Bug#692789: ITP: hybserv -- IRC services for IRCD-Hybrid
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Dominic Hargreaves d...@earth.li * Package name: hybserv Version : 1.9.2 Upstream Author : Patrick Alken and Dinko Korunic * URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/hybserv2/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: C Description : IRC services for IRCD-Hybrid HybServ is a daemon that connects to your IRCD-Hybrid server and automagically provides nickname, channel, memo, and oper services to your entire network if it is configured correctly to talk with your IRC server. In short, these allow users to register nicknames and channels to prevent EFnet-style takeovers thereof, allow opers to easily manage glines, klines, and other server settings, and allow users with registered nicknames to leave messages for others. HybServ is the services package of choice on IRC networks such as Aniverse. Note: this would be a reintroduction of the package which was removed from testing and unstable earlier this year; please see https://lists.debian.org/debian-qa/2012/11/msg5.html or the same message: https://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2012/11/msg00041.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#692789: ITP: hybserv -- IRC services for IRCD-Hybrid
[Dominic Hargreaves] HybServ is a daemon that connects to your IRCD-Hybrid server and automagically provides nickname, channel, memo, and oper services to your entire network if it is configured correctly to talk with your IRC server. Automagically? When you install a server package, configure it, and start it, and it then provides services, would you really describe that as not only automated, but like magic? It seems to me that that's a pretty pessimistic view of server software in general. My own expectation is that if I install, configure and start a daemon - any daemon - it will provide whatever services it is supposed to provide. And if it does, I don't see anything especially automatic or magical about it. I mean, _all_ software is automatic in a sense, and very little software is really magic. All of which is to say, I would drop the word 'automagically'. And not just because I dislike neologisms, although I do. Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#692789: ITP: hybserv -- IRC services for IRCD-Hybrid
On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 03:51:20PM -0600, Peter Samuelson wrote: [Dominic Hargreaves] HybServ is a daemon that connects to your IRCD-Hybrid server and automagically provides nickname, channel, memo, and oper services to your entire network if it is configured correctly to talk with your IRC server. Automagically? When you install a server package, configure it, and start it, and it then provides services, would you really describe that as not only automated, but like magic? It seems to me that that's a pretty pessimistic view of server software in general. My own expectation is that if I install, configure and start a daemon - any daemon - it will provide whatever services it is supposed to provide. And if it does, I don't see anything especially automatic or magical about it. I mean, _all_ software is automatic in a sense, and very little software is really magic. All of which is to say, I would drop the word 'automagically'. And not just because I dislike neologisms, although I do. I agree with everything you said :) ITP just has the details from the existing package, but I have removed the word from my git repository. Cheers, Dominic. -- Dominic Hargreaves | http://www.larted.org.uk/~dom/ PGP key 5178E2A5 from the.earth.li (keyserver,web,email) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
