Bug#463973: ITP: deejayd -- A media player daemon

2008-02-04 Thread Steve Greenland
such features? Obviously, they'd have final say over a particular implementation. Thanks, Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net --

Bug#464388: RFP: alfresco -- open source enterprise content management

2008-02-06 Thread Steve Greenland
and long descriptions. See section 3.4 of the policy manual. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Bug#468183: Many packaged programs that are doing the same thing

2008-03-07 Thread Steve Greenland
ackages available is unnecessary for this purpose. OTOH, I think it would be completely reasonable for the security team to object. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take ove

Bug#475719: ITP: robotfactory -- Help Pedro to build robots in his factory (game)

2008-04-12 Thread Steve Greenland
a game...". (Yes, I know that the actual program is "robotfactory". None-the-less, in English, the first word of a sentence is always capitalized.) Also, the whole long description is misformated - every line should begin with a space. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is tha

Bug#475834: ITP: nlkt -- non-linear visual keyboard trainer

2008-04-13 Thread Steve Greenland
Author : Eugene V. Lyubimkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/nlkt/ > * License : GPL 2+ > Programming Lang: C++ > Description : non-linear visual keyboard trainer > > nlkt is a lightweight keyboard trainer (touch-t

Bug#475822: ITP: fwsnort -- Fwsnort translates Snort rules into iptables rules.

2008-04-13 Thread Steve Greenland
tion. > fwsnort translates Snort rules into iptables rules and generates a English sentences always begin with a capital letter. You might want to break up that description into a couple of paragraphs, as it's pretty dense. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates c

Bug#477106: ITP: codecgraph -- generate a routing graph for an Intel-HDA codec

2008-04-20 Thread Steve Greenland
uot;Codecgraph is a utility..." (The first word of a sentence is capitilized.) Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net -- To

Bug#481980: RFP: Jubler -- Jubler Subtitle Editor

2008-05-19 Thread Steve Greenland
rsion: 3.9.0 > Upstream Author: [Panayotis Katsaloulis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>] > URL: [http://www.jubler.org] > License: [GPL] No brackets, please. > Description: [Subtitle Editor] Needs a better short description, and a long description. -- Steve Greenland Th

Bug#344991: ITP: dotproject -- Web-based project management tool

2005-12-28 Thread Steve Greenland
//www.dotproject.net/ > * License : GNU General Public License version 2 or later > Description : Web-based project management tool > Ummm, where's the long description? Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system

Bug#353365: ITP: gt5 -- Terminal program for visual disk usage with navigation

2006-02-18 Thread Steve Greenland
"; I initially pictured something like xterm with some sort of status bar. The phrase "terminal program" brings to mind a terminal emulator to a lot of people, I would guess. Also, the first character in the short description should be lowercase. Steve -- Steve Greenland

Bug#355030: ITP: ultimate-othello -- classic othello game with nice graphics

2006-03-02 Thread Steve Greenland
On 02-Mar-06, 15:01 (CST), Jari Aalto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The ultimate othello game with aqua-friendly graphics, full > cocoa interface and animations. And how is that relevant to a Debian GNU/Linux user? Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to

Bug#359340: ITP: opencity -- a 3D city simulator game

2006-03-27 Thread Steve Greenland
What events might happen? To be clear: I think it's okay to say "If you want SimCity 4, this isn't it", but that's hardly a complete description. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Lin

Bug#359345: ITP: dbdesigner -- DBDesigner 4 is a visual database design system that integrates database design, modeling, creation and maintenance into a single, seamless environment.

2006-03-28 Thread Steve Greenland
x27;s see, it's in Debian main, so I know that it's a) Linux and b) free. The rest is advertising. I had to scroll through 30 lines to find out what database it supports. Is it really mysql only? Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable o

Bug#361253: ITP: zenoss -- Zenoss is a powerful, integrated, easy-to-use IT infrastructure monitoring software product.

