Bug#834869: ITP: keysafe -- back up secret keys to cloud servers

[Joey Hess]

It would be fine to package keysafe now, but please be sure to note that
it has not been fully security reviewed yet. It would probably make
sense to keep it in experimental until version 1.x.

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Bug#807968: RFP: haskell-gitlib-libgit2 -- Libgit2 backend for gitlib (haskell)

[Joey Hess]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

* Package name: haskell-gitlib-libgit2
* URL : http://hackage.haskell.org/package/gitlib-libgit2
* License : BSD
  Programming Lang: haskell
  Description : Libgit2 backend for gitlib (haskell)

Debian includes haskell-gitlib, but that only provides some types and
can't be used for anything without a backend like this one. Neither this
backend nor gitlib-cmdline are in Debian. I am considering using this in
git-annex.

Note that gitlib-libgit2 depends on hlibgit2, which happens to contain
an embedded code copy of gitlib2. I guess debianization would include
patching it to build against an appropriate system version of gitlib2,
although that added dependency may complicate matters.

A few issues that probably bear on packaging hlibgit2:

* https://github.com/jwiegley/gitlib/issues/43
  The version of libgit2 bundled with hlibgit2 is currently 0.18,
  which is older than the versions in Debian. This may make it hard
  to build the package against the system libgit2. (Haven't tried.)

* https://github.com/jwiegley/gitlib/issues/58
  The embedded copy of gitlib2 doesn't include its license text due to
  an oversight.
  
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Bug#777234: RFP: haskell-docs -- find and display haddock docs at console

[Joey Hess]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

* Package name: haskell-docs
* URL : http://hackage.haskell.org/package/haskell-docs
* License : BSD3
  Programming Lang: haskell
  Description : haskell program to find and display haddock docs

This would be a useful addition to the haskell development tools in
Debian. It works with -doc packages.

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Bug#768516: Up for grabs

[Joey Hess]

Antoine Beaupré wrote:
> Actually, joeyh: how should we do this? Should I fork the git repo in to
> collab-maint? Otherwise I'd be happy to push debian-related changes to
> the upstream git repo:
> 
> git://etckeeper.branchable.com/
> 
> ... if that's what you prefer.

Yes, I can give ssh keys commit access there.

I'm ccing Remi, who contacted me about maintaining etckeeper more
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Bug#774315: RFP: haskell-disk-free-space -- Retrieve information about disk space usage.

[Joey Hess]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

* Package name: haskell-disk-free-space
* URL : http://hackage.haskell.org/package/disk-free-space
* License : BSD3

git-annex currently contains its own implementation of a portable disk
free space and size checking library. In a future version, I'd like to
drop this code, and instead use the new disk-free-space from hackage.
It will work on at least Linux, OSX, and Windows. Probably on the BSDs,
but I have not checked.

So, it would be nice to get this into Debian before-hand.

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Bug#773551: RFP: haskell-torrent -- haskell torrent parsing

[Joey Hess]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

http://hackage.haskell.org/package/torrent

License: BSD3

Upcoming versions of git-annex will use this library to parse torrent
files. While it can fall back to building without the library, and
instead use the btshowmetainfo utility, that's not a recommended
configuration (that utility is not really designed to have machine
parsable output AFAICS). So it would be good to get this library
(and its dependency bencode) into Debian.

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Bug#771020: O: git-remote-gcrypt -- encrypted git repositories

[Joey Hess]

Package: wnpp
Severity: normal

I am not a DD and cannot maintain this package any longer.

I'm sort of upstream for it still.

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Bug#768511: ITA: dpkg-repack -- puts an unpacked .deb file back together

[Joey Hess]

Guillem Jover wrote:
> Ok, thanks for clarifying! One last question, there seems to be some
> discrepancy between the license stated in debian/copyright and the
> license blurb in the perl script. Would you sign off on the attached
> patch?

All code I've written in dpkg-repack is licensed under GPL-2+

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Bug#768991: O: github-backup -- backs up data from GitHub

[Joey Hess]

Package: wnpp
Severity: normal

I have orphaned the github-backup package.

I will continue to develop the software upstream.

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Bug#768511: ITA: dpkg-repack -- puts an unpacked .deb file back together

[Joey Hess]

Guillem Jover wrote:
> Hey Joey!
> 
> On Sat, 2014-11-08 at 01:24:55 +0100, Guillem Jover wrote:
> > Package: wnpp
> > Severity: normal
> > Control: affects -1 dpkg-repack
> 
> > I'm planning on taking over dpkg-repack, with the intention of merging
> > it back into dpkg proper. And probably transition it to eventually
> > something like dpkg --archive or similar.
> 
> Actually, with the changelog message not being explicit about this:
> 
> ,---
> dpkg-repack (1.39) unstable; urgency=medium
> 
>   * Orphaned dpkg-repack.
> 
>  -- Joey Hess   Fri, 07 Nov 2014 17:17:56 -0400
> `---
> 
> and the package being native, it's not entirely clear to me, and I'd
> like to know what are your intentions regarding upstream development?
> Before I possibly consider taking any such action like the above.

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Bug#768634: ITA: propellor -- property-based host configuration management in haskell

[Joey Hess]

Gergely Nagy wrote:
> Control: retitle -1 ITA: propellor -- property-based host configuration 
> management in haskell
> 
> I intend to adopt propellor. I'm starting to use it at work, and at home
> too, would be a shame to let it fall out of Debian. It's also a great
> excuse to learn more about Haskell packaging.

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Bug#768634: O: propellor -- property-based host configuration management in haskell

[Joey Hess]

Package: wnpp
Severity: normal

I intend to orphan the propellor package.

The package description is:
 Propellor enures that the system it's run in satisfies a list of
 properties, taking action as necessary when a property is not yet met.
 .
 It is configured using haskell.

I continue as propellor's upstream. I have high hopes for propellor, and
hope that this does not cause it to fall out of Debian.

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Bug#768532: O: debmirror

[Joey Hess]

Package: wnpp
Severity: normal

Needs new maintainer (debian & upstream).

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Bug#768530: O: filters

[Joey Hess]

Package: wnpp
Severity: normal

I've orphaned filters.

I will still be developing it as upstream.

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Bug#768529: O: moreutils -- additional Unix utilities

[Joey Hess]

Package: wnpp
Severity: normal

I've orphaned moreutils.

I will still be developing it as upstream.

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Bug#768528: O: ticker

[Joey Hess]

Package: wnpp
Severity: normal

I've orphaned ticker.

I still maintain it as upstream, although I don't know that it has
any users and I haven't needed to touch it in 7 years.

It would be fine to remove this package from Debian.

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Bug#768527: O: pdmenu -- simple console menu program

[Joey Hess]

Package: wnpp
Severity: normal

I've orphaned pdmenu.

I will continue to maintain it upstream, although it's in super
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Bug#768525: O: jetring

[Joey Hess]

Package: wnpp
Severity: normal

I've orphaned jetring.

I'm also the upstream author, and I don't anticipate doing any upstream
maintenance.

It may be best to let this package fall out of Debian.
Although IIRC someone is using it for something or other.

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Bug#768520: O: liblingua-en-words2nums-perl - convert English text to numbers

[Joey Hess]

Package: wnpp
Severity: normal

I'm orphaning liblingua-en-words2nums-perl. I guess I'll still be
maintaining it upstream, although I've not needed to touch it in half a
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Bug#768518: O: mpdtoys -- small command line tools and toys for MPD

[Joey Hess]

Package: wnpp
Severity: normal

I intend to orphan the mpdtoys package. I will continue maintaining it
upstream.

