Bug#945145: O: docbook-dsssl -- modular DocBook DSSSL stylesheets, for print and HTML

[Peter Eisentraut]

On 2019-12-29 22:29, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote:

* Peter Eisentraut  [191229 21:26]:

I'm not sure if anyone or anything is still using this.


Certainly a few reverse (Build-)Depends:

Checking reverse dependencies...
# Broken Depends:
docbook-utils: docbook-utils
ldp-docbook-stylesheets: ldp-docbook-dsssl
sgmltools-lite: sgmltools-lite

# Broken Build-Depends:
bochs: docbook-dsssl
dictionaries-common: docbook-dsssl
docbook-utils: docbook-dsssl
hugs98: docbook-dsssl
idzebra: docbook-dsssl
installation-guide: docbook-dsssl
kannel: docbook-dsssl
kannel-sqlbox: docbook-dsssl
libdbi: docbook-dsssl
libdbi-drivers: docbook-dsssl
libetpan: docbook-dsssl
libopenusb: docbook-dsssl
libusb: docbook-dsssl
lprng-doc: docbook-dsssl
opensp: docbook-dsssl
pgpool2: docbook-dsssl
privoxy: docbook-dsssl
sgml2x: docbook-dsssl
slony1-2: docbook-dsssl
yaz: docbook-dsssl


Yeah, about half of these are wrapper tools or something of the sort, 
half are very old software packages that should update their 
documentation build process upstream (or should be removed from Debian).



While investigating this - knowing nothing about docbook myself -, I
discovered that docbook.org recommends using pandoc instead of the
openjade/xmlto/... zoo. Maybe other maintainers might find this
useful.


I'm not aware of this recommendation and I couldn't find it.  The most 
straightforward change would be to change to docbook-xsl.  But that 
would be an upstream decision.

Bug#948230: RFA: source-highlight -- convert source code to syntax highlighted document

[Peter Eisentraut]

Package: wnpp
Severity: normal

I'm looking for a new maintainer.  There is a new upstream release to be 
packaged and some technical packaging cleanup work to be done. 
Everything works well, it's a useful package, it just needs a bit of 
attention.

Bug#948229: RFA: cmark -- CommonMark parsing and rendering program

[Peter Eisentraut]

Package: wnpp
Severity: normal

I'm looking for a new maintainer.  The first job would be to update to 
the new upstream release.  The shared library does not have a track 
record of compatibility, so updating it might require some care.


Perhaps there is a way to collaborate better with the cmark-gfm package.

Bug#947175: O: sgml-spell-checker -- spell checker for SGML documents

[Peter Eisentraut]

Package: wnpp
Severity: normal

I am the upstream maintainer of this package, but I don't really 
maintain it any longer.  It's really more of a private tool at this point.


If no one is interested in this package, I will ask for its removal.

Bug#946757: O: lzop -- fast compression program

[Peter Eisentraut]

Package: wnpp
Severity: normal

Most sensibly maintained together with its underlying library lzo2 (see 
#946756), but the two source packages are released separately upstream.

Bug#946756: O: lzo2 -- data compression library

[Peter Eisentraut]

Package: wnpp
Severity: normal

Looking for new maintainer.  Requires some care, source has some 
assembly code, had some portability issues in the past.  Upstream 
releases are rare but appear to still happen.

Bug#946410: O: libtap-formatter-junit-perl -- Perl module for converting TAP output to JUnit XML output

[Peter Eisentraut]

Package: wnpp
Severity: normal

This was once useful for use with Jenkins, before Jenkins had a plugin 
for TAP results.  Nowadays, I think it's obsolete.  Perhaps it should be 
removed.

Bug#945988: O: libintl-perl -- Uniforum message translations system compatible i18n library

[Peter Eisentraut]

Package: wnpp
Severity: normal

The package has a sizeable installation count and an active upstream. 
It needs an active maintainer to keep it up to date with upstream and in 
line with various policies.  Perhaps the Debian Perl Group should take it.

Bug#945394: O: delimmatch -- Perl module to match delimited substrings

[Peter Eisentraut]

Package: wnpp
Severity: normal

This package is abandoned upstream.

I don't think this package was ever in general use.  It was only used in 
the process of doing upstream releases of the docbook-dsssl package 
(note: not a build dependency in Debian).  If docbook-dsssl is removed 
(see #945145), so should this.


That said, there is nothing wrong with it, but I imagine in the Perl 
world there are countless other modules that have the same functionality.

Bug#945146: O: docbook-dsssl-doc -- documentation for the DocBook DSSSL stylesheets

[Peter Eisentraut]

Package: wnpp
Severity: normal

This package belongs together with docbook-dsssl, about which see #945145.

Bug#945145: O: docbook-dsssl -- modular DocBook DSSSL stylesheets, for print and HTML

[Peter Eisentraut]

Package: wnpp
Severity: normal

This package is abandoned upstream.

I'm not sure if anyone or anything is still using this.  There are close 
relationships with other similarly obsolescent packages such as docbook 
(the SGML variant) and openjade and some reverse dependencies with what 
are essentially wrapper scripts.  It might be worth making a concerted 
effort removing all of these from Debian.  Otherwise this package can 
stay on life support without doing much harm.

Bug#897138: O: anacron -- cron-like program that doesn't go by time

[Peter Eisentraut]

On 5/4/18 19:55, Sean Whitton wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 28, 2018 at 11:03:07PM +0000, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> The package is no longer maintained upstream,
> 
> Oh dear :(
> 
>> and it doesn't interact well with systemd.
> 
> Could you expand/provide some bug numbers, please?  What exactly can go
> wrong?

I think most of the "important" bugs are related to this and similar issues.

Bug#897138: O: anacron -- cron-like program that doesn't go by time

[Peter Eisentraut]

Package: wnpp
Severity: normal

I intend to orphan the anacron package.

The package description is:
 Anacron (like "anac(h)ronistic") is a periodic command scheduler.  It
 executes commands at intervals specified in days.  Unlike cron, it
 does not assume that the system is running continuously.  It can
 therefore be used to control the execution of daily, weekly, and
 monthly jobs (or anything with a period of n days), on systems that
 don't run 24 hours a day.  When installed and configured properly,
 Anacron will make sure that the commands are run at the specified
 intervals as closely as machine uptime permits.
 .
 This package is pre-configured to execute the daily jobs of the
 Debian system.  You should install this program if your system isn't
 powered on 24 hours a day to make sure the maintenance jobs of other
 Debian packages are executed each day.