2006-04-07 Thread Steve Greenland
t *do*? SNMP monitoring? Network service monitoring? Local resource (e.g. diskspace or CPU usage) monitoring? Alert by e-mail, or pager, or IM? Web based? How is it configured? Any autodetection capabilities? Please save the marketing nonsense for the upstream website, and provide the Debian us

Bug#362266: ITP: scribus-ng -- developmental version of the desktop publishing program Scribus

2006-04-15 Thread Steve Greenland
kage) and sufficiently > stable to warrant its inclusion into the Debian distribution. Then why not just upload it as the new version of 'scribus' in unstable? Why do we need a whole new package? Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable oper

Bug#485553: ITP: charybdis -- fast, scalable irc server

2008-06-10 Thread Steve Greenland
On 10-Jun-08, 06:38 (CDT), William Pitcock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > - openvpn (may or may not have exception, more checking needed) The copyright file has the necessary exceptions. Steve -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMA

Bug#486127: ITP: sock -- make a customized traffic over network

2008-06-13 Thread Steve Greenland
On 13-Jun-08, 10:05 (CDT), Joao Eriberto Mota Filho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Package name: sock > Version : 0.3 > Upstream Author : Willian Richard Stevens, Mike Borella and Christian > Kreibich. > * URL : http://www.icir.org/christian/sock.html > * License

Bug#490997: ITP: mayanna -- A fork of gimmie, an elegant desktop organizer

2008-07-16 Thread Steve Greenland
On 15-Jul-08, 16:03 (CDT), Julian Andres Klode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Julian Andres Klode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * Package name: mayanna > Version : 0.2.8 > Upstream Author : Seif Lotfy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and others > * URL

Bug#492157: ITP: apollo -- The Apollo Solr Server

2008-07-24 Thread Steve Greenland
On 23-Jul-08, 22:47 (CDT), Paul Waite <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * License : GPL, Apache 2.0, CDDL 1.0, BSD, MIT Really? All of those? > Programming Lang: (C, C++, C#, Perl, Python, etc.) Really? All of those? > Description : The Apollo Solr Server > > The Apollo Solr Serve

Bug#502183: ITP: ExactImage -- A fast, modern and generic image processing library

2008-10-14 Thread Steve Greenland
On 14-Oct-08, 04:59 (CDT), Robert Wohlrab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Description: ExactImage is a fast, modern and generic image processing > library. It can be used with different frontends to replace > Imagemagick with some faster and more specialised tool

Bug#443619: RFP: epdfview -- ePDFView is a free lightweight PDF document viewer

2007-09-23 Thread Steve Greenland
ries. > You should probably read the control file documentation on the distinction between "short description" and "long description". And about not repeating the package name in the short description. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims

Bug#443904: ITP: jugglemaster -- graphical siteswap simulator

2007-09-24 Thread Steve Greenland
a lot of package descriptions. However, spelling it out explicitly may be a bit much. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net --

Bug#444334: ITP: libmowgli -- a high performance development framework for C

2007-09-28 Thread Steve Greenland
sentence, and so should NOT be capitalized. Isn't English fun?) Regards, Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Bug#445866: ITP: perforce -- closed source revision control system

2007-10-10 Thread Steve Greenland
g another? > > I don't see the relevance of this argument, really, but if you really think > it's a problem: What if someone needed to access an existing Perforce > repository? They could download and install the client from Perforce? Steve -- Steve Greenland The

Bug#443904: ITP: jugglemaster -- graphical siteswap simulator

2007-10-10 Thread Steve Greenland
url with further information on the notion in every > manpage. Any reason not to include it in the long description? > If you would like to sponsor this package or know a sponsor, please let > me know. Sorry, can't help there. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bil

Bug#446766: ITP: qavimator -- a BVH animation editor for 3D virtual worlds such as secondlife

2007-10-15 Thread Steve Greenland
d of the sentence. Thus "Qavimator is a QT-based BVH animation editor..." Also, please reformat to fit in an 80-character line. Oh, and either "secondlife" needs to be capitalized in the short description, or lowercased in the long. Regards, Steve -- Steve Greenland

Bug#446791: ITP: python-pycg -- NVIDIA's Cg 1.4 for Python

2007-10-15 Thread Steve Greenland
elves. ITPs serve as a marker, but also as way to get some of the package basics right before you upload debs and people spend time translating them. The sooner you find and fix a bug, the easier it is. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable oper

Bug#446766: ITP: qavimator -- a BVH animation editor for 3D virtual worlds such as secondlife

2007-10-15 Thread Steve Greenland
u need to repost the ITP, since our exchange is in the bug log. Just make sure that you get the fixes into the package/templates before anyone spends time translating. That's why I (when I notice) send these kinds of trivial fixes to the ITP, so that they get fixed before a real upload. Steve --