The package description is:
 This is a collection of small toys and tools for doing various things
 to MPD (Music Player Daemon) from the command line. Some of them are
 very useful, while others are only amusing.
 .
 Some examples of things the mpdtoys can do include moving the playing
 song between different mpd daemons on different machines, storing
 the state of a mpd daemon and loading it back later, reversing the
 playlist, slowly fading volume up or down, stopping playback after the
 current song finishes, emulating a skipping record, and editing the
 playlist in a text editor.

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Bug#768516: O: etckeeper -- store /etc in git, mercurial, bzr or darcs

[Joey Hess]

Package: wnpp
Severity: normal

I have orphaned etckeeper. I will be continuing development upstream.

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Bug#737871: O: pristine-tar -- regenerate pristine tarballs

[Joey Hess]

You will need to know perl and C.

dgit does not obsolete dpkg-buildpackage, but dpkg-buildpackage
does not use pristine-tar.

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Bug#737871: O: pristine-tar -- regenerate pristine tarballs

[Joey Hess]

Package: wnpp
Severity: normal

I am orphaning pristine-tar. Note that this is a native package, so
it needs a new upstream maintainer in addition to Debian maintainer.

I have no personal need to use pristine-tar now that dgit exists,
and I would rather spend time on dgit.

I should add a little bit about the reason I wrote pristine-tar in the
first place. There were two reasons:

1. I was once in a talk where someone mentioned that Ubuntu had/was
   developing something that involved regenerating orig tarballs
   from version control.
   I asked the obvious question: How could that possibly be done
   technically? 
   The (slightly hung over) presenter did not have a satesfactory
   response, so my curiosity was piqued to find a way to do it.
   (I later heard that Ubuntu has been using pristine-tar..)

2. Sometimes code can be subversive. It can change people's perspective
   on a topic, nudging discourse in a different direction. It can even
   point out absurdities in the way things are done. I may or may not
   have accomplished the subversive part of my goals with pristine-tar.

Code can also escape its original intention. Many current uses of
pristine-tar fall into that category. So it seems likely that some
people will want it to continue to work even if it's met the two goals
above already.

My feeling is that pristine-tar will eventually need to embed a suite of
historical versions of tar and gzip (and bzip2 etc), since upstream
changes can break output stability. It already embeds several versions
of the compressors. We've slightly been abusing the Debian patches of
tar to put in pristine-tar compatability hacks there, and while I
appreciate Bdale's willingness to do that, I don't think that's
sustainable.

Anyone who wants to maintain this is going to need to tackle that issue.
It's also helpful if you enjoy the interesting puzzle of taking a
file it fails to support currently, and finding the trick to make it work.

Without Faidon Liambotis, much of the hardest parts of pristine-tar
(particularly pristine-gz) would not have happened. If Faidon wants this
package, he has it.

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Bug#715169: ITP: adblockedge -- Advertisement blocking extension for web browsers

[Joey Hess]

Benjamin Drung wrote:
> Are you talking about bug #653112 (disabling the "non-intrusive ads"
> "feature" by default) or are you talking about patching the complete
> "non-intrusive ads" out? Feel free to join the Debian Mozilla Extension
> Maintainers team and apply the patch in case of the former. The patch
> would be too huge in case of the latter. I scanned a diff between
> adblock-plus and adblockedge. Part of the diff was ripping
> "non-intrusive ads" out and the other part was for renaming the
> extension. I came to the conclusion that it is simpler to maintain the
> adblockegde fork.

What's the point in patching it out, if it's disabled by default?

It seems to me that getting #653112 fixed, which presumably involves
changing a True to a False somewhere in the code, should be easier than
maintaining an entire separate package going forward.

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Bug#715169: ITP: adblockedge -- Advertisement blocking extension for web browsers

[Joey Hess]

Benjamin Drung wrote:
> Adblock Edge is a fork of the Adblock Plus version 2.1.2 extension for 
> blocking
> advertisements on the web. This fork will provide the same features as Adblock
> Plus 2.X and higher but without "acceptable ads" feature.

This still leaves a buggy xul-ext-adblock-plus in Debian waiting for
users to trip over the bug. Wouldn't it be better to just apply the bug
fix to that, even if upstream, for whatever reason, is resistant to
fixing the bug there?

(Assuming that upstream is not going to be hard forked to irrelevance
due to their behavior..)

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Bug#696593: ITP: sun -- sun calculates the sun's rise/set times

[Joey Hess]

FWIW, two existing way to do that that are already in Debian
are the packages remind and libdatetime-astro-sunrise-perl.
Use of the perl module is pretty obvious; use of remind is too
ugly to show here. :)

A standalone tool is nice, but there would be something to be said for
using an existing library to avoid reinventing this rather complex and
subtle wheel.

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Bug#696429: ITP: jhc -- a haskell compiler.

[Joey Hess]

Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Could it be used to bootstrap ghc compilation way more easily?

Given the number of extensions used in ghc's own code, many of which
jhc does not support, this seems unlikely, at least not without
first mechanically converting its code to an intermediate form like
Haskell 98.

Also, jhc would still need to be ported to new arches. ;)

Also, you'd probably need quite a lot of memory (probably gigabytes) to
compile something as large as ghc with jhc, since jhc is lacking even
garbage collection.

It'd be nice to have jhc in Debian though. Although the Haskell "compiler"
we really need, IMHO, is Fay.

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Bug#686989: ITP: haskell-network-info -- listing network interfaces in Haskell

[Joey Hess]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Joey Hess 

* Package name: haskell-network-info
* URL : http://hackage.haskell.org/package/network-info
* License : BSD
  Description : listing network interfaces in Haskell


Another library I use in git-annex.

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Bug#686969: ITP: haskell-network-multicast -- multicast networking library for haskell

[Joey Hess]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Joey Hess 

* Package name: haskell-network-multicast
* URL : http://hackage.haskell.org/package/network-multicast
* License : MIT
  Programming Lang: haskell
  Description : multicast networking library for haskell


git-annex will use this to pair with other repositories on the network.
So I need this in Debian before I can upload the next git-annex release.

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Bug#625262: merging w3c-dtd-xhtml and w3c-sml-lib: ten days to object or find issues

[Joey Hess]

