RFS: courier-filter-perl (updated package)

2008-04-09 Thread Julian Mehnle
Hi mentors,

I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.200 of my courier-
filter-perl package (a Perl-based mail filtering framework for the
Courier MTA).

In the past, I had Daniel Ruoso sponsoring uploads for the package.  I now
asked him whether he'd be willing to again sponsor an upload for the new
Courier::Filter release, however he said he was quite busy and couldn't
say whether he'd manage to look into it anytime soon.

So I'm looking for an alternate sponsor -- hopefully in time for the
updated package to get into Lenny before the freeze -- preferably but not
necessarily someone who uses Courier themselves.

The package can be found on mentors.debian.net:
- URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/c/courier-filter-perl
- Source repository: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable main 
contrib non-free
- dget 
http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/c/courier-filter-perl/courier-filter-perl_0.200.dsc

It's lintian-clean and fixes the bug #344173 (and #326785).  Oh, and it
switches section from perl to mail.  I can handle any ftp-master
negotiations about that.

TIA,
Julian.


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RFS: uvccapture (3rd try)

2008-04-09 Thread Krzysztof Burghardt
Dear mentors,

I am looking for a sponsor for my package uvccapture.

 * Package name: uvccapture
  Version : 0.4-1
  Upstream Author : Gabriel A. Devenyi [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* URL : http://staticwave.ca/source/uvccapture/
* License : GPL (version 2 or newer)
  Section : graphics

It builds these binary packages:
 uvccapture - USB UVC Video Class snapshot software

The package appears to be lintian clean.

The upload would fix these bugs: 473153

The package can be found on mentors.debian.net:
 - URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/u/uvccapture
 - Source repository: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable
 main contrib non-free
 - dget 
http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/u/uvccapture/uvccapture_0.4-1.dsc

I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me.

Kind regards,
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Re: RFS: jin

2008-04-09 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Anuradha Weeraman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [080409 04:38]:
 I am looking for a sponsor for my package jin.
 
 * Package name: jin
   Version : 2.14.1-1
   Upstream Author : Alexander Maryanovsky
 * URL : http://www.jinchess.com/
 * License : GPL
   Section : contrib/games
 
 It builds these binary packages:
 jin- Graphical client for chess servers

I'm not that into java to sponsor myself and using cdbs
makes me sponsoring even unlikelier, but some general hints:

The package Depends: sun-java5-jre
which according to packages.debian.org is only available in non-free yet,
so this package could go at most into contrib.

You should include the full license information, especially the part
in copyright.txt about which versions of the GPL it is are most
important and missing in your debian/copyright file.

You also seem to miss copyright information for some files in
debian/copyright. Not everything is from Alexander Maryanovsky,
things like ./free/chess/EboardVectorPiecePainter.java list other
people.

Also src/free/jin/legal lists other licenses and copyright holders.
Are they for specific parts and if yes which? and why is nothing in
debian/copyright about them?

some of the .zip files in resources/pieces have AUTHORS files with
a name not listed in debian/copyright. why not?

resources/lnfs and resources/libs contains jar files with classes but nothing
seems to contain their sources.

You have an jin.6.old file in the .diff.

gpl.txt should not be in debian/docs. There is a copy in
basefiles.

The directory names might need reinvestigating. AFAIR it should
be /usr/share/games/jin andn ot /usr/share/jin.

Hochachtungsvoll,
Bernhard R. Link


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RFS: poco and poco-doc (updated packages) [2nd try]

2008-04-09 Thread Krzysztof Burghardt
Dear mentors,

I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.3.2+dfsg1-1
of my package poco.

It builds these binary packages:
libpoco5-dev - Development files for POCO - The C++ Portable Components
libpocodata5 - The C++ Portable Components Data library
libpocodatad5 - The C++ Portable Components Data library, debug version
libpocofoundation5 - The C++ Portable Components Foundation library
libpocofoundationd5 - The C++ Portable Components Foundation library,
debug version
libpoconet5 - The C++ Portable Components Network library
libpoconetd5 - The C++ Portable Components Network library, debug version
libpoconetssl5 - The C++ Portable Components Network library with SSL
libpoconetssld5 - The C++ Portable Components Network library with
SSL, dbg version
libpocoodbc5 - The C++ Portable Components ODBC library
libpocoodbcd5 - The C++ Portable Components ODBC library, debug version
libpocosqlite5 - The C++ Portable Components SQLite library
libpocosqlited5 - The C++ Portable Components SQLite library, debug version
libpocoutil5 - The C++ Portable Components Util library
libpocoutild5 - The C++ Portable Components Util library, debug version
libpocoxml5 - The C++ Portable Components XML library
libpocoxmld5 - The C++ Portable Components XML library, debug version

The package appears to be lintian clean.

