplementation of basically everything in every language

under the sun, just so that some random person could avoid learning a new
language.  Ghods what a hideous mess that would be.


Sounds like ftp.debian.org.

Bug#283994: ITP: glastree -- builds live backup trees, with branches for each day

[Anthony DeRobertis]

Matthew Palmer wrote:


The advantage of using glastree over pdumpfs is that it is implemented
in Perl rather than Ruby (this is in fact the reason that I encountered
it in the first place).



How is that an advantage of use?


We're talking about free software. Modifying it to fit your needs is a 
perfectly valid, indeed encouraged use. Personally, I know perl, but not 
ruby.

Bug#266628: RFP: ocrad -- OCR program implemented as a filter

[Anthony DeRobertis]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

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* Package name: ocrad
  Version : 0.8
  Upstream Author : Free Software Foundation
* URL : http://www.gnu.org/software/ocrad/ocrad.html
* License : GPL
  Description : OCR program implemented as a filter

(from the website)
GNU Ocrad is an OCR (Optical Character Recognition) program implemented
as a filter and based on a feature extraction method. It reads a bitmap
image in pbm format and produces text in byte (8-bit) or UTF-8 formats.

Also includes a layout analyser able to separate the columns or blocks
of text normally found on printed pages.

Ocrad can be used as a stand-alone console application, or as a backend
to other programs. 

- -- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (130, 'unstable'), (120, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.26-bohr
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8

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Bug#243133: RFP: mpgedit -- Join or cut MP3 files without a decode/encode step

[Anthony DeRobertis]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

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* Package name: mpgedit
  Version : 0.7p2
  Upstream Author : Adam Bernstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* URL : http://www.mpgedit.org/mpgedit/
* License : GPM
  Description : Join or cut MP3 files without a decode/encode step

mpgedit is an MPEG 1 layer 1/2/3 (mp3), MPEG 2, and MPEG 2.5 audio file
editor that is capable of processing both Constant Bit Rate (CBR) and
Variable Bit Rate (VBR) encoded files. mpgedit can cut an input MPEG
file into one or more output files, as well as join one or more input
MPEG files into a single output file. Since no file decoding / encoding
occurs during editing, there is no audio quality loss when editing with
mpgedit. When editing VBR files that have a XING header, mpgedit updates
the output file's XING header information to reflect the new file size
and average bit rate.

mpgedit has a command-line mode, a curses mode, and (with xmpgedit) an X
mode.


- -- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (102, 'unstable'), (101, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.22-bohr
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US

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Bug#226593: ITP: prime -- a Japanese PRedictive Input Method Editor

[Anthony DeRobertis]

On Sat, 2004-01-17 at 15:22, Hidetaka Iwai wrote:

[ Adding debian-i18n-english to the CC list for obvious reasons. ]

> Upstream author suggests the following description.
> 
>  PRIME is a Japanese PRedictive Input Method Editor.

This looks like a good short description by dropping "PRIME is a".

>  PRIME predicts user's input words using the knowledge of natural

PRIME predicts the user's input using knowledge of natural

>  language and the history of user's operations, and reduces the cost of

languages and the user's previous input to reduce the difficulty of

(Rationale: Languages, because multiple languages can be supported.)

>  typing by the user.  For example, if a user wants to input

typing. For example, when the user

>  "application" and types "ap" as the beginning characters of the word,

types "ap", intending "application",

>  PRIME might predict some candidate words like "apple", "application",

PRIME might suggest "apple", "application",

>  "appointment", etc...  And then the user can input "application"

and "appointment." The user then

>  easily by selecting the word from the candidate words by PRIME.

easily selects "application."

> 
>  PRIME works for Japanese at this stage, although it essentially can
>  deal with other languages.

Currently, PRIME only supports Japanese.

BTW: I am only minimally familiar with Japanese, but does PRIME use
Romanji, or something else? If that isn't a question whose answer is "X,
DUH!" to someone who knows Japanese, you might want to include it here.

Also, if the answer is "yes", how hard would it be to substitute in a
European-language dictionary?


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Bug#227109: ITP: xrestop -- X11 client server resource usage monitor

[Anthony DeRobertis]

On Jan 10, 2004, at 19:15, Moray Allan wrote:


Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

* Package name: xrestop
  Version : 0.2
  Upstream Author : Matthew Allum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* URL : http://freedesktop.org/Software/xrestop
* License : GPL version 2 or above
  Description : X11 client server resource usage monitor

  Xrestop uses the X-Resource extension to provide top(1)-like 
statistics
  for each connected X11 client's server-side resource usage. It is 
intended
  as a developer tool to aid more efficient server resource usage and 
debug

  server-side resource leakage.


