Bug#1051678: RFP: ublksrv -- Daemon and library for user-space block devices

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: ublksrv Version : 1.1-rc1 Upstream Contact: Ming Lei < tom.leim...@gmail.com> * URL : https://github.com/ming1/ubdsrv * License : GPL-2, LGPL-2.1, MIT Programming Lang: C++, C Description : Support for

Bug#1041643: ITP: ktls-utils -- TLS handshake utilities for in-kernel TLS consumers

e have Linux 6.5 packaged, I can test and hopefully upload this package. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#1041643: ITP: ktls-utils -- TLS handshake utilities for in-kernel TLS consumers

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ben Hutchings X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-de...@lists.debian.org, debian-ker...@lists.debian.org, Steve Dickson , Chuck Lever III * Package name: ktls-utils Version : 0.9 Upstream Contact: kernel-tls-handsh...@lists.linux.dev * URL

Bug#882640: ITP: dm-zoned-tools -- utilities for the dm-zoned device mapper

Control: retitle -1 RFP: dm-zoned-tools -- utilities for the dm-zoned device mapper Control: noowner -1 I'm moving this back to RFP status, because this package didn't get sponsored and seems to have disappeared now. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable

Bug#1014898: ITP: gcompat -- The GNU C library compatibility layer for musl

ame name as the glibc dynamic linker on glibc platforms; > when a binary is run that uses glibc as its dynamic linker, the stub > will run, redirecting it to use musl and automatically preloading the > gcompat library. > How would this be used in Debian, when all our ports already

Bug#1014908: ITP: gender-guesser -- Guess the gender from first name

am Author : Israel Saeta Pérez > * URL : https://github.com/lead-ratings/gender-guesser > * License : GPL-3 & GFDL-1.2+ > Programming Lang: Python > Description : Guess the gender from first name [...] This is a horribly bad idea, what do you need it f

Bug#974015: ITP: gn -- gn is a meta-build system that generates build files for Ninja

On Mon, 2020-11-09 at 14:41 +0800, Xialei Qin wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-de...@lists.debian.org > > * Package name: gn [...] Please consider using a longer package name, like generate-ninja. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings I'm always amaze

Bug#973822: ITP: dosbox-staging -- DOSBox Staging is a full x86 CPU emulator (independent of host architecture), capable of running DOS programs that require real or protected mode.

and hurt the project's prospects > for future. Oh well, thanks for asking anyway. I suggest you make the long description clearly state that this is independent of the original DOSBox project. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings To err is human; to really foul things up requires a computer. signature.

Bug#973822: ITP: dosbox-staging -- DOSBox Staging is a full x86 CPU emulator (independent of host architecture), capable of running DOS programs that require real or protected mode.

l DOSBox project, not an independent project. Are the upstream developers set on using this name or do you think they could be persuaded to use something more distinctive? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Humans are not rational beings; they are rationalising beings. signature.asc Description: This is a digitall

Bug#968654: ITA: scons -- replacement for make

pushed changes to fix it to a new 'buster' branch. For stretch I think it can be ignored. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it. - Donald Knuth signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#968655: ITA: scons-doc -- Documentation for SCons, a replacement for Make

I haven't checked, but I strongly suspect that scons-doc does not have complete source. The scons-doc binary package should probably be built from the scons source package in future. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried

Bug#966537: ITP: tomboy-ng -- Cross Platform Notes

On Mon, 2020-08-03 at 10:34 +1000, David Bannon wrote: > Ben, I am not sure if I am allowed to answer here, don't want Bart to > slap me down again. > > If I have it wrong again, very sorry, will withdraw > > > On 3/8/20 4:34 am, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > Gtk+ 2 i

Bug#966537: ITP: tomboy-ng -- Cross Platform Notes

g > the version of Lazarus in Buster. Bullseye is fine. In any case this will have to go into unstable first, and then (if all goes well) it can go into bullseye and maybe buster-backports. It won't be added to buster as we don't add new applications to stable releases. Ben. -- Ben H