The package can be found on mentors.debian.net:
- URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/p/poco
- Source repository: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable
main contrib non-free
- dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/p/poco/poco_1.3.2+dfsg1-1.dsc

I am also looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.3.2-1
of my package poco-doc (documentation for poco library).

It builds these binary packages:
libpoco-doc - Documentation for POCO - The C++ Portable Components

The package appears to be lintian clean.

The package can be found on mentors.debian.net:
- URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/p/poco-doc
- Source repository: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable
main contrib non-free
- dget 
http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/p/poco-doc/poco-doc_1.3.2-1.dsc

I would be glad if someone uploaded this packages for me.

Kind regards,
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RE: Custom Debian package installation

2008-04-09 Thread David Schulberg
Hi,

So how can I actually check in my initscript that it is running during the 
installation process so I can skip the start of my service at that time?

At the moment my postinst file looks like this:

#!/bin/sh
set -e
# Automatically added by dh_installinit
if [ -x /etc/init.d/red5 ]; then
update-rc.d red5 defaults /dev/null
if [ -x `which invoke-rc.d 2/dev/null` ]; then
invoke-rc.d red5 start || exit $?
else
/etc/init.d/red5 start || exit $?
fi
fi
# End automatically added section

And my service (red5) starts when I don't want it to.

Regards,
David
 
-Original Message-
From: The Fungi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Monday, 7 April 2008 8:38 AM
To: debian-mentors@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Custom Debian package installation

On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 07:43:34AM +1000, David Schulberg wrote:
 I have a Debian package which starts a service set up by having
 ‘dh_installinit’ in my rules file.
 
 I want the service to start every time my computer boots up.
 
 Does it also have to fire up straight after I install the package?
 
 I have a configuration file that is part of my package which needs
 to be customised before I run the service that  is installed by
 the package so I don’t want to run the service until I have done
 that.

The way this is usually tackled is to either have the initscript
refuse to start the service if not yet configured (but still exit
with an okay return value so package installation succeeds), or ship
a file in /etc/default/ sourced by the initscript and containing a
switch variable to make the initscript's start function a no-op
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Re: RFS: awn-extras-applets

2008-04-09 Thread Luca Bruno
Julien Lavergne scrisse:

 Dear mentors,
 I am looking for a sponsor for my package awn-extras-applets.

If nobody come up in the meanwhile, I'll take care of reviewing this
in a bunch of days (coupling with already sponsored awn).
My review queue is currently growing because of a
couple of exams, but hopefully I'll go through it soon.

 Kind regards
  Julien Lavergne

Ciao, Luca

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Re: Custom Debian package installation

2008-04-09 Thread Bas Wijnen
Hi,

On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 09:35:53PM +1000, David Schulberg wrote:
 So how can I actually check in my initscript that it is running during
 the installation process so I can skip the start of my service at that
 time?

Using debhelper I'm not sure if that's possible at all.  I would not
consider it a bug if it isn't, because there's no good reason to ever
need the information.  You don't want is this run during the
installation?, but is the configuration file already set up?.

The usual method for doing this is described in the e-mail you quoted,
and I quote it again below.  The reason to do it this way, and not how
you suggest, is that you cannot rely on the user to edit the
configuration file before the next reboot.  What if the user is in a
hurry, but just installs the package and then shuts down.  The next time
he boots, he plans to edit the config file.  But then the service is
started with the default, which was wrong.

This is easily avoided: if the default configuration is wrong (so it's
really just a template), then the init script should not start until
it's edited, no matter how oft it's tried.  Another solution is to use
debconf to create a sensible configuration file during the install.
Then it is fine to start it after the install, because by that time a
good file will be installed.

Thanks,
Bas

 -Original Message-
 On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 07:43:34AM +1000, David Schulberg wrote:
  I have a Debian package which starts a service set up by having
  ‘dh_installinit’ in my rules file.
  
  I want the service to start every time my computer boots up.
  
