Bug#1064457: RFP: composefs -- file system for mounting container images

2024-02-22 Thread Simon McVittie
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-Cc: ost...@packages.debian.org * Package name: composefs Version : 1.0.3 Upstream Contact: Alexander Larsson, Colin Walters * URL : https://github.com/containers/composefs * License : GPL-3.0-or-later AND

Bug#1060319: ITP: sdl2-compat -- SDL 2 binary compatibility library wrapping SDL 3

2024-01-09 Thread Simon McVittie
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Simon McVittie X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-de...@lists.debian.org, debian-devel-ga...@lists.debian.org, pkg-sdl-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org * Package name: sdl2-compat Version : currently 2.28.50~git20240108 Upstream Contact: https

Bug#1057088: RFA: ikiwiki-hosting -- ikiwiki hosting: common files

2023-11-29 Thread Simon McVittie
Package: wnpp Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: ikiwiki-host...@packages.debian.org, ikiw...@packages.debian.org, anar...@debian.org, intrig...@debian.org, j...@freedesktop.org Control: affects -1 + src:ikiwiki-hosting As with ikiwiki, I have not been active in ikiwiki-hosting for a while and I

Bug#1057087: RFA: ikiwiki -- wiki compiler

2023-11-29 Thread Simon McVittie
Package: wnpp Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: ikiw...@packages.debian.org, anar...@debian.org, intrig...@debian.org, j...@freedesktop.org Control: affects -1 + src:ikiwiki I have not been actively developing ikiwiki for quite a while and I have too many other responsibilities in Debian, so I

Bug#1057086: RFA: bmap-tools -- tool to flash image files to block devices using the block map

2023-11-29 Thread Simon McVittie
Package: wnpp Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: bmap-to...@packages.debian.org, sjo...@debian.org, andre...@debian.org Control: affects -1 + src:bmap-tools I'm responsible for too many things and I'd like to hand over bmap-tools to someone else. Upstream has basically no time for this particular

Bug#1040005: ITP:magpie - window manager for the budgie desktop

2023-10-23 Thread Simon McVittie
On Fri, 30 Jun 2023 at 21:59:48 +0100, David Mohammed wrote: > Package name : magpie ... > Magpie is a soft-fork of GNOME mutter v43.x tailored for the requirements > of the budgie-desktop. I saw that this was in the NEW queue for a while, but then disappeared. Did the ftp team have concerns

Bug#1038946: ITP: xdg-desktop-portal-xapp -- Xapp's Cinnamon, MATE and Xfce backends for xdg-desktop-portal

2023-06-23 Thread Simon McVittie
On Fri, 23 Jun 2023 at 16:50:01 +0200, Fabio Fantoni wrote: > * Package name    : xdg-desktop-portal-xapp Please make sure to apply https://github.com/linuxmint/xdg-desktop-portal-xapp/commit/86a1cb27eff487f6245319e850c1c560a8ba33ed via debian/patches (unless it has got into an upstream release

Bug#1038830: RFP: haskell-sdl2-mixer -- Haskell bindings for SDL2_mixer

2023-06-21 Thread Simon McVittie
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-hask...@lists.debian.org Control: block 1038088 by -1 * Package name: haskell-sdl2-mixer Version : 1.2.0.0 Upstream Contact: Siniša Biđin, Daniel Firth * URL : https://hackage.haskell.org/package/sdl2-mixer *

Bug#1038828: RFP: haskell-sdl2-image -- Haskell bindings for SDL2_image

2023-06-21 Thread Simon McVittie
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-hask...@lists.debian.org Control: block 1038088 by -1 * Package name: haskell-sdl2-image Version : 2.1.0.0 Upstream Contact: Siniša Biđin, Daniel Firth * URL : https://hackage.haskell.org/package/sdl2-image *

Bug#1029907: ITP: xdg-terminal-exec -- user default terminal execution utility

2023-01-28 Thread Simon McVittie
On Sat, 28 Jan 2023 at 16:41:28 -0500, Jeremy Bicha wrote: > This solves a problem: currently you can use update-alternatives to > choose a default terminal for a Debian system, but what happens when > you have multiple users on the same Debian system with different > preferences? Another problem

Bug#1026277: ITP: quadrilateralcowboy -- first-person cyberpunk adventure game

2022-12-19 Thread Simon McVittie
On Mon, 19 Dec 2022 at 01:16:58 +, James Addison wrote: > The package won't contain any game data -- only the game engine -- > and so I'd also welcome best practices around how to make it easy for > players to get the game up-and-running after the package is installed. If it's a DFSG engine

Bug#1023014: ITP: securestring -- Clearing the contents of strings containing cryptographic material

2022-10-29 Thread Simon McVittie
On Sat, 29 Oct 2022 at 10:34:07 +0200, Joost van Baal-Ilić wrote: > Python wrapper around OPENSSL_cleanse() which fills a pointer with a string > of 0's, typically used to clear the contents of strings containing > cryptographic material. Does this actually need OpenSSL, or would

