Bug#625502: Inquiry re: adopting qt3

2012-05-25 Thread Jeff Licquia
I'd like to ask to adopt Qt 3, entirely for the sake of the LSB. The LSB is working on removing Qt 3, but that effort won't be ready in time for wheezy, and I'd like for full LSB support to remain possible in Debian. What are your thoughts? I don't think this would take away from the release goa

Bug#616131: ITA: LSB package maintenance in Debian

2012-02-16 Thread Jeff Licquia
On 02/16/2012 12:12 PM, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: > I just noticed the worrying state of the LSB package in Debian: > > * Still in version 3.2 (released in January 2008) while 4.1 is out > since a year (coincidently today); > * RFA'd - #616131; > * "behind" Ubuntu since at least Karmic

Bug#552568: getting synergy-plus into Debian

2010-12-12 Thread Jeff Licquia
On 10/08/2010 08:25 AM, Mehdi Dogguy wrote: Please don't upload to unstable during the freeze and use experimental instead. 1.3.4-1 is now in experimental. Sorry for taking so long, everyone. I'll close this bug when the unstable upload is done (after squeeze). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#522135: ITP: python-pip -- Alternative Python package installer

2009-03-31 Thread Jeff Licquia
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jeff Licquia * Package name: python-pip Version : 0.3.1 Upstream Author : Ian Bicking * URL : http://pip.openplans.org/ * License : MIT/X Programming Lang: Python Description : Alternative Python package

Bug#501257: ITA: cvsps -- Tool to generate CVS patch set information

2008-10-26 Thread Jeff Licquia
retitle 501257 ITA: cvsps -- Tool to generate CVS patch set information owner 501257 Jeff Licquia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> thanks I think I'll adopt this package, as it's still important for people converting their CVS repositories to other version control systems. I'm also i

Bug#482953: Orphan diald

2008-06-08 Thread Jeff Licquia
retitle 482953 O: diald -- dial on demand daemon for PPP and SLIP thanks Well, no response. So, orphaned it is. I've already uploaded with the maintainer set to Debian QA Group. If anyone does want to work on the package, it might be worth looking at bzr.licquia.org; I have the version cont

Bug#470186: Adopting synergy

2008-06-07 Thread Jeff Licquia
retitle 470186 ITP: : synergy -- Share mouse, keyboard and clipboard over the network owner 470186 Jeff Licquia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> thanks I use synergy at my workstation at home to control two computers. I've actually done the work to update the package; anyone interested can see

Bug#470885: ITA: doclifter

2008-05-27 Thread Jeff Licquia
retitle 470885 ITA: doclifter -- Convert troff to DocBook owner 470885 Jeff Licquia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> thanks I actually have occasional need for this at work. I've already done some update work. The resulting source can be seen here: http://bzr.licquia.org/loggerhead/doclifter

Bug#482953: RFA: diald

2008-05-25 Thread Jeff Licquia
Package: wnpp Severity: normal It has been a long time since I've had dialup Internet, and even longer since this package has had an active upstream. I had thought I could become upstream, but this hasn't turned out to be the case. The last straw came when I decided to try and upgrade the pac

Bug#444022: ITP: papi -- OpenPrinting PAPI suite

2007-09-25 Thread Jeff Licquia
Vincent Danjean wrote: For me, papi is a library with its tools to access hardware performance counters. It used a lot on some plateform (NUMA, ...) to analyze the performance of HPC programs. Google with "papi" give this link in first : http://icl.cs.utk.edu/papi/ This software is not packaged

Bug#444022: ITP: papi -- OpenPrinting PAPI suite

2007-09-25 Thread Jeff Licquia
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jeff Licquia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: papi Version : 1.0 beta Upstream Author : Norm Jacobs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/openprinting * License : Mostly CDDL (some LG

Bug#442394: ITP: virtualenv -- Python virtual environment creator

2007-09-15 Thread Jeff Licquia
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jeff Licquia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: virtualenv Version : 0.8.1 Upstream Author : Ian Bicking * URL : http://pypi.python.org/pypi/virtualenv/ * License : MIT-style Programming Lang: Python Descr

Bug#408118: sponsor? package?

