Bug#894182: O: calife

2018-03-26 Thread Christian Perrier
Package: wnpp
Severity: normal

I just orphaned this package, in preparation of /me slowly decreasing
my activity in Debian.



Bug#893916: O: antpm -- ANT+ information retrieval client for Garmin GPS products

2018-03-23 Thread Christian Perrier
Package: wnpp
Severity: normal

I intend to orphan the antpm package.

The package description is:
 This software uses the Garmin ANT+ proprietary USB keys and
 communication protocol to retrieve information (such as GPS traces)
 from some Garmin Forerunner watches such as Forerunner 405 and 310XT.
 .
 The underlying ANT+minus implements the ANT/ANT+/ANT-FS protocols to
 provide these tools: garmin-ant-downloader, antpm-downloader,
 antpm-fit2gpx, and antpm-usbmon2ant.
 .
 ANT+minus is a userspace implementation of a wire protocol similar
 to the ANT/ANT+/ANT-FS protocols. The goal is to be able to communicate
 with any ANT capable device in order to e.g. retrieve sports tracks. The
 c++ implementation is currently available under both linux and win.
 Communication with watches other than the 310XT might work, but are
 untested. Please report your experience to help improving the software.
 .
 The software was originally named "gant" but renamed when packaged
 to avoid confusion with existing Java software.



Bug#893917: O: antpm -- ANT+ information retrieval client for Garmin GPS products

2018-03-23 Thread Christian Perrier
Package: wnpp
Severity: normal

I intend to orphan the antpm package. I am the only uploader, the
pkg-running group is anything but active and I intend to reduce my
involvment in packaging (probably as I intend to resign from Debian in
one year or so)

The package description is:
 This software uses the Garmin ANT+ proprietary USB keys and
 communication protocol to retrieve information (such as GPS traces)
 from some Garmin Forerunner watches such as Forerunner 405 and 310XT.
 .
 The underlying ANT+minus implements the ANT/ANT+/ANT-FS protocols to
 provide these tools: garmin-ant-downloader, antpm-downloader,
 antpm-fit2gpx, and antpm-usbmon2ant.
 .
 ANT+minus is a userspace implementation of a wire protocol similar
 to the ANT/ANT+/ANT-FS protocols. The goal is to be able to communicate
 with any ANT capable device in order to e.g. retrieve sports tracks. The
 c++ implementation is currently available under both linux and win.
 Communication with watches other than the 310XT might work, but are
 untested. Please report your experience to help improving the software.
 .
 The software was originally named "gant" but renamed when packaged
 to avoid confusion with existing Java software.



Bug#801707: ITA: shadow -- system login tools

2016-08-02 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Andreas Henriksson (andr...@fatal.se):
> Hello!
> 
> Would just like to add here that http://bugs.debian.org/833256
> has been filed and another option than seeking someone to
> maintain src:shadow would be to migrate over to the tools
> provided by src:util-linux (which other distributions use
> and is well maintained upstream) and thus possibly getting
> rid of src:shadow.
> 
> Anyone thinking of adopting shadow might want to investigate
> this alternative. Feel free to comment on #833256.
> 
> Regards,
> Andreas Henriksson
> 

Juste answering to your mail so that' it's CC'ed to the shadow
development list. 

I agree that having something different from other distros is,
nowadays, probably not the best thing. If we look how loosely shadow
was maintained during several years (no offense intended to those
involved, of course, which includes myself), I'm sure there's
something better to do.

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Bug#801707: ITA: shadow -- system login tools

2015-10-13 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Laszlo Boszormenyi (GCS) (g...@debian.org):
> retitle 801707 ITA: shadow -- system login tools
> owner 801707 !
> thanks
> 
> Hi Christian,
> 
> What's up with the team behind the maintenance of shadow? Does it
> still exists / active?
> I would like to adopt it, but under control for the first some months
> if you don't mind. First I'd like to package the new upstream release
> and do some cleanup. Does it sound right with you, do you accept me as
> the future maintainer?
> I'm a Security Team trainee and have some cryptographic background,
> but this package is vital to the system.

Hello,

The team is not really active but the tools are there: git repository,
mailing lists on Alioth.

Serge and John (CC'ed) have mentioned their intent to resume the work
on shadow, too. So I guess it's be easy to take things over.

My intent, in the "orphan" bug report, was mostly to officially
announce that nobody should wait for me for package uploads, changes,
etc.

I'd happy to hand out the pkg-shadow project on Alioth to another
person, of course, so that the work can continue/resume smoothly.




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Bug#801707: O: shadow -- system login tools

2015-10-13 Thread Christian Perrier
Package: wnpp
Severity: normal

I intend to orphan the shadow package.

It is indeed time for me to accept that I won't be useful anymor efor
this package and, instead of blocking its adoption by someone else, I
should officially orphan it.

I'd be happy to help people who intend to maintain it, at least by
sponsoring uploads for those who aren't in the Debian Devleopers
keyring with upload rights.

The package description is:
 These tools are required to be able to login and use your system. The
 login program invokes your user shell and enables command execution. The
 newgrp program is used to change your effective group ID (useful for
 workgroup type situations). The su program allows changing your effective
 user ID (useful being able to execute commands as another user).



Bug#785534: ITP: goobook -- access your Google contacts from command-line or mutt

2015-05-17 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Ilias Tsitsimpis (i.tsitsim...@gmail.com):
 Package: wnpp
 Severity: wishlist
 Owner: Ilias Tsitsimpis i.tsitsim...@gmail.com
 
 * Package name: goobook
   Version : 1.6
   Upstream Author : Christer Sjöholm goob...@furuvik.net
 * URL : https://pypi.python.org/pypi/goobook
 * License : GPL-3.0+
   Programming Lang: Python
   Description : access your Google contacts from command-line or mutt
 
  goobook can be used to access your Google contacts from the
  command-line and from MUAs such as Mutt. It can be used from Mutt the
  same way as abook.

The opackage description might need some review by debian-l10n-english
(use of your). Apart from that no specific advice abou tthe
package..:-)




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Bug#746652: ITP: openambit -- utilities for Suunto Ambit sport watches

2014-05-02 Thread Christian Perrier
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Christian Perrier bubu...@debian.org

* Package name: openambit
  Version : 0.2
  Upstream Author : Emil Ljungdahl
* URL : http://openambit.org/
* License : GPL-3
  Programming Lang: C
  Description : utilities for Suunto Ambit sport watches

 This package provides software that helps communicating with Suunto Ambit
 outdoor watches.

The main motivation for me to package this is because I need it to avoid
being forced to use a Microsoft Windows machine to synchronize my brand
new shiny Suunto Ambit 2 watch...:-)

Suunto only officially supports Windows and doesn't plan to provide Linux
versions of the software that helps communicating with the watch
and sync its data to the Movescount website.

That package would indeed be useful to all users of Debian who own
a Suunto Ambit watch for outdoor activities.


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Bug#746652: ITP: openambit -- utilities for Suunto Ambit sport watches

2014-05-02 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Tollef Fog Heen (tfh...@err.no):
 ]] Christian Perrier 
 
  That package would indeed be useful to all users of Debian who own
  a Suunto Ambit watch for outdoor activities.
 
 Perhaps mention somewhere that it's an ANT+ downloader?  It should in
 theory work with Garmin watches too, but I haven't tried.  It would be
 interesting to see if you can get
 https://github.com/Tigge/Garmin-Forerunner-610-Extractor to work with
 the Suunto as well.


Interesting. I didn't even know that but, for sure, that could be
interesting. I didn't really tried the software, yet, anyway. But I
desperately need it because keeping a Windows machine just to download
my tracks is a no-go, you can guess...




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Bug#718880: [Pkg-fonts-devel] Bug#718880: RFP: fonts-arkpandora -- Replacement fonts for Microsoft's Arial, Times, and Verdana fonts

2013-08-06 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Raphaël Hertzog (hert...@debian.org):
 Package: wnpp
 Severity: wishlist
 
 * Package name: fonts-arkpandora
   Version : 2.04
   Upstream Author : Gavin Graham
 * URL : http://www.users.bigpond.net.au/gavindi (not working)
   http://ostatic.com/arkpandorafonts/
 * License : Same as Bitstream Vera
   Description : Replacement fonts for Microsoft's Arial, Times, and 
 Verdana fonts
 
 The Arkpandora MS-TTF Replacement Font Pack is designed for screens and
 printing and as a drop-in replacement for Arial, Times New
 Roman and Verdana. It includes Aerial, Aerial Mono, Tymes, and Veranda.


Added to my TODO list, but don't we already have other fonts that
claim to be Times New Roman/Arial drop-in replacements (maybe not
Verdana, though)? Anyway, packaging is probably easy, as usual.




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Bug#715182: ITP: fonts-junction -- humanist sans-serif typeface

2013-07-07 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Andrew Starr-Bochicchio (a...@debian.org):

 is so easy to drift a bit too far into art criticism. How does the
 following sound to you?
 
 | Junction, the first open-source type project by The League of Moveable Type,
 | is a  humanist sans-serif font. Designed by Caroline Hadilaksono, it has 
 hand
 | drawn and human qualities while retaining the clarity and efficiencies of 
 a
 | sans-serif typeface.
 | .
 | It currently only supports basic Latin characters.


Sounds great.



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Bug#715182: ITP: fonts-junction -- humanist sans-serif typeface

2013-07-06 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Andrew Starr-Bochicchio (a...@debian.org):
 Package: wnpp
 Severity: wishlist
 Owner: Andrew Starr-Bochicchio a...@debian.org
 
 * Package name: fonts-junction
   Version :  18de8417c6 [1]
   Upstream Author : Caroline Hadilaksono carol...@hadilaksono.com
 * URL : http://www.theleagueofmoveabletype.com/junction
 * License : SIL
   Programming Lang: N/A
   Description : humanist sans-serif typeface
 
 Junction is a  humanist sans-serif, and the first open-source type project
 started by The League of Moveable Type.
 
 Any suggestions on how to expand on the long description would be 
 apprieciated.


What is a humanist font?

It could be interesting to explain why Yet Another Font. There are
certainly reasons and those are the information needed by people who
have to decide would I want to install this on my system.

