Bug#539609: RFA: file-rc -- Alternative boot mechanism using a single configuration file
Package: wnpp Severity: normal I request an adopter for the file-rc package. The package description is: This package provides an alternative mechanism to boot the system, to shut it down and to change runlevels. The /etc/rc?.d/* links will be converted into one single configuration file /etc/runlevel.conf instead, which is easier to administrate than symlinks, and is also more flexible. . The package will automatically convert your existing symlinks into the file method on installation, and convert the file back into symlinks on removal. Both mechanisms are compatible through /etc/init.d/rc, /etc/init.d/rcS, /usr/sbin/update-rc.d, and /usr/sbin/invoke-rc.d scripts. At the moment this package requires some action because it is required to implement insserv functionality here, see Bug#539591. At the moment I personally won't find the time to dig deep enough into insserv to code this. So I request for an adopter of this package. Tscho Roland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#424722: ITA: rancid -- Really Awesome New Cisco confIg Differ
retitle 424722 ITA: rancid -- Really Awesome New Cisco confIg Differ owner 424722 ! thanks We are using this package, so if nobody else objects, I'll try to take over the maintenance of this package. Tscho Roland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#435116: RFA: pkspxy -- PGP Public Key Server Proxy Daemon
Package: wnpp Severity: normal I request an adopter for the pkspxy package. The package description is: This package implements a caching proxy to be used between any program which speaks the HKP protocol for PGP public key exchange, and any HKP-capable key server (this will probably be pks). I personally do no longer use this package, because I have a fixed Internet connection for some years now, so I do not need a caching proxy. Anyway, according to popcon there is a hand full of active users of this package, so I do not want to remove the package from the distribution. The package does not have any open bug reports and I just uploaded version 0.5-9 which solves all lintian warnings that arrived since the last (2 year old) release 0.5-8. Tscho Roland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#130824: ITA hkgerman -- igerman and wgerman
retitle 130824 ITA: hkgerman -- igerman and wgerman thanks I intend to adopt the hkgerman package and to maintain it in coordination with the new German orthography package igerman98, which I already maintain. It is planned to migrate both packages to the new dictionaries-common language selection mechanism as soon as possible. Tscho Roland -- * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://www.spinnaker.de/ *
Bug#138873: RFA: isdnbutton -- Start and Stop ISDN connections and display status
Package: wnpp Severity: normal I will switch over from ISDN to ADSL soon, so I won't need isdnbutton any more and so it doesn't make much sense to maintain this package any longer without using it myself. Except this there's bug #138559 which mentions a problem with this package on woody which seems to be somewhere in the X11 internals, which I cannot fix because my X11 knowledge is very limited and the upstream maintainer cannot help, because he doesn't use or work on isdnbutton himself. So a new maintainer for this package is needed asap. Tscho Roland -- * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://www.spinnaker.de/ *
Bug#140612: ITP: privoxy -- Privacy enhancing HTTP Proxy
Package: wnpp Version: N/A; reported 2002-03-30 Severity: wishlist * Package name: privoxy Version : 2.9.13-beta Upstream Author : [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://www.privoxy.org/ * License : GPL Description : Privacy enhancing HTTP Proxy Privoxy is an instrumentable HTTP proxy that filters the HTTP data stream between web servers and browsers. Privoxy can be used to protect privacy, manage cookies, filter web page content, manage access restrictions, and to discard such annoying Internet junk as ads, banners, and pop-ups. Or whatever other annoyances strike your fancy. Privoxy is a derivate of junkbuster, but it uses a different name space and a different port (8118), so junkbuster and privoxy can coexist on one system. Tscho Roland -- * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://www.spinnaker.de/ * -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#140484: ITP: provoxy -- Privacy enhancing HTTP Proxy
retitle 140484 ITP: provoxy -- Privacy enhancing HTTP Proxy thanks Bill Jonas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> decided to keep away from the Debian package of privoxy, so I'll talk over this job as offered some time before. I'll upload the package as soon as possible (just working on a permission problem, which was reported upstream). Until my first official Debian release, you can find an unofficial version of the package at the privoxy home page on sourceforge or at http://www.spinnaker.de/debian/unoff/privoxy.html Tscho Roland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#323453: RFA: bsmtpd -- Batched SMTP mailer for sendmail and postfix
Package: wnpp Severity: normal I stopped using UUCP and as a consequence also bsmtpd years ago, so I don't use bsmtpd any more myself. I think that someone, who actively uses the package should maintain it, otherwise I suggest to remove the package from Debian. Tscho Roland -- * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://www.spinnaker.de/ * -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#678092: RFA: emil -- Conversion Filter for Internet Messages
Package: wnpp Severity: normal I request an adopter for the emil package. The package description is: Emil v2 is a filter for converting Internet Messages. It supports three basic formats: MIME, SUN Mailtool and plain old style RFC822. It can be used with sendmail, as a mailer, or as a prefilter or backend program with a mail client program, or as a plain filter. I stopped using this tool myself some years ago since SUN Mailtool is no longer used and so my primary usage for this tool (converting mails from SUN Mailtool format to MIME) no longer exists. If someone wants to adopt this package please stand up! Otherwise we should remove the package from archive. Tscho Roland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120619063323.ga9...@dinghy.sail.spinnaker.de
Bug#515280: RFA: pkspxy