The package is no longer maintained upstream, and it doesn't interact well
with systemd.  It might need a complete rethink or replacement.

(The co-maintainer has never been active, but they are welcome to take
over the package like everyone else.)

Bug#855342: RFH: ntp

[Peter Eisentraut]

On 2/19/17 07:01, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
>>> I could really use some help with the ntp (network time protocol)
>>> package. There have been various bugs filed, and I didn't have the
>>> time to properly look at them and deal with them.
>>>
>>> It's currently team maintained, but I've been the only one doing
>>> anything the past few years.
>>
>> I'm willing to help (both triaging bugs and updating the package).
>>
>> I would prefer the repository to be converted to git though, I'm much
>> more experienced with git-buildpackage than the svn toolchain.
> 
> I wanted to give you access to the repository, but I see I'm only
> a junior developer.
> 
> Peter,
> 
> Can you change the permissions on the alioth project?

done

I'm sorry I haven't been of much use lately.  If I'm in the way of new
people taking over, let me know.

Bug#833682: ITP: cmark -- CommonMark parsing and rendering library and program in C

[Peter Eisentraut]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Peter Eisentraut 

* Package name: cmark
  Version : 0.26.1
  Upstream Author : John MacFarlane 
* URL : https://github.com/jgm/cmark
* License : BSD, MIT
  Programming Lang: C
  Description : CommonMark parsing and rendering library and program in C

cmark is the C reference implementation of CommonMark, a rationalized
version of Markdown syntax with a spec. 

Bug#833672: O: chkconfig

[Peter Eisentraut]

Package: wnpp
Severity: normal

This package has been obsoleted by the wide-spread adoption of systemd.
It's also pretty buggy at this point.

Unless there is some last-minute interest in this, I will ask for
removal soon.

Bug#729103: O: php-net-lmtp

[Peter Eisentraut]

Package: wnpp
Severity: normal

I have no attachment to this package anymore.  It was once a
dependency of kolab, but it doesn't have any reverse dependencies
anymore.  If the package is deemed worth keeping, there is a new
upstream release with a slightly changed file structure that needs
someone with more enthusiasm than me to package it.


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Bug#656361: O: kmldonkey -- KDE GUI for MLDonkey

[Peter Eisentraut]

Package: wnpp
Severity: normal

I intend to orphan the kmldonkey package.

The package description is:
 KMLDonkey is a frontend for MLDonkey, a powerful P2P file sharing tool,
 designed for the KDE desktop.

I don't use it anymore, and I'm not sure if it actually still works.
Upstream appears to be dead.  If no one wants to maintain it, maybe it
should be removed.



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Bug#602441: ITP: check-postgres -- script for monitoring PostgreSQL databases

[Peter Eisentraut]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Peter Eisentraut 

* Package name: check-postgres
  Version : 2.14.3
  Upstream Author : Greg Sabino Mullane 
* URL : http://bucardo.org/wiki/Check_postgres
* License : BSD
  Programming Lang: Perl
  Description : script for monitoring PostgreSQL databases

check_postgres is a Perl script that runs many different tests against one or
more PostgreSQL databases. It uses the psql program to gather the information,
and outputs the results in one of three formats: Nagios, MRTG, or simple.



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Bug#471822: news about?

[Peter Eisentraut]

Please take it.  Consider it orphaned.

On ons, 2010-08-04 at 11:22 +0200, Sandro Tosi wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 18:49, Alessandro De Zorzi  wrote:
> > news about?
> 
> Peter, can you please let Alessandro know what do you think if he
> takes over this package? He really wants to maintain it, and I think
> he would agree to co-maintain it with you if you feel like it, but
> simply not replying to his email is quite unfair and very demotivating
> fro him.
> 
> I think that if no replies come in 2/3 week, Alessandro can go over
> and take the maintainership of the package. It's in RFA/semi-O since a
> lot of time and I definitely prefers it's under the wings of a willing
> maintainer (even if there could be some mistakes, but who doesn't? :)
> ).
> 
> Alessandro, next time, please mail directly the maintainer too:
> mailing nn...@bugs.debian.org usually won't send him an email.
> 
> Regards,





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Bug#568265: ITP: libtap-formatter-junit-perl -- Perl module for converting TAP output to JUnit output

[Peter Eisentraut]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

* Package name: libtap-formatter-junit-perl
  Version: 0.07
  Upstream author: Graham TerMarsch 
* URL: http://search.cpan.org/dist/TAP-Formatter-JUnit/
* License: GPL or Artistic
Description:
 TAP::Formatter::JUnit provides JUnit output formatting for
 TAP::Harness.  It can be used with prove, for example, to format the
 output of a test suite into a JUnit XML document.  It is particularly
 intended for integrating Perl or TAP test suites into the Hudson
 continuous integration server (because Hudson has a JUnit plugin but
 no TAP plugin).





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Bug#556901: RFP: python-pylibmc -- Python libmemcached wrapper

[Peter Eisentraut]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

* Package name: python-pylibmc
  Version : 0.9.1
  Upstream Author : Ludvig Ericson 
* URL : http://lericson.blogg.se/code/category/pylibmc.html
* License : BSD
  Programming Lang: C, Python
  Description : Python libmemcached wrapper

pylibmc is a Python wrapper around the accompanying C Python extension
_pylibmc, which is a wrapper around libmemcached from TangentOrg.



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Bug#548777: ITA: anacron -- cron-like program that doesn't go by time

[Peter Eisentraut]

On Fri, 2009-10-02 at 21:54 +, Antonio Radici wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 02, 2009 at 09:23:59PM +0300, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > On Tue, 2009-09-29 at 08:33 +, Antonio Radici wrote:
> > > I'm available for adopting the package; I saw that petere@ wants to
> > > adopt it; any plan to create a team on alioth?
> > 
> > So, are we OK with using collab-maint and git? (see
> > http://wiki.debian.org/Alioth/Git)  If you are not a DD, you need to
> > arrange access.
> 
> Sure, go ahead, I'm already in collab-maint

http://git.debian.org/?p=collab-maint/anacron.git

I used the git-buildpackage toolset to set this up and build the
packages.