Bug#1017959: RFP: meson-python -- Meson PEP 517 Python build backend

2022-09-03 Thread Simon McVittie
Control: retitle -1 ITP: meson-python -- Meson PEP 517 Python build backend Control: owner -1 ! On Tue, 23 Aug 2022 at 01:25:49 +0200, Drew Parsons wrote: > * Package name: meson-python > Description : Meson PEP 517 Python build backend I started looking at this because I've wondered

Bug#1013177: ITP: mate-user-admin -- MATE User Manager

2022-06-18 Thread Simon McVittie
On Sat, 18 Jun 2022 at 15:18:02 +0200, Mike Gabriel wrote: > User and group management utility suitable as an alternative > for gnome-system-tools on more lightweight desktop environments > such as MATE or Xfce. gnome-system-tools has been dead upstream since 2012 (#888670), so please avoid

Bug#1000468: ITP: mdnsd -- embeddable Multicast DNS Daemon

2021-11-24 Thread Simon McVittie
On Tue, 23 Nov 2021 at 19:47:44 +0100, Gürkan Myczko wrote: > This is a standalone mDNS-SD daemon for small systems. Although still > limited in functionality it can announce services like FTP, HTTP, and > SSH and respond to scanning (enumeration) requests from tools like > mdns-scan. > >

Bug#988116: ITP: libdecor-0.1 -- client-side decoration library for Wayland

2021-10-13 Thread Simon McVittie
On Thu, 14 Oct 2021 at 00:33:44 +0100, Christian Rauch wrote: > I am not familiar with the processes and timelines in Debian. It appears > that "libdecor-0" is stuck in this queue for 2 months and other packages > are waiting for far longer. Yes, it's waiting for legal checks from the archive

Bug#994773: ITP: xdg-desktop-portal-gnome -- GNOME portal backend for xdg-desktop-portal

2021-09-20 Thread Simon McVittie
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Simon McVittie X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-de...@lists.debian.org * Package name: xdg-desktop-portal-gnome Version : 41.0 Upstream Author : Georges Basile Stavracas Neto, Matthias Clasen et al * URL : https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/xdg

Bug#988116: ITP: libdecor-0.1 -- client-side decoration library for Wayland

2021-08-11 Thread Simon McVittie
Control: tags -1 + pending Control: forwarded -1 https://ftp-master.debian.org/new.html On Thu, 06 May 2021 at 00:11:37 +0100, Christian Rauch wrote: > "libdecor" is a library that can be used by Wayland clients to implement > client-side window decorations. Initial package uploaded to NEW, now

Bug#988116: ITP: libdecor-0.1 -- client-side decoration library for Wayland

2021-07-23 Thread Simon McVittie
On Fri, 23 Jul 2021 at 19:00:02 +0100, Christian Rauch wrote: > Am 23.07.21 um 11:35 schrieb Simon McVittie: > > Is the packaging you used in that Ubuntu PPA already available as a > > git tree? > > Yes. The ppa is using my "libdecor-packaging" repo [1] for the p

Bug#988116: ITP: libdecor-0.1 -- client-side decoration library for Wayland

2021-07-23 Thread Simon McVittie
On Thu, 06 May 2021 at 00:11:37 +0100, Christian Rauch wrote: > I am already maintaining an Ubuntu ppa at: > https://launchpad.net/~christianrauch/+archive/ubuntu/libdecoration > but would like to upstream the package into Debian. Is the packaging you used in that Ubuntu PPA already available as

Bug#990713: RFP: cargo-c -- cargo applet to build and install C-ABI-compatible dynamic and static libraries

2021-07-05 Thread Simon McVittie
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-Cc: pkg-rust-maintain...@alioth-lists.debian.net, libr...@packages.debian.org * Package name: cargo-c Version : 0.9.1 Upstream Author : Luca Barbato * URL : https://github.com/lu-zero/cargo-c * License : MIT/X11

Bug#987000: ITP: gi-docgen -- source code documentation tool using GObject-Introspection

2021-04-15 Thread Simon McVittie
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Simon McVittie X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-de...@lists.debian.org, debian-gtk-gn...@lists.debian.org * Package name: gi-docgen Version : 2021.2 or git snapshot Upstream Author : Emmanuele Bassi * URL : https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gi

Bug#986999: RFP: fonts-red-hat -- Red Hat type family

2021-04-15 Thread Simon McVittie
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-fo...@lists.debian.org, debian-gtk-gn...@lists.debian.org * Package name: fonts-red-hat Version : 4.0.0 Upstream Author : Jeremy Mickel * URL : https://github.com/RedHatOfficial/RedHatFont * License : SIL

Bug#985170: RFP: libsdl1.2-compat -- SDL 1.2 binary compatibility library wrapping SDL 2.0

2021-03-21 Thread Simon McVittie
On Sat, 13 Mar 2021 at 23:47:30 +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: > I've recently retried switching to Wayland and I think I'm sticking > with it. But while checking for toolkits support, noticed that SDL 1.2 > does not have native Wayland support, but SDL 2.0 does. Note that SDL 2.0 currently defaults

Bug#977374: ITP: vdf -- package for working with Valve's text and binary KeyValue format

