Bug#630761: RFP: libczmq -- High-level C binding for ZeroMQ

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retitle 630761 ITP: libczmq -- High-level C binding for ZeroMQ
owner 630761 aque...@debian.org
thanks

Hi,

I'm intending to take over the packaging of libczmq.

I'll start by pushing the last stable (2.2.0) to collab-maint [0] (ready to
push). Packages are ready for upload too.
But please note that since I'm not (yet) a user of czmq, I may be missing
something.
So, any help, info, hint, test, ... will be welcome.

For further steps, I'll need to talk with the upstream (Pieter Hintjens,
cc'ed, is the upstream leader), to get visibility on the 3.0.0 timelines
and general roadmap.

Thanks to those of you cc'ed, for having paved the road!

cheers,
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Bug#691229: O: coherence -- Python UPnP framework

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Package: wnpp
Severity: normal
Owner: Debian QA Group 

Hi!

Since I don't use it myself, and I currently have less (no) time for debian
due to policy changes at Eaton, coherence is up for adoption.

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Bug#514733: ITP: pwrkap -- Centralized Power Distribution Unit (PDU) management

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Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

* Package name: pwrkap
Version: 7.20
Author: Darrick J. Wong 
(C) Copyright IBM Corp. 2008
* URL : http://pwrkap.sourceforge.net
* License: GPL 2
Description : Energy use monitor and Power Cap enforcement tools
pwrkap is a set of utilities that monitor computer energy consumption
and enforces an upper limit on the amount of power consumed by the
computer at any given time.


Side notes:
- I'm in touch with the upstream author (Darrick J. Wong from IBM),
- a new release is scheduled with fixes following my recent audit,
- 2 packages will be provided, to lower Depends and allow headless
installation: pwrkap and pwrkap-gui

cheers,
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Bug#506903: ITP: powerman -- Centralized Power Distribution Unit (PDU) management

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Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

* Package name: powerman
Version: 2.3
Author: The Regents of the University of California.
Produced at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Written by Andrew Uselton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
   Jim Garlick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
   Al Chu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
   Chris Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* URL : http://powerman.sourceforge.net
* License: GPL 2+
Description : Centralized Power Distribution Unit (PDU) management

 PowerMan is a tool for manipulating Power Distribution Units (PDUs) from a
 central location. It is suitable for remote operation in data centers or
 compute cluster environment.
 .
 Several RPC varieties are supported natively by PowerMan and
 Expect-like configurability simplifies the addition of new devices.
 .
 This package includes support for Genders, HTTP devices and Curses user
 interface.


Side notes:
- I'm in touch with the upstream maintainer (Jim Garlick),
- a new release is scheduled with some fixes planned, following my recent audit,
- a client library (libpowerman) will soon be available, to allow the
remote manipulation of a Powerman daemon,
- an integration of this library is underway in the Network UPS Tools.

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Bug#397087: ITP: policykit -- framework for managing administrative policies and privileges

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2007/9/12, Michael Biebl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Arnaud Quette schrieb:
> > Hi Michael,
> >
> > Any news on this point?
> >
> > I'm looking forward to completing the UPS support through HAL.
> > And part of this is the creation of policies using the PolicyKit...
>
> I've been working on the policykit(-gnome) and hal pieces lately.
>
> You can find it at
> http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-utopia/packages/experimental/hal/
> http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-utopia/packages/experimental/policykit-gnome/
> http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-utopia/packages/experimental/policykit/
>
> If you want to give these packages a try, I would welcome any feedback
> (you'd also want to use/compile gnome-mount from current svn, which
> already has the necessary PolicyKit bits).
> I'll probably release packages for experimental. Dunno yet when though,
> hopefully soon.

thanks for these update Michael.
I'll give you feedback soon.

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Bug#397087: ITP: policykit -- framework for managing administrative policies and privileges

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Hi Michael,

Any news on this point?

I'm looking forward to completing the UPS support through HAL.
And part of this is the creation of policies using the PolicyKit...

cheers,
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Bug#430642: ITP: python-lirc -- LIRC Support for Python

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Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Arnaud Quette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

* Package name: python-lirc
Version: 0.0.5
URL : http://pylirc.mccabe.nu/
* License: LGPL
Description: LIRC Support for Python
A module for Python that interacts with LIRC to give Python programs
the ability to receive commands from remote controls

Note:
- this package is needed for the Elisa Media Center,
- the long run approach might be to embed pylirc into lirc, or to
provide SWIG support in LIRC. This will be further discussed on the
LIRC mailing list.

