Bug#840289: RFA: blop -- Bandlimited wavetable-based oscillator LADSPA plugins

[Mario Lang]

Package: wnpp
Severity: normal

blop is looking for a new maintainer.

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Bug#840288: RFA: midge -- Text to MIDI compiler

[Mario Lang]

Package: wnpp
Severity: normal

midge is looking for a new maintainer.

It is a simple (Perl-based) program to create MIDI files from text
input.

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Bug#823423: ITA: faust -- functional programming language for realtime audio applications

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"IOhannes m zmölnig (Debian/GNU)"  writes:

> i'm interested in adopting faust (within the pkg-multimedia-maintainers
> team).

Thanks!

> the PTS has no link to a packaging git. does such a thing exist?

No.

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Bug#823423: RFA: faust -- functional programming language for realtime audio applications

[Mario Lang]

Package: wnpp
Severity: normal

I haven't been using faust for a long time, therefore it is time to find
a new and proper maintainer for this wonderful piece of software.

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Bug#823421: RFA: libmidi-perl -- read, compose, modify, and write MIDI files in Perl

[Mario Lang]

Package: wnpp
Severity: normal

My Perl days are over, therefore, I am no longer sufficiently motivated
to maintain this package.  I'd very much like to find a new home for it.

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Bug#801858: ITP: glui -- GLUT-based C++ user interface library which provides controls such as buttons, checkboxes, radio buttons, and spinners to OpenGL applications

[Mario Lang]

Johannes Schauer  writes:

> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Johannes Schauer 
>
> * Package name: glui
>   Version : 2.37
>   Upstream Author : Paul Rademacher, Bill Baxter, John Kew, Nigel Stewart
> * URL : https://github.com/libglui/glui/wiki
> * License : ZLIB
>   Programming Lang: C++
>   Description : GLUT-based C++ user interface library which provides
> controls such as buttons, checkboxes, radio buttons, and
> spinners to OpenGL applications
>
> Features of the GLUI User Interface Library include:
>
>   *  Complete integration with GLUT toolkit
>   *  Simple creation of a new user interface window with a single line of code
>   *  Support for multiple user interface windows
>   *  Standard user interface controls such as:
>   *  Buttons
>   *  Checkboxes for boolean variables
>   *  Radio Buttons for mutually-exclusive options
>   *  Editable text boxes for inputting text, integers, and floating-point 
> values
>   *  Spinners for interactively manipulating integer and floating-point 
> values
>   *  Static text fields
>   *  Panels for grouping sets of controls
>   *  Separator lines to help visually organize groups of controls
>   *  Controls can generate callbacks when their values change
>   *  Variables can be linked to controls and automatically updated when the 
> value of the control changes ("live variables")
>   *  Controls can be automatically synchronized to reflect changes in live 
> variables
>   *  Controls can trigger GLUT redisplay events when their values change
>   *  Layout and sizing of controls is automatic
>   *  Controls can be grouped into columns
>   *  User can cycle through controls using Tab key

Does it connect to AT-SPI?  In other words, is it accessible?
New toolkits should try to be accessible, because they are a multiplier
for accessibility problems.  If a toolkit does not support
accessibility, all applications written in it are automatically
inaccessible to people with disabilities.

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Bug#793769: ITP: down -- A simple game written in Ruby/SDL

[Mario Lang]

Marcin Mielniczuk marmis...@inboxalias.com writes:

 Package: wnpp
 Severity: wishlist
 Owner: Marcin Mielniczuk marmis...@inboxalias.com

 Subject: ITP: down -- A simple game written in Ruby/SDL
 Package: wnpp
 Owner: Marcin Mielniczuk marmis...@inboxalias.com
 Severity: wishlist

 * Package name: down
   Version : 1.0.0
   Upstream Author : Yutaka Hara yutaka.hara+...@gmail.com
 * URL : http://route477.net
 * License : MIT
   Programming Lang: Ruby/SDL
   Description : A simple game written in Ruby/SDL

 Did you ever play Icy Tower? Did you ever have the opportunity to play it
 downwards? Now you have!

 It's simply a nice game :)
 It's my first package to be maintained, I guess I'll simply contact the
 original author whenever some bugs arise and push updated versions. I don't
 expect many issues, though :)

Please consider a more informative short description.
End users likely do not care much about the language their favourite game is
implemented in.  So while this information might be interesting to some,
it should probably go to the long description, and the short description
should hint at what this game is actually about.  Maybe mention that is
is a modified clone of Icy Tower?

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Bug#740916: ITP: dms -- DNS Management System

[Mario Lang]

Matthew Grant m...@mattgrant.net.nz writes:

 Package: wnpp
 Severity: wishlist
 Owner: Matthew Grant m...@mattgrant.net.nz

 * Package name: dms
   Version : 1.0
   Upstream Author : Matthew Grant m...@mattgrant.net.nz
 * URL : http://mattgrant.net.nz/software/dms
 * License : GPL3
   Programming Lang: Python
   Description : DNS Management System

 DNS Management System using bind9 and PostgresQL 9.2+.  Uses Dynamic
 Updates to update and manage the Zones in Bind9.