Also, giving hints about the characters coverage might be interesting.




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Bug#711233: [Pkg-fonts-devel] Bug#711233: ITP: fonts-ebgaramond -- EB Garamond OpenType and TrueType fonts

2013-06-07 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Scott Howard (show...@debian.org):
 On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 12:52 AM, Christian PERRIER bubu...@debian.org wrote:
  Hello Scott,
 
  Do you plan to move the git repo in pkg-fonts on Alioth?
 
 
 Yes, I applied for membership to pkg-fonts. I'm not a member of
 scm-pkg-fonts so I don't believe I can put something there yet.

Oh, did you do that recently? It seems that I missed your application
(which I now validated--you can add things in pkg-fonts on Alioth
now).




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Bug#711233: [Pkg-fonts-devel] Bug#711233: ITP: fonts-ebgaramond -- EB Garamond OpenType and TrueType fonts

2013-06-05 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Scott Howard (show...@debian.org):
 Package: wnpp
 Severity: wishlist
 Owner: Scott Howard show...@debian.org
 
 * Package name: fonts-ebgaramond
   Version : 0.015+git20130522
   Upstream Author : Georg Duffner
 * URL : http://www.georgduffner.at/ebgaramond/
 * License :  SIL OFL 1.1
   Programming Lang: font (python-fontforge)
   Description : EB Garamond OpenType and TrueType fonts
EB Garamond is an open source project to create a revival of Claude
 Garamont’s
famous humanist typeface from the mid-16th century. This package contains
OpenType and TrueType fonts.
 
 Will be maintained under Fonts Task Force umbrella. Initial packaging is

Hello Scott,

Do you plan to move the git repo in pkg-fonts on Alioth?



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Bug#700060: ITP: ITP: growlight -- Disk manipulation and system preparation tool -- Disk manipulation and system preparation tool

2013-02-07 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Nick Black (nick.bl...@sprezzatech.com):
 Package: wnpp
 Severity: wishlist
 Owner: Nick Black nick.bl...@sprezzatech.com
 
 * Package name: growlight -- Disk manipulation and system preparation
 tool
   Version : 1.0.4.5
   Upstream Author : Nick Black nick.bl...@sprezzatech.com
 * URL : http://nick-black.com/dankwiki/index.php/Growlight
 * License : GPL
   Programming Lang: C
   Description : Disk manipulation and system preparation tool

s/Disk/disk suggested

  Growlight can manipulate both real and virtual (mdadm, device-mapper, and 
 ZFS)
  disks, find bottlenecks in a storage setup, create partitions and 
 filesystems,
  and prepare fstab files for new installations.


You may want to make it clearer that it can be a replacement for
partitioning tools such as D-I's partman as this is, IIRC, the first
goal you had with it..:-)

May I suggest a review in debian-l10n-english?

And, thanks for the ITP, which is clearly a followup of the discussion
we had on debian-boot




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Bug#696833: ITP: i18nspector -- checking tool for gettext POT, PO and MO files

2012-12-27 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Stuart Prescott (stu...@debian.org):
 Package: wnpp
 Severity: wishlist
 Owner: Stuart Prescott stu...@debian.org
 
 * Package name: i18nspector
   Version : 0.6
   Upstream Author : Jakub Wilk jw...@jwilk.net
 * URL : http://jwilk.net/software/i18nspector
 * License : Expat
   Programming Lang: python
   Description : checking tool for gettext POT, PO and MO files

\o/

There are definitely good things to do with that gem. I'm still
(slowly) processing errors found by Jakub while running it on the
entire archive and would love finding a way to have it
running/reporting on the i18n infrastructure.




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Bug#692894: ITP: plum -- plum is a command line tool used to interact with the U-Boot netconsole of any LaCie product

2012-11-10 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Maxime Hadjinlian (maxime.hadjinl...@gmail.com):

 What about :
 Description : lacie u-boot netconsole shell
 ?
 
 Now the dumb question, to change the description, what do I do ? I
 wasn't able to find that info in the docs :/
 Should I also add a more detailed description at the end of the ITP ?


How about asking for a review of the package description in
debian-l10n-english?

(I'd suggest doing this *after* choosing the right package name.




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Bug#683774: [Pkg-fonts-devel] Bug#683774: fonts-source-sans-pro_--_Adobe's first open source type family

2012-08-03 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Juhapekka Tolvanen (juht...@iki.fi):
 Package: wnpp
 Severity: wishlist
 
 * Package name: fonts-source-sans-pro
   Upstream Author : Adobe
 * URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/sourcesans.adobe/
 * License : SIL Open Font License 1.1
   Description : Adobe's first open source type family

Please follow the fonts package naming policy:

fonts-foundry-fontname

Here, I think it's worth using the foundry, so I'd propose
fonts-adobe-sourcesanspro


It would also be interesting to mention in the long description what
makes the font specific wrt the other gazillion of fonts we already
have in the archive.




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Bug#681298: ITP: font-kalapi -- Kalapi Gujarati Unicode font

2012-07-12 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Kartik Mistry (kar...@debian.org):
 Package: wnpp
 Severity: wishlist
 Owner: Debian-IN Team debian-in-work...@lists.alioth.debian.org
 
 * Package name: font-kalapi

Should be fontS-kalapi (yeah, only if there is only one font in the package)

   Version : 0.1
   Upstream Author : GujaratiLexicon Team i...@gujaratilexicon.com
 * URL : https://github.com/gujaratilexicon/font-kalapi
 * License : OFL-1.1
   Programming Lang: N/A
   Description : Kalapi Gujarati Unicode font
 
 Kalapi Unicode font for Gujarati (gu) language.


And the description should be a bit more detailed, I think.




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Bug#681404: [Pkg-running-devel] Bug#681404: ITP: garmin-plugin -- browser plugin for communication with the Garmin Connect service

2012-07-12 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Ralf Treinen (trei...@debian.org):
 Package: wnpp
 Severity: wishlist
 Owner: Ralf Treinen trei...@debian.org
 
 * Package name: garmin-plugin
   Version : 0.3.12-1
   Upstream Author : Andreas Diesner garminplu...@andreas-diesner.de
 * URL : http://www.andreas-diesner.de/garminplugin/
 * License : GPL-3
   Programming Lang: C++
   Description : browser plugin for communication with the Garmin Connect 
 service
 
  This browser plugin has the same methods and properties as the official 
  Garmin Communicator Plugin (http://www8.garmin.com/products/communicator/).
  It can be used to transfer GPX files (Geocache Descriptions) to your garmin
  device using the official Garmin Javascript API. Its functionality depends on
  the device you use. 
   - Edge305/Forerunner305: ReadFitnessData, ReadGpsData, No write support
   - Edge705/Oregon/Dakota: ReadFitnessData, ReadGpsData, Write Gpx files
   - Edge800: ReadFitnessData, Write Gpx/Tcx Files
   - Other devices: Executes external command to write Gpx to device 

May I suggest to replace to your garmin device by to Garmin
devices?
Rationale:
- avoids personnalization
- capitalize Garmin

Also:
Other devices: executes an external command to write a GPX file to the
device

Probably standardize on GPX, also

 Remarks:
 - will be team maintained by the the pkg-running team
 - possibly has to go into contrib since it is made for interaction with a
   non-free service.

There could exist another service using the same protocol, so I think
it probably can still go to main.




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Bug#671787: RFP: openjump -- OpenJUMP is an open source Geographic Information System (GIS) written in Java

2012-05-07 Thread Christian PERRIER
A few comments on the proposed description synopsis:

 Subject: RFP: openjump -- OpenJUMP is an open source Geographic Information
   System
   (GIS) written in Java

OpenJUMP is: should be omitted as this is implied (see Developer's
Reference)

open source: this is Debian, so everything in main is open source

written in Java: users don't really care, at least in the
synopsis. May be a mention in the long description

That leaves use with:

Geographic Information System (GIS)

eventually even dropping capitals (This Is Not German..:-))... And
Yes I Know Only Nouns Take Capitals In German)

Maybe, then adding room for a few words about what makes OpenJUMP
specific wrt other GIS





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Bug#663647: ITP: npapi-vlc -- multimedia plugin for web browsers based on VLC

2012-03-13 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Benjamin Drung (bdr...@debian.org):
 Package: wnpp
 Severity: wishlist
 Owner: Benjamin Drung bdr...@debian.org
 
 * Package name: npapi-vlc
   Version : 2.0.0
   Upstream Author : VLC media player developers vlc-de...@videolan.org
 * URL : http://git.videolan.org/?p=npapi-vlc.git
 * License : GPL-2+
   Programming Lang: C++
   Description : multimedia plugin for web browsers based on VLC
 
  This plugin adds support for MPEG, MPEG2, DVD, DivX, Ogg/Vorbis and many
  more formats to your Gecko-based web browser (Firefox, Galeon, etc.). The


May I suggest dropping your, here. It might not be my web browser.

A suggestion would be and many more formats to any Gecko based



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Bug#653836: [Pkg-fonts-devel] Bug#653836: ITP: fonts-migmix -- High quality Japanese fonts based M+ and IPA fonts

2012-01-13 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Hideki Yamane (henr...@debian.or.jp):

  - Can I import it to pkg-font svn? if so, I'll do it.
(I know you dislike svn... ;)

Some packages maintained by the team are now in git, too. Even if I
consider it overkill for simple packages, I understand that some
people may be more comfortable with it. 



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Bug#651738: [Debian-in-workers] Bug#651738: ITP: fonts-gubbi - TrueType font for Kannada language

2011-12-12 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Vasudev Kamath (kamathvasu...@gmail.com):
 Package: wnpp
 Severity: wishlist
 Owner: Debian-IN Team debian-in-work...@lists.alioth.debian.org
 
 * Package Name: fonts-gubbi
 * Version: 1.0
 * Upstream Author: Aravinda V K hallimanearav...@gmail.com
 * URL : https://github.com/aravindavk/Gubbi
 * License: OFL 1.1
 * Programming Lang: N/A
 * Description: TrueType font for Kannada language
  This font is forked from Kedage truetype font for Kannada
  language. The issues in Kedage are fixed and some rendering
  feature and Rupee symbols are added.

