Bug#1078082: ITP: python-test-tunnel -- Write tests for network tunnelling utilities

2024-08-06 Thread Peter Pentchev
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Peter Pentchev X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, team+pyt...@tracker.debian.org, r...@debian.org * Package name: python-test-tunnel Version : 0.1.1 Upstream Contact: Peter Pentchev * URL : https://devel.ringlet.net

Re: universal zcat ?

2024-09-09 Thread Peter Pentchev
Zutils is a collection of utilities for dealing with any combination > > of compressed and non-compressed files transparently. Currently the > > supported compressors are gzip, bzip2, lzip, xz, and zstd. There are also acat in the atool package, and bsdcat in the libarchive-tools package. G

Bug#484631: ITP: scramble -- Create as many words as you can from 6 letters

2008-06-05 Thread Peter Pentchev
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Peter Pentchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: scramble Version : 0.9.5 Upstream Author : Shifty Games * URL : http://www.shiftygames.com/scramble/ * License : GPL-2+ Programming Lang: C Description :

Bug#484630: ITP: s5 -- A simple HTML-based presentation system

2008-06-05 Thread Peter Pentchev
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Peter Pentchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: s5 Version : 1.1 Upstream Author : Eric Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/tools/s5/ * License : public domain Programming Lang

Bug#486425: ITP: bomstrip -- strip Byte-Order Marks from UTF-8 text files

2008-06-15 Thread Peter Pentchev
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Peter Pentchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: bomstrip Version : 8 Upstream Author : Mechiel Lukkien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.xs4all.nl/~mechiel/projects/bomstrip/ * License : p

Re: Bug#486425: ITP: bomstrip -- strip Byte-Order Marks from UTF-8 text files

2008-06-16 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 10:55:47AM +0200, Guus Sliepen wrote: > On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 03:08:02AM +0300, Peter Pentchev wrote: > > > * Package name: bomstrip > > Programming Lang: Awk, Brainf*ck, C, C++, Forth, Haskell, OCaml, Ook!, > > Pasca

Re: Bug#486425: ITP: bomstrip -- strip Byte-Order Marks from UTF-8 text files

2008-06-17 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 12:28:52PM +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > ma, 2008-06-16 kello 12:14 +0300, Peter Pentchev kirjoitti: > > Hm. Okay, so maybe the two command-line utilities and the collection > > might be separated. IMHO, the collection *is* still useful on its own :) >

Bug#545480: ITP: libnet-epp-perl -- EPP XML frame system built on top of XML::LibXML

2009-09-07 Thread Peter Pentchev
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Peter Pentchev * Package name: libnet-epp-perl Version : 0.12 Upstream Author : CentralNic Ltd - http://www.centralnic.com/ * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Net-EPP/ * License : Perl Programming Lang: Perl

Bug#548069: ITP: asciiportal -- puzzle jump'n'run adventure game

2009-09-23 Thread Peter Pentchev
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Peter Pentchev * Package name: asciiportal Version : 1.0 Upstream Author : Joseph Larson * URL : http://cymonsgames.com/asciiportal/ * License : MIT/X11 Programming Lang: C++ Description : puzzle jump'

Bug#548070: ITP: libpdcurses0 -- X/Open curses library with an X11 and SDL interface

2009-09-23 Thread Peter Pentchev
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Peter Pentchev * Package name: libpdcurses0 Version : 3.4 Upstream Author : William McBrine * URL : http://pdcurses.sourceforge.net/ * License : Public domain, MIT, GPL-2+ Programming Lang: C Description : X

Bug#490803: ITP: libcddb-file-perl -- library for parsing CDDB/FreeDB data files

2008-07-14 Thread Peter Pentchev
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Peter Pentchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libcddb-file-perl Version : 1.05 Upstream Author : Tony Bowden * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/CDDB-File/ * License : GPL-2+ Programming Lang: Perl Descr

Bug#490804: ITP: libnet-freedb-perl -- Perl interface to FreeDB servers

2008-07-14 Thread Peter Pentchev
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Peter Pentchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libnet-freedb-perl Version : 0.08 Upstream Author : David Shultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Peter Pentchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://se

Bug#502543: ITP: confget -- Utility to read variables from a configuration file

2008-10-17 Thread Peter Pentchev
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Peter Pentchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: confget Version : 1.00 Upstream Author : Peter Pentchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://devel.ringlet.net/textproc/confget/ * License : Two-clause BSD

Re: Bug#502543: ITP: confget -- Utility to read variables from a configuration file