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Bug#548777: ITA: anacron -- cron-like program that doesn't go by time

[Peter Eisentraut]

On Tue, 2009-09-29 at 08:33 +, Antonio Radici wrote:
> I'm available for adopting the package; I saw that petere@ wants to
> adopt it; any plan to create a team on alioth?

So, are we OK with using collab-maint and git? (see
http://wiki.debian.org/Alioth/Git)  If you are not a DD, you need to
arrange access.




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Bug#548777: ITA: anacron -- cron-like program that doesn't go by time

[Peter Eisentraut]

On Tue, 2009-09-29 at 08:33 +, Antonio Radici wrote:
> I'm available for adopting the package; I saw that petere@ wants to
> adopt it; any plan to create a team on alioth?

Sure.  Let's wait a couple of days to see who else shows up.  If it's <=
3, we could probably just use collab-maint.

Also, long term, I would like to consolidate all the patches of other
distributions and make a new upstream, either on alioth or perhaps
GitHub.




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Bug#548322: O: libdbd-oracle-perl

[Peter Eisentraut]

Package: wnpp
Severity: normal

This is a very useful package, but I don't use it at the moment, so someone
else should take over.



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Bug#548323: O: ora2pg

[Peter Eisentraut]

Package: wnpp
Severity: normal

This is a very useful package with active upstream, but I don't use it at the
moment, so someone else should take over.



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Bug#548325: O: translatoid

[Peter Eisentraut]

Package: wnpp
Severity: normal

This is a pretty cool and useful package, under active development.  But since 
I have vociferously bid farewell to KDE for the time being, I am not able to 
use this package anymore, so someone else should take over.



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Bug#543413: RFA: apt-rpm

[Peter Eisentraut]

Package: wnpp
Severity: normal

I haven't actively used this package in a great while, and bug #533164 looks 
too complicated for me to spend time on now.  Upstream has been issuing 
development snapshots once in a while, but no stable release, so I don't know 
where this is going.  I think the package is still useful, although now with 
yum the pressure to set up apt on rpm-based systems is decreased.



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Bug#505923: wiki page

[Peter Eisentraut]

This is going to be a big job.  More hands are welcome.

I have started to collect some preliminary information at 
http://wiki.debian.org/FunambolPackaging .



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Bug#523174: ITP: plasma-widget-translatoid -- translator plasma widget that uses Google Translate

[Peter Eisentraut]

Package: wnpp
Version: N/A; reported 2009-04-08
Severity: wishlist
 
* Package name: plasma-widget-translatoid
  Version : 0.6.1
  Upstream Author : Schutz Sacha 
* URL : http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/translatoid?content=97511
* License : GPL2+
  Description :
   This plasmoid uses Google translator to translate in several languages.
   It can autodetect the input language and translate in your native language.

(Ubuntu package exists.)



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Bug#471801: for would-be maintainers/adopters

[Peter Eisentraut]

Since I keep getting inquiries about taking this package over, with no 
one actually ending up doing anything, let me summarize what I have told 
people so far:


* How can you help? -- Triage bugs, submit patches, respond to user 
inquiries, and so on.  The usual stuff.  I don't have a secret to-do 
list.  Use the BTS.


* The packaging is in the collab-maint subversion repository.  If you 
have something to commit, please do so.  If you are not sure, attach 
your patch to a bug or check with me first.


* In recent times, the packaging has been very stable.  The main work is 
integrating new upstream releases and the occasional CVE.  Note that 
historically many upstream releases of egroupware have been buggy and 
have often been replaced by a fixup release a week later. :-/  So it is 
wise to exercise some patience before jumping on a new release.


* Consequently, this is probably not a good package for some new 
contributor to adapt just to be able to play around with packaging.  The 
*packaging* work consists mainly of downloading a new tarball, building 
a package, and uploading it.  The *maintenance* work consists of 
triaging bugs and interacting with users and upstream maintainers.


* So, if you want to maintain this package, start by going through the 
bug list, create patches, commit patches.




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Bug#471822: closed by Alessandro De Zorzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Bug#471822: fixed in php-fpdf 1:1.6.dfsg-1)

[Peter Eisentraut]

Am Tuesday, 19. August 2008 schrieb Fabio Tranchitella:
> Hey folks,
>
> * 2008-08-19 09:26, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > Am Tuesday, 19. August 2008 schrieb Debian Bug Tracking System:
> > > This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report
> > > which was filed against the wnpp package:
> > >
> > > #471822: RFA: php-fpdf -- PHP class to generate PDF files
> > >
> > > It has been closed by Alessandro De Zorzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
> > >
> > > Their explanation is attached below along with your original report.
> > > If this explanation is unsatisfactory and you have not received a
> > > better one in a separate message then please contact Alessandro De
> > > Zorzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> by replying to this email.
> >
> > Dude, do you understand what "RFA" means?  It does not mean, hijack this
> > package when you feel like it.  Please undo this damage forthwith.
>
> Could you please try to lower the tone of the conversation? I sponsored the
> package of Alessandro, who told me that he wrote you an e-mail before the
> upload (which I think you didn't read, according to your message).

Please consider the following points:

- RFA means you can adopt the package with the approval of the previous 
maintainer.  Which I never did do.  I did read the messages of Alessandro but 
they needed more consideration.

- The RFA called for adoption of the package in conjuction with egroupware, 
which AFAICT, neither of you considered.

- There is currently a release freeze, which means that no new packages, least 
of all completely new upstream versions, should be uploaded.

- I saw in the changelog "Added php4 dependencies".  What is the point of 
that?  There is no PHP4 in Debian anymore.

All of these points together indicate to me that this package takeover was not 
very wisely planned and executed.

> Do you want me to upload the old version of the package with a new epoch,
> put you back as a maintainer, retitle the bug from RFA to ITA, do again the
> upload with a new epoch?

I ask that you upload the old version of the package with a new epoch, put me 
back as the maintainer, reopen the RFA bug, and refrain from interfering with 
the package until after the lenny release and further consultation with me.



