Bug#977331: O: autoconf -- automatic configure script builder
Package: wnpp Severity: normal This package is going to require some work from someone who is already familiar with Autoconf. A major new release (2.70) has come out following more than 8 years of upstream development without one. Whoever adopts it will have to figure out whether it makes sense to package 2.70 under the name "autoconf" (and create a compatibility package for 2.69, as was done previously with autoconf2.13), to instead package 2.70 as "autoconf2.70", or to do something else. I do not have the motivation and the time to commit to this myself. I hope that someone out there does! This package is pretty important to developers: popularity-contest (https://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=autoconf) shows it installed on over 55,000 machines. This package has several bugs. I expect that the 2.70 release fixes a number of them (and introduces more).
Bug#977321: O: autoconf2.13 -- automatic configure script builder (obsolete version)
Package: wnpp Severity: normal This package is really obsolete. It has several bug reports but the right thing to do is probably to get any packages that use autoconf2.13 updated to use something else. (Or removed; they are antiques themselves.) This package still has about 1000 installs according to popularity-contest (https://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=autoconf2.13) but only about 100 of them use it regularly, so a lot of those installs are probably unnecessary.
Bug#977317: O: fmtools -- FM radio tuner
Package: wnpp Severity: normal This package has two bugs. One might be obsolete (it was reported against an old kernel and might not even be valid) and the other is a feature request that includes a patch, that might be worth applying. This package has about 80 users according to popularity-contest (https://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=fmtools). I'm orphaning it because I am no longer spending much time on Debian.
Bug#901281: O: doschk -- SYSV and DOS filename conflicts check
Package: wnpp Severity: normal This package has no reported bugs, the last upstream release was in 1993, and zero recent users according to popularity-contest (https://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=doschk). It has questionable value these days. If no one wants to adopt it, it can probably be removed from Debian.
Bug#695896: wnpp: canceling corekeeper ITP
On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 02:32:16PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > I will take this on and move the git repository to collab-maint, thanks > for your work thus far Ben. Sure, let me know if there's anything I can do to help short of actually maintaining it. -- 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/20130117063859.gb10...@blp.benpfaff.org
Bug#697553: RFA: nqc -- Not Quite C compiler for LEGO Mindstorms RCX
Package: wnpp The LEGO Mindstorms RCX is a Hitachi microcontroller embedded into a LEGO brick. This package lets you write programs in a C-like language and download them to your RCX using the serial or USB infrared tower included with the RCX. I am seeking a new maintainer for this package because I no longer have access to the RCX hardware required to test it. I suspect that there are few potential maintainers for this package because of its low ranking in the Debian popularity-contest. -- 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/20130106212413.gb29...@blp.benpfaff.org
Bug#695901: ITP: corekeeper -- Core file centralizer and reaper
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ben Pfaff * Package name: corekeeper Version :1.2 Upstream Author : Ben Pfaff * License : Apache 2.0 Programming Lang: Shell Description : Core file centralizer and reaper Vcs-Git:: git://openvswitch.org/corekeeper Vcs-Browser : http://openvswitch.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=corekeeper;a=summary The corekeeper package configures the system to dump all core files to /var/log/core. It also deletes core files older than 7 days. corekeeper was previously part of Debian as a binary package in the openvswitch source package. Paul Wise asked me to revive it and has offered to co-maintain it. -- 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/87k3sltbwt@blp.benpfaff.org
Bug#695897: ITP: corekeeper -- Core file centralizer and reaper
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ben Pfaff * Package name: corekeeper Version :1.2 Upstream Author : Ben Pfaff * License : Apache 2.0 Programming Lang: Shell Description : Core file centralizer and reaper Vcs-Git:: git://openvswitch.org/corekeeper Vcs-Browser : http://openvswitch.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=corekeeper;a=summary The corekeeper package configures the system to dump all core files to /var/log/core. It also deletes core files older than 7 days. corekeeper was previously part of Debian as a binary package in the openvswitch source package. Paul Wise asked me to revive it and has offered to co-maintain it. -- 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/87lid1rwp2@blp.benpfaff.org
Bug#695896: ITP: corekeeper -- Core file centralizer and reaper