Package: wnpp Severity: normal I request for an adopter for the packages pkspxy Description: PGP Public Key Server Proxy Daemon This package implements a caching proxy to be used between any program which speaks the HKP protocol for PGP public key exchange, and any HKP-capable key server (this will probably be pks). and pkspxyc Description: PGP Public Key Server Proxy Client pkspxyc is the "smart" client to be used with the PKS proxy server. More generally, it can be used as a HKP client with almost any PGP key server. I myself do not use these programs any longer and the popcon shows me, that nearly nobody else uses these packages. So I think they can be removed from the archive and shouldn't go into squeeze unless somebody is interested in the package and takes over maintainership. Tscho Roland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#920119: ITA: agrep -- text search tool with support for approximate patterns
retitle 920119 O: agrep -- text search tool with support for approximate patterns stop On Fr, 12 Jul 2019, I wrote: > I intent to adopt the agrep package. > > As a first step I intent do merge all existing sources (alioth GIT > including some unpublished changes by Jari Alto) and move to salsa. > > After this an update to 4.18.6 from the webglimpse is planned. > > Also the move from non-free to main based on the ISC license (see > #827902). In the meantime I adapted the patches in different agrep sources to the glimpse package, which already contained the agrep binary. Alexander Zangerl merged these patches into his official glimpse package and added "Provides: agrep" to the package. In parallel I changed ding, the only package, which reverse depended on agrep (via Suggests), to "Recommends: glimpse" instead of "Suggests: agrep". So from my point of view, it would the easiest way to simply remove agrep from the archive in sid and bullseye, since it is no longer needed. Greetings Roland signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Bug#920119: ITA: agrep -- text search tool with support for approximate patterns
retitle 920119 ITA: agrep -- text search tool with support for approximate patterns owner Roland Rosenfeld stop I intent to adopt the agrep package. As a first step I intent do merge all existing sources (alioth GIT including some unpublished changes by Jari Alto) and move to salsa. After this an update to 4.18.6 from the webglimpse is planned. Also the move from non-free to main based on the ISC license (see #827902). And as a further option I think about moving from the glimpse version to the https://github.com/Wikinaut/agrep fork (using a different version numbering scheme, currently at 3.41.5/TG), but I'm not fully sure, weather this is the optimal way, since both versions are far away from each other and I do not yet understand which one is the better one. Greetings Roland signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Bug#945145: O: docbook-dsssl -- modular DocBook DSSSL stylesheets, for print and HTML
On So, 05 Jan 2020, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > > Certainly a few reverse (Build-)Depends: > > # Broken Build-Depends: > > privoxy: 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). At least privoxy is actively maintained upstream as well as in Debian and still uses docbook-dsssl to build the documentation (the Debian package could use the pre build documentation shipped by upstream, but in my eyes this isn't what "build from source" really means, so I rebuild the documentation on every build). The built documentation is then made available as HTML and referenced from the program itself (pointing to countless paragraphs/anchors), so it may not be trivial to change this to a different tool chain, which may generate different anchors in the HTML code. > > 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. Same for me. > The most straightforward change would be to change to docbook-xsl. > But that would be an upstream decision. But docbook-xsl is also orphaned: https://bugs.debian.org/802370 Greetings Roland
Bug#912407: ITP: mailfromd -- General-Purpose Mail Filter
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Roland Rosenfeld * Package name: mailfromd Version : 8.6 Upstream Author : Sergey Poznyakoff * URL : https://puszcza.gnu.org.ua/software/mailfromd/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: C Description : General-Purpose Mail Filter Mailfromd is a general-purpose mail filtering daemon. It is able to interact with any MTA that supports milter or pmilter protocol, such as Sendmail, Postfix and MeTA1. It is able to filter both incoming and outgoing messages using criteria of arbitrary complexity, supplied by the administrator in the form of a script file. (Include the long description here.) I use this program in my job and like to have a package there, so I can publish it for others, too. I'll maintain it as all my packages in salsa. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Bug#833568: RFA: post-faq -- post periodic FAQs to Usenet newsgroups
Package: wnpp Severity: normal I request an adopter for the post-faq package. The package description is: post periodic FAQs to Usenet newsgroups The purpose of this package is to handle the posting of periodic informational postings to the USENET using cron. . For this it adds appropriate Message-ID, Expires, Supersedes, and References headers. Since I myself do not use the program any longer and popcon shows only one installation and no vote, I tend do remove this package from the Debian archive. Before I do so, I give you the chance to take it over, if you think that someone needs it. Tscho Roland
Bug#1058490: ITP: libdbd-multi-perl -- failover and load balancing of DBI handles
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Roland Rosenfeld X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-de...@lists.debian.org, debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libdbd-multi-perl Version : 1.02 Upstream Author : Dan Wright * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/DBD-Multi * License : Artistic or GPL-1+ Programming Lang: Perl Description : failover and load balancing of DBI handles DBD::Multi manages multiple database connections for failovers and also simple load balancing. It acts as a proxy between your code and your database connections, transparently choosing a connection for each query, based on your preferences and present availability of the DB server. DBD::Multi is intended for read-only operations (where some other application is being used to handle replication). The package will be maintained under the umbrella of the Debian Perl Group. -- Generated with the help of dpt-gen-itp(1) from pkg-perl-tools.