Bug#447014: ITP: detox -- utility to cleanup filenames from problematic characters

2007-10-17 Thread Steve Greenland
lines, you need two (or more) leading spaces. Also, the bulleted items need to either all be sentences (beginning with a capitalized letter and ending with a period) or not (not). Finally, watch out for the 80 char line-length. Regards, Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates c

Bug#447514: ITP: apt-cacher-ng -- Caching proxy for distribution of software packages

2007-10-23 Thread Steve Greenland
: BSD, original ^ "Original", as in the 4-clause anti-advertising version? It's your code, your license choice, of course, but it's so rarely used these days, I kind of wondered... Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a st

Bug#450781: ITP: Plasmidomics -- gui for plasmid and vector map drawing with postscript export / debian-med

2007-11-10 Thread Steve Greenland
ut the package name in the short description. We know it's open source since it's in Debian. Suggestion: Description: draw plasmid and vector maps with high-quality graphics export. 3. You're missing a long description. Regards, Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that B

Bug#450781: ITP: Plasmidomics -- gui for plasmid and vector map drawing with postscript export / debian-med

2007-11-13 Thread Steve Greenland
alized ("draw plasmids..."), nor end in a period. Long description isn't formatted correctly. See section 5.6.13 of the policy manual. (It's entirely possible that you know this, and your control file is correct. But there's no way for me to tell...) Regards, Steve -

Bug#450781: ITP: Plasmidomics -- gui for plasmid and vector map drawing with postscript export / debian-med

2007-11-13 Thread Steve Greenland
ications. It natively supports PostScript as output format. If you haven't looked at the Debian New Maintainers Guide, you might want to: http://www.us.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/index.en.html Regards, Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a sta

Bug#452153: ITP: haf-marketing-release -- Set of meta packages for Hildon desktop

2007-11-20 Thread Steve Greenland
velopment environment? If so, it would be good to mention it in the descriptions. Regards, Steve, N800 owner/user -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen o

Bug#455064: ITP: sofa-framework -- SOFA is an Open Source framework primarily targeted at real-time simulation, with an emphasis on medical simulation.

2007-12-10 Thread Steve Greenland
it's FOSS. Try: Description: framework for real-time simulation, particularly medical simulation Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen

Bug#456959: RFP: wnpp -- makehuman: software for the modelling of 3-Dimensional characters

2007-12-18 Thread Steve Greenland
fused the short and long descriptions, and it's not formatted correctly. Don't put the package name in the short description. Please use standard English capitalization rules. I assume it's a straight dump of the upstream website. Those are rarely suitable for Debian (or Ubuntu) packag

Bug#457473: ITP: extended_threading -- Extension of the python threading api

2007-12-22 Thread Steve Greenland
e posting the ITP? You're going to have to do it eventually, why not now? Is there some sort of fierce competition in ITPs that I'm unaware of? Regards, Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds c

Bug#457473: ITP: extended_threading -- Extension of the python threading api

2007-12-22 Thread Steve Greenland
ce (subclassing) of locks > - debugging utility > - timeouts with locks > - locks with both exclusive and non-exclusive characteristics > - read/write mode lock (write locks are exclusive, read locks are not) > - "safe" object based locks to help debug lock code. Excellent

Bug#460672: RFP: pymills -- James Mills Python Library

2008-01-14 Thread Steve Greenland
special purpose libraries and modules for the Python > programming language. English sentences begin with capital letters. Yes, even when the word is not normally capitalized. Regards, Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system

Bug#461104: RFP: label -- Set or change label to partition disk

2008-01-17 Thread Steve Greenland
ption: [Set or change label to partition disk] I realize this is just an RFP, but the proposed package name is way too generic. Something like 'partlabel' or 'disklabel' would be better. It also seems a rather trivial script for its own package... Steve -- Steve Greenland

Bug#419200: ITP: paris-traceroute -- A new version of the well known traceroute

2007-04-16 Thread Steve Greenland
ad balancers with the initial > implementation of traceroute. > The full detail with technical explanations is available at > http://www.paris-traceroute.net/newtraceroute.htm Your long description is malformed - the lines are too long and each line should begin with a space. Regards, Ste

