Bug#323420: Metasploit file licenses tracked upstream

2015-03-21 Thread Drew Scott Daniels
Hi, The metasploit-framework latest file licenses are tracked at: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/LICENSE It's looking in much better shape than before. Thanks, Drew Daniels Blog: http://www.boxheap.net/ddaniels/blog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ.

Bug#706345: RFP: lunaserv -- Renders non-Earth map datasets

2013-04-28 Thread Drew Scott Daniels
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: lunaserv Version: 2.20130318 Upstream Author: Name * URL: http://lunaserv.lroc.asu.edu/ * License: BSD Description: Renders non-Earth map datasets A Web Map Service (WMS) implementation, much like MapServer and GeoServer. It solves issues with ren

Bug#254938: Now DFSG? #254938: RFP: vttest -- VT100/VT220/XTerm compatiblity test utility

2007-07-09 Thread Drew Scott Daniels
reopen 254938 thanks Now that this terminal testing package might be DFSG free, isn't it worth looking at again? It might be a good test suite application for auto-testing xterm and other terminals? See: http://invisible-island.net/vttest/CHANGES 20070107 contacted Per Lindberg (2007/1/

Bug#311367: mythtv w/o liblame? (was: Still interested in mythtv inside Debian)

2007-02-19 Thread Drew Scott Daniels
On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 08:22:30AM +0100, Christian Marillat wrote: > Drew Scott Daniels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > reopen 311367 > > thanks > > > > I'm still interested in mythtv being packaged inside Debian. Beyond the > > mentioned m

Bug#92571: marked as done (RFP: webmin-debconf -- a frontend to debconf using the webmin framework)

2007-02-13 Thread Drew Scott Daniels
I wonder whether the webmin-debconf ITP/RFP is worth keeping open. Perhaps a description of situations where it would be useful would be enough for someone else to help out. Perhaps it should be changed to webmin-cdebconf. Additionally, please post any information relevant to other people that may

Bug#311367: Still interested in mythtv inside Debian

2007-02-13 Thread Drew Scott Daniels
reopen 311367 thanks I'm still interested in mythtv being packaged inside Debian. Beyond the mentioned mp3 issue, I'm not sure what else is keeping the package out. I'm ccing Christian Marillat, Matt Zimmerman and the Alioth mythtv package list to get more comments about this. Some information i

Bug#151711: RFP: badurl -- Custom 403, 404's to slow CGI vulnerability scans (cgi tarpit)

2007-01-03 Thread Drew Scott Daniels
On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 09:46:29PM -0400, Jose Luis Rivas Contreras wrote: [...] > The URL provided doesn't work, so I will wait a week for a response and > then I will proceed to close this bug since it's very old and probably > there's no more upstream work. > > Jose Luis, [...] That's too bad.

Bug#216740: PAQ8i is the latest version in the suite of archivers

2006-09-25 Thread Drew Scott Daniels
Hi, I'd actually like the latest version of the PAQ data compression program to be packaged. See the maximumcompression website or alike (perhaps the archive comparison test when it gets updated) for a comparison of it to other archivers. The newer versions don't seem like they'll be reverse compa

Bug#149053: Closing jpeg2000 library bug

2006-09-25 Thread Drew Scott Daniels
Hi, I'd meant to close this. I was going to first open an RFP for a better JPEG 2000 library. This one became largely unmaintained, but is used by at least one downstream package. There seems to be a canonical replacement that I can't be bothered to lookup right now. Drew Daniels Resume: htt

Bug#183553: RFP for steg. tool not further required, but a good starting point for a new project

2006-09-25 Thread Drew Scott Daniels
Hi, I've meant to close this bug, but I was keeping it open as a place holder. This kind of project may be useful to help figure out a way to develop better executable compression. This could be done by pseudo lossy compression by changing the instructions to ones that the compressor likes better.

