Bug#819343: ITP: r-cran-dplyr -- A Grammar of Data Manipulation for GNU R

[Chris Lawrence]

On Sat, Apr 2, 2016 at 1:27 AM, Andreas Tille  wrote:
> I have read[1] that r-cran-dplyr was rejected by ftpmaster with:
>
>Hi Chris,
>
>this package as the missing-R-data-description as well.
>
> Thorsten
>
> I assume that ftpmaster is refering to data/nasa.rda.  I would happily
> help with finalising the package (and can confirm that I have
> successfully written).  I have commited a file debian/README.source to
> my version of the packaging in Debian Med SVN[2] (which is ready for
> upload).  Please let me know what way you would prefer:
>
>1. You make your packaging available somehow and I migrate it to
>   Debian Science Git.
>2. I move my packaging from Debian Med SVN[2] to Debian Science Git
>   and add you as Uploader.
>
> It would be simply great if you could confirm that it is OK for you if
> the ITP could be closed by the Debian Science team (alternatively the
> Debian Med team).  I'd simply interested to push the package as quickly
> as possible and thus I would like to help as best as possible - if you
> confirm also by simply uploading what I have prepared in SVN.

It's fine with me if someone else finishes up the ITP. Here's a link
to what I had thus far:

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/2lywklmizue2iw4/AACLlc2Dg-i8wxM1K6bfo1Eya?dl=0

Best,


Chris
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Bug#819343: ITP: r-cran-dplyr -- A Grammar of Data Manipulation for GNU R

[Chris Lawrence]

On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 9:21 AM, Andreas Tille  wrote:
> Thanks for this ITP since it is also on my list of needed packages for
> r-cran-treescape which needs several dependencies.  I have noticed
> that its even in NEW.  I wonder how you was able to build it without
> r-cran-bh since I also tried to package r-cran-dplyr[1] but I had the
> impression that r-cran-bh (#819389) would be required.

The short answer is... I cheated.

I edited out the BH reference in LinkingTo in DESCRIPTION and made the
source package depend on libboost-all-dev (>= 1.58). Since all BH does
is package a subset of libboost-all-dev, it works even though it's a
minor hack of the upstream source. In principle, we should be able to
do the same with anything that uses LinkingTo that isn't (yet)
packaged with an r-cran-* shell package but we have Debian packages
for.

Dirk and I did talk about putting together an r-cran-bh that didn't
needlessly duplicate the libboost-*-dev packages it brings in, but I
don't know where that stands.

> It would be great if you would move your packaging to some VCS (for
> instance Debian Science).  I would volunteer to commit autopkg stuff
> which I've just prepared[1].
>
> Kind regards
>
>   Andreas.
>
> [1] svn://anonscm.debian.org/debian-med/trunk/packages/R/r-cran-dplyr/trunk/

One of these decades I'll have to learn how to use VCSes for
packaging. Figuring out quilt was my last project...


Chris
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Bug#819343: ITP: r-cran-dplyr -- A Grammar of Data Manipulation for GNU R

[Chris Lawrence]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Chris Lawrence <lawre...@debian.org>

* Package name: r-cran-dplyr
  Version : 0.4.3
  Upstream Author : Hadley Wickham <had...@rstudio.com>
* URL : https://github.com/hadley/dplyr
* License : MIT (Expat)
  Programming Lang: C++, R
  Description : A Grammar of Data Manipulation for GNU R

A fast, consistent tool for working with data frame like objects, both
in memory and out of memory. Successor to the 'plyr' package.

Required by Zelig (r-cran-zelig) 5.0 and later.

Bug#819137: ITP: r-cran-mcmc -- Markov Chain Monte Carlo simulations for GNU R

[Chris Lawrence]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Chris Lawrence <lawre...@debian.org>

* Package name: r-cran-mcmc
  Version : 0.9-4
  Upstream Author : Charles J. Geyer <char...@stat.umn.edu>
* URL : http://www.stat.umn.edu/geyer/mcmc/
* License : MIT
  Programming Lang: C, R
  Description : Markov Chain Monte Carlo simulations for GNU R

Simulates continuous distributions of random vectors using Markov
chain Monte Carlo (MCMC). Users specify the distribution by an R
function that evaluates the log unnormalized density. Algorithms are
random walk Metropolis algorithm (function metrop), simulated
tempering (function temper), and morphometric random walk Metropolis
(Johnson and Geyer, Annals of Statistics, 2012, function
morph.metrop), which achieves geometric ergodicity by change of
variable.

This package is a dependency for r-cran-mcmcpack version 1.3-5.

Bug#819138: ITP: r-bioc-rgraphviz -- GNU R interface with the Graphviz library

[Chris Lawrence]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Chris Lawrence <lawre...@debian.org>

* Package name: r-bioc-rgraphviz
  Version : 2.14.0
  Upstream Author : Kasper Daniel Hansen <kasperdanielhan...@gmail.com>
* URL : 
http://bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/Rgraphviz.html
* License : Eclipse Public License
  Programming Lang: C, R
  Description : GNU R interface with the Graphviz library

This package provides an interface for plotting objects from the
Bioconductor 'graph' package via the Graphviz graphics library.

It is a dependency of MCMCpack (r-cran-mcmcpack) 1.3-5.

Bug#805257: ITP: r-cran-aer -- Applied Econometrics with R

[Chris Lawrence]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Chris Lawrence <lawre...@debian.org>

* Package name: r-cran-aer
  Version : 1.2-4
  Upstream Author : Achim Zeileis <achim.zeil...@r-project.org>
* URL : https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/AER/index.html
* License : GPL 2/3
  Programming Lang: R
  Description : Applied Econometrics with R

Functions, data sets, examples, demos, and vignettes for the book
Christian Kleiber and Achim Zeileis (2008), Applied Econometrics with
R, Springer-Verlag, New York. ISBN 978-0-387-77316-2.

This package is required by r-cran-zelig 5.0+

Bug#805256: ITP: r-cran-jsonlite -- A Robust, High Performance JSON Parser and Generator for R

[Chris Lawrence]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Chris Lawrence <lawre...@debian.org>

* Package name: r-cran-jsonlite
  Version : 0.9.17
  Upstream Author : Jeroen Ooms <jeroen.o...@stat.ucla.edu>
* URL : http://arxiv.org/abs/1403.2805 
* License : MIT
  Programming Lang: R
  Description : A Robust, High Performance JSON Parser and Generator for R

A fast JSON parser and generator optimized for statistical data and
the web. Started out as a fork of 'RJSONIO', but has been completely
rewritten in recent versions. The package offers flexible, robust,
high performance tools for working with JSON in R and is particularly
powerful for building pipelines and interacting with a web API. The
implementation is based on the mapping described in the vignette
(Ooms, 2014). In addition to converting JSON data from/to R objects,
'jsonlite' contains functions to stream, validate, and prettify JSON
data. The unit tests included with the package verify that all edge
cases are encoded and decoded consistently for use with dynamic data
in systems and applications.

--

This package is a dependency for r-cran-zelig 5.0 and later.

Bug#805258: ITP: r-cran-geepack -- Generalized Estimating Equation Package for R

[Chris Lawrence]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Chris Lawrence <lawre...@debian.org>

* Package name: r-cran-geepack
  Version : 1.2-0
  Upstream Author : Søren Højsgaard <sor...@math.aau.dk>
* URL : https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/geepack/index.html
* License : GPL v3+
  Programming Lang: R
  Description : Generalized Estimating Equation Package for R

Generalized estimating equations solver for parameters in mean, scale,
and correlation structures, through mean link, scale link, and
correlation link. Can also handle clustered categorical responses.