That sounds neat. I've always wondered where all that X memory went.



xrestop requires the XRes extension, supported by XFree86 4.3 and 
above, and

by the freedesktop.org X server.


Unfortunately, unstable still has 4.2 :-(

Bug#226593: ITP: prime -- a Japanese PRedictive Input Method Editor

[Anthony DeRobertis]

On Jan 6, 2004, at 10:40, Hidetaka Iwai wrote:


Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

* Package name: prime
  Version : 0.6.5
  Upstream Author : Hiroyuki Komatsu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* URL or Web page : http://sourceforge.jp/projects/prime/
* License : GPL
  Description : a Japanese PRedictive Input Method Editor

 PRIME predicts user's input words using the knowledge of natural
 language and the history of user's operations, and reduces the cost
 of typing by the user.  For example, if a user wants to input
 "application" and types "ap" as the beginning characters of the word,
 PRIME might predict some candidate words like "apple", "application",


What languages does this package work for? From the short description, 
I'd guess Japanese; from the long description English; and overall, I'm 
not sure.


Please clarify the long description.

Bug#224163: pvpgn ITP

[Anthony DeRobertis]

On Dec 28, 2003, at 15:09, Robert Millan wrote:


 - pvpgn is a fork of the (dead) bnetd project.
 - bnetd was sued by Blizzard on basis of the DMCA, the current legal 
status

   is undetermined
 - in Debian, we already have packages of bnetd, maintained by Dennis 
L. Clark

   (CCed).


I'd say put it in main, right beside bnetd.

If Blizzard decides to send Debian a DMCA notice, we can deal with that 
then. But since they haven't for bnetd, I find it unlikely.

Bug#222807: ITP: distcmd -- Distribute load to multiple machines using ssh

[Anthony DeRobertis]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

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* Package name: distcmd
  Version : 0.9
  Upstream Author : Anthony DeRobertis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* URL : http://ntp.derobert.net/DistCmd/
* License : GPL
  Description : Distribute load to multiple machines using ssh

 DistributedCommand allows you to run commands load-balanced over
 one or more machines. Notable features include performing all remote
 control of machines using ssh; transfering files over scp or a shared
 filesystem, on a per-host basis; and avoiding copying through hardlinks
 when possible.
 .
 Out of the box, it supports running oggenc to encode Ogg Vorbis
 streams. An example of how to use it with Jack the Ripper is included.


NOTE: Packages are available at the above URL. That URL is not going to
  last forever, though

  I need a sponsor for this.

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Bug#213127: ITP: extlib -- extended standard library for OCaml

[Anthony DeRobertis]

On Sunday, Sep 28, 2003, at 09:59 US/Eastern, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:



Actually ExtLib contains modules implementing: enumeration over 
abstract


I suggest striking "actually"

Bug#213045: ITP: astats -- Stats for aMule

[Anthony DeRobertis]

On Sat, 2003-09-27 at 18:59, Julien Delange wrote:

>   Description : Stats for aMule
> 

what? even apt-cache search aMule doesn't help (seems to pull up a lot
of nethack --- damn Amulet).

> 
> aStats is the successor of the well known xStats Statistics

so well known I've never heard of it.

> Generator, since bigbob have forked xMule to aMule, there's
> no need to use xStats anymore, so he modified scripts to 
> handle properly aMule statistics (by the way, xStats is not
> anymore supported).

I hope you don't plan on using that for the description...


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Bug#199637: RFP: darkgps -- monitor program for Motorola Oncore GPS receiver used with NTP

[Anthony DeRobertis]

Package: wnpp
Version: unavailable; reported 2003-07-01
Severity: wishlist

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* Package name: darkgps
  Version : 0.940
  Upstream Author : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* URL : http://www.darksmile.net/GPS/gpssoft.html
* License : GPL
  Description : monitor program for Motorola Oncore GPS receiver used with 
NTP

DarkGPS reads the shared memory file created by the NTO Oncore driver
and displays useful information such as latitude, longitude, height,
TRAIM status, and satellite tracking status.

