Bug#977331: O: autoconf -- automatic configure script builder

2020-12-13 Thread Ben Pfaff
Package: wnpp Severity: normal This package is going to require some work from someone who is already familiar with Autoconf. A major new release (2.70) has come out following more than 8 years of upstream development without one. Whoever adopts it will have to figure out whether it makes sense

Bug#977321: O: autoconf2.13 -- automatic configure script builder (obsolete version)

2020-12-13 Thread Ben Pfaff
Package: wnpp Severity: normal This package is really obsolete. It has several bug reports but the right thing to do is probably to get any packages that use autoconf2.13 updated to use something else. (Or removed; they are antiques themselves.) This package still has about 1000 installs

Bug#977317: O: fmtools -- FM radio tuner

2020-12-13 Thread Ben Pfaff
Package: wnpp Severity: normal This package has two bugs. One might be obsolete (it was reported against an old kernel and might not even be valid) and the other is a feature request that includes a patch, that might be worth applying. This package has about 80 users according to

Bug#901281: O: doschk -- SYSV and DOS filename conflicts check

2018-06-10 Thread Ben Pfaff
Package: wnpp Severity: normal This package has no reported bugs, the last upstream release was in 1993, and zero recent users according to popularity-contest (https://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=doschk). It has questionable value these days. If no one wants to adopt it, it can probably be

Bug#695896: wnpp: canceling corekeeper ITP

2013-01-16 Thread Ben Pfaff
On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 02:32:16PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: I will take this on and move the git repository to collab-maint, thanks for your work thus far Ben. Sure, let me know if there's anything I can do to help short of actually maintaining it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#697553: RFA: nqc -- Not Quite C compiler for LEGO Mindstorms RCX

2013-01-06 Thread Ben Pfaff
Package: wnpp The LEGO Mindstorms RCX is a Hitachi microcontroller embedded into a LEGO brick. This package lets you write programs in a C-like language and download them to your RCX using the serial or USB infrared tower included with the RCX. I am seeking a new maintainer for this package

Bug#695896: ITP: corekeeper -- Core file centralizer and reaper

2012-12-13 Thread Ben Pfaff
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ben Pfaff pfaff...@debian.org * Package name: corekeeper Version :1.2 Upstream Author : Ben Pfaff b...@nicira.com * License : Apache 2.0 Programming Lang: Shell Description : Core file centralizer and reaper Vcs-Git

Bug#695897: ITP: corekeeper -- Core file centralizer and reaper

2012-12-13 Thread Ben Pfaff
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ben Pfaff pfaff...@debian.org * Package name: corekeeper Version :1.2 Upstream Author : Ben Pfaff b...@nicira.com * License : Apache 2.0 Programming Lang: Shell Description : Core file centralizer and reaper Vcs-Git

Bug#695901: ITP: corekeeper -- Core file centralizer and reaper

2012-12-13 Thread Ben Pfaff
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ben Pfaff pfaff...@debian.org * Package name: corekeeper Version :1.2 Upstream Author : Ben Pfaff b...@nicira.com * License : Apache 2.0 Programming Lang: Shell Description : Core file centralizer and reaper Vcs-Git

Bug#653862: ITP: python-pystache -- Mustache is a framework-agnostic way to render logic-free views

2012-01-01 Thread Ben Pfaff
language. It would be kind of you to say what it renders views into. I suspect that the answer is HTML, but it doesn't say so and I could be guessing wrong. -- Ben Pfaff http://benpfaff.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Bug#188456: Bug#314316: Please migrate to libgd version 2

2005-11-04 Thread Ben Pfaff
Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * Ben Pfaff [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-11-03 09:30]: not seen any upstream work in a long time, and I don't think it works with modern versions of GCC. I will upload a fixed version or file a removal request by sometime this weekend. Thanks. I

Bug#188456: Bug#314316: Please migrate to libgd version 2

2005-11-03 Thread Ben Pfaff
. valgrind is an easier-to-use replacement that works at least as well in practice. Checker has not seen any upstream work in a long time, and I don't think it works with modern versions of GCC. I will upload a fixed version or file a removal request by sometime this weekend. -- Ben Pfaff email

Bug#223755: python-gd adoption

2004-03-05 Thread Ben Pfaff
Vittorio Palmisano [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have packaged python-matplotlib 0.51 and I have also packaged the python gd module (0.52) because python-matplotlib depends on it. My packages are here: http://anakonda.altervista.org/debian/packages/

Bug#223755: RFA: python-gd -- Python interface to GD pixmap graphics library

2003-12-11 Thread Ben Pfaff
Package: wnpp Severity: normal I'm requesting an adopter for the python-gd package. Currently it has only wishlist bugs. I want to give it away because I do not use it myself anymore. Description: Provides PNG, JPEG, and XPM creation and manipulation routines through the libgd library. .

Bug#141584: O: gnu-standards -- GNU coding standards

2002-04-07 Thread Ben Pfaff
Package: wnpp Severity: normal Orphaned because it's now considered non-free. Joseph Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Package: gnu-standards Version: 2002.01.12-1 Severity: serious Justification: Policy 2.1.2 The GNU standards are licensed under two seperate licenses, neither one of

Bug#133281: ITP: python-gd --- libgd bindings for Python

2002-02-10 Thread Ben Pfaff
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist python-gd is a Python module to support libgd, which is already in Debian. python-gd's homepage: http://iacsolutions.com/projects/gdmodule.html GD's homepage: http://www.boutell.com/gd/ -- Peter Seebach on managing engineers: It's like herding

Bug#133281: python-gd preliminary package available - comments welcome

2002-02-10 Thread Ben Pfaff
I've built a Debian package for libgd bindings for Python. (libgd is a graphics library similar in concept to PIL.) This package is available for now from http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~blp I believe that this package follows Debian policy and Debian Python policy. Comments and

Bug#125904: ITP: fungetty, a fun new getty for Linux framebuffers

2001-12-25 Thread Ben Pfaff
Ben Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 02:36:52AM -0800, Ben Pfaff wrote: If so, then maybe you should have a look at fungetty, a replacement for the standard Linux getty that can display full-color graphics above the login prompt. I hacked this up over the last

Bug#125904: ITP: fungetty, a fun new getty for Linux framebuffers

2001-12-20 Thread Ben Pfaff
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Do you prefer working in a console, but get tired of ignorant people assuming that your computer is old just because it only has text on the screen? Do you have Linux set up to use framebuffer text consoles? If so, then maybe you should have a look at fungetty,

Bug#114161: ITP: kftgt -- forward Kerberos 4 tickets over telnet

2001-10-02 Thread Ben Pfaff
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist [For sulug-discuss: this is the official Intent to Package message necessary before actually adding a new package to Debian.] The kftgt program and kftgtd daemon are used at Stanford to forward Kerberos tickets to network servers. It is presumably useful