Bug#966229: ITP: protocol -- a simple command line tool for displaying standard network protocol headers

r protocol or from RFC documents. >It is also helpful to generate RFC like ASCII header diagram for custom > protocol. > > - how do you plan to maintain it? >For now myself, might consider later to move it to Python application team. > -- Ben Hutchings Theor

Bug#912677: ITP: oci-systemd-hook - OCI systemd hook enables users to run systemd in OCI compatible runtimes

any plan to apply that in Debian? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings, Software Developer Codethink Ltd https://www.codethink.co.uk/ Dale House, 35 Dale Street Manchester, M1 2HF, United Kingdom

Bug#963225: ITP: prince-of-persia -- SDL port of the classic Prince of Persia game

re-released under a vaguely free licence, and even that doesn't explicitly allow redistribution. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Hoare's Law of Large Problems: Inside every large problem is a small problem struggling to get out. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#958812: ITP: jinja-vanish -- Jinja2 environment for non-HTML auto-escaping

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ben Hutchings * Package name: jinja-vanish Version : 0.2~gitXXX Upstream Author : Marc Brinkmann * URL : https://github.com/mbr/jinja-vanish * License : Expat Programming Lang: Python Description : Jinja2

Bug#953175: ITP: phoenix-firmware -- firmware necessary for boxes issued by project PHOENIX

enix/ > This package provides the source and the binary formats for that firmware. > > I shall keep on maintaining packages expeyes and phoenix-firmware as > parts of my daily job (I do use this hardware to teach students). > > Source package can be found at https://salsa.deb

Bug#950832: ITP: ospd -- Open Scanner Protocol daemon (OSPd)

escription. That way, the reader can tell whether it is the right kind of scanning software a few seconds earlier. :-) Ben. > This package is required for ospd-openvas, an openvas/greenbone > tool. > > I plan to maintain this package within the pkg-security team with the > other openvas/ g

Bug#947815: ITP: rust-spotify-tui -- Spotify for the terminal written in Rust

On Tue, 2019-12-31 at 20:01 +, Ximin Luo wrote: > Ben Hutchings: > > On Tue, 2019-12-31 at 16:39 +, Ximin Luo wrote: > > > Ben Hutchings: > > > > On Tue, 2019-12-31 at 04:31 +, Ximin Luo wrote: > > > > > Package: wnpp > >

Bug#947815: ITP: rust-spotify-tui -- Spotify for the terminal written in Rust

On Tue, 2019-12-31 at 16:39 +, Ximin Luo wrote: > Ben Hutchings: > > On Tue, 2019-12-31 at 04:31 +, Ximin Luo wrote: > > > Package: wnpp > > > Severity: wishlist > > > Owner: Ximin Luo > > > > > > * Package name: rust-spotify

Bug#947815: ITP: rust-spotify-tui -- Spotify for the terminal written in Rust

either an official Spotify client open or a lighter weight > alternative such as spotifyd. > > If you want to play tracks, Spotify requires that you have a Premium account. -- Ben Hutchings Experience is what causes a person to make new mistakes instead of old ones. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#944704: ITP: org-html-themes -- export Emacs Org mode files into awesome HTML in 2 minutes or less

-html-themes > * License : GPL-3+ > Programming Lang: Org_style_markdown, HTML, CSS, js vs Debian's libjs-foos > Description : export Emacs Org mode files into awesome HTML in 2 minutes > > Org-HMTL themes is an open source framework that enables the [...] Typo: &qu

Bug#944138: ITP: libtraceevent -- The libtraceevent library provides APIs to access kernel tracepoint events

On Mon, 2019-11-11 at 21:37 +, Sudip Mukherjee wrote: > Hi Ben, > > On Sun, Nov 10, 2019 at 10:01 PM Ben Hutchings wrote: > > On Sun, 2019-11-10 at 21:29 +, Sudip Mukherjee wrote: > > > On Fri, Nov 08, 2019 at 07:56:55PM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > &

Bug#944138: ITP: libtraceevent -- The libtraceevent library provides APIs to access kernel tracepoint events

On Sun, 2019-11-10 at 21:29 +, Sudip Mukherjee wrote: > On Fri, Nov 08, 2019 at 07:56:55PM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > On Mon, 2019-11-04 at 21:44 +, Sudip Mukherjee wrote: > > [...] > > > The code for libtracevent lives in the kernel tree at > > > g

Bug#944138: ITP: libtraceevent -- The libtraceevent library provides APIs to access kernel tracepoint events

use the shared library. Add libtraceevent to the dependencies of linux-perf- in debian/templates/control.tools-versioned.in. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings The two most common things in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#941568: ITP: multiprocess -- better multiprocessing and multithreading in Python

On Wed, 2019-10-02 at 19:14 +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Wed, Oct 02, 2019 at 04:00:49PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > On Wed, 2019-10-02 at 05:26 +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > > > Multiprocess is a fork of multiprocessing, and is developed as par

Bug#941568: ITP: multiprocess -- better multiprocessing and multithreading in Python

original multiprocessing module and this fork. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Design a system any fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#936043: ITP: gitbatch -- Manage git repositories in one place

at once. > Does not need additional dependencies, only those already in archive. We already have "mr", which can do this for git and several other version control systems. Does gitbatch offer anything new? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Experience is what causes a person to make new mistak

Bug#930500: ITP: intel-undervolt -- tool for undervolting Intel CPUs

s, > working with Intel CPUs since Generation Haswell. > It can also change power and temperature limits. > Note: undervolting can cause stability issues [...] Please don't do this. It will probably cause crashes and bug reports against other packages, which waste the time of other maintain

Bug#922628: ITP: dt -- DNS tool - display information about your domain

e dt begun: > > https://github.com/farrokhi/dnsdiag/issues/16 > > So I would love to see this in Debian. As usual, I would co-maintain > this in the golang team. This command name is very short, and in fact we already have a dt command (in the ditrack package). I suggest you try t

Bug#920919: ITP: xoreos-tools -- collection of tools around BioWare's Aurora engine games

contrib" is right. > The section itself is also not clear to me. It's all about games, > lintian tells me though that packages in the section games must > provide binaries under /usr/games/... I think reverse-engineering would fall under "devel". Ben. -- Ben Hutchings T

Bug#920437: ITP: displaylink -- Proprietary driver for DisplayLink devices

On Fri, 2019-01-25 at 14:21 -0500, Hanno Stock wrote: > Am Fr, 25. Jan 2019, um 17:03, schrieb Ben Hutchings: > > Please consider choosing a more specific package name. Since we > > have > > free drivers for some DisplayLink devices, we should encourage > > users to &

Bug#920437: ITP: displaylink -- Proprietary driver for DisplayLink devices

d uses > the opensource evdi kernel module for presenting a virtual graphics > device to the system. [...] Please consider choosing a more specific package name. Since we have free drivers for some DisplayLink devices, we should encourage users to use those where possible. Ben. -- Ben Hu

Bug#913880: ITP: overlay-userns -- Overlay mounting in user namespaces (DKMS)

her than packaging a fragile hack? > > thanks for the pointer. Do you think about something like the attached > patch? Would you recommend a post in debian-kernel@l.d.o about it or > better a salsa merge request? I'd prefer a merge request. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings If at first you don

Bug#913880: ITP: overlay-userns -- Overlay mounting in user namespaces (DKMS)

Why don't you talk to the kernel team about adding a module parameter enable this, rather than packaging a fragile hack? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings It's easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#911802: Re: Bug#911802: ITP: kovri -- C++ I2P router

this new package won't go into Debian 9. Ben. > I checked the different repositories, and 1.62 looks like the latest > version. > > Thanks for your quick reply, sorry about the delay on my end. > > - oneiric > -- Ben Hutchings Any smoothly functioning technolog