Required by r-cran-zelig 5.0 and later.

Bug#616131: RFA: lsb -- Linux Standard Base 3.2 support package

[Chris Lawrence]

Package: wnpp
Severity: normal

I request an adopter for the lsb package.  My primary interests in
free software have become more tied to my work (essentially,
statistical computing - so basically R and related stuff) and LSB just
isn't my focus any more.  Moving to 4.0+ compliance shouldn't be a
huge challenge but someone more motivated may be able to accomplish it
sooner.

The package description is:
 The Linux Standard Base (http://www.linuxbase.org/) is a standard
 core system that third-party applications written for Linux can
 depend upon.
 .
 This package provides an implementation of all modules of version 3.2
 of the Linux Standard Base for Debian on the Intel x86, Intel ia64
 (Itanium), IBM S390, and PowerPC 32-bit architectures with the Linux
 kernel. Future revisions of the specification and this package may
 support the LSB on additional architectures and kernels.
 .
 The intent of this package is to provide a best current practice way
 of installing and running LSB packages on Debian GNU/Linux. Its
 presence does not imply that Debian fully complies
 with the Linux Standard Base, and should not be construed as a
 statement that Debian is LSB-compliant.



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Bug#610159: ITP: r-cran-gam -- Generalized Additive Models for R

[Chris Lawrence]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Chris Lawrence lawre...@debian.org

* Package name: r-cran-gam
  Version : 1.04-1
  Upstream Author : Trevor Hastie has...@stanford.edu
* URL : http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/gam/index.html
* License : GPL v2
  Programming Lang: C, Fortran
  Description : Generalized Additive Models for R

 Functions for fitting and working with generalized additive models,
 as described in chapter 7 of “Statistical Models in S” (Chambers and
 Hastie (eds), 1991), and “Generalized Additive Models” (Hastie and
 Tibshirani, 1990).



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Bug#610160: ITP: r-cran-rjags -- R interface to the JAGS Bayesian statistics package

[Chris Lawrence]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Chris Lawrence lawre...@debian.org

* Package name: r-cran-rjags
  Version : 2.2.0-2-1
  Upstream Author : Martyn Plummer plum...@iarc.fr
* URL : http://calvin.iarc.fr/~martyn/software/jags/
* License : GPL v2
  Programming Lang: C++
  Description : R interface to the JAGS Bayesian statistics package

 rjags allows calling JAGS code from R to estimate Bayesian
 statistical models using Gibbs sampling.  Coupled with the coda
 package, it allows the researcher to set up data in R, run a model
 specified in the JAGS/BUGS language on the data, and then conduct
 post-estimation analysis using R's tools.



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Bug#483661: ITP: r-cran-amelia -- R package for handling missing data

[Chris Lawrence]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Chris Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED]

* Package name: r-cran-amelia
  Version : 1.1-29
  Upstream Author : James Honaker, Gary King, Matthew Blackwell
* URL : http://gking.harvard.edu/amelia/
* License : GPLv2 or later
  Programming Lang: R
  Description : R package for handling missing data

Amelia II multiply imputes missing data in a single cross-section
(such as a survey), from a time series (like variables collected for
each year in a country), or from a time-series-cross-sectional data
set (such as collected by years for each of several countries). Amelia
II implements our bootstrapping-based algorithm that gives essentially
the same answers as the standard IP or EMis approaches, is usually
considerably faster than existing approaches and can handle many more
variables. Unlike Amelia I and other statistically rigorous imputation
software, it virtually never crashes (but please let us know if you
find to the contrary!). The program also generalizes existing
approaches by allowing for trends in time series across observations
within a cross-sectional unit, as well as priors that allow experts to
incorporate beliefs they have about the values of missing cells in
their data. Amelia II also includes useful diagnostics of the fit of
multiple imputation models. The program works from the R command line
or via a graphical user interface that does not require users to know
R.

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Bug#469781: ITP: r-cran-gmaps -- GNU R support for producing geographic maps with grid graphics

[Chris Lawrence]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Chris Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED]

* Package name: r-cran-gmaps
  Version : 0.1
  Upstream Author : Andrew Redd [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* URL : http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/gmaps/index.html
* License : GPL
  Description : GNU R support for producing geographic maps with grid 
graphics

The gmaps package extends the functionality of the maps package for
the grid graphics system. This enables more advanced plots and more
functionality. It also makes use of the grid structure to fix problems
encountered with the traditional graphics system, such as resizing of
graphs.

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Bug#347880: ITP: r-cran-eco -- GNU R routines for Bayesian ecological inference

[Chris Lawrence]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Chris Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED]

* Package name: r-cran-eco
  Version : 2.2-1
  Upstream Author : Kosuke Imai and Ying Lu
* URL : http://imai.princeton.edu/research/eco.html
* License : GPL
  Description : GNU R routines for Bayesian ecological inference

 This is a set of routines for GNU R that implement Imai and Lu's
 parametric and nonparametric Bayesian ecological inference algorithms
 using Markov chain Monte Carlo estimation.  Ecological inference is a
 statistical technique designed to recover individual-level information
 from aggregate-level data.
 .
 The suggested r-cran-mcmcpack package includes other EI estimators that
 may be useful alternatives to those included in this package.

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Bug#312794: ITP: r-cran-pscl -- GNU R package for discrete data models

[Chris Lawrence]

Package: wnpp
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Owner: Chris Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED]

* Package name: r-cran-pscl
  Version : 0.5
  Upstream Author : Simon Jackman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* URL : http://pscl.stanford.edu/
* License : GPL
  Description : GNU R package for discrete data models

 This package consists of R functions developed at the Political
 Science Computational Laboratory at Stanford University; it currently
 includes models for count data (hurdle regression and zero-inflated
 negative binomial and Poisson models) and Vuong tests for non-nested
 hypothesis testing.
 .
 Future versions of the package are expected to include models for
 ordinal probit and logit models and item-response theory models.
 .
 Home Page: http://pscl.stanford.edu/

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Bug#308255: ITP: r-cran-bayesm -- GNU R package for Bayesian inference

[Chris Lawrence]

Package: wnpp
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Owner: Chris Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED]

* Package name: r-cran-bayesm
  Version : 0.0-2
  Upstream Authors: Peter Rossi [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Rob McCulloch [EMAIL PROTECTED].
* URL: http://gsbwww.uchicago.edu/fac/peter.rossi/research/bsm.html
* License : GPL
  Description : GNU R package for Bayesian inference

 The bayesm package covers many important models used in marketing and
 micro-econometrics applications. The package includes:
 .
  * Bayes Regression (univariate or multivariate dep var)
  * Multinomial Logit (MNL) and Multinomial Probit (MNP)
  * Multivariate Probit,
  * Multivariate Mixtures of Normals
  * Hierarchical Linear Models with normal prior and covariates
  * Hierarchical Multinomial Logits with mixture of normals prior and
covariates
  * Bayesian analysis of choice-based conjoint data
  * Bayesian treatment of linear instrumental variables models
  * Analyis of Multivariate Ordinal survey data with scale usage
heterogeneity (as in Rossi et al, JASA (01)).
 .
 For further reference, consult the authors' book, _Bayesian
 Statistics and Marketing_ by Allenby, McCulloch and Rossi.

