Bug#688077: O: elvis -- a vi-like editor lighter than vim
Package: wnpp Severity: normal Hello, As reported earlier (#432298), this package needs work to bring to the modern era! At one stage a 1.88M editor (rough size of plain old vim these days) would have been considered 'heavy', but not anymore. Is there a niche for editors that weight-in at < 400K and have many of the same features? Since this is the first package (back in the Minix days in 1991/92) to which I sent a bug report and patch, I do this with heavy heart but ... I have been using vim for the last six months, so someone with greater need must take over and make sure that 'elvis still lives'! (Note that elvis only lives inside Debian as of now.) Regards, Kapil. -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120919013545.GA19832@bhatke
Bug#536320: adoption conky package
Dear Nikolas, On Sat, 15 Aug 2009, Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote: > Are you working on packaging "conky"? The reason I ask is that it now > has an RC bug against it (#541499) and so will be removed from Debian > unless fixed. The RC bug was withdrawn. However, conky version 1.7.2 has now been released. Please try to package it. If you have no time to work on the package, I will re-title the bug to RFA and do the basic packaging of 1.7.2 just to keep conky going in Debian. Regards, Kapil. -- signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#536320: adoption conky package
retitle 536320 RFA: conky -- highly configurable system monitor for X based on torsmo thanks Hello, On Thu, 09 Jul 2009, Nikolas Garofil wrote: > I am both a conky developer and a debian user so i would like to adopt > the conky package. On Thu, 09 Jul 2009, Ryan Niebur wrote: > If you are a conky developer you are certainly more fitting for the role > than me, please take over this bug. if you need help at all (other > than sponsoring, I am not yet a DD) feel free to ask me. Following this Ryan Niebur set the owner to "no-owner" but Nikolas has not set the owner to himself! Hence, at this point no one owns this RFA/ITA and I'm setting it back to RFA since it seems to be bad if the report is itself orphaned! :-) By the way, Cesare Tirabassi is maintaining the Ubuntu package and so you may want to get him on board as a co-maintainer. (I'm cc-ing him in this message.) Please get in touch with me for sponsor-ship of the upload if you need it. Regards, Kapil. -- signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#536320: RFA: conky -- highly configurable system monitor for X based on torsmo
Package: wnpp Severity: normal I request an adopter for the conky package. - I no longer use conky. - the newer conky uses Lua for extensions (currently disabled in the Debian package). I don't know Lua. - the package should probably be split into conky-nox, conky-lua and conky-std (or some such) Otherwise, conky is a nice package with a responsive and active upstream and user community. If someone uses it and wishes to start maintaining packages for Debian, I cannot easily find a better place to start! The package description is: Conky is a system monitor for X originally based on the torsmo code. Since its original conception, Conky has changed a fair bit from its predecessor. Conky can display just about anything, either on your root desktop or in its own window. Conky has many built-in objects, as well as the ability to execute programs and scripts, then display the output from stdout. Regards, Kapil. -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.2 APT prefers stable APT policy: (990, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#529671: RFS: obexpushd (updated package)
Hello, On Tue, 02 Jun 2009, Dominik Bruhn wrote: > I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.8-1 > of the package "obexpushd". On Sat, 06 Jun 2009, Dominik Bruhn wrote: > I'm looking for someone to sponsor a new version (0.8) for obexpushd. > The changes are small, so it should be reasy to review. It is of course > linitan clean, so no problems here. The RFA was ITP'ed by the upstream maintainer Hendrik Sattler on 3rd June 2009. Dominik Bruhn ITP'ed on 6th June 2009. Could you please resolve this matter between the two of you before we proceed? There are two possibilities: a. Co-maintainer-ship b. The person who will give up the ITP should send an appropriate mail to 529...@bugs.debian.org. Regards, Kapil. -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#460045: flpsed
retitle ITA: flpsed -- a WYSIWYG pseudo PostScript editor owner [EMAIL PROTECTED] thanks Hello, On Mon, 14 Jan 2008, Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote: > Dear Mark Purcell, > > I don't know if you noticed that flpsed is now orphaned (#460045). > > Since you already packaged a recent version perhaps you are > interested in taking over maintainer-ship. I did not receive a response and I notice that the package is already out of testing due to a "grave" bug. This is the only PS editor in Debian that can annotate PS files and is light on library dependencies. More importantly I use it to fill in downloaded crosswords, sudokus and other puzzles! So I'm taking over. Regards, Kapil. -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#460045: flpsed
Dear Mark Purcell, I don't know if you noticed that flpsed is now orphaned (#460045). Since you already packaged a recent version perhaps you are interested in taking over maintainer-ship. Regards, Kapil. -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#430129: dvi2tty being orphaned again :-(
