Bug#592197: ITP: libterm-twiddle-perl -- Twiddles a thingy while-u-wait

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Carlo Segre * Package name: libterm-twiddle-perl Version : 2.71 Upstream Author : Scott Wiersdorf * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Term-Twiddle/ * License : Artistic Programming Lang: Perl Description : Twidd

Bug#592193: ITP: libdevice-usb-perl -- Perl module to access USB devices using libusb

Package: wnpp Owner: Tim Retout Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libdevice-usb-perl Version : 0.35 Upstream Author : G. Wade Johnson * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Device-USB/ * License

Re: doc-base is hugely unloved; bug mass-filing needed?

Jeremy> Have it generate the list of packages that don't Jeremy> register with doc-base... If any of them are mine I'll get them Jeremy> added though I don't know if the updates would make it into Jeremy> squeeze at this point but at least into squeeze+1. So I did. I took a slightly diff

Bug#592190: ITP: libterm-sk-perl -- Perl extension for displaying a progress indicator on a terminal

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Carlo Segre * Package name: libterm-sk-perl Version : 0.06 Upstream Author : Klaus Eichner * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Term-Sk/ * License : Artistic Programming Lang: Perl Description : Perl extension fo

Re: doc-base is hugely unloved; bug mass-filing needed?

Paul Wise: Paul> I personally stopped bothering with doc-base because I can't send Paul> those files upstream and have other distributions also benefit Paul> from them. IMO we should replace (like menu, defoma, etc) doc-base Paul> with a freedesktop.org standard for documentation registration. P

Bug#592159: ITP: poezio -- XMPP terminal-based client

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Nicolas Maître" * Package name: poezio Version : 0.6.2 Upstream Author : Florent Le Coz * URL : http://www.poezio.eu/ * License : GPL-3+ Programming Lang: Python Description : XMPP terminal-based client Poez

Re: doc-base is hugely unloved; bug mass-filing needed?

On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 1:56 PM, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > So, out of 273 doc-containing packages on this system, just 70 bothered. > I feel a strong urge to put the commands in a script that will auto-file > a bug against any package in the output of the last command.  How do > maintainers feel abou

Re: doc-base is hugely unloved; bug mass-filing needed?

Ian Zimmerman wrote: Hi, > How do maintainers feel about that? Right now, frozen, I guess ;) JB. -- Julien BLACHE - Debian & GNU/Linux Developer - Public key available on - KeyID: F5D6 5169 GPG Fingerprint : 935A 79F1 C8B3 3521 FD62 7CC7 CD61 4FD7 F5D6 5169

Bug#592133: ITP: curlpp -- C++ wrapper for libcurl

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Goedson Teixeira Paixao * Package name: curlpp Version : 0.7.3 Upstream Author : Jean-Philippe Barrette-LaPierre * URL : http://www.curlpp.org/ * License : MIT Programming Lang: C++ Description : C++ wrapper f

doc-base is hugely unloved; bug mass-filing needed?

After years and years of waiting for packages to register their documents with doc-base, and filing individual bugs with some (not all -- I am not jidani, LOL) of those that didn't register, I am quite frustrated: [41]matica:doc$ pwd /usr/share/doc [42]matica:doc$ find -L . -name "*.html" -o -n

debdiff for v3 source packages with multiple tarballs?

I was looking at http://patches.ubuntu.com/o/openoffice.org/, a 133MB "patch" for OOo. Afaiu the diff is cause by updating the ooo-build tarball from openoffice.org_3.2.1.orig-ooo-build-3-2-1-2.tar.gz to openoffice.org_3.2.1.orig-ooo-build-3-2-1-3.tar.gz. The tarballs are unpacked into two diffe

Re: Bug#505111: will suggest removal from testing

On Sat, 07 Aug 2010, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sat, Aug 07, 2010 at 04:31:22PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > > On Saturday 07 August 2010, Neil McGovern wrote: > > > As there isn't a resolution in sight, I'll add a hint at the end of > > > August for the removal of the package unless there's significant

Re: Bug#505111: will suggest removal from testing

On Sat, 07 Aug 2010, Frans Pop wrote: > On Saturday 07 August 2010, Neil McGovern wrote: > > As there isn't a resolution in sight, I'll add a hint at the end of > > August for the removal of the package unless there's significant > > progress to fixing the issue. > > I still feel this is an overre

Re: Bug#505111: will suggest removal from testing

On Sat, Aug 07, 2010 at 04:31:22PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > On Saturday 07 August 2010, Neil McGovern wrote: > > As there isn't a resolution in sight, I'll add a hint at the end of > > August for the removal of the package unless there's significant > > progress to fixing the issue. > > I still f

Bug#592091: ITP: groovyserv -- Groovy library that makes Groovy's startup time much faster

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Miguel Landaeta * Package name: groovyserv Version : 0.4 Upstream Author : Yasuharu NAKANO * URL : http://kobo.github.com/groovyserv/ * License : Apache-2.0 Programming Lang: Groovy Description : Groovy library th

Bug#592093: O: tcsh -- TENEX C Shell, an enhanced version of Berkeley csh

Package: wnpp Severity: normal Hi, I'm orphaning the tcsh package. I only adopted in a few months ago because the package was horribly outdated and buggy. The package is now in a much better shape, but I'm not a tcsh user myself, and can't really do all the testing that would be required. The p

Re: Bug#505111: will suggest removal from testing

On Saturday 07 August 2010, Neil McGovern wrote: > As there isn't a resolution in sight, I'll add a hint at the end of > August for the removal of the package unless there's significant > progress to fixing the issue. I still feel this is an overreaction as only the original reporter has ever see

Re: Bug#505111: will suggest removal from testing

On Sat, 07 Aug 2010, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > Can we PLEASE rename this from "rescue" image to "safe mode" image, and > document in its boot screen that it should NEVER be used in a system with > filesystem or RAID problems? Well, my whole reply came out with a lot more annoyed tone th

Re: Bug#505111: will suggest removal from testing

On Sat, 07 Aug 2010, Neil McGovern wrote: > Well, it seems that other people haven't taken an interest in the bug, > and we've now frozen, again. Yes. And the justifications in the bug report for not fixing the underlying issues go like this: we should take actions which are guaranteed to destro

Re: Bug#505111: will suggest removal from testing

Well, it seems that other people haven't taken an interest in the bug, and we've now frozen, again. As there isn't a resolution in sight, I'll add a hint at the end of August for the removal of the package unless there's significant progress to fixing the issue. Neil -- the hacklab room is the

Bug#592073: ITP: xinput-calibrator -- A generic touchscreen calibration program for X.Org

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Tias Guns * Package name: xinput-calibrator Version : 0.7.0 Upstream Author : Tias Guns * URL : http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/xinput_calibrator * License : MIT/X11 Programming Lang: C++ Description :