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Bug#471822: closed by Alessandro De Zorzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Bug#471822: fixed in php-fpdf 1:1.6.dfsg-1)

[Peter Eisentraut]

Am Tuesday, 19. August 2008 schrieb Debian Bug Tracking System:
> This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report
> which was filed against the wnpp package:
>
> #471822: RFA: php-fpdf -- PHP class to generate PDF files
>
> It has been closed by Alessandro De Zorzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
>
> Their explanation is attached below along with your original report.
> If this explanation is unsatisfactory and you have not received a
> better one in a separate message then please contact Alessandro De Zorzi
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> by replying to this email.

Dude, do you understand what "RFA" means?  It does not mean, hijack this 
package when you feel like it.  Please undo this damage forthwith.



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Bug#471801: RFA: egroupware -- web-based groupware suite

[Peter Eisentraut]

I have put the package at 
.  Anyone 
who is interested, please add yourself there and contribute.



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Bug#475361: ITP: chkconfig -- system tool to enable or disable system services

[Peter Eisentraut]

Am Sonntag, 13. April 2008 schrieb Michael Biebl:
> Is there an (official) upstream homepage for that utility?

No, the script is from the RPM package aaa_base, which is something like 
base-files in Debian, so there is no separate homepage for it.



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Bug#475361: ITP: chkconfig -- system tool to enable or disable system services

[Peter Eisentraut]

Am Donnerstag, 10. April 2008 schrieb Michael Biebl:
> > 1. chkconfig works solely on the command line.
>
> sysv-rc-conf has both a command line interface and a ncurses based
> interface.

OK, I didn't know that.  If one were interested in not-Debian-compatibility, 
which is my primary motivation here, one could perhaps implement chkconfig as 
a wrapper around sysv-rc-conf, but chkconfig isn't actually that big to make 
this worthwhile.

> > 2. sysv-rc-conf is mostly unmaintained and broken for some (of my)
> > practical uses.
>
> Do you have any references (e.g. bug numbers). sysv-rc-conf seems to
> work fine for me.

This refers to the graphical interface.  All the bugs are in the BTS.

> > 5. chkconfig works well with the new insserv.
>
> Could you elaborate on that? What's the problem with sysv-rc-conf and
> insserv?

For example, when I disable a service, insserv reorders the dependencies to 
make them more optimal.  chkconfig also interacts with the LSB init script 
headers in intelligent ways, which I don't see in sysv-rc-conf.



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Bug#475361: ITP: chkconfig -- system tool to enable or disable system services

[Peter Eisentraut]

Am Donnerstag, 10. April 2008 schrieb Michael Biebl:
> What's the advantage over exisiting tools like sysv-rc-conf?

1. chkconfig works solely on the command line.

2. sysv-rc-conf is mostly unmaintained and broken for some (of my) practical 
uses.

3. chkconfig is simpler and more convenient.

4. chkconfig is well known for users coming from Red Hat and SUSE.

5. chkconfig works well with the new insserv.



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Bug#475361: ITP: chkconfig -- system tool to enable or disable system services

[Peter Eisentraut]

Am Donnerstag, 10. April 2008 schrieb Evgeni Golov:
> Just wondering, how does chkconfig compare to (e.g.) rcconf?

rcconf is dialog-based, chkconfig is command-line based.  Also chkconfig is 
well known from Red Hat and SUSE, so it will help users coming from those 
environments.  chkconfig also works well with the new insserv.



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Bug#475361: ITP: chkconfig -- system tool to enable or disable system services

[Peter Eisentraut]

Am Donnerstag, 10. April 2008 schrieb Eugene V. Lyubimkin:
> This tool is already exists now - 'update-rc.d'. What advantages have
> the chkconfig?

They are not the same.  Note that the update-rc.d man page says "System 
administrators are not encouraged to use update-rc.d to manage runlevels."  
chkconfig on the other hand is intended for system administrators to manage 
runlevels.



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Bug#475361: ITP: chkconfig -- system tool to enable or disable system services

[Peter Eisentraut]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

* Package name: chkconfig
  Version : 10.3-90
  Upstream Author : Michael Schroeder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* License : GPL
  Programming Lang: Perl
  Description : system tool to enable or disable system services

Chkconfig is a utility to update and query runlevel information for system
services.  Chkconfig manipulates the numerous symbolic links in /etc/rc.d, to
relieve system administrators of some of the drudgery of manually editing the
symbolic links.



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Bug#474299: ITP: semantik -- mindmapping tool

[Peter Eisentraut]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

* Package name: semantik
  Version : 0.6.4
  Upstream Author : Thomas Nagy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* URL : http://freehackers.org/~tnagy/semantik.html
* License : QPL
  Programming Lang: C++, Qt
  Description : mindmapping tool

This is the successor of kdissert.  The packaging is already available at 
<http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/pkg-kde/kde-extras/semantik/>.  The ftpmaster 
rejected the first upload because the QPL was incompatible with the GPL, but 
in fact the package does not link against anything under the GPL, so that 
objection appears to be irrelevant.  While that is being sorted out, I just 
want to document that the package is being worked on.



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Bug#473894: O: upsd

[Peter Eisentraut]

Package: wnpp
Severity: normal

The maintainer of this package is evidently not active anymore.  Therefore I 
am orphaning this package.

Description: UPS Monitor Program via serial interface
 UPSD is a daemon to monitor an Uninterruptible Power
 Supply (UPS) connected to a Linux computer's serial
 port.  It will signal init(8) when the UPS is operating
 on battery power so that the computer can be shut
 down cleanly.  UPSD has additional features, including
 network monitoring, low battery warning, and the
 capability of turning off the UPS during the shutdown
 process (if the UPS supports this). In addition it has the
 capability on slave systems of monitoring the remote
 master for the return of power in the event that only the
 master power has failed. A debugging and management
 tool is included. Support added for socks firewalls,
 May 2000.



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Bug#473895: O: mserv

[Peter Eisentraut]

Package: wnpp
Severity: normal

The maintainer of this package is apparently not active anymore.  There I am 
orphaning this package.

Description: local centralised multiuser music server
 Mserv is a music server designed to do a number of things better than most
 systems designed to play mp3s or oggs:
 .
[...]
 .
 For more info see http://www.mserv.org



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Bug#471801: RFA: egroupware

[Peter Eisentraut]

Giuseppe Sacco wrote:
> I am using egw since a few years, and I still use it in my company, so I
> am really interested in co-maintaining the packages.