DarkGPS includes a daemon that makes the Oncore data available over
TCP/IP and a client which does the display. Even if you don't have your
own Oncore, you can still watch the status display from darksmile.net's
GPS.

With DarkGPS, you can amaze your "friends" with your geekiness by saying
things like "PRN 8 is rising in the northwest" Or, worse, by pointing to
it.

[ Note: Last paragraph under "Software Details" says "Just a reminder
  that all code is released under GPL." ]

- -- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
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Bug#198957: ITP: email -- Send email from command line, either via MTA or SMTP, with optional encryption

[Anthony DeRobertis]

On Monday, Jun 30, 2003, at 07:13 US/Eastern, Millis Miller wrote:


This means that I have to do what - include some sort of notice from 
him that it is permitted for Debian?


Yes, you'd have to get the author's permission for Debian and its 
mirror sites to redistribute. If possible, maybe he could just allow 
redistribution of unmodified source, and binaries built from such to 
anyone, not just Debian?

Bug#198957: ITP: email -- Send email from command line, either via MTA or SMTP, with optional encryption

[Anthony DeRobertis]

On Friday, Jun 27, 2003, at 11:05 US/Eastern, Luca - De Whiskey's - De 
Vitis wrote:



On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 12:32:59AM +0100, Millis Miller wrote:

* License : Custom


Its license is non-free, not "Custom":
 *

...

 SHALL NOT BE RE-SOLD OR REDISTRIBUTED WITHOUT PRIOR AGREEMENTS WITH
 * CLEANCODE.ORG


"...or redistributed without prior agreements..."

That can't be packaged, even for non-free.

Bug#195226: ITP: riece -- redesign of the Liece IRC client for Emacs

[Anthony DeRobertis]

On Thu, 2003-05-29 at 06:33, OHASHI Akira wrote:

>   Description : redesign of the Liece IRC client for Emacs
> 
> Riece is a redesign of the Liece IRC client.

I hope you don't intend to use that as your package description.


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Bug#167921: ITP: httrack -- offline browser : copy websites to your computer

[Anthony DeRobertis]

On Tue, 2002-11-05 at 14:04, Xavier Roche wrote:

>   Description : offline browser : copy websites to your computer

How does this compare to wget, which can already do everything mentioned
in both the short and long descriptions, as well as URL rewriting?


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Bug#167921: ITP: httrack -- offline browser : copy websites toyour computer

[Anthony DeRobertis]

On Sat, 2002-11-09 at 11:45, David D.W. Downey wrote:
> Why should it matter if another package provides the same services. maybe
> people don't wnat to use that particular package?

I should of been clearer: I wasn't objecting to it being packaged, just
asking a question. And hopefully suggesting something to consider when
writing the package description.

Also, in general, we can't assume the ITPer (or anyone!) is familiar
with all of Debian's 10K packages, and all their uses. Pointing out
packages which appear to do the same thing allows the ITPer to consider
if the other package meets his needs (thus saving him time), how his
package is different from other offerings (leading to description
improvements), and maybe even a sharing of code and ideas between the
two projects.

(Note "how does this compare..." and "everything mentioned"; not "is
bloat" and "same as wget".)


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Bug#163620: ITP: filmgimp -- A motion picture editing tool for painting and retouching of movies

[Anthony DeRobertis]

Just me, or is 16-bits per component a 48-bit (or 64, with alpha) color 
depth, not a 16-bit one?


The description is rather confusing in that respect. I've always 
considered my monitors displaying r8g8b8 to have 24 bits of color, not 
8.

Bug#150551: ITP: wmcoincoin -- Stupid dockapp for browsing DaCode sites news and board

[Anthony DeRobertis]

On Fri, 2002-06-21 at 18:55, Joseph Carter wrote:
> [...] another containing a few
> gigabytes of porn, 

I, for one, would like to state that this could be a very useful
package, particularly if the package is of ... good proportions ;-)

Now back to your regularly scheduled flamefest!


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Bug#150551: ITP: wmcoincoin -- Stupid dockapp for browsing DaCode sites news and board

[Anthony DeRobertis]

On Fri, 2002-06-21 at 22:51, Joseph Carter wrote:

> > I'm sure there are many more; that was just a quick recolection and a
> > apt-cache search or two. 
> 
> Just because a silly thing has been done in the past does not mean that we
> should keep doing it.

Of course not. But its apparently not so silly as to be self-evident, if
silly at all; someone likes and I assume uses these packages.

