Bug#544539: RFP: Linux Unified Kernel

2009-09-01 Thread George Danchev

Quoting "Patrick Matthäi" :


Ivan Borzenkov schrieb:

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
X-Debbugs-CC: debian-de...@lists.debian.org

--- Please fill out the fields below. ---

  Package name: Linux Unified Kernel
   Version: 0.2.4-1
Upstream Author: Insigma li...@insigma.com.cn
   URL: http://www.longene.org/en/
   License: GPL
   Description: wine and windows drive model in kernel



The LUK project aims to add all Windows kernel mechanisms into the  
Linux kernel, including Process management, Thread management,  
Object management, virtual memory management, Synchronization,  
System calls (Syscall), Windows Registry, WDM (Device driver  
framework), Windows DPC mechanism, etc., to form a new kernel. Thus,  
the new kernel allows both Linux and Windows applications and device  
drivers to work directly without virtualization or emulation.



Weee, a registry on Linux? WTH?
I was so happy that Linux operating systems do not have such a crap.


It really does not make any big difference whether you store user,  
host or name databases in LDAP, Registry (binary files), text files in  
/etc or whatever, it is just a storage, though being realized by  
different means; if you put stuff in there, you will certainly need  
some ways to clean it. AIX for instance uses LDAP-based Registry if I  
remember correctly.


What really matters is what you put to run in kernel space. Having  
that said, I don't think I will run such a "full-featured" kernel ever  
;-)





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Bug#557788: ITP: libjson-c -- JSON manipulation library

2009-11-24 Thread George Danchev
Hello,

JFYI: we already have yajl [1] in Debian proper, which is superior to libjson-
c or any other existing JSON C implementation. Therefore unless you need the 
latter library as a dependency of another package, I don't see much gain to 
have it in Debian too.

[1] http://lloyd.github.com/yajl/

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Bug#365427: RFH: apt-build -- Need new developer(s)

2006-04-29 Thread George Danchev
On Sunday 30 April 2006 01:42, Julien Danjou wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: normal
>
> Hi,

Hello,

> apt-build really lacks of support right now.
> It works pretty well, but currently it is not capable to deal with
> every particular case that it might encounter.
> Many improvements could be done, mainly by using libapt-pkg-perl and
> enhancing it (like adding new bindings), instead of using external
> programs such as apt-get or apt-cache.

Perhaps some bits from apt-build can e merged to sibling projects like 
apt-src, sbuild or similar.

> I have no time and no interest in working on apt-build, since I never
> used it.
> I only wrote it as a proof of concept that Debian could work the way
> Gentoo did.

I'm not sure what you mean here, but Debian already has several tools to 
build, test and improve debian source packages. Just to name a few ... 
starting from [ the bare apt-get build-dep && --build, several 
-buildpackage, debuild, pbuilder, apt-src, sbuild and probably several 
unofficials like apt-fu ... and ending with the famous 
wanna-build/buildd/sbuild infrastructure along with dak ]

> If you want to kick out Gentoo and source based distro, please consider
> helping apt-build.

These are really no good reasons and probably a loose bait, I doubt there is 
something or someone to kick out ;-) Again I'm not sure what the definition 
of source based distro is and what is Debian lacking exactly ;-) IMHO having 
tools to build the distro source packages implies being a source based 
distro, but Debian has always has such tools and infrastructures. I really 
can't think of other distribution on the Earth with so many build tools.

> A project is already set up on Alioth.

Good. No offence plase, but I realy do not see the point of having so many 
build wizards ;-) Consolidate please ;-)

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Bug#319201: kiax in Debian (was Re: Problems rebuilding twinkle)

2006-05-07 Thread George Danchev
On Saturday 06 May 2006 21:44, Santiago Garcia Mantinan wrote:
> > We pretty much just need to remove the iLBC and update debian/copyright.
> >
> > For extra marks we could link to the system provided libspeex/ libgsm &
> > portaudio..
>
> It seems that is already done:
>
> Version: 0.8.5-2
> Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.6-6), libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.0), libgsm1 (>= 1.0.10),
> libportaudio0, libqt3-mt (>= 3:3.3.6), libspeex1, libstdc++6 (>= 4.1.0),
> libx11-6, libxext6
>
> > George Danchev was talking to upstream to get something along those lines
> > in the next upstream release, but I haven't followed anything since.
>
> Well, George, how did that go? For what I see the new version still carries
> all the stuff we didn't want, including iLBC, so I suppose we should at
> least remove iLBC from our source package.

Upstream said that they distributing the stuff in kiax's lib/ because these 
libraries are not stable enough (sort of true, but we have sonames to handle 
these out) in addition that we can live without lib/ anyway. I sent them a 
patch (ca. November 05) against 0.8.4 to clean the iLBC stuff up. You can 
have it at:

svn co http://svn.openfmi.net/dev/people/danchev/kiax

which was not incorporated in 0.8.5 - reasons unknown for the time being.

> I have tested it and we can remove the hole lib directory and the program
> still compiles, so I guess we could have a source package without this
> directory and that would make half of our problems go away, isn't it?
>
> What I don't know is what we'd loose by removing this directory, iLBC for
> sure, but that was a wanted effect anyway. But there were some dirs there
> like sox, portmixer, ... that we don't have as a shared lib, so... what
> where those for?

lib/portaudio/LICENSE.txt and 
lib/portmixer/LICENSE.txt sound terribly non-free: 

 * Any person wishing to distribute modifications to the Software is
 * requested to send the modifications to the original developer so that
 * they can be incorporated into the canonical version.

Thus no anonymous modifications are allowed (a-la send me a postcard 
games ;-), so render these bits as DFSG-compliant.