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Bug#377777: ITP: coherence -- Python UPnP framework

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Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Arnaud Quette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

* Package name: coherence
Version: 0.2.1
* URL : https://coherence.beebits.net/
* License: mostly MIT, some parts under Python and AFL licenses
Programming Lang: Python
Description: Python UPnP framework
Coherence is a framework written in Python enabling your application
to participate in digital living networks, at the moment primarily the
UPnP universe.
.
Its objective and demand is to relieve your application from all the
membership/the UPnP related tasks as much as possible.
.
The core of Coherence provides a (hopefully complete) implementation of
 * a SSDP server,
 * a MSEARCH client,
 * server and client for HTTP/SOAP requests, and
 * server and client for Event Subscription and Notification (GENA)


Note that:
- Coherence is needed for Elisa (ITP #37) UPnP support,
- I've checked the source tree thoroughly. The only missing explicit
legal mention (header) is for tests/rpc_client.py (I guess MIT too).
And that's a tiny point since it's a trivial code that is not
installed (so only present in the orig.tar.gz file)
- possible future conflict with other UPnP implementations (such as
GUPnP <http://gupnp.org/>) have to be investigated and anticipated,
- the packaging is nearly complete. I will inject it into pkg-utopia asap.

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Bug#425916: ITP: pigment -- Rendering/widget/animation framework

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Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Arnaud Quette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

* Package name: pigment
 Version: 0.1.5
* URL : https://core.fluendo.com/pigment/trac/
* License: GPL v2 ; commercial licensing is also available
 Programming Lang: Python
Description: Rendering/widget/animation framework
Pigment is a Python library designed to easily build user interfaces
with embedded multimedia. Its design allows to use it on several
platforms, thanks to a plugin system allowing to choose the
underlying graphical API.


Notes:
- This library is now required for building elisa, the media center
solution (ITP by Loic Minier, #37)
- I'm currently reviewing the packages created by Philippe Normand
(from Fluendo, Elisa):
deb http://elisa.fluendo.com/packages sid main
deb-src http://elisa.fluendo.com/packages sid main
- a complete rewrite of both pigment and elisa is underway (0.3), and
is available in subversion as rewrite-1 branches. Note that these are
in early development stage and not yet usable.

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Bug#339794: Jahshaka and friends

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retitle 339794 RFP: mlt -- An open source multimedia framework
retitle 339796 RFP: mlt++ -- An open source multimedia framework (C++ wrapper)
retitle 364340 RFP: openlibraries -- A library suite for non-linear
editing, visual effects and rich media applications
retitle 335249 RFP: jahshaka -- Realtime editing and effects system
thanks

Though I think this app. is really needed on Debian, I'm throwing down
the towel since I've not anymore the needed time to work on it.

IIRC (not fresh in my mind), there was many problems such as:
- openlibraries don't build
- mlt/mlt++ contains non portable portion of code (assembly),
- jahshaka depends on lame (optional but there is a loss of feature if
not used) and a modified version of ffmpeg
- jahshaka itself wasn't much stable when I was working on it.

Thanks to Amaya for pushing me to update these reports and to
Christian for his help in trying to make these packages available in
Debian.

Finally, I would be pleased to help a bit somebody to give some love
to this and to get in touch with the upstream teams.

Christian might also have some beta packages available in his repos,
that can serve as a base.

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Bug#335249: Ping!

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Hello Amaya,

2007/2/20, Amaya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

Hi there,

This ITP is dated 22 Oct 2005, I know other ITPed software is
involved...
Did you make any progress on this?
Are there preliminary packages to test?
Is there any way we can be of assistance to get jahshaka packaged?


I don't know if Christian has done anything on his side.
I was about to threw the towel since my time has once again reduced
with my 2nd baby...

For jah, the problem was mainly IIRC some deps like lame which can't
be satisfied in Debian and thus mostly limit (or render unuseful) the
software.

I'm thinking about renaming these to RFP...

@Christian: more update on your side?
We can exchange a bit privately (biere et pizza à montbonnot ?) to
make a report and pass the hand...

Arnaud
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Bug#377777: elisa and debian

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2007/2/13, Loïc Minier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

tags 37 + pending
stop

On Tue, Feb 13, 2007, Arnaud Quette wrote:
> but you only consider the etch release there...

 ... Yeah like -- you know -- the release we're trying to ... err ...
 release ...


oh, that's the point I was missing.