Bug#427871: ITP: skytools -- Skytools is tools for replication and failover

2007-06-07 Thread Steve Greenland
h putting the word "postgresql" in the short description. Also, don't put the package name in the short desciption. Thus: Description: tools for PostgreSQL database replication and failover Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable ope

Bug#428212: ITP: linky -- an Iceweasel extension to handle web and image links

2007-06-09 Thread Steve Greenland
: MPL-1.1 > Description : an Iceweasel extension to handle web and image links Aren't iceweasel extension packages supposed to be named 'iceweasel-foo'? (No idea if there's actual policy, just looking at the existing packages) Thus "Package name : iceweasel-li

Bug#429818: ITP: qemulator -- it's a free solution for easy setup and management of qemu

2007-06-20 Thread Steve Greenland
gt; Programming Lang: Python > Description : it's a free solution for easy setup and management of qemu I can't really say why this "Description" seems wrong (except for the redundant "free"), but it really doesn't fit the style, somehow. A simpler "ea

Bug#433143: ITP: bzr-rebase -- Rebase plugin for Bazaar

2007-07-17 Thread Steve Greenland
and suggesting others. Wouldn't that cause people who currently have "bazaar" (the package) installed to suddenly change from 'baz' (aka "bazaar the old SCM tool") to 'bzr' (the new SCM tool)? That seems like a bad idea. Steve -- Steve Greenland The iron

Bug#433472: ITP: dirbuster -- Directory & file brute forcing, with a twist

2007-07-17 Thread Steve Greenland
arch for. Does this package really have any non-cracker usefulness? If I'm the sys admin, then it's a lot easier for me to 'ls -R' and look at the configuration files to find what URLs might be in play. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making

Bug#433143: ITP: bzr-rebase -- Rebase plugin for Bazaar

2007-07-17 Thread Steve Greenland
ackages will have to reflect *that*. Fine. Figure out a way to transition that doesn't involve automatically replacing baz with bzr. Or, just include in the bazaar package long description "This is baz, not bzr. You probably want the bzr package, instead." Or, just have 'bazaar

Bug#434525: ITP: swing-layout -- Extensions to Swing layout

2007-07-25 Thread Steve Greenland
an eye towards the > needs of GUI builders, such as NetBeans. This project consists of the > following pieces: "This package provides the following functionality:" Regards, Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating syst

Bug#137829: ITP: msp430-pybsl -- Boot strap loader (BSL) for Texas MSP430 devices

2002-03-11 Thread Steve Greenland
cient for those who need this packages. Or am I confused, and this has nothing to do with TI at all? Steve -- Steve Greenland

Bug#151326: ITP: lush -- Lush is an object-oriented Lisp interpreter/compiler that emphasizes numerical and graphical user interface programming with a nearly seemless integration with C.

2002-06-29 Thread Steve Greenland
ase read the sections 3.1 and 5.7 in the policy manual (and all the rest of it, if you haven't). Short version: Desciptions need to have a short summary line, followed by a longer, multi-line description of the package. Regards, Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gate

Bug#152050: ITP: orgadoc -- A tool to organize your documents

2002-07-06 Thread Steve Greenland
t; It also includes a search tool to perform query on this XML ^^^^ > files. "these" is the plural form. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus T

Bug#152194: ITP: golem -- Golem is an X11 Window Manager.

2002-07-08 Thread Steve Greenland
about this, and I don't remember what the result was. Also, I'd argue that "window manager" doesn't need to be capitalized, but a quick look at the existing situation shows about half are and half aren't. > > Desing goals are that it be fast and lightweight, as well as

Bug#188426: ITP: request-tracker3 -- Extensible Trouble Ticket System

2003-05-06 Thread Steve Greenland
ly in-appropriate for a standard preinst/postinst upgrade. Regards, Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net

Bug#192100: ITP: pyx -- Python graphics package

2003-05-06 Thread Steve Greenland
on/python-policy.txt.gz. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net

Bug#201561: ITP: elfutils -- Tools to read from and write to ELF files

2003-07-16 Thread Steve Greenland
nt of this would be? I mean, I certainly don't object to you packaging this, but I've no idea why I would want to install it, given binutils. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims

Bug#211118: ITP: php-gtk -- PHP extension for GTK+ ....

