Re: pngcrush and bugs 331068, 338659, 355693, 352177, 330026

[Kapil Hari Paranjape]

Hello,

On Thu, 23 Mar 2006, Alexander Schmehl wrote:
> However, I want be able to upload a fixed package till mid/end of next
> week.

I'll assume you meant "I won't be able to upload ... till mid/end of
next week".

> If you want it, you can have it.

Thanks. I've made a pngcrush_1.6.2-1.dsc at

http://www.imsc.res.in/~kapil/debian/pngcrush/

setting me as the maintainer. The package is linda/lintian clean.

I would be glad if anyone would sponsor the upload as the package
has recently been removed from testing by britney due to its bugs.

Regards,

Kapil.
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Bug#358572: grammatical error

[Gürkan Sengün]

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yours,
Gürkan

RM: goldedplus -- RoQA; orphaned, several vulnerabilities, license unclear

[Matej Vela]

retitle 334743 RM: goldedplus -- RoQA; orphaned, several vulnerabilities, 
license unclear
reassign 334743 ftp.debian.org
thanks

Please remove goldedplus.

  * Orphaned for 5 months.
  * Includes a heavily modified copy of uulib 0.5.15 vulnerable to
CVE-2004-0333 (buffer overflows) and CVE-2004-2265 (insecure
temporary files).
  * Includes code from a non-free abandonware library.  Quoting the
copyright file: "Parts of the Goldware Library is derived from the
source of the old Shareware CXL 5.2 library by Mike Smedley, from
which I bought a source license many years ago. [...] much code is
essentially unchanged [...] I even tried to find Mike Smedley, but
apparently he has vanished off the face of the earth [...]"
  * popcon: 13 installations, 4 votes.

Thanks,

Matej


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Bug#358572: marked as done (grammatical error)

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On Thu, 23 Mar 2006, Gürkan Sengün wrote:
> Package: qa.debian.org
> Severity: normal
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> at http://packages.qa.debian.org/s/sendmail.html (and all other pts pages) 
> please change Last version to Latest version.

I fixed the XSLT stylesheet. It should be updated until tomorrow.

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Re: pngcrush and bugs 331068, 338659, 355693, 352177, 330026

[Nelson A. de Oliveira]

Hi!

On 3/23/06, Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Mar 2006, Alexander Schmehl wrote:
>
> > I have no strong feelings about pngcrush.  Just used it a couple of
> > times in the past and might need such a tool in the future, while not
> > knowing of similar tools.  It seemed to me, that no one else wanted it,
> > so I steped in.
>
> I'm sponsoring pngnq and pngquant for Nelson A. de Oliveira (CC).
> It might be reasonable to try to merge these three projects with
> similar functionality.  Perhaps asking the upstream authors whether
> they want to join their forces and make a great party in the time
> they might save be these means would make sense.

Actually, pngnq and pngquant are different from optipng (I maintain
this package too) and pngcrush.
The 4 programs are PNG optimizers, but they are different.
pngnq is based on pngquant. Both optimize PNG files reducing the
number of colors to 256 or less. They are lossy. The difference
between them is that each one use different algorithms to reduce the
color number. They are great if you need a small PNG file that can
lose some colors.

optipng is based on pngcrush. They are lossless optimizers. The user
won't loss any information from his/her PNG. Basically, they do the
same job.

I was reading this topic about pngcrush and optipng.
I have created the optipng package because pngcrush was in a bad
shape. And theorically, it can do all the things that pngcrush does.

I took 40 random PNGs from my system to make a test.
The total size of them is 4485 kbytes.
Running pngcrush (latest version, 1.6.2) without any arguments, they
were stripped to 4183 kbytes.
With optipng (version 0.5, without any options too), I've got 4126 kbytes.

As I could see, optipng generates slightly better images (in size), if
compared to pngcrush. However, it runs a little slower.

Maybe somebody could do a better test than mine, with more numbers. It
was just a trivial test that I did, to show what I see between both
optimizers.

Glenn (upstream author of pngcrush), said on
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=9575058&forum_id=43850:

'Or, check out Cosmin Truta's "optipng" program which is newer and
more powerful than pngcrush.'

Well, people have different opinions. There are people that like
pngcrush and if you ask a name of a PNG optimizer, they will say
"pngcrush".
Since optipng is newer, less people knows about it.
Both do a good work.

I don't know a good way to tell the upstream authors about merging programs.
I don't know why they started a new project based on an already
existent optimizers instead trying to work on the available programs,
but they had a reason for that.

The 4 programs are similar, but different. They are small too. If
there are users for all them, I don't see a problem in having they
available on Debian.
As I said, there are people that like one, others like the other.

Just my opinion. I don't know if it helped.

And please, CC me if answering this email.

Best regards,
Nelson

help

[John Morgan]

Hello...

 I am interested in volunteering some time to help out with debian. I
don't have much expirence so to speak in programming or anything but I
am a quick learner and have some time to give. I was a system
administrator on a linux network a few years ago. I have a working
knowledge of c++ and some expirence with perl a few years ago. I have
just returned from Iraq and am injured with time to spare and I have
always prefered debian over any other distro. I'm even willing to help
with man pages or something. Just let me know if you have any use for
me.

Thanks,
John


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Re: help

[Steve Langasek]

Hi John,

On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 09:44:08PM -0600, John Morgan wrote:

>  I am interested in volunteering some time to help out with debian. I
> don't have much expirence so to speak in programming or anything but I
> am a quick learner and have some time to give. I was a system
> administrator on a linux network a few years ago. I have a working
> knowledge of c++ and some expirence with perl a few years ago. I have
> just returned from Iraq and am injured with time to spare and I have
> always prefered debian over any other distro. I'm even willing to help
> with man pages or something. Just let me know if you have any use for
> me.

Thanks for your interest in Debian!  Yes, we can always use more help --
there is always far more QA work to be done than there are people with time
to do it. :)

Manpages are certainly an area in need of ongoing work; for a list of known
programs in Debian that are missing manpages, please see
.  For other
ideas where contribution might be welcome, there's a list of packages whose
maintainers are requesting help at
, a miscellaneous TODO list
at , and of course, a list of
release-critical issues for etch at
.  I'm confident there should be
something on one of these pages to hold your interest, regardless of skill
level!  

Beyond that, of course, Debian is a very self-organizing group, so you're
welcome to work on whatever you think is most appropriate -- the help is
definitely welcome, but you probably aren't going to find anybody here to
tell you what you *should* work on. :)

Cheers and welcome,
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