Bug#1002056: Supporting alternative zlib implementations

2024-09-25 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, Sep 25, 2024 at 01:55:17AM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > The problem though is, that because the compressed stream is going to > change, that can make certain test suites fail if we perform this > switch, which I think would be the main fallout that we'd see from > this and would need manu

Bug#1002056: Supporting alternative zlib implementations

2024-09-25 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Sep 24, 2024 at 05:45:49PM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > On Tue, 2024-09-24 at 15:58:10 +0200, Mark Brown wrote: > > Obviously it's far too late to do anything with the default for trixie, > > we might want to evaluate doing something after the release but for n

Bug#1002056: Supporting alternative zlib implementations

2024-09-24 Thread Mark Brown
A recurrning question with the zlib package in Debian is interest in the various alternative zlib implementations that are out there. There was a long period where upstream zlib development seemed very stalled, during that period people who wanted improvements started forking their own projects.

Bug#1002056: ITP: zlib-ng -- optimized zlib compression library

2021-12-21 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Dec 21, 2021 at 04:45:21AM +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: > instead of with its native API. But if that happens, I think it would > make sense to upload, as it's currently being embedded in several > upstream projects and even if dpkg would not switch to it, it would > still help with removin

Bug#900358: O: nis -- clients and daemons for the Network Information Service (NIS)

2018-05-29 Thread Mark Brown
Package: wnpp Severity: normal I intend to orphan the nis package. The package description is: This package provides tools for setting up and maintaining a NIS domain. NIS, originally known as Yellow Pages (YP), is mostly used to let several machines in a network share the same account informa

Re: Processed: your mail

2014-05-11 Thread Mark Brown
On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 11:09:08PM +, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: > Bug #709803 [wnpp] RFP: libminizip -- minizip is a addition for zlib, which > can handle .zip archive files. > Bug reassigned from package 'wnpp' to 'src:zlib'. > Ignoring request to alter found versions of bug #709803

Bug#731349: ITP: sparse -- Semantic parser for C

2013-12-04 Thread Mark Brown
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mark Brown * Package name: sparse Version : 0.4.5 Upstream Author : Christopher Li * URL : https://sparse.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page * License : MIT Programming Lang: C Description : Semantic parser for

Bug#729660: ITP: xemacs21 -- highly customizable text editor

2013-11-17 Thread Mark Brown
On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 07:07:21PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > This is what Paul did: When writing just a single sentence it might be > reasonable to derive from a role which is good in general but not > helpful in specific cases. Please try to make reasonable > top-posting-bashings if necessa

Bug#729660: ITP: xemacs21 -- highly customizable text editor

2013-11-16 Thread Mark Brown
On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 01:30:01PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 11/16/2013 01:10 PM, Mark Brown wrote: > > Your assertations here both seem rather strong and unsupported, > > especially the idea that people don't use Emacs in graphical mode - it > I have

Bug#729660: ITP: xemacs21 -- highly customizable text editor

2013-11-16 Thread Mark Brown
On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 01:02:40PM +0100, Bálint Réczey wrote: > I agree that having the scroll bar on the left is quite unusual and it has > been > changed to having the scrollbar on the right by default in Emacs 24. > I don't have XEmacs installed and I'm not sure if the new colors in Emacs 24

Bug#729660: ITP: xemacs21 -- highly customizable text editor

2013-11-16 Thread Mark Brown
On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 12:01:48PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 11/16/2013 11:43 AM, Mark Brown wrote: > > It's a package that we've carried since forever and which has a > > userbase. > That's not really an argument. We've also had uae and

Bug#729660: ITP: xemacs21 -- highly customizable text editor

2013-11-16 Thread Mark Brown
On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 12:02:23PM +0100, Bálint Réczey wrote: > 2013/11/15 Mark Brown : > > While develoment on xemacs is very slow these days I find it much more > > visually pleasing than GNU emacs. > I know it is mostly personal preference, but what parts of xemacs

