Bug#319583: ITP: pcmciautils -- PCMCIA userspace utilities (Linux 2.6.13+)

[Per Olofsson]

retitle 319583 ITP: pcmciautils -- PCMCIA userspace utilities (Linux 2.6.13+)
thanks

I'm the maintainer of pcmcia-cs so I'm intending to package
pcmciautils.

* Package name: pcmciautils
  Version : 007
  Upstream Author : Dominik Brodowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* URL : http://kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/pcmcia/pcmcia.html
* License : GPL
  Description : PCMCIA userspace utilities (Linux 2.6.13+)
  PCMCIAutils contains hotplug scripts and initialization tools
  necessary to allow the PCMCIA subsystem to behave (almost) as every
  other hotpluggable bus system. It only works 2.6.13 kernels and
  later.

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Bug#430345: RFA: maildirsync -- simple and efficient Maildir synchronisation utility

[Per Olofsson]

Package: wnpp
Severity: normal

I request an adopter for the maildirsync package. I am not using it
myself anymore, and it's quite small. Hasn't been updated by upstream
for over 2 years, but still has users according to popcon.

I will continue fixing RC bugs, but probably nothing else.

The package description is:
 maildirsync is a utility for synchronising Maildir folders between
 computers. It uses its own custom protocol for efficient
 communication, and uses ssh as its transport.

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Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.21-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash


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Bug#446028: ITP: tg3dfsg -- firmware free Broadcom Tigon3 network driver

[Per Olofsson]

Hi,

Robert Edmonds wrote:
> The only rationale for removing the *firmware* is compliance with GR
> 2006-004...

Am I missing something here? Didn't that GR fail?

http://www.debian.org/vote/2006/vote_004

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Bug#464848: RFP: xserver-xorg-video-openchrome -- Improved Xorg video driver for VIA UniChrome graphics chipsets

[Per Olofsson]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

* Package name: xserver-xorg-video-openchrome
  Version : 0.2.901
  Upstream Author : OpenChrome Project <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* URL : http://www.openchrome.org/
* License : MIT
  Programming Lang: C
  Description : Improved Xorg video driver for VIA UniChrome graphics 
chipsets

OpenChrome is based on VIA's UniChrome video driver. It seems to be
much more actively maintained than the via driver in Xorg. It also has
features such as 3D acceleration and XvMC for certain chipsets.

There is already an Ubuntu package, and I found this git repository:
http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-xorg/driver/xserver-xorg-video-openchrome.git

But it's still nice to have a wnpp bug tracking it.



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Bug#464848: RFP: xserver-xorg-video-openchrome -- Improved Xorg video driver for VIA UniChrome graphics chipsets

[Per Olofsson]

Hi,

Raphael Geissert wrote:
> I'm having troubles importing upstream's svn into the git repository, 
> once I sort that out I'll ask someone from the team to review and 
> upload the package.

Isn't it enough to import the upstream release tar.gz with git-import-orig for
now? Do you need to import upstream's SVN?

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Bug#375362: ITP: xdg-utils -- Desktop integration utilities from freedesktop.org

[Per Olofsson]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Per Olofsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

* Package name: xdg-utils
  Version : 1.0beta1
  Upstream Author : Portland Project <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* URL : http://portland.freedesktop.org/
* License : MIT
  Programming Lang: Shell
  Description : Desktop integration utilities from freedesktop.org

xdg-utils contains utilities for integrating applications with the
desktop environment, regardless of which desktop environment is used.
.
The following utilities are included:
.
 * xdg-menu - Place a menu into the users menu structure
 * xdg-mime - Gather mime information about a file
 * xdg-open - Open a URL in the user's preferred application that
  handles the respective URL or file type
 * xdg-email - Open the users preferred email client,
   potentially with subject and other info filled in
 * xdg-copy - Copy one URI to another
 * xdg-su - Run a command as a different (usually root) user
 * xdg-screensaver - Enable, disable, or suspend the screensaver


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Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-2-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

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Bug#255850: Packaging NX

[Per Olofsson]

Hi everyone,

Since the NX packaging effort seems to have been stalled, I'd like to
volunteer to get NX into Debian. Everyone is invited to help, of
course. Please let me know if you're also working on packaging NX or
if you have any objections.

