Bug#344572: O: tinycdb -- a package for creating and reading constant databases
Package: wnpp Severity: normal I intend to orphan the tinycdb package. The package description is: tinycdb is a small, fast and reliable utility set and subroutine library for creating and reading constant databases. The database structure is tuned for fast reading: . - Successful lookups take normally just two disk accesses. - Unsuccessful lookups take only one disk access. - Small disk space and memory size requirements; a database uses 2048 bytes for the header and 24 bytes per record, plus the space for keys and data. - Maximum database size is 4GB; individual record size is not otherwise limited. - Portable file format. - Fast creation of new databases. - No locking, updates are atomical. . tinycdb implements almost all API as found in cdb-0.75 written by D.J. Bernstein, so it should be source-compatible. It also implements the query interface as found in earlier versions of cdb (0.6x) and freecdb. It also contains some enhancements, like allowing to check existance of a record in a yet-to-be-created cdb database file. . This package contains both the utility to manipulate constant databases and the development files. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Kernel: Linux 2.6.14.2 Locale: LANG=POSIX, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (charmap=ISO-8859-15) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#299026: RFA: tinycdb -- a package for creating and reading constant databases
Package: wnpp Severity: normal I request an adopter for the tinycdb package. The package description is: tinycdb is a small, fast and reliable utility set and subroutine library for creating and reading constant databases. The database structure is tuned for fast reading: . - Successful lookups take normally just two disk accesses. - Unsuccessful lookups take only one disk access. - Small disk space and memory size requirements; a database uses 2048 bytes for the header and 24 bytes per record, plus the space for keys and data. - Maximum database size is 4GB; individual record size is not otherwise limited. - Portable file format. - Fast creation of new databases. - No locking, updates are atomical. . tinycdb implements almost all API as found in cdb-0.75 written by D.J. Bernstein, so it should be source-compatible. It also implements the query interface as found in earlier versions of cdb (0.6x) and freecdb. It also contains some enhancements, like allowing to check existance of a record in a yet-to-be-created cdb database file. . This package contains both the utility to manipulate constant databases and the development files. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.11 Locale: LANG=POSIX, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (charmap=ISO-8859-15) -- The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart. -- Hellen Keller -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#298718: RFA: slidentd -- A minimal ident (RfC 1413) daemon
Package: wnpp Severity: normal I request an adopter for the slidentd package. The package description is: It is similar in the purpose to pidentd but with different design goals. It's a very small and simple daemon that would not give out any sensitive information. In this regard it is not RFC compliant (RFC 1413 requires the daemon to be insecure by default). This is a very simple package, that never encountered much bugs. So this might also be an interesting package for a new maintainer. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.11 Locale: LANG=POSIX, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (charmap=ISO-8859-15) -- The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart. -- Hellen Keller -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#278648: ITP: kkbswitch -- keyboard layout indicator for KDE3
On [28/10/04 14:51], Shlomi Loubaton wrote: * Package name: kkbswitch Version : 1.4.1 Upstream Author : Leonid Zeitlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://kkbswitch.sourceforge.net/ * License : GPL Description : keyboard layout indicator for KDE3 KKBSwitch is useful when you have configured the XKeyboard extension of your X Server to have more than one keyboard group (layout). KKBSwitch displays an icon in the system tray that indicates which layout is currently active and enables you to switch layouts by clicking the icon or by selecting from the menu. May I ask how this package differs from the existing KDE keyboard tool? As soon as you configure two different keyboard layouts for KDE the tool will create an icon in the system tray. When you then click on the icon, you can switch between the different selected keyboard layouts. So I would like to know which advantages kkbswitch offers. Christian -- Debian Developer (http://www.debian.org) 1024D/B7CEC7E8 44BD 1F9E A997 3BE2 A44F 96A4 1C98 EEF3 B7CE C7E8 pgp2GMDu7IbJg.pgp Description: PGP signature
