Bug#869648: ITP: node-mimelib -- MIME functions to encode/decode e-mails etc.

2018-04-11 Thread Steve Cotton 
On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 06:33:35PM +0800, Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) wrote:
> * Package name: node-mimelib
>
>  This is a deprecated lib. Please read README.Debian to find a new lib
> for you.

Hi PaulLiu,

If you'll pardon the question, why are you packaging a library that's
deprecated, one for which the upstream author's README now starts with "All
users of this project are urged to find an alternative as it is not maintained
anymore."?

I can't read the file contents while the package is still in the NEW queue, so
can't see if this question is already answered there.  But another thread has
started on debian-devel about the number of items in the NEW queue, and this
seemed an obvious question to ask about the package that's spent longest on the
queue.

Best regards,
Steve

Bug#868443: ITP: node-is-object -- Checks whether a value is an object

2017-07-18 Thread Steve Cotton 
On Sun, Jul 16, 2017 at 12:30:10PM +0530, Visakh S wrote:
> > > ITP
> > > * Package name: node-is-object
>
> hi steve
> 
> acknowledged your corrections
> but what exactly is the ITP'd package missing that node-isobject solves

Hi Visakh,

Having thought about it more, I think it's an error on my part, not
understanding how Node.js development works.

I thought that having two different definitions of isObject meant that
developers reading code that used either package are more likely to
make incorrect assumptions about which edge cases are handled, and
which are not (assuming that isObject does what their normal isObject
does).

BR,
Steve

Bug#868443: ITP: node-is-object -- Checks whether a value is an object

2017-07-15 Thread Steve Cotton 
On Sat, Jul 15, 2017 at 06:14:30PM +0530, Visakh S wrote:
> ITP
> * Package name: node-is-object
> * URL : https://github.com/ljharb/is-object

Hi Visakh,

A different implementation is already packaged in Debian as "node-isobject".
The already-packaged implementation handles Arrays as an edge-case, and the
ITP'd one doesn't.

Already packaged node-isobject from https://github.com/jonschlinkert :
return val != null && typeof val === 'object' && Array.isArray(val) === 
false;

Suggested new node-is-object from https://github.com/ljharb/is-object :
return typeof x === 'object' && x !== null;

The difference is known and intentional.  IMO having both packages with both
methods called "isObject" seems likely to cause confusion, however I'm not a
Node.js programmer.
https://github.com/ljharb/is-object/issues/1

BR,
Steve

Bug#840371: ITP: git-repo -- CLI utility to manage git services from your workspace

2016-10-11 Thread Steve Cotton 
On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 09:28:45AM +0800, ChangZhuo Chen wrote:
> * Package name: git-repo
> * URL : https://github.com/guyzmo/git-repo

Hi ChangZhuo Chen,

There's already a different Git tool in debian called "repo" (in package
"repo"), the names seem confusingly similar.

BR,
Steve

Bug#830624: ITP: xplayer -- Simple media player based on GStreamer.

2016-07-10 Thread Steve Cotton 
My apologies for the garbage reply that I sent earlier. Accidentally sent from 
a phone in my pocket.

And it had three mailing lists on it, failing in style. :(

Steve

Bug#830624: ITP: xplayer -- Simple media player based on GStreamer.

2016-07-10 Thread Steve Cotton 
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On 10 July 2016 08:59:59 CEST, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz 
 wrote:
>On 07/10/2016 08:39 AM, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
>> I foupml0lnd
>http://segfault.linuxmint.com/2016/02/the-first-two-x-apps-are-ready/,
>> which makes things clearer. Thisf seems to be a cross-desktop (Matea) 
>> $₩p5p!4♧''. jj
>Cinnamon...
>> XFCE?) project to provide some core apps. Which we wouldn't end up
>with multiple
>> forks of the same stuff, and that addressemt. I:.!I! ki;,H.i:s my concerns.
>
>Yep, same concern here. I'm on the MATE packaging team and I am
 against/£♥♥♥]e I iit-.su',
>packaging any of these X apps. They don't bring any benefit really, any
>of the
>existing applications they are forking run perfectly fine on any
>desktop that
>Debian offers.
>
>I also fear additional work load for the security team if multiple
>instances
>of the same media player have to be taken care of.
>
>Adrian