2021-02-23 Thread Simon McVittie
On Tue, 23 Feb 2021 at 17:06:58 +, Simon McVittie wrote: > On Tue, 23 Feb 2021 at 16:50:41 +, Stephan Lachnit wrote: > > If you already have stuff, send me the link to the salsa repo once uploaded > > Will do! https://salsa.debian.org/games-team/python-vdf (The upstr

Bug#977374: ITP: vdf -- package for working with Valve's text and binary KeyValue format

2021-02-23 Thread Simon McVittie
On Tue, 23 Feb 2021 at 16:50:41 +, Stephan Lachnit wrote: > It lost a bit track of this due to Proton 5.13 not working with protontricks > (at least when I checked last time), so I haven't done anything yet. Proton 5.13+ runs in a container, using a container tool currently maintained by, er,

Bug#977374: ITP: vdf -- package for working with Valve's text and binary KeyValue format

2021-02-23 Thread Simon McVittie
On Mon, 14 Dec 2020 at 14:23:11 +, Stephan Lachnit wrote: > Description : package for working with Valve's text and binary KeyValue > format > > Required for Protontricks. Will go into contrib. Will maintain in the Games > team. Did you get anywhere with this? I think the steam package

Bug#980312: RFP: gnome-notes — A note taking editor, designed for simplicity

2021-01-17 Thread Simon McVittie
On Sun, 17 Jan 2021 at 23:18:57 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Du, 17 ian 21, 17:42:48, Marek Ľach wrote: > > Package: gnome-notes ... > > - formerly was known as ''Bijiben''. https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/bijiben already exists. Is that the package you wanted? smcv

Bug#892001: ITP: dbus-broker -- Linux D-Bus Message Broker

2021-01-10 Thread Simon McVittie
On Fri, 08 Jan 2021 at 16:30:08 +, Luca Boccassi wrote: > Gentle ping reg. > https://salsa.debian.org/utopia-team/dbus/-/merge_requests/8 as > deadlines are fast approaching - dbus-broker has cleared NEW, so I'd > like to sort out the details regarding repository and team > maintainership and

Bug#892001: ITP: dbus-broker -- Linux D-Bus Message Broker

2020-12-14 Thread Simon McVittie
On Sun, 13 Dec 2020 at 22:33:28 +, Luca Boccassi wrote: > CC'ing Simon for the src:dbus bits. Have you reviewed dbus-broker for its compatibility with the reference dbus-daemon? I still haven't been able to review it in detail myself (when I get some time to work on dbus, maintaining the

Bug#961238: RFP: python3-gi -- python3-gi for GTK+4 in experimental

2020-11-05 Thread Simon McVittie
Control: retitle -1 python3-gi: update to a version with better GTK 4 support Control: reassign -1 python3-gi On Thu, 21 May 2020 at 22:07:36 +0100, Sam Bull wrote: > I'd like to see a python3-gi version that supports GTK+4 in experimental. This would have to be a new version of the python3-gi

Bug#969134: ITP: deepin-metacity -- lightweight GTK+ window manager

2020-08-28 Thread Simon McVittie
On Fri, 28 Aug 2020 at 01:53:59 +, stan clay wrote: > * Package name    : deepin-metacity >   Description     : lightweight GTK+ window manager Does Deepin really need both a version of Mutter *and* a version of Metacity? If deepin-metacity and deepin-mutter are both uploaded, they'd be the

Bug#969132: ITP: deepin-mutter -- lightweight GTK+ window manager for Deepin

2020-08-28 Thread Simon McVittie
On Fri, 28 Aug 2020 at 01:32:02 +, stan clay wrote: >   Description     : lightweight GTK+ window manager for Deepin Presumably this is a fork of src:mutter, similar to Cinnamon's src:muffin. > https://github.com/linuxdeepin/deepin-mutter I notice this Github repository is marked as

Bug#968331: ITP: systemd-genie -- quick way into a systemd "bottle" under Windows Subsystem for Linux

2020-08-13 Thread Simon McVittie
On Thu, 13 Aug 2020 at 01:16:46 -0500, Alistair Young wrote: > I developed this myself to solve the problem of running systemd-dependent > programs > using Debian under WSL, since WSL itself currently does not support systemd. If I understand correctly, this is a problem with WSL 1 that will go

Bug#960310: ITP: rgain3 -- Replay Gain volume normalization Python tools

2020-05-14 Thread Simon McVittie
Control: retitle -1 ITP: rgain3 -- Replay Gain volume normalization Python tools Control: owner -1 ! On Mon, 11 May 2020 at 14:58:05 -0300, Rogério Brito wrote: > We already had a package called python-rgain in our past releases which was > Python 2 only and, unfortunately, removed. > > This new

Bug#941657: name change: python-lark-parser -> python-lark

2019-12-30 Thread Simon McVittie
On Mon, 30 Dec 2019 at 17:15:54 +0100, Peter Wienemann wrote: > https://bugs.debian.org/945823 > > which says: > > "use the name you import in preference to the name from the PKG-INFO". > > That is why I decided to change the name to python-lark. But given the > PyPI name clash this is

