Re: Handling of poorly maintained and useless packages

2007-10-14 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 14/10/07 at 01:28 -0400, Kevin Mark wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 13, 2007 at 06:05:39PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> > wnpp-alert may be useful to you - it will tell you if any of your
> > packages are nominated for adoption or are orphaned.
> > 
> I guess maybe this package can be added to the deb-a-day project for
> someone to write about as a useful package for users if they are
> concerned about their packages being removed from Debian.

Feel free to submit an article about wnpp-alert and rc-alert :-)
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Bug#446601: RFP: wnpp -- netrw -- netcat like tool with nice features to transport files over network

2007-10-14 Thread Nico Golde
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org

   Package name: wnpp
Version: 1.3.2
Upstream Author: Jiri Denemark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
URL: http://sitola.fi.muni.cz/~xdenemar/netrw/index.en.html
License: GPL v2
Description: netcat like tool with nice features to transport files over 
network

From the website:

netrw is a simple (but powerful) tool for transporting 
data over the internet. Its main purpose is to simplify 
and speed up file transfers to hosts without an FTP 
server. It can also be used for uploading data to some 
other user. It is something like one-way netcat (nc) 
with some nice features concerning data transfers. Netrw 
can compute and check message digest (MD5, SHA-1, and 
some others) of all the data being transferred, it can 
also print information on progress and average speed. At 
the end it sums up the transfer.

If someone packages this and need a sponsor, feel free 
to ping me.

Kind regards
Nico

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Intention to Package netrw

2007-10-14 Thread Giovanni Mascellani
package netrw
retitle 446601 ITP: netrw -- netcat like tool with nice features to transport 
files over network
owner 446601 !
thanks

I'll take care of packaging netrw!

Regards, Giovanni.
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Bug#446639: ITP: octave3.0 -- GNU Octave language for numerical computation (3.0 release candidate)

2007-10-14 Thread Rafael Laboissiere
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Rafael Laboissiere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>


* Package name: octave3.0
  Version : 2.9.15 (a.k.a the 3.0 release candidate)
  Upstream Author : John W. Eaton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* URL : http://www.octave.org/
* License : GPL v3 or later
  Programming Lang: C++
  Description : GNU Octave language for numerical computation (3.0 release 
candidate)

We (the Debian Octave Group) are planing to release the latest release of
Octave (version 2.9.15) with the package name octave3.0.  Octave 2.9.15 is
considered to be the release candidate for 3.0, even though it contains 2.9
in its version number.

We hope to get the package earlier out of the NEW queue, such that there
will not be a big delay between the actual release of 3.0 and the time when
the new packages enter unstable.

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Bug#446645: ITP: shorewall4-perl -- Shoreline Firewall, netfilter configuration tool (perl-based)

2007-10-14 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: "Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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* Package name: shorewall4-perl
  Version : 4.0.5
  Upstream Author : Tom Eastep <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* URL : http://www.shorewall.net
* License : GPL2 or later
  Programming Lang: sh
  Description : Shoreline Firewall, Netfilter configurator (perl-based)

Shorewall allows you to describe your firewall/gateway requirements
using entries in a set of configuration files. It reads those
configuration files and, with the help of the iptables utility,
configures Netfilter to match your requirements.

Shorewall supports a wide range of router/firewall/gateway applications,
traffic shaping and almost every type of VPN. 

This version of Shorewall includes a compiler written in perl.

- -- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-5-k7
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Bug#446644: ITP: shorewall4-shell -- Shoreline Firewall, netfilter configuration tool (shell-based)

2007-10-14 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: "Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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* Package name: shorewall4-shell
  Version : 4.0.5
  Upstream Author : Tom Eastep <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* URL : http://www.shorewall.net
* License : GPL2 or later
  Programming Lang: sh
  Description : Shoreline Firewall, Netfilter configurator (shell-based)

Shorewall allows you to describe your firewall/gateway requirements
using entries in a set of configuration files. It reads those
configuration files and, with the help of the iptables utility,
configures Netfilter to match your requirements.

Shorewall supports a wide range of router/firewall/gateway applications,
traffic shaping and almost every type of VPN. 

This version of Shorewall includes a compiler written in shell.

- -- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-5-k7
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Bug#446646: ITP: shorewall4-lite -- Shoreline Firewall, netfilter configuration tool (lite version)

2007-10-14 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: "Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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* Package name: shorewall4-lite
  Version : 4.0.5
  Upstream Author : Tom Eastep <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* URL : http://www.shorewall.net
* License : GPL2 or later
  Programming Lang: sh
  Description : Shoreline Firewall, Netfilter configurator (lite version)

Shorewall allows you to describe your firewall/gateway requirements
using entries in a set of configuration files. It reads those
configuration files and, with the help of the iptables utility,
configures Netfilter to match your requirements.

Shorewall supports a wide range of router/firewall/gateway applications,
traffic shaping and almost every type of VPN. 

The shorewall4-lite package is designed to allow you to maintain all
Shorewall configuration information on a single system within your
network.