Bug#729660: ITP: xemacs21 -- highly customizable text editor

2013-11-16 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 09:49:49PM +, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: > Why should Debian carry this package? It's a package that we've carried since forever and which has a userbase. > Which virtual packages are you planning to provide? The same set as the package previously did: emacsen, info-br

Bug#729717: ITP: xemacs21-support -- highly customizable text editor -- architecture independent support files

2013-11-16 Thread Mark Brown
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mark Brown Package name: xemacs21-support Version : 21.4.22 Upstream Author : XEmacs team URL : http://www.xemacs.org/ License : GPL and others Programming Lang: elisp Description : highly customizable text

Bug#729660: ITP: xemacs21 -- highly customizable text editor

2013-11-15 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 10:39:46AM -0500, Paul Tagliamonte wrote: > On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 03:25:16PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 10:06:37AM -0500, Paul Tagliamonte wrote: > > > Before you put this in NEW, how do you plan on fixing the outstanding RC &

Bug#729660: ITP: xemacs21 -- highly customizable text editor

2013-11-15 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 10:06:37AM -0500, Paul Tagliamonte wrote: > Before you put this in NEW, how do you plan on fixing the outstanding RC > bugs? By making changes to the software. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#729660: ITP: xemacs21 -- highly customizable text editor

2013-11-15 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 09:17:34AM -0500, Paul R. Tagliamonte wrote: Don't top post. > Out of curiosity, how do you plan on solving it's six rc bugs? Yes, of course. Well, the one that was there when I looked is fixed, I'll see if the BTS tells me about any open ones after the reupload. signa

Bug#729660: ITP: xemacs21 -- highly customizable text editor

2013-11-15 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 01:16:34PM +0100, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote: > Only one note on this: xemacs21 was just removed some months ago, see > http://bugs.debian.org/725883 for details. Yes, this is why it needs a new ITP. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#729660: ITP: xemacs21 -- highly customizable text editor

2013-11-15 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 01:29:50PM +0100, Alberto Garcia wrote: > On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 12:02:18PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote: > > * Package name: xemacs21 > > Version : 21.4.22 > Wasn't this removed just one month ago? Yes, this is why I'm ITPing it.

Bug#729660: ITP: xemacs21 -- highly customizable text editor

2013-11-15 Thread Mark Brown
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mark Brown * Package name: xemacs21 Version : 21.4.22 Upstream Author : XEmacs development team URL : http://www.xemacs.org/ License : GPL Programming Lang: C, elisp Description : highly customizable text

Bug#579454: O: gob2 -- GTK+ Object Builder

2010-04-27 Thread Mark Brown
Package: wnpp Severity: normal I intend to orphan the gob2 package. The package description is: GOB is a preprocessor which simplifies the writing of GObjects in C. The syntax is somewhat similar to that for Java, yacc and lex. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.or

Bug#536023: RFA: leafnode

2009-07-06 Thread Mark Brown
Package: wnpp Severity: normal I'm looking for an adopter for Leafnode since I no longer use it. The package is in fairly good shape, pretty static and upstream is very responsive. To be honest what's really needed here is more upstream effort rather than more Debian effort - there has been a ma

Bug#525872: Evolution MAPI plugin

2009-05-20 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 01:30:08PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > You???d need to rebuild the packages with DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS="noopt > nostrip" and install evolution-dbg and evolution-data-server-dbg, after > which you can run evolution in a gdb session. Hrm. That's failing to rebuild in unsta

Bug#525872: Evolution MAPI plugin

2009-05-20 Thread Mark Brown
In the ITP for evolution-mapi you asked for testing. I just tried with the current version 0.26.1-1 (binaries from your site) but find that when attempting to authenticate during account creation I get prompted for my password and then Evolution crashes immediately after I click OK. Attempting to