> As for removing iLBC the source is not ready for that and still shows the
> iLBC button and it is enabled, so if you choose it and make a call you get
> in the console:
>
> ERROR: Codec not supported: 1024
> ERROR: Codec could not be created: 1024
>
> I'll have to investigate this more, but this poses problems when loading a
> config (iLBC should be changed to some other codec like gsm) and then in
> the preferences window where we should either make iLBC not appear or at
> least make it appear disabled.
>
> Thoughts on all this?

My impression is that linking against libgsm we already have in Debian should 
be enough. I'm still not sure how to approach upstream that distributing 
(possibly) modified non-free code with their lib/ is pretty dangerous 
solution for them.

P.S. upstream is CC'ed.

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Bug#372579: ITP: pcopy -- Disk(partition)-to-Disk(partition) copying tool

2006-06-10 Thread George Danchev
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: George Danchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>


 Package name: pcopy
 Version : 1.5-3
 Upstream Author : Peter Eriksson
 URL : ftp://ftp.lysator.liu.se/pub/unix/pcopy/
 License : GPL
 Programming Lang: C
 Description : Disk(partition)-to-Disk(partition) copying tool


 Pcopy is intended to be used when doing large
 disk(partition) to disk(partition) copying
 where dd is just too slow and error prone.

 Preliminary package: http://sponsors.debian.net/viewpkg.php?id=293

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Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-2-686
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

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Bug#373173: ITP: sofia-sip -- an open-source SIP User-Agent library

2006-06-13 Thread George Danchev
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: George Danchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>


 Package name: sofia-sip
 Version : 1.11.9
 Upstream Authors : Pekka Pessi, Martti Mela, Kai Vehmanen
 URL   : http://sofia-sip.org/ ; http://sofia-sip.sourceforge.net
 License : LGPL
 Programming Lang: C
 Description :   Sofia-SIP is an open-source SIP  User-Agent library,
compliant with the IETF RFC3261 specification. It can be used as a building
block for SIP client software for uses such as VoIP, IM, and many other
real-time and person-to-person communication services. Sofia-SIP is based on a
SIP stack developed at the Nokia Research Center.

The SIP supported features and SDP Protocol Features in Sofia-SIP could be 
found at: http://sofia-sip.sourceforge.net/refdocs/sofia_sip_conformance.html

Currently several projects are using Sofia SIP library. Some of them are 
FarSight, Tapioca, Telepathy, and the Gaim plugin for SIP/SIMPLE.

The source package will be split into the following binary packages:

sofia-sip -  SIP library utilities
libsofia-sip-ua - SIP User-Agent library
libsofia-sip-ua-dev - SIP User-Agent library development files
libsofia-sip-ua-glib - SIP User-Agent library
Glib bindings to Sofia-SIP is an open-source SIP  User-Agent library.
libsofia-sip-ua-glib-dev - SIP User-Agent library development files
Glib bindings to Sofia-SIP is an open-source SIP  User-Agent library.

Upstream has already done most of the packaging job right, and that was 
injected into pkg-VoIP Team repository [1].

[1] http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-voip/

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Bug#540247: ITP: abi-compliance-checker -- tool for checking binary compatibility of shared libraries (was: Re: backward/forward binary compatibility checker)

2009-08-06 Thread George Danchev
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> > The wiki-page with the latest release of binary compatibility checker
> > is http://ispras.linux-foundation.org/index.php/ABI_compliance_checker
>
> This looks like an extremely useful piece of software (in the past
> I've thought "I wish there were a tool to do this" :)). I'll package
> it for Debian.

Hi,
There is also icheck package available in Debian for some years, but it 
targets mainly C. Perhaps you can use it as a comparison tool when testing 
this one.

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Bug#304570: Code::blocks packaging

2008-09-05 Thread George Danchev
Hello Michael,

I found your package on mentors archive, and I'm generally interested in 
uploading codeblocks to Debian archive, since I intend to use it. In fact we 
have already gave it a try and found it much lightweight and intuitive as 
compared to eclipse + CDT for instance and AFAICS reading that buglog there 
are quite some people interested in codeblocks package who are now using 
their own local ones. Packaging looks fine to, but some comments though:

* I found some pieces of code which seem to be external projects (tinyxml, 
wxscintilla, both hosted at sf.net); a simple grep for `author' or `file by' 
would reveals these details. Also licensecheck (devscripts) would be helpful. 
So, these licences and copyrights should also be listed in debian/copyright 
file, which presumably is in machine interpretable format. However, having so 
much code duplication doesn't help security, so we would be better off 
approaching upstream and find ways to use these packages (not packaged yet) 
separately, and not carry them with codeblocks source tree. These could be 
sort of tedious and time consuming dealing with upstream.

* I haven't looked at their trunk lately, but is there any progress on sorting 
out that `global plugins path' hack you have applied to the package ?

* I also think that such a tremendous package as a codebase should be 
maintained by a team, ubuntu guys are also welcome of course. Any 
suggestions ?

[1] http://wiki.debian.org/Proposals/CopyrightFormat

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Bug#450873: RFH: command line CD-R/CD-RW writing tool

2007-11-11 Thread George Danchev
Package: wnpp
Severity: normal

I request assistance (co-maintainers) with the cdrskin package. It needs a 
lots of testing on different drives and architectures. It also worth thinking 
of splitting off libburn and libisofs binary packages from cdrskin source 
package eventually to replace the already existing and badly outdated 
libburn-1, libburn-dev, libisofs-1, libisofs-dev packages.

The upstream is very responsive and cooperative.
The packaging files are currently hosted in collab-maint [1].