You should standardize on TrueType. 

Maybe also avoid starting the synopsis with TrueType. Maybe not
mention it at all in the synopsis. Who cares about the font being
FrueType, OpenType or whatever?

I'm not sure about talking about issues in foo are fixes and bar
is added as this may change in the future (who knows?). Package
descriptions should avoid mentioningthings that are likely to change
over time because nobody will think about updating the description in
the future..:-)

BTW, the font is for Kannada *script* not language...:-)



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Bug#647448: ITP: qasmixer-l10n -- Localization package for QasMixer

2011-11-03 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Sebastian (va...@gmx.de):

   Description : Localization package for QasMixer
  ^
  don't forget uncapitalizing this in the final package



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Bug#617214: [Pkg-fonts-devel] Bug#617214: ITP: cantarell-fonts -- Humanist sans-serif font family

2011-09-26 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Jordi Mallach (jo...@debian.org):
 Hi,
 
 The GNOME3 transition is reaching its critical stages, and soon the most
 visible parts of GNOME will be replaced with their 3.x versions.
 
 We'd *really* like to be able to upload GNOME 3.2 having Cantarell
 available in unstable.
 
 Has there been any progress with the packaging? When can we expect an
 upload?

No visible progress since Aug 9th, when Nicolas (CC'ed) mentioned:

===  snip ==
I was away (VAC with no email) for about a while.  Hoping to get to
taking care of that package (and others in the pipeline) soon. Still a
few items to go over and tweak I think.
===  snip ==

I can try building what we have in SVN...but I'd like to give Nicolas
a last chance to either react or make some more changes.



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Bug#637351: ITP: urfkill -- urfkill is a daemon for the management of the radio killswitches.

2011-08-11 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Keng-Yu Lin (ken...@lexical.tw):

 Thanks for the suggestion. I modified the description as below.I hope
 that it is better explained and understandable.
 
 Package: wnpp
  Severity: wishlist
  Owner: Keng-Yu Lin ken...@lexical.tw
 
  * Package name: urfkill
   Version : 0.2.0
   Upstream Author : Gary Lin g...@suse.com
  * URL : http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/urfkill
  * License : GPL, LGPL
   Programming Lang: C
   Description : wireless killswitch management daemon for laptops
 
  urfkill daemon provides the management of the rfkill-related hotkeys
  and the killswitches in a more configurable way for the common RF
  devices, e.g. WiFi, Bluetooth, WWan, etc. urfkill handles the various
  key codes (KEY_WLAN, KEY_BLUETOOTH, KEY_RFKILL, etc)
  and toggles the killswitches based on a pre-defined policy.

Maybe just avoid starting sentences with urfkill as it is always
wierd to have sentences beginning with a lowercase letter.

A common trick is using The foo program|daemon. Also avoid e.g.
which is a latinism that's too often used in English..:). I propose
parenthesis...another option would be using such as. Replace etc.
with an ellipsis (...) as it avoids the tricky use of a dot before and
after a closing parenthesis.

That would give:

The urfkill daemon allow managins the rfkill-related hotkeys
and the killswitches in a more configurable way for the common RF
devices (WiFi, Bluetooth, WWan...). It handles the various
key codes (KEY_WLAN, KEY_BLUETOOTH, KEY_RFKILL, etc)
and toggles the killswitches based on a pre-defined policy.

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Bug#637351: ITP: urfkill -- urfkill is a daemon for the management of the radio killswitches.

2011-08-10 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Keng-Yu Lin (ken...@lexical.tw):
 Package: wnpp
 Severity: wishlist
 Owner: Keng-Yu Lin ken...@lexical.tw
 
 * Package name: urfkill
   Version : 0.2.0
   Upstream Author : Gary Lin g...@suse.com
 * URL : http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/urfkill
 * License : GPL, LGPL
   Programming Lang: C
   Description : urfkill is a daemon for the management of the radio 
 killswitches.
 
 urfkill daemon handles the configuration of the rfkill-related
 function keys and provides the management of the radio killswitches.


radiowhat? :-)

I guess this is about the buttons that are often used to turn wireless
communication on/off on modern laptops, but this is only a guess.

I would suggest having a more explicit description.

Also, the Description you give is a sentence. Short descriptions
(aka synopsis) shouldn't be sentences, see Developer's Reference.

Something along wireless killswitch management daemon for laptops
would be appropriate, imho (assuming the package is indeed what I
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Bug#637356: ITP: curtain -- Handy curtain for your desktop

2011-08-10 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Karolina Kalic (karol...@resenje.org):
 Package: wnpp
 Severity: wishlist
 Owner: Karolina Kalic karol...@resenje.org
 
 * Package name: curtain
   Version : 0.1
   Upstream Author : Pietro Pilolli pilo...@fbk.eu
 * URL : http://code.google.com/p/ardesia/
 * License : GPL-3.0+
   Description : Handy curtain for your desktop
   Curtain is a tool that shows a movable and resizable curtain
   on the desktop screen. This is especially useful when making
   presentations to hide and unhide things.
 
   Curtain is XInput-Aware, so you can use it
   with a graphic tablet or a whiteboard.
 
   This program has been implemented for educational purposes.

If that's meant to become the new package description, I'd suggest
lowercasing the synopsis (short part of the description). See the
Developer's Reference for advices and hints about writing good package
descriptions... 

I would also avoid your desktop, unpersonnalize and use at least
the desktop or some other construction.

A good idea is often to ask for a review on debian-l10n-english for
such things (I don't always suggest this to avoid overloading that
list...but our new Serbian-speaking contributors deserve extra
attention after such a successful DebConf, isn't it?).




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Bug#617214: [Pkg-fonts-devel] Bug#617214: ITP: cantarell-fonts -- Humanist sans-serif font family

2011-08-03 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Michael Biebl (bi...@debian.org):

  I did some initial work. Nicolas Spalinger made a lot of improvements
  by resyncing with upstream (which has no clear released version). I
  consider Nicolas to be mostly the person in charge to prepare the
  package and I'll upload it when done.
 
 Sounds great! Do you have a prospective timeframe when the package will be
 ready? Are there any blockers left?


Not really. I don't see much activity from Nicolas side, so I assume
the package might be ready but I'd prefer getting an ACK from him.

I can try building it, at least...



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Bug#617214: [Pkg-fonts-devel] Bug#617214: ITP: cantarell-fonts -- Humanist sans-serif font family

2011-08-02 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Michael Biebl (bi...@debian.org):
 Hi,
 
 as you have probably noticed, several bits and pieces of GNOME 3 are currently
 landing in unstable. This means, having cantarell ready becomes more and more
 important and urgent.
 
 Has there been any progress in getting this font into Debian?
 Who from the pkg-fonts team is taking care of this?


I did some initial work. Nicolas Spalinger made a lot of improvements
by resyncing with upstream (which has no clear released version). I
consider Nicolas to be mostly the person in charge to prepare the
package and I'll upload it when done.




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Bug#551955: any idea when we will have font-anonymous-pro in debian/ubuntu

2011-06-30 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting shirish शिरीष (shirisha...@gmail.com):

 Looking forward to knowing what's happening.

As of last night (european time):

fonts-anonymous-pro_1.002-1_i386.changes ACCEPTED into unstable



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Bug#551955: any idea when we will have font-anonymous-pro in debian/ubuntu

2011-06-17 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting shirish शिरीष (shirisha...@gmail.com):

 umm  any update to regard of this font being packaged for debian ,
 its been 2 months without any activity or is it in some sort of
 extended limbo.
 
 I did get and read Christian Perrier's response to it
 
 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=551955#40
 
  but no response afterwards.

I may guess that Rogério had no availability to make the changes I
suggested. Of course, anybocy is free to take the work over, starting
from what Rogério published, make the needed changes (basically
renaming the package as I suggested and preferrably moving it to
pkg-fonts SVN) and then prod me again to sponsor the upoad.




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Bug#628812: [Pkg-fonts-devel] Bug#628812: RFP: ttf-abattis-cantarell -- Cantarell sans font

2011-06-03 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Daniel Glassey (dglas...@gmail.com):
 Package: wnpp
 Severity: wishlist
 X-Debbugs-CC: pkg-fonts-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org


We should probably target fonts-abattis-cantarell as package name as
per our recent-but-yet-to-be-published fonts packaging policy. Or
maybe even fonts-cantarell if the foundry makes less sense.


 Homepage: http://abattis.org/cantarell/
 License: SIL Open Font Licence v1.1.
 
 it is the open font used by Gnome 3 and the source is developed in gnome git
 http://git.gnome.org/browse/cantarell-fonts/tree


I haven't found a released tarball for the font source. One can
indeed download an non-versioned ZIP file with only TTF files, but I
think it would be worth having the package building TTF and OTF files
from source.




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Bug#628528: ITP: aspell-sr -- Aspell dictionary for Serbian language

2011-05-30 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Filip Brcic (br...@gna.org):
 Package: wnpp
 Severity: wishlist
 Owner: Filip Brcic br...@gna.org
 
 -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
 Hash: SHA1
 
 
 * Package name: aspell-sr
   Version : 0.02
   Upstream Author : Goran Rakic g...@devbase.net
 * URL : http://srpski.org/aspell/
 * License : LGPL
   Description : Aspell dictionary for Serbian language
 
 Serbian dictionary for the aspell spell-checker package


As a reminder: When the package effectively lands in the archive,
don't forget about asking it to be included in the Serbian task for
tasksel.



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Bug#626159: ITP: scilab-jims -- Binding the worlds of Scilab and Java

2011-05-09 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Sylvestre Ledru (sylves...@debian.org):
 Package: wnpp
 Severity: wishlist
 Owner: Sylvestre Ledru sylves...@debian.org
 
 
 * Package name: scilab-jims
   Version : 0.2
   Upstream Author : Calite Denizet cali...@contrib.scilab.org
 * URL : http://forge.scilab.org/index.php/p/JIMS/
 * License : CeCILL 
   Programming Lang: C, Java  Scilab
   Description : Binding the worlds of Scilab and Java
  From Scilab, JIMS allows the capability to load and manage Java objects
  from the Scilab interpreter.
  .
  Thanks to this module, Scilab can access to complex and advanced Java objects
  with Scilab classical data types.


