Bug#246153: RFA: unison -- file-synchronization tool for Unix and Windows

2004-05-27 Thread Robert McQueen
On Fri, 2004-05-21 at 21:17, Sylvain LE GALL wrote: > Hello, > > That was me who propose you to take care of the package... I am not a DD > and cannot say i can upload the package ( i need a sponsor ). > > I will inject it in svn of ocaml-maint and correct the bugs i can next > monday. The new u

Bug#246153: RFA: unison -- file-synchronization tool for Unix and Windows

2004-05-21 Thread Robert McQueen
On Sun, 2004-05-02 at 15:17, Nicolas Boullis wrote: > I think that a user who has unison-stable on debian n+1 and who wants it > to work with a debian n machine will install the package with the same > name... > > Nicolas This all sounds very hopeful... However, you've still not uploaded a new

Bug#246153: RFA: unison -- file-synchronization tool for Unix and Windows

2004-05-05 Thread Robert McQueen
On Sun, 2004-05-02 at 16:40, Jens Schmalzing wrote: > I didn't know this, and it sounds completely and utterly sick. Is > there a chance of getting a more reasonable approach (such as taking > care of backwards compatibility) out of upstream? > > Regards, Jens. I don't know, or really care that

Bug#246153: RFA: unison -- file-synchronization tool for Unix and Windows

2004-05-02 Thread Robert McQueen
On Sun, 2004-05-02 at 08:10, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > I suggest not to use version number neither in source package names nor > in binary package ones. It would delay archive entering due to the need > of manual processing and this would happen each time we will need to > upload a new unison ver

Bug#246153: RFA: unison -- file-synchronization tool for Unix and Windows

2004-05-01 Thread Robert McQueen
On Fri, 2004-04-30 at 09:10, Jens Schmalzing wrote: > Dear Rob, > > I've been a user of unison for quite some time, and therefore more > than happy to answer your request for adoption of the package. I'm > not sure whether I fully understand your intentions for the gtk -> > gtk2 transition, but t

Bug#246153: RFA: unison -- file-synchronization tool for Unix and Windows

2004-04-27 Thread Robert McQueen
Package: wnpp Severity: normal I've not been using unison very much so I'd quite like someone else to look after it and do what I've had planned for a while. Upstream have released no new stable versions, but the beta version (2.9.20) has Gtk2 support, so should be made available in sid and hopefu

Bug#132885: Status of mono packaging?

2003-12-10 Thread Robert McQueen
As far as I know Alp's disappeared off and is being busy at uni, and he was the one doing the major work on the Debian Planet mono debs. I'm also fairly busy at uni and don't want to take on any official Mono maintainer position at the moment. About 6 months ago the idea was that we made some kind

Bug#149620: please remove xmms-nas from the archive

2003-08-20 Thread Robert McQueen
reassign 149620 ftp.debian.org retitle 149620 please remove xmms-nas from the archive thanks After a year of being orphaned, this package is still unadopted, and NAS still sucks. As its last maintainer, I say it's time to close this little chapter of history. Looks like the world wasn't ready for

Bug#115883: acknowledged by developer (Re: Status of packaging gnomepq -- The GNOME Printer Queue?)

2003-07-06 Thread Robert McQueen
On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 01:39:26AM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > > I was under the impression that either Ximian and RedHat have written > > one, which seems to be supported by #181132. > > cool, thanks. > > -- > Robert Millan Actually, the GNOME 2 release manager also pointed me to gnome-cups-

Bug#115883: acknowledged by developer (Re: Status of packaging gnomepq -- The GNOME Printer Queue?)