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ben Pfaff * Package name: corekeeper Version :1.2 Upstream Author : Ben Pfaff * License : Apache 2.0 Programming Lang: Shell Description : Core file centralizer and reaper Vcs-Git:: git://openvswitch.org/corekeeper Vcs-Browser : http://openvswitch.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=corekeeper;a=summary The corekeeper package configures the system to dump all core files to /var/log/core. It also deletes core files older than 7 days. corekeeper was previously part of Debian as a binary package in the openvswitch source package. Paul Wise asked me to revive it and has offered to co-maintain it. -- 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/87r4mtrwrx@blp.benpfaff.org
Bug#653862: ITP: python-pystache -- Mustache is a framework-agnostic way to render logic-free views
Kouhei Maeda writes: > Description : Mustache is a framework-agnostic way to render logic-free > views > Inspired by ctemplate and et. As ctemplates says, "It emphasizes separating > logic from presentation: it is impossible to embed application logic in this > template language." It would be kind of you to say what it renders views into. I suspect that the answer is HTML, but it doesn't say so and I could be guessing wrong. -- Ben Pfaff http://benpfaff.org -- 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/87sjjzjpx2@blp.benpfaff.org
Bug#188456: Bug#314316: Please migrate to libgd version 2
Martin Michlmayr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * Ben Pfaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-11-03 09:30]: >> not seen any upstream work in a long time, and I don't think it >> works with modern versions of GCC. >> >> I will upload a fixed version or file a removal request by >> sometime this weekend. > > Thanks. I submitted a removal request bug report against ftp.debian.org. It is CC'd to you, so you should see it shortly. -- "I don't want to learn the constitution and the declaration of independence (marvelous poetry though it be) by heart, and worship the flag and believe that there is a god and the dollar is its prophet." --Maarten Wiltink in the Monastery -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#188456: Bug#314316: Please migrate to libgd version 2
Martin Michlmayr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Do you think you'll be able to take a look at this soon? gccchecker > is now the only package in Debian [1] which required the old libgd-gif > which has been orphaned for over 2.5 years. libgd-gif was a fork of > libgd v1 to add GIF support; libgd 2 has GIF support again (since the > patent expired) and is supported upstream. > > I'd really like to get libgd-gif removed from the archive soon so it > would be great it you could take a look at this. Oh. Thanks for the reminder. I think that, in fact, it might be time to remove gccchecker entirely. valgrind is an easier-to-use replacement that works at least as well in practice. Checker has not seen any upstream work in a long time, and I don't think it works with modern versions of GCC. I will upload a fixed version or file a removal request by sometime this weekend. -- Ben Pfaff email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://benpfaff.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#223755: python-gd adoption
Vittorio Palmisano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have packaged python-matplotlib 0.51 and I have also packaged the python gd > module (0.52) because python-matplotlib depends on it. > My packages are here: > http://anakonda.altervista.org/debian/packages/ > http://anakonda.altervista.org/debian/sources/ > sources.list: > deb http://anakonda.altervista.org/debian packages/ > deb-src http://anakonda.altervista.org/debian sources/ > > I'm waiting for a sponsor for python-matplotlib, and I could help you to > co-maintain python-gd. > I have called the python gd module `python-gdmodule` because I didn't know > that > this module was already in Debian, so I should turn my package name into > `python-gd`. I'm already busy enough that I'm not interested in sponsoring a non-Debian developer. When you become a developer, feel free to adopt the python-gd package. -- "In the PARTIES partition there is a small section called the BEER. Prior to turning control over to the PARTIES partition, the BIOS must measure the BEER area into PCR[5]." --TCPA PC Specific Implementation Specification
Bug#223755: RFA: python-gd -- Python interface to GD pixmap graphics library
Package: wnpp Severity: normal I'm requesting an adopter for the python-gd package. Currently it has only wishlist bugs. I want to give it away because I do not use it myself anymore. Description: Provides PNG, JPEG, and XPM creation and manipulation routines through the libgd library. . Also allows use of TrueType fonts in images created. -- "To the engineer, the world is a toy box full of sub-optimized and feature-poor toys." --Scott Adams
Bug#141584: O: gnu-standards -- GNU coding standards