A better solution, IMO, is to reduce the size of the Packages file by
splitting information out of it; this has already been proposed. It'd be
a lot of work. 

Another solution would be a Packages file with only the top n packages
from popularity contest, but that's generally called CD 1 ;-)


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Bug#150551: ITP: wmcoincoin -- Stupid dockapp for browsing DaCode sites news and board

[Anthony DeRobertis]

On Fri, 2002-06-21 at 18:30, Joseph Carter wrote:

> And this has what exactly to do with wmcoincoin though?

Absolutely nothing. However, it does have something to do with the
larger discussion of what to do about bloated packages files.

> The
> thing is someone's idea of a joke, and while I'm sure users of that
> website think it's rather amusing, the rest of the world doesn't see the
> humour.

There is plenty of precedent for this...

apt-cache show vigor
apt-cache show asr-manpages
apt-cache show funny-manpages
apt-cache show libhtml-munger-perl
apt-cache show filters
apt-cache show kodo
apt-cache show xodo
apt-cache show gcpegg

I'm sure there are many more; that was just a quick recolection and a
apt-cache search or two. 


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Bug#150551: ITP: wmcoincoin -- Stupid dockapp for browsing DaCode sites news and board

[Anthony DeRobertis]

On Thu, 2002-06-20 at 20:43, Joseph Carter wrote:

> bzip2 was packaged because someone thought it would be a useful thing to
> have in Debian.

You have greatly misunderstood the person you are replying to. He
suggested that Packages.bz2 would help (instead of Packages.gz). So,
here are stats from sid, free, i386. Packages.gz file downloaded from
ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/sid/main/binary-i386/

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:pkgz$ ls -l
total 10604
-rw-r--r--1 anthony  anthony   7341811 Jun 21 07:42 Packages
-rw-r--r--1 anthony  anthony   1519174 Jun 21 07:42 Packages.bz2
-rw-r--r--1 anthony  anthony   1970466 Jun 20 15:08 Packages.gz

So, using bzip2 -9 over gzip -9 seems to save a good 23%; quite nice,
actually.




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Bug#149895: RFP: webminstats -- statistics display for web

[Anthony DeRobertis]

Package: wnpp
Version: N/A; reported 2002-06-13
Severity: wishlist

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  Version : 0.8.6
  Upstream Author : Eric Gerbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
David Bouius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* URL : http://webminstats.sourceforge.net/
* License : GPL
  Description : displays disk, memory, cpu, etc. statistics as part
of webmin


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Bug#130632: RFP: cccc -- C and C++ Code Counter, a software metrics tool

[Anthony DeRobertis]

Package: wnpp
Version: N/A; reported 2002-01-24
Severity: wishlist

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  Version : 3pre48
  Upstream Author : Time Littlefair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* URL : http://.sourceforge.net/
* License : Public domain
  Description : C and C++ Code Counter, a software metrics tool


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Bug#130599: RFP: sts -- Test suite for (pseudo)-random number generators

[Anthony DeRobertis]

Package: wnpp
Version: N/A; reported 2002-01-23
Severity: wishlist

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* Package name: sts
  Version : 1.4
  Upstream Author : NIST
* URL : http://csrc.nist.gov/rng/rng2.html
* License : Public domain
  Description : Statistical test suite for (pseudo)-random number generators

List of tests (details at http://csrc.nist.gov/rng/rng9.html):
o Frequency (Monobits) Test
o Test for Frequency within a Block
o Runs Test
o Test for the Longest Run of Ones in a Block
o Random Binary Matrix Rank Test
o Discrete Fourier Transform (Spectral) Test
o Non-overlapping (Aperiodic) Template Matching Test
o Overlapping (Periodic) Template Matching Test 
o Maurer's Universal Statistical Test
o Lempel-Ziv Complexity Test
o Linear Complexity Test
o Serial Test
o Approximate Entropy Test
o Cumulative Sum (Cusum) Test
o Random Excursions Test
o Random Excursions Variant Test

Full public domain statement, from the website:
Software disclaimer:  "This software was developed at the National
Institute of Standards and Technology by employees of the Federal
Government in the course of their official duties.  Pursuant to
title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code this software is not
subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. The
NIST Statistical Test Suite is an experimental system. NIST assumes
no responsibility whatsoever for its use by other parties, and makes
no guarantees, expressed or implied, about its quality, reliability,
or any other characteristic. We would appreciate acknowledgment if
the software is used."