[1] svn.debian.org/svn/collab-maint/deb-maint/cdrskin

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Bug#450876: RFH: ara -- utility for searching the Debian package database

2007-11-11 Thread George Danchev
Package: wnpp
Severity: normal

I request assistance with co-maintaining the ara source package. The package 
is in a good shape, but there are few wishlists bugs left in BTS, which need 
an experienced ocaml hacker to look at. Thanks.

ara is hosted at svn.debian.org/svn/ara

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Bug#450876: RFH: ara -- utility for searching the Debian package database

2007-11-11 Thread George Danchev
On Sunday 11 November 2007, Samuel Mimram wrote:
> Hi,
>
> George Danchev wrote:
> > Package: wnpp
> > Severity: normal
> >
> > I request assistance with co-maintaining the ara source package. The
> > package is in a good shape, but there are few wishlists bugs left in BTS,
> > which need an experienced ocaml hacker to look at. Thanks.
> >
> > ara is hosted at svn.debian.org/svn/ara
>
> Maybe could we maintain it collaboratively within debian-ocaml-maint?

Hello Samuel,

It is not the repository that matters, the current one is just fine... also 
ara has a pretty nice web page at http://ara.alioth.debian.org/, so I believe 
we don't need reorganisation right now, but looking at the common/cli/gui 
code and cleaning it up ;-) I guess that Berke won't mind to add more 
developers with write access to the current ara svn repo who are ready to 
improve the code.

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Bug#450876: RFH: ara -- utility for searching the Debian package database

2007-11-11 Thread George Danchev
On Monday 12 November 2007, Berke Durak wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 11, 2007 at 11:37:43PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> > On Sun, Nov 11, 2007 at 11:34:20PM +0100, Berke Durak wrote:
> > > So who wants what access on the Alioth account, what do I have to do?
> >
> > What about enlarging the write permission of your repository to all DDs
> > as described in [1]?
>
> So I have to ask the alioth admins?  George, Samuel: you are also admins
> on the ara project, could you ask them?  Or do I have to ask?  (It seems
> I don't have any special status on the ara project).

Sure, I asked alioth svn admins to DD-widen (that's should be a new verb, 
right ;-) ara svn permissions.

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Bug#450876: RFH: ara -- utility for searching the Debian package database

2007-11-12 Thread George Danchev
On Monday 12 November 2007, George Danchev wrote:
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> Sure, I asked alioth svn admins to DD-widen (that's should be a new verb,
> right ;-) ara svn permissions.

This mirning Raphaël Hertzog informed me that we now have DD-widen svn repo 
for ara. Thanks to alioth admins.

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Bug#433325: RFA: kbedic -- K Bulgarian/English Dictionary

2010-06-13 Thread George Danchev

Grant,

Are you still interested in adopting kbedic. If so (which is the  
preferred variant for me), I can offer sponsorship and bulgarian  
knowledge when needed, otherwise I'll seek ways to adopting it myself.





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Bug#433325: RFA: kbedic -- K Bulgarian/English Dictionary

2010-06-14 Thread George Danchev

Quoting "Grant Hammond" :


Hi George,


Hi,


Thank you for your offer of sponsership.

Sorry, I have been a bit lazy here.  However, I am still interested
in these packages. Since I primarily use GTK based desktops it might
make more sense for a KDE user to take on kbedic. In which case I'll
certainly not stand in anyone's way but I would like to help out
either way.


Okay, apparently I forgot about kbgoffice [1], which is already based  
on qt4. Basically it is kbedic codebase migrated to qt4. Today I sent  
a couple diffs to the upstream maintainer which deal with newer  
(pickier) compiler. After getting feedback from him, I'll package it,  
so we can leave original kbedic rest in piece post-squeeze.


[1] http://bgoffice.sourceforge.net/
(sorry, bulgarian, only, but translate.google.com should help with  
translation)




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Bug#319201: Fwd: kiax_0.8.4-3_i386.changes REJECTED

2005-10-01 Thread George Danchev
On Saturday 01 October 2005 03:33, Mark Purcell wrote:
> George,

Hello all,

> We have setup a shared working enviroment at
> http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-voip/kiax is you would like to help out
> directly with the Debian package.
>
> You can request an account at http://alioth.debian.org and then we can set
> you up with svn commit access.

Sure. I have been registered alioth user since 2004-10-27. My login name is 
danchev-guest and I agree to help out as much as I can. I'll join the mailing 
list also.

On Wednesday 28 September 2005 00:49, Joerg Jaspert wrote:
> Hi Maintainer,
>
> sorry, rejected for now.
> The source contains lib/iLBC, which at least has a rfc3951.txt, which
> license is non-free. Also all the other source files there state a (C) by
> Internet Society (2004), *All Rights Reserved*. Looking at the name i doubt
> its free, and searching for the library name got me to a site, having a
> license link[1][2] which starts so horrible non-free that I stopped reading
> it.

Good catch. We have missed that one within the upstream tarball of 
kiax-0.8.4.tar.bz2 as found at SF. I will ask debian-legal for advise about 
iLBC but as a freeware license [1] it doesn't sound good enough even the 
redistribution is allowed since it limits the commercial use at least. Anyway 
that's an iaxclient issue shipped with the upstream kiax tarball (the lib/ 
directory), but we have already had iaxclient packages in Debian archive 
(iaxclient-0.0+cvs20050725) without lib/iLBC. While looking at the kiax 0.8.4 
sources I realized that it can compile with the lib/ directory from 
iaxclient-0.0+cvs20050725 debian source package (which I believe is DFSG'ed). 
In fact it did and works, but that needs a close investigaton to see what we 
lose without iLBC. I would like to follow the shared library way Mikael 
Magnusson suggested at bug #319201 and build depend on libiaxclient-dev while 
educate kiax of using it.