Bug#947401: RFP: openra -- engine remake for Command & Conquer series of games

2019-12-26 Thread Simon McVittie
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Passing on an informal RFP from #debian-devel: * Package name: openra Version : 20191117 Upstream Author : multiple, see https://github.com/OpenRA/OpenRA/blob/bleed/AUTHORS * URL : https://www.openra.net/ * License : GPL-3+

Bug#946605: ITP: libportal -- Flatpak portal library

2019-12-11 Thread Simon McVittie
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Simon McVittie * Package name: libportal Version : 0.1.0 Upstream Author : Matthias Clasen * URL : https://github.com/flatpak/libportal * License : LGPL-2.0+ Programming Lang: C Description : Flatpak portal

Bug#931595: mutest package

2019-11-21 Thread Simon McVittie
On Thu, 21 Nov 2019 at 09:04:33 +0700, Arnaud Rebillout wrote: > remote: GitLab: You are not allowed to push code to protected branches on > this project. Try now? I've copied the Protected Branches settings from gnome-team/glib. smcv

Bug#931595: mutest package

2019-11-20 Thread Simon McVittie
On Tue, 19 Nov 2019 at 18:15:30 +0700, Arnaud Rebillout wrote: > remote: A default branch (e.g. master) does not yet exist for > gnome-team/mutest > remote: Ask a project Owner or Maintainer to create a default branch I pushed the branches from https://salsa.debian.org/arnaudr-guest/mutest, with

Bug#931595: mutest package

2019-11-18 Thread Simon McVittie
On Fri, 02 Aug 2019 at 12:29:12 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: > On Mon, 08 Jul 2019 at 11:48:17 +0700, Arnaud Rebillout wrote: > > - I asked for access to the gnome team on salsa, my user is `arnaudr-guest` > > Someone on the Owners list will have to do this; but if nobody gets r

Bug#942166: RFP: malcontent -- library for parental control of applications

2019-10-11 Thread Simon McVittie
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: malcontent Version : 0.4.0 Upstream Author : Philip Withnall / Endless * URL : https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pwithnall/malcontent * License : LGPL-2.1+ Programming Lang: C with GObject Description :

Bug#935395: RFP: python3-anytree -- Tree data library

2019-08-22 Thread Simon McVittie
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: python3-anytree Version : 2.6.0 Upstream Author : "c0fec0de" * URL : https://github.com/c0fec0de/anytree https://pypi.org/project/anytree/ * License : Apache 2.0 Programming Lang: Python

Bug#931595: mutest package

2019-08-02 Thread Simon McVittie
On Mon, 08 Jul 2019 at 11:48:17 +0700, Arnaud Rebillout wrote: > I'd like to package mutest for Debian. Is the GNOME packaging team > interested in this package, can I maintain it with the team? graphene already uses a bundled copy of mutest, so it would seem appropriate to maintain the unbundled

Bug#925288: ITP: diff-so-fancy -- Good-lookin' diffs. Actually… nah… The best-lookin' diffs.

2019-03-23 Thread Simon McVittie
On Sat, 23 Mar 2019 at 07:41:06 +, Mo Zhou wrote: > In fact the diff-highlight (denoted > as 'DH' below, not your favorite debhelper) shipped in the git package > is able to produce similar result compared to diff-so-fancy (denoted as 'DSF' > below), except for > > * DH doesn't mangle

Bug#923300: ITP: golang-github-openshift-imagebuilder -- Builds Dockerfile using the Docker client

2019-02-28 Thread Simon McVittie
On Thu, 28 Feb 2019 at 17:53:37 -0500, Reinhard Tartler wrote: > Upstream doesn't appear to be willing to upgrade to a new version (quote from > the bug above "[...] I really don't want to [...]". Looking at how this > package > is using the vendored library, it seems openshift/imagebuilder is

Bug#923267: ITP: gnome-shell-extension-bluetooth-quick-connect -- GNOME Shell extension to connect paired Bluetooth devices

2019-02-25 Thread Simon McVittie
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Simon McVittie * Package name: gnome-shell-extension-bluetooth-quick-connect Version : (none, git snapshot) Upstream Author : Bartosz Jaroszewski * URL : https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1401/bluetooth-quick-connect

Bug#919299: ITP: flatpak-xdg-utils -- xdg-open and xdg-email reimplementation for containerized apps

2019-01-14 Thread Simon McVittie
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Simon McVittie * Package name: flatpak-xdg-utils Version : 0.1+ (git snapshot) Upstream Author : Florian Müllner, Matthias Clasen, Alex Larsson * URL : https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak-xdg-utils * License : LGPL-2

Bug#917037: ITP: python3-zeroconf -- Pure Python implementation of multicast DNS service discovery (Python3)

2018-12-22 Thread Simon McVittie
On Fri, 21 Dec 2018 at 21:59:46 +0100, Ruben Undheim wrote: > python-zeroconf already exists in the Debian archive. However, upstream has > dropped support for Python 2, and there are reverse dependencies in Debian > which depend on the Python 2 package. This makes it necessary with a separate >