OK.

 Has a daemon which uses a State Machine for publishing zones from the
 DB.

I personally think this sentence should be eliminated from the package
description altogether.  Lots of software has state machines built in,
thats nothing really interesting.

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Bug#681499: ITP: bmc -- Braille Music Compiler

[Mario Lang]

Package: wnpp
Owner: Mario Lang ml...@debian.org
Severity: wishlist

* Package name: bmc
  Version : 0.0.1
  Upstream Author : Mario Lang ml...@delysid.org
* URL or Web page : https://github.com/mlang/bmc
* License : GPLv3
  Description : Braille Music Compiler

BMC aims to become a system for translating between visual and tactile
western music notation.
It currently parses a subset of braille music code and can emit LilyPond
input files from that.  Export to other formats like MusicXML is
planned.
Eventually, BMC should also be able to convert from MusicXML to braille
music code.

It is intended as a bridge between visual and tactile music notation,
allowing for more and better cooperation between sighted and visually
handicapped musicians.

There is no official upstream release yet, the code is still only
available through github.

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Bug#638297: O: edbrowse -- A /bin/ed-alike webbrowser

[Mario Lang]

Package: wnpp
Severity: normal

I have been neglecting edbrowse for far too long.
I am sorry for this.  While it is a very interesting tool,
I still find lynx more convenient :-).  However, its really useful for
scripting and generally, for command-line freaks.

However, it needs a maintainer who actually uses it on a more or less
regularily basis.

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Bug#638297: O: edbrowse -- A /bin/ed-alike webbrowser

[Mario Lang]

Gergely Nagy alger...@balabit.hu writes:

 retitle 638297 ITA: edbrowse -- A /bin/ed-alike webbrowser
 owner 638297 alger...@madhouse-project.org
 thanks

 Mario Lang ml...@debian.org writes:

 I have been neglecting edbrowse for far too long.
 I am sorry for this.  While it is a very interesting tool,
 I still find lynx more convenient :-).  However, its really useful for
 scripting and generally, for command-line freaks.

 However, it needs a maintainer who actually uses it on a more or less
 regularily basis.

 I'm using edbrowse reasonably often, both for scripting and for actual
 browsing when either my terminal or the network connection doesn't
 permit better. (The latter happens rather often)

 Plus, this package is probably the closest I'll get to anything ed-like
 in the forseeable future.

 For these reasons, I'd like to adopt the package.

I know it will be in good hands with you, have fun with it! :-)

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Bug#638319: O: bhl -- Wiki-alike system for generting HTML and LateX in Emacs

[Mario Lang]

Package: wnpp
Severity: normal

I am orphaning bhl.  Its from a time when org-mode didn't exist
yet.  It was one of the first packages I did when I joined Debian.
But these days I really have no use for it anymore, and am therefore
pretty much neglecting its maintainance, which is bad.

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Bug#540332: ITP: at-spi2-core -- Assistive Technology Service Provider Interface (Core) - dbus

[Mario Lang]

Sebastian Dröge sl...@circular-chaos.org writes:

 what's the plan with at-spi2-core/-atk? Will they be uploaded to
 experimental soonish (to get them out of NEW) and then to unstable?

I am really not sure right now.

 They're part of GNOME 2.30, which is a goal for squeeze,

part of in the sense that they are installed in paralell with at-spi,
or does this mean GNOME 2.30 wants to ship at-spi2 as the
default accessibility backend?
You have to understand that the switch from at-spi to at-spi2 is
very very substantial and likely will break a few things.

Additionally, upstream of a lot of GNOME accessibility stuff
has just been fired by Oracle, so this switch comes at
the worst time possible, with very little upstream support.

I am not so happy with changing the accessibility backend
beneath our asses a few days before releasing squeeze.

Personally, I'd like to see squeeze released with at-spi(1)
to ensure a decent user experience, and switch to at-spi2
in squeeze+1 development.

However, if anyone can demonstrate at-spi2 stability, I guess
a switch is fine as well.  But this needs to be tested a lot, by
people that *use* the infrastructure so that we can be sure we havent
missed anything.

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Bug#571198: ITP: xsddiagram -- XML Schema Definition (XSD) diagram viewer

[Mario Lang]

Mathieu Malaterre mathieu.malate...@gmail.com writes:

 Package: wnpp
 Severity: wishlist
 Owner: Mathieu Malaterre mathieu.malate...@gmail.com

 * Package name: xsddiagram
   Version : 0.5
   Upstream Author : Regis Cosnier regis.cosnier.free.fr
 * URL : http://regis.cosnier.free.fr/?page=XSDDiagram
 * License : GPL
   Programming Lang: C#
   Description : XML Schema Definition (XSD) diagram viewer

[...]

  - Registration in the Windows Explorer contextual menu
  - Drag'n drop a file from explorer

The last two items should probably be reworded since there is no windows
explorer on Debian, obviously.

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Bug#516096: ping?

[Mario Lang]

Guy Coates g...@sanger.ac.uk writes:

 Pushing things in stages sounds sane. I think the first milestone
 would be to get opensm + dependant libraries pushed, (which includes
 libibumad).