Bug#99156: wnpp: e2salvage not planned to be packaged in Debian

2005-09-26 Thread Drew Scott Daniels
Hi, There no longer seems to be any interest in packaging e2salvage for Debian. I'm e-mailing the upstream development too, but I know my message will bounce thanks to sourceforge. Fwiw, there seems to be somewhat active interest in development upstream as seen by checkins into the cvs (last checki

Bug#93208: wnpp: RFP: peep, the "Network Auralizer"

2005-09-26 Thread Drew Scott Daniels
On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 12:45:01PM +0200, David Mart?nez Moreno wrote: > El Domingo, 25 de Septiembre de 2005 23:12, Drew Scott Daniels escribi?: [...] > > I'm cc'ing the developers of peep. For the history of this bug see: > > http://bugs.debian.org/93208 > > > &

Bug#96694: wnpp: majordomo/majordomo2

2005-09-25 Thread Drew Scott Daniels
Hi, I'm just wondering if Majordomo/Majordomo2 would still be a useful package in Debian given that there's things like mailman, fml, ecartis and potentially other alternatives. Drew Daniels -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [E

Bug#93367: wnpp: oncelinux -- drivers and programs for the blind

2005-09-25 Thread Drew Scott Daniels
Hi, What's happened with OnceLinux? Upstream is hard to spot, and it looks like there's been little development in the last few years. I see upstream has moved the files around and has a debian directory created recently though. There's several parts to OnceLinux. The OnceLinux SDK, Ciber 232, Eco

Bug#95469: wnpp: cgen -- cpu tools generator

2005-09-25 Thread Drew Scott Daniels
Hi, cgen looks like an interesting tool, but I'm not sure about all of it's uses. The description says it has simulators. What kind of simulator? Could it be used to create an emulator? Are there any alternatives to these tools available in Debian? Note for the Debian bug: Upstream is still quite

Bug#93208: wnpp: RFP: peep, the "Network Auralizer"

2005-09-25 Thread Drew Scott Daniels
reopen 93208 = done Hi, I'm cc'ing the developers of peep. For the history of this bug see: http://bugs.debian.org/93208 I'd still be interested in seeing a Debian package of peep, the "Network Auralizer". Javi, I don't understand what you mean by "for log-interpretation I do prefer log-analys/lo

Bug#89554: wnpp: rnmap -- better alternatives available?

2005-09-25 Thread Drew Scott Daniels
Hi, Although rnmap may have authentication, and ssl support, I don't believe it to be as secure as ssh. That combined with the requirement for python make me believe that a better alternative is available (ssh and a locked down shell or simple script). Certainly people who are interested in this wo

Bug#87186: pvfs2 is active, but maybe not "mature"

2005-09-25 Thread Drew Scott Daniels
Hi, The development of PVFS2 is quite active [1]. The web site says that "PVFS1 is still being very actively maintained and improved" and that they "will continue to do so until PVFS2 reaches the level of maturity necessary to allow for a smooth transition." [2] [1] See the PVFS2 mailing lists htt

Bug#87186: wnpp: pvfs, pvfs2

2005-09-25 Thread Drew Scott Daniels
Hi, Upstream development of pvfs and it's successor? pvfs2 still seems to be active, but is slow (at least one development message two months ago, potentially one last month...). According to popcon, three pvfs2 packages are being used by at least one person. Drew Daniels -- To UNSUBSCRI

Bug#85448: StegFS inactive upstream

2005-09-24 Thread Drew Scott Daniels
Hi, I just did some checking, and StegFS appears to be inactive at both upstreams. The last activity that I see for both is about July of 2004. The last code update I see is marked at 18 months old. The upstream mailing list last was announcing a new developer and some other things, but little more

Bug#218699: findimagedups not maintained, other similar upsrtreams mentioned

2005-06-20 Thread Drew Scott Daniels
http://kudla.org/raindog/perl/ says: [2002/02/06 23:55] PixiePlus now supports similar image finding using an algorithm based on mine, and for those unable to run a current version of KDE, gqview will also find your similar images, albeit using a different algorithm whose results I haven't compa

Bug#292541: RFP: pbzip2 -- Parallel bzip2 implementation

2005-02-01 Thread Drew Scott Daniels
Hi, Sorry about not using the right pts e-mail addresses. Since this is now an ITP I won't worry about it for this bug. Fwiw, I didn't get any bounces, I think this should eventually get rolled into bzip2 (including upstream), I'll be more careful about pts e-mail addresses in the future. Dre

Bug#292541: RFP: pbzip2 -- Parallel bzip2 implementation

2005-01-27 Thread Drew Scott Daniels
Subject: RFP: pbzip2 -- Parallel bzip2 implementation Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: pbzip2 Version: 0.8.3 Upstream Author: Jeff Gilchrist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL: http://compression.ca/pbzip2/ * License: "BSD-style license. For details, see the file LICENSE.txt" Description: p

Bug#214925: Still planning to adopt?