> not relevant for etch, but you don't consider:
> - the buildd and compilation/arch problem that can be faced and
> solved, without waiting for etch to be released,
> - the possibility for others to audit and help to improve the package,
> - the possibility for sid derived distro to use all that.

 And this can all happen after etch.  I don't care about pushing
 packages for use in derived distros; I'm not participating in such a
 distro.

 So my priority should be working on a clean package so that it can be
 synced to Ubuntu?  Thanks, but no thanks.

 You can't imagine how it pisses me off to read from a DD that I should
 focus on packages which can not be included in the next Debian release
 so that Ubuntu can pull them.  Not only is this distracting me from
 other Debian tasks, but it's also encouraging me to stop working on --
 say -- closing RC bugs, for the benefit of $concurrent_distro.  And to
 top it off, a *DD* is doing this, someone who should know how painfully
 slow the release process already is.


seems you got me wrong Loïc.
First you should take a fresh beer to calm down a bit ;-)
next, you only focused on the 3rd thing I've stated (remember the 2
first! not for etch but only etch+1, ok, but still for Debian or
upstream).

you know what pisses me off with DD having your attitude, it's that
they think the battle is FLOSS against FLOSS and distros against
distros.
Yeah, a great deal for redmond guy, continue, you're on the good
way... to nowhere!

And finally:
- etch release doesn't stop me from uploading to sid and finding ftbts
and other problems for new software versions (even things that can hit
etch), while I'm not at rc bug killing.
- I'm the kind of DD who has made a partnership with an awful
industrial (MGE) that is supporting Debian (good) but also awfully
other distros (bad bad)
- I'm the kind of DD who is also an upstream in many areas, and who
like to see things well done from the top (upstream) to the bottom
(distros and user experience), whatever the distro is, the only point
is to be free...
- if there was no blocker, a simple upload wasn't worth such a mail!

Quite frankly guy, you aren't shooting at the right target... and
you're pissing on your shoes!
And to cry a bit louder, you should have cc'ed -devel, and possibly
fwd'ed to -private about this traitor DD!

Arnaud (now, I'll take my break to calm myself down!)
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Bug#377777: elisa and debian

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2007/2/9, Loïc Minier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

On Fri, Feb 09, 2007, Arnaud Quette wrote:
> elisa is now at 0.1.3, and it seems that you're lengthy mail has been read
> ;-)
> I've not gone deeply through, but it seems everything is solved.
> Is there any other showstopper for a Sid upload?

 No blocker, I'm just busy with higher priority stuff.  The current
 focus is the next stable release;


I do know ;-)
but you only consider the etch release there...


new packages wont make it, so these
 are not relevant for now.


not relevant for etch, but you don't consider:
- the buildd and compilation/arch problem that can be faced and
solved, without waiting for etch to be released,
- the possibility for others to audit and help to improve the package,
- the possibility for sid derived distro to use all that.

Anyway, packages are available outside, so that's not a big issue.

Thanks for your work on the subject,
Arnaud
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Bug#377777: elisa and debian

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Salut Loïc,

elisa is now at 0.1.3, and it seems that you're lengthy mail has been read ;-)
I've not gone deeply through, but it seems everything is solved.
Is there any other showstopper for a Sid upload?

thanks,
Arnaud
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Bug#373896: O: ksynaptics -- A KDE application to configure Synaptics TouchPad

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Package: wnpp
Severity: normal

I don't have time for this package anymore, but Fathi Boudra expressed
the wish to adopt it, along with qsynaptics and the libsynaptics ITP.

I will rely on Mark Purcell or Pierre Habouzit for sponsoring uploads.
I'm currently waiting for info from theim to update the Maintainer
field, and do a last upload.

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Bug#373897: O: qsynaptics -- A QT application to configure Synaptic TouchPad

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Package: wnpp
Severity: normal

I don't have time for this package anymore, but Fathi Boudra expressed
the wish to adopt it, along with ksynaptics and the libsynaptics ITP.

I will rely on Mark Purcell or Pierre Habouzit for sponsoring uploads.
I'm currently waiting for info from theim to update the Maintainer
field, and do a last upload.

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Bug#335249: ITP: openlibraries -- A library suite for non-linear editing, visual effects and rich media applications

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Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

* Package name : openlibraries
   Version : 0.2
   Upstream Author :   Visual Media FX Ltd.
* URL   : http://www.openlibraries.org
* License : LGPL
   Description   : A library suite for non-linear editing,
visual effects and rich media applications

  The openlibraries are a powerful cross-platform set of libraries
that provide developers with the key building blocks they need to
easily create, test and deploy rich media applications.
 .
 Homepage: http://www.openlibraries.org

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Side notes:
- this package is needed by Jahshaka (bug #335249)
- Christian Marillat, who is helping me a lot on the jahshaka
packaging, will take care of this package.

