Re: creating Release files
Hi, > And are there any tools to create them automatically? apt-ftparchive, for example. best regards, sbeyer -- Stephan Beyer 0xFCC5040F IANADD http://www.noxa.de/~sbeyer/debian/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature
RFS: bf, (gtk-)cpuspeedy, morse-x, ocrad, reformat
Hi, I've uploaded some packages to my apt repository on my homepage[1]. Some are marked with " SPONSOR WANTED ", because - as you may guess - these packages are looking for a sponsor ;) * bf = a simple Brainfuck interpreter (with some nice options) * cpuspeedy = Python script to set CPU clock speed (CpuFreq userspace) * gtk-cpuspeedy = GTK+ (version 2) front-end of cpuspeedy * morse-x = put dits and daws into its window (using the keyboard) and it tells you what you morsed * ocrad = GNU OCR tool * reformat = simple reformatting tool (easier than par, not as powerful as libtext-autoformat-perl) Other packages will follow. greetings, sbeyer References: [1] http://noxa.de/~sbeyer/debian/ -- Stephan Beyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> IRC: sbeyer PGP: 0xFCC5040F
Re: RFS: bf, (gtk-)cpuspeedy, morse-x, ocrad, reformat
Hi, > References: > [1] http://noxa.de/~sbeyer/debian/ I also uploaded them to mentors.debian.net now. so long, sbeyer signature.asc Description: Digital signature
RFS: webdiff - web page update checker
Hi, I uploaded `webdiff' to mentors.debian.net[1] today, and I think it will become apt-get'able during the day. Like my other packages[2] on the mentors server, it is looking for a sponsor. Description of webdiff: webdiff is a powerful web page update checker. You can choose between different methods (diff, size, date, md5sum, regexp) webdiff should check for. It will only print the URIs of web pages which changed, so that its output can easily be used by further scripts (e.g. wget or mail). It is written in Ruby. so long, sbeyer PS: good luck to the other unanswered RFS mails ;) Footnotes [1] deb http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable main [2] my other packages: namely bf, reformat, morse-x, python-pygtkglext, python-gui, python-gui-doc, ocrad, cpuspeedy, gtk-cpuspeedy signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: RFS: fbgrab - Framebuffer grabber
Hi, > I've packaged the most recent upstream version v1.0, but call it > v1.0.0 in order to have a greater version number than the package > already present in the Debian archive (v1.0b1). I wondered why Gunnar Monell changed 1.0b1 to 1.0. The only change from 1.0b1 to 1.0 is a correction in the manpage, funny. --- fbgrab-1.0b1/fbgrab.1.man 2002-04-15 23:08:28.0 +0200 +++ fbgrab-1.0/fbgrab.1.man 2004-02-03 19:27:54.0 +0100 @@ -46 +46 @@ -specifies how many seconds to wait before grabbing. \fBfbshot\fP +specifies how many seconds to wait before grabbing. \fBfbgrab\fP By the way, there is a similar package by Maciek Swiderski (sfires), called 'fbshot': http://www.sfires.net/fbshot/ On freshmeat it got more hits than fbgrab, maybe it is better. I can't say, because I don't use framebuffer anymore. Both, fbgrab and fbshot, are based on fbshot that I coded when I had my first experiences in C (so it was terrible code). Perhaps that's why I reply to this mail ;) good luck, sbeyer signature.asc Description: Digital signature
RFS: xspringies - a mass and spring simulation system for X
Hi, I've packaged `xspringies', a more or less `historic' mass and spring simulation program... it's rather old, and I think there won't be any updates by the upstream author. I loved it to play around a bit in 1998/1999 (I used SuSE that time and they had a package on their CDs), it was just fun in boring minutes. (When I sent feedback to the author, he was surprised that there is somebody who knows that program, and he put it on his homepage again.) I want it to be part of the official Debian distribution, so I made a package this night and uploaded it to mentors[1]. I hope somebody is willing to take a look over that package and upload it if everything is ok. (Of course, it is lintian-clean.) Package name: xspringies Version : 1.12-1 Upstream Author : Doug DeCarlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Homepage: http://www.cs.rutgers.edu/~decarlo/software.html License : GPL Description : a mass and spring simulation system for X xspringies is a simulator which allows you to interactively create and edit a system of masses and springs. The parameters of the masses and springs (such as mass elasticity and spring K) as well as those of the surrounding system (such as air viscosity and gravity) can be changed. It's intended to be a time waster, not for real work. so long, sbeyer References: 1. http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/x/xspringies/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Re:sponsoship