Bug#915579: ITP: xdg-dbus-proxy -- filtering D-Bus proxy

2018-12-04 Thread Simon McVittie
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Simon McVittie * Package name: xdg-dbus-proxy Version : 0.1.0 Upstream Author : Alexander Larsson * URL : https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-dbus-proxy * License : LGPL-2.1+ Programming Lang: C with GLib Description

Bug#912305: ITP: unrardll -- Python wrapper for the unrar shared library

2018-10-30 Thread Simon McVittie
On Tue, 30 Oct 2018 at 10:26:53 +0900, Norbert Preining wrote: > going to nonfree because it depends on libunrar4 which is from nonfree. If unrardll is itself free software, then it should go in contrib, not non-free. contrib is the archive area for free software with dependencies that are

Bug#904643: RFP: amtk -- Actions, Menus and Toolbars Kit library for GTK+ applications

2018-10-10 Thread Simon McVittie
On Wed, 10 Oct 2018 at 10:24:09 +0200, Tanguy Ortolo wrote: > Being interested as this is a new indirect dependency of my package > latexila, I have prepared that package. Thanks for doing this! > I have yet to determine whether or not > to make this package part of the GNOME Team packaging I

Bug#904643: RFP: amtk -- Actions, Menus and Toolbars Kit library for GTK+ applications

2018-07-26 Thread Simon McVittie
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: amtk Version : 5.0.0 Upstream Author : Sébastien Wilmet * URL : https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Amtk * License : LGPL-2.1+ Programming Lang: C Description : Actions, Menus and Toolbars Kit library for

Bug#903815: ITP: pw -- A simple command-line password manager

2018-07-15 Thread Simon McVittie
On Sun, 15 Jul 2018 at 12:07:30 +0200, Dashamir Hoxha wrote: > Either you did not look close enough to the code, or you are not > an expert on bash scripting (bash is a bit cryptic and difficult > to understand even for experts). You are right to say that shell scripting (for bash or for Bourne

Bug#722309: ITP: minetest-mod-itemdrop -- Minetest mod - Item Drop

2018-05-31 Thread Simon McVittie
On Tue, 10 Sep 2013 at 08:36:10 +0200, Dominik George wrote: > * Package name: minetest-mod-itemdrop In response to the imminent closure of alioth.debian.org I have moved the packaging git repository for this module to: https://salsa.debian.org/games-team/unfinished/minetest-mod-itemdrop

Bug#873296: ITP: minetest-mod-xdecor -- Lightweight decoration module for minetest

2018-05-31 Thread Simon McVittie
On Sat, 26 Aug 2017 at 11:41:16 +0200, Julien Puydt wrote: > * Package name: minetest-mod-xdecor I have moved the packaging git repository for this module to: https://salsa.debian.org/games-team/unfinished/minetest-mod-xdecor Please move it from unfinished/ to the main games-team/ namespace

Bug#721200: ITP: minetest-mod-moretrees -- Minetest mod - more trees

2018-05-31 Thread Simon McVittie
On Thu, 29 Aug 2013 at 01:58:51 +0200, Dominik George wrote: > * Package name: minetest-mod-moretrees In response to the imminent closure of alioth.debian.org I have moved the packaging git repository for this module to: https://salsa.debian.org/games-team/unfinished/minetest-mod-moretrees

Bug#721086: ITP: minetest-mod-plantlife -- Minetest mod - Plantlife

2018-05-31 Thread Simon McVittie
On Tue, 27 Aug 2013 at 22:49:31 +0200, Dominik George wrote: > * Package name: minetest-mod-plantlife > Description : Minetest mod - Plantlife I have moved the packaging git repository for this module to: https://salsa.debian.org/games-team/unfinished/minetest-mod-plantlife Please move

Bug#898301: ITP: openjazz -- a free, open-source version of the classic Jazz Jackrabbitâ?¢ games

2018-05-17 Thread Simon McVittie
On Thu, 17 May 2018 at 11:25:53 +0200, Fabian Greffrath wrote: > Simon McVittie wrote: > > g-d-p patches welcome! Hopefully this should be a relatively simple game > > to package due to its age. > > Probably a stupid question, but since GOG provides a package for Window

Bug#898301: ITP: openjazz -- a free, open-source version of the classic Jazz Jackrabbit™ games

2018-05-10 Thread Simon McVittie
On Wed, 09 May 2018 at 22:48:58 +0200, Fabian Greffrath wrote: > I have put g-d-p in CC, because (a) proprietary game data will be > necessary to actually play the game. There is a shareware version > available for free (beer) download and GOG has just re-released all > available versions in a

Bug#646377: Packaging Xonotic

2018-04-30 Thread Simon McVittie
On Mon, 10 Nov 2014 at 17:22:04 +0100, Markus Koschany wrote: > I have pushed the initial packaging for xonotic and xonotic-data to Git. > > http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-games/xonotic.git > > http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-games/xonotic-data.git Due to the imminent shutdown of Alioth

Bug#606931: RFP: enemy-territory-data -- Game data downloader for the id software game Enemy Territory