- -- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-5-k7
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

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Bug#446648: ITP: shorewall4-doc -- documentation for Shoreline Firewall

2007-10-14 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: "Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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* Package name: shorewall4-doc
  Version : 4.0.5
  Upstream Author : Tom Eastep <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* URL : http://www.shorewall.net/
* License : GPL2 or later
  Programming Lang: XML
  Description : documentation for Shoreline Firewall

Shorewall allows you to describe your firewall/gateway requirements
using entries in a set of configuration files. It reads those
configuration files and, with the help of the iptables utility,
configures Netfilter to match your requirements.

Shorewall supports a wide range of router/firewall/gateway applications,
traffic shaping and almost every type of VPN.

This package contains the shorewall documentation in html and pdf format
plus some examples.

- -- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-5-k7
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

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Re: Bug#446645: ITP: shorewall4-perl -- Shoreline Firewall, netfilter configuration tool (perl-based)

2007-10-14 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sun, Oct 14, 2007 at 12:59:06PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> 
>   Programming Lang: sh
>   Description : Shoreline Firewall, Netfilter configurator (perl-based)
> 

Let's make that perl so that it makes sense :-)

Regards,

-Roberto

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Bug#446652: ITP: xfce4-wmdock-plugin -- Compatibility layer for running WindowMaker dockapps on the XFCE desktop

2007-10-14 Thread Enrique Monge
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Enrique Monge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>



* Package name: xfce4-wmdock-plugin
  Version : 0.1.6
  Upstream Author : Andre Ellguth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* URL : http://www.ibh.de/~ellguth/xfce4-wmdock-plugin.html
* License : GPLv2 or later
  Programming Lang: C 
  Description : Compatibility layer for running WindowMaker dockapps on the 
XFCE desktop

The WMdock plugin is a compatibility layer for running WindowMaker dockapps on 
the XFCE desktop. It integrates 
the dockapps into a panel, closely resembling the look and feel of the 
WindowMaker dock or clip, respectively.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-2-k7 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=es_SV.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=es_SV.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash



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Bug#446651: ITP: ocaml-syck -- OCaml bindings for Syck, a YAML parser kit

2007-10-14 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

--- Please fill out the fields below. ---

   Package name: ocaml-syck
Version: 0.1.1
Upstream Author: Christopher R. Waterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
URL: http://ocaml-syck.sourceforge.net/
License: MIT/X
Description: OCaml bindings for Syck, a YAML parser kit
 This library provides OCaml bindings for Syck, a parser/printer library
 used to work with YAML (a human readable machine parsable data
 serialization format) documents.

The package produces the binaries libyaml-syck-ocaml{,-dev} and is
already available (though work in progress) in the repository of the
pkg-ocaml-maint alioth project. Here are the VCS fields pointing to it:

  XS-Vcs-Svn: svn://svn.debian.org/svn/pkg-ocaml-maint/trunk/packages/ocaml-syck
  XS-Vcs-Browser: 
http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-ocaml-maint/trunk/packages/ocaml-syck/trunk/

Cheers.

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Bug#446657: ITP: shorewall4-common -- Shoreline Firewall, netfilter configuration tool (common files)

2007-10-14 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: "Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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* Package name: shorewall4-common
  Version : 4.0.5
  Upstream Author : Tom Eastep <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* URL : http://www.shorewall.net/
* License : GPL2 or later
  Programming Lang: sh
  Description : Shoreline Firewall, netfilter configurator (common files)

Shorewall allows you to describe your firewall/gateway requirements
using entries in a set of configuration files. It reads those
configuration files and, with the help of the iptables utility,
configures Netfilter to match your requirements.

Shorewall supports a wide range of router/firewall/gateway applications,
traffic shaping and almost every type of VPN.

This package contains files needed by both the perl-based and
shell-based compilers.

- -- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-5-k7
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

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Bug#446656: ITP: libjbosscache1-java -- cache frequently accessed Java objects

2007-10-14 Thread Torsten Werner
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Torsten Werner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

* Package name: libjbosscache1-java
  Version : 1.4.1.SP5
  Upstream Author : Red Hat, Inc.
* URL : http://labs.jboss.com/jbosscache/
* License : LGPL
  Programming Lang: Java
  Description : cache frequently accessed Java objects
 JBoss Cache is a product designed to cache frequently accessed Java
 objects in order to dramatically improve the performance of e-business
 applications. By eliminating unnecessary database access, JBoss Cache
 decreases network traffic and increases the scalability of
 applications.
 .
 But JBoss Cache is much more than a simple cache. JBoss Cache provides
 fully transactional features as well as a highly configurable set of
 options to deal with concurrent data access in the most efficient
 manner possible for your application. In addition, it is a clustered
 cache that replicates contents to other cache instances running on
 separate JVMs, servers or even entire networks, making JBoss Cache a
 highly efficient library used by application server developers to
 implement clustering features.
 .
 JBoss Cache provides two caching APIs to suit your needs. The JBoss
 Cache API offers a traditional, tree-structured, node-based cache and
 the Pojo Cache API, which builds on the JBoss Cache API, provides the
 ability to perform object-based, fine-grained replication of Java
 objects, resulting in maximum performance benefits.