> It seems that this list is now a top search result for phrases such as > "request sponsor," and this is causing inexperienced web searchers to > mail us with requests like this one. I'm not sure if there's any good > solution to this... ignoring...or find another term for 'sponsoring'. sbeyer signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: RFS: bf, (gtk-)cpuspeedy, morse-x, ocrad, reformat
> > References: > > [1] http://noxa.de/~sbeyer/debian/ > > I also uploaded them to mentors.debian.net now. And because mentors.debian.net will change their service soon, I transformed the text file of former "[1]" into some nice dynamic html pages and my RFS-packages can now be viewed/downloaded at http://noxa.de/~sbeyer/debian/packages/ I guess I won't get a reply because these packages aren't that interesting(?). (But I hope somebody will take a look at one or two packages...) so long, sbeyer signature.asc Description: Digital signature
ITA: mpg321
Hi, this night I made some small bugfixes to the mpg321 code and send it to Joe Drew, the upstream author and Debian maintainer of mpg321. Looking at the BTS and the changelogs I came to the thought, that development on the mpg321 code and package has been dead (except the 2 NMUs of course) for about a year. Today I sent mail to Joe Drew to ask if I'm correct and if I could adopt the authorship (and maintainership) of mpg321. I didn't wait for a reply and made a package (basically for me) which is a merge of 0.2.10.3 (NMU with security fixes) and 0.3.0 (the latest CVS) including some small fixes ;) Please have a look at: http://noxa.de/~sbeyer/debian/packages/?main,src,mpg321 Because I'm not a DD, I hope somebody will sponsor it... perhaps Joe Drew himself :) I hope I don't look like a hijacker and I hope I'm not that monkey with a tin tool because I didn't wait for a reply :) well... regards, Stephan Beyer signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: ITA: mpg321
Hi, Chris Anderson wrote: > You definitely need to wait for a reply for at least a week, then > generally try one last time to contact him. Hijacking it after 1 day > isn't responsible and is sometimes considered rude, not everyone has > access to email 24x7. It *is* rude :) It's just... in my overzealousness I thought that Joe would definitely give me a O.k. ;) Strange optimism (or pessimism, because it seems that it's still a lot of work to let mpg321 be a really good, free replacement to mpg123... nevertheless Joe Drew did a *great* job) I uploaded the package to the server so that I can use such a mpg321 version (with some really small fixes of bugs that really annoyed me) on every machine. Then I thought, once uploaded, I could also make it public. Joe Drew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I will sponsor in Stephan's NMUs and patches to mpg321, but am currently > unwilling to give up maintainership of it. You'll me, because I re-indented the code which can be found in the .tar.gz. :) (I thought that was useful because there was a scary indentation-style mix...) > I do agree that not waiting for at least a week can be considered rude > and is certainly overeager. Yes, it is :) > It isn't a problem in this case, but I can conceive of a maintainer who > could get angry over it. I think *I* would get angry, especially if it is a project which caused that much time. But my personized overeager also told me to make a fork (which doesn't use libmad0, because it seems a bit mad), but that's more rude than asking for adoption ;) regards, sbeyer signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: ITA: mpg321
Hi, > > Please have a look at: > > http://noxa.de/~sbeyer/debian/packages/?main,src,mpg321 > Is that the sf.net CVS? yes. Oh, are there other CVS? Any with more recent changes? > > Because I'm not a DD, I hope somebody will sponsor it... perhaps Joe > > Drew himself :) > I hope so too! I have a patch in BTS to fix crashes with invalid > input; I'll let you know if your version passes my test:) If nobody included the patch (I didn't), it won't pass the tests, I guess :) sbeyer signature.asc Description: Digital signature
RFS: libao-ruby
Hi, today I packaged 'ruby-audiooutput' by Rik Hemsley as libao-ruby and now I am looking for a sponsor for the packages. Upstream Homepage: http://rikkus.info/ruby_audiooutput.html Description: Libao is a cross platform audio output library, currently supporting output to several `live' (oss, esd, alsa, nas, arts, null) and `file' (au, raw, wav) `devices'. [...] This package offers Ruby bindings to libao. The package files are lintian-clean and license is DFSG-conform. btw, there was a discussion on debian-ruby about adding a ruby section to Debian. When this becomes real, I'll change the section, of course, as I'm also interested to keep it up-to-date regarding upstream releases and Debian issues :) See: http://noxa.de/~sbeyer/debian/packages/?main,src,libao-ruby Thanks and best regards, sbeyer signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Round 2, RFS schoolbell - A calendaring server for schools