  Does it also have to fire up straight after I install the package?
  
  I have a configuration file that is part of my package which needs
  to be customised before I run the service that  is installed by
  the package so I don’t want to run the service until I have done
  that.
 
 The way this is usually tackled is to either have the initscript
 refuse to start the service if not yet configured (but still exit
 with an okay return value so package installation succeeds), or ship
 a file in /etc/default/ sourced by the initscript and containing a
 switch variable to make the initscript's start function a no-op
 (until edited to turn it on).
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Re: RFS: jin

2008-04-09 Thread Anuradha Weeraman
On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 6:03 AM, Bernhard R. Link [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  The package Depends: sun-java5-jre
  which according to packages.debian.org is only available in non-free yet,
  so this package could go at most into contrib.

Yes, unfortunately, jin doesn't run on GIJ due to incomplete swing
support. I'm hoping that icedtea/openjdk would eventually move this
out of contrib.

Thanks for your input and suggestions. I will have a new revision that
addresses them soon.

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Default admin password for a webapp

2008-04-09 Thread Xavier Luthi
Hi mentors,

I'm currently packaging pixelpost (ITP #470214) which is a photoblog
application written in php and using mysql.  The installation process
requires to create an 'admin' account in the database with, of course,
a password.

My question is: what do you think is the best solution to set this
password?

One solution, the easiest on the package development point of view, is
to set a default password documented in the README.Debian.  Of course,
this is not beautiful and can be a security issue, especially if the
user doesn't change it immediately...

Another solution would be to use debconf to ask for a password during
the configuration of the package.  The level for the question would
probably be medium.  But if debconf is configured to show only
questions with a level higher than critical, what will be the value of
the password?  Moreover in that case, how to inform the user of the
default password?


I guess some of you already faced this kind of situation, so your
feedback is welcome :-)


Thanks,
  Xavier


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Re: Custom Debian package installation

2008-04-09 Thread 'The Fungi'
On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 09:35:53PM +1000, David Schulberg wrote:
 So how can I actually check in my initscript that it is running
 during the installation process so I can skip the start of my
 service at that time?

You wouldn't. You'd add some intelligence to your initscript to
detect that the service hasn't been appropriately configured yet
(such as looking for a particular line in the config that would
always exist but always be changed from its default value), or by
having the initscript source a file your package provides in the
/etc/default directory which has an autostart=0 line (or similar)
and then use that variable in a conditional statement in the start
function of your initscript. There are many official packages in
Debian whose initscripts either won't automatically start a daemon
until it is configured, or won't start a daemon until you edit
/etc/default/something and reset a variable from 0 to 1. Finding
examples of these is left as an exercise for the reader (hint, look
in /etc/default on any Debian machine).

 At the moment my postinst file looks like this:

As it should. More importantly, what does your initscript look like?

(Also, please don't Cc me--I read the list.)
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Re: Default admin password for a webapp

2008-04-09 Thread Ben Finney
Xavier Luthi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 I'm currently packaging pixelpost (ITP #470214) which is a photoblog
 application written in php and using mysql. The installation process
 requires to create an 'admin' account in the database with, of
 course, a password.

Apparently based on the assumption that the installation will in all
cases be monitored by a person babysitting the installation process.

 My question is: what do you think is the best solution to set this
 password?

Since the above assumption is not necessarily true on a Debian system,
and (as you point out) a debconf query for the password might not be
answered at install time, you should have the package installed such
that it allows *no* access until the password is chosen by the
administrator.

 One solution, the easiest on the package development point of view,
 is to set a default password documented in the README.Debian. Of
 course, this is not beautiful and can be a security issue,
 especially if the user doesn't change it immediately...

I would modify can be to is definitely a security issue. Don't do
that. Installing applications with default passwords is not a valid
approach for a 21st century package.

Instead, in the absence of explicitly choosing a password, the
application should be installed such that it will deny authentication
until such a password is explicitly chosen.

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Re: Default admin password for a webapp

2008-04-09 Thread Xavier Luthi
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 12:37:41AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote:
 Xavier Luthi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
 
  One solution, the easiest on the package development point of view,
  is to set a default password documented in the README.Debian. Of
  course, this is not beautiful and can be a security issue,
  especially if the user doesn't change it immediately...
 
 I would modify can be to is definitely a security issue. Don't do
 that. Installing applications with default passwords is not a valid
 approach for a 21st century package.
 