Bug#184167: bmf
On [05/04/04 13:19], Matt Zimmerman wrote: bmf seems rather dead upstream. The last release was in 2002, and it has had no CVS commits since then, according to the sourceforge statistics: http://sourceforge.net/project/stats/index.php?report=monthsgroup_id=63555 Well, I talked to the author in November 2003 and he told me that bmf is pretty stable. But he had some changes that he wanted to commit soon. bogofilter seems to provide substantially the same functionality, is actively maintained, and is already packaged in Debian. Do we really want bmf? Well, I would prefer to use bmf, even it's the package from sourceforge. First it's just 32K size compared to 880K that bogofilter needs. Also so far bmf worked fine, except for a very tiny amount of spam in the last days that I had to reclassify. But all other spam was caught correctly. And since I prefer small utiltiy for any task, I'm prefer to stick to bmf. And last but not least, I'm not much in favour of using software written by Eric S. Raymond. But I'm aware that this isn't a good argument to keep that bugreport open. Christian -- Debian Developer (http://www.debian.org) 1024D/B7CEC7E8 44BD 1F9E A997 3BE2 A44F 96A4 1C98 EEF3 B7CE C7E8 pgph0GGuhp7RJ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Bug#223609: O: fbgetty -- A console getty with and without frame buffer capability
Package: wnpp Severity: normal I intend to orphan the fbgetty package. The package description is: fbgetty is a console getty, which supports frame buffers. It also uses an extend issue field and refreshes the displayed issue, when an VT (Virtual Terminal) is activated. Upstream also considers the software dead since he hasn't worked for 2 years on it. So anyone interested in maintaing this software, should also consider becoming upstream after having talked to the previous upstream author. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux salem 2.6.0-test11 #2 Mon Dec 1 20:53:39 CET 2003 i686 Locale: LANG=POSIX, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit. -- Kahlil Gibran, The Vision
Bug#207433: ITP: spinner -- Sends small packets over a idle link to keep it open
On [27/08/03 2:02], Jesus Climent wrote: Package: wnpp Version: N/A; reported 2003-08-27 Severity: wishlist * Package name: spinner Version : 1.2.4 Upstream Author : Joe Laffey [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://www.laffeycomputer.com/spinner.html * License : GPL Description : Sends small packets over a idle link to keep it open spinner sends small packets (null packets or a fancy ASCII spin fan with motion) to keep a link up. . It is the perfect application to keep alive a connection over routers which disconnect a link after some idle time. May I ask what kind of advantage this package provides compared to using ping to keep the connection up? I'm asking because in the past and even these days I sometime use a simple ping to ensure that a connection is kept alive while the other site is quite slow to respond. Please don't see this as an attempt to keep you from packaging this software or keeping the package out. Instead consider it as a question of an interested user and developer. Christian -- Debian Developer (http://www.debian.org) 1024D/B7CEC7E8 44BD 1F9E A997 3BE2 A44F 96A4 1C98 EEF3 B7CE C7E8 pgp7Q1tKGbd1N.pgp Description: PGP signature
Bug#184167: RFP: bmf -- bmf - A bayesian mail filter
Package: wnpp Version: unavailable; reported 2003-03-10 Severity: wishlist * Package name: bmf Version : 0.9.4 Upstream Author : Tom Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/bmf/ * License : GPL Description : bmf - A bayesian mail filter A small, fast, flexible Bayesian filter for processing e-mail. It is trained by the user to categorize email as spam or non-spam. This implementation integrates well with existing tools such as procmail and mutt. It can use a variety of formats for storing data. A utility is supplied for converting data between the supported formats. . This package includes support for text and libdb formats. . See A Plan for Spam http://www.paulgraham.com/spam.html by Paul Graham for further information. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux salem 2.4.19 #1 Wed Dec 4 19:02:50 CET 2002 i586 Locale: LANG=POSIX, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Life's most urgent question is: what are you doing for others? Martin Luther King, Jr.