2008-10-17 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 05:48:02PM +0200, Adeodato Sim?? wrote: > * Peter Pentchev [Fri, 17 Oct 2008 18:37:21 +0300]: > > > Description : Utility to read variables from a configuration file > > Please mention "INI-style" in the short description, eg.: > >

Re: Bug#248809: system users

2008-11-21 Thread Peter Pentchev
vsftpd) Isn't this one "special"? They do not add a package-specific user, rather they add a system user with a well-known name to provide anonymous FTP access in the traditional manner. FWIW, proftpd does this too, as, I assume, most other FTP daemons would want to. G

Bug#511410: ITP: dma -- the DragonFly Mail Agent, a lightweight MTA

2009-01-10 Thread Peter Pentchev
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Peter Pentchev * Package name: dma Version : 0.0.2009.01.10 Upstream Author : Matthias Schmidt , Simon Schubert * URL : http://www.dragonflybsd.org/ * License : BSD Programming Lang: C

Bug#453290: ITP: timelimit -- Simple utility to limit a process's absolute execution time

2007-11-28 Thread Peter Pentchev
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Peter Pentchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: timelimit Version : 1.0 Upstream Author : Peter Pentchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://devel.ringlet.net/sysutils/timelimit/ * License : Two-clause BSD

Bug#571216: ITP: libhamsterdb0 -- simple file-based database engine

2010-02-24 Thread Peter Pentchev
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Peter Pentchev * Package name: libhamsterdb0 Version : 1.1.2 Upstream Author : Christoph Rupp * URL : http://www.hamsterdb.com/ * License : GPL-2+, PD (I'll repack to remove the embedded zlib) Programming La

Re: Priority dependence

2010-07-19 Thread Peter Pentchev
Priority: extra /usr/share/debhelper/dh_make/debiann/control:Priority: extra /usr/share/debhelper/dh_make/debians/control:Priority: extra [r...@straylight ~]$ G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r...@space.bgr...@ringlet.netr...@freebsd.org PGP key:http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roa

Bug#599753: ITP: netpgp -- PGP signing, verification, encryption and decryption program

2010-10-10 Thread Peter Pentchev
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Peter Pentchev * Package name: netpgp Version : 20100710 Upstream Author : Alistair Crooks , Ben Laurie, Rachel Willmer * URL : http://www.netbsd.org/ * License : BSD Programming Lang: C

Re: Bug#599753: ITP: netpgp -- PGP signing, verification, encryption and decryption program

2010-10-10 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 11:41:22PM +0200, Peter Palfrader wrote: > On Mon, 11 Oct 2010, Peter Pentchev wrote: > > > Package: wnpp > > Severity: wishlist > > Owner: Peter Pentchev > > > > * Package name: netpgp > > Version : 201007

Bug#605393: ITP: libc-scan-perl -- Perl extension for scanning C sources for common constructs

2010-11-29 Thread Peter Pentchev
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Peter Pentchev * Package name: libc-scan-perl Version : 0.74-1 Upstream Author : Hugo van der Sanden * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/C-Scan/ * License : Perl (GPL-1+ | Artistic) Programming Lang: Perl

Bug#606117: ITP: php5-pecl-http -- Extended HTTP support for php5

2010-12-06 Thread Peter Pentchev
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Peter Pentchev * Package name: php5-pecl-http Version : 1.7.0 Upstream Author : Michael Wallner * URL : http://pecl.php.net/package/pecl_http * License : BSD-2 Programming Lang: C Description : Extended HTTP

Bug#611621: ITP: daemontools-encore -- A collection of tools for managing UNIX services

2011-01-31 Thread Peter Pentchev
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Peter Pentchev * Package name: daemontools-encore Version : 1.05 Upstream Author : Bruce Guenter * URL : http://untroubled.org/daemontools-encore/ * License : MIT Programming Lang: C Description : A collection

Re: [buildd-tools-devel] re buildd's resolver and package's build deps

2011-02-23 Thread Peter Pentchev
that this is a somewhat contrived case, but still... wouldn't it break, or would that be considered a bug in the packages' dependencies? If the latter, well, wouldn't this leave the maintainer of foo a bit vulnerable against random decisions by the maintainers of bar-dev? G'

Re: [buildd-tools-devel] re buildd's resolver and package's build deps

2011-02-23 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 12:27:00PM +0200, Peter Pentchev wrote: > On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 10:45:06AM +0100, Philipp Kern wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 10:40:52PM +, Roger Leigh wrote: > > > From discussion on IRC earlier this evening, it looks like the most > > &