retitle 430129 O: dvi2tty -- Previewing dvi-files on text-only devices thanks This is a program that I have used and loved since its early days so it is unfortunate that I have to abandon it :-( On Sat, 18 Aug 2007, Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote: > Since Paul Wise has helped to clarify the copyright issue the package > can continue in Debian. So I'm adopting it. Further investigation has led me to conclude that the issue is murkier than I thought. See additional remarks sent to #424018 for details. As far as I can see the following options are available for users of this package: - sort out the copyright issues and maintain the Debian package. To possibly aid this I have attached all the changes that I made as a Debian diff.gz file. The patches to the source have been classified and separated. - re-write the programs from scratch. However, you may want to help with the "catdvi" effort. See below. - use the following more complex solutions. Note that *all* these solutions depend on the use of additional font-related files. dvi2tty has the feature (occasionally a bug!) that it works with DVI files without *any* additional font information. catdvi: this seems to be under development. In spite of playing with the options I could not get output quite as good as dvi2tty. dvips/dvipdf followed by ps2ascii/pdftotext: This produces reasonable output on the files I tried. If you have the TeX source then you have more options: untex: this is barebones. hevea/htlatex followed by w3m/lynx -dump: this produces the best results. Regards, Kapil. -- dvi2tty_5.3.1-4.diff.gz Description: Binary data signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#430129: Willing to adopt
retitle 430129 ITA: dvi2tty -- Previewing dvi-files on text-only devices owner 430129 [EMAIL PROTECTED] thanks Hello, Since Paul Wise has helped to clarify the copyright issue the package can continue in Debian. So I'm adopting it. Regards, Kapil. -- signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#432298: RFH: elvis
Package: wnpp Severity: normal Hello, The editor "elvis" is a vi clone that has almost (see below) all features that one would nowadays demand of a vi-like editor. It is also significantly "lighter" than the popular "vim" editor. -rwxr-xr-x root root 451796 2006-10-11 08:13 /usr/bin/elvis -rwxr-xr-x root root 990256 2007-01-31 23:54 /usr/bin/vim.tiny -rwxr-xr-x root root 1383816 2007-01-31 23:55 /usr/bin/vim.basic Note that elvis has syntax highlighting and other features which have been left out of vim.tiny in order to make the latter "lighter" so this "measurement" does not present all of elvis' advantages over vim. However: * the editor has been abandoned upstream since about March 2004. * the package currently has only an incomplete implementation of support for multi-byte characters; (see #392727). * supporting UTF-8 is a good release goal for lenny. If I am not able to solve #392727 I will consider asking for the removal of "elvis" from lenny. Hence, this request for help from anyone who has converted a text manipulation programme (editor!) from pre-UTF-8 single-byte systems to wide characters. Regards, Kapil. -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (990, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-686 Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#391195: dvipng
Hello, On Mon, 09 Oct 2006, Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote: > I noticed that you are planning to adopt dvipng. Great news. > > I had a version of dvipng 1.8 that is packaged and available at > http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/d/dvipng > You might want to improve on that when you build your package. > > If you wish I would be willing to be co-maintainer. However, > since I am not (yet) a DD I cannot really help you when you want to > upload your package. Are you still interested in adopting "dvipng"? If not I would be happy to adopt it instead and look for a sponsor. The reason for my impatience is: I would be really happy if the newer version of "dvipng" makes it into "etch". This is because a package of mine "tex4ht" makes use of "dvipng" and the newer version produces PNG's with real transparency. Thanks and regards, Kapil. -- signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#387473: Willing to be co-maintainer
Hello, I am willing to be a co-maintainer for the "tsocks" package. You may have seen the fix for the #134729 and #278906 that I have proposed. In addition, I believe #373642 can be fixed by documentation (or perhaps a sample tsocks.conf file) rather than patching the source in the manner suggested. I also believe that you have already fixed #295568 which can be marked as done. I am not a DD so I cannot help with the upload but perhaps you have other ways. Please suggest ways in which can manage co-maintenance if this is agreeable with you. I have an account with collab-maint. Regards, Kapil. -- signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#386269: SVN access to debian/ directory available
Hello, svn access to the debian/ directory is available in svn+ssh://svn.debian.org/svn/collab-maint/tex4ht for those who wish to join in collaborative maintenance. This does not give access to the .orig.tar.gz which can be obtained from the Debian archives currently or by using the target get-orig-source for debian/rules. Please notify me by e-mail if you make changes as I'm still learning the ropes regarding the use of svnmailer. Regards, Kapil. -- signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#385743: RFS: swish++: A Simple Web Indexing System for Humans --- C++ version