Nicholas Bamber wrote:
> Yes and it is not present in 1.2-2. Nor does w3c-sgml-lib exist in
> stable. So actually if we just let it go to testing everything would
> be fine. ;-) Seriously I will not do that unless you are happy with
> it

joey@wren:~>sudo apt-get install wdg-html-validator
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree   
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  w3c-dtd-xhtml w3c-sgml-lib
Suggested packages:
  wdg-html-reference
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  w3c-dtd-xhtml w3c-sgml-lib wdg-html-validator
0 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 438 not upgraded.
Need to get 1,057 kB of archives.
After this operation, 4,832 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Get:1 http://mirror.bytemark.co.uk/debian/ unstable/main w3c-sgml-lib all 1.2-2 
[568 kB]
Get:2 http://mirror.bytemark.co.uk/debian/ unstable/main w3c-dtd-xhtml all 
1.2-2 [9,012 B]
Get:3 http://mirror.bytemark.co.uk/debian/ unstable/main wdg-html-validator all 
1.6.2-7 [480 kB]
Fetched 1,057 kB in 0s (7,612 kB/s) 
Selecting previously unselected package w3c-sgml-lib.
(Reading database ... 154522 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking w3c-sgml-lib (from .../w3c-sgml-lib_1.2-2_all.deb) ...
Selecting previously unselected package w3c-dtd-xhtml.
Unpacking w3c-dtd-xhtml (from .../w3c-dtd-xhtml_1.2-2_all.deb) ...
Selecting previously unselected package wdg-html-validator.
Unpacking wdg-html-validator (from .../wdg-html-validator_1.6.2-7_all.deb) ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up w3c-sgml-lib (1.2-2) ...
Setting up w3c-dtd-xhtml (1.2-2) ...
Setting up wdg-html-validator (1.6.2-7) ...
joey@wren:~>validate index.html
*** Errors validating index.html: ***
[ snip 200+ lines of bogus errors ]
Error at line 3, character 13:  there is no attribute "XMLNS"
joey@wren:~>sudo dpkg --purge  w3c-sgml-lib
dpkg: dependency problems prevent removal of w3c-sgml-lib:
 w3c-dtd-xhtml depends on w3c-sgml-lib (= 1.2-2).
dpkg: error processing w3c-sgml-lib (--purge):
 dependency problems - not removing
Errors were encountered while processing:
 w3c-sgml-lib

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Bug#625262: merging w3c-dtd-xhtml and w3c-sml-lib: ten days to object or find issues

[Joey Hess]

Nicholas Bamber wrote:
> Hmm well the old vesion of w3c-dtd-xhtml provided w3c-dtd-xhtml. This
> one does not. Still I see it showing up as a Provides in PTS. I am not
> sure if something needs to be done in some mysterious Debian server to
> resolve that but the 1.2-2 version of w3c-sgml-lib does NOT have a
> Provides clause.

w3c-sgml-lib 1.2-1 does provide/conflict/replace w3c-dtd-xhtml.

> Please could you send me one or more HTML files that you would accept
> as an objective test as whether wdg-html-validator is working and what
> you expect as an output.

See end of transcript in my previous mail.

>   Also what happens when you force through the installation of
> w3c-dtd-xhtml version 1.2-2 and w3c-sgml-lib? Does
> wdg-html-validator behave itself for you then?

update-xmlcatalog: error: entity already registered with a different value
 Entity   : [delegatePublic publicIdStartString="-//W3C//ENTITIES Latin 1 for 
XHTML//EN"]
 Old value: [catalog="file:///etc/xml/w3c-sgml-lib.xml"]
 New value: [catalog="file:///etc/xml/w3c-dtd-xhtml.xml"]
dpkg: error processing w3c-dtd-xhtml (--install):

And in this state, no, validate does not work.

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Bug#625262: merging w3c-dtd-xhtml and w3c-sml-lib: ten days to object or find issues

[Joey Hess]

Nicholas Bamber wrote:
>   Please send me instructions for how it working fine and not
> afterwards because I tried to test it.

w3c-sgml-lib provides/conflicts w3c-dtd-xhtml, and w3c-markup-validator
depends on both packages, so this happens:

joey@wren:~>validate index.html
joey@wren:~>sudo apt-get install w3c-dtd-xhtml
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree   
Reading state information... Done
w3c-dtd-xhtml is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 332 not upgraded.
joey@wren:~>sudo apt-get install w3c-sgml-lib 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree   
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  w3c-dtd-xhtml
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  w3c-sgml-lib
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 1 to remove and 332 not upgraded.
Need to get 616 kB of archives.
After this operation, 3,834 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Get:1 http://mirror.bytemark.co.uk/debian/ unstable/main w3c-sgml-lib all 1.2-1 
[616 kB]
Fetched 616 kB in 0s (7,302 kB/s)
dpkg: w3c-dtd-xhtml: dependency problems, but removing anyway as you requested:
 wdg-html-validator depends on w3c-dtd-xhtml.
(Reading database ... 154372 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing w3c-dtd-xhtml ...
Selecting previously unselected package w3c-sgml-lib.
(Reading database ... 154310 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking w3c-sgml-lib (from .../w3c-sgml-lib_1.2-1_all.deb) ...
Setting up w3c-sgml-lib (1.2-1) ...
[master c4e89ec] committing changes in /etc after apt run
 Author: joey 
 10 files changed, 804 insertions(+), 84 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 sgml/w3c-sgml-lib.cat
 delete mode 100644 xml/w3c-dtd-xhtml.xml
 rewrite xml/w3c-dtd-xhtml.xml.old (82%)
 create mode 100644 xml/w3c-sgml-lib.xml
joey@wren:~>validate index.html   
*** Errors validating index.html: ***
Error at line 2, character 53:  cannot find
"REC-xhtml1-20020801/xhtml1-strict.dtd"; tried
"/usr/share/xml/xhtml/schema/dtd/1.0/REC-xhtml1-20020801/xhtml1-str
ict.dtd",
"/usr/local/share/sgml/REC-xhtml1-20020801/xhtml1-strict.dtd",
"/usr/share/sgml/REC-xhtml1-20020801/xhtml1-strict.dtd"
Error at line 2, character 53:  DTD did not contain element declaration for
document type name
Error at line 3, character 13:  there is no attribute "XMLNS"
Error at line 3, character 43:  element "HTML" undefined
Error at line 4, character 6:  element "HEAD" undefined
Error at line 5, character 7:  element "TITLE" undefined
Error at line 7, character 6:  element "BODY" undefined
Error at line 8, character 3:  element "P" undefined
Error at line 8, character 24:  element "STRONG" undefined
zsh: exit 9 validate index.html
joey@wren:~>cat index.html 
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd";>
http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";>

ikiwiki


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Bug#625262: merging w3c-dtd-xhtml and w3c-sml-lib: ten days to object or find issues

[Joey Hess]

Nicholas Bamber wrote:
> I am just about to upload w3c-sgml-lib that also generates
> w3c-dtd-xhtml (which will depend on w3c-sgml-lib and consist of
> links). I have endeavoured to fix all conflicts and ensure that
> nsgmls, wdg-html-validator, w3c-markup-validator still work. I have
> to put a caveat on that. As far as I can see wdg-html-validator no
> longer works at all well. So I mean that my new versions do not make
> it worse.

It was working 100% fine before your change, and now it fails miserably.
#669480

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Bug#666715: incomplete?

[Joey Hess]

This program seems incomplete as written. We have to think long-term,
shouldn't it also find duplicate programs for finding duplicate programs
for finding duplicate files? Full generality, please.

Also, I noticed your code is not a quine, which seems quite a shame.

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Bug#660080: FW: Bug#660080: Info received (ITP: github-backup -- backs up everything github knows about a repository, to the repository)

[Joey Hess]

Bas van den Dikkenberg wrote:
> I am currently working on packaging githup-backup en putting it in the repo 
> of debian.
> 
> But I walk in to te following problems
> 
> The packages depends on libghc-github-dev but this packages is not in the 
> debian repository

That's right, the library needs to be added. Once it is added, I will upload
github-backup myself.

> The following packages have broken dependency's:
> libghc-hslogger-dev : Depends: libghc-base-dev-4.5.0.0-6db96 but it is not 
> installable

These should sort themselves out, the final ghc upload and library
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Bug#661565: ITP: nyancat -- Terminal-based Pop Tart Cat animation

[Joey Hess]

I suggest a compromise. Include the nyancat program into
the existing robotfindskitten package.