 The only minor problem I know about is XRC;
 The infinband drivers in the upstream kernel and libibverb package
 already in SID are missing XRC support. The only package that seems to
 use XRC at the moment is the qperf package (which is pretty minor),

openmpi with btl openib (i.e., not via ipoib) also requires XRC.

 and so I think we can push the rest of the packages into SID and worry
 about any XRC problems later.

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Bug#516096: ping?

[Mario Lang]

Guy Coates g...@sanger.ac.uk writes:

 Mario Lang wrote:
 Hi.

 Any progress on this ITP?  I just stumbled across libibumad as
 a dependency of pvapich2.

 Hi,

 The packaging is all done, but I cannot find a sponsor to upload the
 packages. I've asked on mentors etc, but no avail. Any help you can
 offer in that direction would be appreciated.

Now that I have direct access to Infiniband hardware and we actually
run the pkg-ofed stack at work, I am more than open to help you get it
uploaded to sid.  Just let me know how we should proceed.
I guess we dont want to upload everything at once, maybe in stages?

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Bug#516096: ping?

[Mario Lang]

Hi.

Any progress on this ITP?  I just stumbled across libibumad as
a dependency of pvapich2.

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Bug#540332: Repository

[Mario Lang]

Hi.

As kindly explained by Cyril, we already have preliminary packaging
of at-spi2-core (and at-spi2-atk) in pkg-a11y.  You can clone
the git repository using the following command:

  git clone git://git.debian.org/git/pkg-a11y/at-spi2-core.git

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Bug#540336: Repository

[Mario Lang]

Hi.

We already have preliminary packaging for at-spi2-atk in pkg-a11y.

Please use the following command to clone the git repository:

  git clone git://git.debian.org/git/pkg-a11y/at-spi2-atk.git

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Bug#538451: O: filterproxy -- Unmaintained upstream and pretty unused

[Mario Lang]

Package: wnpp
Severity: normal

I am orphaning filterproxy since it is unmaintained upstream since a
very long time, and according to popcon, there are only 9 installations
counted.

I no longer use it personally since quite a while also.

If no one takes this over (which I doubt) I will file a removal request
in a few weeks as well.

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Bug#537779: RFP: java-atk-wrapper -- An ATK implementation for Java using JNI

[Mario Lang]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

* Package name: java-atk-wrapper
  Version : 0.27.4
  Upstream Author : Ke Wang ke.w...@sun.com
* URL or Web page : http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/java-atk-wrapper/
* License : LGPL 2.1
  Description : An ATK implementation for Java using JNI

Java ATK Wrapper is an implementation of ATK by using JNI. It
converts Java Swing events into ATK events, and send these events to
ATK-Bridge.

JAW is part of the Bonobo deprecation project. It will replace the
java-access-bridge after being fully tested.
By talking to ATK-Bridge, it keeps itself from being affected by the
change of underlying communication mechanism.

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Bug#535830: ITP: php-recaptcha -- reCAPTCHA is a free CAPTCHA service

[Mario Lang]

Angel Abad (Ikusnet SLL) an...@grupoikusnet.com writes:

 Package: wnpp
 Severity: wishlist
 Owner: Angel Abad (Ikusnet SLL) an...@grupoikusnet.com

 * Package name: php-recaptcha
   Version : 1.10
   Upstream Author : reCAPTCHA -- http://recaptcha.net
 * URL : http://recaptcha.net
 * License : MIT
   Programming Lang: Php
   Description : reCAPTCHA is a free CAPTCHA service

 A CAPTCHA is a program that can tell whether its user is a human or a
 computer.

Does this library implement alternative methods like audio?

I am a blind user and have to learn the hard way while trying to
use the web that visual CAPTCHAs don't actually tell humans from
computers apart, they tell sighted human users apart from everyone else.

From looking at the recaptcha homepage, I am afraid there is probably no audio
alternative.  While I can't prevent such things from spreading, I'd at
least like to see a slight rewording of the package description to
mention the accessibility concerns involved with using such software.

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Bug#494764: ITP: cl-clg -- Common Lisp bindings to GTK+ v2.x

[Mario Lang]

Package: wnpp
Owner: Mario Lang [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Severity: wishlist

* Package name: cl-clg
  Version : 0.9.4~20080506
  Upstream Author : Espen S. Johnsen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* URL or Web page : http://sourceforge.net/projects/clg/
* License : MIT
  Description : Common Lisp bindings to GTK+ v2.x

CLG is one binding to GTK+ for Common Lisp that works nicely and
seems to be actively maintained upstream.  The bindings are
pretty lispy.  CLOS is used as a wrapper around the various GTK classes,
so (make-instance 'window ...) is used to create a GTK window and so on.

My personal motivation to package this is that CL on Debian is
currently lacking an accessible GUI framework.  McCLIM does most
of its drawing stuff directly and has no at-spi support, therefore
McCLIM GUIs are not accessible currently.

By using a GTK+ binding, we get accessibility for free since GTK+
already implements it for all standard widgets.