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Bug#339796: ITP: mlt++ -- An open source multimedia framework (C++ wrapper)

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Package: wnpp

Severity: wishlist





* Package name     : mlt++


   Version             : 0.1.2

   Upstream Author :   Ushodaya Enterprises Limited, Charles Yates
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Dan Dennedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
*
URL  
: http://sourceforge.net/projects/mlt/


* License : GPL


   Description   : An open source multimedia framework (C++ wrapper)



 

MLT is an open source multimedia framework, designed and developed for television
 broadcasting. It provides a toolkit for broadcasters, video editors, media players,
 transcoders, web streamers and many more types of applications. The functionality
 of the system is provided via an assortment of ready to use tools, xml authoring
 components, and an extendible plug-in based API.
 .
 This MLT sub-project provides a C++ wrapping for the MLT library.
 .
 Homepage: http://www.dennedy.org/mlt/twiki/bin/view/MLT/WebHome
--


Side notes:
- this package, along
with the mlt library (previous ITP), is needed for Jahshaka to be
able to load a wide range of video files. It is otherwise really
limited.

- the 0.1.2 release should happen early next week, as told by a maintainer,

- 2 binary packages are produced: libmlt++0 and libmlt++0-dev, both providing the generic libmlt++/libmlt++-dev.

- As everything is ready, or about, on my side, as soon as 0.1.2 is out, the packages will follow.



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Bug#339794: ITP: mlt -- An open source multimedia framework

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Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist



* Package name     : mlt

   Version             : 0.1.2
   Upstream Author :   Ushodaya Enterprises Limited,
Charles Yates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Dan Dennedy
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
*
URL  
: http://sourceforge.net/projects/mlt/

* License : GPL

   Description   : An open source multimedia framework

 

MLT is an open source multimedia framework, designed and
developed for television broadcasting. It provides a toolkit for
broadcasters, video editors, media players,  transcoders, web
streamers and many more types of applications. The functionality 
of the system is provided via an assortment of ready to use tools, xml
authoring components, and an extendible plug-in based API.
 .
 Homepage: http://www.dennedy.org/mlt/twiki/bin/view/MLT/WebHome
--

Side notes:- this package, along
with the mlt++ library (ITP following), is needed for Jahshaka to be
able to load a wide range of video files. It is otherwise really
limited.
- the 0.1.2 release should happen early next week, as told by a maintainer,
- 2 binary packages are produced: libmlt0 and libmlt0-dev, both providing the generic libmlt/libmlt-dev.
- As everything is ready, or about, on my side, as soon as 0.1.2 is out, the packages will follow.

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Bug#335249: ITP: jahshaka -- Realtime editing and effects system

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Package: wnppSeverity: wishlist

* Package name     : jahshaka
   Version             : 2.0RC1
   Upstream Author : Jah Shaka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
*
URL  
: http://www.jahshaka.org
* License : GPL
   Description   : Realtime editing and effects system

Jahshaka is the world's first OpenSource Realtime Editing and
Effects System. It takes advantage of the power of OpenGL and OpenML to
give its users exceptional levels of performance.--
Side notes:
- this ITP closes the RFP bug #200984
- I've tried to contact the upstream author to deal with some problems and contribs, but haven't yet got an answer. 
- I've made 2 packages: jahshaka (arch: any, deps: -data) and -data
(arch: all), saving about 30 Mb of archive space (counting all the 11).
- there is still some work to be done, but I'll release the packages as
soon as the upstream will have done the asked corrections (I hope for
2.0 RC2.
- Jahshaka is still beta, but it's really promising and having it packaged under Debian will allow more feedback upstream.

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Bug#298730: ITP: balazar -- 3D adventure and roleplaying game

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Hi Marc,

where are you about this package?
0.2 is out for a month and I don't see any update on your side.

thanks to update me (and others) back, and if necessary, to call for a bit of help.

