Bug#488856: ITP: libferret-ruby -- search engine derived from Lucene

2008-07-01 Thread Decklin Foster
Package: wnpp Owner: Decklin Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Severity: wishlist This is one of a series of ITPs for Ruby libraries ("gems") required for the packaging of sup-mail; see #450602. If anyone at all is interested in stepping in to maintain one or more of these libraries, pl

Bug#488855: ITP: libchronic-ruby -- natural language date parser

2008-07-01 Thread Decklin Foster
Package: wnpp Owner: Decklin Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Severity: wishlist This is one of a series of ITPs for Ruby libraries ("gems") required for the packaging of sup-mail; see #450602. If anyone at all is interested in stepping in to maintain one or more of these libraries, pl

Bug#488873: ITP: libmime-types-ruby -- guess MIME type of files

2008-07-01 Thread Decklin Foster
Package: wnpp Owner: Decklin Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Severity: wishlist This is one of a series of ITPs for Ruby libraries ("gems") required for the packaging of sup-mail; see #450602. If anyone at all is interested in stepping in to maintain one or more of these libraries, pl

Bug#488872: ITP: liblockfile-ruby -- create NFS-safe lockfiles

2008-07-01 Thread Decklin Foster
Package: wnpp Owner: Decklin Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Severity: wishlist This is one of a series of ITPs for Ruby libraries ("gems") required for the packaging of sup-mail; see #450602. If anyone at all is interested in stepping in to maintain one or more of these libraries, pl

Bug#488877: ITP: libtrollop-ruby -- command-line argument processing library

2008-07-01 Thread Decklin Foster
Package: wnpp Owner: Decklin Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Severity: wishlist This is one of a series of ITPs for Ruby libraries ("gems") required for the packaging of sup-mail; see #450602. If anyone at all is interested in stepping in to maintain one or more of these libraries, pl

Bug#489059: ITP: mnemosyne-blog -- Maildir-to-blog compiler with XML templating and Python extensions

2008-07-02 Thread Decklin Foster
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Decklin Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: mnemosyne-blog Version : 0.9 Upstream Author : Decklin Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.red-bean.com/~decklin/mnemosyne/ * License : ISC Prog

Re: Bug#489059: ITP: mnemosyne-blog -- Maildir-to-blog compiler with XML templating and Python extensions

2008-07-03 Thread Decklin Foster
Ben Finney writes: > I'd advise the name "mnemosyne-weblog" which is slightly less > jargonny. Hmm. While I don't want to dismiss this out of hand, I feel much more natural saying "blog" myself. As a crude approximation of current usage, here are the current numbers of google hits for: "weblog

Bug#500049: ITP: ears -- collection of MPD/Last.fm clients

2008-09-24 Thread Decklin Foster
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: ears Version : 1.0.0 Upstream Author : Decklin Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.red-bean.com/decklin/ears/ * License : MIT Description : Last.fm plugin for MPD and CD ripper Ears cont

Re: Terminal emulators and command line arguments (again!)

2008-10-12 Thread Decklin Foster
Excerpts from Steve McIntyre's message of Sun Oct 12 13:12:03 -0400 2008: > Ideally, I'd like us to do a combination of #2 and #3: work out the > standard set of options, and have each package provide a wrapper > script as necessary to support those options. I'd be happy to do this for rxvt-unico

Bug#211996: ITP: liblivejournal-perl -- Perl implementation of the LiveJournal protocol

2003-09-21 Thread Decklin Foster
Package: wnpp Version: unavailable; reported 2003-09-21 Severity: wishlist * Package name: liblivejournal-perl Version : 1.3 Upstream Author : Frank Sheiness <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.livejournal.com/files/code/lib/perl/LiveJournal/ * License : Art

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Debian Developer Packages Overview

2002-08-27 Thread Decklin Foster
Igor Genibel writes: > I have enhanced the ddpo (http://people.debian.org/~igenibel/index.php) I think I've found a bug: aewm is listed as having version 1.0.16-3 in stable and testing, but there is no such version of that package. According to madison 1.2.0-1 is installed in all 3 dists. Other