Bug#617387: ITP: mdcached -- multithreaded memory cache daemon for advanced data queries

2011-03-08 Thread Peter Pentchev
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Peter Pentchev * Package name: mdcached Version : 3 Upstream Author : Ivan Voras * URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/mdcached/ * License : GPL-3 Programming Lang: C++ Description : multithreaded memory cache

Bug#619097: ITP: libtest-pod-content-perl -- Perl module for testing POD content

2011-03-21 Thread Peter Pentchev
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Peter Pentchev * Package name: libtest-pod-content-perl Version : 0.0.5 Upstream Author : Martin Kutter * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Test-Pod-Content/ * License : Artistic or GPL-1+ Programming Lang: Perl

Re: RFC: Better formatting for long descriptions

2009-04-17 Thread Peter Pentchev
to the *last* item of the text he quoted, not to the whole portion above it :) Thus, IMHO his first "really needed?" question referred specifically to the "ordered lists" item, and the "I don't think they are needed" referred specifically to the "u

Bug#524741: ITP: adsuck -- small DNS server that spoofs blacklisted addresses

2009-04-19 Thread Peter Pentchev
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Peter Pentchev * Package name: adsuck Version : 1.6 Upstream Author : Marco Peereboom * URL : http://www.peereboom.us/adsuck/ * License : BSD Revised Programming Lang: C Description : small DNS server that

Bug#525300: ITP: libmodule-cpants-analyse-perl -- Perl module to generate Kwalitee ratings for a distribution

2009-04-23 Thread Peter Pentchev
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Peter Pentchev * Package name: libmodule-cpants-analyse-perl Version : 0.82 Upstream Author : Thomas Klausner , http://domm.zsi.at * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Module-CPANTS-Analyse/ * License : Perl Programming

Bug#525302: ITP: libsoftware-license-perl -- Perl module that provides templated software licenses

2009-04-23 Thread Peter Pentchev
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Peter Pentchev * Package name: libsoftware-license-perl Version : 0.009 Upstream Author : Ricardo Signes * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Software-License/ * License : Perl Programming Lang: Perl Description

Bug#525304: ITP: libmodule-extractuse-perl -- Perl module to find out modules used by the specified Perl source

2009-04-23 Thread Peter Pentchev
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Peter Pentchev * Package name: libmodule-extractuse-perl Version : 0.23 Upstream Author : Thomas Klausner * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Module-ExtractUse/ * License : Perl Programming Lang: Perl Description

Bug#525303: ITP: libarray-diff-perl -- Perl module to find the differences between two arrays

2009-04-23 Thread Peter Pentchev
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Peter Pentchev * Package name: libarray-diff-perl Version : 0.05 Upstream Author : Daisuke Murase * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Array-Diff/ * License : Perl Programming Lang: Perl Description : Perl module

Bug#525306: ITP: libdata-section-perl -- Perl module to read chunks of data from a module's DATA section

2009-04-23 Thread Peter Pentchev
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Peter Pentchev * Package name: libdata-section-perl Version : 0.005 Upstream Author : Ricardo SIGNES * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Data-Section/ * License : Perl Programming Lang: Perl Description : Perl

Bug#526340: ITP: libdata-treedumper-renderer-dhtml-perl -- simple Perl DHTML renderer for Data::TreeDumper

2009-04-30 Thread Peter Pentchev
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Peter Pentchev * Package name: libdata-treedumper-renderer-dhtml-perl Version : 0.09 Upstream Author : Nadim Ibn Hamouda el Khemir * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Data::TreeDumper::Renderer::DHTML/ * License : Perl

Bug#526338: ITP: libdata-treedumper-perl -- Perl module for dumping data structures in various formats

2009-04-30 Thread Peter Pentchev
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Peter Pentchev * Package name: libdata-treedumper-perl Version : 0.35 Upstream Author : Khemir Nadim ibn Hamouda * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Data-TreeDumper/ * License : Perl Programming Lang: Perl

Bug#526342: ITP: libcheck-isa-perl -- Perl module for correct checking of an object's class

2009-04-30 Thread Peter Pentchev
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Peter Pentchev * Package name: libcheck-isa-perl Version : 0.04 Upstream Author : Yuval Kogman * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Check-ISA/ * License : Perl Programming Lang: Perl Description : Perl module for

Bug#526345: ITP: libasa-perl -- Perl module for expanding a class or object's list of base classes

