Bug#1043507: ITP: wtmpdb -- Year 2038 safe wtmp implementation

2023-08-12 Thread Sven Joachim
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Sven Joachim X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-de...@lists.debian.org * Package name: wtmpdb Version : 0.8.0 Upstream Contact: Thorsten Kukuk * URL : https://github.com/thkukuk/wtmpdb * License : BSD 2-Clause Programming Lang: C

Bug#911774: O: xview -- XView shared libraries

2018-10-24 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2018-10-24 18:17 +0200, Mattia Rizzolo wrote: > Package: wnpp > > The current maintainer of xview, Blars Blarson , > is apparently not active anymore. Therefore, I orphan this package now. > > Maintaining a package requires time and skills. Please only adopt this > package if you will have eno

Bug#883813: O: tack -- terminfo action checker

2018-01-15 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2017-12-10 19:56 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > Control: retitle -1 ITA: tack -- terminfo action checker > Control: owner -1 ! > > On 2017-12-07 22:06 +0100, Tobias Frost wrote: > >> Package: wnpp >> >> The current maintainer of tack, Samuel Bronson , &g

Bug#883813: O: tack -- terminfo action checker

2017-12-10 Thread Sven Joachim
Control: retitle -1 ITA: tack -- terminfo action checker Control: owner -1 ! On 2017-12-07 22:06 +0100, Tobias Frost wrote: > Package: wnpp > > The current maintainer of tack, Samuel Bronson , > is apparently not active anymore. Therefore, I orphan this package now. > > Maintaining a package req

Bug#868250: RFP: meson-mode -- major mode for the Meson build system files

2017-07-13 Thread Sven Joachim
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: meson-mode Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : Michal Sojka * URL or Web page : https://github.com/wentasah/meson-mode * License : GPL3+ Description : major mode for the Meson build system files Everybody seems to be jumpi

Bug#778795: O: morfeusz -- morphological analyser of Polish

2017-03-10 Thread Sven Joachim
Control: retitle -1 RM: morfeusz/experimental -- RoQA; orphaned, unused Control: reassign -1 ftp.debian.org On 2015-03-04 01:02 -0500, Stéphane Fillion wrote: > popularity-contest says morfeusz has no user and only one install -- > possibly the maintainer. Should it be deleted entirely from Deb

Bug#784851: O: backup-manager -- command-line backup tool

2015-05-09 Thread Sven Joachim
Package: wnpp Severity: normal I am orphaning the backup-manager package. The source builds two binary packages, backup-manager and backup-manager-doc. The package description of backup-manager is: This is a backup program, designed to help you make daily archives of your file system. . Writ

Bug#760507: O: symlinks -- scan/change symbolic links

2014-09-04 Thread Sven Joachim
Package: wnpp Severity: normal I intend to orphan the symlinks package. The package description is: Symlinks scans directories for symbolic links and lists them on stdout. Each link is prefixed with a classification of relative, absolute, dangling, messy, lengthy or other_fs. . Symlinks can

Bug#702697: RFP: git-remote-bzr -- bidirectional bridge between Git and Bazaar

2014-05-28 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-05-28 09:08 +0200, Paul Wise wrote: > On Fri, 2014-05-23 at 21:03 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > >> I wanted a package now, so I created one, Debian tarball is >> attached. It's probably not perfect, but it works for me. Anyone who >> volunteers for maintainin

Bug#702697: RFP: git-remote-bzr -- bidirectional bridge between Git and Bazaar

2014-05-23 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-05-23 03:30 +0200, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Paul Wise wrote: >> On Thu, 2014-05-22 at 12:37 -0700, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > >>> Okay. Alas, there's no easy answer for software that people use but >>> no one wants to maintain. >> >> Are you not intending to package these? I use them quite

Bug#702697: RFP: git-remote-bzr -- bidirectional bridge between Git and Bazaar (Re: git: please enable git-remote-hg and git-remote-bzr)

2014-05-22 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-05-22 21:37 +0200, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Hi Sven, > > Sven Joachim wrote: >> On 2014-05-21 23:20 +0200, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > >>> Now git-remote-bzr has graduated to its own upstream. Reopening as a >>> reminder to package it. (Or if someone el

Bug#702697: git: please enable git-remote-hg and git-remote-bzr

2014-05-22 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-05-21 23:20 +0200, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > reopen 702697 > retitle 702697 RFP: git-remote-bzr -- bidirectional bridge between Git and > Bazaar > reassign 702697 wnpp > affects 702697 + src:git > quit > > Hi, > > Paul Wise wrote: > >> Please move these two files to the correct path and gi

Bug#700210: ITP: kmscon -- Linux KMS/DRM based virtual Console Emulator

2014-03-02 Thread Sven Joachim
Control: retitle -1 RFP: kmscon -- Linux KMS/DRM based virtual Console Emulator Control: noowner -1 On 2013-12-19 01:02 +0100, Nobuhiro Iwamatsu wrote: > FYI, I just upload libtsm. But this is in New queue yet. > > libtsm is used by kmscon. > I think, kmscon of build dependencies is resolved by t