> I would like to suspend my request as I have found a potential sponsor. lucky guy :) sbeyer signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Suggestions On Getting A Sponsor
Hi, > I posted several messages to this list earlier this month about getting > my package sponsored. Lots of people gave me great suggestions on how > to improve the packing and other general ideas. However no one seemed > interested in uploading the package. What you describe is the same impression I got here. Perhaps the secret is to have the right connections or to make them, to get in contact with the right DD or just to have convincing packages ;) I don't know. best regards, sbeyer -- Stephan Beyer 0xFCC5040F IANADD http://www.noxa.de/~sbeyer/debian/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: RFS: ocrad - an OCR program
Hi, funny, I RFS'ed the package some time ago, too ;) http://www.noxa.de/~sbeyer/debian/packages/?main,src,ocrad But my version is still 0.8-1... Hm, there should be an official RFS database *suggest* ;) regards, sbeyer -- Stephan Beyer 0xFCC5040F IANADD http://www.noxa.de/~sbeyer/debian/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: RFS: noiz2sa -- abstract arcade shooter
> oh come on guys! i can't believe noone wants to sponsor this, it's way cool! > at least give it a test ride and you will see... after some time I must say: really nice game! but IANADD ;) best regards, sbeyer -- Stephan Beyer 0xFCC5040F IANADD http://www.noxa.de/~sbeyer/debian/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature
RFS: bf, (gtk-)cpuspeedy, morse-x, ocrad, reformat
Hi, I've uploaded some packages to my apt repository on my homepage[1]. Some are marked with " SPONSOR WANTED ", because - as you may guess - these packages are looking for a sponsor ;) * bf = a simple Brainfuck interpreter (with some nice options) * cpuspeedy = Python script to set CPU clock speed (CpuFreq userspace) * gtk-cpuspeedy = GTK+ (version 2) front-end of cpuspeedy * morse-x = put dits and daws into its window (using the keyboard) and it tells you what you morsed * ocrad = GNU OCR tool * reformat = simple reformatting tool (easier than par, not as powerful as libtext-autoformat-perl) Other packages will follow. greetings, sbeyer References: [1] http://noxa.de/~sbeyer/debian/ -- Stephan Beyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> IRC: sbeyer PGP: 0xFCC5040F -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: RFS: bf, (gtk-)cpuspeedy, morse-x, ocrad, reformat
Hi, > References: > [1] http://noxa.de/~sbeyer/debian/ I also uploaded them to mentors.debian.net now. so long, sbeyer signature.asc Description: Digital signature
RFS: webdiff - web page update checker
Hi, I uploaded `webdiff' to mentors.debian.net[1] today, and I think it will become apt-get'able during the day. Like my other packages[2] on the mentors server, it is looking for a sponsor. Description of webdiff: webdiff is a powerful web page update checker. You can choose between different methods (diff, size, date, md5sum, regexp) webdiff should check for. It will only print the URIs of web pages which changed, so that its output can easily be used by further scripts (e.g. wget or mail). It is written in Ruby. so long, sbeyer PS: good luck to the other unanswered RFS mails ;) Footnotes [1] deb http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable main [2] my other packages: namely bf, reformat, morse-x, python-pygtkglext, python-gui, python-gui-doc, ocrad, cpuspeedy, gtk-cpuspeedy signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: RFS: fbgrab - Framebuffer grabber
Hi, > I've packaged the most recent upstream version v1.0, but call it > v1.0.0 in order to have a greater version number than the package > already present in the Debian archive (v1.0b1). I wondered why Gunnar Monell changed 1.0b1 to 1.0. The only change from 1.0b1 to 1.0 is a correction in the manpage, funny. --- fbgrab-1.0b1/fbgrab.1.man 2002-04-15 23:08:28.0 +0200 +++ fbgrab-1.0/fbgrab.1.man 2004-02-03 19:27:54.0 +0100 @@ -46 +46 @@ -specifies how many seconds to wait before grabbing. \fBfbshot\fP +specifies how many seconds to wait before grabbing. \fBfbgrab\fP By the way, there is a similar package by Maciek Swiderski (sfires), called 'fbshot': http://www.sfires.net/fbshot/ On freshmeat it got more hits than fbgrab, maybe it is better. I can't say, because I don't use framebuffer anymore. Both, fbgrab and fbshot, are based on fbshot that I coded when I had my first experiences in C (so it was terrible code). Perhaps that's why I reply to this mail ;) good luck, sbeyer signature.asc Description: Digital signature