2004-09-06 Thread Drew Scott Daniels
On Sun, Sep 05, 2004 at 08:22:09AM -0600, Wesley J Landaker wrote: > On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 10:56:39 -0500 (CDT), Drew Scott Daniels wrote: [...] > > I am not a Debian developer, and I haven't looked at this program yet. > > I've looked at the upstream website and it

Bug#152506: AFD is maintained

2004-08-31 Thread Drew Scott Daniels
http://www.dwd.de/AFD/english/history.html says: 22.06.2004 Released 1.2.20 Thus I wouldn't necessarily call AFD unmaintained. It also has a regular history of updates. That said, maybe there are other reasons to close this RFP. Drew Daniels

Bug#151711: Badurl still seems to work

2004-08-31 Thread Drew Scott Daniels
Hi, Fwiw, I've tested badurl under windows using cygwin's perl 5.8.5 and the windows Apache 2.0.50. - It seems to put in sleeps properly (at least it sleeps when the URL is $evil, and doesn't when it's not). - The script logs $evil URL's as attacks in the error log (stderr). - I can't test the loa

Bug#151711: acknowledged by developer (Closing outdated RFPs)

2004-08-31 Thread Drew Scott Daniels
reopen 151711 thanks Have you seen the size of the program? Also when I filed this RFP it already said: Various cruft. No warranties or guarantees (except that I am a shitty coder), all code is work-in-progress, etc, etc. At the same time, most stuff here is also "done" in the sense that it's bee

Bug#199266: ffmpeg packaging

2004-06-30 Thread Drew Scott Daniels
For referance: -- Bug #157719 was also an ITP of ffmpeg. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=157719 -- AGNULA's DeMuDi distribution has packaged ffmpeg: http://apt.agnula.org/demudi/pool/local/f/ffmpeg/ The FreeBSD Ports Archive has ffmpeg: http://www.freebsdsoftware

Bug#254938: RFP: vttest -- VT100/VT220/XTerm compatiblity test utility

2004-06-17 Thread Drew Scott Daniels
Subject: RFP: vttest -- VT100/VT220/XTerm compatiblity test utility Package: wnpp Version: N/A; reported 2004-06-17 Severity: wishlist * Package name: vttest Version : 20030301? Upstream Author : Thomas E. Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://dickey.his.com/vttest/

Bug#216883: lmbench and other non-free packages not autobuilt

2003-10-24 Thread Drew Scott Daniels
The reason why lmbench is not autobuilt is because the autobuilders cannot build non-free packages. There are rough plans to allow use of the buildd's on a per-request basis, but this is likely far from being soon. I'm curious, could this package be replaced by something DFSG compliant? It looks l

Bug#216740: RFP: PAQ4 compressor

2003-10-20 Thread Drew Scott Daniels
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Licence: GNU GPL v2 or later http://www.cs.fit.edu/~mmahoney/compression/ says: PAQ4 Archiver PAQ4 mixes models using adaptive rather than fixed weights, and also includes an improved model for data with fixed length records. This is all explained in the source co

Bug#179672: acknowledged by developer (squashfs: already packages)

2003-10-14 Thread Drew Scott Daniels
On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: > This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report > #179672: RFP: SQUASHFS -- A squashed read-only filesystem for Linux, ... > http://packages.debian.org/squashfs > squashfs-tools rather, and the description doesn't indicate that i

Bug#214925: ent addoption

2003-10-10 Thread Drew Scott Daniels
This certainly seems like a very interesting program to me. I was actually looking at writing something like this for work. I am not a Debian developer, and I haven't looked at this program yet. I've looked at the upstream website and it looks like once I get my hands on the code I'll be looking f

Bug#164903: Megahal package.