2018-04-30 Thread Simon McVittie
On Tue, 01 Mar 2016 at 12:29:54 +0100, Markus Koschany wrote: > I have packaged the initial version of ET:Legacy a while ago. My Debian > files can be found here: > > https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-games/etlegacy.git Due to the imminent shutdown of Alioth I've moved this to

Bug#728193: O: assaultcube, assaultcube-data

2018-04-30 Thread Simon McVittie
On Sun, 01 Dec 2013 at 22:27:47 -0600, Jordan Metzmeier wrote: > The source packages have been moved to git under pkg-games. On Sat, 03 Sep 2016 at 17:17:55 +0200, Nicolás Ortega wrote: > I've been looking at this package for a while and wish to package it In preparation for the shutdown of

Bug#891458: RFH: gnome-shell-extension-top-icons-plus -- GNOME Shell extension to move system tray icons to top bar

2018-02-25 Thread Simon McVittie
Package: wnpp Severity: normal I request assistance with maintaining the gnome-shell-extension-top-icons-plus package. It's currently unmaintained upstream, so if it stops working in a future version of GNOME Shell and I'm not able to fix it, it'll have to be removed. I can't commit to being able

Bug#891457: RFH: gnome-shell-extension-caffeine -- GNOME Shell extension to keep your computer awake

2018-02-25 Thread Simon McVittie
Package: wnpp Severity: normal I request assistance with maintaining the gnome-shell-extension-caffeine package. It's currently unmaintained upstream, so if it stops working in a future version of GNOME Shell and I'm not able to fix it, it'll have to be removed. I can't commit to being able to

Bug#889744: ITP: mallard-ducktype -- Parser for Ducktype, a lightweight documentation syntax

2018-02-06 Thread Simon McVittie
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Simon McVittie <s...@debian.org> * Package name: mallard-ducktype (binaries: ducktype, python3-mallard.ducktype) Version : 0.3 Upstream Author : Shaun McCance * URL : http://projectmallard.org/

Bug#777089: Next python-mote pre-condition - issue with pybuild: python-backports.tempfile conflicting python-backports.weakref

2018-01-25 Thread Simon McVittie
On Thu, 25 Jan 2018 at 17:45:33 +, peter green wrote: > > However, in Debian case, I do not know how this can be handled as > > 2 packages cannot hold the same file (even if __init__ is only an empty > > file), and at least one must be present (if you install only one). The Python jargon is

Bug#777089: Please help with test suite error and installation problem of python-aws-xray-sdk (Was: If there is no response in debian-python then debian-science might be the right team)

2018-01-15 Thread Simon McVittie
On Mon, 15 Jan 2018 at 12:59:29 +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > E File > "/build/python-aws-xray-sdk-0.95/.pybuild/pythonX.Y_2.7/build/tests/test_async_local_storage.py", > line 10 > E async def _test(): > E ^ > E SyntaxError: invalid syntax Looks like it needs python3

Bug#883246: ITP: python-enum-compat -- Python enum/enum34 compatibility package

2017-12-01 Thread Simon McVittie
On Fri, 01 Dec 2017 at 12:13:26 +0100, Ondrej Novy wrote: > 2017-12-01 11:25 GMT+01:00 Simon McVittie <[1]s...@debian.org>: > Within Debian, wouldn't this be better achieved by having Python 2 > packages > that require enum34 depend on python-enum34 directly, as they

Bug#883246: ITP: python-enum-compat -- Python enum/enum34 compatibility package

2017-12-01 Thread Simon McVittie
On Fri, 01 Dec 2017 at 10:48:37 +0100, Ondřej Nový wrote: > * Package name: python-enum-compat > Version : 0.0.2 > Upstream Author : Jakub Stasiak > * URL : https://pypi.python.org/pypi/enum-compat > * License : Expat > Programming Lang:

Bug#877684: RFP: gnome-software-plugin-snap -- Snap support for GNOME Software

2017-10-04 Thread Simon McVittie
Control: reassign 877684 gnome-software Control: block 877684 by 876862 On Wed, 04 Oct 2017 at 10:22:19 -, David Seaward wrote: > Source code (for plugin): > https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-software/tree/plugins/snap This is part of the gnome-software package upstream, so this is a

Bug#873594: ITP: flatpak-builder -- Flatpak application building helper

2017-08-29 Thread Simon McVittie
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Simon McVittie <s...@debian.org> * Package name: flatpak-builder Version : 0.9.8+$n_commits (until a release is made) Upstream Author : Alexander Larsson and others * URL : https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak-builder * L

Bug#862954: ITP: mvdsv -- a modern QuakeWorld server

2017-05-21 Thread Simon McVittie
On Fri, 19 May 2017 at 11:50:51 +0200, Lee Garrett wrote: > I will be maintaining it alone. [...] > I'm open to co-maintaining this package if any individual or team is > interested. > I will need a sponsor for this package. Please consider joining the Games Team. We have Quake enthusiasts who

Bug#862698: ITP: minecraft -- blocks to build anything you can imagine

2017-05-16 Thread Simon McVittie
On Tue, 16 May 2017 at 09:58:11 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Another thing that would be a really neat addition to a wrapper around > Minecraft would be to run it inside a restrictive namespace by default. Yes, that's why I suggested Flatpak. It would also be possible to use a long bwrap