 Instead, in the absence of explicitly choosing a password, the
 application should be installed such that it will deny authentication
 until such a password is explicitly chosen.
 

OK.  Now let's suppose the password has not been set during the
package configuration because debconf level was too high.  The webapp
won't allow any authentication becasue the password is not set.  How
to ask for a password?  With a warning message on the administrative
page of the webapp saying something like: 'Please run (as root)
dpkg-reconfigure pixeplpost to set the password of the
administrative user.' (priority is always 'low' for dpkg-reconfigure).

Obviously, I cannot redirect the administrative page to a custom page
to set the password as this would be also a security hole ;)


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RFS: xiterm+thai (updated package)

2008-04-09 Thread Neutron Soutmun
Dear mentors,

I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.08-1
of my package xiterm+thai.

It builds these binary packages:
xiterm+thai - X terminal program with Thai languague support

The package appears to be lintian clean.

The package can be found on mentors.debian.net:
- URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/x/xiterm+thai
- Source repository: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable main 
contrib non-free
- dget 
http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/x/xiterm+thai/xiterm+thai_1.08-1.dsc

I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me.

Kind regards
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RFS: libgpiv, gpiv and gpivtools

2008-04-09 Thread Gerber van der Graaf
Dear mentors,

I am looking for a sponsor of the following packages. Older packages of
this software are already in Debian. It concerns here new upstream
releases:

Package: libgpiv-0.5.2
URL: http://libgpiv.sourceforge.net
It builds the binary packages: libgpiv3, libgpiv3-dev:
Description: Library for Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV)

and libgpiv3-doc:
Description: Documentation for libgpiv3

The package can be found on mentors.debian.net:
http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/l/libgpiv
The respective dsc file can be found at:
http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/l/libgpiv/libgpiv_0.5.2-1.dsc



Package: gpiv-0.5.2
URL: http://gpiv.sourceforge.net
It builds the binary package: gpiv
Description: Graphic User Interface program for Particle Image
Velocimetry
 
The package can be found on mentors.debian.net:
http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/g/gpiv
The respective dsc file can be found at:
http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/g/gpiv/gpiv_0.5.2-1.dsc



Package: gpivtools-0.5.2
URL: http://gpivtools.sourceforge.net
It builds the binary package: gpivtools
Description: Command line programs for Particle Image Velocimetry

The package can be found on mentors.debian.net:
http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/g/gpivtools
The respective dsc file can be found at:
http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/g/gpivtools/gpivtools_0.5.2-1.dsc



The packages are lintian clean and are properly build and installed
under a clean system, using pbuilder. I would be glad if someone could
upload these packages for me.

Kind regards,
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Re: Default admin password for a webapp

2008-04-09 Thread The Fungi
On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 04:54:38PM +0200, Xavier Luthi wrote:
 OK. Now let's suppose the password has not been set during the
 package configuration because debconf level was too high. The
 webapp won't allow any authentication becasue the password is not
 set. How to ask for a password?
[...]

People doing new package installs under these conditions are
expected to know where to find and how to read documentation. A
clear message in README.Debian describing how to generate the
password hash, what file/database table to put it in, and whether
any running services need to be (re)started should be more than
sufficient, I would think.
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RFS: webstrict

2008-04-09 Thread jmehdi
Dear mentors,

I am looking for a sponsor for my package webstrict.

* Package name: webstrict
  Version : 1.0-1
  Upstream Authors : Usman Najib [EMAIL PROTECTED]
jMehdi (ubuntuME) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* URL : http://www.ubuntume.com/webstrict
* License : GPL-2
  Section : x11

It builds these binary packages:
webstrict  - UI frontend to DansGuardian

The package appears to be lintian clean.

The package can be found on mentors.debian.net:
- URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/w/webstrict
- Source repository: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable main 
contrib non-free
- dget 
http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/w/webstrict/webstrict_1.0-1.dsc

I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me.

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RFS: pydance

2008-04-09 Thread Brandon
I am looking for a sponsor so I can adopt the package pydance. It is
a dancing simulator, much like the ones in the arcades, such as Dance
Dance Revolution. It is programmed in python. It is published under the
GNU General Public License v2. Upstream has not released anything in
quite some time.