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Bug#255850: [Pkg-nx-group] Packaging NX

[Per Olofsson]

Roberto C. Sanchez:
> On Sun, Sep 17, 2006 at 12:57:26PM +0200, Per Olofsson wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> > 
> > Since the NX packaging effort seems to have been stalled, I'd like to
> > volunteer to get NX into Debian. Everyone is invited to help, of
> > course. Please let me know if you're also working on packaging NX or
> > if you have any objections.
> > 
> 
> OK.  I added you to the project.  I promise I will have time Real Soon
> Now (TM) to start helping out again as well.

Great, thanks!

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Bug#255850: anything happening with this ITP?

[Per Olofsson]

Jon Dowland:
> Hello,
> 
> Just a (not-quite) annual "Is anything happening with this ITP" mail..

Nothing, ATM. I had almost forgot about this one.

I did some work which is in the SVN. There has been a new upstream
release since then.

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Bug#168456: ion-devel

[Per Olofsson]

Now there's also an ITP for ion-devel, which is the development branch
without patches.

/Pelle

Bug#173593: ITP: ion-devel -- A window manager with tiled windows (devel branch)

[Per Olofsson]

Package: wnpp
Version: unavailable; reported 2002-12-18
Severity: wishlist

* Package name: ion-devel
  Version : 0.0.20021104
  Upstream Author : Tuomo Valkonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* URL : http://www.students.tut.fi/~tuomov/ion/
* License : Clarified Artistic License
  Description : A window manager with tiled windows (devel branch)

Ion, based on PWM, is a keyboard-friendly window manager with a very
text-editorish interface and no overlapping windows.
.
This is the development branch of Ion.

Note that this is already packaged, I'm just waiting for somebody to
sponsor it. You can get the package at
.

-- System Information:
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Architecture: i386
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Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=sv_SE

Bug#173593: ITP: ion-devel -- A window manager with tiled windows (devel branch)

[Per Olofsson]

On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 03:00:17PM -0500, David I. Lehn wrote:
> 
> Would "ion-snapshot" be a better name for this package?  There seems to
> be a trend of galeon-snapshot, mozilla-snapshot, subversion-snapshot,
> etc.  A -snapshot name is also less likely to cause confusion with -dev
> named packages.  I suppose it doesn't matter too much either way...

It would if it were a snapshot, but it isn't. It is the latest release
of the development branch, and the releases use dates as version
numbers.

/Pelle

Bug#157294: ion-devel

[Per Olofsson]

Now there's also an ITP for ion-devel, which is the development branch
without patches.

/Pelle

Bug#276229: RFH: ion2, ion3 -- Keyboard-friendly window manager with tiled windows

[Per Olofsson]

Package: wnpp
Severity: normal

I currently don't have the time and energy to maintain ion2 and ion3
as well as I should, so I hereby request a co-maintainer for
them. There are no big problems with the packages as they are, but
they need to be updated to the latest upstream versions.

The package description is:
 Ion, based on PWM, is an unusual window manager with no overlapping
 windows. Windows are placed in tabbed frames which may be arbitrarily
 split to create additional frames, making keyboard navigation much
 easier. Flexible configuration is possible thanks to Lua, which is
 used as the configuration language.
 .
 There is also support for so-called "floating workspaces" where
 windows are managed the conventional way, so that you can still run
 applications which do not fit very well into Ion's window management
 approach. A pwm2 binary is included which starts Ion with floating
 workspaces as the default, thus replacing the now obsolete PWM window
 manager.