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Bug#294813: RFA: foo2zjs

[Chris Lawrence]

Package: wnpp
Severity: normal

If anyone is interested in taking over this package, feel free to do
so; I don't have one of these printers, so I have no way to ensure the
package even works.

It does appear to be in use by several Debian users, so it probably
shouldn't be orphaned or removed from the archive.

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Bug#290603: ITP: rnc-mode -- editing mode for compact Relax NG syntax

[Chris Lawrence]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

* Package name: rnc-mode
  Version : 1.0b3
  Upstream Author : David Rosenborg [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* URL : http://www.pantor.com/download.html
* License : BSD
  Description : Emacs editing mode for RELAX NG Compact syntax

This package provides a major mode in Emacs for editing RELAX NG
Compact syntax, a schema language for XML.

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Bug#290603: ITP: rnc-mode -- editing mode for compact Relax NG syntax

[Chris Lawrence]

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* Package name: rnc-mode
  Version : 1.0b3
  Upstream Author : David Rosenborg [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* URL : http://www.pantor.com/download.html
* License : BSD
  Description : Emacs editing mode for RELAX NG Compact syntax

This package provides a major mode in Emacs for editing RELAX NG
Compact syntax, a schema language for XML.

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Bug#256914: ITP: r-cran-mnp -- GNU R package for fitting multinomial probit (MNP) models

[Chris Lawrence]

Package: wnpp
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* Package name: r-cran-mnp
  Version : 1.0-1
  Upstream Author : Kosuke Imai, Jordan Vance, and David van Dyk
* URL : http://www.princeton.edu/~kimai/
* License : GPL v2 or later
  Description : GNU R package for fitting multinomial probit (MNP) models

MNP is an R package that fits Bayesian Multinomial Probit (MNP) models
via Markov chain Monte Carlo. Along with the standard Multinomial
Probit model, it can also fit models with different choice sets for
each observation and complete or partial ordering of all the available
alternatives.  The estimation is based on the efficient marginal data
augmentation algorithm that is developed by Imai and van Dyk (2004).

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Bug#255309: ITP: r-other-gking-matchit -- GNU R package for nonparametric matching methods

[Chris Lawrence]

Package: wnpp
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* Package name: r-other-gking-matchit
  Version : 0.1-4
  Upstream Author : Daniel Ho et al.
* URL : http://gking.harvard.edu/matchit/
* License : GPL
  Description : GNU R package of nonparametric matching methods

 MatchIt implements the suggestions of Ho, Imai, King, and Stuart
 (2004) for improving parametric statistical models by preprocessing
 data with nonparametric matching methods.

 MatchIt implements a wide range of sophisticated matching methods,
 making it possible to greatly reduce the dependence of causal
 inferences on hard-to-justify, but commonly made, statistical
 modeling assumptions. The software also easily fits into existing
 research practices since, after preprocessing with MatchIt,
 researchers can use whatever parametric model they would have used
 without MatchIt, but produce inferences with substantially more
 robustness and less sensitivity to modeling assumptions. MatchIt is
 an R program, and also works seamlessly within Zelig.

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Bug#239631: ITP: r-other-gking-zelig -- a unified front-end for estimating statistical models in GNU R

[Chris Lawrence]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

* Package name: r-other-gking-zelig
  Version : 1.0-1
  Upstream Authors: Kosuke Imai [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Gary King [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Olivia Lau [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* URL : http://gking.harvard.edu/zelig/
* License : GPL
  Description : A unified front-end for estimating statistical models in 
GNU R

The upstream authors describe Zelig (Everyone's Statistical
Software), in part, as follows:

With thousands of contributors who have written hundreds of packaged
routines, R can deal with nearly any statistical problem.  Although
this high level of participation may be its greatest strength, the
enormous diversity in approaches to statistical inference covered by R
often results in a virtual babel of competing functions and
inconsistent syntax.

To address these problems from a common perspective, we have created
Zelig, a single, easy-to-use program, with a unified framework and
syntax, that can estimate, help interpret, and present the results of
a large range of statistical methods. It literally _is_ everyone's
statistical software because Zelig uses R code from many researchers.
We also hope it will _become_ everyone's statistical software for
applications, and we have designed it so that anyone can use it or add
their methods to it.  Zelig comes with detailed, self-contained
documentation that minimizes startup costs for Zelig and R, automates
graphics and summaries for all models, and, with only three simple
commands required, generally makes the power of R accessible for all
users.  Zelig also works well for teaching, and is designed so that
scholars can use the same program they use for their research.

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Bug#239631: Debian packages of Zelig now available

[Chris Lawrence]

A ready-to-run package of Imai, King, and Lau's Zelig package for GNU 
R is now available for the Debian distribution at the following URL, as 
well as a complete source package:


http://people.debian.org/~lawrencc/

Note that the binary package is named r-other-gking-zelig, in 
accordance with the Debian R Policy 
(http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2003/debian-devel-200312/msg02332.html).  
This renaming is only done to improve the ability of Debian users to 
find R-related packages, obey Debian package naming policy, and avoid 
name collisions; within the R environment, the package continues to be 
known as Zelig.


The Debian package depends on the r-cran-vr package or the 
r-recommended bundle, and should be compatible with both R 1.8.1 (in 
testing) and upcoming R 1.9.0 (in unstable).  Installation of the 
non-free VGAM package is suggested for a broader variety of models to be 
estimated.


The following APT configuration will enable automatic installation using 
apt-get install r-other-gking-zelig:


deb http://people.debian.org/~lawrencc/ ./

The package should be installable on any Debian architecture (however, 
it has only been tested on Intel x86); please send any comments, 
questions, or reports of success or failure to me at my Debian 
maintainer address ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) or using the Debian reportbug 
tool.


This package has also been uploaded for inclusion in the unstable 
branch of Debian, and hopefully will be included in the Debian 3.1 
sarge release anticipated later this year, as well as forthcoming 
releases of Dirk Eddelbuettel's Quantian distribution.


(For the unaware: the Debian distribution is a free or open source, 
non-commercial operating system using the Linux kernel; more information 
on the Debian Project is available at the project website, 
http://www.debian.org/.  More information on Quantian is available at 
http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/quantian.html.)



Chris

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Research Associate
Public Policy Research Center/Department of Political Science
The University of Mississippi at Oxford
University, MS 38677

Bug#232127: RFP: logwatch -- system log analysis utility

[Chris Lawrence]

Jay Berkenbilt wrote:


Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

* Package name: logwatch
 Version : 5.1
 Upstream Author : Kirk Bauer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* URL or Web page : http://www.logwatch.org
* License : MIT
 Description : system log analysis utility

Logwatch is a collection of perl scripts that analyze system logs and
email summaries to system administrators.  It can provide a very
useful early-warning system, especially for people who may not read
through all their system logs every day.