> Next issue is that your debian/copyright is wrong, its missing a bit
> of license information. You need to list *all* different copyright holders
> and licenses that are in your sourcepackage.
> Missing are at least lib/libspeex (which has at least 2 different licenses,
> maybe more).,

Agreed. I had a look at excellent iaxclient-0.0+cvs20050725/debian/copyright 
file and it also doesn't mention lib/libspeex copyright holders and licenses. 
I believe it should be fix there also.

> While Im at it:
> debian/README.Debian is pretty useless atm, could be removed.

Will be revised and if still empty will be removed. Thanks.

> [1] One of the few links that were readable, the rest of the site is hidden
> behind stupid flash-stuff.
> [2] ilbcfreeware.org. Lets hope its the right site for this lib, but
> looking at the purpose of the lib and the text of the site and what its for
> I simply assume this.

I would also suggest kiax authors to follow the comments if the Global IP 
Sound iLBC Public License, v2.0 - IETF Version is a really (non)-free license 
at: 

http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2005/10/msg0.html

will help avoid possible legal issues concerning the project ;-)

> If you get these points fixed/cleared you can go in, but for now you are
> out. :)

Absolutely agreed and we hope to survive ;-)
Sorry for wasting your time with missing legal/license notes and URLs.

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Bug#319201: Fwd: kiax_0.8.4-3_i386.changes REJECTED

2005-10-02 Thread George Danchev
On Monday 03 October 2005 01:21, Mark Purcell wrote:
> On Sunday 02 October 2005 20:26, George Danchev wrote:
> > Sorry for replying to myself, but I would like to get some advices of how
> > to proceed from now on. The kiax 0.8.4 [1] issues read:
>
> George. Thanks for your continued work on this. Please keep it up!
>
> > 1) lib/iLBC - lisenced under Global IP Sound iLBC Public License, v2.0 -
> > IETF Version which is non-free [2] - will be tricky, but doable I think.
>
> I think it needs to be removed from any dfsg archive.  We are allowed to
> remove non-free components from the .orig.tar.gz in order to achieve this.
>
> The iaxclient README seems to have it right. iaxclient can be built and
> peforms well with either/ both libspeex and iLBC. iLBC is potentially
> non-free, thus iaxclient is only distributed with libspeex. (Note there is
> a patch required from the upstream libspeex for iaxclient support)

Yes. iLBC is horrible non-free piece as said by ftpmaster and seconded by 
-legal. 

> We can do the same with kiax, only distribute with libspeex.  Although
> ideally kiax should be setup to just use the shared libraries provided by
> libiaxclient-dev.

I see. I also sent a patch to upstream yesterday sanitisizing kiax tarball's 
lib directory and fixing the ilbc mess in 0.8.4. Got replies from them and 
seems they respect my arguments and the next new upstream version of kiax 
will we be clean..., will see. The shared library approach is a little bit 
hindered by these libraries not haiving versioning upstream. In fact kiax cvs 
code is meant to compile without any lib/ directory and linking with the 
iaxclient library already installed, but I dont want to go for cvs-dated 
source packages for the time being. We will keep working to deal with all 
these issues upstream as much as possible in the next release / at least we 
share the same native home language upstream ;-)/

> > 2)  populate debian/copyright with all copyright holders and licenses
> > including  the Speex Licences. But if we go for educating kiax of using
> > system libraries provided by already existing packages then we do not
> > need that -  that's also kind of tricky part since iaxclient also
> > provides libspeex  library itself.
>
> Correct. We actually also need to update debian/copyright for iaxclient as
> well, as it doesn't detail the copyright for libspeex either and it also
> distributes it.  I have just filed a severity serious bug report.
>
> I have also filed a bug against iaxclient to remind ourselves to use the
> shared libspeex when we can. (Encorporation of iaxclient patch)

I'll try to approach kiax using existing speex also.

> > 3) README.Debian - easy.
>
> Great!
>
> > Now my question is does something like above will save 1) in a reasonable
> > way ? I think that the program will be still useable when built against
> > such 'sanitisized' lib. So the kiax's lib/ (as found in dfsg.orig.tar.gz)
> > should be sanitisized to the lib/ found in iaxclient-0.0+cvs20050725
> > source package.
>
> Yes stripping out the lib/ to only include dfsg and renaming the tarball
> to .dfsg is is a perfectly reasonable approach, and would appear to be
> workable.

I see. This was the way to go before getting a notion of the new and clean, 
possibly all-free upstream prospective release from kiax's authors. I prefer 
to deal that upstream when possible.

> > > > Does this affect Asterisk?
>
> Having a look yes it does!
>
> asterisk does distribute codecs/ilbc, but debian/copyright doesn't list the
> copyright holder :-(
>
> So at least debian/copyright needs to be updated, but potentially
> codecs/ilbc needs to be removed from the asterisk-xxx.dfsg.tar.gz. I have
> just filed another severity serious bug against asterisk.

Well yesterday I was told that having ilbc bits in asterisk have been the very 
reason for the kiax's upstream getting it in their tarball. Seems we can work 
out that with the kiax authors soon... I'll keep'em close and feed with 
patches if necessary. Hope the same will happaned esily to the asterisk 
upstream.

> > > Well I think it is DFSG-compliant since at least the tarball name
> > > suggests that like dfsg.X.orig.tar.gz, although there should be a note
> > > about removed non-free files in copyright file or README.Debian I'm
> > > missing here ?
>
> Hmm, the dfsg. name doesn't mean we removed all non-free software, just
> some of it. In particular the non-free music-on-hold. Perhaps we need to do
> an audit against all the asterisk code base, although upstream are claiming
> the .tar is GPL compliant!

I see. Sometimes upstream are terribly wrong.