Re: Bug#330064: wm2 should provide a session file for kdm and gdm

2005-09-25 Thread Decklin Foster
Christopher Martin writes: > If the Debian menu plans to enter the business of providing > freedesktop.org window manager session files for display managers, > then I must have missed the announcement. How feasible is it for gdm or kdm to write a menu method, as wms do? Is there some reason this

Re: planet.debian.org vs. blog illiteracy

2005-09-26 Thread Decklin Foster
W. Borgert writes: > I found out, that more and more important information about > Debian development are on the planet.debian.org/.net website. > I'm illiterate on "blogging", so please could someone tell me > whether/how I can view this page in a "Debian only" mode? E.g. > without vacancy trave

Re: List of packages needing a new maintainer

2000-12-29 Thread Decklin Foster
Toni Mueller writes: > > RFA: netcat -- TCP/IP swiss army knife > > I'll take a look, maybe i take this over. Already in Incoming ;-) -- things change. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: letters in upstream version numbers

2001-09-26 Thread Decklin Foster
Noah L. Meyerhans writes: > In the case of the latest iputils package, it is ss010824. I assume 'ss' means 'snapshot'. You should use a version of the form 20010824, and ask upstream to change. If a 'normal' version number is anticipated soon, and you want to be able to switch without using an e

Bug#518180: ITP: tircd -- ircd proxy to the twitter API

2009-03-04 Thread Decklin Foster
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Decklin Foster * Package name: tircd Version : 0.7 Upstream Author : Chris Nelson * URL : http://code.google.com/p/tircd/ * License : Artistic/GPL Programming Lang: Perl Description : ircd proxy to the twitter

Bug#518181: ITP: libnet-twitter-perl -- Perl interface to twitter.com

2009-03-04 Thread Decklin Foster
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Decklin Foster (This is a dependency of tircd, #518180.) * Package name: libnet-twitter-perl Version : 2.10 Upstream Author : Chris Thompson * URL : http://search.cpan.org/~cthom/Net-Twitter/ * License : Artistic/GPL

Re: alternative man page reader?

1999-05-16 Thread Decklin Foster
Bradley Bell wrote: > Here, for example, is a teeny tiny little nroff that does a good job > reading most, but not all man pages: > ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/utils/text/nroffsrc.tar.Z I'll have to check this out. If anyone is thinking about implementing a short 'man' shell script to go with

Re: Debian membership (with a twist)

1999-10-03 Thread Decklin Foster
Steve Willer writes: > Yes, this is exactly the problem, and it's a big reason why I > installed FreeBSD over Debian last night. I had hoped that the new > school year would bring some energy to this project, but it's still > the same old bickering, the same lack of forward movement, and > new-mai

Re: Intent To Split: netbase

2000-08-14 Thread Decklin Foster
Andreas Fuchs writes: > Hm. So why not make it the admin's choice? How about' > > > Setting up netbase (version) ... > > In the standard configuration, some binaries of netbase are installed > in /usr/sbin, which is, by default, not included in the user's search > paths. Do you want to create a

Re: policy changes toward Non-Interactive installation

2000-08-15 Thread Decklin Foster
Brian May writes: > Just curious, why does realplayer have to do it in the postinst > script? Binaries need to be downloaded from Real and we can't redistribute them. The user also has to fill out 'personal information' to be able to access the required files. -- There is no TRUTH. There is no

Re: Intent To Split: netbase

2000-08-15 Thread Decklin Foster
Steve Bowman writes: > OK, how about moving everything into /bin except what FHS specifically > says should be in /sbin? I very much like this idea. Does anyone have objections? -- There is no TRUTH. There is no REALITY. There is no CONSISTENCY. There are no ABSOLUTE STATEMENTS. I'm very proba

Re: policy changes toward Non-Interactive installation

2000-08-15 Thread Decklin Foster
Manoj Srivastava writes: > Actually, this is a particular irritant. Why does it have to > be done in the postinst? Why can't I have /usr/sbin/inst-realplayer? > So I can download and install at my leaisure, and I do not have to > reinstall realplayer installer to get a new copy? That's n

Re: Intent To Split: netbase

2000-08-15 Thread Decklin Foster
Herbert Xu writes: > Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Generally, maintainer scripts, and programs meant to be run by > > root, run as root. > > > If a program expects to use some tool that only root would use, it > > should expect to be running as root. > > So you do agree with