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Bug#649784: On dh_apparmor, and possibly other dh_* stuff in the future

[Joey Hess]

Kees Cook wrote:
> If the "ABI" of the dh_* tools is considered stable and exportable, I have
> no problem with this. If debhelper will change its "ABI" in the future,
> then this separate package is going to be a pain to maintain.

Debhelper has had a stable, documented ABI for 12+ years;
there are numerous dh_* commands elsewhere in the archive.

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Bug#651393: debhelper: Add a script to expand multi-arch variables within executable config files

[Joey Hess]

Gergely Nagy wrote:
> #! /usr/bin/env /usr/share/dh-subst/dh-subst should work, I

My point was that DRY implies that boilerplate should be avoided
as much as possible.

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Bug#651393: debhelper: Add a script to expand multi-arch variables within executable config files

[Joey Hess]

Gergely Nagy wrote:
> For me, it does matter, I wouldn't go against your wishes if I can avoid
> it. So, thank you! I'll go ahead with the separate package then.

I will be happy to mention it in the appropriate place in debhelper(1)
once it exists and some packages are using it. Let me know.

You might want to consider going with a /usr/bin/foo that is a compiled
binary to work around freebsd's #! weirdness or a shim to the actual
program.

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Bug#641939: RFP: weighted-regexp -- weighted regular expression matcher with linear worst-case time and space bounds

[Joey Hess]

Joachim Breitner wrote:
> just wondering: Have you experimented already with the library, and
> checked if its actual, non-asymptotic performance is good enough for
> real world use?

No. But the website linked to from hackage has some benchmarks that
don't look too bad. It's slower than PCRE though except in edge cases
where PCRE blows up.

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Bug#641939: RFP: weighted-regexp -- weighted regular expression matcher with linear worst-case time and space bounds

[Joey Hess]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

* Package name: weighted-regexp
  Version : 0.3.1.1
  Upstream Author : Thomas Wilke, Frank Huch, Sebastian Fischer
* URL : http://hackage.haskell.org/package/weighted-regexp
* License : BSD3
  Programming Lang: haskell
  Description : weighted regular expression matcher with linear worst-case 
time and space bounds

Regexps implemented purely, with linear runtime (product of lengths
of regexp and string) and memory (linear to length of regexp).
Results of match can be customized via a Semiring monoid.


As someone who has had to work hard to protect systems from users running
regexps, this is a bit of a holy grail for me..

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Bug#607821: haskell-strptime -- Haskell binding for strptime with some extra features

[Joey Hess]

I'd second this WNPP bug. I need a strptime binding for haskell.

Although I personally do not need fractional seconds and so could just
as well use a binding to the standard strptime and not the one from R.

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Bug#390833: wdg-html-validator: requesting removal

[Joey Hess]

I've already had this discussion.

Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> tags 390833 - moreinfo
> reassign 390833 wnpp
> retitle 390833 O: wdg-html-validator -- WDG HTML Validator
> thanks
> 
> On 24/02/11 at 00:04 +0100, Luca Falavigna wrote:
> > tags 390833 + moreinfo
> > thanks
> > 
> > 
> > Checking reverse dependencies...
> > # Broken Build-Depends:
> > ikiwiki: wdg-html-validator
> 
> Dear ikiwiki maintainers,
> 
> wdg-html-validator is orphaned since 2006. Could you consider switching
> ikiwiki to w3c-markup-validator, which is properly maintained in Debian?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> - Lucas

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Bug#595820: ITP: woof -- A small, simple, stupid webserver to share files

[Joey Hess]

Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> That is: considering that introducing a new web server in the archive
> will potentially increase the work of the security team, it must be
> worth.

You know, introducing any package that is capable of network traffic
in either direction can potentially increase the work of the security
team.

What this thread appears to be missing is any acknowledgement of the
degrees of potential security impact that exist between apache and say,
wget. An exploitable hole in apache's default configuration has the
impact of massive worms doing real damage to the internet and exposing
vast amounts of information to black hats, etc. Organisations exist that
will pay a nice sum of money for zero-day access to such a security
hole. An exploitable hole in wget is likely only "exploitable" in
theory, or with much effort and luck. I doubt you could find anyone
who'd pay you $10 for zero-day access to such a hole.

The woof package seems likely to have a total security impact that is
actually less than wget, since fewer people will be using it, and its
use will be limited to more peer-to-peer situations. I have found a
security hole in woof. How much will someone pay me to disclose it? [1]

AFAICS, woof is unique in both its strategy of serving a file only 1 (or
N times), and its trivial command-line invocation on a single file. I'd
use it.

Incoming code of possible security significance should be reviewed for
at least common classes of security holes. Instead, we get a thread where
the ITPer is required to prove that nothing in Debian can do what his
package does. Personally, I feel that our culture of ripping ITPs to shreds
has gone too far, and needs to be reigned in, while our culture of
actual, useful security impact analysis and review is stunted.

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with no unique or redeeming features, and gotten it into Debian :P

[1] I've emailed the author, so it won't be zero-day for long. Buy now!


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Bug#595690: O: debmirror

[Joey Hess]

Package: wnpp
Severity: normal

debmirror is the last package in the archive solely maintained by Frans Pop.

I intend to maintain it for a while -

- as a small tribute to my good friend
- because I'm using it again for the first time in 5+ years
- because I wrote it long ago and never bothered maintaining it back then

Co-maintainers welcome.

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Bug#582321: TAG: dirsum -- commandline directory summary

[Joey Hess]

I'm unsure if this ITP was filed as a reaction to my closure of #571575,
or without knowledge of it. But ..

a) I am really suprised that many people would care that du -h | sort -h
   doesn't list files in strict order of size. Does which of two "1.0G"
   files is largest really tend to matter? Enough to have a whole other
   package?

b) If you do care which "1.0G" file is biggest, then an option to have du
   include some additional precision in its -h output would easily solve
   your problem. Or there's the small modification I suggest to du at
    would allow sorting its output
   exactly by size, without the ugliness of needing a sort -h, and while
   still providing human-readable file sizes.

c) I'd certianly be willing to consider for moreutils a filter that
   converts block or byte sized input into human-readable sizes.
   That would be the full-on unix way to go.

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Bug#497701: libv8 in debian

[Joey Hess]

Antonio Radici wrote:
> thanks fro your patch, you were very helpful, I applied it and it worked
> like a charm, the new package is on mentors as usual.
> 
> The package can be found on mentors.debian.net:
> - URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/l/libv8
> - Source repository: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable
>   main contrib non-free
> - dget
>   http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/l/libv8/libv8_1.3.11+dfsg-1.dsc

Before sponsoring this, a few things:

* The copyright file needs to either include a copy of the MIT license,
  or refer to a file in debian that contains it. ftp-masters will
  probably say same. (Doesn't matter for JSON license since jsmin is removed).

* In repack.sh the comment before rm jsmin is wrong/boilerplate.

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Bug#497701: libv8 in debian

[Joey Hess]

The attached patch allows v8 to build with jsmin.py removed, as it
has already been in git.

(Conversion to quilt patch left as exersise for reader.)

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From 62f8e4ca4536ea37480ea60f6121b6e9270cbd9f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Joey Hess 
Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2009 23:37:19 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] avoid using jsmin

jsmin was removed due to license quirk, so don't use it.