I am going to package a cvs snapshot because recent changes in
cvs bring back working SBCL support.

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Bug#481082: ITP: crypt++el -- Emacs-Lisp Code for handling compressed and encrypted files

[Mario Lang]

Christoph Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 Package: wnpp
 Severity: wishlist
 Owner: Christoph Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED]

 I intend to reintroduce crypt++el into Debian because I think we still
 need it. The mentioned alternatives jka-compr and easypg do not provide
 all the features which crypt++.el provides.

 Although Karl Berry stopped maintaining the file some years ago, it is
 now again maintained within xemacs packages. See
 http://cvs.xemacs.org/viewcvs.cgi/XEmacs/packages/xemacs-packages/os-utils/crypt.el

 I have been the maintainer of crypt++.el until 09/2003, then mario lang
 took over. Now he seems to have dropped it. It was removed from the
 archive, some time ago.

Just for reference, I've dropped it since someone requested[1] and had
a removal granted from the archive without letting me know at all.
I was just about to do a new upload to fix some of the
open bugs and especially get the debmake stuff resolved.  I saw it removed
after the fact, and simply dropped it then due to lack of energy to persue the
matter.

Thanks for taking it over again, I've used it in the past and it has done
a good job.

[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=460640
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Bug#454349: [Help] Biomode

[Mario Lang]

Andreas Tille [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 On Thu, 8 May 2008, Andreas Tille wrote:

   http://evolution.bmc.uu.se/~thomas/mol_linux/index.html

 As I said: This web page vanished and upstream authors mail address bounces.
 So we are probably upstream ourselves.

According to debian/changelog and the header in bio-mode.el, I've
done a bit of cleaning up in 2003.  Back then, I didn't find
a new upstream version either, so this package is definitely not maintained
by anyone anymore.  It has been written in 1997, which is
semi-old for an Emacs package.  I wonder if this is still useful these days.
Probably best to ask an emacs user in the field of bioinformatics :-)

 I checked in improved packaging at

svn://svn.debian.org/svn/debian-med/trunk/packages/biomode/trunk/

 which builds the package as in biomode_1.002-7 but installation under
 emacs (I used emacs as dependency without explicite versioning) throws
 _a_ _lot_ _of_ _warnigs_.

It is expected behaviour for an emacs package on Debian
to throw some warnings at installation time, since byte compilation
is not done at package build time, rather at installation time.
Some of these warnings can usually be ignored.

 Do we have interest / manpower to maintain this code.

I do have the capabilities to at least update the elisp so that
it produces less or no warnings at all, but I do
have no interest in working on this since I dont use any files
that biomode is suited for.  I basically just adopted it out of a general
love for emacs packages, but since there is no upstream, its kinda hard
to keep up to date without any incentive.

 Perhaps we could get some help on a debian emacs related list - but
 I have no idea how to fix this.

You can prod me about specific things regarding elisp if you like.
I rather think you should find out first if it is worth the hassle
to keep this up to date.

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Bug#454349: RFA: biomode -- Emacs mode to edit genetic data

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Package: wnpp
Severity: normal

biomode is looking for a new loving and caring maintainer.

I dont have any use for it, so I feel I do a very poor
job of maintaining it.

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Bug#428168: RFA: flite -- A small run-time speech synthesis engine

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Package: wnpp
Severity: normal

flite is basically a C version of festival, compiling all
the necessary data for speech synthesis down to a library which
gets linked into programs that do want to do text-to-speech.

There is #350484 which needs to be dealt with.  When flite 1.2
was released, I worked directly with upstream to integrate a patch
which allowed to build the library also as shared object
files, not just statically.  This is obviously important
for a distro since the flite library is pretty huge (8MB or so) and
to link it into every package that uses it is extreme archive bloat.
Unfortunately, the 1.3 release seems to have dropped
this feature, and my initial attempt at looking on how
to refix .so support failed.  I've since then heard Fedora
carries a patch to do this.  So maybe it isn't that hard
to get 1.3 into Debian after all.

However, these days, I find espeak much more promising for
the future (especially since it does provide multilanguage support),
and my free time does not permit me to maintain several speech engines
anymore (at least, I am not motivated enough to do a good job, obviously).

I'd like to find a good home for flite.  It does have three other
packages depend on it that I know of, speech-dispatcher, eflite
and brltty.

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Bug#428174: O: oleo -- GNU spreadsheet program

[Mario Lang]

Package: wnpp
Severity: normal

I have neglected this package for far to long, my apologies.

I originally adopted it to prevent it from being removed from the archive,
since I was using it from time to time.  These days, I have not used
it for very long.  Additionally, I was only interested in oleo
for its text-mode interface.  I understand that it offers
a graphical (non-gtk) interface as well these days.  Since I can
only use ATK-aware apps, I could not test this aspect of
the package, so I do not feel appropriate as a maintainer anymore.

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Bug#402551: ITP: gnome-orca -- Scriptable screen reader

[Mario Lang]

Loïc Minier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

  I've imported and tagged the unstable version instead; you can commit
  whatever changes you had on mentors on top of that.