2009-04-30 Thread Peter Pentchev
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Peter Pentchev * Package name: libasa-perl Version : 0.02 Upstream Author : Adam Kennedy * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/asa/ * License : Perl Programming Lang: Perl Description : Perl module for expanding a

Bug#530539: ITP: pslist -- utility that lists, kills, or renices a process and its descendants

2009-05-25 Thread Peter Pentchev
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Peter Pentchev * Package name: pslist Version : 1.2 Upstream Author : Peter Pentchev * URL : http://devel.ringlet.net/sysutils/pslist/ * License : BSD-2 Programming Lang: Perl Description : utility that lists

Bug#534216: ITP: mbuffer -- tool for buffering data streams

2009-06-22 Thread Peter Pentchev
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Peter Pentchev * Package name: mbuffer Version : 20090215 Upstream Author : Thomas Maier-Komor * URL : http://www.maier-komor.de/mbuffer.html * License : GPL-3 Programming Lang: C Description : tool for

Bug#760968: ITP: libguasi -- Asynchronous syscall library

2014-09-09 Thread Peter Pentchev
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Peter Pentchev * Package name: libguasi Version : 0.25 Upstream Author : Davide Libenzi * URL : http://xmailserver.org/guasi-lib.html * License : LGPL-2.1+ Programming Lang: C Description : Asynchronous syscall

Bug#693310: ITP: spiped -- create secure pipes between socket addresses

2012-11-15 Thread Peter Pentchev
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Peter Pentchev * Package name: spiped Version : 1.2.2 Upstream Author : Colin Percival * URL : http://www.tarsnap.com/spiped.html * License : BSD-2 Programming Lang: C Description : create secure pipes between

Re: Bug#693310: ITP: spiped -- create secure pipes between socket addresses

2012-11-15 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 09:12:53PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 8:18 PM, Peter Pentchev wrote: > > > Description : create secure pipes between socket addresses > > > > spiped (pronounced "ess-pipe-dee") is a utility for creati

Bug#699347: ITP: stdsyslog -- tool to log a program's output to the system log

2013-01-30 Thread Peter Pentchev
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Peter Pentchev * Package name: stdsyslog Version : 0.02 Upstream Author : Peter Pentchev * URL : http://devel.ringlet.net/sysutils/stdsyslog/ * License : BSD-2 Programming Lang: C Description : tool to log a

Bug#703507: ITP: re2 -- fast, safe C++ regular expression library

2013-03-20 Thread Peter Pentchev
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Peter Pentchev * Package name: re2 Version : 20130115 Upstream Author : Stefano Rivera * URL : http://code.google.com/p/re2 * License : BSD-3 Programming Lang: C++ Description : fast, safe C++ regular expression

Re: Bug#703507: ITP: re2 -- fast, safe C++ regular expression library

2013-03-20 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 12:38:11PM +, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > On 20.03.2013 12:21, Peter Pentchev wrote: > >* Package name: re2 > > Version : 20130115 > > Upstream Author : Stefano Rivera > > This appears to have been in the archive for a coupl

Bug#704059: ITP: sdb -- simple and fast key/value database

2013-03-27 Thread Peter Pentchev
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Peter Pentchev * Package name: sdb Version : 0.6 Upstream Author : pancake * URL : http://github.com/radare/sdb * License : public domain Programming Lang: C Description : simple and fast key/value database

Re: DEP-5 format definition hell

2011-05-30 Thread Peter Pentchev
to me) This used to be correct during the initial discussion of the idea of machine-readable copyright files; it became incorrect the moment DEP 5 was created as such :) > d) broken links (obviously rejected) True, that :) G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.net r...@freeb

Bug#633762: ITP: csmith -- random generator of C programs

2011-07-13 Thread Peter Pentchev
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Peter Pentchev * Package name: csmith Version : 2.0.0 Upstream Author : Xuejun Yang , Yang Chen , Eric Eide , John Regehr * URL : http://embed.cs.utah.edu/csmith

Bug#771057: ITP: arasan -- xboard-compatible chess engine

2014-11-26 Thread Peter Pentchev
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Peter Pentchev * Package name: arasan Version : 17.4.0 Upstream Author : Jon Dart * URL : http://www.arasanchess.org/ * License : MIT Programming Lang: C++ Description : xboard-compatible chess engine Arasan is

Bug#778543: ITP: libffi-platypus-perl -- Perl FFI interface to non-Perl libraries without XS