2003-09-16 Thread Steve Greenland
ent only if you are running the webserver locally. It > is intended for creating standalone GUI applications. > > (Include the long description here.) Please read the debian maintainers guide and debian policy on how to write the short and long descriptions. Steve -- Steve Greenland

Bug#216776: ITP: smilutils -- DV command line utilities

2003-10-20 Thread Steve Greenland
ce somewhere in the short or long description. I've no idea what this package is about. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net

Bug#217169: ITP: gnue-appserver -- The core of the n-tier variant of the GNU Enterprise system

2003-10-23 Thread Steve Greenland
Or perhaps it doesn't. Entirely up to you. Steve [1] Yes, I see that your original is pretty much what's on the upstream site. It's awkward and inscrutable there, too. -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torva

Bug#225502: ITP: reoback -- REOBack (pronounced as ray-o-back), is a backup solution designed for Linux users/system admins.

2003-12-30 Thread Steve Greenland
ed "ray-o-back" is designed to be simple to configure and easy to use." as a new first sentence. The rest is fine. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net

Bug#106678: ITP: new -- A template system

2001-07-26 Thread Steve Greenland
5. So if the package is ready to go, I can look at it this weekend; otherwise, it will be the middle of August before I can deal. If you get a better offer, take it :-). Steve -- Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Bug#121896: O: pump -- pump is broken and should be removed from woody

2001-11-30 Thread Steve Greenland
On 30-Nov-01, 17:26 (CST), Steve Dunham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd like to recommend that pump be removed from woody Sounds fine. > and dhcp-client "Replaces" pump, if there is no objection. If you're using "Replaces" as a generic term (i.e. people should use dhcp-client instead of pump),

Bug#335367: ITP: abakus -- KDE calculator

2005-10-23 Thread Steve Greenland
ally try not to criticize descriptions unless I can offer something better, but I'm at a complete loss on this one. "Not as blindess"? "because of its it is..."? Anybody? Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating syste

Bug#335260: ITP: dnspython -- DNS toolkit for Python

2005-10-23 Thread Steve Greenland
nspython.org > * License : ^^ The little '*' means the field is not optional. :-) Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on t

Bug#338094: ITP: sword-comm-scofield -- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition for SWORD

2005-11-09 Thread Steve Greenland
ections. Ummm, reference notes for *what*? Yes, by context I can guess it's related to the Christian Bible, but making it explicit would be nice. You might also say what version of the Bible is considered; presumably (from the dates) KJV? Also, neither "Edition" nor "Based"

Bug#338657: ITP: Buoh -- Buoh is a reader for online strips comics, designed to work well under the GNOME Desktop

2005-11-11 Thread Steve Greenland
comics, designed to > work well under the GNOME Desktop Repeats the package name, too long, and "online strips comics" is not the standard English phrase. Perhaps: Description: online comic-strip reader for GNOME works? > > (Include the long description here.) > Yes, pl

Bug#340624: ITP: sendcard -- web-based virtual greeting card (e-card) software

2005-11-25 Thread Steve Greenland
postcard program written in PHP. Suitable > for large or small sites, it is very easy to setup, and comes with an > installation wizard. What could be easier? I know the usual criteria for Debian packages are "Free" and "Someone is willing to maintain it", do we really

Bug#340624: ITP: sendcard -- web-based virtual greeting card (e-card) software

2005-11-25 Thread Steve Greenland
*wanted*? Okay, maybe "Unsolicited Crap E-mail" is more correct, but it's still UCE. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on t

Bug#164016: ITP: gtk2-engines-mist -- A flat theme for GTK+ 2.x

2002-10-10 Thread Steve Greenland
On 09-Oct-02, 17:01 (CDT), Ross Burton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * URL : http://primates.ximian.com/~campd/mist/ ERROR 404: Not Found. There is, however, a http://primates.ximian.com/~dave/mist/ Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be

Bug#167253: ITP: libfork-perl -- A fork(2) wraper for Perl

2002-10-31 Thread Steve Greenland
ze what features libfork-perl provides, and how it makes fork development[1] easier. Hint, Hint. Also, 'wraper' is more commonly spelled 'wrapper'. Regards, Steve [1] Actually, I've always thought the fork to be a pretty well developed utensil. The spoon, now, *tha

Bug#167437: ITP: metalog -- Modern login daemon

2002-11-02 Thread Steve Greenland
di/Sector One" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * URL : http://metalog.sourceforge.net > * License : GPL > Description : Modern login daemon ^^^^^ I think you mean "logging", not "login", right? -- Steve Greenland

Bug#168940: ITP: libemf -- libEMF is a C/C++ library which provides a drawing toolkit based on

2002-11-13 Thread Steve Greenland
r graphics format which is "vectorially" understood by > SO/OO. Don't repeat the brief description as the first line of the full description. All the Debian tools that show the full also show the brief. steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be ma

Bug#170676: ITP: thuban -- Thuban is an interactive geographic data viewer.