Excellent.

> Do you have a prioritised lists of actions to do?

Update to new upstream, triage bugs.

> Is upstream collaborative?

Yes, they are OK.

> Is there already a pkg-egroupware on alioth or something similar?

No there isn't, but we could set something up.  collab-maint would be 
simplest, I think.  Any version control system preferences?



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Bug#472818: RFA: psqlodbc -- ODBC driver for PostgreSQL

[Peter Eisentraut]

Package: wnpp
Severity: normal

I am looking for a new maintainer for this package.  It would need to be 
someone who is intimately familiar with ODBC internals.  Upstream mostly 
develops on win32, and so a future maintainer would need to communicate 
extensively with upstream to beat their releases into shape for use on a 
many-architecture Linux distribution.

Adopters are encouraged to continue the package maintenance within the 
pkg-postgresql group.  I can help arrange access.



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Bug#471826: O: pgpool2 -- connection pool server for PostgreSQL

[Peter Eisentraut]

Package: wnpp
Severity: normal

I'm orphaning the pgpool2 package.  Adopters are encouraged to continue the 
package maintenance within the pkg-postgresql group.  I can help arrange 
access.  If you want to take pgpool as well, that would be a bonus.



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Bug#471827: O: postgresql-plruby -- Ruby procedural language for PostgreSQL

[Peter Eisentraut]

Package: wnpp
Severity: normal

I'm orphaning the postgresql-plruby package.  Adopters are encouraged to 
continue the package maintenance within the pkg-postgresql group.  I can help 
arrange access.



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Bug#471821: RFA: egroupware-egw-pear -- modified PEAR modules for eGroupWare

[Peter Eisentraut]

Package: wnpp
Severity: normal

I am looking for new maintainers of this package in conjunction with new 
egroupware maintainers; see bug #471801.



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Bug#471819: O: licq -- ICQ client

[Peter Eisentraut]

Package: wnpp
Severity: normal

I am orphaning the licq package.  I haven't been using licq in a while, but it 
should be working OK.  You need to be able to communicate obscure bugs to the 
very slow upstream development team.  The packaging scripts are also a bit 
complicated, so this is not a suitable package for a beginner.



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Bug#471822: RFA: php-fpdf -- PHP class to generate PDF files

[Peter Eisentraut]

Package: wnpp
Severity: normal

I am looking for new maintainers of this package in conjunction with new 
egroupware maintainers; see bug #471801.



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Bug#471824: O: pgpool -- connection pool server for PostgreSQL

[Peter Eisentraut]

Package: wnpp
Severity: normal

I'm orphaning the pgpool package. Adopters are encouraged to continue the 
package maintenance within the pkg-postgresql group.  I can help arrange 
access.  If you want to take pgpool2 as well, that would be a bonus.



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Bug#471820: O: xbsql -- SQL wrapper for XBase DBMS library

[Peter Eisentraut]

Package: wnpp
Severity: normal

I am orphaning the xbsql package.  The only remaining reverse dependency is 
hk-classes, which I've also orphaned.  Perhaps it is better to think about 
removing this package.  There is no more upstream development and probably no 
users.



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Bug#471806: O: knoda -- graphical database frontend for KDE

[Peter Eisentraut]

Package: wnpp
Severity: normal

I am orphaning the knoda package.  Adopters should also take over the
maintenance of the hk-classes package.

Upstream development has apparently stopped, and the software isn't completely
mature, but considering that similar software such as rekall and kexi is also
having problems, maybe someone wants to continue using this.  New users should
probably use OpenOffice or KOffice and not bother with knoda.



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Bug#471801: RFA: egroupware

[Peter Eisentraut]

Package: wnpp
Severity: normal

I'm looking for a new maintainer, perhaps comaintainer, or better yet several
of them, for the egroupware package.  It would need to be someone who is a
moderately experienced user of egroupware.  There are a number of bugs that
appear to be upstream bugs that need to be triaged and forwarded.  The
packaging scripts have changed very little over the years, so you don't need
to be a packaging guru.

The packages egroupware-egw-pear and php-fpdf should be adopted together with
egroupware.



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Bug#471800: O: hk-classes

[Peter Eisentraut]

Package: wnpp
Severity: normal

I am orphaning the hk-classes package.  The package description is:

hk_classes is a set of C++ libraries for rapid development of database
applications with all features a modern database application should have,
like forms and reports. hk_classes is database and GUI independent.

This package is mostly (exclusively?) used as a database access layer
for knoda.  The two packages should be maintained together.



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Bug#400155: O: rekall -- graphical database front-end

[Peter Eisentraut]

Michelle Konzack wrote:
> "rekall" was the only tool which had no dependencies on KDE/GNOME
> using QT.  Do you know, whether it works now better as for 2 years?

I don't know for sure, but I've always had the feeling that they are 
treating the Qt-only build as a second-class citizen.


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Bug#400155: O: rekall -- graphical database front-end

[Peter Eisentraut]

Package: wnpp
Severity: normal

Would-be adopters should know that the new upstream versions use scons
as build system, so the package build system will likely have to be redone
completely.  It's also a bit difficult to reach the authors and forward
issues.

Perhaps it's not really worth maintaining this anymore, with openoffice,
kexi, etc. supplying equivalent and better functionality.


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Bug#373824: RFH: ntp -- Network Time Protocol: network utilities

[Peter Eisentraut]

Package: wnpp
Severity: normal

We could use a few more people to help with the ntp package.  We have a
new mailing list and a subversion repository hosted under the pkg-ntp
project on alioth.  There is a boatload of bugs to deal with, most of
which are not that hard but need someone with a little time and
dedication to evaluate them.

The package description is:
 NTP, the Network Time Protocol, is used to keep computer clocks accurate
 over the Internet, or by following an accurate hardware receiver which
 interprets GPS, DCF-77, NIST or similar time signals.
 .
 This package contains control programs which can access a remote NTP
 server.  Thus you will need either ntp-simple or ntp-refclock;
 ntp-refclock includes drivers for radio clocks.
 .
 For more information about the NTP protocol / NTP server configuration
 and operation, load the optional Debian package 'ntp-doc'.