This may make the package use 100k or so more disk, as the two
files that got minimised are each roughly 50k. I am not sure
why minimisation was chosen for these two files, and have
only verified that it builds and works without minimisation.
---
 tools/js2c.py |6 +++---
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/js2c.py b/tools/js2c.py
index cae39e8..bf59ff8 100755
--- a/tools/js2c.py
+++ b/tools/js2c.py
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
 # library.
 
 import os, re, sys, string
-import jsmin
+#import jsmin # nonfree -- JEH
 
 
 def ToCArray(lines):
@@ -55,8 +55,8 @@ def RemoveCommentsAndTrailingWhitespace(lines):
 def CompressScript(lines, do_jsmin):
   # If we're not expecting this code to be user visible, we can run it through
   # a more aggressive minifier.
-  if do_jsmin:
-return jsmin.jsmin(lines)
+  #if do_jsmin: # non-free -- JEH
+  #  return jsmin.jsmin(lines)
 
   # Remove stuff from the source that we don't want to appear when
   # people print the source code using Function.prototype.toString().
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Bug#497701: libv8 in debian

[Joey Hess]

Antonio Radici wrote:
> status for everyone who's interested to this package:
> the package was uploaded to NEW and rejected because the licenses were
> not correctly specified; then after a further inspection of the licenses I've
> found that a tool called tools/jsmin.py which is licensed with a non-free
> license, see the related thread here:
> 
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2009/09/msg00033.html
> 
> I'm following this up with upstream and see what we can do.

FWIW, since this is just a javascript minifier, it seems the import of
it could easily be ripped out of js2c.py, and replaced with stub
functions that do no mimimsation. 

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Bug#517953: support idle command

[Joey Hess]

Ryan Niebur wrote:
> If somebody wants this packaged, I can, just ask :). I already have
> preliminary packages lieing around (somewhere..) on my dev box.

When I looked at it before, it was much more complex than Audio::MPD. If
I were doing a properly threaded gui mpd app, I'd look at using it, but
for the mpdtoys, it's overkill.

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Bug#496952: RFP: Devel::NYTProf -- Devel::NYTProf perl module

[Joey Hess]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

This module from CPAN allows per-line profiling of perl source code,
much more detained than other available profilters.

-- System Information:
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  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

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Bug#490386: RFP: h264enc -- h.264 video encoding script

[Joey Hess]

Cristian Greco wrote:
> Moreover, to achieve full functionality, h264enc should Depends: on
> some other packages:
> 
> - lsdvd, vorbis-tools, ogmtools, mkvtoolnix
> - gpac, pipeviewer
> 
> The former are already packaged for Debian, while the latter are not.

You don't need gpac, unless you're making specific types of output files
(.mp4?). Dunno about pipeviewer, name doesn't ring a bell so I assume I
didn't need it. :-) 

mencoder is the bigger proboem dep.

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Bug#490386: RFP: h264enc -- h.264 video encoding script

[Joey Hess]

Dmitry E. Oboukhov wrote:
> package created (see attache), but can not be uploaded 
> (debian/main/contrib/non-free) does not contain mencoder.

Hmm, yeah, that is a hard dependency.

Maybe it should be put in the debian-multimedia repository?

BTW, I modified it to not redundantly ask where mencoder was (it can
find it in PATH), and also to not abort when relative filenames are
entered (they can easily be made absolute by appending pwd).

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Bug#490386: RFP: h264enc -- h.264 video encoding script

[Joey Hess]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

* Package name: h264enc
* URL : http://h264enc.sourceforge.net/
* License : GPL
  Programming Lang: (C, C++, C#, Perl, Python, etc.)
  Description : h.264 video encoding script

This is "just" a shell script, but it's a shell script that knows about
every command line video tool available for linux, and can put them
together in handy combinations to generate nice videos. Guides you
interactively through all the choices.

I spent 12 hours watching tools fail and crash, then I found this script
and converted my 500 mb dv video from kino into a 15 mv avi of very high
quality, in minutes.

If I were packaging software right now, I'd package this myself.

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Bug#489448: closed by Serafeim Zanikolas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Bug#489448: fixed in archivemail 0.7.2-5)

[Joey Hess]

>* Remove obsolete ${misc:Depends}.

misc:Depends is not obsolete. New misc:Depends values may be added to
debhelper at any time. Just because it doesn't generate any for a
particular package at a particular time is not a good reason to remove
it.

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Bug#489448: O: archivemail -- archive and compress or delete your old email

[Joey Hess]

Nikolaus Schulz wrote:
> Hi Joey, 
> 
> On Sat, Jul 05, 2008 at 05:31:34PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> > Package: wnpp
> > Severity: normal
> > 
> > I intend to orphan the archivemail package.
> 
> I thought there were already people willing to take over archivemail? 
> Well, if they didn't show up after claiming interest, I would be
> happy to maintain the Debian package of archivemail myself.
> 
> Should I ITA it?

Anibal Avelar had mentioned it, but did not in the end seem to want to
take it.

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Bug#489450: O: splitvt -- run two programs in a split screen

[Joey Hess]

Package: wnpp
Severity: normal

I intend to orphan the splitvt package.

The package description is:
 A utility to split a vt100 compatible screen into two halves,
 upper and lower, and run a different program simultaneously
 in each half.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

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Bug#489451: O: unclutter -- hides the cursor in X after a period of inactivity

[Joey Hess]

Package: wnpp
Severity: normal

I intend to orphan the unclutter package.

The package description is:
 unclutter hides your X mouse cursor when you don't need it, to prevent it
 from getting in the way. You have only to move the mouse to restore the
 mouse cursor.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

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Bug#489448: O: archivemail -- archive and compress or delete your old email

[Joey Hess]

Package: wnpp
Severity: normal

I intend to orphan the archivemail package.

The package description is:
 Archivemail moves old mail out of a mailbox (in Maildir, MH, or
 mbox format, or via IMAP) and archives it in a compressed mbox-format
 mailbox file. It is well suited to be run from cron for automatic
 archiving of your old mail. Archivemail can also just delete old mail
 so it is useful for cleaning up mailing list or spam mailboxes.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

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Bug#487480: O: nestra -- Nintendo Entertainment System emulator

[Joey Hess]

Package: wnpp
Severity: normal

I intend to orphan the nestra package.

The games team has expressed interest in maintaining this package. If
someone else is interested, you may want to talk with the team (or
consider becoming a member).

The package description is:
 Nestra is a dynamic recompiler which translates 6502 code into native code
 to emulate a Nintendo Entertainment System. Execution of the translated
 code is quite fast, and the emulator can run at full speed with relatively
 modest CPU requirements. However, there is no sound support.
 .
 To use this program, you need NES ROMs which are not included.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 
'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

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Bug#487479: O: dgen -- Sega Genesis/MegaDrive emulator

[Joey Hess]

Package: wnpp
Severity: normal

I intend to orphan the dgen package.

The games team has expressed interest in maintaining this package. If
someone else is interested, you may want to talk with the team (or
consider becoming a member).

The package description is:
 DGen/SDL is an emulator for the Sega Genesis/MegaDrive game console.
 It can be used to play many games, none of which are included in this
 package. It supports save states, full screen mode, interlace mode, Game
 Genie, joystick, compressed ROM images, and more.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 
'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

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Bug#487478: O: kobodeluxe -- a game of space battle

[Joey Hess]

Package: wnpp
Severity: normal

I intend to orphan the kobodeluxe package.