Looks like it's already packaged, Jay:

Package: logwatch
Priority: optional
Section: admin
Installed-Size: 964
Maintainer: Willi Mann [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Architecture: all
Version: 5.1-1
Depends: perl, mailx
Recommends: libtie-ixhash-perl, libdate-calc-perl
Filename: pool/main/l/logwatch/logwatch_5.1-1_all.deb
Size: 101824
MD5sum: 296e8590be18a03b266c8fb55dca2aa5
Description: A log analyzer with nice output written in Perl
Logwatch is a modualar log analyzer that runs every night
and mails you the results. It can also be run from command line.
.
The output is by service and you can limit the output to one particular
service. The subscripts which are responsible for the output, mostly
convert the raw loglines in structured format.
.
Logwatch generally ignores the time component in the output, so if
you want to investigate a particular problem, you have to go to the
raw logfiles.
.
The homepage of logwatch is: www.logwatch.org

(You can close the RFP by sending an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED])


Chris

Bug#227670: ITP: r-cran-maps -- GNU R support for producing geographic maps

[Chris Lawrence]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

* Package name: r-cran-maps
  Version : 2.0-11
  Upstream Author : Ray Brownrigg [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* URL : http://cran.r-project.org/
* License : GPL
  Description : GNU R support for producing geographic maps

 This package provides facilities for easily producing maps based on
 data sets in the GNU R statistical computing environment.  
 
 The r-cran-maps package includes map data for the United States
 (including state and county-level maps), New Zealand, and a world
 map; additional maps (including a higher-resolution world map) are
 available in the suggested r-cran-mapdata package.
 
 The suggested, non-free r-cran-mapproj package adds facilities for
 calculating geographic projections, which are used by mapmakers to
 compensate for the inaccuracies inherent in projecting a spheroid's
 surface onto a two-dimensional plane.

I also intend to package two associated packages: r-cran-mapdata and
r-cran-mapproj; due to license restrictions that limit its use and
distribution to only non-commercial entities, r-cran-mapproj (which is
not essential for the functioning of the other two packages) will be
uploaded to non-free.

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Bug#214489: ITP: trang -- Multi-format schema converter based on RELAX NG

[Chris Lawrence]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

* Package name: trang
  Version : 20030619
  Upstream Author : James Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* URL : http://www.thaiopensource.com/relaxng/trang.html
* License : BSD (with some Apache-licensed parts)
  Description : Multi-format schema converter based on RELAX NG

 Trang converts between different schema languages for XML. It
 supports the following languages:
 .
  * RELAX NG (XML syntax)
  * RELAX NG compact syntax
  * XML 1.0 Document Type Definitions (DTDs)
  * W3C XML Schema
 .
 A schema written in any of the supported schema languages can be
 converted into any of the other supported schema languages, except
 that W3C XML Schema is supported for output only, not for input.
 .
 Trang can also infer a schema from one or more example XML documents.
 .
 Trang is constructed around an RELAX NG object model designed to
 support schema conversion. For each schema language supported for
 input, there is an input module that can convert from the schema
 language into this internal object model. Similarly, for each schema
 language supported for output, there is an output module that can
 convert from the internal object model in the schema language.
 .
 Trang aims to produce human-understandable schemas; it tries for a
 translation that preserves all aspects of the input schema that may
 be significant to a human reader, including the definitions, the way
 the schema is divided into files, annotations and comments.
 .
 This package may be particularly useful for converting DTDs for use
 with nxml-mode, as that package requires RELAX NG schemas for the
 full features of its context-sensitive editing functions to be
 available.
 .
 Home Page: http://www.thaiopensource.com/relaxng/trang.html

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Bug#198569: [ITP]: r-noncran-design -- Regression modeling strategies

[Chris Lawrence]

On Jun 24, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
 On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 02:31:53PM +0200, Andreas Rottmann wrote:
  Dirk Eddelbuettel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
  
   Package: wnpp
   Severity: wishlist
  
   * Package name: r-noncran-design
 Version : 1.1.6
 Upstream Author : Frank Harrell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
   * URL : http://hesweb1.med.virginia.edu/biostat/rms
   * License : GPL
 Description : Regression modeling strategies
  
   Design is one of two packages by Frank Harrell and requires the other, 
   Hmisc.
   Design provides the code supporting Harrell's 2002 book on 'Regression
   Modeling Strategies'.  I intend to stick with the convention of calling 
   the
   (Debian) source package the same as the (source) R package -- design -- 
   but
   then normalizing on r-noncran-design as done by prior packages maintained 
   by
   Chris Lawrence and myself.
  
  I think that 'design' is, also as a source package name, way too
  generic. You can't in any way defer what this source package is
  about... The same applies (but not as much) to hmisc, IMHO. Why not
  name the source packages the same as the binary packages?
 
 a) Transparency, so 'name it the same as upstream'. CRAN packages have their
 own little conventions and infrastructure. IMHO we gain little by adding
 another layer of complexity.
 
 b) Precedence. We already have 7 or 8 R add-on packages. Several of
 these do the same thing. In fact, mine do -- whereas Chris
 Lawrence's don't. Doug Bates plans to release some too. Some
 uniformity would be good.

Well, to clarify, r-noncran-lindsey is a bit of a special case
(combining half a dozen upstream packages in a bundle), and the source
package name r-cran-coda was used because there's already a coda in
experimental.  The source for r-cran-mcmcpack is simply mcmcpack; of
course, upstream is MCMCpack.  My tendency (thought process) has been
to use upstream's name unless it's horribly generic or there's an
existing conflict.

I really don't think the source package name matters that much.
However, if there's a realistic chance of a conflict coming up with
something more generic, I'd prefix with r- or r-cran- or r-noncran-;
by that criterion, hmisc seems ok for Hmisc, but maybe r-design or
r-noncran-design would be better for Design's source.

(Hence my annoyance with some of the GNUstep packages that take
generic names like terminal.)


Chris
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Bug#198569: [ITP]: r-noncran-design -- Regression modeling strategies

[Chris Lawrence]

On Jun 24, Douglas Bates wrote:
 At present we have two alternatives:
 
 1) Name the Debian source package according to the R package name, as
 Dirk suggests.  I don't think this is a viable long-term strategy.
 The names, like XML, are too vague.

Not only that, but Debian has stricter source package naming
restrictions; for example, all source and package names are required
by policy to be lowercase.

 2) Name the expanded directory according to the Debian package name,
 build the R package under the wrong name, then rename a bunch of files
 in ./debian/tmp/usr/lib/R to the correct name of the R package before
 building the Debian package.  This works - sort of.  The preformatted
 help pages get messed up by this process.

A third possibility is a nasty hack (which is how all 3 of my packages
are done): wrap the upstream tar.gz inside a fake upstream tar.gz.
This violates Debian policy massively, makes it a real pain to upgrade
to a new upstream release using the packaging tools, and makes it
impossible to patch anything in the upstream package.

(You could slightly tweak this process by untaring the upstream
tarball.  The principles remain the same.)

This makes the layout e.g.:

r-cran-foo-x.y-z/
  Foo.tar.gz # Upstream tarball
  debian/# Packaging cruft

Now, imagine I have to upgrade to Foo x.y-z+1.  First I need to make a
fake tarball containing the upstream Foo:

r-cran-foo-x.y-z+1/
  Foo.tar.gz

Now I have to go up a directory, create r-cran-foo-x.y-z+1.tar.gz,
remove that directory, then cd into r-cran-foo-x.y-z (not z+1) and do
uupdate -v x.y-z+1 ../r-cran-foo-x.y-z+1.tar.gz.  And, if it turns out
I screwed anything up, I have to start again from scratch.

If I didn't have to use this ugly hack layout, updating the packaging
for a new CRAN release of Foo would be trivial: wget the new tarball,
cd into the old unpacked Debian sources, and run uupdate -v x.y.z+1
{path to new tarball}.

 My suggested way out of this is to expand the R package installation
 mechanism to allow the package name to be other than the name of the
 directory containing the package sources.  It could be overridden
 within the DESCRIPTION file or on the command line for the R CMD
 INSTALL call.