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Bug#371150: RFA: nozomi -- source for GlobeTrotter HSDPA kernel driver

[Peter Eisentraut]

Package: wnpp
Severity: normal

Perhaps someone who has more regular dealings with this hardware wants
to adopt the nozomi package.  I can help as sponsor, mentor, or whatever.

The package description is:
 This is the kernel driver for the GlobeTrotter 3G EDGE PC Card
 (HSDPA-prepared).  Serial Numbers can be used to identify this model.
 Look for SNR: NZ.  Driver and PC Card are provided by Option Wireless
 Technology.
 .
 This package provides the source code for this kernel module.  Kernel
 source or headers are required to compile the modules.
 .
 Web site: http://www.pharscape.org/

Note that the kernel interfaces related to this driver seem to change
frequently, so you need to be prepared to patch around a bit.  (See
#367394 for example.)


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Bug#349243: O: pgaccess -- Tk/Tcl interface to PostgreSQL

[Peter Eisentraut]

pgaccess is not developed anymore.  Unless someone has a really convincing 
case, I think this should be removed.  Users will find analogous 
functionality in pgadmin3.


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Bug#278810: ITP: slony-i

[Peter Eisentraut]

Am Donnerstag, 1. Dezember 2005 17:01 schrieb Stephen Frost:
>   Probably best to use Build-Depends-Indep in this case since building
>   the docs adds alot of dependencies that aren't otherwise necessary.

But running binary-arch will build the docs anyway (it's all part of "make"); 
so this will not work.

>   According to upstream though, technically flex and bison shouldn't be
>   necessary when building from a release (I was building from CVS).
>   You should be able to remove the flex/bison parts of yoour clean::
>   too, really.  Was there some reason you needed to rebuild them?

The output of flex and bison was not included in the source tarball. This was 
obviously a mistake, and I have informed upstream about that.

>   I'm not sure
>   slony1-bin should Recommend postgresql-8.0-slony1 (a Suggests would be
>   better, imv).

In most cases (rather than in some cases), these will be installed on the same 
system, so it seems useful that they have a close dependency.

>   Additionally, ntp-server should be a Recommends in 
>   postgresql-8.0-slony1, not slony1-bin.

I'm not convinced of that. The handling of replication events is done in slon 
in package slony1-bin.  The backend module does not contain any code to read 
times.


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Bug#278810: ITP: slony-i -- A replication system for the PostgreSQL DBMS

[Peter Eisentraut]

owner 278810 !
stop

As there are too many people talking and no one acting, I'm going to get 
this moving now, based on the preliminiary packages that have been 
posted earlier.


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Bug#337401: ITP: ggz -- libraries, games, and programs for network and online games

[Peter Eisentraut]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

* Package name: ggz
  Version : 0.0.12
  Upstream Author : Josef Spillner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* URL : http://www.ggzgamingzone.org/
* License : GPL
  Description : libraries, games, and programs for network and online games

GGZ (which is a recursive acronym for GGZ Gaming Zone) develops libraries,
games and game-related applications for client-server online gaming.
Player rankings, game spectators, AI players and a chat bot are part of
this effort.

The previous ggz packages were removed from Debian because of RC bugs and
a missing maintainer.  A new packaging team with upstream involvement is
going to attempt to revive this effort.


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Bug#336888: RFP: tribe -- Java-based group communication library

[Peter Eisentraut]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

* Package name: tribe
  Version : 0.3
  Upstream Author : ObjectWeb consortium
* URL : http://tribe.objectweb.org/
* License : LGPL
  Description : Java-based group communication library

Tribe is a Java-based group communication library. It is based on
reliable point-to-point FIFO communication channels (basically TCP) and
targets high performance cluster environments. Unlike JGroups, Tribe
only targets reliable multicast (no probabilistic delivery) and is
optimized for cluster communications.


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Bug#333340: ITP: datakiosk -- database interface tool

[Peter Eisentraut]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
 
 * Package name: datakiosk
 * Version: 0.7
 * Upstream authors: Adam Treat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
 Scott Wheeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
 * URL: http://extragear.kde.org/apps/datakiosk/
 * License: GPL
 * Description: database interface tool
DataKiosk is a JuK-like database interface tool for generic SQL databases.
What does that mean? Essentially, dataKiosk provides a series of wizards
(anyone familiar with Qt Designer's database wizards will find them
familiar) that allow you to build a custom Juk-like interface for any SQL
database with a QtSQL driver.


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Bug#328575: ITP: jline -- Java library for handling console input

[Peter Eisentraut]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

* Package name: jline
  Version : 0.9.1
  Upstream Author : Marc Prud'hommeaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* URL : http://jline.sourceforge.net/
* License : BSD
  Description : Java library for handling console input
 
JLine is a Java library for handling console input. It is similar in 
functionality to BSD editline and GNU readline.It also supports navigation 
keys.


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Bug#294540: ITP: concurrent -- utility classes for concurrent java programming

[Peter Eisentraut]

Is there any progress with this package?


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Bug#328469: ITP: jgroups -- framework for group communication in Java

[Peter Eisentraut]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

* Package name: jgroups
  Version : 2.2.8
  Upstream Author : Bela Ban <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* URL : http://www.jgroups.org/j
* License : LGPL
  Description : framework for group communication in Java
 
JGroups is a Java package for reliable group communication. It consists of 3 
parts: (1) a socket-like API for application development, (2) a protocol 
stack, which implements reliable communication, and (3) a set of building 
blocks, which give the application/protocol programmer high-level 
abstractions.


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Bug#319891: ITP: libcdk5 -- C-based curses widget library

[Peter Eisentraut]

Am Montag, 25. Juli 2005 16:01 schrieb John Goerzen:
> CDK 5 is a fork off of the CDK version 4 software that is no longer
> maintained upstream.  It has a somewhat different API as well, which is
> why it should have a new source package also.

If we manage to rebuild all CDK-using software against this newer version, I 
think we should phase out and remove the old one.


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Re: Bug#221820: marked as done (ITP: rekall -- graphical database frontend)

[Peter Eisentraut]

Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
> This WNPP bug was tagged "fixed-in-experimental", but the package has
> since then moved to unstable.

I doubt that, too.