> > > That is

Bug#332858: ITP: cvsup -- The CVS-Optimized General-Purpose Network File Distribution System

2005-10-09 Thread George Danchev
On Sunday 09 October 2005 03:10, Henning Makholm wrote:
--cut--
> > The CVSup requires Modula-3 compilator to build, so also I'm
> > planning to package Ezm3 - An Easier Modula-3 Distribution, which is
> > designated to compile CVSup only.
>
> Best of luck with that. Torsten might still be interested, too.

CVSync [1] is a possible alternative to CVSup, not compatible with it, but 
written in plain C.

[1] http://www.cvsync.org/

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Bug#332858: ITP: cvsup -- The CVS-Optimized General-Purpose Network File Distribution System

2005-10-11 Thread George Danchev
On Monday 10 October 2005 16:45, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote:
--cut--
> > CVSync [1] is a possible alternative to CVSup, not compatible with it,
> > but written in plain C.
>
> That one looks interesting, I did not find it when I was googling for
> alternatives to CVSup. I would love to see something like this packaged so

Someone should at least hint wnpp then ;-)

> that we could distribute copies of our CVS worlwide and not have issues if
> we have any issues with the servers holding our CVS in the future.

I find rsync being enough for mirroring CVS repos. Yes, I'm familiar with 
CVSup usage of the rsync algorythm for some files and some special algorythms 
tailored for rcs files, but I don't think that could be a showstopped for 
mirroring CVS repos with rsync only.

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Bug#290364: ITP: svn-arch-mirror -- one-way mirroring from Subversion to Arch revision control

2005-01-14 Thread George Danchev
On Thursday 13 January 2005 21:42, Eric Wong wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
>
>
> * Package name: svn-arch-mirror
>   Version : 0.2.6
>   Upstream Author : Eric Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> * URL :
> http://des.petta-tech.bogomips.org/eric/MusicPD/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>normalperson/svn-arch-mirror/ * License : GPL v2
>   Description : one-way mirroring from Subversion to Arch revision
> control
>
> svn-arch-mirror makes it possible to track upstream Subversion
> repositories and replicate full project history from Subversion to Arch.
> Features include:
> - preserving the date and time of the original commit
> - preserving the alias/name of the original committer
> - intelligent branch-tracking

Seems to be a nice piece of software. Since there is cvs2svn [1], I would 
suggest to rename svn-arch-mirror as svn2arch (both upstream and debian 
package).

[1] http://cvs2svn.tigris.org

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Bug#319201: kiax Debian packages

2005-07-20 Thread George Danchev
On Wednesday 20 July 2005 17:06, Mark Purcell wrote:
> George,

Good day Mark, 

> I have just been using your Debian packages of kiax, a very nice user
> interface and one of the best I have seen under Linux.
>
> I'm actually the Debian GNU/Linux maintainer of asterisk and I think it
> would be useful to have kiax in the main Debian distribution, rather than
> only available via a sf.net download.
>
> We also have a pkg-voip-maintainers group who are looking after the broad
> range of VoIP applications and a svn archive at
> http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-voip

Right, having kiax in official debian archive is good.

> Can we take your packaged version of kiax and upload to the Debian unstable
> distribution? I couldn't find you .diff files anywhere, have you uploaded
> them or can you email?

Perfect ! You can find my work at:

as a source package under revision control:
svn co http://svn.openfmi.net/debian-addons-bg/trunk/kiax

as a source and binary package in an apt repo:
ftp://ftp.uni-sofia.bg/debian-addons-bg/dists/sid/kiax/
ftp://ftp.logos-bg.net/debian-addons-bg/dists/sid/kiax/

relevant sources.list entries:
deb ftp://ftp.uni-sofia.bg/debian-addons-bg ./
deb-src ftp://ftp.uni-sofia.bg/debian-addons-bg ./

deb ftp://ftp.logos-bg.net/debian-addons-bg ./
deb-src ftp://ftp.logos-bg.net/debian-addons-bg ./

You may want to review and polish it a little bit. Thanks to you and the 
Alioth's pkg-voip group for your maintenance.

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Bug#293691: schedtool

2005-09-03 Thread George Danchev
On Saturday 03 September 2005 23:57, Janne Kujanpaa wrote:
--cut--
> > Personally I don't see much that schedtool offers over schedutils.
>
> SCHED_ISO, SCHED_BATCH and better documentation for program usage and
> new schedulers. Some people prefer vim and some other emacs.

Right. Also we have many examples of different packages providing almost 
identical functionality but anyway not the same. There is no accounting for 
tastes.. tricky ones ;-)

> > Well the package looks fine to me, so if you want I have no objections
> > sponsoring it.

Good to know that.

> I'll wait for version 1.3.0.

Agreed. Anyway we can talk to unit-linux upstream to replace rml's code with 
schedtool at some point, but I do not think it is of any importance since I 
expect/believe there would be more userland code like these in the future.

> > Also of interest is bug 322883. You might want to talk to util-linux
> > upstream about merging schedtool with schedutils.
>
> I checked util-linux version 2.12q and there wasn't code from schedutils.

it is in 2.13* into the testing/ directory.

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Bug#290364: ITP: svn-arch-mirror -- one-way mirroring from Subversion to Arch revision control

2005-01-14 Thread George Danchev
On Thursday 13 January 2005 21:42, Eric Wong wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
>
>
> * Package name: svn-arch-mirror
>   Version : 0.2.6
>   Upstream Author : Eric Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> * URL :
> http://des.petta-tech.bogomips.org/eric/MusicPD/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>normalperson/svn-arch-mirror/ * License : GPL v2
>   Description : one-way mirroring from Subversion to Arch revision
> control
>
> svn-arch-mirror makes it possible to track upstream Subversion
> repositories and replicate full project history from Subversion to Arch.
> Features include:
> - preserving the date and time of the original commit
> - preserving the alias/name of the original committer
> - intelligent branch-tracking

Seems to be a nice piece of software. Since there is cvs2svn [1], I would 
suggest to rename svn-arch-mirror as svn2arch (both upstream and debian 
package).