Bug#811377: closed by Dmitry Bogatov (Bug#811377: fixed in sysvinit 2.88dsf-60)

On Fri, 2018-10-26 at 20:55 +, Dmitry Bogatov wrote: > [2018-10-26 13:58] Ben Hutchings > > part 1 text/plain1014 > > On Fri, 2018-10-26 at 10:39 +, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: > > > This is an automatic notification regarding you

Bug#911802: ITP: kovri -- C++ I2P router

son to do this. It is recommended to use shared libraries in Debian packages where possible. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings The obvious mathematical breakthrough [to break modern encryption] would be development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers. - B

Bug#911245: ITP: libvma -- libvma is a LD_PRELOAD-able library that boosts performance

> bypass and get better throughput, latency and packets/sec rate. > > No application binary change is required for that. > libvma is supported by RDMA capable devices that support "verbs" > IBV_QPT_RAW_PACKET QP for Ethernet and/or IBV_QPT_UD QP for IPoIB. > -- Ben Hutchi

Bug#906250: ITP: execline -- small and non-interactive scripting language

/www.mail-archive.com/skaware@list.skarnet.org/msg01225.html > -- Ben Hutchings I say we take off; nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#904309: RFP: tilda -- [SHORT DESCRIPTION]

39)] > [New Thread 0x7fffde5e8700 (LWP 10940)] > [New Thread 0x7fffddde7700 (LWP 10941)] > [New Thread 0x7fffdd5e6700 (LWP 10942)] > [New Thread 0x7fffdcde5700 (LWP 10943)] > > Thread 1 "tilda" received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. > 0x75ea4339 in X

Bug#904019: ITP: libxcrypt -- Extended crypt library for DES, MD5, Blowfish and others

$DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH/libxcrypto/libcrypt.so.*; do dst=/lib/$DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH/$(basename $src) dpkg-divert --package libxcrypt1 --remove --divert $dst $dst.glibc mv $dst.glibc $dst done Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Anthony's Law of Force: Don't force it, get a larger hammer. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#884641: ITP: lwip -- small implementation of the TCP/IP protocol suite

On Tue, 2017-12-19 at 12:11 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Ben Hutchings, on mar. 19 déc. 2017 03:37:03 +, wrote: > > On Mon, 2017-12-18 at 01:44 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > > Ben Hutchings, on lun. 18 déc. 2017 00:37:48 +, wrote: > > > > On Mon, 201

Bug#884641: ITP: lwip -- small implementation of the TCP/IP protocol suite

On Mon, 2017-12-18 at 01:44 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Ben Hutchings, on lun. 18 déc. 2017 00:37:48 +, wrote: > > On Mon, 2017-12-18 at 00:12 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > > It can be used as a maintained user-land TCP/IP stack. > > > > Why would thi

Bug#884641: ITP: lwip -- small implementation of the TCP/IP protocol suite

ms, which already have a much better performing TCP/IP stack? (At least Linux and FreeBSD do; I don't know about Hurd.) Ben. -- Ben Hutchings 73.46% of all statistics are made up. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#882640: RFP: dm-zoned-tools -- utilities for the dm-zoned device mapper

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: dm-zoned-tools Version : 1.0.0 (?) Upstream Author : Western Digital * URL : https://github.com/hgst/dm-zoned-tools * License : GPL-3 Programming Lang: C Description : Utilities for the dm-zoned device

Bug#881513: O: rfkill -- tool for enabling and disabling wireless devices

Control: retitle -1 ITA: rfkill -- tool for enabling and disabling wireless devices Control: owner -1 ! I think I can adopt this, possibly under the umbrella of the kernel team. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Teamwork is essential - it allows you to blame someone else. signature.asc Description