Since the DESCRIPTION file has the correct R name for the package in
it anyway, it's simply a matter of grabbing that name instead of using
the name supplied on the command line, especially since the build
process needs to unpack the tarball anyway, not to mention that it
gets the version from there too.

I realize my simply is not necessarily simple (i.e. will take time
to code and debug), but it seems [IMHO] more reliable than assuming
that the filename of the tarball has anything to do with what it's
supposed to be called in the R system.


Chris
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Bug#198569: [ITP]: r-noncran-design -- Regression modeling strategies

[Chris Lawrence]

On Jun 24, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
 Not sure I follow. I did the following:
 [snipped because post-mode decided to kill your entire train of
 thought here... grr]

I think there's a nasty issue that will crop up if you try to work
from the files in the Debian archive.  debuild -us -uc, then wipe your
build directories so all you have left are design_1.3.1.orig.tar.gz,
design_1.3.1-1.dsc and design_1.3.1-1.diff.gz

Now try dpkg-source -x design_1.3.1-1.dsc.  This will untar everything
into a directory design-1.3.1-1, not Design.  cd in there and
debuild -us -uc again.

If that build process produces /usr/lib/R/site-library/Design rather
than /usr/lib/R/site-library/design-1.3.1-1, I'll be very surprised.

What this will produce is packages that will build OK on your box, but
the buildds will do exactly what I outlined and produce ports with
broken .debs.  It won't fail to build from source, but if you check
the buildd log, it will be wrong and will produce exactly the problems
Doug describes.  You just won't see them since i386 will be fine,
since you built it yourself and knew that the directory wasn't
supposed to be called design-1.3.1-1; the buildd doesn't know any
better, malheureusement :-/

For example, see (sorry for linewrap):
http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.php?pkg=tseriesver=0.9.12-2arch=m68kstamp=1056336148file=logas=raw

Skip to the end and scroll up to where it runs dpkg -c on the built
deb.  (Or you can just wget the file from the pool and dpkg -c it.)

Hence the ad-hackery that I did in mcmcpack and coda (though, since
coda is an arch: all package, it doesn't go to the buildds normally).


Chris
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Bug#198490: RFA: nget -- auto-resuming command line nntp file grabber

[Chris Lawrence]

Package: wnpp
Version: unavailable; reported 2003-06-23
Severity: normal

I request an adopter for the nget package.  I've just uploaded 0.23-1
to unstable; the only outstanding bugs are three wishlist items.  I'm
willing to sponsor this package on behalf of someone in the new
maintainer process.

The package description is:
 nget is a command line NNTP file grabber. It automatically pieces
 together multipart postings for easy retrieval, even substituting parts
 from multiple servers. It handles disconnects gracefully, resuming
 after the last part successfully downloaded. nget also caches header
 data for quick access.
 .
 Home Page: http://www.azstarnet.com/~donut/programs/nget.html

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Bug#198492: RFA: pdq -- Simple printing system for workstations

[Chris Lawrence]

Package: wnpp
Version: unavailable; reported 2003-06-23
Severity: normal

I request an adopter for the pdq package.  It appears to be orphaned
upstream, and there are (IMHO) better printing solutions available in
Debian now, such as CUPS.

The package description is:
 Queueless printing system for workstation installations, which also
 supports sending print jobs to BSD lpr queues, over Appletalk (using
 netatalk) or TCP connections, and over fax transmissions via the efax
 utilities.  It also includes a contributed interface for printing to
 Novell NetWare-based servers.
 .
 The maintainer of the Linux Printing HOWTO recommends
 using this system standalone, or as a front-end to LPRng.
 .
 Printing to non-Postscript printers usually requires using GNU or
 Aladdin Ghostscript.
 .
 Home Page: http://pdq.sourceforge.net/

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Bug#198493: RFA: gnome-pm -- GNOME stock portfolio manager

[Chris Lawrence]

Package: wnpp
Version: unavailable; reported 2003-06-23
Severity: normal

I request an adopter for the gnome-pm package.  It appears to be
abandoned upstream.  If no adopter is found in a reasonable period of
time, I will request its removal from unstable.

The package description is:
 This is a replacement for the Java Portfolio Manager provided by
 Yahoo!; its intent is to be faster and less memory-intensive than its
 Java cousin.  It currently supports multiple portfolios and symbol lookup.

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Bug#198494: RFA: xzgv -- Picture viewer for X with a thumbnail-based selector

[Chris Lawrence]

Package: wnpp
Version: unavailable; reported 2003-06-23
Severity: normal

I request an adopter for the xzgv package.  It appears to be abandoned
upstream (so an adopter may want to take over upstream's role as
well).  There are three wishlist bugs open on the package.

It probably could use porting to Gtk 2.x, but otherwise is in pretty
good shape.

The package description is:
 xzgv is a picture viewer for X, with a thumbnail-based file selector.
 It uses GTK+ and Imlib. Most file formats are supported, and the
 thumbnails used are compatible with xv, zgv, and the Gimp. It can also
 be used with `xzgv file(s)', to effectively bypass the file selector.
 For more on how xzgv works and how to use it, do `info xzgv' or `man
 xzgv' once it's installed.
 .
 xzgv differs from other picture viewers for X in that it uses one
 window for both the file selector and viewer, it (unlike xv) allows
 both scrolling and fit-to-window methods of viewing large pictures,
 and it (unlike xv and some others) doesn't ever mangle the picture's
 aspect ratio.
 .
 It also provides extensive keyboard support; if you prefer using the
 keyboard, this is almost certainly the best viewer for you. But it
 doesn't skimp on the mousey stuff, either.
 .
 Note that this program is written by the author of the svgalib-based
 zgv, and has similar features.
 .
 Home Page: http://xzgv.browser.org/

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Bug#194572: ITP: foo2zjs -- Support for printing to ZjStream-based printers

[Chris Lawrence]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

Upstream URL: http://home.mn.rr.com/richardsons/foo2zjs/
Copyright: GPL
Authors: Rick Richardson [EMAIL PROTECTED], Robert Szalai
Description: Support for printing to ZjStream-based printers

foo2zjs is an open source printer driver for printers that use the
Zenographics ZjStream wire protocol for their print data, such as the
Minolta/QMS magicolor 2200 DL and 2300 DL and HP LaserJet 1000 and
1005. These printers are often erroneously referred to as winprinters
or GDI printers. However, Microsoft GDI only mandates the API between
an application and the printer driver, not the protocol on the wire
between the printer driver and the printer. In fact, ZjStream printers
are raster printers which happen to use a very efficient wire protocol
which was developed by Zenographics and licensed by most major printer
manufacturers for at least some of their product lines. ZjStream is
just one of many wire protocols that are in use today, such as
Postscript, PCL, Epson, etc.

The package request is attached.


Chris
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---BeginMessage---
Hi

currently Laserjet 1000 will not work with what is in debian since the foo2zjs 
bins ( foo2zjs-wrapper etc. ) are  missing. Without them Laserjet 1000 and 
1005 will behave like /dev/null ( with the erratic cups error message Media 
tray emtpy but the real problem is that the wrapper is missing ).

Are you planing to package it too?

Thanks in advance 

Max
---End Message---

Bug#172669: ITP: foomatic-gui -- graphical interface to the foomatic printing system

[Chris Lawrence]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

* Package name: foomatic-gui
  Version : 0.1
  Upstream Author : Chris Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* URL : http://blog.lordsutch.com/?topic=13
* License : GPL
  Description : graphical interface to the foomatic printing system

This package provides a GNOME interface for configuring printers using
the foomatic printing toolkit within Debian.  It includes
autodetection support for many USB and parallel printers.