2003-07-06 Thread Robert McQueen
On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 01:03:38AM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > Which programs? Do we have any printer queue manager for GNOME? > > -- > Robert Millan I was under the impression that either Ximian and RedHat have written one, which seems to be supported by #181132. Even if we don't have it yet,

Bug#193117: RFA: igal -- online image gallery generator

2003-05-12 Thread Robert McQueen
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Looking for a new maintainer for igal. It's a little Perl script for generating HTML galleries of directories of images. The Debian package is at 1.3, but upstream is at 1.4. I havn't updated it because there is quite a delta between 1.3 upstream and the deb (bugs

Bug#193116: RFA: ap-utils -- Access Point SNMP Utils for Linux

2003-05-12 Thread Robert McQueen
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Looking for a new maintainer for ap-utils. I don't use it a great deal and there must be people who are more interested in this kind of thing to maintain it. There's a new upstream version at http://ap-utils.polesye.net/ which may fix some outstanding endian/64-bit

Bug#193118: RFA: tcpflow -- TCP flow recorder

2003-05-12 Thread Robert McQueen
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Looking for a new maintainer for tcpflow. Small simple package, I just don't use it and there are a few bugs which should be looked in to. Havn't been any upstream releases in ages, but the upstream was responsive in the past and looks to still be active in develop

Bug#127750: Hijacking speedtouch ?

2003-04-24 Thread Robert McQueen
On Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 12:27:06AM +1000, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] is only sent to the owner, not bug submitter. > The owner is wnpp, but Robot is the submitter... Thanks for bringing this to my attention Martin! Deadlines you don't know about are somewhat unfair, not to

Bug#167280: Gift & Giftoxic ITPs

2002-11-02 Thread Robert McQueen
(CC'd to all interested parties including gift ITP and debian-devel to enumerate reasons for continuing lack of package and re-iterate my continuing interest and activity) No, they are not different clients. What I have ITP'd is the work of the gift project which breaks down into the following:

Bug#132882: mono & mcs ITPs

2002-08-04 Thread Robert McQueen
Hi, I have just taken up the reigns of Alp Toker's 'MonoDeb' project, whilst he is on holiday for a few weeks, and it looks likely that I will continue maintaining mono, mcs, gtk#, and other components of the Mono project when he returns. The packages are currently available at: http://www.debianp

Bug#154505: O: gnome-utils -- Gnome Utilities (gtt, gsearchtool, and more)

2002-07-27 Thread Robert McQueen
Just thought I'd drop a note to say that I'll most likely adopt this (with a little persuasion from Bastien Nocera =). I have no problems with the GNOME2 -> unstable plan, because updates to GNOME 1.4 in testing can be made by uploading to testing-proposed-updates where they will be autobuilt and i

Bug#152699: I will adopt these cool applets =)

2002-07-27 Thread Robert McQueen
close 152699 reopen 152699 ! retitle 152699 ITA: wavelan-applet -- GNOME Wave LAN monitor applet close 152700 reopen 152700 ! retitle 152700 ITA: power-applet -- GNOME battery monitor applet thanks I will take these over and work with a friend to make sure they are ported to GNOME2 as appropriat

Bug#112753: About giFT

2002-07-07 Thread Robert McQueen
On Sun, Jul 07, 2002 at 06:51:31PM +0200, Alexis Rimbaud wrote: > Hi, > > I've seen that you sent an ITP for maintaining giFT. I wonder if you > still intend to package it for Debian because you sent the ITP many > days ago and there still is no giFT package in Debian... I'm > interested in main

Bug#150970: ITP: ap-utils -- Access Point SNMP Utils for Linux

2002-06-25 Thread Robert McQueen
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Package name: ap-utils Version : 1.0 Upstream Author : Roman Festchook URL : http://ap-utils.polesye.net/ License : GPL Description : Access Point SNMP Utils for Linux A set of utilities for remotely administrating

Bug#149620: RFA: xmms-nas -- Network Audio System (NAS) Output Plugin for XMMS

2002-06-10 Thread Robert McQueen
Package: wnpp Severity: normal I request an adopter for the xmms-nas package. The package description is: This is a simple plugin to allow XMMS to direct its output to a Network Audio System (NAS) server on the local host or across a network. It redirects the sound output to the relevant host,

Bug#148503: ITP: xmms-nas -- Network Audio System (NAS) Output Plugin for XMMS

2002-05-29 Thread Robert McQueen
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Package name: xmms-nas Version : 0.2 Upstream Author : Willem Monsuwe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> URL : ftp://mud.stack.nl/pub/OuterSpace/willem/ License : GPL v2.0 Description : Network Audio System (NAS) Output Plugin for X

Bug#115883: gnome-print-queue?