2002-11-26 Thread Steve Greenland
about is what kind of geographic data formats it's capable of displaying, and what different ways it can display that data. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net

Bug#171597: ITP: arp-sk -- Swiss knife tool for ARP

2002-12-03 Thread Steve Greenland
D]> > * URL : http://www.arp-sk.org/ > * License : GPL > Description : Swiss knife tool for ARP You're missing a long description. And the more common idiom is "Swiss army knife" (at least in my experience). Steve -- Steve Greenland

Bug#172514: ITP: hammerhead -- stress testing tool for web server and web site

2002-12-10 Thread Steve Greenland
On 10-Dec-02, 07:09 (CST), Noel Koethe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * URL : https://sf.net/projects/hammerhead/ I suppose this is being overly nitpicky, but is there a particular reason for using https? Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates cla

Bug#175650: ITP: tpb -- TPB is a little program that enables you to use the IBM ThinkPad(tm) special keys.

2003-01-07 Thread Steve Greenland
direct: Description: bind IBM ThinkPad special keys to arbitrary actions. And I wouldn't sweat the "(tm)", it just looks ugly. Put it in the long description if you must. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating sy

Bug#179100: ITP: php4-adp -- Advanced PHP Debugger that reports internal PHP code execution parameters

2003-01-31 Thread Steve Greenland
at in the short description, as I might not find this doing a quick search. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net

Bug#180346: ITP: sim -- This is an ICQ client for KDE 3.x called SIM (Simple Instant Messenger)

2003-02-09 Thread Steve Greenland
supports many of the features of Version 8 of the > ICQ protocol (ICQ 2001). Full-featured and the GUI is looks good. Probably s/ is//. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net

Bug#180402: ITP: JFFNMS -- A web-based NMS (Network Management System) designed to mantain a IP SNMP / Syslog / Tacacs+ Network.

2003-02-10 Thread Steve Greenland
Network Management Sytem (NMS) for IP networks." and putting the details in the long descriptions? > Have to think of something to put here, but it does lots. Heh. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus

Bug#181850: ITP: mordor -- Multi-user Dungeon game, based loosely on Tolkein

2003-02-21 Thread Steve Greenland
erhaps 'based loosely on Tolkein's books' or "on Lord of the Rings".? Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net

Bug#181839: ITP: slimp3 -- This is the SLIMP3 player server software

2003-02-21 Thread Steve Greenland
ription, rather than a bullet list of features. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net

Bug#184923: ITP: gmodconfig -- Gmodconfig provides a simple way for end-users to download, install, configure, and update Linux kernel modules through an easy-to-use graphic interface.

2003-03-15 Thread Steve Greenland
ve strikes me as awkward; I might go with just "configure kernel modules in their native language." Also, the antecedent for "their" is a little fuzzy, but I'm not sure I like "in the user's native language" any better. Steve -- Steve Greenland The iron

Bug#189249: ITP: ddrescue -- Like dd, dd_rescue does copy data from one file or block device to another

2003-04-16 Thread Steve Greenland
ata from a > medium with errors, i.e. a hard disk with some bad sectors. > Why? > [*snip*] The long description is not a place for a discussion on how the program works, particularly one that begins the middle (what "latter three features"? I don't see any features liste

Bug#190184: ITP: chandler -- personal information manager for email, calendars, contacts, tasks etc

2003-04-26 Thread Steve Greenland
nded for real use. (And it should be kept out of testing/stable as well -- it's not fair to the upstream to present works-in-progress as useful.) Regards, Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net

Bug#297629: ITP: gallery2 -- web-based photo album written in PHP

2005-03-01 Thread Steve Greenland
re's no sign of an upgrade path yet. There are are several web photo albums in Debian. Another one that's likely to be popular and well supported long term won't hurt. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Lin