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Bug#276228: RFH: pcmcia-cs -- PCMCIA Card Services for Linux

[Per Olofsson]

Package: wnpp
Severity: normal

I currently don't have the time and energy to maintain this package
properly, so I hereby request co-maintainer(s) for it. There are
currently no RC bugs in it and I will probably fix them if they arise,
but there are other things to do like updating to the latest upstream
version (although not for sarge). The package has an Alioth project
with a Subversion repository so it should be fairly easy to cooperate,
and I will also be available to discuss things by email.

The PCMCIA support in debian-installer could also use some
improvement.

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Bug#276229: RFH: ion2, ion3 -- Keyboard-friendly window manager with tiled windows

[Per Olofsson]

Javier Linares:
> I use ion daily and I would like to help you with ion packages. I'm not DD
> but I'm in the NM queue (finishing the Task&Skill step) and I already
> maintain several packages for Debian (pal, pload and aee).

Norbert Tretkowski:
> Since I'm using ion2 and ion3, I'd like to help you with these
> packages.

Thank you for all your offers (also those who emailed me
privately). What needs to be done is, as I said, uploads of the latest
upstream versions. I don't think it's possible for more than one
person to do this, and it's obviously an advantage to be a DD or have
a sponsor (although my sponsor, Joey Hess, would probably sponsor an
upload of these packages).

The person who does this should read debian/packaging-notes.txt for
instructions, and also try to fix the two normal-severity bugs in
ion3. If anybody would like to submit patches to the other bugs then
that is of course always appreciated.

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Bug#276228: RFH: pcmcia-cs -- PCMCIA Card Services for Linux

[Per Olofsson]

Nico Golde:
> can you give me some concrete work, then i can have a look if i am able
> to do something.

See below.

Matthijs Mohlmann:
> Well i'm interested in co-maintaining the package but i'm not a debian
> developer.

Not necessary, I'm not a DD either. Somebody will have to sponsor the
uploads though, Joey Hess has been doing it for me.

> I've looked at the package and i see some improvements for the
> debian/rules file. Maybe we can go to use the debhelper programs. I'm
> using that in raidtools2 and it's working perfectly.

Yes, we should definitely use debhelper.

> There also some lintian warnings for pcmcia-cs package. That's
> something
> what i don't like ;)

As far as I remember they are not very serious. The suid-root programs
drop their privileges on startup.

> The {pre, post}install scripts needs also an improvement i think.
>
> What kind of improvements do you think about ?

I have done some improvements, including switching to debhelper, but
not uploaded them. They are now in the experimental branch of the
repository:

svn://svn.debian.org/pkg-pcmcia-cs/pcmcia-cs/branches/experimental

They need to be tested, revised and then uploaded to experimental, or
maybe sid after sarge has been released.

Other improvements that are needed:

* Update to latest upstream version
* Update the German translation (see the BTS)
* Upload binary kernel modules for the latest 2.4 kernel (see
  pcmcia-modules-i386 in SVN)
* Fix bugs reported in the BTS.
* Probably remove the dmidecode stuff for now (checks for certain
  problematic computers, but it's untested and might cause problems)
* Improve PCMCIA support in debian-installer (especially
  Cardbus). At one time I sent an untested patch to debian-boot which
  improved Cardbus handling.
* ... other things which I can't remember right now

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Bug#276229: RFH: ion2, ion3 -- Keyboard-friendly window manager with tiled windows

[Per Olofsson]

Pau Rul·lan Ferragut:
>  So your opinion is that just one should maintain it and the other resolv 
> bugs?

Well, one person should be responsible for updating to the latest
upstream version, because it's difficult for several people to
cooperate in doing that. Sending patches to the BTS is always welcome
if you want to help.