2003-08-25 Thread Drew Scott Daniels
On Sat, 23 Aug 2003, Laurent Fousse wrote: > Le Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 03:43:15PM -0500, Drew Scott Daniels ?crivait: > > On Fri, 22 Aug 2003, Laurent Fousse wrote: > > > If you like we can try to work together, merge our work if you have > > > something ready as well.

Bug#164903: Megahal package.

2003-08-22 Thread Drew Scott Daniels
On Fri, 22 Aug 2003, Laurent Fousse wrote: > Are you still interested in adopting megahal? I'm not a debian > developper but I'm also interested in the package. > Yes, I've been working on it off and on for the last month. > Thanks to David I'm also involved upstream, my changes should be > commi

Bug#183197: ITA? megahal

2003-07-18 Thread Drew Scott Daniels
I'm thinking about maintaining it, but I'm not a Debian developer. Can I work out a deal with you where I'd be willing to lead the maintenance if you'd help here and there and sponsor it? Drew Daniels On Fri, 18 Jul 2003, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Dre

Bug#183197: ITA? megahal

2003-07-17 Thread Drew Scott Daniels
Do you still intend to adopt megahal? Drew Daniels

Bug#198554: Remove? O: kbackup

2003-07-01 Thread Drew Scott Daniels
On Tue, 1 Jul 2003, Ludovic Drolez wrote: > Drew Scott Daniels wrote: > > Should a request for removal of kbackup be made? > > kbackup is buggy, but for doing simple scheduled archives on > tapes with a dialog based interface it works. > So it might still be useful. It sounde

Bug#199241: popcon stat for: O: awesfx

2003-07-01 Thread Drew Scott Daniels
http://people.debian.org/~ballombe/popcon/main/by_inst shows: #rank nameinst vote old recent no-files 7195 awesfx18 413 1 0 Drew Daniels

Bug#198554: Remove? O: kbackup

2003-07-01 Thread Drew Scott Daniels
Should a request for removal of kbackup be made? Drew Daniels

Bug#191870: iproute2 is iproute?

2003-05-06 Thread Drew Scott Daniels
The "ip neighbour" commands from the iproute2 package may provide some of the functionality that arpd provided. I'm unsure if it does, and I don't know if the iproute package provides this iproute2 functionality. A quick look at iproute's source didn't reveal any arp named files, but the "ip neigh

Bug#191870: arpd's usefulness

2003-05-06 Thread Drew Scott Daniels
I'm cc'ing people who may be able to better inform Debian as to the upstream status of arpd. Currently there is no one volunteering to keep aprd up to date on Debian, and it has been suggested that perhaps arpd should be removed from Debian (notes at: http://bugs.debian.org/191870 and perhaps some

Bug#189952: device3dfx

2003-04-22 Thread Drew Scott Daniels
Someone on debian-devel recently offered up a card for any potential package maintainer. I'm not sure, but I believe I may also be able to help test with my Voodoo Banshee? Probably not though as I don't run a 2.2 kernel. I can try to help find the message if you don't see it. Drew Daniels

Bug#183557: RFP: kernel-patch-non-free-drivers: non-DFSG Linux Kernel "bits"

2003-03-05 Thread Drew Scott Daniels
;bits" is to package them separately. -- Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 07:24:00 +1100 From: Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Drew Scott Daniels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Linux kernel On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 12:24:49PM -0600, Drew Scott Daniels wrote: > In debian/README.D

Bug#183553: RFP: hyadan a Steganographic tool to hide messages in i386 executables

2003-03-05 Thread Drew Scott Daniels
Subject: RFP: hyadan a Steganographic tool to hide messages in i386 executables Package: wnpp Version: N/A; reported 2003-03-04 Severity: wishlist * Package name : hydan Version: 0.10 Upsream Author : Rakan El-Khalil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.crazyboy.com/hydan/ * License : None given

Bug#179804: PPM compression algorithms. (fwd)

2003-02-14 Thread Drew Scott Daniels
Just to give some missed details. Drew Daniels -- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 09:55:30 -0800 From: Charles Bloom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Drew Scott Daniels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Magnus Ekdahl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: PPM comp

Bug#179804: Bloom Public License

2003-02-12 Thread Drew Scott Daniels
The Bloom Public License (BPL) for this program has been changed to reflect dual GNU GPL and BPL licensing. See http://www.cbloom.com/bpl.txt Currently the license is: The Bloom Public License (BPL) modified May 14, 2002 0. The software may be used or distributed according to the terms of