Package: wnpp Severity: normal Orphaned because it's now considered non-free. Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Package: gnu-standards > Version: 2002.01.12-1 > Severity: serious > Justification: Policy 2.1.2 > > The GNU standards are licensed under two seperate licenses, neither one of > which meets the DFSG. > > The first is the GNU FDL, which blatantly violates sections 5 and 6 of the > DFSG. The second license allows only for verbatim distribution, changes > are not allowed. This violates section 3. > > Please move this package to non-free. -- "If a person keeps faithfully busy each hour of the working day, he can count on waking up some morning to find himself one of the competent ones of his generation." --William James -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#133281: python-gd preliminary package available - comments welcome
I've built a Debian package for libgd bindings for Python. (libgd is a graphics library similar in concept to PIL.) This package is available for now from http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~blp I believe that this package follows Debian policy and Debian Python policy. Comments and suggestions are welcome. If all goes well I'll upload this package to Incoming in a day or two. -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Stanford Ph.D. Student - MSU Alumnus - Debian Maintainer - GNU Developer Personal webpage: http://www.msu.edu/~pfaffben
Bug#133281: ITP: python-gd --- libgd bindings for Python
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist python-gd is a Python module to support libgd, which is already in Debian. python-gd's homepage: http://iacsolutions.com/projects/gdmodule.html GD's homepage: http://www.boutell.com/gd/ -- Peter Seebach on managing engineers: "It's like herding cats, only most of the engineers are already sick of laser pointers."
Bug#125904: ITP: fungetty, a fun new getty for Linux framebuffers
Ben Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 02:36:52AM -0800, Ben Pfaff wrote: > > If so, then maybe you should have a look at fungetty, a > > replacement for the standard Linux getty that can display > > full-color graphics above the login prompt. I hacked this up > > over the last week or so, and it seems to work pretty well. It > > can display many kinds of PNG files above the login prompt. > > There are some bugs and limitations, but nothing unreasonable. > > How does this differ from fbgetty? fbgetty doesn't actually implement its `image' command for the issue file. At least, AFAICT. -- "There's only one thing that will make them stop hating you. And that's being so good at what you do that they can't ignore you. I told them you were the best. Now you damn well better be." --Orson Scott Card, _Ender's Game_
Bug#125904: ITP: fungetty, a fun new getty for Linux framebuffers
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Do you prefer working in a console, but get tired of ignorant people assuming that your computer is old just because it only has text on the screen? Do you have Linux set up to use framebuffer text consoles? If so, then maybe you should have a look at fungetty, a replacement for the standard Linux getty that can display full-color graphics above the login prompt. I hacked this up over the last week or so, and it seems to work pretty well. It can display many kinds of PNG files above the login prompt. There are some bugs and limitations, but nothing unreasonable. Download source tarball or Debian i386 binary package from http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~blp License is GPL. Full documentation. Should be easy to compile. In a couple of hours I'm leaving for Las Vegas and won't be back until Christmas Day, but I'll happily read your comments and patches after that. -- "Be circumspect in your liaisons with women. It is better to be seen at the opera with a man than at mass with a woman." --De Maintenon
Bug#114161: ITP: kftgt -- forward Kerberos 4 tickets over telnet
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist [For sulug-discuss: this is the official "Intent to Package" message necessary before actually adding a new package to Debian.] The kftgt program and kftgtd daemon are used at Stanford to forward Kerberos tickets to network servers. It is presumably useful elsewhere as well. This package will contain these two programs as well as the klogin script that simplifies their use with Kerberized telnet. There is little useful information on kftgt on the Web, and source code does not seem to be available anywhere public. This will, I hope, change soon. Nevertheless, it is useful and covered by the following license: /* * Redistribution and use in source and binary forms are permitted * provided that the above copyright notice and this paragraph are * duplicated in all such forms and that any documentation, * advertising materials, and other materials related to such * distribution and use acknowledge that the software was developed * by Stanford University. The name of the University may not be used * to endorse or promote products derived from this software without * specific prior written permission. * THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED ``AS IS'' AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR * IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED * WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. */ I am being supported in this effort by Stanford system administrators, so my packaging might be consider at least semi-official. -- "Then, I came to my senses, and slunk away, hoping no one overheard my thinking." --Steve McAndrewSmith in the Monastery