[1] http://cvs2svn.tigris.org

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Bug#293691: ITP: schedtool -- cpu schedule policy tool

2005-02-05 Thread George Danchev
On Saturday 05 February 2005 03:55, Janne Kujanpaa wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
>
>
> * Package name: schedtool
>   Version : 1.2.4
>   Upstream Author : Freek
> * URL : http://freequaos.host.sk/schedtool/
> * License : GPL2
>   Description : cpu schedule policy tool
>
>  It can be used to avoid skipping for A/V-applications, to lock
>  processes onto certain CPUs on SMP/NUMA systems, which may be
>  beneficial for networking or benchmarks, or to adjust nice-levels
>  of lesser important jobs to maintain a high amount of interactive
>  responsiveness under high load.

There has been schedutils package already in testing and unstable archive for 
a long time, but seems like schedtool(8) has more features than chrt(1) and 
taskset(1) from schedutils package.

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Bug#679249: RFH: libburn -- library to provide CD/DVD writing functions

2012-06-27 Thread George Danchev
Package: wnpp
Severity: normal

I request assistance with maintaining the libburn package.

I currently lack the sufficient time, and burning devices to
provide adequate testing of its optical burning capabilities,
although the software is in quite mature state. In this case
the burning applicaiton is cdrskin.

Upstream is responsive. There is an alioth project could be reached at:
pkg-libburnia-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org
Co-maintainers welcome.

The package description is:
 libburn is a library for reading, mastering and writing optical discs.
 Supported media are: CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-RAM, DVD+RW, DVD+R, DVD+R/DL,
 DVD-RW, DVD-R, DVD-R/DL, BD-R, BD-RE.



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Bug#679254: RFH: libisofs -- library to create ISO9660 images

2012-06-27 Thread George Danchev
Package: wnpp
Severity: normal

I request assistance with maintaining the libisofs package.

I currently lack the time to maintain this package alone.
The major drain of time is following various image specs, following
the upstream VCS, and further discussions. One interesting aspect is
that libisofs links with libjte in order to produce jigdo representation
at the same time while producing the iso image itself (state stable).
Further developments are ongoing to produce ISO9660/HFS(+) hybrids,
see #630351 for some details, which is also of interest of debian-cd
task (currently performed by genisoimage for Debian PowerPC images offered)
This would take quite some effort in testing and proving it correct.

Upstream is responsive. The alioth project could be reached at:
pkg-libburnia-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org
Co-maintainers welcome.

The package description is:
 libisofs creates ISO images which can then be burnt with cdrskin or other
 software.



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Bug#679265: RFH: libisoburn -- command line ISO-9660 and Rock Ridge manipulation tool

2012-06-27 Thread George Danchev
Package: wnpp
Severity: normal

I request assistance with maintaining the libisoburn package.

I currently lack the time to maintain this package alone.
This includes a high-level library along with a versatile app
called xorriso for burning and image production. It has grown
a tremendous amount of options, to the point of being "language"
interpreter on its own right, also featuring other program 
option personalities (like these of mkisofs, cdrecord).
This is the hardest part to thoroughly test.

Debian-cd image production is in the hands of xorriso, except
for the PowerPC images due to lack of ISO9660/HFS(+) support
which is currently emerging.

Upstream conversations and following upstream VCS are almost a must.
Upstream is responsive. The alioth project could be reached at:
pkg-libburnia-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org
Co-maintainers welcome.


The package description is:
 xorriso is a command line and dialog application, which creates, loads,
 manipulates, and writes ISO-9660 file system images with Rock Ridge
 extensions.
 .
 It maps file objects from POSIX compliant file systems into Rock Ridge
 enhanced ISO-9660 file systems and features session-wise manipulation
 of such file systems. It can load the management information of existing
 ISO images and write the resulting session to optical medium or as
 file system objects.
 .
 Supported optical media types:
  - CD-R, CD-RW
  - DVD-R, DVD-R DL, DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+R DL, DVD+RW, DVD-RAM
  - BD-R, BD-RE
 .
 Some interesting features:
  - Emulation of the mkisofs and cdrecord programs.
  - Data backup and restore capabilities - compression, ACLs, and filters.
  - Isohybrid MBR with partition offset - features booting ISOLINUX from
USB sticks, or from other devices that appear to PC-BIOS as hard disks.
The images carry a conventional partition table for a USB stick;
the first partition reports the size of the ISO image, but starts at a
non-zero address. It is nevertheless still mountable.
  - Jigdo Template Export - jigdo representation of the resulting ISO-9660
image, generated on the fly.
 .
 Test suite:
  xorriso source code comes with a release engineering test-suite called
  `releng', which aims to cover most of the functionality of the xorriso
  and the underlying libraries of libburn, libisofs, and libisoburn.