See you,
Arnaud

Bug#330708: ITP: lcdtest -- A utility to display LCD monitor test patterns

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Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist


* Package name    : lcdtest
  Version : 1.01
  Upstream Author : Eric Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* URL : http://www.brouhaha.com/~eric/software/lcdtest/
* License : GPL
  Description : A utility to display LCD monitor test patterns

 It may be useful for adjusting the pixel clock frequency and
 phase on LCD monitors when using analog inputs, and for
 finding pixels that are stuck on or off.
 .
 Homepage: http://www.brouhaha.com/~eric/software/lcdtest/

The package has been quite cleanly debianized by Valerio Felici, and is
currently available at: http://valerio.bgweb.it/lcdtest.html
Arnaud Quette-- Linux / Unix Expert - MGE UPS SYSTEMS - R&D DptNetwork UPS Tools (NUT) Project Leader - http://www.networkupstools.org/Debian Developer - 
http://people.debian.org/~aquette/OpenSource Developer - http://arnaud.quette.free.fr/

Bug#278713: ITP: ksynaptics -- A KDE application to configure Synaptics TouchPad

[Arnaud Quette]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

* Package name: ksynaptics
 Version : 0.1.2
 Upstream Author : Stefan Kombrink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* URL : http://qsynaptics.sourceforge.net
* License : GPL
 Description : A KDE application to configure Synaptics TouchPad
  KSynaptics aims to help KDE users to configure their Synaptics
  TouchPad, that's commonly used in laptops, through the Synaptics
  TouchPad driver for XFree86 server. KSynaptics can be run in
  standalone mode or embedded into the KControl Center.


I've contacted the author for some minor changes (untared
archive doesn't contain the version + garbage files)
before debianisation.

Finally note that, in the long run, ksynaptics will be
merged into kdeutils / kdeaddons or alike...

Arnaud

Bug#250372: ITP: mtp-target -- clone of the Monkey Target game

[Arnaud Quette]

Hi fellows,

any news about that cute/cool little game?

Arnaud

Bug#261738: ITP: qsynaptics -- A QT application to configure Synaptic TouchPad

[Arnaud Quette]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

* Package name  : qsynaptics
  Version : 0.22.0
  Upstream Author : Stefan Kombrink 
* URL   : http://qsynaptics.sourceforge.net/
* License : GPL
  Description  : A QT application to configure Synaptic TouchPad

QSynaptics aims to help desktop users to configure their synaptics
touch pad that's commonly used in laptops. The program uses Qt 3.2,
is easy to manage and performs the basic configuration steps to use
your pad more efficiently. The program is based on the X11 synaptics
touch pad driver.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
 APT prefers unstable
 APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.6
Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#227984: Réf. : ITP: libhidparser -- the MGE parser library for USB HID interfaces

[arnaud . quette]

Hi folks,

minor corrections below:


> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
>
>   Package name: libhidparser
>   Version : 1.01
>   Upstream Author : MGE UPS Systems <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

  Upstream Author : MGE UPS SYSTEMS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

>   URL : http://www.mgeups.com/opensource/projects/hidparser.htm
>   License : GPLv2
>   Description : the MGE parser library for USB HID interfaces

  Description : MGE UPS SYSTEMS HID Parser library for USB HID interfaces

> ...

No other comment about the packages.

Now, answering to Steve Langasek, I'm the maintainer and upstream of NUT [1],
which is to UPS what SANE is to scanner. The current driver for USB/HID devices,
named hidups, will soon be superseded by newhidups which uses libhid and
libhidparser.

The fact that UPS are HID devices is a standardisation problem. Mfrs like MGE,
APC and
others have decided to make the Power Device Class for HID to describe USB UPSs.
So it is. And Martin's task is to prepare this switch for the packages part.

Arnaud
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Official DD: nut-*, wmnut, knutclient
Upstream developer: nut, wmnut, walnut, fupgrade, ...

Bug#201015: ITP: knutclient -- A KDE client for monitoring UPSs using NUT - the Network UPS Tools

[Arnaud Quette]

Package: wnpp
Version: unavailable; reported 2003-07-12
Severity: wishlist

* Package name : knutclient
 Version: 0.6.1
 Upstream Author : Daniel Prynych <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* URL   : http://www.alo.cz/knutclient-pop-en.html
* License   : GPL
 Description  : A KDE client for monitoring UPSs using NUT - 
the Network UPS Tools


KNutClient is a KDE client for monitoring UPSs using NUT - the
Network UPS Tools. It features support for multiple UPS devices,
per-device choice (for warning indicators and stats to monitor),
and support for auto switching to the good ranges for voltage
and frequency.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux daneel.dune.org 2.4.18-k6 #1 Sun Apr 14 12:43:22 EST 2002 i586
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.ISO-8859-1, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.ISO-8859-1