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-

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

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. -- Giovanni Mascellani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Pisa, Italy Web: http://giomasce.altervista.org SIP: [EMAIL PROT

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

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]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: shorewall4-perl Version : 4.0.5 Upstream Author : Tom Eastep <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.shorewall.net * License

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]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: shorewall4-shell Version : 4.0.5 Upstream Author : Tom Eastep <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.shorewall.net * License

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]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: shorewall4-lite Version : 4.0.5 Upstream Author : Tom Eastep <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.shorewall.net * License

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]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: shorewall4-doc Version : 4.0.5 Upstream Author : Tom Eastep <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.shorewall.net/ * License

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 -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~r

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 l

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.

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]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: shorewall4-common Version : 4.0.5 Upstream Author : Tom Eastep <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.shorewall.net/ * License

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

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

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: J

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 Progra

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

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: Py

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).

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