The NIST Statistical Test Suite source code is being made available
under the 'Technology and software - unrestricted' (TSU) license
exception of  §740.13 of the updated January 14, 2000 Export
Administration Regulations (EAR).  In accordance with EAR §740.17,
(g) (5), NIST has notified the Bureau of Export Administration (BXA)
of the location of this code.

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Bug#117123: ITP: iprint -- Trivial command-line integer print utility

[Anthony DeRobertis]

On Friday, October 26, 2001, at 10:20 , Adam Conrad wrote:


It looks to me like a quickie dec/hex/oct converter.

It takes a decimal, hex (with a leading 0x) or octal (with a leading 0)
value and shows you all three corresponding values.


You missed one ;-) It would appear to also print the character 
represented by that integer, should that integer be less than 
256 and that character be printable.


Not that I've even compiled it.

Bug#113051: RFP: bcp -- Copies files over links so lossy TCP does not work

[Anthony DeRobertis]

Package: wnpp
Version: N/A; reported 2001-09-20
Severity: wishlist

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  Version : 010103
  Upstream Author : "Clock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* URL : http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~clock/twibright/bcp/
* License : GPL
  Description : Copies files over links so lossy TCP does not work


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Bug#111749: RFP: hivemind -- Cyborg for Cadaver

[Anthony DeRobertis]

Package: wnpp
Version: N/A; reported 2001-09-09
Severity: wishlist

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http://www.erikyyy.de/cadaver/hivemind-1.1.tar.gz
GNU GPL

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Bug#111747: RFP: cadaverspyboss -- QT client to view cadaver games in `boss' mode

[Anthony DeRobertis]

Package: wnpp
Version: N/A; reported 2001-09-09
Severity: wishlist

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http://www.erikyyy.de/cadaver/spyboss.html
GNU GPL

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Bug#111746: RFP: cadaverserver -- A.I realtime combat simulation

[Anthony DeRobertis]

Package: wnpp
Version: N/A; reported 2001-09-09
Severity: wishlist

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URL: http://www.erikyyy.de/cadaver/server.html
Licence: GNU GPL

from the readme file:

CADAVER OVERVIEW
- 

Cadaver is a simulated world of cyborgs and nature in realtime.  The
battlefield consists of forests, grain, water, grass, carcass (of
course) and lots of other things. The game server manages the game and
the rules. You start a server and connect some clients. The clients
communicate with the server using a very primitive protocol. They can
order cyborgs to harvest grain, attack enemies or cut forest.  The
game is not intended to be played by humans! There is too much to
control. Only for die-hards: Just telnet to the server and you can
enter commands by hand. Instead the idea is that you write artificial
intelligence clients to beat the other artificial intelligences. You
can choose a language (and operating system) of your choice to do that
task. It is enough to write a program that communicates on standard
input and standard output channels. Then you can use programs like
"socket" to connect your clients to the server. It is NOT needed to
write TCP/IP code, although i did so :) The battle shall not be
boring, and so there is the so called spyboss client that displays the
action graphically on screen. You could also write a 3D client so that
the battle looks even fancier :)


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Bug#111748: RFP: catrats -- Top-ranked Cadaver cyborg

[Anthony DeRobertis]

Package: wnpp
Version: N/A; reported 2001-09-09
Severity: wishlist

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http://www.erikyyy.de/cadaver/catrats.html
GNU GPL

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Bug#82615: What about swapd?

[Anthony DeRobertis]

Nothing wrong with having two packages with the same functionality, but I 
think you might want to know about swapd: 


[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg -s swapd
Package: swapd
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: admin
Installed-Size: 46
Maintainer: Aigars Mahinovs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Version: 0.2-2
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.2-2)
Conffiles:
/etc/swapd.conf 69f4a010d3b288306b00a17b40b2c04e
/etc/init.d/swapd 06a94048d581176e6f21bf38716f45bf
Description: Swap demon for dynamic swap file creation
Swapd is a dynamic swapping manager for Linux. It provides the system with
as much swap space (virtual memory) as is required at a particular time by
dynamicly creating swap files. This is more convenient than using fixed swap
files and/or partitions because they (a) are unused most of the time and are
just taking up disk space; and (b) provide a limited amount of virtual 
memory.

.
On systems that have constant need for virtual memory it would still be
wise to use a swap partition in parallel with dynamic swapping, since swap
partitions provide much faster access than swap files.