Bug#477925: Adopting the Debian SCons packages

2008-05-01 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 10:58:10AM +0200, Luca Falavigna wrote: > We can set up a team and a repository, both Alioth + SVN or Launchpad + > bzr can go. I'm more confident with the latter because Ubuntu does wide > use of it to manage projects, but the former is ok too. There was some talk of movi

Bug#477925: Adopting the Debian SCons packages

2008-04-30 Thread Mark Brown
Since both of you e-mailed at roughly the same time about taking over the Debian SCons packages I thought the best thing to do would be to put you both in touch with each other and suggest forming a team to take over the package in order to pool the availible expertise - I don't know what you guys

Bug#477925: RFA: scons -- A replacement for Make

2008-04-25 Thread Mark Brown
Package: wnpp Severity: normal I'm looking for someone to take over the SCons package since I no longer use it at work and therefore don't need to take the detailed interest in advanced usage required for that. The package is in reasonably good shape and upstream is generally responsive and helpf

Bug#466580: RFA: lsadb -- Utility to scan devices on the ADB bus

2008-02-19 Thread Mark Brown
Package: wnpp Severity: normal I request an adopter for the lsadb package. This is a very low maintinance package, I'm putting it up for adoption because I no longer have any hardware with an ADB bus. The package description is: lsadb is a utility to scan the devices on the ADB-Bus and print ou

Bug#303936: RFA: powertweak

2005-04-09 Thread Mark Brown
Package: wnpp Severity: normal I no longer use the powertweak package - it could probably use a more interested maintainer. Upstream is fairly helpful but hasn't been terribly active recently. Package: powertweak Description: Tool to tune system for optimal performance Powertweak is a tool for

Bug#288208: RFA: xmms-status-plugin -- Status panel applet for XMMS

2005-01-02 Thread Mark Brown
Package: wnpp Severity: normal I'm looking for someone to adopt the xmms-status-plugin package - I don't use it any more and can therefore summon little enthusiasm for working on its bugs. The package description is: This package provides an XMMS plugin which provides a status and control apple

Bug#258328: RFA: xmms-status-plugin -- Status panel applet for XMMS

2004-07-08 Thread Mark Brown
Package: wnpp Severity: normal I'm looking for someone to adopt the xmms-status-plugin package. It's in need of some TLC and I don't use it any more. There's a number of outstanding bugs filed against it, mostly centering on the fact that it uses a GTK 1 backport of the generally GTK 2 eggtray c

Bug#212914: ITP: arptables -- ARP table administration

2003-09-26 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 10:22:51PM +0200, Jochen Friedrich wrote: > * Package name: arptables > Version : 0.0.2 > Upstream Author : Bart De Schuymer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * URL : http://ebtables.sourceforge.net > Arptables is used to set up, maintain, and inspect the t

Bug#194961: ITP: yaz -- A C/C++ toolkit for Z39.50/ISO23950 applications

2003-05-27 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 03:46:56PM -0600, Eric Schwartz wrote: > YAZ is a C/C++ programmer's toolkit supporting the development of > Z39.50v3/SRW clients and servers. Sample clients and servers are > included with the distribution, as well as documentation. What is Z39.50v3/SRW? It might be usef

Bug#193390: O: libauthen-sasl-cyrus-perl

2003-05-15 Thread Mark Brown
Package: wnpp Version: unavailable; reported 2003-05-15 Severity: normal Graeme hasn't found a new maintainer for this package so I'm doing an orphaning it in the hope that someone will see this and be able to take it over. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: pow

Bug#182289: ETA on iPod packages?

2003-03-27 Thread Mark Brown
Is there any ETA on packages for gtkpod or gnupod-tools? -- "You grabbed my hand and we fell into it, like a daydream - or a fever."

Bug#185958: ITP: pshttpd -- a webserver written in postscript

2003-03-23 Thread Mark Brown
On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 03:32:05PM -0500, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > You are speaking of an operating system which contains an INTERCAL > implementation. Debian GNU/Linux ships with not one but two INTERCAL implementations. -- "You grabbed my hand and we fell into it, like a daydream - or a fever.