Of course, you intend to improve that short description, don't you?
:-)

No verb sentence, no leading capital, be more factual and precise
(what is exactly binding the worlds? ), etc, etc.



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Bug#626159: ITP: scilab-jims -- Binding the worlds of Scilab and Java

2011-05-09 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Sylvestre Ledru (sylves...@debian.org):

 Description: Binds Java from the Scilab engine


That's still a verb sentence and still has a leading capital..:)

How about Scilab Java bindings

(here, the leading capital is OK as this is the official spelling of Scilab

  JIMS is an effort to allow Scilab programs full access to Java class
  libraries. This is achieved by interfacing at the native level in both
 Virtual Machines.
  .
  From Scilab, JIMS allows the capability to load and manage Java objects
  from the Scilab interpreter.

allows the capibility is too french for being honest..:-). See
http://wiki.debian.org/I18n/SmithDebconfReviewGuidelines for what is
allowed after allow

  .
  Thanks to this module, Scilab can access to complex and advanced Java
 objects
  with Scilab classical data types.

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Bug#625737: [Pkg-fonts-devel] Bug#625737: ITP: fonts-ricty -- High quality japanse fonts based on Inconsolata and Migu 1M

2011-05-06 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Christian PERRIER (bubu...@debian.org):
 Quoting Youhei SASAKI (uwab...@gfd-dennou.org):
  Package: wnpp
  Owner: Youhei SASAKI uwab...@gfd-dennou.org
  Severity: wishlist
  
  * Package name: fonts-ricty
Version : 2.0.2
Upstream Author : Yasunori Yusa
  * URL or Web page : http://save.sys.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~yusa/fonts/ricty.html
  * License : SIL Open Font License Ver.1.1 and M+ FONTS LICENSE and 
  IPA Font License Agreement v1.0
Description : High quality japanse fonts based on Inconsolata and 
  Migu 1M
 
 Hello Sasaki-san,
 
 Isn't this more or less obsoleting inconsolata?
 
 inconsolata being team-maintained by pkg-fonts, maybe could you join
 the team so that we can easily handle this?


Sorry, while the above mail came out, you sent an RFS request to the
pkg-fonts team mailing list.

Still, I am not sure whether this font package is maintained in the
team's SVN and if you're formally a team member (with commit rights on
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Bug#625737: ITP: fonts-ricty -- High quality japanse fonts based on Inconsolata and Migu 1M

2011-05-05 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Youhei SASAKI (uwab...@gfd-dennou.org):
 Package: wnpp
 Owner: Youhei SASAKI uwab...@gfd-dennou.org
 Severity: wishlist
 
 * Package name: fonts-ricty
   Version : 2.0.2
   Upstream Author : Yasunori Yusa
 * URL or Web page : http://save.sys.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~yusa/fonts/ricty.html
 * License : SIL Open Font License Ver.1.1 and M+ FONTS LICENSE and 
 IPA Font License Agreement v1.0
   Description : High quality japanse fonts based on Inconsolata and Migu 
 1M

Hello Sasaki-san,

Isn't this more or less obsoleting inconsolata?

inconsolata being team-maintained by pkg-fonts, maybe could you join
the team so that we can easily handle this?




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Bug#624771: ITP: garmin-ant-downloader -- retrieve information from Garmin GPS devices using ANT+

2011-05-01 Thread Christian Perrier
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Christian Perrier bubu...@debian.org

  Package name: garmin-ant-downloader
  Version : 0:20091212
  Upstream Author : p...@ant.sbrk.co.uk
  URL : http://www.example.org/
  License : GPL v3
  Programming Lang: C
  Description : retrieve information from Garmin GPS devices using ANT+

 This software uses the Garmin ANT+ proprietary USB keys and
 communication protocol to retrieve information (such as GPS traces)
 from some Garmin Forerunner watches such as Foreunner 405.
 .
 The software was originally named gant but renamed when packaged
 to avoid confusion with existing Java software.


The package name is the best I could come up with. Suggestions would
be appreciated.

This package will be maintained as part of the pkg-running team that
already maintains garmin-forerunner-tools and pytrainer.



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Bug#623601: ITP: aspcud -- a solver for CUDF instances based on answer set programming

2011-04-22 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Cyril Brulebois (k...@debian.org):
 Ralf Treinen trei...@debian.org (21/04/2011):
  * Package name: aspcud
Version : 2011.03.17
Upstream Author : Roland Kaminski kamin...@cs.uni-potsdam.de
  * URL : http://www.cs.uni-potsdam.de/wv/aspcud/
  * License : GPL3+
Programming Lang: C++
Description : a CUDF solver based on answer set programming
 
 \o/ \o/ \o/


Even more without the leading article in the package description..:-)




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Bug#623528: ITP: webdis -- a simple web server providing an HTTP interface to Redis server

2011-04-21 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Andriy Senkovych (jolly_ro...@itblog.org.ua):
 Package: wnpp
 Severity: wishlist
 Owner: Andriy Senkovych jolly_ro...@itblog.org.ua
 
 
 * Package name: webdis
   Version : 0.1.0
   Upstream Author : Nicolas Favre-Felix n.favrefe...@gmail.com
 * URL : https://github.com/nicolasff/webdis
 * License : BSD
   Programming Lang: C
   Description : a simple web server providing an HTTP interface to Redis 
 server


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Bug#551955: any idea when we will have font-anonymous-pro in debian/ubuntu

2011-04-12 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Paul Sladen (sla...@canonical.com):
 On 09/04/11 15:04, shirish शिरीष wrote:
 
 Hello Shirish,
 
 Regarding your query about Anonymous Pro, the ITP for Debian is:
 
   http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=551955
 
 which Christian may be able to give you an update on.  There is also
 the PPA in the mean time:
 
   https://launchpad.net/~rbrito/+archive/ppa/
 
 which Rogério might be able to give you an update on!  Ubuntu takes
 the packages that are available on the freeze date and ships with
 those three months later.  Assuming that the packages were sponsored
 into Debian in the 3 months, they could be released as part of
 Ubuntu 11.10.
 
 Hope that's useful, please let me know if I've missed anything, or
 something needs further investigation/clarification!


The update is the following (a typo in the bug report may lead to my
intents being quite unclear):

I think it is OK to sponsor the package in Debian with the following
conditions :

- rename it to follow the current pkg-fonts package naming policy, so
fontS-anonymous-pro (we're discussing about making the foundry
part in package names an optional component and I think there is
consensus that it hasn't to be mandatory)
- move the package under the pkg-fonts team umbrella and host the
package development in its SVN repository
- check, of course, that the packaging work is OK

(the latter is not specific to this package, of course)





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Bug#620685: ITP: fonts-ukij-uyghur -- fonts for Uyghur language

2011-04-03 Thread Christian Perrier
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Christian Perrier bubu...@debian.org

* Package name: fonts-ukij-uyghur
  Version : 20110217
  Upstream Author : Uyghur Computer Science Association u...@yahoogroups.com
* URL : http://www.ukij.org/fonts
* License : LGPL-3, OFL
  Description : fonts for Uyghur language

 This package provides a set of fonts designed to fully support
 the Uyghur language.
 .
 These fonts are designed and assembled by the Uyghur Kompyutér
 Illimi Jem'iyiti (Uyghur Computer Science Association).
 



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Bug#595500: Intent to NMU or help for an l10n upload of wu-ftpd to fix pending po-debconf l10n bugs

2011-03-15 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Chris Butler (chr...@debian.org):

 I've had an RFA bug open for wu-ftpd for a while, and I think it's about
 time now to actually orphan the package. If you would like to perform a
 round of translation updates, that can be combined with my orphaning upload.


From my understanding, Bilal Akhtar offerred to adopt this package
(Anibal CC'ed me to a mail he sent about this, today).

So, I propose that I send a call for translaiton updates (done,
already), then, after the delay left to translators, we see what can
be done:

- either Bilal is in position to adopt the package and he can prepare
an upload

- or he is not (yet) and then you (Chris) do an orphaning upload (or I
can do it to save your time)




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Bug#595500: I would like to take over

2011-03-15 Thread Christian Perrier

Aníbal Monsalve Salazar a écrit :

On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 12:56:24PM +0300, Bilal Akhtar wrote:

Hello !
I am Bilal Akhtar, an Ubuntu MOTU Developer and I would like to take
over maintaining this package. I can be found on Freenode and OFTC with
the nick bilalakhtar and this is my e-mail address. I haven't uploaded
any thing to Debian yet, but I want to begin with this.

My work on Ubuntu can be found at
https://edge.launchpad.net/~bilalakhtar and a list of the Ubuntu
packages I have worked on at
https://edge.launchpad.net/~bilalakhtar/+uploaded-packages .

Thanks!

Bilal Akhtar


Hello Bilal Akhtar,

Could you please prepare a new Debian version of wu-ftpd fixing
po-debconf l10n and other bugs?

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=594788#10

I'll help you uploading it to the Debian archive.



Before just uploading, I'd suggest going through a call for translaitons 
(see the mail I sent this morning).




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Bug#589094: [Pkg-fonts-devel] Bug#551955: ttf-anonymous-pro: changing back from ITP to RFP

2011-02-20 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Rogério Brito (rbr...@ime.usp.br):

 No, no. It has seen activity. :-)
 
 The packages are ready. I am just waiting for a sponsor, after having asked
 for reviews (and even posted about fonts that I had packaged for some time
 already).  Some links that I can cite immediately:
 
 * 
 http://rb.doesntexist.org/blog/posts/packaging-fonts-for-a-debian-based-system/
 * https://launchpad.net/~rbrito/+archive/ppa/+packages
 * http://git.debian.org/?p=users/rbrito-guest/ttf-anonymous-pro.git
 * 
 http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-fonts-devel/2010-November/005757.html
 * 
 http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/f/font-anonymous-pro/font-anonymous-pro_1.002-1.dsc
 
 Yes, I should have updated the bug reports, but I just expected to have them
 uploaded (or at least, have feedback) in, say, 15 days after I posted,
 instead of half a year.
 