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Bug#276229: RFH: ion2, ion3 -- Keyboard-friendly window manager with tiled windows

[Per Olofsson]

Norbert Tretkowski:
> What about switching to dpatch? I took a look at the ion3 source
> package, and saw that patches against the upstream source are directly
> in the diff.gz. Having separate patches is clearer and it makes
> upgrading to a new upstream release easier.

Yes, I agree. I've been using Subversion to manage this but it is much
cleaner and easier for other people to work on the package if it's
done using dpatch. Feel free to implement this.

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Bug#298227: ITP: maildirsync -- Simple and efficient Maildir synchronisation utility

[Per Olofsson]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

URL: http://hacks.dlux.hu/maildirsync/
License: GPL/Artistic

Package: maildirsync
Description: Simple and efficient Maildir synchronisation utility
 maildirsync is a utility for synchronising Maildir folders. It uses
 its own custom protocol for efficient communication, and uses ssh as
 its transport.

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Bug#301081: ITP: mutt-ng -- Mutt next generation (mutt-ng) is a fork of the well-known email client mutt

[Per Olofsson]

Elimar Riesebieter:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Elimar Riesebieter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 
> * Package name: mutt-ng

Also note that Norbert Tretkowski has already created a mutt-ng
package, although he doesn't intend to upload it (yet). It is
available at .

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Bug#270352: gparted

[Per Olofsson]

Hi,

Are you still working on the gparted package?

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Bug#319583: ITP: pcmciautils -- PCMCIA userspace utilities (Linux 2.6.13+)

[Per Olofsson]

Marc Haber:
> On Sun, Jul 31, 2005 at 07:00:37PM +0200, Per Olofsson wrote:
> > retitle 319583 ITP: pcmciautils -- PCMCIA userspace utilities (Linux 
> > 2.6.13+)
> > thanks
> > 
> > I'm the maintainer of pcmcia-cs so I'm intending to package
> > pcmciautils.
> 
> May I ask for the status of this ITP?

I haven't done anything yet, actually. Help (maybe co-maintenance?) is
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Bug#319583: pcmciautils packaging followup

[Per Olofsson]

Colin Watson:
> Since we're about to switch to 2.6.15 as the default kernel in Ubuntu,
> we needed pcmciautils, so I did a very quick packaging job on it, which
> I'd like to move into Debian as long as I'm not stepping on anyone
> else's toes:
> 
>   http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/p/pcmciautils/
> 
> (may have moved to
> http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/p/pcmciautils/ by the time
> you read this)
> 
> However, I've done no real work on transitioning from pcmcia-cs; I
> simply left pcmcia-cs there and made sure that both pcmcia-cs and
> pcmciautils could be installed at the same time (which I think is a very
> good property to have anyway).

I too think that's a good thing.

> Further work on this would be useful. I'd be happy to co-maintain
> this with a team.

I'm not able to do my work properly right now so feel free to upload
pcmciautils to Debian.

> How much of pcmcia-cs do we actually need with pcmciautils? As I
> understand it, the mappings of device to driver have moved into the
> kernel. Is it just /etc/pcmcia/config.opts (pcmciautils ships its own,
> but we need to take care to make pcmcia-cs and pcmciautils coexist
> here)?

Yes, that file should be in a pcmcia-common package, possibly using
pcmciautils as the source package. Furthermore, we should make sure
that all driver mappings in /etc/pcmcia/config are present either in
the kernel mapping table or as aliases in /etc/modprobe.d.

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Bug#106840: What's happening with w3m-m17n?

[Per Olofsson]

Hi,

Is anything happening with this? w3m-m17n is really much better than
w3mmee, and I think it would be very nice to have it in Debian. Are
you planning to merge the patch into w3m anytime soon or would it be
better to create a separate package?

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Bug#106840: What's happening with w3m-m17n?

[Per Olofsson]

On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 21:43 +0900, Fumitoshi UKAI wrote:
> m17n patch has been merged into w3m upstream cvs trunk, so next major release
> of w3m will be w3m-m17n.

OK, great! Thanks!