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Bug#446658: ITP: liboscache-java -- caching solution for java server pages (JSP)

2007-10-14 Thread Torsten Werner
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Torsten Werner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

* Package name: liboscache-java
  Version : 2.4.1
  Upstream Author : Chris Miller
* URL : http://www.opensymphony.com/oscache/
* License : modified Apache license
  Programming Lang: Java
  Description : caching solution for java server pages (JSP)
 OSCache is a caching solution that includes a JSP tag library and set
 of classes to perform fine grained dynamic caching of JSP content,
 servlet responses or arbitrary objects. It provides both in memory and
 persistent on disk caches, and can allow your site to have graceful
 error tolerance. If an error occurs like your db goes down, you can
 serve the cached content so people can still surf the site almost
 without knowing.




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Bug#446659: ITP: libswarmcache-java -- simple, yet powerful distributed caching mechanism for Java

2007-10-14 Thread Torsten Werner
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Torsten Werner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

* Package name: libswarmcache-java
  Version : 1.0~rc2
  Upstream Author : John Watkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* URL : http://swarmcache.sourceforge.net/
* License : LGPL
  Programming Lang: Java
  Description : simple, yet powerful distributed caching mechanism for Java
 SwarmCache is a simple but effective distributed cache. It uses IP
 multicast to efficiently communicate with any number of hosts on a LAN.
 It is specifically designed for use by clustered, database-driven web
 applications. Such applications typically have many more read
 operations than write operations, which allows SwarmCache to deliver
 the greatest performance gains. SwarmCache uses JavaGroups internally
 to manage the membership and communications of its distributed cache.




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Bug#446660: ITP: libproxool-java -- Java connection pool

2007-10-14 Thread Torsten Werner
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Torsten Werner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

* Package name: libproxool-java
  Version : 0.9.0~rc3
  Upstream Author : Bill Horsman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* URL : http://proxool.sourceforge.net/
* License : Apache Software License
  Programming Lang: Java
  Description : Java JDBC connection pool
 A Java SQL Driver that provides a connection pool wrapper around
 another Driver of your choice. Very simple to migrate existing code.
 Fully configurable. Fast, mature and robust. Transparently adds
 connection pooling to your existing JDBC driver.




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Bug#446661: ITP: jbossas4 -- JBoss Java application server

2007-10-14 Thread Torsten Werner
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Torsten Werner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

* Package name: jbossas4
  Version : 4.2.1.GA
  Upstream Author : Red Hat, Inc.
* URL : http://labs.jboss.com/jbossas/
* License : LGPL
  Programming Lang: Java
  Description : JBoss Java application server
 A J2EE certified platform for developing and deploying enterprise Java
 applications, Web applications, and Portals, JBoss Application Server
 provides the full range of J2EE 1.4 features as well as extended
 enterprise services including clustering, caching, and persistence.
 .
 JBoss Application Server includes support for Enterprise Java Beans
 (EJB) 3.0 which is designed to dramatically simplify the enterprise
 Java programming model.


I'll only package the most essential libraries in the first place:
- jboss-system
- jboss-jmx
- jboss-j2ee

Cheers,
Torsten




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Bug#446687: ITP: pygpu -- embedded language for programming graphics processing units using Python

2007-10-14 Thread Sandro Tosi
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Sandro Tosi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

* Package name: pygpu
  Version : 0.2.0a-629
  Upstream Author : Calle Lejdfors <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* URL : http://www.cs.lth.se/home/Calle_Lejdfors/pygpu/
* License : GPL
  Programming Lang: Python
  Description : embedded language for programming graphics processing units 
using Python

PyGPU is a  compiler that lets you write  image processing programs in
Python that execute  on the graphics processing unit  (GPU) present in
modern  graphics cards.  This enables  image processing  algorithms to
take advantage  of the performance  of the GPU. In  some applications,
performance  increases approach  an  order of  magnitude, compared  to
CPUs.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-2-686-smp (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
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Forming a new linux Distrbution

2007-10-14 Thread nithi saro
Hello  friends ,

  We are college students . we are
planning to build new linux
distribution.We don't have any idea how to start and how to
proceed.Soplease give detailed
steps to build a new one from scratch (LFS).


 Thank
u.



 By Nithi


Re: Forming a new linux Distrbution

2007-10-14 Thread Wesley J. Landaker
On Sunday 14 October 2007 20:05:40 nithi saro wrote:
> Hello  friends ,
>
>   We are college students . we
> are planning to build new linux
> distribution.We don't have any idea how to start and how to
> proceed.Soplease give detailed
> steps to build a new one from scratch (LFS).

Rolling your own distribution from *scratch* might sound fun, but it's 
almost guaranteed to be a bad idea if you are college students and don't 
have any idea how to start. =)

Instead, what you might want to do is make a custom Debain-based 
distribution, which gives you the advantage of not starting from *scratch* 
but getting to strip things down, select exact packages, make your own 
installers, rebrand things, whatever.

A bigger plus is that it's not terribly difficult. See 
 for a good starting point.

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