 If you can sponsor those, I would appreciate. :-)

I probably missed the sponsor request (please note that I don't follow
-mentors...I expect RFS requests to show in pkg-fonts-devel).

Still, we finally settled for fontS-foundry-fontname for the
packages' namles. Could you rename that package?




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Bug#459903: Adopting ttf-bpg-georgian-fonts in pkg-fonts team...

2011-02-12 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Moritz Muehlenhoff (j...@inutil.org):
 On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 06:51:58PM +0100, Christian PERRIER wrote:
  Hi Arne,
  
  I see that on March 3rd 2009, you ITA'ed this package. Nothing
  happened since then, apparently, but as you are already member of the
  pkg-fonts team, I think that including the package in our SVN is
  already OK.
  
  So, I'll proceed with that...but of course please let me know if you
  have some objections.
 
 What's the status? This has been tagged pending for more than a year.

Indeed, everything was ready in our SVN and uploading the package just
fell under my TODO pile.

I'm building the package right now, turning it to non-native and
modernizing the packaging (dh7, drop defoma, etc...).

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Bug#459903: Adopting ttf-bpg-georgian-fonts in pkg-fonts team...

2011-02-09 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Moritz Muehlenhoff (j...@inutil.org):
 On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 06:51:58PM +0100, Christian PERRIER wrote:
  Hi Arne,
  
  I see that on March 3rd 2009, you ITA'ed this package. Nothing
  happened since then, apparently, but as you are already member of the
  pkg-fonts team, I think that including the package in our SVN is
  already OK.
  
  So, I'll proceed with that...but of course please let me know if you
  have some objections.
 
 What's the status? This has been tagged pending for more than a year.


Hmmm, we should have a forgotten tag somewhere in the BTS...

I'm adding this to my TODO pile. I will inject the package in the
pkg-fonts SVN and set the team as maintainer. Please ping us in one
year if nothing happened..:-)

Thanks for the prodding, Moritz.




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Bug#597441: ITP: amiri -- Naskh style, typographically oriented font, mainly for printing and running text.

2010-09-20 Thread Christian PERRIER
Salam,

Quoting أحمد المحمودي (aelmahmo...@sabily.org):
 Package: wnpp
 Severity: wishlist
 Owner: أحمد المحمودي aelmahmo...@sabily.org
 
 
 * Package name: amiri
   Version : 0.001
   Upstream Author : Khaled Hosny khaledho...@eglug.org
 * URL : http://naskh.sf.net
 * License : OFL
   Programming Lang: N/A
   Description : Naskh style, typographically oriented font, mainly for 
 printing and running text


Could you reconsider the naming of the font?

The current practice for packages providinf TrueType and/or OpenType
fonts is naming them ttf-foundry-font. The ttf- prefix is very
widely used while the foundry-font is not as widely used

Some people proposed we use a font- or fonts- prefix (used in
Fedora) to avoid naming ttf-foo something that provides OTF fonts.

We could probably start with your package as it is obviously intended
for wheezy and not squeeze.

That would lead to something like font-hosny-amiri by using the
upstream author's first name as foundry name.




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Bug#595963: [Pkg-fonts-devel] Bug#595963: RFP: yanone-kaffeesatz -- TTF and OTF font in four weights

2010-09-20 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Axel Beckert (a...@debian.org):

 fonts-$foundry-$fontfamilyname sounds way more sane to me for source
 packages, yes.


I just wrote in an ITP that we could probably go this way for
wheezy. So if that font is not intended for squeeze, I'd say let's
choose 'fonts-yanone-kaffeesatz' for the source package. How about
using ttf-yanone-kaffeesatz and otf-yanone-kaffeesatz if two
binary packages do provide the separated TTF and OTF versions?






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Bug#597441: ITP: amiri -- Naskh style, typographically oriented font, mainly for printing and running text.

2010-09-20 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting أحمد المحمودي (aelmahmo...@sabily.org):
 On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 07:21:05AM +0200, Christian PERRIER wrote:
  Could you reconsider the naming of the font?
  [...]
  That would lead to something like font-hosny-amiri by using the
  upstream author's first name as foundry name.
 ---end quoted text---
 
 Do you mean renaming the source package ? or just the binary package is 
 enough

Ideally, both..:-)

 
 Also I want to ask, how to inject the package in the SVN repository of 
 the fonts team ?


IIRC (I don't have a copy of SVN handy right now), we have
README.source in packages/ in SVN, that explains this.




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Bug#595963: RFP: yanone-kaffeesatz -- TTF and OTF font in four weights

2010-09-08 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Axel Beckert (a...@debian.org):
 Package: wnpp
 Severity: wishlist
 
 * Package name: yanone-kaffeesatz


Could that be turned out into ttf-yanone-kaffeesatz? Of course, the
package is meant to provide OTF and TTF fonts, but that would at least
follow the naming logic of other font packages?

Font pkg team: anyone to step up for this?




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Bug#581839: [Pkg-fonts-devel] Bug#581839: RFA: linux-libertine -- Linux Libertine family of fonts

2010-09-05 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Rogério Brito (rbr...@ime.usp.br):
 Hi, Christoph.
 
 On May 16 2010, Christoph Egger wrote:
  I request an adopter for the linux-libertine package.
 
 I am not (yet) adopting it, but I intend to, since it is a very useful
 package for those interested in (Xe)TeX---I am.

Any progress here, Rogério?

Adopting the font would indeed start by injecting it in the pkg-fonts
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Bug#586779: ITP: auto-complete-el -- The most intelligent auto-completion extension for GNU Emacs

2010-06-22 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Takaya Yamashita (tak...@debian.or.jp):
 Package: wnpp
 Owner: Takaya Yamashita tak...@debian.or.jp
 Severity: wishlist
 
 * Package name: auto-complete-el
   Version : 1.3
   Upstream Author : Tomohiro Matsuyama
 * URL or Web page : http://cx4a.org/software/auto-complete/
 * License : GPL3
   Description : The most intelligent auto-completion extension for GNU 
 Emacs


I don't know if this is what you intend as package description
synopsis but if that's the case, please consider a more neutral
description:

Description: autocompletion extension for GNU Emacs

most intelligent being mostly subjective...:)




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Bug#586779: ITP: auto-complete-el -- The most intelligent auto-completion extension for GNU Emacs

2010-06-22 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Takaya Yamashita (tak...@debian.or.jp):
 Hi,
 
 At Tue, 22 Jun 2010 18:19:52 +0200,
 Christian PERRIER bubu...@debian.org wrote:
 
  I don't know if this is what you intend as package description
  synopsis but if that's the case, please consider a more neutral
  description:
  
  Description: autocompletion extension for GNU Emacs
  
  most intelligent being mostly subjective...:)
 
 It was as follows. Is this expression wrong?
 
  It changes as follows.
  Description : Intelligent auto-completion extension for GNU Emacs

Except the leading capital letter, no problem.



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Bug#579569: ITP: ants -- advanced normalization tools for brain and image mapping

2010-05-10 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Yaroslav Halchenko (deb...@onerussian.com):

 Description: advanced normalization tools for brain and image analysis
  Advanced Normalization Tools (ANTS) is an ITK-based suite of
  normalization, segmentation and template-building tools for quantitative
  morphometric analysis.
 
 better?


I'm not sure that advance normalization tools brings that much in
the synopsis but eating space that could better be used for something
more precise wrt the real use of the software.

The long description makes it clear what ANTS means, which is
enough.

Dropping the acronym expansion from the synopsis would help bringing
more important word there, such as morphometric.




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Bug#576262: ITP: django-countries -- Provides fixtures, models and flags for countries by ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code

2010-04-02 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Paul Wise (p...@debian.org):

 Looking at the upstream code, it downloads a file off the ISO website
 and converts that to python:
 
 http://bitbucket.org/smileychris/django-countries/src/tip/django_countries/bin/regenerate.py
 
 I wonder if the ISO considers that file to be copyrightable and if so,
 what the license is.


This is one of the reasons for which we (iso-codes maintainers) are
maintaining the XML file manually and do not generate it in any way
from the various maintenance agencies websites (there are several
standards that iso-codes deals with and they're not maintained by the
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Bug#574268: [Pkg-fonts-devel] Bug#574268: ITP: ttf-kacst-one

2010-03-17 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Hideki Yamane (henr...@debian.or.jp):
 Description: KACST free TrueType Arabic fonts, KACST One
  This is a TrueType Arabic font released by the King 
 Abdulaziz City 
  for Science and Technology (KACST).


Synopsis: repeating KACST twice is maybe too much. free is also
useless IMHO.

Description: TrueType font designed for Arabic language
 This package provides an TrueType font designed for Arabic by the
 King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST), Saudi Arabia.

(after all, not everybody knows where is KACST..:)




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Bug#571969: ITP: cifs-utils -- utilities for CIFS file systems

2010-02-28 Thread Christian Perrier
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Debian Samba Maintainers pkg-samba-ma...@lists.alioth.debian.org

  Package name: cifs-utils
  Version : 4.0rc1
  Upstream Author : Jeff Layton jlay...@samba.org and the Samba Team
  URL : http://www.samba.org/~jlayton/cifs-utils/
  License : GPL-3
  Programming Lang: C
  Description : utilities for CIFS file systems

 The CIFS protocol for Unix systems provides support for
 cross-platform file sharing with Microsoft Windows, OS X, and other
 Unix systems.
 .
 This package provides utilities for mounting and unmounting CFIS
 network file systems.
 .
 These programs were originally part of Samba (distributed in the
 smbfs package), but have now been split off into a separate package.
 



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Bug#570053: RFH: blender -- Very fast and versatile 3D modeller/renderer

2010-02-16 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Cyril Brulebois (k...@debian.org):

 Hi Christian,
 
 if you folks are good at digging into homebrew systems (although I
 seem to recall gettext is used to some extent), you definitely can
 help with blender. :D

/me, no (but you would have guessed)

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Bug#570053: RFH: blender -- Very fast and versatile 3D modeller/renderer

2010-02-15 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Cyril Brulebois (k...@debian.org):
 Package: wnpp
 Severity: normal
 
 I request assistance with maintaining the blender package.