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Bug#360519: RFP: tapioca -- framework for VoIP and Instant Messaging (SIP and google interoperable)

2006-08-02 Thread George Danchev
Hi,

Just to let you know that sofia-sip library is already in the official 
Debian 
archive[1]. You may proceed with packaging tapioca and tapioca-sip which 
depends on sofia-sip library. I don't use tapioca, but it seems nice, so tell 
me if you need assistance. Btw, do you know how far FarSight.sf.net is 
currently and is it mature and useful enough to be packaged also ?

http://packages.qa.debian.org/s/sofia-sip.html

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Bug#386060: ITP: c++-annotations -- The C++ Annotations tutorial by Frank B. Brokken

2006-09-05 Thread George Danchev
On Tuesday 05 September 2006 13:21, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 12:33:56AM +0200, Frank B. Brokken wrote:
> > The C++ Annotations are a tutorial intended for knowledgeable users of C
> > (or any other language using a C-like grammar, like Perl or Java) who
> > would like to know more about, or make the transition to, C++. The C++
> > Annotations do not cover all aspects of C++. In particular, C++'s basic
> > grammar, which is, for all practical purposes, equal to C's grammar, is
> > not covered. The various C++ topics are covered in the following
> > chapters:
>
> Hi,

Hello,

> This sounds interesting but why is it useful to have a package?

Well, because it is easier for Debian users to search for, install, upgrade 
such books. Basically on the same line wrt packaging are the c-cpp-reference 
package (although not being so exhaustive) and ocaml-book-en|fr (being a very 
serious book, but unfortunately in non-free).

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Bug#360519: Telepathy, FarSight and Tapioca

2006-09-18 Thread George Danchev
Hello,

Is there an interest and manpower Telepathy [1], FarSight [2] and 
Tapioca [3] 
to be packaged for Debian. There is an ITP #360519 filed only for Tapioca 
though. Note that all of these can use the Sofia SIP library [4] we already 
have packaged and maintain for Debian together with its upstream.

[1] http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/
[2] http://farsight.sourceforge.net/ 
[3] http://tapioca-voip.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Tapioca
[4] http://wiki.opensource.nokia.com/projects/SofiaApplications

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Bug#372579: ITP: pcopy -- Disk(partition)-to-Disk(partition) copying tool

2006-10-18 Thread George Danchev
On Wednesday 18 October 2006 12:18, Aníbal Monsalve Salazar wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 10, 2006 at 02:37:09PM +0300, George Danchev wrote:
> > Preliminary package: http://sponsors.debian.net/viewpkg.php?id=293
>
> After packaging pcopy, I noticed that you already have
> packaged it. I compared mine with yours and found some
> diferences.

Ah such things just happend sometimes ;-)

> The size of your .diff.gz is 25613 and mine is 2605.
> You don't need to depends on coreutils.

That is correct. I also wrote a moderate manpage you might have wirtten too.

> IMO, I think my package is slightly better. I just
> upload it.

Sounds great to me.

> If you would like to be a comantainer, please let me
> know.

Sure. I'm still in the NEW queue, but I have write access to  
svn://svn.debian.org/collab-maint/ so we can comaintain the package there or 
you have any other VCS repo in mind ? 

Did you talk to upstream so far ? I've tried to do so twice, but I've never 
got a reply.

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Bug#679254: [Pkg-libburnia-devel] libisofs

2012-08-02 Thread George Danchev
Just bouncing this one to serve as a reference, since I forgot to do it in the 
first place when replying. Further discissions will take plane in the pkg- 
list.

On Wednesday 01 August 2012 21:28:22 bash.d wrote:
> Hello, George Danchev,
> 
> I would like to help you maintaining the libisofs-package.
> I already replied to the BTS entry, but have not yet received any
> response. If you are interested, please answer me.
> Thank you and regards,

Hi Sebastian, [I added pkg-libburnia-devel@ in CC, where Thomas Schmitt is 
also subscribed]

Thank you for your offer to help, it is really appreciated. It is of course my 
fault of not paying attention close to RFH#679254, but you did it right 
pinging my on private. Thanks!

The three libraries of libburn (RFH#679249), libisofs, and libisoburn 
(RFH#679265) are best to be maintained together, and involve quite some 
interaction with upstream, which is fortunately very responsive and helpful. 
See http://libburnia-project.org for details, and the upstream list is 
libburn-hack...@pykix.org.

For libisofs in particular, there is an effort to complete the hybrid fs part, 
which involves HFS+ (see libisofs/hfsplus*.c|h in bzr) and HFS (no plus) - no 
code yet. ISO9660/HFS hybrid is used for the production of Debian PowerPC 
images, and in order to replace the old and almost unmaintained genisoimage, 
it would be nice to have this one properly implemented, verified and deployed.
(actually these are HFS#630351 and UDF#630863, the latter being a goal in the 
distant future).

The libburnia libraries are covered by in-house test suite called 'releng':
See, README, TODO and CHECKLIST, as well as the code at:
http://libburnia-project.org/browser/libisoburn/trunk/releng

Extending and running this test suite is a good way to build trust that no or 
less regressions would occur.

Then comes the debian-cd task, which is the largest "stress-test suite" for 
xorriso (and resp. libisofs in particular) currently known to us, so it is 
also nice to pay attention to debian-cd BTS record for relevant bugs, the 
debian-cd mailing list for relevant complaints, and debian-cd live logs as 
well: http://cdbuilder.debian.org/cdimage-log/ (also see analysis.html)

Last, but not least, it is also nice to try to help applications which are 
trying to make proper use (or resp. abuse) of libburnia libraries to find their 
way. For instance, see brasero BTS record.

To summarize: there is a plenty of code work, thrice as much testing and bug 
triaging and sorting out (coupled and decoupled) issues or non-issues... and 
I'm pretty sure Thomas can add some more points as well. While it is true that 
libburn/libisofs/libisoburn currently bear almost perfectly clean BTS log 
record, it took, takes, and will take a fair amount of time to preserve this 
state as it is.

So, feel free to pick your niche to contribute to the project :)

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Bug#450876: Orphaning ara

2011-12-09 Thread George Danchev
retitle 450876 O: ara -- utility for searching the Debian package database
thanks

I'm hereby orphaning ara, due to lack of time and limited usage of it on my 
side. The package description is:

 Command line utility for searching the Debian package database
 ara is a utility for searching the Debian package database using
 boolean regexp queries.

 ara can perform sophisticated searches on that database. It is possible
 to use any field of the package database as a search criterion and any
 boolean combination thereof.

 ara can also call APT (or any user-configurable command) to install or
 remove packages matching a query.