RFS: xspringies - a mass and spring simulation system for X
Hi, I've packaged `xspringies', a more or less `historic' mass and spring simulation program... it's rather old, and I think there won't be any updates by the upstream author. I loved it to play around a bit in 1998/1999 (I used SuSE that time and they had a package on their CDs), it was just fun in boring minutes. (When I sent feedback to the author, he was surprised that there is somebody who knows that program, and he put it on his homepage again.) I want it to be part of the official Debian distribution, so I made a package this night and uploaded it to mentors[1]. I hope somebody is willing to take a look over that package and upload it if everything is ok. (Of course, it is lintian-clean.) Package name: xspringies Version : 1.12-1 Upstream Author : Doug DeCarlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Homepage: http://www.cs.rutgers.edu/~decarlo/software.html License : GPL Description : a mass and spring simulation system for X xspringies is a simulator which allows you to interactively create and edit a system of masses and springs. The parameters of the masses and springs (such as mass elasticity and spring K) as well as those of the surrounding system (such as air viscosity and gravity) can be changed. It's intended to be a time waster, not for real work. so long, sbeyer References: 1. http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/x/xspringies/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Re:sponsoship
> It seems that this list is now a top search result for phrases such as > "request sponsor," and this is causing inexperienced web searchers to > mail us with requests like this one. I'm not sure if there's any good > solution to this... ignoring...or find another term for 'sponsoring'. sbeyer signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: RFS: bf, (gtk-)cpuspeedy, morse-x, ocrad, reformat
> > References: > > [1] http://noxa.de/~sbeyer/debian/ > > I also uploaded them to mentors.debian.net now. And because mentors.debian.net will change their service soon, I transformed the text file of former "[1]" into some nice dynamic html pages and my RFS-packages can now be viewed/downloaded at http://noxa.de/~sbeyer/debian/packages/ I guess I won't get a reply because these packages aren't that interesting(?). (But I hope somebody will take a look at one or two packages...) so long, sbeyer signature.asc Description: Digital signature
ITA: mpg321
Hi, this night I made some small bugfixes to the mpg321 code and send it to Joe Drew, the upstream author and Debian maintainer of mpg321. Looking at the BTS and the changelogs I came to the thought, that development on the mpg321 code and package has been dead (except the 2 NMUs of course) for about a year. Today I sent mail to Joe Drew to ask if I'm correct and if I could adopt the authorship (and maintainership) of mpg321. I didn't wait for a reply and made a package (basically for me) which is a merge of 0.2.10.3 (NMU with security fixes) and 0.3.0 (the latest CVS) including some small fixes ;) Please have a look at: http://noxa.de/~sbeyer/debian/packages/?main,src,mpg321 Because I'm not a DD, I hope somebody will sponsor it... perhaps Joe Drew himself :) I hope I don't look like a hijacker and I hope I'm not that monkey with a tin tool because I didn't wait for a reply :) well... regards, Stephan Beyer signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: ITA: mpg321
Hi, Chris Anderson wrote: > You definitely need to wait for a reply for at least a week, then > generally try one last time to contact him. Hijacking it after 1 day > isn't responsible and is sometimes considered rude, not everyone has > access to email 24x7. It *is* rude :) It's just... in my overzealousness I thought that Joe would definitely give me a O.k. ;) Strange optimism (or pessimism, because it seems that it's still a lot of work to let mpg321 be a really good, free replacement to mpg123... nevertheless Joe Drew did a *great* job) I uploaded the package to the server so that I can use such a mpg321 version (with some really small fixes of bugs that really annoyed me) on every machine. Then I thought, once uploaded, I could also make it public. Joe Drew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I will sponsor in Stephan's NMUs and patches to mpg321, but am currently > unwilling to give up maintainership of it. You'll me, because I re-indented the code which can be found in the .tar.gz. :) (I thought that was useful because there was a scary indentation-style mix...) > I do agree that not waiting for at least a week can be considered rude > and is certainly overeager. Yes, it is :) > It isn't a problem in this case, but I can conceive of a maintainer who > could get angry over it. I think *I* would get angry, especially if it is a project which caused that much time. But my personized overeager also told me to make a fork (which doesn't use libmad0, because it seems a bit mad), but that's more rude than asking for adoption ;) regards, sbeyer signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: ITA: mpg321