.../...

 Short-term TODO:
.../...
  - Maybe double-check localization.
.../...

Anything that the -i18 team (or individuals) can do, here?




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Bug#459903: Adopting ttf-bpg-georgian-fonts in pkg-fonts team...

2010-01-03 Thread Christian PERRIER
Hi Arne,

I see that on March 3rd 2009, you ITA'ed this package. Nothing
happened since then, apparently, but as you are already member of the
pkg-fonts team, I think that including the package in our SVN is
already OK.

So, I'll proceed with that...but of course please let me know if you
have some objections.


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Bug#433317: Maintaining font-arhangai under the pkg-fonts team umbrella?

2010-01-02 Thread Christian PERRIER
Hi Anton,

I noticed that package of yours which you proposed for adoption back
in 2007.

The pkg-fonts team could take it over and include it in our
team-maintained packages.

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Bug#560989: ITP: ttf-museum -- metal Centaur fonts revival family

2009-12-13 Thread Christian Perrier
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Christian Perrier bubu...@debian.org


* Package name: ttf-museum
  Version : 001.002
  Upstream Author : Raph Levien raph.levian@@gmail.com
* URL : http://www.levien.com/type/myfonts/museum.html
* License : OFL
  Programming Lang: Fontforge
  Description : metal Centaur fonts revival family

 Museum Sixty is based on 60 point metal Monotype Centaur. The source
 for A-Z is the specimen page opening American Proprietary Typefaces,
 ed. David Pankow. The primary source for the lowercase is the
 original Centaur specimen booklet by Lanston Monotype, London, 1929. 
 .
 Museum Fourteen is based on 14 point metal Monotype Centaur. The
 primary source is the text of Americal Proprietary Typefaces.
 .
 Museum Bible is based on 18 point metal Bible Centaur. The source is
 the booklet, An Account of the Making of the Oxford Lectern Bible,
 Lanston Monotype, Philadelphia, 1936.
 .
 Museum Foundry is based on the 14 point original foundry version of
 Centaur, as cut by Robert Wiebking of Chicago. The source is Amycus
 et Célestin, printed at the Museum Press in New York, 1916.



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Bug#560989: [Pkg-fonts-devel] Bug#560989: ITP: ttf-museum -- metal Centaur fonts revival family

2009-12-13 Thread Christian Perrier
retitle 560989 ITP: ttf-levien-museum -- metal Centaur fonts revival family
thanks

Quoting Christian Perrier (bubu...@debian.org):
 Package: wnpp
 Severity: wishlist
 Owner: Christian Perrier bubu...@debian.org
 
 
 * Package name: ttf-museum

After deep thinking with myself, I decided to rename the package as
ttf-levien-museum to follow the policy adopted by the fonts
packaging team (which we don't follow very strictly yet) to name fonts
as ttf-foundry-font).

Raph Levien has produced several fonts. For instance his Inconsolata
is already in Debian (unfortunately as ttf-inconsolata as of now). So,
I think it is correct to consider he is a foundry.






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Bug#561022: ITP: ttf-levien-typoscript -- classic ATF Typo Script revival font

2009-12-13 Thread Christian Perrier
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Christian Perrier bubu...@debian.org


  Package name: ttf-levien-typoscript
  Version : 000.001
  Upstream Author : Raph Levien raph.lev...@gmail.com
  URL : http://www.levien.com/type/myfonts/ofl.html
  License : OFL
  Programming Lang: FontForge
  Description : classic ATF Typo Script revival font

 Math typesetting requires an ornate capital script font for symbols such as
 script-H (Hilbert space), script-P (powerset), and so on. The most commonly
 used such font in TeX is rsfs (Ralph Smith's Formal Script), which is based on
 the classic ATF Typo Script. Many of the ATF script fonts have been
 professionally digitized, but not this one.
 .
 The lines of the Typo Script digitization are much more delicate and refined,
 largely because they're based on the 18pt metal, while rsfs is designed for a
 10pt normal and 7pt subscript size. Thus, this draft can't really be used as a
 drop-in replacement, as the hairlines will simply be too light to reproduce
 well. At some point, the digital adaptation of the ATF optical scaling
 technology will be working, allowing to produce more robust versions
 suitable for use in text-sized mathematical setting.



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Bug#561047: [Pkg-fonts-devel] Bug#561047: ITP: otf-yozfont - Japanese propotional Handwriting OpenType font

2009-12-13 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Hideki Yamane (henr...@debian.or.jp):
 Package: wnpp
 Severity: wishlist
 X-Debbugs-CC: pkg-fonts-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org
 
Package name: otf-yozfont
 Version: 12.18~beta24
 Upstream Author: Y.Oz (Y.OzVox)
 URL: http://yozvox.web.infoseek.co.jp/
 License: Open Font License 1.1
 Description: Japanese propotional Handwriting OpenType font
 ^

Typo: should be proportional




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Bug#528461: ITP: silverstripe -- a flexible open source Content Management System

2009-05-14 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Andrew Mitchell (ajmi...@debian.org):

 Quite true, it's a little hard to come up with a sentence which explains 
 why this one in particular should be used :) I think I'll need to consult
 with upstream about getting a better description.
 Thanks for your input on it.


debian-l10n-english may also help, by the way...



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Bug#528461: ITP: silverstripe -- a flexible open source Content Management System

2009-05-13 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Andrew Mitchell (ajmi...@debian.org):
 Package: wnpp
 Severity: wishlist
 Owner: Andrew Mitchell ajmi...@debian.org
 
 
 * Package name: silverstripe
   Version : 2.3.1
   Upstream Author : Silverstripe Limited
 * URL : http://www.silverstripe.org/
 * License : BSD
   Programming Lang: PHP
   Description : a flexible open source Content Management System


If that's meant to become the package's short description, I'd
recommend:

- dropping open source. If the package is in Debian, it is free wrt
DFSG so that become sirrelevant
- dropping the leading article (discouraged by the developer's
reference)
- consider dropping flexible which is a matter of judgement whether
it really is

That leaves you with Content Managemenbt System only, which you
might want to enhance to  give information about what makes it special
among the gazillion other CMS (please note that I have no clue about
CMSI just feel there are tons of these, which might even be
untrue..:-))





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Bug#508398: ITP: mini18n -- minimal translation library

2008-12-11 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Evgeni Golov (sarge...@die-welt.net):
 On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 06:47:37 +0100 Christian Perrier wrote:
 
  Is there any reason for not using gettext ? If this is a C library, I
  suppose that the 'yabause' software is also written in C, which, IIRC,
  gettext supports..:-)
  
  /me is having a strong reinventing the wheel feeling, here.
 
 Yupp, this is an reinvented wheel. But upstream argued that this wheel
 can drive on non-GNU roads ;) -- Yabause runs natively on Windows, Sega
 Dreamcast and Nintendo Wii and porting GNU gettext over there is
 something upstream did not want to do.


At least I hope (I highly suspect I'm wrong) that upstream is
intending to keep this compatible with PO files. In short, that it's
using PO files for the translatable material.




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Bug#508398: ITP: mini18n -- minimal translation library

2008-12-10 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Evgeni Golov ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
 Package: wnpp
 Severity: wishlist
 Owner: Evgeni Golov [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 
 * Package name: mini18n
   Version : 0.0 (no official release yet)
   Upstream Author : Guillaume Duhamel [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 * URL : http://www.yabause.org/
 * License : GPL-2+
   Programming Lang: C
   Description : minimal translation library
 
 mini18n is a small and non-obtrusive internationalization library,
 originally developed for the Yabause project.
 
 Note1: mini18n is needed for translation support in yabause (#508166).
 Note2: the homepage does not carry any information about mini18n yet, only
the fact that it's used for translations in yabause.


Is there any reason for not using gettext ? If this is a C library, I
suppose that the 'yabause' software is also written in C, which, IIRC,
gettext supports..:-)

/me is having a strong reinventing the wheel feeling, here.





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Bug#487263: atmailopen 1.02+dfsg+svn48-1: Please translate debconf PO for the package atmailopen

2008-09-02 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Giuseppe Iuculano ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):

  Have you asked the debian-l10n-italian mailing list for review as I
  guess you translated the file yourself? Experience shows that
  translators often have comments on translations done by
  developers. Not errors, indeed, but writing style suggestions, quite
  often.
 
 I'm using roundcube and torrentflux templates, and they should
 have been reviewed by the debian-l10n-english ml.


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Bug#487263: atmailopen 1.02+dfsg+svn48-1: Please translate debconf PO for the package atmailopen

2008-09-01 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Giuseppe Iuculano ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
 Dear Debian I18N people,
 
 I would like to know if some of you would be interested in translating
 atmailopen.
 
 atmailopen already includes it.po sv.po.
 So do not translate it to these languages (the translators will be
 contacted separately).
 
 languagetranslated fuzzy untranslated
 -
   it 7
   sv 2 5

Two small remarks:

Why not pick up the translations from another package that asks the
very same questions (choose web server to configure, restart
webserver)? No name comes to mind right now but probably halp of the
various Web services things have such debconf templates. What you
would need is just picking up debian/po/*.po files and run
debconf-updatepo. You would end up with fuzzy translations but
that would help translators to avoid reinventing the wheel over and
over.

Have you asked the debian-l10n-italian mailing list for review as I
guess you translated the file yourself? Experience shows that
translators often have comments on translations done by
developers. Not errors, indeed, but writing style suggestions, quite
often.






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Bug#478328: [Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#478328: ITP: samba4 -- LanManager-like fileserver and active directory server

2008-04-29 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Jelmer Vernooij ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
 Package: wnpp
 Severity: wishlist
 Owner: Jelmer Vernooij [EMAIL PROTECTED]


This is a plan we discussed with Jelmer at the SambaXP conference.
(for people less involved in samba stuff, Jelmer is, along with Andrew
Bartlett, one of the two lead developers of Samba4).