  @Mario: do you want to continue sponsoring, I need to add you to
  pkg-gnome as well so that you can tag uploads; do you want to?

First of all, sorry for ignoring this issue for so long, but now,
time permits me to do more work on GNOME accessibility stuff
again, and now that I've looked and seen I already have an alioth
account (mlang) that still works, I'd be interested in
co-maintaining gnome-orca.  Since I will be using orca on a daily
basis, I think it would only make sense to have the ability
to address problems directly, rather then having to go via
the BTS.  Could you add me to the alioth
users group that is required for orca and give me a very quick
primer on how to checkout and behave in the svn managed team
appropriately?  I am pretty new to the GNOME team per se.

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Bug#280656: status?

[Mario Lang]

Hi.

What is the status of this ITP?  CommonMusic now supports PortMIDI IO,
which makes usage of ALSA seq clients possible directly from CM.  The
hack includes a patched portmidi which provides .so lib versions for portmidi.

Therefore, I am interested if portmidi will make it into Debian since I might
like to package CM if no one else does first.
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Bug#320166: RFP: cl-clm -- Common Lisp Music is a music synthesis and signal processing package in the Music V family

[Mario Lang]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

* Package name: cl-clm
  Version : 3
  Upstream Author : Bill Schottstaedt
* URL or Web page : http://ccrma.stanford.edu/software/clm/
* License : BSD-ish
  Description : Common Lisp Music is a music synthesis and signal 
processing package in the Music V family

CLM is a sound synthesis package for Common Lisp systems.

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Bug#320170: RFP: cl-cm -- Common Music (CM) is an object-oriented music composition environment.

[Mario Lang]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

* Package name: cl-cm
  Version : 2.6
  Upstream Author : Rick Taube
* URL or Web page : http://commonmusic.sourceforge.net/
* License : LLGPL
  Description : Common Music (CM) is an object-oriented music composition 
environment.

It produces sound by transforming a high-level representation of
musical structure into a variety of control protocols for sound
synthesis and display. Common Music defines an extensive library of
compositional tools and an API through which the composer can easily
modify and extend the system.

Common Music began in 1989 as a response to the proliferation of
different audio hardware, software and computers that resulted from
the introduction of low cost computers. As choices increased it became
clear that composers would be well served by a portable, powerful and
consistent interface to the myriad sound rendering possibilities. Work
on Common Music began in 1989 when the author was a guest composer at
CCRMA, Stanford University. Much of the system as it exists today was
implemented at the Institut fr Musik und Akustik at the Zentrum fr
Kunst und Medientechnologie in Karlsruhe, Germany, where the author
worked for five years. Common Music continues to evolve today at the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where the author is now an
associate professor of music composition.

Common Music works in conjunction with the following synthesis and
display options:
Csound (sound synthesis)
Fomus (music notation)
Common Lisp Music (sound synthesis)
Common Music Notation (music notation)
MIDI (synthesis control)
Midishare (MIDI I/O)
Plotter (data visualization)
Open Sound Control (synthesis control)
Supercollider (sound synthesis)
Portmidi (MIDI I/O)
RTS and Receive (real time extensions)

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Bug#312660: ITP: shish -- the diet shell

[Mario Lang]

Gerrit Pape [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 02:38:06PM +0200, Michael Prokop wrote:
 * Package name: shish
   Version : 0.7-pre3
   Upstream Author : Roman Senn [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 * URL : http://www.blah.ch/shish/
 * License : GPL
   Description : the diet shell
 
 shish is a shell language interpreter and an interactive command
 line interpreter.
 
 This shell aims at being very small and doing its tasks in
 efficient ways (and not through 100 abstraction layers), which
 is mainly done by using the dietlibc and libowfat libraries.
 
 shish will be a POSIX compatible shell language interpreter
 according to the IEEE P1003.2 Draft 11.2 by its 1.0 release.

 He, here's a challenge..

 $ DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=diet fakeroot apt-get source -b dash /dev/null 21 
 ls -l dash-0.5.2/debian/dash/bin/dash  ldd $_
 -rwxr-xr-x  1 pape pape 75080 Jun 10 07:59 dash-0.5.2/debian/dash/bin/dash
 not a dynamic executable

-rwxr-xr-x  1 mlang mlang 74352 Jul 25 17:52 dash-0.5.2/debian/dash/bin/dash
not a dynamic executable

gcc 4 :-)

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Bug#247427: ITP: elfsign -- ELF binary signing and verification utilities

[Mario Lang]

Andrew Pollock [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 Package: wnpp
 Severity: wishlist

   Package name: elfsign
   Version : 0.2.0
   Upstream Author : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
   URL : http://www.hick.org/code/skape/elfsign/
   License : Artistic
   Description : ELF binary signing and verification utilities

 This package provides a utility to add a digital signature to an ELF
 binary, and another utility to verify that signature. The current
 implementation uses PKI to sign the checksum of the binary. The benefits
 of doing this are are that it enables one to determine if a binary has
^^^
 been modified, and who created that binary.

I'd be interested in the differences to bsign.

