Soon-to-be orphaned packages need a caring maintainer

2006-10-04 Thread Eduardo Marcel Macan
Due to severe time constraints and interest shifts I'm putting some packages up to adoption. I considered taking a complete break from debian until things get better but I am just not able to do so. I've been a debian developer for 9 years now, that represents almost 1/3rd of my life involved with

orphaning packages: clara and vertex

2005-05-02 Thread Eduardo Marcel Macan
I intend to orphan two of my packages: clara a GPLd OCR, designed for large digitalizations of books - and vertex, a 3d OpenGL modeller. I do not use them anymore, and I've not been giving these packages the attention they deserve for a while. I am sure someone else will be able to do a much b

Re: Not every package should enter Debian (was: Re: Who cares about NEW when there are bigger issues? (was Re: Is NEW processing on hold?

2005-03-08 Thread Eduardo Marcel Macan
Maybe new versions of packages already in the archive that depend upon packages which are NEW could somehow signal or automatically raise the priority of those said packages waiting to get in. I guess it's a common case, specially for new libraries, since it can potentially hold important new f

Re: Bug#287839: ITP: mxml -- small XML parsing library

2005-01-03 Thread Eduardo Marcel Macan
Sorry, I quoted the upstream description, I have a preliminary package ready and it will be uploaded as soon as I make it clean. The upstream author provides only a static version of the library, so I'm having to check lots of things I never had to deal with in order to do it right (It seems I'l

Debian Workshop in São Paulo - Brazil

2003-10-16 Thread Eduardo Marcel Macan
For the news: :) The local Debian User Group in São Paulo is organizing a one-day Debian Workshop to happen on Oct 25. The presentations were selected by a group which reviewed the proposals collected after a Call For Papers was issued last month. The english version of the press release is incl

Bug#198082: ITP: zynaddsubfx -- realtime software synthesizer with many features

2003-06-19 Thread Eduardo Marcel Macan
Package: wnpp Version: unavailable; reported 2003-06-19 Severity: wishlist * Package name: zynaddsubfx Version : x.y.z Upstream Author : Nasca Otavian Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://zynaddsubfx.sourceforge.net * License : GPL Description : realtim

Re: ITP: Rhythm Composer TK-707 (And suggestions for sound in debian)

2001-01-04 Thread Eduardo Marcel Macan
Oooops, sorry, I forgot telling it in my ITP. It is covered by the GPL and its page is at: http://www.vislab.usyd.edu.au/staff/chris/tk707/ On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 11:19:20AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 10:04:55AM -0200, Eduardo Marcel Ma

ITP: Rhythm Composer TK-707 (And suggestions for sound in debian)

2001-01-04 Thread Eduardo Marcel Macan
Yes, I've been in a packaging mood lately :) I'd like to have Tk707 packaged. Tk707 is a software clone of the Roland TR-707 rhythm composer, a drum machine. It is written in C and Tk and it uses the alsa sequencer. I am using it together with the latest alsa modules and lib (compiled from source

Re: Using normalize from another program [was Re: ITP: normalize]

2001-01-03 Thread Eduardo Marcel Macan
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 10:59:18AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hey, this looks spiffy. I have something of a usage question though, in > regards to the 'gender' (distributed ripper/encoder) program I'm > scripting. I'd LIKE to add audio normalisation as an option, but since > ripping and enco

ITP: normalize

2001-01-03 Thread Eduardo Marcel Macan
Normalize is a nice program that adjusts volume levels of a bunch of wav files, it is very useful when you want to make audio CDs from audio recorded from multiple sources for an example. sox provides volume level adjusting , but normalize presents us with an easier to use interface, and

Is someone working on Jazz++ ?

2000-03-24 Thread Eduardo Marcel Macan
Hello, I noticed Jazz++ (www.jazzware.com) is now released under the GPL, is there anyone working on it? Unfortunately I don't have the time to do it, but I'd like to see it packaged. It is the best linux midi sequencer nowadays. Regards, -- Eduardo Marcel Maçan<[EMAI

bootpd/tftpd bug

1999-10-06 Thread Eduardo Marcel Macan
I have only noticed it on a slink machine, I ask someone who has potatoes to test it too... I am configuring one machine as a boot server in order to install Debian in a PowerPC (IBM 43P) I have here, but one strange thing is happening. bootpd gets the request and sends t

Re: Some developers still using slink?

1999-10-05 Thread Eduardo Marcel Macan
On Tue, Oct 05, 1999 at 11:00:46AM +0100, Edward Betts wrote: > Santiago Vila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > As a general rule, as long as you can run the result in potato without > > using oldlibs packages, it should be fine. [ Personal note: Most of the > > packages I maintain depend on libc6 and

Re: Funding for a Crazy Idea

1999-09-24 Thread Eduardo Marcel Macan
On Fri, Sep 24, 1999 at 01:31:58PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote: > Helen McCall wrote: > > In the meanwhile; If you are prepared to accept funding from such a > > source, there is always NATO. They fund many such things if they are > > giving good participation to what NATO calls "Sensitive Areas". > >

FreeHow to check for free space in perl?

1999-01-26 Thread Eduardo Marcel Macan
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Where does 'www-data' come from?

1999-01-19 Thread Eduardo Marcel Macan
s problem, but not THE problem with postgres. I am just wondering why it is not called just 'www'. -- Eduardo Marcel MacanCore Technologies Informatica LTDA [EMAIL PROTECTED] Suporte e Desenvolvimento Unix/Linux. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Developer

Who's root on Master?

1997-12-04 Thread Eduardo Marcel Macan
Hello, I need to have my password changed in master, who is in charge of maintaining the user accounts there? thanks, -- |\/| /\ ( /\ |\| ' +---Eduardo-Marcel-