Given the Samba4 release timeframe, having both samba3 and samba4
packages in Debian makes sense for quite some time.

We not only want to release Debian with a stable Samba (which means
releasing with 3.x) but also give Samba4 the widest exposure possible
(which means having it in unstable at least).

These samba4 package are *not targeted for lenny*. Security updates
for such alpha releases wouldn't be reasonable, of course.

So, it's quite likely that the first one or two uploads will be sent
to experimental.

There will then be uploads to unstable, but we'll take care of
blocking them from entering testing.

Having this samba4 source package along with many binary packages it
will produce (several libraries), will also help integrating
Openchange (the Free MS-Exchange interoperable server/client)all
this being targeted at lenny+1.




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Bug#473149: ITP: ttf-lg-aboriginal -- Contains North American aboriginal langauge fonts

2008-04-07 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Neskie Manuel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
 Here is the ttf-lg-aboriginal package on mentors:
 
 http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/t/ttf-lg-aboriginal/


Just uploaded. 

The package will go through NEW and, provided the ftpmasters don't
pester you with gory details I would have missed, will go into the
archive...




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Bug#473149: ITP: ttf-lg-aboriginal -- Contains North American aboriginal langauge fonts

2008-04-06 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Neskie Manuel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
 Here is the ttf-lg-aboriginal package on mentors:
 
 http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/t/ttf-lg-aboriginal/
 
 Most of the problems that have been discussed on the mailing list are fixed.
 
  * source code for font still waiting from upstream, I don't know if
 he uses fontforge
  * two separate packages.  looked at another package to see how to do it.  ls
  * version meta-data still waiting from upstream
  * watch file - i'm thinking the way upstream posts releases will make
 it hard to make a watch file, but that's my inexperience talking


Package description...:)

I still think that Contains is useless

North-American should have an hyphen

langauge has a typo

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Bug#473998: ITP: debian-faq -- The Debian FAQ

2008-04-03 Thread Christian Perrier
(usual dilemna: who to put in answer to an ITP...using the bug number
and -devel to avoid too many CC)

Quoting Cyril Brulebois ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
 On 02/04/2008, Joost van Baal wrote:
   In this package you will find the Debian GNU/Linux FAQ, which gives
   frequently asked questions (with their answers!) about the Debian
   distribution Debian GNU/Linux and others) and about the Debian project.
^ mismatched parenthesis?
 
   You'll find out that some answers assume some knowledge of Unix-like
^^^ I'm not sure this is welcome...

I don't think it is. I personnally tend to discourage directly
addressing the user|admin directly, with the exception of specific
actions by him|her (You have done foo and bar will happen).

Indeed, depending on the language used, that may even prevent some
gender neutrality problems (I'm pretty sure we can find some languages
where you or the verb may be different for male|female).

In the case of packages' descriptions, I'd certainly recommend This
package provides foo. That probably affects the entire writing
style of the package descripton.





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Bug#473149: ITP: ttf-lg-aboriginal -- Contains North American aboriginal langauge fonts

2008-03-28 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Neskie Manuel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
 Package: wnpp
 Severity: wishlist
 Owner: Neskie Manuel [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 

Hey, glad you sent that one...

 
 * Package name: ttf-lg-aboriginal
   Version : 1.0.1
   Upstream Author : Neskie Manuel [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 * URL : http://www.languagegeek.com/
 * License : GPL with Font Exception
   Programming Lang: Font
   Description : Contains North American aboriginal langauge fonts

I'd recommend:

North-American aboriginal languages fonts

I thing the dash is needed in that case...

We already discussed aboriginal on pkg-fonts-devel and, as long as
upstream calls the fonts this way, I have to agree that your name
choice is OK.

languageS because the fonts support more than one language

and remove contains as this is a useless word in a package synopsis

 
  This is the Aborigianl Family of fonts released under the GNU General Public
  License with the Font Exception for North American Indigenous Langauges.

I'd suggest:

 This package provides a set of GPL fonts supporting several North-American
 indigenous languages.
 .
 It provides support for syllabic languages (Cree, Ojibway, Naskapi,
 Inuktitut, Dakelh, Blackfoot, Dene), Cherokee and romanized languages
 (Secwepemctsin, Statlimx, Siouan).


Comment: Cherokee appears to be listed separately from others. Is this
because the language is from a different family?

I changed to romanized languages for the last three, but I'm unsure
whether this is correct and really fits the languages. Here, I know
you have the answer as a specialist of Secwepemctsin.

Side comment: I'd love to know how to *pronounce* Secwepemctsin..:-)




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Bug#466245: [Pkg-fonts-devel] Please add me to pkg-fonts-devel

2008-03-14 Thread Christian Perrier

Kartik Mistry a écrit :

Hi Team,

Can you please add me to pkg-fonts-devel group on alioth, so that I can start
adopting fontforge.



Done.





Bug#466245: [Pkg-fonts-devel] I would like to help

2008-03-10 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Kartik Mistry ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):

 What is procedure for packaging we follow? Do we use svn on alioth (I can
 see VCS-* in debian/control)?


Yes, fontforge is maintained in the pkg-fonts SVN on alioth.




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Bug#466245: [Pkg-fonts-devel] I would like to help

2008-03-09 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Kartik Mistry ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
 Hi all,
 
 I would like to help in fontforge packaging. I use it frequently for
 creating fonts/fixing bad fonts.
 Thanks.
 
 Christian, what do you say?


You're welcome.




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Bug#466245: [Pkg-fonts-devel] I would like to help

2008-03-09 Thread Christian Perrier
Version: 0.0.20080203-1


Quoting Kęstutis Biliūnas ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
 
 On Sk, 2008-03-09 at 11:29 +0100, Christian Perrier wrote:
  Quoting Kartik Mistry ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
   Hi all,
   
   I would like to help in fontforge packaging. I use it frequently for
   creating fonts/fixing bad fonts.
   Thanks.
 
  You're welcome.
 
 And how about the libspiro and  libuninameslist  packages, which
 are part of the fontforge package?
 
 At that time I also want to remind you about the bug #464742.
 This bug was fixed in the last release (0.0.20080203-1), but
 forgotten to close this bug by the entry in the changelog.


Well, fixing *that* is easy..:-)




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Bug#467038: RFP: pytrainer -- Free Sport Training Center

2008-02-24 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Fiz Vazquez ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
 
  Fiz, can you help me for this? Would you be interested, as upstream
  author, to help maintaining an *official* Debian package for your
  software?
 
 It would be great for me :)
 
 what files do you need?

The .diff.gz file that gets created when you build your package.

Alternatively, the debian/ directory.

 
 How do you want me to send you the files? 


Actually, I would suggest you to have a Sources part in the repository
where you already hold packages for the various Ubuntu releases. Your
users need to have access to sources that allow buildig the binary
packages you provide and that's not only the pytrainer tarball

Anyway, until you build this (and learn how to do so), as I said, I
would need the diff.gz file that gets produced when you build the
Ubuntu package(s). Please choose the *latest* Ubuntu release (sorry, I
can't be more specific, I'm always lost with the Ubuntu release
codes...).




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Bug#467038: RFP: pytrainer -- Free Sport Training Center

2008-02-22 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Joerg Jaspert ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
 Package: wnpp
 Severity: wishlist
 
 * Package name: pytrainer
   Version : 1.5
   Upstream Author : Fiz Vazquez [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 * URL or Web page : http://pytrainer.e-oss.net/
 * License : GPLv2
   Description : Free Sport Training Center
 
  Pytrainer is a tool to log your sport activities. This software is


Well, I'm still looking for something like this to track down my
personal running stuff
comments I've seen, there are tons of Debian users who practice
resistance sports (hint hint, Dirk)..

Unfortunately, I'm dumb when it comes at Python stuff, so, while I'd
happily give some help, imagining to package this myself would be too
ambitious...




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Bug#467038: RFP: pytrainer -- Free Sport Training Center

2008-02-22 Thread Christian Perrier
 Package: wnpp
 Severity: wishlist
 
 * Package name: pytrainer
   Version : 1.5
   Upstream Author : Fiz Vazquez [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 * URL or Web page : http://pytrainer.e-oss.net/
 * License : GPLv2
   Description : Free Sport Training Center
 
  Pytrainer is a tool to log your sport activities. This software is
  originally programed for cyclist but it can be used for another type of
  sportman resistance like runners, swimmers, skiers, mountain bikers,
  etc... Pytrainer works with your GPS fitness device and it is be able to
  generate detailed graphics and statistics with your gps data.

(Request For packaging sent in Debian to ask for an official package
for pytrainer to go in Debian. I picked that up at least to have a
look because I'm quite interested in that software even if I have no
clue with Python stuff)

Well, the upstream author apparently maintains packages for the
various Ubuntu flavours.

I think it would be better to start from this in order to build a
Debian package.

However, I can't get my hands on the source of these packages. There
are proposed sources.list entries, but only for binary packages (of
course, I will never install such packages and, anyway, I need the
.diff.gz file if I want to build a package)

Fiz, can you help me for this? Would you be interested, as upstream
author, to help maintaining an *official* Debian package for your
software?
(I note that you seem to be an Ubuntu user: having the package in
Debian would make it easier to have it in Ubuntu, of course)




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Bug#466728: ITP: python-trio -- RDF utilities

2008-02-21 Thread Christian Perrier
Noah Slater a écrit :
 I'd suggest expanding what RDF is, at least in the long description. Even
 better would be expanding it in the synopsis of course.
 
 I disargree with you on this point. If the user doesn't know what RDF is they
 certainly don't want to install the package and knowing the definition isn't
 going to change much. Similarly, you wouldn't expand GTK or HTTP or NFS if the
 package was providing a developer library to deal wich such things.


Sorry, this is precisely rationale I fight against. Just saying if you
don't know what this is, you don't need this defeats the purpose of
packages descriptions. If that's the case why not just use cryptic
packages descriptions so that only Those Who have The Knowledge can use
them.

There is room to give some hint to users. Why not use it? Comparing this
to very widely spread acronyms such as HTTP and GTK is comparing apples
and oranges.

Also don't neglect the help provided by Debian packages to ppl who
sometimes wonder about things they see here or there. Good packages
descriptions benefit everybody and we all have tons of things to learn.