Bug#131945: wnpp: ITP: SpamBouner - a procmail-based spam filter
On 02/02/02, Jeremy Malcolm wrote: Package: wnpp Version: N/A Severity: wishlist Package: spambouncer Version: n/a Yet another one... but this seems to be better maintained than most and I have been using it for several years and regard it as very useful. I think it deserves to be in Debian. May I ask why you didn't check http://bugs.debian.org/wnpp before reporting this ITP? There's already an open ITP for a package named spambouncer. It's number is 126498 and it was issued by Martin F Krafft. Since it looks like both of you want to package the same software, may I suggest that you first decide who will package and maintain this filter and then merge the bugreports into one? Christian -- Debian Developer (http://www.debian.org) 1024/26CC7853 31E6 A8CA 68FC 284F 7D16 63EC A9E6 67FF 26CC 7853 pgp1gmNfNpilc.pgp Description: PGP signature
Bug#69446: ITP: Biomail - automated medical searcher
Hi, the URL that was provided in the intial report is http://biomail.sourceforge.net. It refreshes then to http://biomail.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/biomail/users.pl which leads to http://berlioz.informatics.sunysb.edu/cgi-bin/biomail/users.pl which is not reachable. Christian -- Debian Developer (http://www.debian.org) 1024/26CC7853 31E6 A8CA 68FC 284F 7D16 63EC A9E6 67FF 26CC 7853 pgpYrYogE37CS.pgp Description: PGP signature
Bug#125731: ITP: slidentd -- A secure minimal identd replacement
Package: wnpp Version: N/A; reported 2001-12-18 Severity: wishlist * Package name: slidentd Version : 0.0.11 (Currently, will change before the package will be uploaded) Upstream Author : Sean Hunter [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://www.uncarved.com/slidentd/slidentd.html * License : GPL Description : A secure minimal identd replacement slidentd is a minimal ident (RFC1413) daemon. It is similar in purpose to pidentd, which is installed with most linux systems, however its design goals are somewhat different. The process used in slidentd is that the daemon returns an obscure cookie, while logging the real data. This means that the sysadmin can follow up requests from remote sites by grepping through the logs for the cookie. -- System Information Debian Release: 3.0 Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux salem.getuid.de 2.4.17-pre8 #1 Mon Dec 10 23:09:50 CET 2001 i586 Locale: LANG=POSIX, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat. -- Simone de Beauvoir
Bug#125730: ITP: libowfat -- reimplement libdjb under GPL
Package: wnpp Version: N/A; reported 2001-12-18 Severity: wishlist * Package name: libowfat Version : 0.9 Upstream Author : Felix von Leitner [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://www.fefe.de/libowfat/ * License : GPL Description : reimplement libdjb under GPL libowfat is a reimplementation of libdjb which aimed at making the excellent libraries from Daniel Bernstein available to a wider public. -- System Information Debian Release: 3.0 Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux salem.getuid.de 2.4.17-pre8 #1 Mon Dec 10 23:09:50 CET 2001 i586 Locale: LANG=POSIX, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat. -- Simone de Beauvoir
Bug#122150: RFP: vsftpd - apparently a very secure FTP daemon
On 02/12/01, Darren Salt wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Quoting its home page: vsftpd is an FTP server written from the ground up to be free of security holes, whilst providing safeguards so the impact is low if it isn't. It is also very small and fast. Source is available at URL:http://freshmeat.net/projects/vsftpd/. A ready-packaged (but almost untried) version, source and i386, is apt-gettable; details are at the URL in my .sig. |[salem:~]-82 apt-cache show vsftpd |Package: vsftpd |Priority: extra |Section: net |Installed-Size: 180 |Maintainer: Daniel Jacobowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Architecture: i386 |Version: 1.0.0-1 |Depends: libc6 (= 2.2.4-2), libcap1, libpam0g (= 0.72-1) |Recommends: logrotate |Filename: pool/main/v/vsftpd/vsftpd_1.0.0-1_i386.deb |Size: 60002 |MD5sum: 767bb81d6d4c2fa079debb3b9c18a4a5 |Description: The Very Secure FTP Daemon | A lightweight, efficient FTP server written from the ground up with | security in mind. | . | vsftpd supports both anonymous and non-anonymous FTP, PAM authentication, | bandwidth limiting, and the Linux sendfile() facility. Would you mmind looking first into the latest package list for unstable before requesting packages for a software that is already packaged? Christian -- Debian Developer (http://www.debian.org) 1024/26CC7853 31E6 A8CA 68FC 284F 7D16 63EC A9E6 67FF 26CC 7853 pgpUmDd48a2fL.pgp Description: PGP signature
Bug#117657: ITP: flawfinder -- examines source code and look for security weaknesses