Hello, As requested earlier on 9nd October: Could someone please sponsor a New Maintainer upload of swish++? http://www.imsc.res.in/~kapil/debian/swish++/swish++_6.1.4-1.dsc or http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/s/swish++/swish++_6.1.4-1.dsc Features specific to this upload --- * New Maintainer. Closes: #385743. * New upstream release (6.1.4). Closes: #321674. - Builds with g++ 4.1. Closes: #302561, #356160 * debian/patches: incorporated patches under "quilt". * debian/rules: - updated for new location of scripts in source. - changed "configure-stamp" to use /usr/share/quilt/quilt.make. following suggestion of James Westby. - replaced use of "debian/fixmanpages" by use of quilt. - changed "configure-stamp" to fix manpage location. Closes: #282508. - DH_COMPAT=4 - Use "distclean" target of toplevel Makefile. - Removed call to "dh_undocumented". * debian/copyright: included all copyright statements. * debian/control: - added homepage to description. - updated "debhelper" dependency. - added "quilt" dependency. - update package description. Closes: #291070. - Standards-Version 3.7.2. No changes required. * debian/changelog: Acknowledge NMU's. Thanks to Frank Lichtenheld, Martin Michlmayr. * debian/: - Removed the unused files "all_in_one.patch" and "swish++.conf.patch". - added "watch" file. * debian/oo_indexing: Included OpenOffice indexing example from Bastian Kleineidam. Closes #242238. * debian/patches/use_gcc_for_ld: Patched config/config.mk and top-level GNUmakefile to use "gcc" instead of "g++" for linking. This prevents unneeded dependencies. Thanks to Christian Aichinger's scripts for pointing this out. Thanks and regards, Kapil. ==details about swish++== Package: swish++ Version: 6.1.4-1 Description: Simple Document Indexing System for Humans: C++ version SWISH++ is a Unix-based file indexing and searching engine (typically used to index and search files on web sites). It was based on SWISH-E although SWISH++ is a complete rewrite. . SWISH++ features: * Lightning-fast indexing * Indexes META elements, ALT, and other attributes * Selectively not index text within HTML or XHTML elements * Intelligently index mail and news files * Index Unix manual page files * Apply filters to files on-the-fly prior to indexing * Index non-text files such as Microsoft Office documents * Modular indexing architecture * Index new files incrementally * Index remote web sites * Handles large collections of files * Lightning-fast searching * Optional word stemming (suffix stripping) * Ability to run as a search server * Easy-to-parse results format . Homepage: http://homepage.mac.com/pauljlucas/software/swish/ ==end of details about swish++= signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#391195: dvipng
Hello, I noticed that you are planning to adopt dvipng. Great news. I had a version of dvipng 1.8 that is packaged and available at http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/d/dvipng You might want to improve on that when you build your package. If you wish I would be willing to be co-maintainer. However, since I am not (yet) a DD I cannot really help you when you want to upload your package. Thanks and best regards, Kapil. -- signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#385743: Adopting this package
retitle 385743 ITA: swish++ -- Simple Document Indexing System for Humans: C++ version thanks I am in the process of creating a package for version 6.1.4 Watch this space ... :) Kapil. -- signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#386269: RFH: tex4ht -- LaTeX and TeX for Hypertext
Package: wnpp Severity: normal I request assistance with maintaining the tex4ht and tex4ht-common packages (which are generated out of the same source package). The package description is: TeX4ht is a highly configurable TeX-based authoring system for producing hypertext. It interacts with TeX-based applications through style files and postprocessors, leaving the processing of the source files to the native TeX compiler. Consequently, TeX4ht can handle the features of TeX-based systems in general, and of LaTeX in particular. . TeX4ht can be used both for authoring HTML using TeX/LaTeX input files, or for converting existing TeX input files (in any format) into HTML, with (usually) only minor modifications. Other varieties of hypertext can also be produced, including XML, XHTML, MathML and the Openoffice.org format of XML. . There are a number of different ways to convert glyphs and graphics in the DVI files into PNG, GIF or JPEG. The default is to use dvipng. Alternatives using ghostscript, imagemagick, netpbm and/or pstoedit are also possible. . Homepage: http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~gurari/TeX4ht/ Expertise required from co-maintainer: Familiarity with TeX4ht :) Familiarity with Java. Familiarity with openoffice use in conjunction with TeX4ht. Explanation of assistance required: I am currently comfortable with the TeX aspects of the package as well as most aspects of image conversion. However, I have no familiarity with Java. A number of Java based features in connection with speech output are being added upstream. Another problem is that I primarily use the package for conversion to HTML, XHTML, XML whereas a number of users for the openoffice output have emerged and I am unable to understand/deal with the bugs that they report. Manner of co-operation: I would be comfortable with co-maintaining with e-mail for discussions. At a pinch I could learn to use one of the SCM-based tools as well. Regards, Kapil. -- signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#365802: RFP: expresskeys -- Program to use "pad" device of Wacom Tablets