2015-02-16 Thread Peter Pentchev
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Peter Pentchev * Package name: libffi-platypus-perl Version : 0.23 Upstream Author : Graham Ollis * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/FFI-Platypus * License : Perl Programming Lang: Perl Description : Perl FFI

Bug#778547: ITP: libalien-ffi-perl -- Perl interface to libffi

2015-02-16 Thread Peter Pentchev
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Peter Pentchev * Package name: libalien-ffi-perl Version : 0.06 Upstream Author : Graham Ollis * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/Alien-FFI * License : Perl Programming Lang: Perl Description : Perl interface

Bug#778549: ITP: libshell-guess-perl -- Perl module to guess the shell in use

2015-02-16 Thread Peter Pentchev
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Peter Pentchev * Package name: libshell-guess-perl Version : 0.06 Upstream Author : Graham Ollis * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/Shell-Guess * License : Perl Programming Lang: Perl Description : Perl module

Bug#778550: ITP: libshell-config-generate-perl -- Perl module to generate shell configuration files

2015-02-16 Thread Peter Pentchev
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Peter Pentchev * Package name: libshell-config-generate-perl Version : 0.19 Upstream Author : Graham Ollis * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/Shell-Config-Generate * License : Perl Programming Lang: Perl

Bug#912338: ITP: createrepo-c -- tool to create RPM repository metadata (C implementation)

2018-10-30 Thread Peter Pentchev
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Peter Pentchev * Package name: createrepo-c Version : 0.11.1 Upstream Author : Tomas Mlcoch et al * URL : https://github.com/rpm-software-management/createrepo_c * License : GPL-2+ Programming Lang: C Description

Re: Proposal: Repository for fast-paced package backports

2018-12-25 Thread Peter Pentchev
e maintainers of the stack will first package the dependencies, wait for them to migrate to testing, then backport them, and then they will upload the main piece of software first to unstable and then to the new suite under discussion. G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev roam@{ringlet.net,debi

Switch to DEP-14-ish with an existing "debian" branch

2019-02-04 Thread Peter Pentchev
than "pkg/"? Thanks to the people who came up with the idea of a harmonized layout of Debian packaging repositories and then did the work of writing up the DEP itself! And, yeah, well, does what I'm trying to do feel like de-harmonizing the layout by introducing Yet Another Branch Namin

Re: Switch to DEP-14-ish with an existing "debian" branch

2019-02-04 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Mon, Feb 04, 2019 at 02:34:42PM +0100, Andrej Shadura wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, 4 Feb 2019 at 14:07, Peter Pentchev wrote: > > So these days I decided that DEP-14[1] actually seems to be a Good > > Thing(tm) and I started thinking about switching my packages' Gi

Re: Switch to DEP-14-ish with an existing "debian" branch

2019-02-04 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Mon, Feb 04, 2019 at 03:38:35PM +0200, Peter Pentchev wrote: > On Mon, Feb 04, 2019 at 02:34:42PM +0100, Andrej Shadura wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Mon, 4 Feb 2019 at 14:07, Peter Pentchev wrote: > > > So these days I decided that DEP-14[1] actually seems to b

Re: Recreating history of a package (was: Re: Reusing source package name of long-removed, unrelated package)

2019-02-07 Thread Peter Pentchev
ns to use the debsnap(1) tool from the devscripts package. (debsnap(1) was one of the tools that I only learned about because of the "dpkg -L devscripts | grep bin/ | shuf -n10" question in the NM templates; many thanks to whoever added this one - and this goes for both the tool and

Bug#921626: ITP: libregexp-trie-perl -- Perl module for building a trie-ized regular expression

2019-02-07 Thread Peter Pentchev
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Peter Pentchev * Package name: libregexp-trie-perl Version : 0.02 Upstream Author : Dan Kogai * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/Regexp-Trie * License : Artistic or GPL-1+ Programming Lang: Perl Description

Bug#921627: ITP: libperl-prereqscanner-notquitelite-perl -- Perl module for scanning Perl code for prerequisites

2019-02-07 Thread Peter Pentchev
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Peter Pentchev * Package name: libperl-prereqscanner-notquitelite-perl Version : 0.9904 Upstream Author : Kenichi Ishigaki * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/Perl-PrereqScanner-NotQuiteLite * License : Artistic or GPL

Re: Bug#922353: ITP: socket-activate -- Run a socket-activated daemon with minimal dependencies

2019-02-17 Thread Peter Pentchev
ne else wants to beat me to it, i > > certainly wouldn't complain :) > > I'll probably look into it once I've gone over some of the immediate > stuff I have on my plate, if there's been no patch submitted by then. > :) Here you go :) https://gitlab.com/dkg/soc