Bug#881513: O: rfkill -- tool for enabling and disabling wireless devices

retitle -1 ITA: rfkill -- tool for enabling and disabling wireless devices owner -1 ! I think I can adopt this, possibly under the umbrella of the kernel team. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Teamwork is essential - it allows you to blame someone else. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally

Bug#879714: ITP: libusbauth-configparser1 -- Library for USB Firewall including flex/bison parser

usbauth-configparser, usbauth, usbauth- > notifier to debian unstable. You titled this as an ITP (Intent To Package) but this sentence makes it sound like an RFP (Request For Package). Which is it? Ben. > See also: openSUSE package request > (https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/53351

Bug#874339: ITP: rpy2-2.8 -- Python interface to the GNU R language and environment

reverse dependency on it. sagemath should be changed to work with Python 3 only. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings All extremists should be taken out and shot. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#872795: ITP: adv-17v35x-dkms -- DKMS source for Advantech PCIe Multiport device driver

driver, though it doesn't appear to match the Advantech device IDs yet. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Make three consecutive correct guesses and you will be considered an expert. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#862698: ITP: minecraft -- blocks to build anything you can imagine

Microsoft's Minecraft game, or is it a clone? In either case I think the package needs to be changed to avoid trademark infringement. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Humour is the best antidote to reality. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#862311: ITP: hfi1-firmware -- non-free firmware for Intel Omni-Path hfi1 fabric interface

hese are already part of linux-firmware.git so they could (and I think should) be packaged through firmware-nonfree, not in a separate source package. Despite the freeze, it's still OK to add new hardware support and so you could get this firmware into stretch. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings I say

Bug#855074: RFP: installer -- [SHORT DESCRIPTION]

There is only one installer, with these two different interface modes. So it's hard to imagine why the behaviour of the installed system would differ. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings For every complex problem there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#854606: ITP: libnfc-nci -- NFC stack for NCI based NFC Controllers by NXP

stack that's incompatible with anything else packaged in Debian. [...] > However this library can be used with devices and nfc addon boards by other > vendors providing they feature a supported nfc chip. > Such it could benefit a much broader audience than just SR customers. [...] Really? The documen

Bug#854181: RFH: busybox -- Tiny utilities for small and embedded systems

it's used by initramfs-tools (by default). Ben. -- Ben Hutchings A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular. - Adlai Stevenson signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#850222: ITP: node-plur -- Pluralize a word

pstream Author : Sindre Sorhus <sindresor...@gmail.com> (sindresorhus.com) > > * URL : https://github.com/sindresorhus/plur > * License : Expat >   Programming Lang: JavaScript >   Description : Pluralize a word (as long as it's English) Ben. -- Ben Hut

Bug#850220: ITP: node-get-port -- Get an available port

It looks like it creates a listening socket, closes it, then returns the port that was used. But the port could immediately be allocated by another process, before the caller tries to use it. If I understood correctly, this should not be packaged and whatever depends on it should be fixed to avoid the race

Bug#849338: ITP: hxtools -- Collection of tools and scripts

...] util-linux already has unshare(1), but if newns does something extra then maybe unshare should be extended. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Humour is the best antidote to reality. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#849338: ITP: hxtools -- Collection of tools and scripts

package is used by the libpam-mount package (currently patched in). > > > > What exactly of hxtools is used in libpam-mount? > > ofl and fd0ssh (packaged in /usr/bin/pmt-*). > > > * Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> [2016-12-25 23:00]: > > These look m

Bug#849338: ITP: hxtools -- Collection of tools and scripts

transform arbitrary files into C++ files for wxWidgets [...] >   * rpmdep.pl(1) - read RPM dependencies and output a graph [...] Extensions like .pl in command names are forbidden by policy. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings I say we take off; nuke the site from orbit.  It's the only way to be sure. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#845488: ITP: linux-firmware-raspi3 -- Raspberry Pi 3 GPU firmware and bootloaders