Foomatic Home Page: http://www.linuxprinting.org/foomatic.html
Foomatic-GUI Development: http://blog.lordsutch.com/?topic=13

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Bug#169717: ITP: r-cran-mcmcpack -- routines for Markov Chain Monte Carlo model estimation in R

[Chris Lawrence]

Package: wnpp
Version: unavailable; reported 2002-11-19
Severity: wishlist

* Package name: r-cran-mcmcpack
  Version : 0.1.4
  Upstream Authors: Andrew D. Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Kevin M. Quinn [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* URL : http://scythe.wustl.edu/mcmcpack.html
* License : GPL
  Description : routines for Markov Chain Monte Carlo model estimation in R

This is a set of routines for R that implement various statistical
models using Markov Chain Monte Carlo estimation with Gibbs sampling,
which allows solving models that would otherwise be intractable with
traditional techniques, particularly problems in Bayesian statistics
(where one or more priors are used as part of the estimation
procedure, instead of an assumption of ignorance about the true
point estimates), although MCMC can also be used to solve frequentist
statistical problems without priors.

Currently implemented are a number of ecological inference routines
(for estimating individual attributes from aggregate data, such as
electoral returns or census results), as well as models for
traditional linear panel and cross-sectional data and some
visualization routines for diagnostics.  Additional models, including
more EI routines (such as the model developed by Gary King), an
item-response theory model, and a binary response (probit) model are
planned for future releases.

(Description from the upstream website.)

MCMCpack is an R package that employs Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC)
methods to fit commonly used statistical models. R is an extremely
powerful language and environment for statistical computation and
graphics. We presume that users of this package will be familiar with
R.

Currently MCMCpack allows the user to simulate from the posterior
density of the following models: linear regression (with Gaussian
errors), a general linear panel model, Wakefield's ecological
inference model, Quinn's dynamic ecological inference model, and
Wakefield's hierarchial ecological inference model. Soon we will make
available code to estimate a probit model, and a one-dimensional item
response theory model. The package also contains densities and random
number generators for commonly used distributions that are not part of
the standard R distribution, some additional functions that are useful
for manipulating mcmc objects, and some data visualization tools for
ecological inference. 

(Personal aside: this is one *cool* cutting-edge package, even if only
about six of us Debianistas will appreciate it.  And it's co-written
by a political scientist to boot. :-)

I will also package the Scythe C++ library and the coda package from
CRAN [even though it's pure R code] that are required for this package
to work.  Both are also GPLed.)

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Bug#161697: ITP: fetchyahoo -- retrieve mail from Yahoo!'s webmail service

[Chris Lawrence]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

* Package name: fetchyahoo
  Version : 1.9
  Upstream Author : Ravi Ramkissoon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* URL : http://web.mit.edu/ravir/fetchyahoo/
* License : GPL v2 or later
  Description : retrieve mail from Yahoo!'s webmail service

 FetchYahoo is a Perl script that downloads mail from a Yahoo! webmail
 account to a local mail spool, an mbox file, or to procmail. It is
 meant to replace fetchmail for people using Yahoo! mail since
 Yahoo!'s POP and email forwarding services are no longer free. It
 includes all parts and attachments within the email. It can also
 forward the email to a specified address.

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Bug#151027: ITP: washerdryer -- wmaker dock applet for timing your wash

[Chris Lawrence]

On Jun 25, Adam Heath wrote:
 On Tue, 25 Jun 2002, Ryan M. Golbeck wrote:
 
  * Package name: washerdryer
Version : 1.1
Upstream Author : Mike Foly [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  * URL : http://ieng9.ucsd.edu/~m1foley/washerDryer.html
  * License : GPL
Description : wmaker dock applet for timing your wash
 
 Hmm.  What begins with U, ends with P, and has 2 words?

Actually, it might be quite useful if you live in a dorm or something;
often I used to leave laundry running and go back upstairs to
accomplish something useful.


Chris
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208 Deupree Hall - 662-915-5765


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Bug#150706: ITP: dhis -- Dynamic Host Information System

[Chris Lawrence]

On Jun 23, Guus Sliepen wrote:
 On Sat, Jun 22, 2002 at 06:44:23PM +0200, Manuel Estrada Sainz wrote:
 
   I forgot, if you need help on doing the transition or anything, just
   say so.
 
 What would be the best way to create a dummy dhid package?

Unless there are any versioned dependencies on dhid in Debian (my
guess: no, but check with apt-cache showpkg), dhis-client should
Provide, Conflict and Replace dhid.

i.e. put:

Provides: dhid
Replaces: dhid
Conflicts: dhid

in debian/control.


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Bug#148507: RFA: xanim -- Plays multimedia files (animations, pictures, and sounds)

[Chris Lawrence]

Package: wnpp
Version: N/A; reported 2002-05-29
Severity: normal

I request an adopter for the xanim package.  xanim is non-free, but
the reasons I'm RFA'ing it are (a) I don't use it and (b) it appears
to be barely maintained upstream, so I'm tired of looking at the bug
entries for it.

(If nobody requests this by 2002-06-30, I'll orphan it outright.)

The package description is:
 XAnim is a program that can display animations of various formats on
 systems running X11. XAnim currently supports the following animation types:
 .
   + FLI animations.
   + FLC animations.
   + IFF animations.  The following features are supported:
- Compressions 3,5,7,J(movies) and l(small L).
- Color-cycling during single images and animations.
- Display modes: depth 1-8, Extra Half Bright, HAM and HAM8.
   + GIF87a and GIF89a files.
- single and multiple images supported.
- GIF89a animation extensions supported.
   + GIF89a animation extension support.
   + A kludgy text file listing GIFs and what order to show them in.
   + DL animations. Formats 1, 2 and most of 3.
   + Amiga MovieSetter animations.
   + Utah Raster Toolkit RLE images and animations.
   + AVI animations. Currently supported are
- IBM Ultimotion (ULTI) depth 16.
- JPEG   (JPEG) depth 24.
- Motion JPEG(MJPG) depth 24.
- Intergraph JPEG(IJPG) depth 24.
- Microsoft Video 1  (CRAM) depth 8 and 16.
- Uncompressed   (RGB ) depth 4.
- Uncompressed   (RGB ) depth 8.
- Uncompressed   (RGB ) depth 16.
- Uncompressed   (RGB ) depth 24.
- Run length encoded (RLE8) depth 8.
- Editable MPEG  (XMPG) depth 24.
   + Quicktime Animations.  The following features are supported:
- Uncompressed (RAW ) depth 4,8,16,24 and 24+
- Uncompressed (RAW ) Gray depth 4 and 8.
- Apple Graphics   (RLE ) depth 1,8,16 and 24.
- Apple Graphics   (RLE ) GRAY depth 8.
- Apple Animation  (SMC ) depth 8 and GRAY 8.
- Apple Video  (RPZA) depth 16.
- Component Video  (YUV2) depth 24.
- Photo JPEG   (JPEG) depth 8 and 24.
- Kodak Photo CD   (KPCD) depth 24.
- Microsoft Video 1(CRAM) depth 8 and 16.
- Supports multiple video tracks.
- Supports animations with multiple codecs.
- Supports merged and separated resource forks.
   + JFIF images. NOTE: use another viewer for single images. This is more for
 animation of a sequence of JPEG images.
   + MPEG animations. Currently only Type I Frames are displayed.  Type B
 and Type P frames are currently ignored, but will be added in
 future revisions.
   + WAV audio files may have their sound added to any animation type
 that doesn't already have audio, by specifying the .wav file
 after the animation file on the command line.
   + AU audio files may have their sound added to any animation type
 that doesn't already have audio, by specifying the AU file after
 the animation file on the command line.
   + any combination of the above on the same command line.
 .
 XAnim also provides various options that allow the user to alter
 colormaps, playback speeds, looping modes and can provide on-the-fly
 scaling of animations with the mouse.
 .
 The AVI/Quicktime codecs for which source is not available can be
 installed by a separate package, xanim-modules.  These include Radius
 Cinepak, CYUV, H261, H263, and Intel Indeo (3.1, 3.2, 4.1 and 5.0).
 Note that these modules are only available on Alpha, i386, and
 PowerPC platforms.
 .
 Home Page: http://xanim.va.pubnix.com/