Maybe you could add something about this to the Description to make it easier
for the user to choose the right tool.

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Bug#100215: I will rescue this thing

[Mario Lang]

Probably in the next hours...

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Bug#186577: ITP: nethack-el -- NetHack interface for Emacs

[Mario Lang]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

* Package name: nethack-el
  Version : 20030310-341
  Upstream Author : Ryan Yeske [EMAIL PROTECTED], Shawn Betts [EMAIL 
PROTECTED]
* URL : http://www.nongnu.org/nethack-el
* License : lisp sources are GPL, nethack patch is BSD-like
  Description : NetHack interface for Emacs

nethack-el is a Emacs mode to play NetHack.
It uses a patched version of nethack (the lisp window interface),
and a patch to nethack source package to provide a nethack-lisp
binary package is already in preparation.

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Bug#174596: sted2 is adopted

[Mario Lang]

Junichi Uekawa [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 I think this package has been adopted by mlang.
 This is the bug report marking the package as orphaned.

I remembered sted2 being a text-mode program.  Therefore
I thought I should preserve it for the blind community.

Unfortunately, I was a bit too fast with announcing my
intentions.  I looked at sted2, and its interface
is text, but the way it is organized is the complete
opposite of blind friendly.  I couldnt manage to do anything
useful with it, so I'm withdrawing my ITA, since I'm very unsure if I can care
for it as much as I'd wish.

So, if anyone wants, this one is still open for adoption...

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Bug#173984: ITP: kernel-image-speakup-i386 -- Precompiled speakup Linux Kernel

[Mario Lang]

Filippo Giunchedi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 Is it possible to provide also a kernel-patch-speakup ?
kernel-patch-speakup is already in incoming/new and awaiting 
processing by the ftpmasters.  In the meantime, get it from
http://people.debian.org/~mlang/kernel-patch-speakup_20021221-1_all.deb

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Bug#169255: retitle

[Mario Lang]

retitle 169255 ITP: kernel-patch-speakup -- A screen reader for the Linux 
Kernel.
thanks.

I have finished packaging speakup-cvs.  It is uploaded, and currently
awaiting ftpmasters inspection.

This bug will be closed as soon as the package reaches the archives.

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Bug#173984: ITP: kernel-image-speakup-i386 -- Precompiled speakup Linux Kernel

[Mario Lang]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

* Package name: kernel-image-speakup-i386
  Version : 2.4.20
  Upstream Author : Kirk Reiser and Andy Berdan
* URL : http://www.linux-speakup.org/speakup.html
* License : GPL
  Description : Precompiled speakup Linux Kernel

I plan to provide a speakup-enabled kernel in Debian.  All the
required work is already done.  Since this is my first kernel related
work, I CC'ed this to debian-devel in case anyone does have suggestions
or objections to this.

speakup is a kernel patch which extends linux such that you can use
the keyboard and a external or internal hardware speech synthesizer to read
the console screen contents.  The only thing which needs to be
set is the synthesizer to be used, which is done via a  kernel boot
option.  As soon as the kernel starts to initialize, your speech
synth should immediately start talking, giving you full control over
very low-level aspects of system-administration.

If no one objects, I plan to upload this next year.

Following is the debian/control file I plan to use:

Source: kernel-image-speakup-i386
Section: devel
Priority: optional
Maintainer: Mario Lang [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Standards-Version: 3.5.8
Build-Depends: debhelper, modutils, kernel-source-2.4.20, kernel-package (= 
7.41), tar (= 1.13.18), kernel-patch-speakup

Package: kernel-headers-2.4.20-speakup
Architecture: any
Section: devel
Priority: optional
Depends: fileutils (= 4.0)
Provides: kernel-headers
Description: Header files related to Linux kernel version 2.4.20-speakup
 This package provides kernel header files for version
 2.4.20-speakup, for sites that want the latest kernel headers.
 Please read this file for details:
 /usr/share/doc/kernel-headers-2.4.20-speakup/debian.README.gz

Package: kernel-doc-2.4.20-speakup
Architecture: all
Section: doc
Priority: optional
Depends: coreutils | fileutils (= 4.0)
Provides: kernel-doc-2.4
Description: Linux kernel specific documentation for version 2.4.20-speakup.
 This package provides The various readme's in the 2.4.20-speakup kernel
 Documentation/ subdirectory: these typically contain kernel-specific
 installation notes for some drivers for example. See
 /usr/share/doc/kernel-doc-2.4.20-speakup/Documentation/00-INDEX for a list
 of what is contained in each file.  Please read the Changes file, as it
 contains information about the problems, which may result by
 upgrading your kernel.
 .
 Speakup specific documentation can be found in
 /usr/share/doc/kernel-doc-2.4.20-speakup/Documentation/speakup/