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Re: Bug#121613: marked as done (ITP: hsqldb -- HypersonicSQL relational java database engine)

[Peter Eisentraut]

Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
> This WNPP bug was tagged "fixed-in-experimental", but the package has
> since then moved to unstable.

I doubt that.


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Bug#301061: ITP: apt-rpm -- tools to create APT RPM repository

[Peter Eisentraut]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

* Package name: apt-rpm
  Version : 0.5.15cnc6
  Upstream Author : Gustavo Niemeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Alfredo K. Kojima <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
based on work by the Debian APT team
* URL : https://moin.conectiva.com.br/AptRpm
* License : GPL
  Description : tools to create APT RPM repository

apt-rpm is Connectiva's port of Debian's APT to RPM.  This Debian
package contains the tools to create an APT RPM repository, so RPM-based
systems can be maintained via APT while the APT repository resides on a
Debian system.  The client-side part of apt-rpm will obviously not be
included in the Debian package.


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Bug#178559: kuake is already in the NEW queue

[Peter Eisentraut]

retitle 178559 ITP: kuake -- Console which looks like Quake game console.
tags 178559 + pending
stop

kuake is already in the NEW queue.


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Bug#291223: ITP: libphp-clam -- PHP bindings for libclamav

[Peter Eisentraut]

Neil McGovern wrote:
>   Package name: libphp-clam

In spite of inconsistent current practice, the proposed PHP policy is in 
favor of naming such packages "php-clam".

Bug#291223: ITP: libphp-clam -- PHP bindings for libclamav

[Peter Eisentraut]

Neil McGovern wrote:
>   Package name: libphp-clam

In spite of inconsistent current practice, the proposed PHP policy is in 
favor of naming such packages "php-clam".


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Bug#291086: ITP: kdissert -- mindmapping tool

[Peter Eisentraut]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

* Package name: kdissert
  Version : 0.3.4.1
  Upstream Author : Thomas Nagy
* URL : http://freehackers.org/~tnagy/kdissert/
* License : GPL
  Description : mindmapping tool

Mindmapping tool for helping students to create texts such as dissertations, 
reports, and theses.


I'm currently working with the author on making the build system more 
packaging friendly.

Bug#291086: ITP: kdissert -- mindmapping tool

[Peter Eisentraut]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

* Package name: kdissert
  Version : 0.3.4.1
  Upstream Author : Thomas Nagy
* URL : http://freehackers.org/~tnagy/kdissert/
* License : GPL
  Description : mindmapping tool

Mindmapping tool for helping students to create texts such as dissertations, 
reports, and theses.


I'm currently working with the author on making the build system more 
packaging friendly.


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Bug#221820: ITP: rekall -- graphical database frontend

[Peter Eisentraut]

I'm building a rekall package now and will upload it to experimental in 
the next few days unless someone objects.

Bug#282688: RFP: autoconf-doc -- Documentation for autoconf, automatic configure script builder

[Peter Eisentraut]

Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote:
> Since 2.59a-1 of autoconf, it does not have documentation anymore.
> Due to the complexity of the packages, it would be really nice to
> have documentation for autoconf in sarge.

2.59a is a alpha/beta-type release that shouldn't be packaged in the 
first place.

Bug#170719: ITP: jikesrvm -- Virtual machine for Java

[Peter Eisentraut]

It's neither in the archive nor in the NEW queue.  What happened to it?

Bug#280754: ITP: c-jdbc -- Clustered JDBC

[Peter Eisentraut]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

* Package name: c-jdbc
  Version : 1.0.4
  Upstream Author : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* URL : http://c-jdbc.objectweb.org/
* License : LGPL
  Description : database cluster middleware for JDBC

C-JDBC is a database cluster middleware that allows any Java application 
(standalone application, servlet or EJB container, ...) to 
transparently access a cluster of databases through JDBC(tm).  The 
database is distributed and replicated among several nodes and C-JDBC 
balances the queries among these nodes.  C-JDBC handles node failures 
and provides support for checkpointing and hot recovery.

Bug#186163: RFP: xyzzy -- Xyzzy is the historical command that prints "Twice as much happens!"

[Peter Eisentraut]

The given URL http://xyzzy.sourceforge.net/ does not exist.  Do you know 
where the software is available?

Bug#228074: ITA: plr -- Procedural Language interface between PostgreSQL and R

[Peter Eisentraut]

Note to potential adopters: PostgreSQL 8.0 will provide a small build 
infrastructure for plugin modules, and I believe the plr author is 
already working on equipping his package for that.  This should help 
all those packages that currently need a full PostgreSQL source tree 
for building.  So you might want to wait for PostgreSQL 8.0 and the new 
plr before you proceed.

Bug#277529: RFP: libical -- implementation of the IETF's iCalendar Calendaring and Scheduling protocols

[Peter Eisentraut]

You may be interested in the discussion under bug #278075.

Bug#278810: RFP: slony -- A replication system for the PostgreSQL DBMS

[Peter Eisentraut]

Two notes on this for the record:

The software is called Slony-I.  There will likely be a follow-up 
project called Slony-II that can do multimaster replication.  So it 
would be wise to call the Debian package slony1 or something similar 
that includes the number.

I believe the yet to be released 1.1 series of Slony-I will support 
building without a PostgreSQL source tree.  (At least some people have 
been in contact with me for advice regarding this.)  This will likely 
also require PostgreSQL 8.0.  So it's probably best to wait a little 
until this package can be built cleanly.

Bug#276410: ITP: png2ico -- converts .PNG files to Windows .ICO icon resources

[Peter Eisentraut]

Have you read this: 
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Bug#273470: ITA: docbook-dsssl -- Modular DocBook DSSSL stylesheets, for print and HTML

[Peter Eisentraut]

Package: wnpp
Severity: normal

Adam Di Carlo has agreed that I can take over this package since he 
doesn't have time to maintain it anymore.

Bug#271368: ITP: grace6 -- An XY plotting tool (version 6)

[Peter Eisentraut]

Torsten Werner wrote:
>  This package is the experimental version 6 of grace. You should use
> the grace package (version 5) if you are not sure which is the right
> one.
>
> The upstream author recommends packaging version 6 as a separate
> package because development of both version are happening in
> parallel.