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Bug#148508: RFA: xanim-modules -- Installer for xanim binary-only modules

[Chris Lawrence]

Package: wnpp
Version: N/A; reported 2002-05-29
Severity: normal

I request an adopter for the xanim-modules package.  See the RFA for
xanim; same deal.

The package description is:
 This package provides access to the binary modules needed for xanim
 to decode the following graphic compression schemes:
 .
  Radius Cinepak 24 bits Color (Quicktime, AVI)
  Radius Cinepak  8 bits Gray  (Quicktime, AVI)
  Creative CYUV(AVI)
  CCITT H.261  (AVI)
  CCITT H.263 (not Intel I263) (AVI)
  Intel Indeo 3.1  (Quicktime, AVI)
  Intel Indeo 3.2  (Quicktime, AVI)
  Intel Ray YUV(Quicktime, AVI)
  Intel Indeo 4.1  (Quicktime, AVI)
  Intel Indeo 5.0  (Quicktime, AVI)
 .
 You will need an Internet connection to download these modules from
 the author's FTP site; Debian's permission to distribute these
 modules is so restricted that this is the only reasonable way to
 handle the situation.
 .
 The author only provides binaries for Intel (glibc 2.1), Alpha and
 PowerPC.  Users of other architectures will find this package
 extremely useless.
 .
 Home Page: http://xanim.va.pubnix.com/

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Bug#142290: ITP: python-optik -- advanced command-line parsing library for Python

[Chris Lawrence]

Package: wnpp
Version: N/A; reported 2002-04-10
Severity: wishlist

* Package name: python-optik
  Version : 1.2
  Upstream Author : Greg Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* URL : http://optik.sourceforge.net/
* License : BSD w/o ad clause
  Description : advanced command-line parsing library for Python

Optik is a powerful, flexible, extensible, easy-to-use command-line
parsing library for Python.  Using Optik, you can add intelligent,
sophisticated handling of command-line options to your scripts with
very little overhead.

The same module should work on both Python 2.1 and Python 2.2.

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Bug#139891: ITP: dehtml -- provide a text/plain translation for text/html messages

[Chris Lawrence]

Package: wnpp
Version: N/A; reported 2002-03-25
Severity: wishlist

* Package name: dehtml
  Version : 0.1
  Upstream Author : Chris Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* License : GPL
  Description : provide a text/plain translation for text/html messages

(Off-the-cuff description, probably will be changed ;-)

Some ignorant users (*cough* usually using Hotmail *cough*) send
messages via the Internet that only include HTML formatted text.
While some of us in the universe don't have to deal with these users,
and others can deal with them in the style of Overfiend, in a few
professions (like non-tenured faculty member at a state university
where the students have better political connections than you do) it
is more important to be able to read these messages in a decent free
mailer than it is to reeducate users BOFH-style.

Enter dehtml.  It takes a text/html message and builds a new
multipart/alternative message with the HTML and text versions of the
message, retaining the original header information.

Unlike using mailcap entries, this allows you to treat the message
like any normal text/plain message in MIME-aware mailers, including
drafting replies with quoted text.  Unlike a simple-minded filter
through html2text, which would otherwise work, it retains the HTML
message in case you need it for something later (for example,
following URLs embedded in it).  Messages that have any non-HTML body
are automatically skipped (just piped through unchanged).

It is best used as a small procmail entry:

:0f
* Content-Type:.*html
|dehtml

However, you can also defang individual messages if you like from the
command line.

Anyway, it's a bit on the small side (the total size is 2584 bytes,
thanks mostly to Python 2.2's excellent email module and html2text),
but I don't maintain any packages that it seems like it would fit in,
and I can't identify any other package that does this in the don't
clobber anything way I like, hence the ITP.

I'm not really wedded to the name dehtml either, but everything else
I came up with seemed really wordy or inaccurate or both.

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Bug#136816: ITP: gnome-lokkit -- basic interactive firewall configuration tool for console and GNOME

[Chris Lawrence]

Package: wnpp
Version: N/A; reported 2002-03-04
Severity: wishlist

* Package name: gnome-lokkit, lokkit
  Version : 0.50
  Upstream Author : Alan Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* URL : http://www.linux.org.uk/apps/lokkit.shtml
  Downloaded From : 
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/stable/sources/gnome-lokkit/gnome-lokkit-0.50.tar.gz
* License : GPL or X Window System
  Description : basic interactive firewall configuration tool

The gnome-lokkit package contains a utility which attempts to provide
firewalling for the average Linux end user. Instead of having to
configure firewall rules, gnome-lokkit asks a small number of simple
questions and writes a firewall rule set for you.

Gnome-lokkit is not designed to configure arbitary firewalls. To make
it simple to understand, it is solely designed to handle typical
dialup user and cable modem setups. It will not provide a complex
firewall configuration, and it is not the equal of an expert firewall
designer.

There is also a console version of lokkit included in the sources.

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Bug#134658: ITP: lsb -- Linux Standard Base 1.1 core support package

[Chris Lawrence]

Package: wnpp
Version: N/A; reported 2002-02-18
Severity: wishlist

* Package name: lsb
  Version : 1.1.0
* URL : http://www.linuxbase.org/
* License : GPL, BSD
  Description : Linux Standard Base 1.1 core support package

 The Linux Standard Base (http://www.linuxbase.org/) is a standard
 core system that third-party applications can depend upon.
 .
 This package provides an implementation of version 1.1.0 of the Linux
 Standard Base for Debian on the Intel x86 architecture.  Future
 revisions may support the LSB on additional architectures.
 .
 The intent of this package is to provide a best current practice way
 of installing LSB packages on Debian GNU/Linux.  Its presence does
 not imply that we believe that Debian fully complies with the Linux
 Standard Base, and should not be construed as a statement that Debian
 is LSB-compliant.

My README.Debian text follows, which pretty much explains how this
package works:

lsb for Debian
--

This package attempts to implement the core LSB specification.  Much
of the implementation is drawn on a talk by Wichert Akkerman
(http://www.liacs.nl/~wichert/talks/LSBDistro/html/) and Matt
Taggert's discussion of LSB 1.0 and Debian
(http://people.debian.org/~taggart/lsb/).

It does so in a number of ways:

- Providing directories that appear to be missing from Debian's FHS
  hierarchy.  (These directories probably should appear in base-files
  eventually.)

- Depending upon packages that implement OS services required by the
  LSB, including libraries and programs.