Bug#666490: O: svgalib -- console SVGA display libraries

2013-06-26 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-06-26 17:15 +0200, Stephen Kitt wrote: > On Mon, 24 Jun 2013 23:54:34 +0200, Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote: >> On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 08:29:57PM +0200, Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote: >> > > Apart from mplayer and zgv, all of these rebuild fine without >> > > libsvga1-dev; they can use X and some can

Bug#700210: ITP: kmscon -- Linux KMS/DRM based virtual Console Emulator

2013-06-23 Thread Sven Joachim
Control: retitle -1 ITP: kmscon -- Linux KMS/DRM based virtual Console Emulator Control: owner -1 ! On 2013-06-17 19:29 +0200, Jakub Wilk wrote: > Control: retitle -1 RFP: kmscon -- Linux KMS/DRM based virtual Console > Emulator > Control: noowner -1 > > * Jakub Wilk , 2013-02-09, 23:36: >> Kmsc

Bug#598044: autoconf-dickey git repository created on Alioth

2012-02-16 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-11-01 21:32 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2011-11-01 00:10 +0100, Craig Small wrote: > >> On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 10:52:36PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: >>> Craig, would you be willing to sponsor that package since ncurses is one >>> of its potential use

Bug#659056: O: vera -- Dictionary of computer related acronyms

2012-02-07 Thread Sven Joachim
Package: wnpp Severity: normal I am orphaning the vera package. The source builds two binary packages, vera and dict-vera. The package description of vera is: The free edition of V.E.R.A. - Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms - is a comprehensive dictionary of computer related acronyms with mo

Bug#621632: O: hyperlatex

2011-12-07 Thread Sven Joachim
reassign 621632 ftp.debian.org retitle 621632 RM: hyperlatex -- RoQA; orphaned, RC-buggy, inactive upstream thanks Am 07.12.2011 um 21:54 schrieb Roland Stigge: > On 07/12/11 19:49, Sven Joachim wrote: >>> Otherwise, I propose the removal of hyperlatex. >> >> As nobody

Bug#621632: O: hyperlatex

2011-12-07 Thread Sven Joachim
Am 07.04.2011 um 21:57 schrieb Roland Stigge: > Package: wnpp > Severity: normal > > Hi, > > I'm orphaning the package hyperlatex. It's unmaintained upstream for years now > and it depends on an old emacs version (for emacs lisp in which it is > implemented). Therefore, it is RC-buggy now. I'm no

Bug#598044: autoconf-dickey git repository created on Alioth

2011-10-31 Thread Sven Joachim
Rather belated, I have now created a git repository for packaging of Thomas Dickey's autoconf fork, visible at http://git.debian.org/?p=collab-maint/autoconf-dickey.git;a=summary. Craig, would you be willing to sponsor that package since ncurses is one of its potential users? Otherwise I'll ask o

Bug#631741: O: amd64-libs

2011-08-04 Thread Sven Joachim
reassign 631741 ftp.debian.org retitle 631741 RM: amd64-libs -- RoQA; orphaned, obsolete thanks On 2011-07-16 16:46 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2011-06-26 19:36 +0200, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > >> Package: wnpp >> Severity: normal >> >> I am orphaning amd64-li

Bug#631741: O: amd64-libs

2011-07-16 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-06-26 19:36 +0200, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: normal > > I am orphaning amd64-libs. > > This package is less used now, and very stale. It's possible that > it should be removed instead of adopted. The only library left in this package is libbz2, and that one is

Bug#598044: ITP: autoconf-dickey -- automatic configure script builder (Thomas Dickey's version)

2010-09-26 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-09-25 23:29 +0200, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > On 12249 March 1977, Sven Joachim wrote: > >> * Package name: autoconf-dickey >> Version : 2.52-20100814 >> Upstream Author : David MacKenzie >> Thomas Dickey >> * URL or We

Bug#598044: ITP: autoconf-dickey -- automatic configure script builder (Thomas Dickey's version)

2010-09-25 Thread Sven Joachim
Package: wnpp Owner: Sven Joachim Severity: wishlist * Package name: autoconf-dickey Version : 2.52-20100814 Upstream Author : David MacKenzie Thomas Dickey * URL or Web page : http://invisible-island.net/autoconf/autoconf.html * License : GPLv2

Bug#513973: Any chance to get b43-asm and openfwwf into Debian?

2010-01-11 Thread Sven Joachim
What is the status of these ITPs? Now that sid has Linux 2.6.32, lack of kernel support should no longer hold back these packages. Regards, Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.deb

Bug#543852: Maintaining ncurses

2010-01-08 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-01-08 00:17 +0100, Craig Small wrote: > Hello, > I just recently noticed that ncurses has been orphaned for a few > months. There were a few people saying they were willing to help out > with it which is great. I've not seen much since September. I had some private discussion with Seba

Bug#547225: O: ne -- Nice Editor, an easy-to-use and powerful editor

2009-09-23 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-09-22 10:51 +0200, Sandro Tosi wrote: > On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 10:14, Sven Joachim wrote: >> On 2009-09-22 09:11 +0200, Sandro Tosi wrote: >> >>> On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 09:01, Sven Joachim wrote: >>>> Regardless of whether I do that or not, I hav