Bug#465813: ITP: cyclone -- Safe dialect of C

2008-02-15 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting François-Denis Gonthier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
 Package: wnpp
 Owner: François-Denis Gonthier [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Severity: wishlist
 
 * Package name: cyclone
   Version : 1.0/CVS
   Upstream Author : Dan Grossman, Trevor Jim, Greg Morrisett et al.
 * URL or Web page : http://cyclone.thelanguage.org
 * License : GPL (+ BSD alike for some files)
   Description : Safe dialect of C

I suggest C-like compiler with improved security checks

dialect is faily trivial language for me, which is IMHO not suitable
for a package description.




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Bug#465813: ITP: cyclone -- Safe dialect of C

2008-02-15 Thread Christian Perrier
Michael Tautschnig a écrit :

 I suggest C-like compiler with improved security checks

 dialect is faily trivial language for me, which is IMHO not suitable
 for a package description.

 
 I disagree - dialect is the proper technical term here.

Well, some rationale would help to better understand why..:-)




Bug#465809: ITP: hpt -- Creates a TCP tunnel through http and https proxies

2008-02-14 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Russell Stuart ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
 Package: wnpp
 Severity: wishlist
 Owner: Russell Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 
 * Package name: hpt
   Version : 1.1
   Upstream Author : Russell Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 * URL : http://www.stuart.id.au/russell/files/http-proxy-tunnel/
 * License : EPL
   Description : Creates a TCP tunnel through http and https proxies

I suggest 

tunnelling utility through HTTP and HTTPS proxies

to better fit the write style recommended in DevRef.

 
 This package installs http-proxy-tunnel.  Http-proxy-tunnel creates
 TCP tunnels through a series of http and https proxies.  It differs
 from other tunnelling programs such as corkscrew in that with the
 right additional magic (described in the README) you can create an
 ssh tunnel using the same TCP port web pages are served from.

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Bug#465660: ITP: extreme-tuxracer -- Arcade game featuring tux the penguin, snow ice and fishes

2008-02-13 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Alexander Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
 Package: wnpp
 Severity: wishlist
 Owner: Alexander Schmehl [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 
 
 * Package name: extreme-tuxracer
   Version : 0.4.0
   Upstream Author : Pawel Drewniak, Guillaume Martres and others
 * URL : http://www.extremetuxracer.com/
 * License : GPL (mostly)
   Programming Lang: C++
   Description : Arcade game featuring tux the penguin, snow ice and fishes

At least uncapitalize Arcade.


 
  Extreme Tuxracer, or etracer as it is called for short, is a simple OpenGL
  racing game featuring Tux, the Linux mascot. The goal of the game is to slide
  down a snow- and ice-covered mountain as quickly as possible, avoiding the
  trees and rocks that will slow you down.
  .
  Collect herrings and other goodies while sliding down the hill, but avoid 
 fish
  bones.
  .
  This game is based on the GPL version of the famous game TuxRacer.
  .
  You should have working 3D acceleration for your X or this game will run 
 quite
  slow.


I refrain my neutral wording stance here which makes me think that
wording with you should have, you must, etc. should be dropped in
favor of foo is required.I guess that contradictors will
object that some friendly wording is OK for games.

However, shouldn't the last word be slowly?




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Bug#465691: ITP: CinePaint is a painting and retouching tool primarily used for motion picture frame-by-frame retouching and dust-busting

2008-02-13 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting a. kelly ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
 Package: wnpp
 Severity: wishlist
 Owner: a. kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 
 
 * Package name: CinePaint
   Version : 0.22-3
   Upstream Author : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 * URL : www.cinepaint.org
 * License : CinePaint contains code that is a mix of open source
 * licenses - GPL - LGPL - MIT OSI (a BSD-like license) 
   Programming Lang: C
   Description : CinePaint is a painting and retouching tool primarily 
 used for motion 
   picture frame-by-frame retouching and dust-busting. It was used on THE 
   LAST SAMURAI, HARRY POTTER and many other films. CinePaint is
   different from other painting tools because it supports 
   deep color depth image formats up to 32 bits per channel deep. For 
   comparison, GIMP is limited 8-bit, and Photoshop to 16-bit. These debs
   are built using gtk2.


This needs a *short* description..:-)

I propose motion picture frame-by-frame painting and retouching tool
and move the rest to the *long* description.

Also, please drop any comparison stuff from the description. In short,
a package description is not advertisment..:-)...and nothing
guarantees that what you say about GIMP will remain true in a few years.


In short: be factual about this package and this package only.




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Bug#465689: ITP: cinebench -- CinePaint is a collection of free open source software tools for deep paint manipulation and image processing

2008-02-13 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting a. kelly ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
 Package: wnpp
 Severity: wishlist
 Owner: a. kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 
 
 * Package name: cinebench
   Version : 0.22-3
   Upstream Author : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 * URL : www.cinepaint.org
 * License : GPL - LGPL  - MIT OSI (a BSD-like license) CinePaint
 * contains code that is a mix of open source licenses
   Programming Lang: C
   Description : CinePaint is a collection of free open source software 
 tools for deep paint manipulation and image processing

That shouldn't be the short description of the package:
- too long
- sentence

I propose paint manipulation and image processing tools collection

Leaving things such as advanced out of the description and focusing
on the answer to the question what is this paclkage about?




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Bug#465334: ITP: speed-game -- A fast paced space-invader style arcade game

2008-02-12 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Martijn van Iersel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
 Package: wnpp
 Severity: wishlist
 Owner: Martijn van Iersel [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 
 
 * Package name: speed-game
   Version : 1.00
   Upstream Author : Shawn Hargreaves [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 * URL : http://www.talula.demon.co.uk/speed/index.html
 * License : ISC software license
   Description : A fast paced space-invader style arcade game

May I suggest:

space-invader style arcade game

I'm not sure about keeping fast-paced which probably should anyway
not come first. After all, this is generally subjective and that claim
may change over time while accepted standards change. We still have a
few games of the nineties in the archive which make interesting claims
such as high speed or nice graphics and would just seem like jokes
on 21st century machines or compared to 21st century games..:-)





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Bug#465333: ITP: libmasking -- Skinnable GUI toolkit for allegro games

2008-02-12 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Martijn van Iersel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
 Package: wnpp
 Severity: wishlist
 Owner: Martijn van Iersel [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 
 
 * Package name: libmasking
   Version : 0.80
   Upstream Author : Miran Amon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 * URL : http://members.allegro.cc/miran/masking.html
 * License : Zlib license
   Programming Lang: C++
   Description : Skinnable GUI toolkit for allegro games


I suggest dropping the leading capital to skinnable as it is
recommended to avoid leading capitals in synopsis, except for cases
where a capital is always required (proper nouns, acronyms).



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Bug#465369: ITP: golearn -- Debian educational browser

2008-02-11 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Jonas Smedegaard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
 Package: wnpp
 Severity: wishlist
 Owner: Jonas Smedegaard [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 
 * Package name: golearn
   Version : 0.2
   Upstream Author : Enrico Zini [EMAIL PROTECTED]  Miriam Ruiz [EMAIL 
 PROTECTED]
 * URL : http://packages.debian.org/goplay
 * License : GPL-2+
   Programming Lang: C++
   Description : Debian educational browser

 I'm not sure whether this is really descriptive of what the program
does.

educational packages search tool using debtags would maybe better fit as the
software browses across the archive to search for packages
(right?). Of course it browses an archive (mroe precisely what's
listed in sources.list) of Debian packages but indeed not necessarily
*the* Debian archive.

That will probably bring the debate about branding here (explicitely
mention Debian) but I would at least support moving the mention of
Debian to the long description.



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Bug#464954: ITP: ixp4xx-microcode -- non-free firmware for the ixp4xx ethernet

2008-02-10 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Joey Hess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
 Christian Perrier wrote:
   The nslu2 needs non-free firmware for its ethernet. This is currently
   distributed in the d-i installation images on slug-firmware.net.
  
  s/ethernet/Ethernet?
 
 Ceci n'est pas une package description.


Ah OK. 

Learning French, Joey? :-)



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Bug#464857: ITP: prima -- is an extensible Perl toolkit for multi-platform GUI development

2008-02-09 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Bas Zoetekouw ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
 Package: wnpp
 Severity: wishlist
 Owner: Bas Zoetekouw [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 
 * Package name: prima
   Version : 1.24
   Upstream Author : Dmitry Karasik [EMAIL PROTECTED], 
 Anton Berezin [EMAIL PROTECTED], Vadim Belman [EMAIL 
 PROTECTED]
 * URL : http://www.prima.eu.org/, 
 http://search.cpan.org/~karasik/Prima/
 * License : BSDish
   Programming Lang: perl
   Description : an extensible Perl toolkit for multi-platform GUI 
 development


multi-platform GUI development Perl toolkit seems to better fit the
Developers Reference recommendations.




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Bug#464863: ITP: qca2-plugin-cyrus-sasl -- SASL support for the Qt Cryptographic Architecture

2008-02-09 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Matthew Rosewarne ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
 Package: wnpp
 Severity: wishlist
 X-Debbugs-CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 
Package name: qca2-plugin-cyrus-sasl
 Version: 2.0.0~beta3
 Upstream Author: Justin Karneges [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 URL: http://delta.affinix.com/qca/
 License: LGPL
 Description: SASL support for the Qt Cryptographic Architecture

I suggest removing the extra capitalization for cryptographic and 
architecture.



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Bug#464901: ITP: pcre-light -- a lightweight GHC library for Perl 5 compatible regular expressions

2008-02-09 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Recai Oktaş ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
 Package: wnpp
 Severity: wishlist
 Owner: Recai Oktaş [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 
 * Package name: pcre-light
   Version : 0.3.1
   Upstream Author : Don Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 * URL : http://www.example.org/
 * License : BSD
   Programming Lang: Haskell
   Description : a lightweight GHC library for Perl 5 compatible regular 
 expressions


Being lecc cryptic would help, here.

I suggest expanding GHC if possible, at the expense of Perl 5
lightweight and/or compatible.



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