Bug#862698: ITP: minecraft -- blocks to build anything you can imagine

2017-05-16 Thread Simon McVittie
On Mon, 15 May 2017 at 18:40:34 -0300, Carlos Donizete Froes wrote: > * Package name: minecraft > Version : 0.1 > Upstream Author : Carlos Donizete Froes > * URL : https://minecraft.net > * License : BSD-2-Clause > Programming Lang: Shell

Bug#779043: RFA: gtkpod

2017-04-07 Thread Simon McVittie
On Mon, 23 Feb 2015 at 17:39:34 +0100, Matteo F. Vescovi wrote: > I'm not using an iPod anymore and I'm not going to buy a new one, > so I've lost interest in maintaining this package. Hi, I notice this package is in principle team-maintained. Is there anyone else in the gtkpod maintainers team

Bug#854951: ITP: recipes -- Recipe application for GNOME

2017-02-12 Thread Simon McVittie
On Sun, 12 Feb 2017 at 09:44:53 -0500, Jeremy Bicha wrote: > On Sun, Feb 12, 2017 at 9:22 AM, Simon McVittie <s...@debian.org> wrote: > > I think this is too generic. The upstream name is Recipes, and that name is > > fine within the context of GNOME > > Thanks. I r

Bug#854951: ITP: recipes -- Recipe application for GNOME

2017-02-12 Thread Simon McVittie
On Sun, 12 Feb 2017 at 07:55:18 -0500, Jeremy Bicha wrote: > Package Name: recipes I think this is too generic. The upstream name is Recipes, and that name is fine within the context of GNOME (particularly when its machine-readable name is actually org.gnome.Recipes), but within Debian/Ubuntu it

Bug#853142: O: python-whoosh

2017-01-30 Thread Simon McVittie
Package: wnpp Severity: normal As mentioned in , أحمد المحمودي (Ahmed El-Mahmoudy) is no longer maintaining python-whoosh. It is available in a collab-maint git repository, and currently has a release-critical bug that needs investigating

Bug#843486: ITP: vectis -- build software in a disposable virtual machine

2016-11-06 Thread Simon McVittie
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Simon McVittie <s...@debian.org> Package name: vectis Version : (unreleased, not ready for wide use yet) Upstream Author : Simon McVittie URL : https://git.pseudorandom.co.uk/vectis.git https://github.co

Bug#841852: ITP: use-package -- use-package declaration for simplifying your .emacs

2016-10-23 Thread Simon McVittie
On Mon, 24 Oct 2016 at 01:31:18 +0500, Lev Lamberov wrote: > * Package name: use-package As with your parallel ITP for bind-key, this seems like a very generic package name, and gives no indication that it is to do with Emacs. I suggest talking to an Emacs-related packaging team (for example

Bug#841851: ITP: bind-key -- simple way to manage personal keybindings

2016-10-23 Thread Simon McVittie
On Mon, 24 Oct 2016 at 01:28:27 +0500, Lev Lamberov wrote: > * Package name: bind-key This seems like a very generic package name, and gives no indication that it is to do with Emacs. I suggest talking to an Emacs-related packaging team (for example Debian Emacs addons team

Bug#831690: ITP: xdg-desktop-portal-gtk -- GTK/GNOME portal backend for xdg-desktop-portal

2016-07-18 Thread Simon McVittie
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Simon McVittie <s...@debian.org> * Package name: xdg-desktop-portal-gtk Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : Matthias Clasen and others * URL : https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal-gtk * License : LG

Bug#831689: ITP: xdg-desktop-portal -- desktop integration portal for Flatpak

2016-07-18 Thread Simon McVittie
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Simon McVittie <s...@debian.org> * Package name: xdg-desktop-portal Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : Matthias Clasen and others * URL : https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal * License : LGPL-2.1+ Programmin

Bug#825761: ITP: gnome-shell-extension-top-icons-plus -- move system tray icons to top bar

2016-05-29 Thread Simon McVittie
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Simon McVittie <s...@debian.org> * Package name: gnome-shell-extension-top-icons-plus Version : (git snapshot) Upstream Author : Jean-Christophe Baptiste, Mohammad Javad Naderi, Adel Gadllah * URL : https://github.com/p

Bug#823548: linux-user-chroot deprecation

2016-05-16 Thread Simon McVittie
On Sun, 15 May 2016 at 20:49:28 +0200, László Böszörményi wrote: > On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 7:10 PM, Simon McVittie <s...@debian.org> wrote: > > May I co-maintain, preferably in collab-maint git? xdg-app (now called > > Flatpak, apparently) is going to depend on it soo

Bug#823548: linux-user-chroot deprecation

2016-05-09 Thread Simon McVittie
On Mon, 09 May 2016 at 19:01:15 +0200, László Böszörményi (GCS) wrote: > I plan to package bubblewrap, then ask for removal of linux-user-chroot. May I co-maintain, preferably in collab-maint git? xdg-app (now called Flatpak, apparently) is going to depend on it soon; for now it's a git