2002-04-27 Thread Robert McQueen
How's that new version coming? It might be too late for Debian's 3.0 woody release now. Rob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#140657: ccache != compilercache

2002-04-01 Thread Robert McQueen
Eduard, Just a FYI, you incorrectly closed the ccache ITP stating that it was already packaged. If you'd read the bug log, ccache's webpage, etc etc, you'd have seen that although it was inspired by compilercache, it is a faster and more featureful reimplementation in C. However, it's already in t

Bug#115883: problems with packaging gnomepq for Debian

2002-03-27 Thread Robert McQueen
retitle 115883 ITP: gnomepq -- The GNOME Printer Queue thanks Accordingly, I take on the task of packaging gnomepq. =) On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 01:44:47PM +0100, Petter Nordholm wrote: > Hi Robert! > > I am glad to hear that you like my small application and would I > appreciate if you include it

Bug#115883: problems with packaging gnomepq for Debian

2002-03-26 Thread Robert McQueen
Having decided that gnomepq was useful and worthy of inclusion in Debian, I finally managed to track down a source for gnomepq, at: http://downloads.sympatico.ca/linux/files/gnome/adm/gnomepq-0.2.tgz However, the following things prevent me from packaging it for Debian: 1. There is no official u

Bug#112753: keepalive =)

2002-03-25 Thread Robert McQueen
Yeah I'm still gonna package this. They seem to be looking at some releases now. They gave up on the FastTrack network because it was made encrypted with no reversing possible, and instead implemented their own OpenFT network, which is progressing nicely. In light of the GNU Image Find Tool I migh

Bug#138499: ITP: gpaint -- GNU Paint - a small, easy to use paint program for GNOME

2002-03-16 Thread Robert McQueen
On Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 11:19:34AM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * Goedson Teixeira Paixao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20020315 17:29]: > > * Package name: gpaint > > Version : 0.2.1 > > Upstream Author : Li-Cheng (Andy) Tai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Note that gpain was removed from Debi

Bug#138206: ITP: googlizer -- utility to search Google via your Gnome panel

2002-03-13 Thread Robert McQueen
Package: wnpp Version: N/A; reported 2002-03-13 Severity: wishlist Package name: googlizer Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> URL : http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/stable/sources/googlizer/ License : GPL Description : utility

Bug#127979: RFP: netjuke -- yet another web-based audio streaming jukebox

2002-01-06 Thread Robert McQueen
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Package name: netjuke Version : 1.0b1 URL : http://netjuke.sourceforge.net/home.html License : BSD Description : yet another web-based audio streaming jukebox This caught my eye on freshmeat the other day, looks like a

Bug#127750: ITP: speedtouch -- userspace driver for Alcatel Speedtouch USB ADSL Adapter

2002-01-04 Thread Robert McQueen
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Package name: speedtouch Version : 1.0 Upstream Author : Benoit Papillault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> et al. URL : http://speedtouch.sourceforge.net/ License : GPL Description : userspace driver for Alcatel Speedtouch USB AD

Bug#113301: please remove xmms-aalsa from the archive

2002-01-04 Thread Robert McQueen
reassign 113301 ftp.debian.org retitle 113301 please remove xmms-aalsa from the archive thanks It's buggy, it's dead upstream, it depends on old crap and it's totally un-necessary. It sucks. Kill it. Regards, Rob

Bug#114982: RFA: gpaint -- simple paintbrush package for GNOME

2001-10-09 Thread Robert McQueen
Package: wnpp Severity: normal I'm concentrating on other packages, so someone else can take this over. It's a simple paintbush package for GNOME, based on xpaint, and seems to have a fairly sedate (inactive) upstream. Maybe someone who wanted to hack on it could maintain it usefully. Regards, Ro

Bug#112753: ITP: giFT -- A generic interface to the FastTrack (TM) peer-to-peer network

2001-09-24 Thread Robert McQueen
retitle 112753 ITP: giFT -- A generic interface to the FastTrack (TM) peer-to-peer network thanks I saw this a week or two ago and I've been trying to entice some NM into packaging it. Nobody seems interested, and I saw this RFP, so I'll do it myself. Regards, Rob

Bug#113301: RFA: xmms-aalsa

2001-09-23 Thread Robert McQueen
Package: wnpp Severity: normal I'd like someone else to take this package because I am stopping using ALSA in Debian because of the poor quality packaging, the fact I am tied to an old release by this package, because everything works just as well through OSS, and because my sound card is better s

Bug#81708: this is not my ITP any more...