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

2019-03-22 Thread Peter Pentchev
iff [roam@straylight ~]$ You're welcome... and thanks for bringing diff-highlight to my attention so that I could whip these up :) Now only to figure out how to get the colors more similar to the ones that Vim uses (I use a ~/bin/vdiff script that pipes stuff through `vim -c 'set ft=diff&

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

2019-03-22 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 05:06:10PM +0200, Peter Pentchev wrote: > On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 03:34:37PM +0100, Adam Borowski wrote: > [snip] > > Highlighting changes inside the line is a massive improvement. > > > > There's an implementation of this in "git" i

Re: systemd services that are not equivalent to LSB init scripts

2019-07-15 Thread Peter Pentchev
t trivial to > configure as part of Debian packaging. tcpserver certainly does not, it implements the UCSPI protocol, which is a good one in itself, but it is still a different one. G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev roam@{ringlet.net,debian.org,FreeBSD.org} p...@storpool.com PGP key:

Re: dput problem: Ancient sha256sum?

2019-08-29 Thread Peter Pentchev
992b134b4c89c7b0da5d2f9e141d03ffe29ff76729c4a4975 > > > > Please, rebuild your package against the correct file. > > > > Please try to fix it and re-upload. Thanks, > > > > -- mentors.debian.net > > (The sha256sum in the .dsc file is correct, btw.) -- Peter

Re: Upgrade package from init script to Systemd, move config folder

2023-04-27 Thread Peter Pentchev
ay (consciously or not) learn to ignore it. I think a one-time notification via a (Debian) NEWS entry would be a better choice. G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.net r...@debian.org p...@storpool.com PGP key:http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint 2EE7 A7A5 17FC 124C F115 C354 651E EFB0 2527 DF13 signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Bug#1035904: dpkg currently warning about merged-usr systems (revisited)

2023-05-14 Thread Peter Pentchev
/snaps exactly for that reason. But nothing do with > anything discussed here though, as far as I can tell? If an ELF executable, compiled on Debian, records its interpreter as /usr/lib/ld-linux.so.2, what happens when one tries to run it on a non-usr-merged system? Even one wi

Re: Proposed MBF - removal of pcre3 by Bookworm

2023-07-02 Thread Peter Pentchev
reating and testing patches for this transition. > Marking removal is too much. On the other hand, the bugs have been open for an year and a half now... G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.net r...@debian.org p...@storpool.com PGP key:http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roa

Re: autodep8 test for C/C++ header

2023-08-07 Thread Peter Pentchev
ight now. So... yeah. Thanks for your work, I know you mean well and you are trying to make the life of Debian developers better, but this particular approach will likely fail on a non-trivial set of Debian -dev packages. G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.net r...@debian.org p.

Re: Bug#1050005: ITP: pdftopng -- Convert PDF to PNG

2023-08-22 Thread Peter Pentchev
package, that the "Python library" part may be important: the upstream authors of the other project may have decided to use it, as a Python library, instead of fiddling with child process management by themselves. G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.net r...@debian.org p...@storpool.com PGP key:http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint 2EE7 A7A5 17FC 124C F115 C354 651E EFB0 2527 DF13 signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Do not plan to support /usr/lib/pam.d for Debian pam

2023-09-15 Thread Peter Pentchev
en, if there is a default shipped in /usr, the service authentication attempts may suddenly start succeeding when the PAM packages are upgraded on an existing system. Yes, I know that the override/drop-in mechanism provides a way to do that by creating a /dev/null override symlink, but the sysad

Re: [idea]: Switch default compression from "xz" to "zstd" for .deb packages

2023-09-17 Thread Peter Pentchev
hich seems to be the only way it supports multithreaded operation right now), this could be arranged - I just never thought anybody wanted that until now. G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.net r...@debian.org p...@storpool.com PGP key:http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roa

Bug#1052135: ITP: check-build -- Check whether some example programs can be compiled and built

2023-09-17 Thread Peter Pentchev
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Peter Pentchev X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, Debian Python Team , r...@debian.org * Package name: check-build Version : 0.1.0 Upstream Contact: Peter Pentchev * URL : https://gitlab.com/ppentchev/check-build

Re: Bug#1055198: ITP: lzfse -- LZFSE Compression library

2023-11-04 Thread Peter Pentchev
nd shipped in macOS > containing embedded firmwares. See asahi-fwextract ITP: #1055206 > > Regards, > Andreas Henriksson > > > [1]: > https://salsa.debian.org/bananas-team/asahi-fwextract/-/blob/debian/unstable/debian/patches/0001-Use-versioned-library-name-for-liblzfs

Re: Proposal for how to deal with Go/Rust/etc security bugs (was: Re: Limited security support for Go/Rust? Re ssh3)

2024-01-24 Thread Peter Pentchev
w been proven through testing that some of the dependent modules are not really affected by the incompatible change. In my experience, nowadays this happens much, much more rarely than 10 or 15 years ago. I have no idea how long it will take the Rust ecosystem to realize that. I know that some of the most widely used modules have already done that, some of them have been at the same 0.x.* or even 1.* version for years (yes, really, years). So... here's hoping. G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.net r...@debian.org p...@storpool.com PGP key:http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint 2EE7 A7A5 17FC 124C F115 C354 651E EFB0 2527 DF13 signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Proper handling of Lintian warnings due to other packages

2024-01-30 Thread Peter Pentchev
nd in this particular case, Lauren, I *will* get around to taking a look at yours soon, honest!) G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.net r...@debian.org p...@storpool.com PGP key:http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint 2EE7 A7A5 17FC 124C F115 C354 651E

Re: usrmerge breaks POSIX

2024-02-15 Thread Peter Pentchev
o > >determine whether the user is in a restricted shell, and pkexec is > >essentially a type of sudo and should be unavailable to anyone who is > >using a restricted shell. > > Ah okay, makes sense…ish (sudo does not check this). It does if one configures it to by settin

Re: On merging bin and sbin

2024-02-28 Thread Peter Pentchev
-dev sbin localization/locales > > Are any of these (like arping) literally duplicates of the same binary for > some reason? Or are they true conflicts (different binaries with the same > name)? I don't know about many of the others (although I have my suspicions), but the two pr

Re: Setting permissions on new users in postinst

2024-02-28 Thread Peter Pentchev
fix this? I haven't tested that, but my first attempt would be to add --no-start to the invocation of dh_installsystemd in your rules file (you may need to add an override_dh_installsystemd target to do that), and then your postinst script would look something like that: #DEBHELPER# setup f

Re: Bug#1063380: ITP: libuio -- Linux Kernel UserspaceIO helper library

2024-03-07 Thread Peter Pentchev
four bytes to the kernel - and they are 0, 0, 0, and... 0. So it turns out that uio_disable_irq() and uio_enable_irq() do exactly the same - send a 32-bit zero value to the kernel. Is this the expected behavior indeed? G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.net r...@debian.org p...@stor

Re: Bug#1063380: ITP: libuio -- Linux Kernel UserspaceIO helper library

2024-03-07 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Thu, Mar 07, 2024 at 05:02:29PM +0200, Peter Pentchev wrote: > On Thu, Mar 07, 2024 at 03:25:01PM +0100, Manuel Traut wrote: > > Hi Dima, > > > > > On 7 Feb 2024, at 18:27, Dima Kogan wrote: > > > > > > Hi. Thanks for your contribution. I looked at

Re: 64-bit time_t transition in progress in unstable

2024-03-07 Thread Peter Pentchev
g *all* of these problems and making sure none of the libraries that might cause them ever migrates to testing - this is the whole point. So yeah, thanks a lot to the drivers of this transition, to the Release Team, and to DDs (porters and otherwise) who help with that! IMHO, it is goi

Re: Bug#1065669: ITP: raven -- A lightweight http file upload service used for penetration testing and incident response.

2024-03-09 Thread Peter Pentchev
umbrella. > > What's the problem with > > nc -lp 80 > file > > ? > > Does this provide some sort of browser interface? To start with, raven seems to allow uploading more than one file :) The description on the project homepage lists several features such as access

Re: Bug#1063380: ITP: libuio -- Linux Kernel UserspaceIO helper library

2024-03-13 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Wed, Mar 13, 2024 at 10:40:51AM +, Traut Manuel LCPF-CH wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 07, 2024 at 05:02:29PM +0200, Peter Pentchev wrote: > >> On Thu, Mar 07, 2024 at 03:25:01PM +0100, Manuel Traut wrote: > >>> On 7 Feb 2024, at 18:27, Dima Kogan wrote: >

Re: Git and SHA1 collisions

2024-03-31 Thread Peter Pentchev
that not what "the second countermeasure" part was? If a first commit has ever been pushed, the second one would not be "visible". G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.net r...@debian.org p...@storpool.com PGP key:http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.ke

Re: Make /tmp/ a tmpfs and cleanup /var/tmp/ on a timer by default [was: Re: systemd: tmpfiles.d not cleaning /var/tmp by default]

2024-05-07 Thread Peter Pentchev
ty, default "yes", so that it is activated on new automatically installed systems, but people who upgrade their current Debian installations can choose to keep the old behavior? I do realize that more debconf prompts are not always desirable, and such decisions must be taken on a case-by-cas

Re: Make /tmp/ a tmpfs and cleanup /var/tmp/ on a timer by default [was: Re: systemd: tmpfiles.d not cleaning /var/tmp by default]

2024-05-30 Thread Peter Pentchev
$dirname: $!\n"; say "locked, it seems"; sleep(3600);' I only put the sleep() part so I could check using lsof that the directory was indeed locked. And yeah, the v5.10 part is a leftover from the days (...until a month or two ago...) when I still had to support st

Re: restarting instanced systemd services on upgrade

2020-11-09 Thread Peter Pentchev
of having a no-op service vs a target] (looks up from taking notes for the long-long-long-overdue conversion of stunnel4 to systemd, being held back mainly by myself not having a very clear idea which of the options to choose) Thanks *a lot* for this awesome concise yet complete explanati

Re: Question about generated dependencies

2021-02-11 Thread Peter Pentchev
ram uses it, you need to depend on that". But, yeah, the libc6 symbols file actually declares a << dependency relation, too, so there it is :) Hope that helped! G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.net r...@debian.org p...@storpool.com PGP key:http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint 2EE7 A7A5 17FC 124C F115 C354 651E EFB0 2527 DF13 signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Question about generated dependencies

2021-02-11 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Fri, Feb 12, 2021 at 12:24:02AM +0200, Peter Pentchev wrote: > On Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at 10:50:35PM +0200, Boian Bonev wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA512 > > > > Hi All, > > > > While playing with glibc 2.33 (I made a couple of

Bug#982562: general: Storing upstream signatures next to upstream tarballs is problematic

2021-02-12 Thread Peter Pentchev
ian/master pristine-tar checkout -s ../confget_2.3.4.orig.tar.xz.asc ../confget_2.3.4.orig.tar.xz gpg --verify ../confget_2.3.4.orig.tar.xz{.asc,} G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.net r...@debian.org p...@storpool.com PGP key:http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint 2EE7 A7A5 17FC 124C F115 C354 651E EFB0 2527 DF13 signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: a proper-unix meta package (Re: Proposal: plocate as standard for bookworm)

2021-04-15 Thread Peter Pentchev
le who say "the decision that one specific action did not mean that SCO owns the copyright still does not necessarily mean that there are no other reasons for SCO-name-of-the-month to own the copyright")... Sorry... some people do say that I sometimes worry too much and throw w

Re: Code

2021-08-11 Thread Peter Pentchev
oks listed at https://www.debian.org/doc/ Hope that helps! If you have any further questions, feel free to ask! G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.net r...@debian.org p...@storpool.com PGP key:http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint 2EE7 A7A5 17

Re: Debian security repository canonical URI?

2021-08-16 Thread Peter Pentchev
come outdated and it is okay to use a mirror for the security repository; just thought I'd mention that. G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.net r...@debian.org p...@storpool.com PGP key:http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint 2EE7 A7A5 17FC 124C F115 C354 651E EFB0 2527 DF13 signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: WARNING: dh_installsystemd is moving unit files to /usr/lib/systemd/system

2021-08-18 Thread Peter Pentchev
ound my service and started it. So, it's not as bad as it looks at first :) G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.net r...@debian.org p...@storpool.com PGP key:http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint 2EE7 A7A5 17FC 124C F115 C354 651E EFB0 2527 DF13 signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#1001612: ITP: deltarpm -- Tools to create and apply deltarpms

2021-12-12 Thread Peter Pentchev
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Peter Pentchev X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, r...@debian.org, team+pkg-...@tracker.debian.org * Package name: deltarpm Version : 3.6.3 Upstream Author : Michael Schroeder * URL : https://github.com/rpm-software

Re: Adding new language/locale to system via a graphical interface

2022-01-02 Thread Peter Pentchev
ND=gnome after installing the libgtk3-perl package ought to work, and it seems to work for me: sudo env DEBIAN_FRONTEND=gnome dpkg-reconfigure locales ...brings up a GTK+ interface. G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.net r...@debian.org p...@storpool.com PGP key:http://peo

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