Bug#166259: ITP: lasker -- FICS-like free internet chess server
retitle 166259 RFP: lasker -- FICS-like free internet chess server thanks OK, I am apparently not enthusiastic enough to package lasker, some practical problems: The CVS source contains the code for mamer, the tournament bot, which was one of the main reasons for me to want to package lasker. Unfortunately, the author of mamer insists on prohibiting commercial redistribution, so it could only go into non-free, and I don't want to promote using the non-free archive. Andrew Tridgell never answered my questions about some licensing clarifications, and security-wise I am not really sure how to go about it, as it is clearly sloppy code. If someone else wants to package it, I am ready to help, but for the moment I will just retitle it RFP. Lukas
Bug#198957: ITP: email -- Send email from command line, either via MTA or SMTP, with optional encryption
Millis Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've already spoken to the upstream author, and he does not see mwilling to convert to a DFSG license. Probably the only thing I can do is to make it suitable for the non-free section for the time being. Can you indicate to me how the license shoudl be changed to be suitable for the non-free section? I am not for abandoning the non-free section, but I think we should really limit it to software for which no free replacement exists. I am not really sure that email satisfies this criterion. Maintaining non-free packages is a hassle, it might be easier to write a free replacement in the time saved by messing around with non-free packages and getting special Debian redistribution permissions. (Remember, there is no build daemon for non-free.) Lukas
Bug#192553: ITP: debianarchist -- info and tools for subversion within the Debian domain.
Matthew Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, 9 May 2003, John Belmonte wrote: Andreas Happe wrote: where are the differences to the anarchism package? At the risk of stating the obvious, the anarchism package contains the document An Anarchist FAQ and is about anarchism. The debianarchist package contains documents and programs from http://memebeam.org/debianarchist/ and pertains to debianarchism. If the debianarchist package will simply contain what's on the website you gave, I don't really see the point of putting one webpage and script of dubious point into a debian package. Those against archive bloat may wish to take a close look at this one... g I have not only bloat concerns, but I seriously question the sanity of the author. In fact, it looks like somebody is just trolling. May I quote from http://memebeam.org/debianarchist/1/: The unseasoned among us might think this contradicts wording in the the DFSG such as The rights attached to the program must not depend on the program's being part of a Debian system. Fortunately, that document entangles and contradicts itself such that no single fragment wields any power. Remember that the protection offered to the spirit of a such a document is inversely proportional to the number of words contained therein. If the author really thinks that the DFSG are so seriously flawed as to be meaningless, the right place to discuss this are the Debian mailing lists. Until the author clarifies his intentions, I object to letting this get into Debian. Lukas
Bug#167504: ITP: rlab -- a numerical analisys tool like Matlab
Marco Presi (Zufus) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: rlab Version : Upstream Author : Name [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://www.some.org/ * License : (GPL, LGPL, BSD, MIT/X, etc.) Description : rlab is a numerical analisys tool like Matlab Do someone like to have this package in Debian? Please fill in the missing fields. Also, what is the advantage or difference of rlab compared to octave? Lukas P.S.: Your question even casts doubts whether you meant to file an ITP or an RFP. What will you do if you do not get any positive answer? -- This is not a signature
Bug#166259: ITP: lasker -- FICS-like free internet chess server
Daniel Burrows [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is that the same thing the chessd project mentions? There's been requests for a copy of lasker, which isn't much more than a repackaged GICS. Here it is: lasker 1.0 We really don't have the manpower to give much support for this, unfortunately- we've got our attention on working with our totally from-scratch project, fischer. You can try asking the list, but don't get mad if we can't give you detailed help. No, it started from that codebase, but Andrew Tridgell has really revamped and improved it a lot. Latest released version is 2.2.2. He also added functionality to update the server without restarting (through use of dlopen() etc.). It is a bit confusing with the different versions, the current versions are at http://chess.samba.org/ftp/lasker/ I am currently working on the CVS version which you can get via cvs -z5 -d :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot co lasker You can see some of the discussion and announcements on the mailing list http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum=chessd-general It is very low-traffic, so you can have a pretty comprehensive overview of the developments in the last year. The problem with fischer seems that it is more of an idea right now, and the main contributor, Dan Papasian, seems to have absolutely no time to really work on it at the moment. As you can see on the list, I once inquired in February about the vitality of the project, and got no response. I would rather stick to lasker for the moment, it is quite usable, at least judging from my first preliminary tests. Andrew Tridgell uses it at some local school, and it seems to work for him. Lukas
Bug#166259: ITP: lasker -- FICS-like free internet chess server
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Upstream Location: http://chess.samba.org/ Authors: Richard Nash, Dan Papasian, Andrew Tridgell License: GPLv2 (well, almost, see below) Description: lasker is a free internet chess server, forked from the last free available version of FICS (http://www.freechess.org), who unfortunately decided to close their source. It provides a server for humans or bots to login and play chess. The FICS protocol is supported by most popular chess user interfaces, like xboard and eboard. Currently I am still sorting out some license and security issues. In particular, the CVS source includes mamer, a bot which runs tournaments. Unfortunately, that code has no license at all (and was not included in the releases). I will try to clarify that and get the authors to release it under a DFSG-compatible license. It would be a great enhancement to lasker. Furthermore, there seem to be (small, could be replaced) files with some variant of the obnoxious BSD advertising clause. As to security, Andrew Tridgell already fixed several buffer overflows and the like, but still has some sort of security disclaimer in the README. I invite other chess-interested maintainers to help me, it will be some work, but I consider it worthwhile, as there is currently no other usable free internet chess server. Lukas
Bug#163455: ITP: gnuchess-book -- Opening book for gnuchess
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Description: Opening book for gnuchess This is the opening book for gnuchess. It was formerly distributed together with gnuchess, now it has been separated due to size and architecture-independence. It is recommended that you install it if you want to use gnuchess. Upstream URL is ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/chess/book_1.00.pgn.gz License is Public Domain. The book was part of the gnuchess source until version 5.02, since then it is also not part of the gnuchess Debian package anymore. It used to stall the slower buildd's but along with the format of the binary book also the algorithm of building it has changed, and it is now several orders of magnitude faster. Regarding the license, there was a short thread on -legal on it, and I finally got the following from Stuart Cracraft, who put the book together. We need to keep the book. It is not acceptable that the book not be included with GNU Chess. GNU Chess strength based on quality of moves early in the game as well as building up significant time for middle-game computation are drastically halved in the absence of a solid book. I personally built the GNU Chess book from a large set of FREE game collections from the University of Pittsburgh chess server. These are NOT copyrighted and are PUBLIC. I also wrote the code for the GNU Chess book without any reference at all to any other author. It is GNU Chess code and PUBLIC book that is non-copyrightable. --Stuart I have contacted the maintainer of the gnuchess package several times about adding a package for the opening book, but have received no comments on this suggestion. In order for the book to be useful, bug #144705 has to be addressed. I intend to NMU gnuchess if this one (and, by the way, also #162701) is not fixed in the near future. Lukas -- Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion. -- Oscar Wilde
Bug#130019: sjeng ITP
Matt Zimmerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It has been several months since you announced your ITP. Have you made any progress in producing a package? Sorry, it has been 6 days ago, not several months. And actually I have built a package which is available under http://www.mathematik.uni-dortmund.de/lsix/geyer/debian (Source and powerpc-binary). I announced it on debian-mentors and I am still looking for a sponsor. If you had a look at it, I would be very happy. Best regards, Lukas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