Package: kernel-image-2.4.20-speakup
Architecture: i386
Section: base
Priority: optional
Provides: kernel-image, kernel-image-2.4
Depends: initrd-tools (= 0.1.34), coreutils | fileutils (= 4.0), modutils (= 
2.4.19)
Suggests: lilo (= 19.1),  fdutils, kernel-doc-2.4.20-speakup
Description: Linux kernel binary image for version 2.4.20-speakup.
 This package contains the Linux kernel image for version 2.4.20-speakup,
 the corresponding System.map file, and the modules built by the
 packager.  It also contains scripts that try to ensure that the
 system is not left in a unbootable state after an update.
 .
 If you wish to update a bootdisk, or to use a bootloader to make
 installing and using the image easier, we suggest you install the latest
 fdutils (for formatting a floppy to be used as boot disk), and LILO, for a
 powerful bootloader. Of course, both these are optional. 
 .
 Kernel image packages are generally produced using kernel-package,
 and it is suggested that you install that package if you wish to
 create a custom kernel from the sources.
 .
 This kernel package contains a Linux kernel patched with speakup,
 a screen reader for the Linux console. Speakup currently supports the
 following hardware speech synthesizers:
  * DoubleTalk PC/LT
  * LiteTalk
  * Accent PC/SA
  * Speakout
  * Artic Transport
  * Audapter
  * Braille 'N Speak / Type 'N Speak
  * Dectalk External and Express
  * the Apollo2
 .
 NOTE: We don't claim this drivers to be stable, use them on your own
 risk.

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Bug#169255: RFP: kernel-patch-speakup -- A screen reader for the Linux Kernel

[Mario Lang]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

* Package name: kernel-patch-speakup
  Version : 1.00 (or latest CVS)
  Upstream Author : Kirk Reiser and Andy Berdan
* URL : http://www.linux-speakup.org/speakup.html
* License : GPL
  Description : A screen reader for the Linux Kernel

   Speakup is a screen review package for the Linux operating system.

   It allows you to interact with applications and the GNU/Linux
   operating system with audible feedback from the console using a
   synthetic speech device.

   Speakup allows you to navigate around the screen using the typical
   screen review functions such as say word, say line, announce cursor
   position, which console your currently on, and much, much more. It
   also allows one to load in configuration parameters for controlling
   various aspects of the synthesizer you are using, as well as speakup
   itself.

   Currently, the following synthesizers are supported by speakup:
 * DoubleTalk PC/LT
 * LiteTalk
 * Accent PC/SA
 * Speakout
 * Artic Transport
 * Audapter
 * Braille 'N Speak / Type 'N Speak
 * Dectalk External and Express
 * the Apollo2

So ideally, we're looking for some person who owns one device from
that list, because speakup can currently not be used without special
hardware.  Maybe just producing a kernel-patch-speakup package and
looking if users have problems is enough, but from first glance, the
speakup install-process is very different from what a kernel patch
normally does (at least to me), so it may be a substantial piece of work.

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Bug#168903: ITP: midge -- A text to midi translator

[Mario Lang]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

* Package name: midge
  Version : 0.2.33
  Upstream Author : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* URL : http://www.dmriley.demon.co.uk/code/midge/
* License : GPL
  Description : A text to midi translator

Midge is a text to midi and vice-versa translator
written in Perl.  It's source language is
documented, and some examples are included.


Upstream likes being packaged, already did
unofficial debs himself.  I'll probably need to package
the perl MIDI module first, depending on how large
it actually is.

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Bug#168932: ITP: libmidi-perl -- Read, write and compose MIDI data in Perl

[Mario Lang]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

* Package name: libmidi-perl
  Version : 0.79
  Upstream Author : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* URL : http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/~sburke/pub/perl_midi/
* License : unknown!
  Description : Read, write and compose MIDI data in Perl

This package is necessary for midge (see #168903).

Unfortunately, the module source does not
include any license.  So this is basicly
undistributable right now.  I've contacted upstream (it's two
years since last release, I really hope he is still alive),
about this issue.  libmidi-perl package is basicly
finished, and midge too, but the license issue
is holding both uploads back now.

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Bug#160783: [info@brlspeak.net] (see attach): Mini howto : Gnome 2 + Gnopernicus + other

[Mario Lang]

The following text was written by a BrlSpeak member to get
people started on Gnopernicus.  


---BeginMessage---
Hi Mario,
I send you in private what I downloaded from Nath's site (she is using
her own dyndns, but that computer is normally up 23/7).
Osvaldo La Rosa - http://www.brlspeak.net/

(see attach).


 Installing Gnome 2 and Gnopernicus
  
Written by Nath (10/01/2002)
  
   INTRODUCTION
   
   Before beginning I suggest that you visit the Gnome Accessibility
   Project (GAP) web page in order to have a global vision of the
   project. Visit the web page at:
   [1]http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gap/ In this howto I will
   explain the steps required to build Gnome 2 and gnopernicus, and how
   to get them up and operating on your computer.
   You will need to complete these steps before you can use gnopernicus :
   
   [2]SECTION 1 : Building and installing Gnome 2 [3]SECTION 2 : Building
   and installing some extra packages [4]SECTION 3 : Building and
   installing Festival TTS [5]SECTION 4 : Building and installing
   gnome-mag, gnome-speech and gnopernicus [6]SECTION 5 : Starting to use
   Gnopernicus
   
   Building and Installing Gnome 2
   
   In this section the goal is to build and install the Gnome 2
   environment using available tarball source packages from gnome.org.
   I used the Garnome script which should download, build, and install
   the Gnome 2 environment in any directory that you specify. You can
   obtain the Garnome script from :
   [7]http://www.gnome.org/~jdub/garnome/ You should read all the
   instructions given on this web page. After doing so you should have no
   problems building and installing the Gnome 2 environment.
   A note to the reader : Make sure that you have built and installed all
   the required libraries. Also, remember to modify the line beginning
   with the word prefix... in the gar.conf.mk file to set the
   location where you wish to build and install the Gnome 2 environment.
   