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Hello, * Package name: expresskeys Version : 0.2.6 Upstream Author : Mats Johannesson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Denis DerSarkisian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://web.telia.com/~u46133770/wacom/index.html * License : GPL Programming Lang: C Description : Program to use "pad" device of Wacom Tablets (From the README) This program gives basic linux support for the ExpressKeys and touch Strips of a Wacom Intuos3 tablet or a Cintiq 21UX Interactive Pen Display. (also note) It also works with the Graphire tablet buttons. Perhaps it could be packaged along with wacom-tools. Regards, Kapil. signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#341821: ITA: elvis -- powerful clone of the vi/ex text editor
retitle 341821 ITA: elvis -- powerful clone of the vi/ex text editor owner 341821 ! thanks Hello, I wish to adopt this package. Cons: A. The package is dead upstream. B. There is vim. Pros: 1. I have used this editor since 1993 or so. I can't see it die! 2. There are no major unfixable bugs as far as I can see. 3. Vim is getting larger by the minute. "vim-tiny" is more than twice the size of elvis and does not do syntax highlighting! 4. Elvis should continue to rock :) Regards, Kapil. -- signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#228452: [Mailer-Daemon@imsc.res.in: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender]
Hello, As you can see the current maintainer is not reachable by e-mail. Regards, Kapil. - Forwarded message from Mail Delivery System <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - From: Mail Delivery System <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 08:34:03 +0530 This message was created automatically by mail delivery software (Exim). A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SMTP error from remote mailer after RCPT TO:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: host mail.linuxforum.hu [212.40.96.80]: 550 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: User unknown in local recipient table -- This is a copy of the message, including all the headers. -- Return-path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: from banyan.imsc.ernet.in ([202.41.95.76] ident=root) by mail2.imsc.res.in with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 1AjV8I-0005pI-00 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Thu, 22 Jan 2004 08:33:50 +0530 Received: from as82.imsc.res.in (as82.imsc.ernet.in [172.16.2.107] (may be forged)) by banyan.imsc.ernet.in (8.12.3/8.12.3/Debian-6.6) with SMTP id i0M33m3F017344 for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Thu, 22 Jan 2004 08:33:49 +0530 Received: by as82.imsc.res.in (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Thu, 22 Jan 2004 08:33:43 +0530 From: "Kapil Hari Paranjape" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 08:33:43 +0530 To: Robert Nagy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Orphaning CDW Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i Hello, Enclosed is a bug report filed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Work Needed Packages). Kapil --- Package: wnpp Severity: normal Hello, I filed bug number Bug#227847 against "cdw" which is currently out-of-date with the upstream version. I recd. the following mail from the upstream maintainer which would indicate that the package is currently orphaned. I too would be willing to maintain this package but I am not currently a Debian Maintainer. Regards, Kapil H. Paranjape. ---Forwarded message from upstream-- From: Varkonyi Balazs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Kapil Hari Paranjape <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 10:29:16 +0200 Hi! Sorry, I'm not a member of debian maintainer team in this case, I just send my mail to you. Originally, Robert Nagy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was the maintainer of cdw but I couldn't reach him for a long time. I think he will not responsible for cdw in the future. Which would be the best way to I find new maintainer for cdw? I'm looking forward to your answer. Bye Balazs Varkonyi Core developer of cdw ---end of Forwarded message from upstream-- -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux as82 2.4.22-swsusp #1 Sat Dec 27 10:53:57 IST 2003 i686 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C --- - End forwarded message - -- Say "twenty-three-skiddoo" to logout. -- http://www.imsc.res.in/~kapil/gpg.html for my Public Key. ---------- 768D/FED1D08D 2000-02-19 Kapil Hari Paranjape <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 1024g/CECEB39B 2000-02-19 Kapil Hari Paranjape <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Key fingerprint = B6D2 F4F2 A37C B887 DFA2 9100 5F22 0D1D FED1 D08D --
Bug#228452: O: cdw
Package: wnpp Severity: normal Hello, I filed bug number Bug#227847 against "cdw" which is currently out-of-date with the upstream version. I recd. the following mail from the upstream maintainer which would indicate that the package is currently orphaned. I too would be willing to maintain this package but I am not currently a Debian Maintainer. Regards, Kapil H. Paranjape. ---Forwarded message from upstream-- From: Varkonyi Balazs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Kapil Hari Paranjape <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 10:29:16 +0200 Hi! Sorry, I'm not a member of debian maintainer team in this case, I just send my mail to you. Originally, Robert Nagy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was the maintainer of cdw but I couldn't reach him for a long time. I think he will not responsible for cdw in the future. Which would be the best way to I find new maintainer for cdw? I'm looking forward to your answer. Bye Balazs Varkonyi Core developer of cdw ---end of Forwarded message from upstream-- -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux as82 2.4.22-swsusp #1 Sat Dec 27 10:53:57 IST 2003 i686 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