Bug#179672: RFP: SQUASHFS -- A squashed read-only filesystem for Linux

2003-02-04 Thread Drew Scott Daniels
On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, Ola Lundqvist wrote: > On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 04:14:18PM -0600, Drew Scott Daniels wrote: > > * License : GNU General Public License (GPL) > > The README file says the license is "GPL licence (version 2 or later)", > > but the sourceforge p

Bug#179804: RFP: PPMZ2 -- A Prediction by Partial Match (PPM) compressor (archiver)

2003-02-04 Thread Drew Scott Daniels
Subject: RFP: PPMZ2 -- A Prediction by Partial Match (PPM) compressor (archiver) Package: wnpp Version N/A; reported 2003-02-04 Severity: wishlist * Package name : ppmz2 Version: 0.8 Upstream Author : "Charles Bloom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.cbloom.com/src/ppmz.html * License : BPL (

Bug#179672: RFP: SQUASHFS -- A squashed read-only filesystem for Linux

2003-02-03 Thread Drew Scott Daniels
Subject: RFP: SQUASHFS -- A squashed read-only filesystem for Linux Package: wnpp Version: N/A; reported 2003-02-03 Severity: wishlist * Package name : squashfs Version : 1.1b Upstream Author : "Phillip Lougher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://squashfs.sourceforge.net/ * License : GNU General P

Bug#164175: ITP: wfmath -- The World Forge math library

2002-10-10 Thread Drew Scott Daniels
http://www.worldforge.org/dev/eng/libraries/wfmath might be a better URL On Thu, 10 Oct 2002, Michael Koch wrote: > Package: wnpp > Version: unavailable; reported 2002-10-10 > Severity: wishlist > > * Package name: wfmath > Version : 0.2.9 > Upstream Author : Name <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Bug#160928: ITP: 7zip -- 7zip is file compressor which can handle many archive formats

2002-09-16 Thread Drew Scott Daniels
On Mon, 16 Sep 2002, Graham Wilson wrote: > On Mon, Sep 16, 2002 at 08:21:24AM -0500, Drew Scott Daniels wrote: > > It might be nice to note in the description that 7-zip does better > > compression than pkzip and other archivers for the .zip archive > > format. > >

Re: Bug#160928: ITP: 7zip -- 7zip is file compressor which can handle many archive formats

2002-09-16 Thread Drew Scott Daniels
It might be nice to note in the description that 7-zip does better compression than pkzip and other archivers for the .zip archive format. Drew Daniels On Sun, 15 Sep 2002, Radim Kolar wrote: > Package: wnpp > Version: N/A; reported 2002-09-15 > Severity: wishlist > > * Package name: 7z

Bug#151711: RFP: badurl -- Custom 403, 404's to slow CGI vulnerability scans (cgi tarpit)

2002-07-02 Thread Drew Scott Daniels
Subject: RFP: badurl -- Custom 403, 404's to slow CGI vulnerability scans (cgi tarpit) Package: wnpp Version: N/A; reported 2002-07-02 Severity: wishlist * Package name: badurl Version : 0.0.0-2000-11-08 Upstream Author : [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://www.theaimsgro

Bug#149069: RFP: newsportal -- This PHP script enables access to a newsserver (by NNTP) from a webpage

2002-06-04 Thread Drew Scott Daniels
Subject: RFP: newsportal -- This PHP script enables access to a newsserver (by NNTP) from a webpage Package: wnpp Version: N/A; reported 2002-06-04 Severity: wishlist * Package name: newsportal Version : 0.24pre7 Upstream Author : Florian Amrhein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL

Bug#149053: RFP: libj2k -- Library implementation of the JPEG-2000 standard (for .j2k images)

2002-06-04 Thread Drew Scott Daniels
Subject: RFP: libj2k -- Library implementation of the JPEG-2000 standard (for .j2k images) Package: wnpp Version: N/A; reported 2002-06-04 Severity: wishlist * Package name: libj2k Version : 0.0.8.20020530-1 (there's a cvs version) Upstream Author : Is it David Janssens <[EMAIL PR