Bug#840888: Pre-ITA: a2ps
Hi! I think about adopting a2ps package. My thoughts are not final (so this is not an ITA), but I want to let you know that I started working on it (especially on an upgrade to upstream alpha version 4.14.95). I created an unofficial GIT repo for this at https://salsa.debian.org/roland/a2ps (see especially the alpha branch). Greetings Roland
Bug#705313: libnet-cidr-set-perl: changing back from RFP to ITP
retitle 705313 ITP: libnet-cidr-set-perl -- Net::CIDR::Set perl module to manipulate sets of IP addresses owner 705313 ! thanks I just need this package myself, so it's a good idea to package it for Debian now (under the hut of perl-team). Greetings Roland
Bug#1063790: ITP: libjavascript-quickjs-perl -- Run JavaScript via QuickJS in Perl
Package: wnpp Owner: Roland Rosenfeld Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-de...@lists.debian.org, debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libjavascript-quickjs-perl Version : 0.19 Upstream Author : Felipe Gasper (FELIPE) * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/JavaScript-QuickJS * License : Artistic or GPL-1+ Programming Lang: Perl Description : Run JavaScript via QuickJS in Perl JavaScript::QuickJS embeds Fabrice BellardâÂÂs QuickJS engine into a Perl XS module. You can thus run JavaScript directly in your Perl programs. -- Generated with the help of dpt-gen-itp(1) from pkg-perl-tools.
Bug#1063791: ITP: libfile-loadlines-perl -- Load lines from files and network
Package: wnpp Owner: Roland Rosenfeld Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-de...@lists.debian.org, debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libfile-loadlines-perl Version : 1.045 Upstream Author : Johan Vromans * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/File-LoadLines * License : Artistic or GPL-1+ Programming Lang: Perl Description : Load lines from files and network File::LoadLines provides an easy way to load the contents of a text file into an array of lines. It is intended for small to moderate size files like config files that are often produced by weird tools (and users). It will transparantly fetch data from the network if the provided file name is a URL. File::LoadLines automatically handles ASCII, Latin-1 and UTF-8 text. When the file has a BOM, it handles UTF-8, UTF-16 LE and BE, and UTF-32 LE and BE. Recognized line terminators are NL (Unix, Linux), CRLF (DOS, Windows) and CR (Mac) -- Generated with the help of dpt-gen-itp(1) from pkg-perl-tools.
Bug#1063792: ITP: libtext-layout-perl -- Pango style markup formatting
Package: wnpp Owner: Roland Rosenfeld Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-de...@lists.debian.org, debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libtext-layout-perl Version : 0.032 Upstream Author : Johan Vromans * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/Text-Layout * License : Artistic or GPL-1+ Programming Lang: Perl Description : Pango style markup formatting Text::Layout provides methods for Pango style text formatting. Where possible the methods have identical names and (near) identical behavior as their Pango counterparts. -- Generated with the help of dpt-gen-itp(1) from pkg-perl-tools.
Bug#1063794: ITP: chordpro -- lyrics and chords formatting program
Package: wnpp Owner: Roland Rosenfeld Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-de...@lists.debian.org * Package name: chordpro Version : 6.050 Upstream Author : Johan Vromans * URL : https://www.chordpro.org/ * License : Artistic or GPL-1+ Programming Lang: FIXME Description : lyrics and chords formatting program ChordPro will read one or more text files containing the lyrics of one or many songs plus chord information. chordpro will then generate a photo-ready, professional looking, impress-your-friends sheet-music suitable for printing on your nearest printer. -- Generated with the help of dpt-gen-itp(1) from pkg-perl-tools.
Bug#1063793: ITP: libstring-interpolate-named-perl -- Interpolated named arguments in string
Package: wnpp Owner: Roland Rosenfeld Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-de...@lists.debian.org, debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libstring-interpolate-named-perl Version : 1.03 Upstream Author : Johan Vromans * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/String-Interpolate-Named * License : Artistic or GPL-1+ Programming Lang: Perl Description : Interpolated named arguments in string String::Interpolate::Named provides a function to interpolate named arguments by target texts in a template string. The target texts are provided to the function via a hash, where the keys correspond to the named argument to be replaced, or a subroutine that performs the lookup. -- Generated with the help of dpt-gen-itp(1) from pkg-perl-tools.