2007-03-13 Thread Jeff Licquia
Did you ever find a sponsor? Is your chessdb package available? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#222916: ITP: python-parted-rh -- Red Hat's Python bindings for parted

2003-12-05 Thread Jeff Licquia
Martin Michlmayr wrote: * Jeff Licquia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-12-04 15:47]: This is a port of Red Hat's python bindings to Debian. This package is needed by Anaconda. How does that differ from python-parted? Why are the -rh changes not merged in the former? Back in the d

Bug#222928: ITP: firstboot -- Red Hat graphical second stage

2003-12-04 Thread Jeff Licquia
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist firstboot is the program set to load by Anaconda after installing a system. It performs some configuration tasks. A module is provided that plugs the configlets into firstboot. The module is packaged and tested already. The package can be found at Progeny's

Bug#222922: ITP: wlite -- i18n library for small systems

2003-12-04 Thread Jeff Licquia
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist wlite is a library written by Red Hat to do i18n in small environments. It is designed to complement dietlibc. This package is needed by Anaconda. The module is packaged and tested already. The package can be found at Progeny's Anaconda apt repository:

Bug#222916: ITP: python-parted-rh -- Red Hat's Python bindings for parted

2003-12-04 Thread Jeff Licquia
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist This is a port of Red Hat's python bindings to Debian. This package is needed by Anaconda. The module is packaged and tested already. The package can be found at Progeny's Anaconda apt repository: deb[-src] http://archive.progeny.com/progeny/anaconda apt-r

Bug#222919: ITP: booty -- Python modules for manipulating boot loaders

2003-12-04 Thread Jeff Licquia
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist "booty" is a set of Python modules written by Red Hat. It allows for manipulation of either LILO or GRUB configuration. Work has been done to enable these modules to conform to Debian standards. This package is needed by Anaconda. The module is packaged and

Bug#222920: ITP: picax -- Progeny Installer Creator and Archive eXtractor

2003-12-04 Thread Jeff Licquia
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist picax is a utility for splitting apt repositories into chunks suitable for writing to removable media such as CDs. It is extensible, using external modules to write installers to those media. Packages are not available yet, but will soon be available at Proge

Bug#222918: ITP: pyxf86config -- Python bindings to libxf86config

2003-12-04 Thread Jeff Licquia
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist pyxf86config is a set of Python bindings to libxf86config. It provides an easy way to parse and write XF86Config files from Python. This package is needed by Anaconda. The module is packaged and tested already. The package can be found at Progeny's Anaconda

Bug#222917: ITP: anaconda -- Red Hat's graphical installer

2003-12-04 Thread Jeff Licquia
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist This package will contain the runtime files for anaconda, Red Hat's award-winning graphical installer. This version has been modified to install using apt instead of rpm, and several other changes have been made to make it install Debian systems. The package

Bug#222921: ITP: rhpl -- Red Hat Python Library

2003-12-04 Thread Jeff Licquia
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist rhpl is a collection of routines Red Hat uses in some of their utilities. This package is needed by Anaconda. The module is packaged and tested already. The package can be found at Progeny's Anaconda apt repository: deb[-src] http://archive.progeny.com/pro

Bug#122393: Packaging omni

2002-08-27 Thread Jeff Licquia
retitle 122393 ITP: omni -- 300+ printer drivers using ghostscript engine thanks Things look like they work fine now. I've built the omni driver into gs-esp and built the omni code once. So, I think I'll take this one.

Bug#122393: How's omni coming?

2002-08-21 Thread Jeff Licquia
On Wed, 2002-08-21 at 17:41, David D. Kilzer wrote: > Unless I misunderstood the Debian BTS, I only filed a request for > package (RFP) for Omni, not a full-fledged intent to package (ITP). No, you're right; I misread the bug report. Sorry about that. I was inquiring because there is interest el

Bug#122393: How's omni coming?

2002-08-21 Thread Jeff Licquia
I noticed that you have an ITP open for IBM's omni printer driver suite. I was wondering whether you had made any progress, and when you thought the packages could be made available.

Bug#89036: gs-esp - still busy?

2002-06-09 Thread Jeff Licquia
Just confirming, one last time, that you don't object to my picking up gs-esp. I have been working on it off and on, but the release of CUPS 1.1.15 has made it more important. CUPS 1.1.15 doesn't have pstoraster; instead, you're supposed to use ESP GhostScript with a small pstoraster script. So,

Bug#141070: ITP: aptconf -- debconf infrastructure for setting up apt sources

2002-04-03 Thread Jeff Licquia
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Aptconf will allow users to configure sources.list via debconf. It will also contain a configlet for setting up sources.list via the GNOME Control Center, in druids, and potentially other settings. The architecture will treat the existing sources.list as the cano

Bug#138541: ITP: debian-sanitize (was Re: inappropriate racist and other offensive material)

2002-03-16 Thread Jeff Licquia
On Sat, 2002-03-16 at 18:42, Evan Prodromou wrote: > >>>>> "JL" == Jeff Licquia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > JL> The basic idea is that debian-sanitize will Conflict: with > JL> packages deemed to be offensive. With this package installed, &g

Bug#138541: ITP: debian-sanitize (was Re: inappropriate racist and other offensive material)

2002-03-16 Thread Jeff Licquia
On Sat, 2002-03-16 at 17:09, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > >>"Jeff" == Jeff Licquia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Jeff> Generating the list of offensive packages is, of course, the hard > Jeff> part. I propose we do this with the following process.