Bug#150431: ITP: posh -- minimalist command interpreter

2002-06-19 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 06:21:49AM -0400, Clint Adams wrote: > Description : minimalist command interpreter >posh is a stripped-down version of pdksh that aims for full Debian >compliance with few extra features. Surely that should be minimal Debian compliance? -- "You grabbed my

Bug#148395: ITP: hearse -- exchange Nethack bones files with other users

2002-05-28 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 04:03:17PM -0400, Roderick Schertler wrote: > That's to make it more convenient to customize. It handles running > multiple times per day well (there's a comment about that at the top > of the cron.d/hearse file; I run mine with is "*/15 * * * * root hearse > --cron"), but

Bug#148395: ITP: hearse -- exchange Nethack bones files with other users

2002-05-28 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 02:22:36PM -0400, Roderick Schertler wrote: > I'm the upstream author for the Unix Hearse client, a program to let > Nethack users exchange bones files with each other. The program, > including the .deb, is in testing now. It's GPLed. More info > is at http://www.argon.o

Bug#138002: ITP: libcompress-zlib-perl -- perl interface to the zlib compression library

2002-03-12 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 02:57:33PM +0100, Eric Van Buggenhaut wrote: > Description: Perl interface to the zlib compression library. > This Perl module provides an interface to the info-zip zlib compression > library. This is already packaged. -- "You grabbed my hand and we fell into it, like

Bug#136302: ITP: crafty-books-medium -- medium sized opening books for crafty chess engine

2002-03-02 Thread Mark Brown
On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 04:05:24AM +0100, Christian Hammers wrote: > I would suggest you to package this crafty game and maybe the small variant > to give a starting point and then point out somewhere that better/larger > opening books can be downloaded on the internet. Crafty is already packaged

Bug#109961: Change submitter for kwintv ITP

2002-01-01 Thread Mark Brown
close 109961 reopen 109961 Maximilian Reiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> thanks If you're going to take this ITP over you probably ought to update the WNPP to reflect that. -- "You grabbed my hand and we fell into it, like a daydream - or a fever."

Bug#123483: Bug#123438: powertweak: unmet dependency

2001-12-12 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 08:48:58PM +0100, Eric Van Buggenhaut wrote: > OTOH, I just filed another bug against powertweak-gtk, the menu entry > is outdated, don't be pissed off ;) I've no idea what's going wrong here and can't reproduce it at all. Unless I can see the failure or an explanation of

Bug#105421: ITP: opengate -- H.323 gatekeeper

2001-11-23 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Nov 23, 2001 at 03:51:54PM +1100, Mark Purcell wrote: > http://www.openh323.org/bin/opengk_1.0.2.tar.gz > - The official gk for openh323 but seems a little basic in function It's very new. Coming from the main OpenH.323 authors means it's likely to get better fairly quickly

Bug#109961: ITP: kwintv -- KDE TV viewer

2001-08-24 Thread Mark Brown
Package: wnpp Version: N/A; reported 2001-08-25 Severity: wishlist This is a GPLed KDE TV viewer distributed under the GPL. -- System Information Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux cassiel 2.4.9 #39 Sat Aug 18 11:51:56 BST 2001 i586 Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_G

Bug#105421: RFP: H.323 Gatekeeper

2001-07-15 Thread Mark Brown
Package: wnpp IWBN if someone packaged one of the free gatekeepers out there - there's at least one based on the OpenH.323 stack. URL: http://www.opengatekeeper.org/ Gatekeepers are an important component of a H.323 system. -- "You grabbed my hand and we fell into it, like a daydream - or a

Bug#105332: ITP: x86info

2001-07-15 Thread Mark Brown
Package: wnpp I intend to package x86info, a tool for retrieving information about x86 CPUs. It is released under the GPL and can be downloaded from http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/x86info/x86info-1.3.tgz -- "You grabbed my hand and we fell into it, like a daydream - or a fever." pgpYRANzL