Bug#745347: ITP: releases -- A Sphinx extension for changelog manipulation

2014-04-21 Thread Steve Cotton 
On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 at 20:35 +0200, Zygmunt Krynicki wrote:
 * Package name: releases

IMHO, that package name is confusing.  For example:

Bug #xx is in stable releases but fixed in unstable releases.
Bug #xx is in stable sphinx-releases but fixed in unstable sphinx-releases.

In the first of those, I don't see which package is being discussed.

In the second I see the package sphinx being discussed, so that
name doesn't work for me either.

Regards,
Steve


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Bug#745347: ITP: releases -- A Sphinx extension for changelog manipulation

2014-04-21 Thread Steve Cotton 
On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 14:05 +0200, Zygmunt Krynicki wrote:
 Hi Steve
 
 I saw the package being uploaded to NEW just a moment ago. I could rename
 it to python-releases (I don't think there's a standard naming scheme for
 sphinx extensions yet). What do you think?
 
 Thanks
 Zygmunt

Hi Zygmunt,

I find python-releases confusing in the same way.  If I saw

Bug #xx is in stable python-releases but fixed in unstable 
python-releases.

then I'd understand that it was a bug in the python2.7  python3.2
packages, not a bug in a package called python-releases.

I prefer a name that doesn't look like the name of another package
followed by the word releases.  Maybe python-releaseslog.


Note: I'm not a DD, if no DD is complaining then maybe it's not confusing.

Thanks,
Steve


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Bug#732200: ITP: Open Time Zone Converter -- A simple app to convert the time and date between two different zones.

2013-12-20 Thread Steve Cotton 
On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 00:06 +0900, David Maiorino wrote:
 Questions:
 1. please use system-supplied widgets on the right hand panel
 too. For this request, my idea was to limit the amount of knobs
 that could be touched. So the date and time the user knows would be
 but on the left, and the result they wanted would be on the right.
 Would it make sense to have this adjustable on both sides.

I was wrong to suggest using widgets on the right hand side,
limiting the number of knobs is better.  I was thinking of ways to
show the date in the right hand panel in a system-supplied
localised format.

Please use the DateFormat class to create the string that goes in
newTimeLabel, so that it is localised. 

 2. Copyrights. Would anybody know if we need to add copyrights
 for the classes used in this program? The program runs fine with
 OpenJDK as well, so maybe a solution would be to package it to run
 with OpenJDK?

My concern was with the lists of timezones in
TimeZoneMenu.simplifiedTimezoneList, africaTimezoneList etc, and I
thought that they would be removed as part of the localisation
process anyway.

But now I see that those lists are selected by hand from a much
longer list that's available from the TimeZone system class, with
no way to create the short list programatically.  Also those
strings are IDs which don't change between locales.

I think that's OK, it's similar to names of methods and classes.
(But I'm not an authority on this).

Cheers,
Steve


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Bug#732200: ITP: Open Time Zone Converter -- A simple app to convert the time and date between two different zones.

2013-12-15 Thread Steve Cotton 
Hi David,

At the moment the app only supports US English, with the
MM/DD/ date format.  The system-supplied date widgets on the
left panel localise themselves; please use system-supplied widgets
on the right hand panel too.

TimeZoneMenu.java probably needs a copyright attribution for the
list of timezones.  However, to localise the app these would
need to be replaced by getting them from the Java environment.

Java package names should put the top-level domain first
(com.dmaiorino.OpenTimeZoneConverter).

The email address that your wnpp bug report comes from seems to
have a missing 'l' in it.


I'm not a DD, so can not offer to upload your package even after
those changes.