Bug#823548: linux-user-chroot deprecation

2016-05-09 Thread Simon McVittie
[added linux-user-chroot maintainer/subscribers to Cc, quoting full text for their benefit] On Mon, 09 May 2016 at 09:13:42 -0400, Colin Walters wrote: > l-u-c post: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/ostree-list/2016-May/msg0.html > > FWIW if any transition scripts are written I'd be happy to

Bug#823832: ITP: python-mpd-parser -- MPEG-DASH MPD(Media Presentation Description) Parser

2016-05-09 Thread Simon McVittie
On Mon, 09 May 2016 at 14:26:23 +0200, Ondrej Koblizek wrote: > * Package name: python-mpd-parser Python packages in Debian should always be named after the highest-level module available for import, which in this case appears to be mpd, hence python[3]-mpd. However, there is already a

Bug#823672: Streaming SIMD Extensions (SSE) is an SIMD instruction set extension to the x86 architecture

2016-05-07 Thread Simon McVittie
On Sat, 07 May 2016 at 17:15:51 +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > Good idea! The test harness is already templated, so there's no reason to > make this x86 specific. Altivec detection on 32-bit powerpc would also be useful, assuming 32-bit powerpc has a future in Debian at all. ioquake3:powerpc

Bug#823548: ITP: bubblewrap -- setuid wrapper for unprivileged chroot and namespace manipulation

2016-05-05 Thread Simon McVittie
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Simon McVittie <s...@debian.org> Control: affects -1 xdg-app * Package name: bubblewrap Version : (no releases yet) Upstream Author : Colin Walters, Alex Larsson * URL : https://github.com/projectatomic/bubblewrap/ * L

Bug#823200: ITP: python-poyo -- lightweight (subset of) YAML parser for Python

2016-05-02 Thread Simon McVittie
On Mon, 02 May 2016 at 09:05:33 +0200, Vincent Bernat wrote: > Poyo is a simple parser for a subset of YAML. The subset is quite > restricted and doesn't include JSON or any JSON constructs. Ugh. Restricted "not quite" dialects of well-known languages considered harmful... > I need > this

Bug#697477: closed by Simon McVittie <s...@debian.org> (Bug#697477: fixed in xdg-app 0.5.0-1)

2016-03-28 Thread Simon McVittie
Control: reopen 697477 On Mon, 21 Mar 2016 at 08:03:07 +, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: > xdg-app (0.5.0-1) experimental; urgency=medium > . >* Prepare package for Debian (Closes: #697477) This should of course have closed #813308 instead of this bug. Reopening. S

Bug#819152: ITP: gnome-shell-extension-caffeine -- disable screensaver and auto-suspend

2016-03-24 Thread Simon McVittie
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Simon McVittie <s...@debian.org> * Package name: gnome-shell-extension-caffeine Version : (git snapshot, would currently be 0~git20160320) Upstream Author : Jean-Philippe Braun * URL : https://github.com/eonpatapon/gnome

Bug#819151: ITP: gnome-shell-extension-mediaplayer -- GNOME Shell extension to control media players

2016-03-24 Thread Simon McVittie
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Simon McVittie <s...@debian.org> * Package name: gnome-shell-extension-mediaplayer Version : (git snapshot, would currently be 0~git20160215) Upstream Author : Jean-Philippe Braun, Mantas Mikulėnas * URL : https://gith

Bug#813308: ITP: xdg-app -- Application deployment framework for desktop apps

2016-03-19 Thread Simon McVittie
On Sun, 31 Jan 2016 at 14:17:08 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: > xdg-app installs, manages and runs sandboxed desktop application bundles, > primarily those from a source outside the main distribution. I've uploaded this to experimental NEW. Packaging repository: https://anonscm.debian.o

Bug#697477: ITP: ostree

2016-03-19 Thread Simon McVittie
On Mon, 01 Feb 2016 at 17:37:58 +0100, Matthias Klumpp wrote: > I would like to help with it and co-maintain the package. Also talked > with Alexander Larsson a bit about xdg-app on Debian this FOSDEM. I've uploaded ostree to experimental NEW, with both of us in Uploaders. The packaging

Bug#813306: ITP: libgsystem -- GIO-based library targeted at OS components

2016-03-19 Thread Simon McVittie
On Sun, 31 Jan 2016 at 13:34:20 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: > libgsystem was partly a prototyping area for features that were considered > for future GLib inclusion, and partly a Linux-specific supplement for > the mostly-portable functionality in GLib. This is now in the

Bug#697477: ITP: ostree

2016-02-01 Thread Simon McVittie
[Re-sending because it doesn't seem to have reached the bug, with links added; sorry if you get this twice.] Hi, I've been looking at ostree recently, with the intention of using it in conjunction with xdg-app. David King and Alexander Larsson have made some Ubuntu PPA packages, which don't

Bug#813306: ITP: libgsystem -- GIO-based library targeted at OS components

2016-01-31 Thread Simon McVittie
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Simon McVittie <s...@debian.org> * Package name: libgsystem Version : 2015.2 Upstream Author : primarily Colin Walters * URL : https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/LibGSystem * License : LGPL-2.1+ Programming L

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