2001-08-28 Thread Robert McQueen
close 81708 reopen 81708 Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> thanks So... why not repackage the source and use the headers from mozilla? Regards, Rob

Bug#100549: Do you still intend to adopt gaim?

2001-08-25 Thread Robert McQueen
On Sat, Aug 25, 2001 at 11:33:44AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > Hi Robert, > > do you still intend to adopt this gaim? The "in a week or three" is > already over and there are several open bugs in gaim. > > TIA > Adrian Yes I do, and will do within the next week. I am currently in London stuck on

Bug#106867: ITP: vm-pop3d -- POP3 daemon with virtual account support

2001-07-27 Thread Robert McQueen
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist virtualmail-pop3d is a fork of gnu-pop3d (seperate ITP, looks dead...) that adds support for virtual email accounts, ie mailboxes that do not need a UNIX owner per account, which are seperated by domain and have seperate passwd files for each domain. It is a highly

Bug#100549: ITA: gaim -- GNU AOL Instant Messenger Client

2001-06-11 Thread Robert McQueen
Package: wnpp Severity: normal I have spoken to the maintainer on IRC, I will have a new version of the package for this in a week or three. It should split the plugins into gaim-common, so you can have the GNOME and non-GNOME versions installed seperately, and won't be a Debian upstream tarball o

Bug#100253: ITA: pppstatus -- console-based PPP status monitor

2001-06-11 Thread Robert McQueen
close 100253 reopen 100253 retitle 100253 ITA: pppstatus -- console-based PPP status monitor thanks I will probably adopt this package, once I have tried it out on my new gateway machine. If I don't like it I will re-orphan it, but it sounds very cool. My existing gateway has 8Mb RAM... I can't ss

Bug#100538: ITP: compilercache -- persistent caching for gcc/g++

2001-06-11 Thread Robert McQueen
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 09:37:27PM +0200, Patrick Mauritz wrote: > the maybe http://www.erikyyy.de/compilercache/ is something for you > it caches gcc/g++ output, so rebuilds get faaast :) > > hth, oxygene Cool... I'm gonna package that. GPL'ed. =) Regards,

Bug#82206: xmms-aalsa is in incoming

2001-06-09 Thread Robert McQueen
OK, so the last message was meant to say 'reopen' not 'repoen'... but it doesn't matter now, xmms-aalsa is in incoming. Regards, Rob

Bug#82206: xmms-aalsa packages

2001-05-23 Thread Robert McQueen
close 82206 repoen 82206 [EMAIL PROTECTED] thanks I'll have this done in a week or two. Regards, Rob

Bug#82206: do you still want to package xmms-aalsa?

2001-05-22 Thread Robert McQueen
Hey, I have been looking for an ALSA plugin for XMMS since the 0.4 one stopped working and was removed from the archive. I found xmms-aalsa, and have started packaging it. You ITPed xmms-aalsa 4 months ago, how far have you got? If it is not packaged, or not completed, could I take it over, or if i

Bug#80590: xlhtml is all yours

2001-05-22 Thread Robert McQueen
(resend, forgot to include the bug in the original mailing) unmerge 80590 close 80590 reopen 80590 [EMAIL PROTECTED] retitle 80590 ITP: xlhtml - XLS to HTML converter close 83180 thanks Hey Rainer, I'm leaving the packaging of xlhtml up to you now completely. It turns out someone posted their loc

Bug#98377: ITP: gpaint - a small, easy to use paint program for GNOME

2001-05-22 Thread Robert McQueen
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist This is a feature-enhanced GNOME version of xpaint. For some things, GIMP is just overkill. GPL licenced, available from: http://www.gnu.org/software/gpaint/gpaint.html Regards, Rob

Bug#81708: GPL Flash

2001-05-01 Thread Robert McQueen
To be honest I was just trying to get round to changing it to an RFP, so I have no objections to you taking it over. I havn't done much beyond getting it to build, because I don't understand how dpkg handles shared libs. When I do, I can find some other package with a lib. (it looks like isfree, wh