Then you should keep the package name the same and upload the package of 
grace 6 to experimental.  When 6 becomes the released version, you 
upload the package of grace 6 to Debian unstable.

Bug#265113: ITP: libphp-fpdf -- PHP class that allows the generation of PDF files

[Peter Eisentraut]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

* Package name: libphp-fpdf
  Version : 1.52
  Upstream Author : Olivier Plathey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* URL : http://www.fpdf.org/
* License : "You may use, modify and redistribute this software as you 
wish."
  Description : PHP class that allows the generation of PDF files

FPDF is a PHP class which allows to generate PDF files with pure PHP,
that is to say without using the PDFlib library.  The advantage is that
PDFlib requires a fee for a commercial usage.  F from FPDF stands for
Free: you may use it for any kind of usage and modify it to suit your
needs.

FPDF has other advantages: high level functions. Here is a list of its
main features:

- Choice of measure unit, page format and margins 
- Page header and footer management 
- Automatic page break 
- Automatic line break and text justification 
- Image support (JPEG and PNG) 
- Colors 
- Links 
- TrueType, Type1 and encoding support 
- Page compression 

FPDF requires no extension (except Zlib to activate compression) and
works with PHP4 and PHP5.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.24-1-586tsc
Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#262951: ITP: winex-installer -- This package will download and build TransGaming winex.

[Peter Eisentraut]

Andrew Saunders wrote:
> Yes. TransGaming asked us not to
> (http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2002/05/msg02463.html). In
> accordance with their wishes, the developer in question decided to
> retract his ITP.

> Andreas, please reconsider this ITP.

Where will free software end up if people create derived works and then 
threaten (more or less) to stop development or invent new measures 
against free distribution if someone redistributes it or otherwise 
makes use of the rights granted to them?

Why shouldn't Debian users have convenient access to winex?  Some Debian 
users probably contributed to the software that winex was originally 
based on, so it's only their right, as part of the whole free software 
deal, that they can access derived works as they see fit.

If people cannot maintain a business except by trying to bend these 
rules, they should reevaluate their involvement in free software.  
Other people are perhaps trying to maintain a business that relies on 
the rules being followed by everyone.

Bug#262552: ITP: ruby-amazon -- a Ruby library for programmatic access to the Amazon website

[Peter Eisentraut]

Dafydd Harries wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
>
> * Package name: ruby-amazon

In accordance with the Ruby policy, the package name should be 
libamazon-ruby[version].

Bug#259142: ITP: rtfreader -- A portable application/ms-rtf parser

[Peter Eisentraut]

Sonia Hamilton wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Version: N/A; reported 2004-07-13
> Severity: wishlist
>
> * Package name: rtfreader
>   Version : unversioned
>   Upstream Author : Brandon Long [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> * URL : http://www.fiction.net/blong/programs/#rtf
> * License : to be checked

I think you will find that the package has no license, and since the 
author says that he copied half the code from Microsoft, that means 
that he will not be able to grant one, either.

Bug#259070: ITP: pgpool -- connection pool server for PostgreSQL

[Peter Eisentraut]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

* Package name: pgpool
  Version : 2.0.3
  Upstream Author : Tatsuo Ishii <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* URL : http://www2b.biglobe.ne.jp/~caco/pgpool/index-e.html
* License : BSD
  Description : connection pool server for PostgreSQL

 pgpool is a connection pool server for PostgreSQL.  pgpool runs between
 PostgreSQL's client and server.  Any PostgreSQL client can connect to
 pgpool as if it's a real PostgreSQL server.  pgpool caches the
 connection to the PostgreSQL server to reduce the overhead involved in
 establishing the connection to it.  pgpool could also be used with two
 PostgreSQL servers for fail over purposes.  If the first server goes
 down, pgpool will automatically switch to the secondary server.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.24-1-586tsc
Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#234841: ITP: pgmanage -- PostgreSQL GUI management tool

[Peter Eisentraut]

Guilherme de S. Pastore wrote:
> Can't you just send it to non-free?

No, because the Open Software License doesn't even allow distribution.  
Detailed analyses of the OSL have been made on debian-legal.

Bug#234841: ITP: pgmanage -- PostgreSQL GUI management tool

[Peter Eisentraut]

tags 234841 + wontfix
stop

pgManage is licensed under the Open Software License, which violates the 
DFSG.  I have contacted the authors about this, and they will think 
about it.  I will leave this ITP here in case other people wonder about 
it.

Those who are interested can find Debian packages now at 
http://www.pgpackages.org.

Bug#257490: ITP: gld -- greylisting daemon for Postfix, written in C

[Peter Eisentraut]

sanvila wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
>
> * Package name: gld
>   Version : 1.2
>   Upstream Author : Salim Gasmi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> * URL : http://www.gasmi.net/gld.html
> * License : GPL version 2
>   Description : greylisting daemon for postfix, written in C,
> uses MySQL

I suggest that you name the package something like postfix-gld, since 
there may be other greylisting daemons in the future, and "gld" sounds 
awfully generic (GNU ld?).

Bug#160321: new package for knoda

[Peter Eisentraut]

Am Donnerstag, 1. Juli 2004 11:26 schrieb Stan Pinte:
> hello,
>
> I am making all packages needed for knoda (libhk-classes, hk-classes,
> hk-classes-dev, libknoda, knoda).
>
> I will look soon for a sponsor.
>
> contact me by mail if you need the packages.

Mike Schacht has been maintaining knoda packages on mentors.debian.net for 
about 1.5 years.  Those are probably the most mature, and you should try to 
work with those.

Bug#237854: ITP: egroupware -- A web-based groupware suite

[Peter Eisentraut]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

* Package name: egroupware
  Version : 0.9.99.014.1
  Upstream Author : eGroupWare developers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* URL : http://www.egroupware.org/
* License : GPL, LGPL
  Description : A web-based groupware suite

eGroupWare is a web-based groupware suite written in PHP.
It contains about 30 applications, for instance addressbook,
calendar, email client, infolog, project manager, and a wiki.
Each application will be a separate subpackage.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.24-1-586tsc
Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#234915: ITP: plruby -- Ruby procedural language for PostgreSQL

[Peter Eisentraut]

Andreas Rottmann wrote:
> Just my 2 cents: how about a more explict package name, e.g
> postgresql-plruby?

Yes, I agree.