The games team has expressed interest in maintaining this package. If
someone else is interested, you may want to talk with the team (or
consider becoming a member).

The package description is:
 Kobo Deluxe is a third person scrolling 2D shooter with a simple
 and responsive control system - which you'll need to tackle the
 tons of enemy ships that shoot at you, chase you, circle around
 you shooting, or even launch other ships at you, while you're
 trying to destroy the labyrinth shaped bases. There are 50
 action packed levels with smoothly increasing difficulty, and
 different combinations of enemies that require different tactics
 to be dealt with successfully. It's loads of classical arcade style
 fun.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 
'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

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Bug#487477: O: oneko

[Joey Hess]

Package: wnpp
Severity: normal

I'm orphaning oneko (again).

The games team has expressed interest in maintaining this package. If
someone else is interested, you may want to talk with the team (or
consider becoming a member).

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 
'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

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Bug#487476: O: uqm -- The Ur-Quan Masters - An inter-galatic adventure game

[Joey Hess]

Package: wnpp
Severity: normal

I intend to orphan the uqm package, and its subsidiary packages
uqm-content, uqm-music, and uqm-voice.

uqm-music and uqm-voice are not included in the distribution due to
(possibly somewhat obsolete now) size concerns. However, whoever adopts
uqm should be ready to maintain those packages too. They are distributed
via uqm.debian.net, which I currently run; the new maintainer may want
to take over that domain, or I could continue to host it.


The games team has expressed interest in maintaining this package. If
someone else is interested, you may want to talk with the team (or
consider becoming a member).


The package description is:
 You return to Earth with a vessel built from technology discovered from an
 ancient race called the Precursors only to find it enslaved. Gather allies
 from a wide variety of races, engage in space combat with various foes, and
 save the galaxy from the Ur-Quan!
 .
 The Ur-Quan Masters is derived from the classic game Star Control II.
 It includes both the adventure game described above and a fast-paced
 Super Melee.
 .
 See the README.Debian once you have installed this package for information
 about where to get the uqm-music and uqm-voice packages.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 
'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

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Bug#487473: O: xemeraldia -- not just another tetris clone

[Joey Hess]

Package: wnpp
Severity: normal

I intend to orphan the xemeraldia package.

The games team has expressed interest in maintaining this package. If
someone else is interested, you may want to talk with the team (or
consider becoming a member).

The package description is:
 Another tetris-like falling blocks game. Although it
 looks like Tetris, it's not---and figuring out how to
 make blocks go away is half the fun.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 
'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

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Bug#487474: O: xbl

[Joey Hess]

Package: wnpp
Severity: normal

I'm orphaning xbl.

The games team has expressed interest in maintaining this package. If
someone else is interested, you may want to talk with the team (or
consider becoming a member).

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 
'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

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Bug#487469: O: xtris

[Joey Hess]

Package: wnpp
Severity: normal

I'm orphaning xtris.

The games team has expressed interest in maintaining this package. If
someone else is interested, you may want to talk with the team (or
consider becoming a member).

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 
'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

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Bug#487470: O: xjewel

[Joey Hess]

Package: wnpp
Severity: normal

I'm orphaning xjewel.

The games team has expressed interest in maintaining this package. If
someone else is interested, you may want to talk with the team (or
consider becoming a member).

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 
'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

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Bug#487472: O: xgalaga -- X version of the famous Galaga game

[Joey Hess]

Package: wnpp
Severity: normal

I intend to orphan the xgalaga package.

The games team has expressed interest in maintaining this package. If
someone else is interested, you may want to talk with the team (or
consider becoming a member).

The package description is:
 A clone of the classic game Galaga for the X Window System.
 Xgalaga is a space-invader like game with additional features to produce
 a more interesting game.

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  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 
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Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
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Bug#487466: O: bsdgames -- a collection of classic textual unix games

[Joey Hess]

Package: wnpp
Severity: normal

I intend to orphan the bsdgames package.

The games team has expressed interest in maintaining this package. If
someone else is interested, you may want to talk with the team (or
consider becoming a member).

The package description is:
 This is a collection of some of the text-based games and amusements that have
 been enjoyed for decades on unix systems.
 .
 Includes these programs: adventure, arithmetic, atc, backgammon, battlestar,
 bcd, boggle, caesar, canfield, countmail, cribbage, dab, go-fish, gomoku,
 hack, hangman, hunt, mille, monop, morse, number, pig, phantasia, pom, ppt,
 primes, quiz, random, rain, robots, rot13, sail, snake, tetris, trek, wargames,
 worm, worms, wump, wtf

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 
'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

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Bug#486897: O: metastore -- Store and restore metadata

[Joey Hess]

Package: wnpp
Severity: normal

I intend to orphan the metastore package.

The package description is:
 This package contains the metastore tool to store and restore metadata
 from a filesystem.

Note that David Härdeman, the upstream author, is still set as an
uploader. However, he seems to not prefer to maintain the package in
debian hmself.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
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Bug#483248: ITA: znc

[Joey Hess]

Patrick Matthäi wrote:
> Hello Joey,
> 
> as stated in IRC I adopt your package, thanks for your previous work!
> 
> Are in your git master any recent changes which are not uploaded? If yes
> could I just get the diff against 0.054-4?
> I don't need your while git repository, I'm using subversion :)

No uncommitted changes in git for znc. Thanks for taking it.

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Bug#483259: O: analog

[Joey Hess]

Package: wnpp
Severity: normal

I've orphaned analog.

Its git repo will remain up for a while. If you need it after I take it
down, I can always pull a backup..

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

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Bug#483258: O: liblinebreak -- line breaking library

[Joey Hess]

Package: wnpp
Severity: normal

I've orphaned the liblinebreak package.

AFAIK it is so far only used by fbreader (which I've also orhpaned).

My git repo will be available for a while; if you need it after I take
it down, I can pull a backup for you.

The package description is:
 liblinebreak is an implementation of the Unicode line breaking algorithm
 described at http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr14/tr14-19.html

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

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Bug#483256: O: intercal -- an INTERCAL de-obfuscator

[Joey Hess]

Package: wnpp
Severity: normal

I've orphaned the intercal package.

My git repo will remain available for a while, and I can pull a backup
later if someone needs it.

The package description is:
 This package is an implementation of the language INTERCAL, legendary for
 its perversity and horribleness, designed by Don Woods and James Lyon, who
 have since spent more than twenty years trying to live it down. This
 version adds COME FROM for extra flavor, and supports multithreading. Comes
 with language manual and examples including possibly the entire extant body
 of INTERCAL code.
 .
 This INTERCAL implementation works by compiling INTERCAL to C (thus
 de-obfuscating it), and then uses a C compiler to produce binaries (which
 are themselves possibly easier to read than the original intercal "source"
 code).

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

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Bug#483257: O: fbreader -- e-book reader

[Joey Hess]

Package: wnpp
Severity: normal

I've orphaned the fbreader package.

If you adopt this, you'll probably also want to adopt its
build-dependency, liblinebreak-dev.

The git repository will remain available for a while; if it's needed
later I can always pull a backup..