The ITA is here: http://bugs.debian.org/388361
Upstream is here: http://www.icculus.org/pyddr/

I have already created a package which I believe is fit to be put into
unstable. It fixes a few minor bugs, such as setting the standards
version, and making myself the maintainer, as well as one bigger bug
which caused pydance to crash when loading certain files.

The dsc, source, and diff are here:
http://wntrknit.freeshell.org/pydance_1.0.3-5.dsc
http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/p/pydance/pydance_1.0.3.orig.tar.gz
http://wntrknit.freeshell.org/pydance_1.0.3-5.diff.gz

-Brandon


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Re: Default admin password for a webapp

2008-04-09 Thread Andreas Wenning
Hi Xavier

 won't allow any authentication becasue the password is not set.  How
 to ask for a password?  With a warning message on the administrative
 page of the webapp saying something like: 'Please run (as root)
 dpkg-reconfigure pixeplpost to set the password of the
 administrative user.' (priority is always 'low' for dpkg-reconfigure).

I've seen this used in other web applications, and I think this is a
very nice solution to the problem. I would definately vote for this as a
very good solution.

Just my five cents

Cheers,
Andreas

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Re: Default admin password for a webapp

2008-04-09 Thread Ben Finney
Xavier Luthi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 The webapp won't allow any authentication becasue the password is
 not set. How to ask for a password?

Some way that the administrator can do so separately from installing
the package. Ideally, the installation would use the same API to set
the administrative password if available during the install.

 With a warning message on the administrative page of the webapp
 saying something like: 'Please run (as root) dpkg-reconfigure
 pixeplpost to set the password of the administrative user.'
 (priority is always 'low' for dpkg-reconfigure).

That would do the job at hand, but is unfortunately Debian-specific.

Better would be to work with the upstream to address this at the
source, such that the solution becomes part of the upstream
distribution. That's up to you to determine whether you have the
resources to do so.

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Re: Custom Debian package installation

2008-04-09 Thread Don Armstrong
On Mon, 07 Apr 2008, David Schulberg wrote:
 I have a configuration file that is part of my package which needs
 to be customised before I run the service that is installed by the
 package so I don't want to run the service until I have done that.

If everyone who installs this package is going to want the service
running, then you should try to figure out a default configuration
that works well enough and is conservative enough to start once the
package has been installed initially.

The only case where you shouldn't start the daemon are cases where
there are substantial number of install where the daemon should not be
started (like spamassassin) or where you can't possibly find a default
configuration (this latter case is rare, and you should be asking
questions using debconf to overcome it anyway.)


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Re: RFS: libgpiv, gpiv and gpivtools

2008-04-09 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 11:24 PM, Gerber van der Graaf
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

  I am looking for a sponsor of the following packages. Older packages of
  this software are already in Debian. It concerns here new upstream
  releases:

You might want to ask people on the science list, join the pkg-science
team and maintain the package collaboratively there.

http://lists.debian.org/debian-science/
http://alioth.debian.org/projects/pkg-science

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RFS: ext3grep

2008-04-09 Thread admins

Dear mentors,

I am looking for a sponsor for my package ext3grep.

* Package name: ext3grep
  Version : 0.5.0-1
  Upstream Author : Carlo Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* URL : http://code.google.com/p/ext3grep/
* License : GPL
  Section : admin

It builds these binary packages:
ext3grep   - Tool to facilitate deleted file recovery on ext3 filesystems
ext3grep-dbg - Debug symbols for ext3grep.

The package appears to be lintian clean.

The upload would fix these bugs: 470813

The package can be found on mentors.debian.net:
- URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/e/ext3grep
- Source repository: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable 
main contrib non-free
- dget 
http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/e/ext3grep/ext3grep_0.5.0-1.dsc


I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me.

Kind regards
 Rich Ercolani


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Re: RFS: pydance

2008-04-09 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 3:12 AM, Brandon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 I am looking for a sponsor so I can adopt the package pydance. It is
  a dancing simulator, much like the ones in the arcades, such as Dance
  Dance Revolution. It is programmed in python. It is published under the
  GNU General Public License v2. Upstream has not released anything in
  quite some time.

Perhaps you would like to join the debian games team and maintain the
package in our repository?

http://wiki.debian.org/Games

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Re: RFS: ext3grep

2008-04-09 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 10:10 AM,  [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

  I am looking for a sponsor for my package ext3grep.

You might want to join the forensic software packaging team and
maintain your package there:

http://alioth.debian.org/projects/forensics/

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