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Bug#396117: ITP: cpufreq-detect -- detect CPU frequency control driver

[Per Olofsson]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Per Olofsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

* Package name: cpufreq-detect
  Version : 0.1
  Upstream Author : Per Olofsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* License : GPL
  Programming Lang: shell
  Description : detect CPU frequency control driver

 This package will attempt to detect and load the appropriate CPU
 frequency control driver for your hardware. This is useful together
 with packages such as powernowd, which can dynamically adjust the CPU
 frequency in order to save power.

You can download the package here:
http://dsv.su.se/~pelle/tmp/cpufreq-detect/

It is based on the detection code from Ubuntu's powernowd package.

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Bug#396117: ITP: cpufreq-detect -- detect CPU frequency control driver

[Per Olofsson]

Hi,

Marco d'Itri:
> On Oct 30, Michael Biebl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > Why do you want to make a separate package for such a tiny shell script?
> > The overhead is just two much.
> > I'd propose to include it into the powermgmt-base package.
> I fully agree, it's silly to create a package for a 2 KB shell script.

Chris, would you accept the cpufreq-detect script into powermgmt-base?

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Bug#396117: ITP: cpufreq-detect -- detect CPU frequency control driver

[Per Olofsson]

Michael Biebl:
> one more comment:
> 
> The shell script contains a bashism ("==") at line 95, which is not
> posix compliant. Use a simple "=" instead.

Thanks. There were many bashisms in the original script from Ubuntu,
and I apparently missed this one.

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Bug#396117: ITP: cpufreq-detect -- detect CPU frequency control driver

[Per Olofsson]

Chris Hanson:
> Probably yes, but I'd like to see it before I decide.

Attached. I will probably change a few things though, it should
probably by default try to load the module instead of merely
outputting it.

> Does this have to make it into etch?

Nope. Although it would be nice, of course.

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Description: Bourne shell script

Bug#396117: ITP: cpufreq-detect -- detect CPU frequency control driver

[Per Olofsson]

Peter Palfrader:
> How come it never outputs p4_clockmod?  I use that happily on several
> different machines.

It's disabled in Ubuntu with the following comment:

# Disabled for now - the latency tends to be bad enough to make it
# fairly pointless.
# echo "FREQDRIVER=p4-clockmod" >/etc/default/powernowd
# to override this

Maybe they're wrong?

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Bug#396183: pnpbios-tools: please include pnp tools again

[Per Olofsson]

Javier Serrano Polo:
> Hi, Per.
> 
> Sorry to insist but I'm kind of lost. Since you're finally not putting
> those tools in a new package and nobody has really requested a new
> upstream version, would it be that much trouble to include them again in
> pcmcia-cs?

Well... yes. I've uploaded pnputils now anyway so it will just have to
go through the NEW queue. I don't think it will end up in etch,
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Bug#396183: pnpbios-tools: please include pnp tools again

[Per Olofsson]

tag 396183 pending
thanks

Martin Michlmayr:
> tags 396183 - pending
> thanks
> 
> * Per Olofsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-11-24 17:34]:
> > Well... yes. I've uploaded pnputils now anyway so it will just have to
> > go through the NEW queue. I don't think it will end up in etch,
> > though.
> 
> It's not there.

Got rejected; re-uploaded without dummy package now...

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Bug#634757: [Pkg-lyx-devel] About adoption LyX

[Per Olofsson]

2013-03-17 16:00, Sven Hoexter skrev:
> 
> Even if I didn't work on LyX in the last years I'm still willing to
> sponsor uploads and help with questions about the packaging.

Me too.

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Bug#255850: help needed?

[Per Olofsson]

Bernd Zeimetz wrote:
> Heya,
> 
> as I plan to use NX please let me know if there's anything I can help
> with. Are your packages in alioth's svn?

I don't think anyone's working on them at the moment. But yes, they are
in Alioth SVN.

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