Bug#547225: O: ne -- Nice Editor, an easy-to-use and powerful editor

2009-09-22 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-09-22 09:11 +0200, Sandro Tosi wrote: > On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 09:01, Sven Joachim wrote: > >> On 2009-09-21 23:31 +0200, Sandro Tosi wrote: >> >>> On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 23:02, Sven Joachim wrote: >>>> | I: ne: arch-dep-package-has-big-usr-s

Bug#547225: O: ne -- Nice Editor, an easy-to-use and powerful editor

2009-09-22 Thread Sven Joachim
Hello Sandro, thanks for your answer. You are of course right with regard to the easily fixable things. On 2009-09-21 23:31 +0200, Sandro Tosi wrote: > On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 23:02, Sven Joachim wrote: >> On 2009-09-21 22:31 +0200, Ryan Niebur wrote: >> >>> >>&g

Bug#547225: O: ne -- Nice Editor, an easy-to-use and powerful editor

2009-09-21 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-09-21 22:31 +0200, Ryan Niebur wrote: > Hi Sven, > > On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 10:03:59PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: >> I have some interest in this package as a prospective ncurses >> co-maintainer, because ne is *very* picky about wrong terminfo entries, >> and

Bug#547225: O: ne -- Nice Editor, an easy-to-use and powerful editor

2009-09-21 Thread Sven Joachim
I have some interest in this package as a prospective ncurses co-maintainer, because ne is *very* picky about wrong terminfo entries, and that helped me to discover that the xterm-256color terminfo had a wrong backspace description. However, I certainly won't use ne as an editor for any serious wo

Bug#543852: ncurses/wide

2009-09-19 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-09-19 02:31 +0200, Clint Adams wrote: > Are there any current plans to drop the wide packages and make the main > packages wide? No. This is the idea for libncurses6, but an ncurses soname change is not imminent. One year ago the then-maintainer had announced it¹, but he did not pursue

Bug#543852: ncurses -- shared libraries for terminal handling

2009-09-15 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-09-14 21:57 +0200, Sebastian Harl wrote: > On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 09:19:00PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: >> >> During the past two weeks, I have been studying the package, triaged >> some of the bugs and made several changes. See the Debian changelog and >> th

Bug#543852: ncurses -- shared libraries for terminal handling

2009-09-14 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-08-28 22:18 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2009-08-27 14:57 +0200, Sebastian Harl wrote: > >> On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 01:11:09PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: >>> >>> I don't know who will pick up ncurses, but if it is going to be a team I >>&

Bug#543852: ncurses -- shared libraries for terminal handling

2009-08-28 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-08-27 14:57 +0200, Sebastian Harl wrote: > On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 01:11:09PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: >> >> I don't know who will pick up ncurses, but if it is going to be a team I >> would like to help. > > I really think something like ncurses shoul

Bug#543852: ncurses -- shared libraries for terminal handling

2009-08-27 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-08-27 09:44 +0200, Daniel Baumann wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: normal > > I am orphaning ncurses. > > Maintaining a package requires time and skills. Please only adopt this > package if you will have enough time and attention to work on it. I don't know who will pick up ncurses, but

Bug#477067: Remove emacs-wiki from Debian?

2008-12-09 Thread Sven Joachim
I'm currently going through packages that still prefer emacs21 over emacs22, and emacs-wiki showed up in that list. Since emacs-wiki has been orphaned long ago and its removal suggested in the orphaning message, would it be a good idea to remove it now, so that it doesn't ship with Lenny? What do

Bug#497200: ITP: rt2860-source -- source for RT2860 wireless adapter kernel module

2008-09-01 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-09-01 09:07 +0200, Damyan Ivanov wrote: > -=| Ben Hutchings, Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 11:16:27PM +0100 |=- >> Possibly not. The module source code should go in contrib with the blob >> and firmware.h removed. The blob should go in the firmware-ralink >> binary package built from the firmware

Bug#486001: ITA: symlinks -- scan/change symbolic links

2008-08-12 Thread Sven Joachim
Hi Daniel, On 2008-08-11 23:25 +0200, Daniel Baumann wrote: > Hi, > > what is the status of this ITA? I'm actually depending much on that > package, so I'm interested it is maintained in Debian. I'm sorry that it took so long, the reason for the delay is that I first wanted to get my GPG key sig

Bug#411791: RFH: rt2400 -- RT2400 wireless network drivers

2008-08-01 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-08-01 18:40 +0200, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: > It appears this driver has been merged into the standard Linux kernel: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg -L linux-image-2.6.25-2-686 | grep wireless | grep > rt2 > /lib/modules/2.6.25-2-686/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00 > /lib/modules/2.6.25

Bug#486001: O: symlinks -- scan/change symbolic links

2008-06-13 Thread Sven Joachim
retitle 486001 ITA: symlinks -- scan/change symbolic links owner 486001 ! thanks I'd like to adopt the symlinks package. I use it regularly and have a patch ready for one of its bugs (#78600, patch sent to the BTS three years ago). Cheers, Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTE