Bug#988703: Acknowledgement (O: ooo-thumbnailer -- thumbnailer for OpenOffice.org documents)

2021-05-18 Thread David D Lowe
Deletion of this package from Debian unstable has been requested. See:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=988709



Bug#988709: RM: ooo-thumbnailer -- RoQA; orphaned, abandoned upstream

2021-05-18 Thread David D Lowe
I'm the former maintainer of ooo-thumbnailer in Debian, and the
upstream author. This project is no longer maintained or developed
upstream. I agree with deleting it from Debian unstable.



Bug#988702: Acknowledgement (ooo-thumbnailer: Orphaning this package)

2021-05-18 Thread David D Lowe
Deletion of this package from Debian unstable has been requested.

See https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=988709


Bug#988703: O: ooo-thumbnailer -- thumbnailer for OpenOffice.org documents

2021-05-18 Thread David D Lowe
Package: wnpp
Severity: normal

I would like to orphan the package ooo-thumbnailer. It has been years since
I have been able to devote any attention to it.


Bug#988702: ooo-thumbnailer: Orphaning this package

2021-05-18 Thread David D Lowe
Package: ooo-thumbnailer
Version: 0.2-5.2
Severity: normal

Dear Debian maintainers,

I no longer wish to be marked as the maintainer of this Debian
package. Could someone mark this package as orphaned? Thank
you.



Bug#958292: pipenv: Change tagline to no longer endorse it as official

2020-04-20 Thread David D Lowe

Package: pipenv
Version: 11.9.0-1
Severity: minor

The description of the Debian package pipenv says:

> Python's officially recommended packaging tool
>
> Pipenv is the officially recommended Python packaging tool from
> Python.org.


This is may be misleading. Pipenv is not the officially recommended tool by
Python core developers. Rather, it was recommended by PyPA documentation
for a while. PyPA are a group of volunteers who care about packaging in
Ubuntu, they are not in a position to bless a package as "official" or
"from python.org".

See this article, the section entitled: "“Officially recommended tool”,
or how we got here".

https://chriswarrick.com/blog/2018/07/17/pipenv-promises-a-lot-delivers-very-little/#officially-recommended-tool-or-how-we-got-here

The tagline has been changed upstream. The GitHub repo now says:

> Python Development Workflow for Humans.

See: https://github.com/pypa/pipenv

And so does the page on PyPI, see https://pypi.org/project/pipenv/

I think Debian should follow suit and change the tagline in the Debian
package description.



Bug#659321: Fix for Gnome 3

2019-02-05 Thread David D Lowe
Hello folks,

Thank you for your efforts, bug reporting and triaging. I am the author of
ooo-thumbnailer and the Debian maintainer for this package. There have been
several barriers to continuing my work on it, and for this reason I will be
orphaning this package so that another maintainer can step in. I apologise
for the long delay.

On Tue, 5 Feb 2019 at 18:21, Adrian Bunk  wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 01, 2019 at 07:37:38PM +0100, Bruno Kleinert wrote:
> > Am Samstag, den 26.01.2019, 15:23 +0100 schrieb Bruno Kleinert:
> > > Hi David,
> > >
> > > please consider addressing this RC bug.
> > >
> > > Just to raise awareness: I plan to NMU with my previously attached
> > > patch around week 7.
> > >
> > > Cheers - Bruno
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I uploaded to the DELAYED=10 queue.
>
> I've rescheduled this for immediate upload.
>
> No special authority from my side, but if it isn't in testing on
> February 12th it won't be in buster.
>
> > Cheers - Bruno
>
> cu
> Adrian
>
> --
>
>"Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out
> of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days.
>"Only a promise," Lao Er said.
>Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed
>
>


Bug#597296: (no subject)

2012-12-27 Thread David D Lowe
The spaces bug has been fixed in more recent upstream versions.

The latest version 0.5 removes support for Microsoft Office documents
that do have a thumbnail stored in metadata. It thus does not depend on
unoconv any more.

I've hesitated to ask for sponsorship for the latest version, partly
because the slow experience isn't very motivating, and partly because I
hadn't tested GNOME 3 integration in Debian yet.

---

ooo-thumnbailer depends on libgsf-bin. The reason it contains a
Replaces: libgsf-bin line is because it overwrites one of its files:

/usr/share/gconf/schemas/gsf-office-thumbnailer.schemas

libgsf-bin_1.14.18-1 ships this file, but libgsf-bin_14.25-1 no longer
ships this file, so the Replaces line should no longer be necessary.

(BTW, the latest version is not from Ubuntu. The Launchpad project for
ooo-thumbnailer should be considered the upstream source. Ubuntu
inherits its package from Debian.)


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Bug#639536: homebank's description should include the word money

2011-08-27 Thread David D. Lowe
Package: homebank
Version: 4.3-1

Searching for the word money should return money-related applications.
This ought to include homebank. I suggest that the Description field in
its control file include the word money somewhere.




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Bug#597296: ooo-thumbnailer: Problem with space character

2010-09-18 Thread David D Lowe
This issue should have been fixed in ooo-thumbnailer 0.3.1, which is 
still waiting for sponsorship in mentors.debian.net.




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Bug#491456: unoconv: UnoException during conversion: URL seems to be an unsupported one.

2010-05-15 Thread David D Lowe
I had exactly the same error:

unoconv: UnoException during conversion: URL seems to be an unsupported one.
The provided document cannot be converted to the desired format.

Installing openoffice.org-java-common and openoffice.org-base-core did
not fix it, however, installing openoffice.org-writer did.

I needed to install openoffice.org-calc for spreadsheets and
openoffice.org-impress for presentations.



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Bug#557914: ooo-thumbnailer: spurious use of python-central

2010-01-19 Thread David D Lowe
I've removed all python build dependencies from the package, in
ooo-thumbnailer_0.2-2. It's waiting for sponsorship.

 I didn't see any your mail at debian-python mailing list, but did see 
 your RFS at debian-ment...@lists.debian.org, and the same concern was 
 raised that worries me: build dependency on python helpers is spurious 
 and should be dropped.
 

Sorry, my mistake, I meant debian-mentors' mailing list.


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Bug#557914: ooo-thumbnailer: uses pythonX.Y/site-packages for Python = 2.6

2010-01-16 Thread David D Lowe
ooo-thumbnailer 0.2-1, which is still waiting for sponsorship, fixes
this bug. However, it doesn't do it in the same way you did it, Jakub
Wilk. Could your review it for me? I've already posted a RFS at the
debian-python mailing list.


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