Cheers,
Steve


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Bug#730827: ITP: light-locker -- simple screen locker for LightDM display manager

2013-11-30 Thread Steve Cotton 
On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 22:36 +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
   Description : simple screen locker for LightDM display manager
 
 light-locker is a simple locker that aims to have simple, sane, secure
 defaults and be well integrated with the desktop while not carrying any
 desktop-specific dependencies.

I suggest changing locker to locking screensaver in the long
description.  Both for people thinking what kind of locker and
people searching for screensaver packages.

Cheers,
Steve


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Bug#654689: ITP: osutil -- Operating system utilities JNI package

2012-01-05 Thread Steve Cotton 
Hi Timo,

 * Package name: osutil
   Description : Operating system utilities JNI package
 
 The Operating System Utilities Java Native Interface (JNI) package
 supplies various native operating system operations to Java programs.

Please say in the package description what the functionality
provided by the package is.


Signal.java has one architecture's signal numbers hardcoded in.

The Java files have hardcoded library paths in, and will break
with multiarch.

It's full of error messages printed to stdout / stderr.

Some of the functionality (such as String to byte conversion)
seems to duplicate functionality already in Java; maybe they
weren't in Java back in 1997.

Generally, the code looks rather buggy.


 * License : GPL-2+

If the copyright statements are correct, this is GPL-2, not
GPL-2+.

But while the copyright statements say (C) 2007 Red Hat, Inc., the package
name and JNI function names have com.netscape in them.
Except the one in src/com/netscape/osutil/unixdefs.h :

/* == 
* Copyright (c) 1997 Netscape Communications Corporation 
* This file contains proprietary information of Netscape Communications. 
* Copying or reproduction without prior written approval is prohibited. 
* == */ 

If it's pre-Mozilla-Foundation code, there might be a better implementation
from Mozilla.  Either way, it seems to have licensing issues.

Regards,
Steve



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Bug#437516: ITP: ember -- 3D client for the WorldForge project

2009-04-17 Thread Steve Cotton 
On Mon, Dec 10, 2007 at 01:47:31PM -0600, Erick Vresnev Castellanos Hernández 
wrote:
 I'll spend some time packing ember (or at least try).
 
 At the moment I found that libwfut package is required, but missing
 from Debian.

Hello Erick,

Are you still intending to package Ember?

libwfut has been packaged for Sear, which is currently the only
user of four libary packages:
liberis-1.3-14 libmd3-1 libsage2 libwfut-0.2-1

I've just filed
#524484: sear, sear-media: should this package be removed?
which may lead to all of those libraries being removed.

Regards,
Steve



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Bug#495362: exmap

2009-02-19 Thread Steve Cotton 
I'm not offering to adopt, just adding a few notes.

The kernel module won't compile with kernel 2.6.26 (patch in bug
495335 ).  For 2.6.27 a second patch is needed, which is attached
to Ubuntu's LaunchPad bug 284863 .

Arch Linux also has a fair bit of info:
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=6760

I think this bug may be specific to amd64:
  #453852  [grave] exmap: Assertion failure at startup
Popcon suggests that that it still works for some people (33 votes
for a developer-specific package that's only in Etch + Sid).

The package will need to be updated / removed for the transition
to versioned Boost packages, possibly a good time to remove it if
it's still orphaned.

Steve



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Bug#515438: lostlabyrinth-graphics: copyright problems

2009-02-16 Thread Steve Cotton 
I think I've seen a lot of those graphics before.

This chest is from Secret Of Mana (top-left of first screenshot)
http://www.lostlabyrinth.com/content/images/archipelago.jpg
http://www.mobygames.com/game/snes/secret-of-mana/screenshots/gameShotId,27149/

In upstream's tiles_1.0.tar.gz, there are 24 big images.  To give just
the first one that I recognised, fsi10.png is from Dragonlance;
it's the front cover of ISBN 978-0786903054 for example.

Regards,
Steve



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