Bug#138541: ITP: debian-sanitize (was Re: inappropriate racist and other offensive material)

2002-03-16 Thread Jeff Licquia
On Sat, 2002-03-16 at 17:15, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > I hereby request that the abomination known as Perl, be marked > as objectionable, and be included in debian-sanitize. Sorry, but the voting process hasn't been instituted yet. Watch for the announcement when it is.

Bug#138541: ITP: debian-sanitize (was Re: inappropriate racist and other offensive material)

2002-03-16 Thread Jeff Licquia
On Sat, 2002-03-16 at 15:39, Steve Langasek wrote: > I object to using any subjective method (such as popular vote) for > determining which packages should be conflicted with in such a package. OK; we can scratch the Conflicts: part unless someone else can give a good reason to have it. The pa

Bug#138541: ITP: debian-sanitize (was Re: inappropriate racist and other offensive material)

2002-03-15 Thread Jeff Licquia
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Various people have argued on debian-devel: > >>people, you have to understand that at a government facility all of our > >>traffic can be monitored and we can be held responsible for its content. I > >>like the Debian distribution alot but without a policy stateme

Bug#90664: How's the foomatic package for Debian going?

2001-12-30 Thread Jeff Licquia
On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 05:19:36AM +0100, Manfred Wassmann wrote: > I have uploaded my current Debian packages to > http://www.b.shuttle.de/ncc-1701/foomatic/ Well, it appears the shoe is on the other foot when it comes to activity :-). Sorry for taking so long; a sustained dose of real life aro

Bug#90664: How's the foomatic package for Debian going?

2001-12-09 Thread Jeff Licquia
NMU. + * Added proper Build-Depends. + * Updated Standards-Version. + * Fixed the descriptions to be formatted properly. + * Fixed the Perl libraries to be installed to the proper location. + * That Recommendation should be "cupsys", not "cups". + * Added pdq to the

Bug#90664: How's the foomatic package for Debian going?

2001-11-30 Thread Jeff Licquia
On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 02:24:07PM -0500, Grant Taylor wrote: > >>>>> Jeff Licquia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I take it you'd be interested in a patch that does the right thing? > > I'll look to see how hard that would be. > > Yes, o

Bug#90664: How's the foomatic package for Debian going?

2001-11-28 Thread Jeff Licquia
On Wed, 2001-11-28 at 17:13, Manfred Wassmann wrote: > I can't upload to debian because my NM process is not yet finished, but it > would be great if you sponsored my package. Ah! That's not a problem, if that's all that is holding things back. How's the package going? If you can get it in uplo

Bug#90664: How's the foomatic package for Debian going?

2001-11-28 Thread Jeff Licquia
On Wed, 2001-11-28 at 12:48, Grant Taylor wrote: > >>>>> Jeff Licquia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I'm leaving Thursday on a vacation, and will be back a week from > > Friday. I'll stick the latest foomatic tarball on the laptop and see &

Bug#90664: How's the foomatic package for Debian going?

2001-11-27 Thread Jeff Licquia
On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 07:17:47PM -0500, Grant Taylor wrote: > I dunno, Manfred was doing it, IIRC. Last I knew he had a tentative > package done, but it's got some C code now, so the packaging will need > some adjustment. Well, let's do this. I'm leaving Thursday on a vacation, and will be ba

Bug#121425: ITP: gxxcompat - compatibility library for porting C++ code between g++ versions

2001-11-27 Thread Jeff Licquia
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist The new g++ 3.0 and libstdc++3 adhere more strictly to the C++ standard than have previous versions of g++, and many of the extensions in g++ are now gone. Consequently, there is a lot of C++ code that doesn't compile with g++ 3. Furthermore, some versions of g++

Bug#90664: How's the foomatic package for Debian going?

2001-11-27 Thread Jeff Licquia
Just wondering, since there's no package yet, and woody is starting to freeze. I understand if you aren't able to work on it. If you can't do it, perhaps I could take up the cause?