The package description is:
 FBReader is an e-book reader.
 .
 Main features:
  * supports several open e-book formats: fb2, html, chm, plucker,
palmdoc, ztxt, tcr (psion text), rtf, oeb, openreader, non-DRM'ed
mobipocket, plain text, epub
  * reads directly from tar, zip, gzip, bzip2 archives (you can have
several books in one archive)
  * supports a structured view of your e-book collection
  * automatically determines encodings
  * automatically generates a table of contents
  * keeps the last open book and the last read positions for all open books
between runs
  * automatic hyphenation (patterns for several languages are included)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

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Bug#483255: O: procmeter3 -- graphical system status monitor

[Joey Hess]

Package: wnpp
Severity: normal

I've orphaned the procmeter3 package.

My git repo will remain online for a while, and I can pull a backup if
someone needs a copy later.

Hope someone picks this up!


The package description is:
 ProcMeter displays constantly updating graphs of system information.
 Many different graphs are supported, including:
 .
  APM and ACPI information.
  Mailbox monitoring.
  Date, time, uptime.
  Amount of free and used disk space.
  Size, number of lines, rate of growth of log files.
  Amount of used and free memory and swap.
  Traffic on network devices.
  Load average, number of processes running and starting.
  Low level system statistics like CPU usage, disk usage and swapping.
  CPU clock speed.
  Wireless network link quality.
 .
 As if all that wasn't enough, procmeter is designed to be easily extendable
 via plugins.
 .
 Procmeter can use either the Athena or the GTK widgets. It also supports
 display on small LCD screens using the linux lcdproc driver.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

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Bug#483252: O: sparkline-php -- A sparkline graphing library for php

[Joey Hess]

Package: wnpp
Severity: normal

I've orphaned the sparkline-php package.

My git repo will remain up for a while. If it's down and you'd like a
copy, I can pull a backup..

The package description is:
 A library for php, to create sparklines. Sparklines are small word-size
 graphic charts. This library supports drawing both line charts and bar
 charts, with several display options. It outputs png files.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

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Bug#483251: O: longrun

[Joey Hess]

Package: wnpp
Severity: normal

I've orphaned longrun.

My git repo will remain up for a while. If it's down and you need a
copy, I can always pull a backup..

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

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Bug#483250: O: sysnews

[Joey Hess]

Package: wnpp
Severity: normal

I'm orphaning sysnews.

My git repo will remain available for a while. If it's not and you need
a copy, I can pull a backup..

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

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Bug#483249: O: xaos -- real-time interactive fractal zoomer

[Joey Hess]

Package: wnpp
Severity: normal

I have orphaned the xaos package.

My git repo will remain available for a while. If it's not available and
you need it, I can pull a backup..

The package description is:
 XaoS allows you to zoom and pan around a fractal in
 real time. It can display the animated fractals in graphical
 or even plain text mode.
 .
 It displays the Mandelbrot set or many other fractals and
 allows you to zoom smoothly into the fractal. Various coloring
 modes are provided for both the points inside and outside the
 selected set. In addition, switching between Mandelbrot and Julia
 fractal types is provided.
 .
 Other features include autopilot mode, palette changing,
 image saving, fractal inversion, filters, and a built in fractal
 tutorial.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

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Bug#483248: O: znc

[Joey Hess]

Package: wnpp
Severity: normal

I'm orphaning znc.

The git repository will remain available for a while. If I've deleted
it by the time someone adopts this, I can pull a backup..

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

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Bug#483247: O: grepmail -- search mailboxes for mail matching an expression

[Joey Hess]

Package: wnpp
Severity: normal

I have orphaned the grepmail package.

My git repository will be available for at least a while; if it's not
available, I can pull a backup for any adopter.

The package description is:
 Grepmail looks for mail messages containing a pattern, and prints the
 resulting messages. Usage is very similar to grep. It can handle
 compressed mailbox files, and can search the header or body of emails.
 It also supports searches constrained by date and size.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

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Bug#477235: O: geotoad

[Joey Hess]

Package: wnpp
Severity: normal

Geotoad has a RC bug (the geocaching.org website changed and broke it).
Upstream seems inactive, their svn repo is down, my ruby is poor, and I
don't geocache. Therefore, orphaning it.

If someone doesn't adopt the package, it will probably be removed from
the distribution soon.

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Bug#466330: new upstream release (aka fork in Text::Markdown)

[Joey Hess]

One note about the CPAN version -- it's even slower than markdown
1.0.2~b8. (These benchmarks run markdown on a very simple text, "foo".)

markdown 1.0.1
  markdown:  3 wallclock secs ( 3.37 usr +  0.02 sys =  3.39 CPU) @ 2949.85/s 
(n=1)

markdown 1.0.2~b8
  markdown:  6 wallclock secs ( 6.08 usr +  0.00 sys =  6.08 CPU) @ 1644.74/s 
(n=1)

CPAN Text::Markdown 1.0.16
  markdown: 11 wallclock secs (10.48 usr +  0.01 sys = 10.49 CPU) @ 953.29/s 
(n=1)

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Bug#466330: new upstream release (aka fork in Text::Markdown)

[Joey Hess]

There's a version 1.0.16 of Text::Markdown on CPAN now.
http://search.cpan.org/~bobtfish/Text-Markdown-1.0.16/

It includes multimarkdown in the same distribution. It also has a test
suite. This version seems to include the changes from markdown 
1.0.2b8, based on its changelog, though I haven't verified that.

At the moment I'm feeling like the thing to do is switch debian to the
CPAN version, packaging it as libtext-markdown-perl, and possibly
keeping the markdown package around for a while in case of compatibility
issues and/or because it provides /usr/bin/markdown, which the CPAN
version does not (though it could be easily added).

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Bug#466330: O: markdown -- Text-to-HTML conversion tool

[Joey Hess]

Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> * Matt Kraai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-02-17 19:28]:
> > Package: wnpp
> > Severity: normal
> 
> Seems like something joeyh would be interested in.

It's a perl module, it should be maintained by pkg-perl..

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Bug#465086: RFS: talkfilters

[Joey Hess]

David Paleino wrote:
> Is there any chance for filter to provide a "libfilters" library to interface
> with? I've packaged talkfilters because it was a possible use of libtranslate
> [2] [3], but that's not really necessary. I could try to patch it so that it
> uses your "filters" package, but that would need a library to use.

filters has programs written some in perl and some in lex, so that's not
really possible to do a shared library.

The talkfilters frankly seem like a better implementation, if they would
only not be so apparently cavalier about copyright.

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Bug#465086: RFS: talkfilters

[Joey Hess]

Please see http://kitenet.net/~joey/code/filters/talkfilters-email :

| How did you manage to get valspeak, postmodern, pansy, and fudd, whose
| authors are unknown to be GPLed? According to the info page,
|
|  While all of these filters have been available in one form or
|  another in the public domain for many years, the original authors of
|  some of the filters are unknown. Reasonable attempts were made to find
|  the authors and obtain written permission to repackage the filters as
|  GNU software, but in some cases they could not be located.
| 
| It seem to me questonable to slap the GPL and a FSF copyright on a file
| just because it is being distributed about the net. So I have some
| doubts about the validity of the copyright of some of the talkfilters. I
| would not be comfortable putting them in the Debian distribution with
| thieir copyright in this state. :-/

Its maintainer never responded to that message.

Also, your package conflicts with many of the files contained in the filters
package.

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

[Joey Hess]

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.

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Bug#464954: note

[Joey Hess]

If the license compatiability issue can't be resolved, it would be ok to
just ship the NPE-B file in non-free, rather than building it from
"source". The GPLed code does not actually end up in the compiled file,
it's just used to dump the microcode out of memory and into the file.