Hi, > > Please have a look at: > > http://noxa.de/~sbeyer/debian/packages/?main,src,mpg321 > Is that the sf.net CVS? yes. Oh, are there other CVS? Any with more recent changes? > > Because I'm not a DD, I hope somebody will sponsor it... perhaps Joe > > Drew himself :) > I hope so too! I have a patch in BTS to fix crashes with invalid > input; I'll let you know if your version passes my test:) If nobody included the patch (I didn't), it won't pass the tests, I guess :) sbeyer signature.asc Description: Digital signature
RFS: libao-ruby
Hi, today I packaged 'ruby-audiooutput' by Rik Hemsley as libao-ruby and now I am looking for a sponsor for the packages. Upstream Homepage: http://rikkus.info/ruby_audiooutput.html Description: Libao is a cross platform audio output library, currently supporting output to several `live' (oss, esd, alsa, nas, arts, null) and `file' (au, raw, wav) `devices'. [...] This package offers Ruby bindings to libao. The package files are lintian-clean and license is DFSG-conform. btw, there was a discussion on debian-ruby about adding a ruby section to Debian. When this becomes real, I'll change the section, of course, as I'm also interested to keep it up-to-date regarding upstream releases and Debian issues :) See: http://noxa.de/~sbeyer/debian/packages/?main,src,libao-ruby Thanks and best regards, sbeyer signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Round 2, RFS schoolbell - A calendaring server for schools
> I would like to suspend my request as I have found a potential sponsor. lucky guy :) sbeyer signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Suggestions On Getting A Sponsor
Hi, > I posted several messages to this list earlier this month about getting > my package sponsored. Lots of people gave me great suggestions on how > to improve the packing and other general ideas. However no one seemed > interested in uploading the package. What you describe is the same impression I got here. Perhaps the secret is to have the right connections or to make them, to get in contact with the right DD or just to have convincing packages ;) I don't know. best regards, sbeyer -- Stephan Beyer 0xFCC5040F IANADD http://www.noxa.de/~sbeyer/debian/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: creating Release files
Hi, > And are there any tools to create them automatically? apt-ftparchive, for example. best regards, sbeyer -- Stephan Beyer 0xFCC5040F IANADD http://www.noxa.de/~sbeyer/debian/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: RFS: ocrad - an OCR program
Hi, funny, I RFS'ed the package some time ago, too ;) http://www.noxa.de/~sbeyer/debian/packages/?main,src,ocrad But my version is still 0.8-1... Hm, there should be an official RFS database *suggest* ;) regards, sbeyer -- Stephan Beyer 0xFCC5040F IANADD http://www.noxa.de/~sbeyer/debian/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: RFS: noiz2sa -- abstract arcade shooter
> oh come on guys! i can't believe noone wants to sponsor this, it's way cool! > at least give it a test ride and you will see... after some time I must say: really nice game! but IANADD ;) best regards, sbeyer -- Stephan Beyer 0xFCC5040F IANADD http://www.noxa.de/~sbeyer/debian/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: minimum package name length
Hi, > When looking at the existing names, I noticed that there are no package > names with only two characters, and not that many with three. apt-cache show mc dc bc to name a few ;) best regards, sbeyer -- Stephan Beyer 0xFCC5040F IANADD http://www.noxa.de/~sbeyer/debian/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: RFS: WMAnsiEd - An ANSI/ASCII editor
Hi, > Someone remind me why we need Yet Another ANSI Editor, please? Because the needs of different people are different, too. Why do we have more than one X window manager? Somebody might never use a window manager at all. Why do we have more than one web browsers, MUAs, MTAs, etc? Because they all have different features. I do not need an ANSI editor at all, but I dislike comments like "Why do _we_ need this piece of software?" or "We do not need X because we have alrady A, B and C." Just my 2 cents. Best regards, Stephan Beyer -- Stephan Beyer, PGP 0xFCC5040F, IRC sbeyer IANADD signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: RFS: WMAnsiEd - An ANSI/ASCII editor
Hi, > I don't know, but there's aewan. But aewan is written using ncurses, and not Qt? ;) best regards, Stephan Beyer signature.asc Description: Digital signature