- Including the ld-lsb.so.1 symlink to the dynamic linker.

- Providing the LSB init script functionality.  Some of the LSB init
  functionality cannot be implemented without cooperation from other
  packages or changes in policy for woody+1; however, the remainder is
  provided here.

The intent of this package is to provide a best current practice way
of installing LSB packages on Debian woody on the ia32 architecture.
Its presence does not imply that I believe that Debian fully complies
with the Linux Standard Base, and should not be construed as a
statement that Debian is LSB-compliant.

DEVIATIONS FROM LSB 1.1

The package and its dependencies implement all of LSB on Debian, with
these exceptions:

- LSB 1.1 assumes a 2.4 kernel.  Debian ships a 2.2 kernel by default
  as of woody, although 2.4 is optional.  There is no way in the
  Debian system to ensure a package is only installed on a specific
  kernel release.

- LSB 1.1 specifies definitions for run levels 2-5 that correspond
  with most Red Hat-like distributions.  Debian does not specify run
  levels 3-5, and RL 2 can theoretically encompass any of LSB 2-5.

  (LSB probably should implement init dependencies for facilities
  expected in run levels, rather than using run levels directly.)

  In practical terms, this means that some packages may not install
  init scripts in RL 2-4 that would be expected on a system running an
  X display manager.  This package obeys the LSB spec by using the
  specified run levels of LSB applications; however, my gut feeling is
  that any LSB RL from 2-5 should be treated as 2-5 inclusive on
  Debian until Debian conforms (unlikely for woody) or LSB is amended
  to get rid of this silliness.

- LSB 1.1 doesn't fully specify what the init_functions should do.  I
  have chosen to implement them in a way that is consistent with
  Debian current practice, using the start-stop-daemon utility and the
  echo command.  For woody+1, I expect a nicer init logging facility
  that could be used.

  LSB specifies no way for a binary to request that a pid file be
  created for it, and the spec is ambiguous about whether start_daemon
  should create the pid file, therefore I assume the binary will
  produce its own /var/run/basename.pid file.

There may be other deviations from the spec; they are bugs and should
be reported as such.  (The aforementioned deviations are bugs, but
probably wontfix for woody, or are bugs in the spec.)

DESIGN DECISIONS

- I implemented the LSB init dependencies based on sysvinit's priority
  support.  A registry of package-provided facilities and their
  start and stop priorities is retained in /var/lib/lsb/facilities.
  Priorities are assigned to the system facilities as found on my
  unstable boxen as of today; perhaps system facilities should be
  registered by the appropriate packages, and not managed by the lsb
  package, but that is a woody+1 policy decision.

- The facility handling scripts are written in Python.  I am not
  particularly attached to them being written in Python, but at the
  same time I do not forsee rewriting them in $language_of_choice.

NOTES

Per the spec, LSB applications may be installed on Debian using:

alien -i YOUR_APPLICATION_HERE.lsb

You may need to run 'apt-get -f install' afterwards to pull in this
package.  Of course, you wouldn't be reading this if you hadn't
already pulled it in.

 -- Chris Lawrence [EMAIL

Bug#134658: ITP: lsb -- Linux Standard Base 1.1 core support package

[Chris Lawrence]

On Feb 19, Anthony Towns wrote:
 On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 06:50:01PM -0600, Chris Lawrence wrote:
  - LSB 1.1 specifies definitions for run levels 2-5 that correspond
with most Red Hat-like distributions.  Debian does not specify run
levels 3-5, and RL 2 can theoretically encompass any of LSB 2-5.
  
(LSB probably should implement init dependencies for facilities
expected in run levels, rather than using run levels directly.)
 
 This was discussed on one of the LSB lists (-spec? -discuss? both?) back
 when the 1.0 spec came out; the conclusion was basically that Debian
 should just translate those runlevels into the Debian equivalents. That
 is, just because a script specifies runlevel 5 but not 2, doesn't mean
 it shouldn't be brought up in runlevel 3 on Debian if that's what's
 appropriate.

OK, some sort of remapping probably should be done then.  Now it makes
a little more sense.

(This probably should actually be *explained* in the spec.)

[...] however, my gut feeling is
that any LSB RL from 2-5 should be treated as 2-5 inclusive on
Debian until Debian conforms (unlikely for woody) or LSB is amended
to get rid of this silliness.
 
 There are also systems out there that don't use runlevels, or that have
 user defined runlevels that aren't remotely related to the numbers Red
 Hat uses, which the LSB ought to support.
 
  There may be other deviations from the spec; they are bugs and should
  be reported as such.  (The aforementioned deviations are bugs, but
  probably wontfix for woody, or are bugs in the spec.)
 
 You should also mention that the uid for bin isn't 1 as the LSB
 specifies.

Strange.  I thought Ted they were going to drop the numeric uid
requirement except for root.

:scratches head:

Well, not something I or anyone else can fix at this point.  Consider
it a bug in the spec :-)

And it will get documented...

BTW, I found the thread:

http://lists.debian.org/lsb-spec/2001/lsb-spec-200107/msg2.html

I'll probably add it to the README too.


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Bug#129556: ITP: hpijs -- HP Linux Inkjet Driver

[Chris Lawrence]

Package: wnpp
Version: N/A; reported 2002-01-16
Severity: wishlist

* Package name: hpijs
  Version : 1.0.1
  Upstream Author : Hewlett-Packard [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* URL : http://hpinkjet.sourceforge.net/
* License : BSD
  Description : HP Linux Inkjet Driver

 The HP Linux Inkjet Driver is designed to work with virtually all of
 Hewlett-Packard's inkjet printers.  On many models, it supports
 high-resolution color and grayscale printing, along with photo
 printing and duplex features on selected models.

As of version 1.0.1, all files appear to have been relicensed under a
3-clause BSD license; the provisions indicating that the software is
not licensed for use on non-HP printers have been removed.

The sole exception is a file harness.h that appears to be
incompletely edited (indeed, it won't compile properly because of the
editing).  Thus, I will seek clarification from upstream before
uploading this to main.

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Bug#120294: ITP: makexvpics -- updates .xvpics thumbnails from the command line

[Chris Lawrence]

Package: wnpp
Version: N/A; reported 2001-11-19
Severity: wishlist

* Package name: makexvpics
  Version : 1.0.1
  Upstream Author : Russell Marks [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* URL : 
ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/apps/graphics/misc/makexvpics-1.0.1.tar.gz
* License : Public domain (yes, really)
  Description : updates .xvpics thumbnails from the command line

This package includes a shell script and a C helper program to update
XV/Gimp/zgv/xzgv thumbnails from the command line.

Justification: it provides the facility requested in Debian PR #116466
for updating thumbnails in the command line.

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Bug#78531: ITP: star

[Chris Lawrence]

Jacob:

If you are still interested in packaging star, I can provide you with
a .diff.gz from 1.3.1 that makes a lintian-clean package; I even
hacked together an smt man page.

If you aren't still interested, I'd be willing to upload my local
package and close this ITP.


Chris
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Bug#93915: RFA: icepref -- Yet another configuration tool for IceWM

[Chris Lawrence]

Package: wnpp
Version: N/A; reported 2001-04-13
Severity: normal

Due to a lack of interest in maintaining icepref, as I no longer use
IceWM as my window manager, I am seeking someone to take over
maintenance of the package.

Please make sure you retain the changes from the Debian version of the
package, or else you may lose important patches.

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