On Sun, 2016-11-27 at 22:31 +0100, Michael Stapelberg wrote: > Given that the package has cleared the NEW queue by now, I’ve just done the > rename and uploaded the new package. Will file a request for removal for > the old one once the new one is in. Thanks. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings It

Bug#846366: ITP: bcc -- Command line tools for BPF Compiler Collection (BCC)

Please don't do this. When the same name is used for a binary package and for a source package that doesn't build that binary, it tends to result in mis-assigned bugs as BTS users don't consistently specify which they mean. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings A free society is one where it is safe

Bug#845488: ITP: linux-firmware-raspi3 -- Raspberry Pi 3 GPU firmware and bootloaders

Debian images for > the Raspberry Pi 3. The package is based on the linux-firmware-raspi2 > package from Ubuntu. > -- Ben Hutchings [W]e found...that it wasn't as easy to get programs right as we had thought. ... I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to be

Bug#841113: ITP: extremetools -- tools for running processes under extreme uid and gid

ian in its current shape. Ben. --  Ben Hutchings The two most common things in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#841113: ITP: extremetools -- tools for running processes under extreme uid and gid

Jan Mojzis  wrote: [...] > I'm going to maintain the package using collab-maint. > I need sponsor. > > Debian package: >  - has autotest >  - is using debhelper >  - is using git-dpm https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/extr emetools.git >  - lintian clean (no

Bug#839210: Re: Bug#839210: ITP: bash-unit -- bash unit testing enterprise edition framework for professionals

hat would leed to the following description : > Description : bash unit testing framework [...] Yes, that is more appropriate. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Horngren's Observation:    Among economists, the real world is often a special case. signature.asc Description: This is

Bug#839279: ITP: gocryptfs -- Encrypted overlay filesystem written in Go

On Sat, 2016-10-01 at 09:03 -0400, David Steele wrote: > On Sat, Oct 1, 2016 at 7:58 AM, Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> > wrote: > > > > On Sat, 2016-10-01 at 02:35 +, David Steele wrote: > > > > > > Package: wnpp > > > Severity:

Bug#839279: ITP: gocryptfs -- Encrypted overlay filesystem written in Go

ryptfs see the Security > > (https://nuetzlich.net/gocryptfs/security/) design document. [...] What benefits does it provide over ecryptfs, which is already supported in Debian? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Klipstein's 4th Law of Prototyping and Production: A f

Bug#839210: ITP: bash-unit -- bash unit testing enterprise edition framework for professionals

.nom.fr> > * URL : https://github.com/pgrange/bash-unit > * License : GPL >   Programming Lang: Bash >   Description : bash unit testing enterprise edition framework for > professionals [...] Please leave vague marketing terms ('enterprise', 'for professi

Bug#832451: ITP: aufs4 -- advanced multi layered unification filesystem version 4.x

h.debian.org/projects/filesystems/ > > > > I need a sponsor for the package. > > We have already overlayfs in modern kernels. Could you explain why we > need aufs4 as well? I believe aufs stil has these advantages over overlayfs: - Can be exported via NFS - White-outs sha

Bug#829257: RFP: ndctl -- NVDIMM management utility

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: ndctl Version : 53.1 Upstream Author : Dan Williams * URL : https://github.com/pmem/ndctl * License : LGPL 2.1 Programming Lang: C Description : NVDIMM management utility ndctl

Bug#825785: ITP: tab -- Typesetter for lute tablature

and the binary is called "tab". > > Would you still suggest the "lute" prefix? I would - 'tab' is a very generic name and is also used to refer to other kinds of tablature notation, a control character, a user interface element, etc. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings

Bug#825785: ITP: tab -- Typesetter for lute tablature

s, in both French and Italian notation. You edit a > plain text file with special commands to enter the lute tablature, > then you run tab to convert that input into PostScript output that > you can print or display with the right program. > > > Regards, > -- Ben Hutchings Edit