On 30/10/01, Adam Lazur wrote: Package: wnpp Version: N/A; reported 2001-10-30 Severity: wishlist * Package name: flawfinder Version : 0.17 Upstream Author : David A. Wheeler [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://www.dwheeler.com/flawfinder/ * License : GPL v2 Description : examines source code and look for security weaknesses Flawfinder searches through C/C++ source code looking for potential security flaws, ranking them by likeley severity. . Flawfinder intentionally works similarly to another program, ITS4, which is not open source. Would you mind explaining in which aspects it differs from rats, which is already packaged for debian? At least both offer to scan sources for potential dangerous function calls or other security flaws. So knowing about the difference would be great and helpful. Christian -- Debian Developer (http://www.debian.org) 1024/26CC7853 31E6 A8CA 68FC 284F 7D16 63EC A9E6 67FF 26CC 7853 pgpg1FMJgV0Sj.pgp Description: PGP signature
Bug#114116: ITP: webrt2 -- Ticket tracking system
On 01/10/01, Sami Haahtinen wrote: Package name: webrt2 Upstream Author : Jesse Vincent [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL : http://www.fsck.com/projects/rt License : GPL Description : Ticket tracking system May I ask if you talked with Lars Steinke, the current webrt maintainer about this? I remember that he wants planned to package webrt2 for debian and asked someone for packaging all needed modules, that are not already in debian. So did he agree that someone else is packaging webrt2 or didn't you ask him? Christian -- Debian Developer (http://www.debian.org) 1024/26CC7853 31E6 A8CA 68FC 284F 7D16 63EC A9E6 67FF 26CC 7853 pgpjAsKn1fGaz.pgp Description: PGP signature
Bug#113674: ITP: netsaint - network monitor
On 01-09-27 Ola Lundqvist wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist I intend to package netsait. http://www.netsaint.org/ Would you mind using apt-cache show on a machine having unstable installed or packages.debian.org before sending ITPs for already packaged software? [salem:~]-184 apt-cache show netsaint Package: netsaint Priority: optional Section: non-US Installed-Size: 3244 Maintainer: Ben Bell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Architecture: i386 Version: 0.0.6stable-8 Depends: libc6 (= 2.2.3-1), libgd1 (= 1.8.4-4), libpng2(=1.0.10), zlib1g (= 1:1.1.3), netsaint-plugins(=1.2.9.4-7), adduser (= 3.8), debconf Filename: pool/non-US/main/n/netsaint/netsaint_0.0.6stable-8_i386.deb Size: 1218088 MD5sum: 40d0c7e73db206caca05c2d1d386a9ec Description: A host/service/network monitoring and management system. NetSaint is a host/service/network monitoring and management system. It has the following features: . o Monitoring of network services (via TCP port, SMTP, POP3, HTTP, NNTP, PING, etc.) o Plugin interface to allow for user-developed service checks o Contact notifications when problems occur and get resolved (via email, pager, or user-defined method) o Ability to define event handlers to be run during service or host events (for proactive problem resolution) o Web output (current status, notifications, problem history, log file, etc.) . NetSaint was written in C and is designed to be easy to understand and modify to fit your own needs. Christian -- Debian Developer (http://www.debian.org) 1024/26CC7853 31E6 A8CA 68FC 284F 7D16 63EC A9E6 67FF 26CC 7853 pgpiwmHmPE1AN.pgp Description: PGP signature
Bug#113676: ITP: netsaint-plugins
On 01-09-27 Ola Lundqvist wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist I intend to package the netsaint plugins. http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=644 Great and would you mind adding some more information about the package the next time to your mail directly? Especially helpful would be an explanation how this plugins differ from those debian packages: |netsaint-plugins - Plugins for NetSaint |netsaint-plugins-extra - Extra plugins for NetSaint (dummy package with dependencies). |netsaint-plugins-fping - check_fping plugin for NetSaint |netsaint-plugins-game - check_game plugin for NetSaint |netsaint-plugins-ldap - check_ldap plugin for NetSaint |netsaint-plugins-mysql - check_mysql plugin for NetSaint |netsaint-plugins-pgsql - check_pgsql plugin for NetSaint |netsaint-plugins-radius - check_radius plugin for NetSaint |netsaint-plugins-snmp - check_snmp and check_hpjd plugins for NetSaint Christian -- Debian Developer (http://www.debian.org) 1024/26CC7853 31E6 A8CA 68FC 284F 7D16 63EC A9E6 67FF 26CC 7853 pgpXvVfQjIYfy.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Work-needing packages report for May 4, 2001
On 01-05-04 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: libelf (#91802), offered 38 days ago Description: an ELF object file access library Reverse Depends: screen scsh libelfg0-dev queue netsaint-plugins netsaint-plugins-extra loadwatch inn2 mozilla inn2-inews libelf0-altdev ddd elk make clif sced Hm, screen doesn't depend on libelf according to apt-cache show screen on unstable. The same applies to netsaint-plugins,netsaint-plugins-extra and inn2 too. I only checked those four packages, so maybe the other ones are affected too. So would you please explain hwo this reverse depends line was generated and which distribution exactly was used? Christian -- Debian Developer (http://www.debian.org) 1024/26CC7853 31E6 A8CA 68FC 284F 7D16 63EC A9E6 67FF 26CC 7853 pgpzzLdJggODX.pgp Description: PGP signature