There is also a separate alioth project for it:
https://alioth.debian.org/projects/ara/
as well as a webpage http://ara.alioth.debian.org/

Perhaps ara is best to be added to the git repo of Debian OCaml Task Force.
If you adopt this package, you should also adopt it upstream.

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Bug#625865: ITP: ocportal -- ocPortal is a Content Management System for building and maintaining a dynamic website

2011-05-06 Thread George Danchev
On Friday 06 May 2011 19:39:26 Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-05-06 at 13:24 -0300, Ben Armstrong wrote:
> > On 05/06/2011 12:14 PM, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote:
> > > Q: How many content management systems written in php does Debian need?
> > > A: How about zero?
> > > 
> > > Not exactly helpful.
> > 
> > When developers are passionately opposed to a particular technology (and
> > not without reason here, I think,) they can be a bit blunt in expressing
> > it. The list of these goes on and on ... and while I certainly would be
> > more polite myself about expressing reservations about adding any more,
> > I'm not going to fault others for expressing their dissent. The way you
> > expressed your support seemed to me to gloss over the real cost of
> > adding a new package to the archive without any coherent argument as to
> > why this particular one was going to be no trouble at all (and/or worth
> > the trouble because it's so special).
> 
> Strange that you read 'support' into my responses. Actually I have never
> even heard of the proposed package, but that's not the point. I even
> mentioned that if the package sucketh (if the guy proposing it proves
> unreliable), then it can either remain in Unstable or be removed.

Upload to 'unstable' and see how it goes could be quite suboptimal tactics 
most of the time. I'm not talking about that particular package, but not every 
package which flies in the free software skies deserves to be in Debian archive 
in my own opinion. Inclusions costs human time.

> You don't just blatantly oppose Debian inclusion without mentioning why.
> The great Josselin Mouette (yes, I really respect this guy for his
> tireless GNOME maintenance) just did that, and the rest of us are
> supposed to magically possess the history of PHP in Debian, and laugh it
> off.
> 
> And no, you should fault others for expressing their dissent in this
> unproductive manner.

Well, maybe if you look at that from a different angle, you can find it 
productive as in: don't spend your time packaging that particular one, as 
chances are very low for upload.

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Bug#796145: O: libburn -- command line CD/DVD/BD writing tool

2015-08-19 Thread George Danchev
Package: wnpp
Severity: normal

I intend to orphan the libburn package. I simply don't have the time
and energy to maintain it.

The package description is:
 cdrskin strives to be a second source for the services traditionally
 provided by cdrecord.
 Currently it does CD-R and CD-RW this way. Overwritable media DVD-RAM,
 DVD+RW, DVD-RW, and BD-RE are handled differently than with cdrecord-ProDVD
 in order to offer TAO-like single track recording. Sequential DVD-R[W],
 DVD+R, DVD+R DL are handled like CD-R[W] with TAO and multi-session.
 Additionally cdrskin offers cdrecord-ProDVD-like mode DAO with DVD-R[W].
 .
 This is a burner only application. If you want a burner and image
 manipulation application, please install xorriso package.



Bug#796147: O: libisoburn -- debugging symbols for libisoburn and xorriso

2015-08-19 Thread George Danchev
Package: wnpp
Severity: normal

I intend to orphan the libisoburn package. I simply don't have the
time and energy to maintain it.

The package description is:
 libisoburn is a frontend for the libraries libburn and libisofs. It handles
 the creation, loading, manipulation and burning of ISO-9660 filesystem images.
 This library provides a low-level API, called libisoburn API, which
 encapsulates the API of libburn and libisofs, and a higher level API, called
 xorriso API which encapsulates the API of libburn, libisofs, and libisoburn,
 and is also used by the xorriso program itself.
 .
 This package contains debugging files useful for investigating any problems
 with the binaries found in the libisoburn library and the xorriso application.



Bug#796146: O: libisofs -- debugging symbols for libisofs

2015-08-19 Thread George Danchev
Package: wnpp
Severity: normal

I intend to orphan the libisofs package. I simply don't have the time
and energy t maintain it.

The package description is:
 libisofs creates ISO images which can then be burnt with cdrskin or other
 software.
 .
 This package contains debugging files used to investigate problems with
 binaries included in the libisofs packages.



Bug#796145: Adoption

2015-08-30 Thread George Danchev
On Sunday 30 August 2015 12:15:38 J.S.Júnior wrote:
> I want adoption this package
> 
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=796145
> 
> Or, help you.
> 
> But you send RFH
> 
> []`s

Excellent! Thanks for your interest.

libburn, libisofs, libisoburn are team-maintained, so please have a look at 
the pkg-libburnia project on alioth. Bonus, Thomas Schmitt (in CC:)  who is 
also upstream of these has recently joined the packaging projects as well as 
the mailing list. I'm pretty sure he would appreciate some Debian packaging 
help.

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Bug#304570: CodeBlocks upload rejected?

2009-03-08 Thread George Danchev
On Sunday 08 March 2009 23:06:36 Steve M. Robbins wrote:
> Hi,

Hi,

> This bug has a very long history :-)
>
> The entries of 2008-10-29 and 2008-12-07 suggest that the package was
> uploaded then rejected.  What is the problem?  How can I help get
> CodeBlocks into Debian?

I left some traces on that bug, but I didn't uploaded the package, thus I have 
no clue what the reasoning behind that rejection was, though I'd like to know 
too.

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