Bug#702255: efitools: changing back from ITP to RFP

ed to get some time to work again on this ITP. >  > I've uploaded the sbsigntool package to NEW (See #702254), which is > required to build efitools. If/when sbsigntool is accepted, upload for > efitools will follow. Go on then! Ben.   -- Ben Hutchings Usenet is essentially

Bug#820614: ITP: vuls -- package inventory scanner for CVE vulnerabilities

ional Vunerabilities Database (NVD) of vulnerabilities according to > their CVE (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures) indentifiers. The backends > supports a couple of OSs (Debian, RHEL, CentOS, Amazon Linux). Scanning > servers > over the network is possible. [...] Presumably this uses the s

Bug#820052: RFP: uefi-shim -- UEFI shim boot loader to support Secure Boot

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: uefi-shim Version : 0.9 Upstream Author : Red Hat, Inc * URL : https://github.com/rhinstaller/shim * License : OpenSSL license (I think) Programming Lang: C Description : UEFI shim boot loader to support

Bug#820050: RFP: grub2-signed -- Signed versions of GRUB for UEFI Secure Boot

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: grub2-signed Version : 1.65 Upstream Author : Colin Watson * URL : https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2-signed * License : GPL-3+ Programming Lang: Python Description : Signed

Bug#820006: ITP: linux-signed -- Signatures for Linux kernel and modules

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> * Package name: linux-signed Version : 1 Upstream Author : Ben Hutchings * URL : https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/kernel/linux-signed.git/ * License : GPL-2+ Programming Lang:

Bug#811377: Adopting Sysvinit

he upload permission?  I am in the Debian > maintainer database with key 8E192076 and fingerprint: > >   C3A5 0484 0B67 8260 DA12  766A D25D 611C 8E19 2076 I'm not a maintainer for sysvinit, so I leave the decision to the previous maintainers. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings - Debian developer,

Bug#812533: ITP: plugn -- hook system for shell programs

e same arguments to > any hook scripts by that name. > > plugn provides a mechanism for arguments broadcasting, > it could accept streams and pass them through each plugin > as well. What does this do that run-parts can't? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Time is nature's way of making sure

Bug#812373: ITP: odhcp6c -- IPv6 DHCP and RA client from OpenWRT

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> * Package name: odhcp6c Version : 1.1 Upstream Author : Steven Barth <ste...@midlink.org> * URL : https://github.com/sbyx/odhcp6c * License : GPLv2 Programming Lang: C

Bug#811377: RFA: sysvinit -- System-V-like init utilities - transitional package

An additional point from Petter Reinholdtsen: 09:39 < pere> bwh: note, the insserv and startpar packages are part of the    sysvinit group of packages, and should probably be handled by the    same group of people. --  Ben Hutchings Horngren's Obser

Bug#811377: RFA: sysvinit -- System-V-like init utilities - transitional package

Package: wnpp Severity: normal I request an adopter for the sysvinit package. Although it is team-maintained, I have found that none of the listed uploaders are still active: - Petter Reinholdtsen says he has retired from maintenance - Henrique de Moraes Holschuh has not committed for over 6

Bug#808373: ITP: libwaive -- Allow processes to waive their rights

code, but it doesn't block the new execveat() system call.  At any time, Linux may be extended with new variants of old system calls, and those new unknown system calls need to be blocked as well. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Always try to do things in chronological order; it's less confusing that way. sign

Bug#605090: [RFC] Proposal for a new linux-grsec source package

.h:1577 > drm_helper_choose_crtc_dpms+0x8e/0x90 [drm_kms_helper]() [...] > Lots of things like that in my kernel log... Almost certainly an upstream bug.  See <https://wiki.freedesktop.org/nouveau/Bugs/> for bug reporting. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Always try to do things in chronological order; it