   Building and installing some extra packages
   
   Once you have installed the Gnome 2 environment using Garnome you will
   need to download and install some additional packages that Garnome
   doesn't include by default.
   Download and install the following packages :
 * intltool
 * gnome-common
 * libgail-gnome
 * at-spi
 * sawfish
   
   I have forgotten a few packages, but if you have any problems don't
   hesitate to contact me. Perhaps, together we can figure it out.
   To get the missing packages you must go to the GARNOME directory and
   for each package execute the following commands followed by the enter
   key :
   $ cd gnome/package_name/
   $ make install
   
   Building and installing Festival TTS
   
   At this point you will need to download and install the Festival TTS
   packages for speech. I will give you the instructions for Debian,
   because I personally use Debian. For other distributions you will need
   to download and build Festival TTS in the traditional way.
   For Debian users use the following command :
   $ apt-get install festival festlex-cmu festlex-poslex festvox-kdlpc16k
   For users not using Debian you can always retrieve the festival source
   from :
   [8]http://www.festvox.org/ Download all the source tarballs, extract
   them to a single directory, and run the following commands :
   $ ./configure
   $ make
   $ make install
   
   Building and installing Gnome-mag, Gnome-speech and Gnopernicus
   
   Finally, we have come to the last step. You should visit the
   Gnopernicus web site, and read and follow all the instructions on this
   web page. You can visit the gnopernicus web page at:
   [9]http://www.baum.ro/gnopernicus.html At this point if you have not
   already done so you should remember to run the go_gnome script which
   will initialize some required environment variables.
   Regarding all the things that has been done before, running this last
   step, downloading, building and installing gnome-mag, gnome-speech and
   gnopernicus should be the only things left to do now.
   I checked out the gnome-speech, gnome-mag, and gnopernicus packages,
   and I installed these packages in my Gnome 2 tree using the
   --prefix=/repertoire_gnome2/ option when running the ./autogen.sh
   script.
   While building gnome-mag you may receive an error message. In such a
   case, just check out an older gnome-mag release in the CVS tree using
   the following command :
   cvs -z3 checkout -r gnome-2-0 gnome-mag
   
   Starting to use gnopernicus
   
   First of all, we will need to set some environment/initialization
   variables. You should open the bash_profile file in your favorite text
   editor and add the following lines to it. Feel free to change the
   lines to fit your personal needs.
   export MAGNIFIER=0
   export FESTIVAL=1
   export VIAVOICE=0
   export 

Bug#160773: ITA: filterproxy

[Mario Lang]

retitle 160773 ITA: FilterProxy
thanks

Since upstream seems to be still active and interrested to help,
and since I've written one of the modules for FilterProxy a while back,
I would like to care for this package in the future.

I'm preparing a upload with upstream fixes for the mason problem
right now.


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CYa,
  Mario

Bug#160773: Debian Package of FilterProxy

[Mario Lang]

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Hi.

The maintainer of FilterProxy in Debian left the project, and now there is:
http://bugs.debian/160773 (he orphaned filterproxy).

Since I'm somehow familiar with fp :), I am planning to adopt the package
and care for it in the future.
I found

http://bugs.debian.org/159929

which I'm a bit worried about.  I'm not that familiar with mason.
So I'd like to check with you if you're still
planning to enhance fp, or at least fix stuff like this bug,
and if you're willing to work with me.

Basicly, do you plan a bugfix release for the problems in #159929?

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CYa,
  Mario

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Bug#160783: RFP: gnopernicus -- Screen reader for GNOME 2

[Mario Lang]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

* Package name: gnopernicus
  Version : 0.02
  Upstream: BAUM Elektronik GmBH and maybe GNOME hackers
* URL : http://www.baum.ro/gnopernicus.html,

http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gap/AT/Gnopernicus/index.htmk
* License : GPL
  Description : Screen reader for GNOME 2

Gnopernicus is the screen reader for GNOME 2.  It supports (and plans to
extend support for) low vision users (magnification), speech output
and braille display output.

It uses the gal and atk libraries which are already in debian
(ATK = Accessibility Toolkit)

I'd do an ITP, but I never used X till now, and it will take me quite a long
time to get started with all the new stuff.  If no one does a gnopernicus
package in the meantime, I'll probably retitle this to ITP at
some point myself.

In the meantime, it would be good if someone familiar with GNOME2
could try to fill this gap i n Debian.

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CYa,
  Mario