Re: Subpackaging (Was: Potato now stable)

2000-08-17 Thread Decklin Foster
Edward Betts writes: > Possible layout > ~~~ I like the plan a lot. some thoughts: > doc/examples.tar.gz /usr/share/doc/examples/* > locale/*/gettext.tar.gz gettext translations I wonder if the default docs should not go in a locale/ subdir for the proper language (English

Bug#33993: general: Should log all the boot messages

2000-08-17 Thread Decklin Foster
Cesar Eduardo Barros <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Package: general > Version: N/A > Severity: wishlist > > There are too many boot messages, and they sometimes scroll too > fast. It would be nice to log all the output from the boot scripts. Huh? does dmesg not do what you want? -- There is no

Re: Security of Debian SuX0r?

2000-08-31 Thread Decklin Foster
Peter Makholm writes: > I've just helped a friend instaling Debian. He had two comment > about the above question. Is it the red or blue button there is > active? It is badly marked which button you are about the press. You know, that *has* been bugging me... However you can use the cursor to fig

Bug#299828: ITP: python-mpdclient -- Python interface to MPD (Music Player Daemon)

2005-03-16 Thread Decklin Foster
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Decklin Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: python-mpdclient Version : 0.10.0 Upstream Author : Nick Welch * URL : http://www.musicpd.org/py-libmpdclient.shtml * License : LGPL Description : Python int

Bug#299830: ITP: python-beautifulsoup -- error-tolerant HTML parser for Python

2005-03-16 Thread Decklin Foster
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Decklin Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: python-beautifulsoup Version : 1.2+cvs20041017 Upstream Author : Leonard Richardson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSou

Bug#337842: ITP: pygmy -- PyGTK client for the Music Player Daemon (MPD)

2005-11-06 Thread Decklin Foster
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Decklin Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: pygmy Version : 0.45+svn60 Upstream Author : Andrew Conkling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://pygmy.berlios.de/ * License : GPL Description : PyGTK cl

Re: ITP: gifsicle -- Powerful tool for manipulating GIF images

2005-12-21 Thread Decklin Foster
Gürkan Sengün writes: > * Package name: gifsicle #212193, if anyone is thinking this sounds vaguely familiar. > * URL : http://www.lcdf.org/gifsicle/ Which reads, in part: "As of July 2004, all of Unisys's LZW/GIF patents have expired, but IBM has a remaining patent. There

Re: dependencies on makedev

2005-12-30 Thread Decklin Foster
Adam Heath writes: > What ever happened to standard unix tools? chmod/mkdir/chown/mv? > > You're suggesting doing things like some other OS(like Windows, were you have > to edit a registry). I agree with you, but OTOH, if I change something in /usr, I have to fuck around with dpkg-statoverride

Re: For those who care about lesbians

2006-01-14 Thread Decklin Foster
Russ Allbery writes: > Er, I thought it was offensive because it was sexist, not because > there's anything wrong with being lesbian. Indeed. I think the point was a fine one, but the manner in which it was presented -- and more importantly, the fact that people are blowing right by that and argu

Bug#350464: ITP: picard -- album-based MusicBrainz tagger

2006-01-29 Thread Decklin Foster
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Decklin Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: picard Version : 0.6.0 Upstream Author : Robert Kaye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/PicardTagger * License : GPL/RPSL/RCSL tr

Bug#350466: ITP: lastfmsubmitd -- submission daemon for the Last.fm social music network

2006-01-29 Thread Decklin Foster
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Decklin Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: lastfmsubmitd Version : 0.16 Upstream Author : Decklin Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : * http://www.red-bean.com/~decklin/software/lastfmsubmitd/ * License

Re: Testing transitions before uploading to unstable

2006-04-17 Thread Decklin Foster
Lars Wirzenius writes: > Er, no. The point is to get things tested and hopefully fixed before > uploading to unstable. Experimental might work, but then packages there > need to be tested with the existing unstable in ways they are not, as > far as I know, currently being tested. I disagree. The

RFA: all my packages

2011-02-10 Thread Decklin Foster
I'm looking for a new maintainer for, well, any of these. My heart is not in it anymore and most of them have been neglected for a while. Recently my free time has been taken up by other things (mainly my job) and I forsee that continuing. http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=decklin%40red-bea