Bug#806516: ITP: booleanoperations -- Boolean operations on paths

gramming Lang: python, C++ >   Description : Boolean operations on paths > >  Boolean operations on paths based on a super fast polygon clipper > library. > -- Ben Hutchings Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat. - John Lehman, Secre

Bug#605090: [RFC] Proposal for a new linux-grsec source package

On Tue, 2015-11-10 at 10:42 +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > On sam., 2015-11-07 at 14:54 +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > I've given this a quick review and found a few issues: > > Thanks! > > > > 1. linux-grsec-{source,support} are included in debian/control

Bug#804350: ITP: vizzini -- Kernel driver for Exar XR21V1414 USB UART

ll, I suspect that the way to support it upstream is with a custom USB serial driver.  I've attached a patch against Linux 4.3 which implements that.  This involved a certain amount of guesswork as I have no experience with serial drivers, but I think it's worth trying. Ben. -- Ben Hu

Bug#804258: ITP: igb -- dkms source for the igb network driver

On Sat, 2015-11-07 at 09:52 +0100, Clement Hermann wrote: > Le 07/11/2015 02:20, Ben Hutchings a écrit : > > On Fri, 2015-11-06 at 18:35 +0100, Clément Hermann wrote: > > > > > >  igb is the Linux device driver released for Intel 82575/6, 82580, I350, > > &g

Bug#605090: [RFC] Proposal for a new linux-grsec source package

x32 support dependent on a kernel parameter. 6. In debian/patches/features/all/grsec/gen-patch you can use the filterdiff -p1 to avoid assuming the path prefix will be 'b/'. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Unix is many things to many people, but it's never been everything to anybody. signature.asc Descri

Bug#804258: ITP: igb -- dkms source for the igb network driver

e to me. Still, I can't say I'm happy with 'enhanced' drivers in the archive for hardware that we already support well with in-tree drivers. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Unix is many things to many people, but it's never been everything to anybody. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#804350: ITP: vizzini -- Kernel driver for Exar XR21V1414 USB UART

https://github.com/mithro/exar-uart-driver > * License : GPL-2+ >   Programming Lang: C >   Description : Kernel driver for Exar XR21V1414 USB UART > > The debconf-video team is using a board with this UART on it for HDMI > capture. What's blocking this from goi

Bug#804258: ITP: igb -- dkms source for the igb network driver

driver if you need these specific features. [...] This description is inaccurate; two of the four features mentioned actually are included in the in-tree driver.  And I don't think there'a anything stopping Intel's maintainers from adding the remaining features to the in-tree driver. The justificat

Bug#798529: ITP: python-xkcd

him, it’s an entirely independent project. [...] Then, isn't its name a trademark infringement? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere. - Anne Morrow Lindberg signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#798529: ITP: python-xkcd

on the xkcd website there is no trademark mentioning, and > all the work is CC licensed. > (not that we should care about the images, since they are not packaged in any > way) You're confusing copyright with trademarks. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings The most exhausting thing in lif

Bug#796920: Subject: ITP: ripper -- scrape licenses out of files

On Wed, 2015-08-26 at 18:27 -0300, Fernando Ike wrote: On Wed, 2015-08-26 at 00:03 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Tue, 2015-08-25 at 17:00 -0300, Fernando Ike wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-de...@lists.debian.org Owner: Fernando Ike f...@midstorm.org

Bug#796920: Subject: ITP: ripper -- scrape licenses out of files

directories, files or URI repositories as argument. . This package provides command-line to use alone or embbed in others programs. What does it offer over licensecheck (in devscripts)? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings If you seem to know what you are doing, you'll be given more to do. signature.asc

Bug#792760: RFP: icedove-thunderlink -- Link to email by Message-ID

On Sat, 2015-07-18 at 03:12 -0500, Nathaniel Beaver wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-de...@lists.debian.org --- Please fill out the fields below. --- Package name: icedove-thunderlink Version: 1.2.1 Upstream Author: Christoph Zwirello

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