(Which makes me wonder if there's truely a GPL incompatability in this
case -- there's a certian analogy here to using a GPLed text editor,
which doesn't care what license of text it edits, despite sharing memory
with it. Is there any real "linking" going on? How is IxNpeMicrocode.h
different from a GPLed perl program that reads the .c and dumps out the
microcode?)

Another option of course would be to rewrite IxNpeMicrocode.h, but I'd
rather not spend that much time on this. And of course I have no reason
to mention these possibilies aside from competeness, as hopefully the
author will respond quickly and this will be resolved.

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Bug#464954: IxNpeMicrocode.h and Debian

[Joey Hess]

Hi, I'm considering including your IxNpeMicrocode.h file in Debian, and
using it to build microcode files for the NSLU2, as you can see here:
http://bugs.debian.org/464954

While I was reviewing the licenses, I found a problem. Your
IxNpeMicrocode.h is GPL licensed. But it is #included from 
IxNpeMicrocode.c, which of course is not GPLed code. My analysis of
Intel's license is that it's not compatible with the GPL -- the GPL does
not give me the right to link Intel's non-free code together with your
GPLed code.

Clearly you intend for IxNpeMicrocode.h to be linked into
IxNpeMicrocode.c, though. Can I suggest that you amend the license of
the file to make it clear that we're allowed to do so? One way to do it
would be to change the license to a BSD license, as code under a BSD
license can be linked to any other code, with no problems. Or, the
license could be left GPL, but with an exception added, such as:

   As a special exception, this program may be linked with Intel's
   XP400 NPE Microcode Image file (IxNpeMicrocode.c), despite that
   file's more restrictive license.

I hope this makes sense and that this issue doesn't prevent me from
including the ixp microcode in Debian non-free.

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

[Joey Hess]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

The nslu2 needs non-free firmware for its ethernet. This is currently
distributed in the d-i installation images on slug-firmware.net.

The firmware can be downloaded from 
<http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=Y&ProductID=2100&DwnldID=12954&strOSs=All&OSFullName=All%20Operating%20Systems&lang=eng>

A change in the license means it's free enough for er, non-free.

  INTEL(R) SOFTWARE LICENSE AGREEMENT
   
  Copyright (c) 2007, Intel Corporation.
  All rights reserved.
  
  Redistribution. Redistribution and use in binary form, without modification, 
are permitted
  provided that the following conditions are met:
  o Redistributions must reproduce the above copyright notice and the following 
disclaimer in the
  documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 
  o Neither the name of Intel Corporation nor the names of its suppliers may be 
used to endorse
  or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written 
permission. 
  o No reverse engineering, decompilation, or disassembly of this software is 
permitted.
  
  Limited patent license. Intel Corporation grants a world-wide, royalty-free, 
non-exclusive
  license under patents it now or hereafter owns or controls to make, have 
made, use, import,
  offer to sell and sell (.Utilize.) this software, but solely to the extent 
that any such patent is
  necessary to Utilize the software alone. The patent license shall not apply 
to any combinations
  which include this software. No hardware per se is licensed hereunder.
  DISCLAIMER. THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND 
CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" AND
  ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED 
WARRANTIES OF
  MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO 
EVENT SHALL THE
  COPYRIGHT OWNER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, 
INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL,
  EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, 
PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE
  GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 
HOWEVER CAUSED AND
  ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT 
(INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE
  OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF 
ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY
  OF SUCH DAMAGE.

The firmware is distributed by intel in the form of some C files containing a
lot of binary dataa. (Which is why the license refers to "in binary form".)
This is compiled into /lib/firmware/NPE-B using IxNpeMicrocode.h and a
Makefile, which can be downloaded from the openwrt svn repo at:
https://svn.openwrt.org/openwrt/trunk/package/ixp4xx-microcode/

IxNpeMicrocode.h is licensed under the GPL. Which seems problimatic,
since it is #included by IxNpeMicrocode.c, which has the above license.
Is this license GPL compatible? The prohibition on reverse engineering does
not seem GPL compatible. I've mailed Christian Hohnstaedt, author of
IxNpeMicrocode.h, to see if I can get that cleared up.

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Bug#458367: RFP: haxr -- XML-RPC support for haskell

[Joey Hess]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

* Package name: haxr
  Version : 3000.0.0
  Upstream Author : Bjorn Bringert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* URL : http://www.haskell.org/haxr/
* License : BSD
  Description : XML-RPC support for haskell

I'm considering using this and it seems like a good thing to include in
Debian. Due to my being an utter haskell newbie, I don't plan to
maintain it myself though. Perhaps pkg-hasksell could?

(Note that ghc 6.8 or at least a newer cabal is needed for newer
versions than 3000.0.0.)

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  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-3-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

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Bug#441301: Bug#443662: moreutils: url2file -- wget a URL into a file an print it

[Joey Hess]

Why was a new bug submitted to moreutils for a bug that was already
in WNPP?

Closing this duplicate bug, reassigning the WNPP bug to moreutils.

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Bug#441301: moreutils: url2file -- wget a URL into a file an print it

[Joey Hess]

Loic Dachary wrote:
>   I love dog. And url2file could use dog instead of wget. But url2file
> is designed to allow this onliner:
> 
>diff $(url2file http://foo.com/) $(url2file http://bar.com/)

diff <(dog url1) <(dog url2)

Of course this needs bash or zsh. Doing it in posix shell is a mess.
Perhaps the really useful program lurking inside here is something like:

diff $(io2tmp dog url1) $(io2tmp dog url2)

It would probably need to be written in a linux-specific way to avoid leaving
temp files behind:

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~>echo <(echo hi)
/proc/self/fd/11

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Bug#350391: current debs

[Joey Hess]

Eddy Petrișor wrote:
> This is really weird. During DebConf, when I wanted to ask Tolimar to upload 
> the package the binary was statically
> linked. I did several rebuilds and got the same result. Now I have rebuilt it 
> myself in a pbuilder chroot and there are
> no problems.
> 
> Feel free to fetch again the source tarball from 
> http://users.alioth.debian.org/~eddyp-guest/upload/glest_2.0.0-1/ and
> upload the game (the previous version was outdated and had small problem).

Ok. Note that I'm not a formal member of the games team (never took the
time to learn their setup), so I'm only sponsoring. glest and glest-data
Uploaded.

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Bug#350391: current debs

[Joey Hess]

Eddy Petrişor wrote:
> The main problem is not big endian support, the problem is that for
> all arches except i386 the binary is statically linked.

Even amd64? When I build there, I get a dynamic binary.

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Bug#350391: current debs

[Joey Hess]

I trieed Eddy's current debs, and they work great. I see there might be
some problems with big endian, but surely that's not a reason to delay
uploading this terrific game to unstable? Over 90% of debian users are
on little-endian arches, according to popcon.

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Bug#432274: ITP: fbreader -- e-book reader

[Joey Hess]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

* Package name: fbreader
  Version : 0.8.5
  Upstream Author : Nikolay Pultsin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* URL : http://www.fbreader.org
* License : GPL plus a few BSD files
  Programming Lang: C++
  Description : e-book reader

fbreader is a fairly full-featured e-book reader that can be used both
on the desktop as well as on a variety of embedded devices. It supports
all common non-DRM e-book formats and has useful features like
auto-hyphenation, automatic TOC generation, etc.

There are already Debian packages available upstream; I've contacted the
author to see if he is interested in co-maintaining these with me.

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