Bug#692789: ITP: hybserv -- IRC services for IRCD-Hybrid

2012-11-08 Thread Dominic Hargreaves
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


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Bug#692789: ITP: hybserv -- IRC services for IRCD-Hybrid

2012-11-08 Thread Peter Samuelson

[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


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Bug#692789: ITP: hybserv -- IRC services for IRCD-Hybrid

2012-11-08 Thread Dominic Hargreaves
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.

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