Bug#301700: ITP: update-manager -- a GNOME application that manages apt updates

2005-03-28 Thread Steve Greenland
w apt-watch Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe&qu

Bug#302309: ITP: bcron -- Bruce's cron system

2005-04-07 Thread Steve Greenland
s the file naming conventions (both Debian and LSB) that apply in /etc/cron.d. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net -- To UNSUBSCR

Bug#302309: ITP: bcron -- Bruce's cron system

2005-04-07 Thread Steve Greenland
ult. Is that really necessary? The important thing is that you don't pickup .dpkg-dist etc. in default mode. For the sake of consitency, you should use the same conventions as run-parts. Feel free to take the code from cron. And yeah, I'll pick up fixing the permissions in cron. Send m

Bug#275371: ITP: bandersnatch -- Bandersnatch is a complete logging system for jabber conversations with database backend

2004-10-08 Thread Steve Greenland
essages to a database Description: Log Jabber conversations to a peer-visible database Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net

Bug#277766: ITP: moniwiki [*snip*]

2004-10-22 Thread Steve Greenland
between the "short description" and the "long description". :-) Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net

Bug#234477: ITP: logsurfer+ -- real-time system log monitor

2004-02-24 Thread Steve Greenland
emely efficient...". Sorry, that's not a true statement: use of a particular language doesn't automagically make a program efficient. How about something like "Logsurfer is written with a concern for efficiency, and easily support busy sites with a high amoutn of log traffic

Bug#236298: ITP: xmms-stats -- Make stats of your preferred songs

2004-03-05 Thread Steve Greenland
filename, song title and artist, ..." (I don't read French, so you'll need to fill in and correct the last sentence about what it actuall saves.) Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net

Bug#237116: ITP: rlplot -- RLPlot is is a plotting program to create high quality graphs from data. The Graphs are displayed as you get them (Wysiwyg). It supports most scientific graphing formats including bar charts, error bars and scatter plots.

2004-03-09 Thread Steve Greenland
m, and update in real time? It would be useful to know what the output format is - Postscript, on the X display, both? Regards, Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net

Bug#238864: ITP: mnews -- Text-based Mini NEWS-reader and also mail-reader

2004-03-19 Thread Steve Greenland
7;s program name: Mnews can read news via NNTP Regards, Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net

Bug#239548: ITP: gnome-keyring -- gnome keyring system is a program that keep password and other secrets for

2004-03-23 Thread Steve Greenland
gnome-keyring is a GUI front end or a back end that other packages can use (which other packages?), or both. Regards, Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net

Bug#244682: ITP: aewan -- Ascii-art Editor

2004-04-19 Thread Steve Greenland
ough it currently also > compiles under FreeBSD and possibly other *NIX systems. Irrelevant to the consumer of a Debian package. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net

Bug#284313: ITP: gcursor -- gtk2 tool to configure Xcursors themes (introduced in XFree86 4.3 iirc).

2004-12-05 Thread Steve Greenland
be correct. Suggestion: Description: gtk2 to configure Xcursors themes The long description needs a *lot* of work, as it is not even close to grammatically correct. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus

Bug#220345: Status of this ITP?

2004-12-08 Thread Steve Greenland
ktop.org package by now in > debian. If you're going to CC debian-devel, at least have the courtesy to mention what the hell you're babbling about, instead of forcing us to go look up the bug number. > Get off your ass. Ah. I see. Courtesy is not your strong point. Steve -- Steve G

Bug#283005: ITP: vhcs -- Virtual Hosting Control System

2004-12-31 Thread Steve Greenland
domains that can be created. Would it be possible to have a description of what the package *does*, rather than marketing gobbledy-gook? Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take

Bug#290614: ITP: bazaar -- arch-based distributed revision control system

2005-01-19 Thread Steve Greenland
ified (and reminded me that I had previously read about bazaar). Perhaps Description: alternate implementation of arch with a superior UI would be better? Perhaps not... I agree that it's hard to describe in 80 chars. Regards, Steve "Random Thoughts R Us" Greenland -- Steve Gr

Bug#319256: ITP: nadoka - IRC Client Server Program

2005-07-20 Thread Steve Greenland
ersations and responding to specially formatted requests. You define and customize these responses in Ruby. Nadoka is conceptually similar to Madoka, an older proxy written in Perl. (I'm sure there's an IRC-specific term for "specially formatted requests", but I can't think

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