Bug#278243: ITP: libhttp-cache-transparent-perl -- cache http requests transparently

2004-10-25 Thread Kenneth Pronovici
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Package name: libhttp-cache-transparent-perl Version : 0.4 Upstream Author : Mattias Holmlund URL : http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/HTTP/ License : Perl Description : cache http requests transparently HTTP::Cac

Re: If you really want Free firmware...

2004-12-13 Thread Kenneth Pronovici
On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 07:50:02PM +, Andrew Suffield wrote: > On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 11:21:54AM -0800, Bruce Perens wrote: > > My surmise is that we'd need an effort like that, raising $250K, to > > design and go to full-custom fabrication of an FPLA with fully-open > > design. > > Mine is

Re: If you really want Free firmware...

2004-12-13 Thread Kenneth Pronovici
On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 02:26:46AM +, Andrew Suffield wrote: > On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 08:43:37AM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 07:50:02PM +, Andrew Suffield wrote: > > > On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 11:21:54AM -0800, Bruce Perens wrote: > > > > My surmise is that we'd

Re: If you really want Free firmware...

2004-12-13 Thread Kenneth Pronovici
On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 02:39:07AM +, Andrew Suffield wrote: > On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 02:13:53PM -0600, Kenneth Pronovici wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 07:50:02PM +, Andrew Suffield wrote: > > > On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 11:21:54AM -0800, Bruce Perens wrote: > >

Re: If you really want Free firmware...

2004-12-14 Thread Kenneth Pronovici
On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 11:17:24AM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > * Kenneth Pronovici > > | I think what you're forgetting (or at least ignoring) is that designing > | hardware is not exactly like designing software. The process is > | similar, yes, but it's not an ap

Re: If you really want Free firmware...

2004-12-14 Thread Kenneth Pronovici
On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 03:51:43PM +, Andrew Suffield wrote: > On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 08:57:20PM -0600, Kenneth Pronovici wrote: > > And no, I can't confirm or refute the numbers, which is why *I* didn't > > comment on whether they were realistic. You might want

Re: If you really want Free firmware...

2004-12-14 Thread Kenneth Pronovici
[Yes, replying to myself.] On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 11:05:44AM -0600, Kenneth Pronovici wrote: > On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 11:17:24AM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > > * Kenneth Pronovici > > > > | I think what you're forgetting (or at least ignoring) is that desig

Re: If you really want Free firmware...

2004-12-15 Thread Kenneth Pronovici
On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 05:00:12PM +, Andrew Suffield wrote: > On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 11:27:45AM -0600, Kenneth Pronovici wrote: > > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Hamish said, "Manufacturing an ASIC involves NRE...of hundreds of > > th

Re: If you really want Free firmware...

2004-12-15 Thread Kenneth Pronovici
On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 05:40:30PM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 05:00:12PM +, Andrew Suffield wrote: > >> > >> Ah, you misinterpreted my point in quite an impressive way. Valid > >> numbers or not, his statement was of the form "Here is how

Re: Another load of typos

2005-03-15 Thread Kenneth Pronovici
On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 05:11:39PM +1100, Paul Hampson wrote: > On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 05:32:10AM +0100, Florian Zumbiehl wrote: > > HPGL > > HTML > > HTTPS > > These three vary because the letter H is pronounced starting with either > a 'h' (haich) or an 'a' (aich). This is _probably_ a distinct

Re: NEWS.Debian abuse

2006-01-31 Thread Kenneth Pronovici
On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 07:36:37PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > Please remove the entry from NEWS.Debian and do not do this again. > Users should not care about who maintains the package. Why not? (Besides, I listed in the previous news item that the package was up for adoption, so it only seem

Re: NEWS.Debian abuse

2006-01-31 Thread Kenneth Pronovici
On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 01:15:00AM +0100, Michael Banck wrote: > On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 06:03:06PM -0600, Kenneth Pronovici wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 07:36:37PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > > > Please remove the entry from NEWS.Debian and do not do this again. >

Re: NEWS.Debian abuse

2006-01-31 Thread Kenneth Pronovici
On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 02:34:39AM +0100, Henning Makholm wrote: > Scripsit Kenneth Pronovici <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Ok, after a quick look through the existing NEWS.Debian files on my box, > > I concede that this is the way most developers use the file. > > I

Re: NEWS.Debian abuse

2006-02-01 Thread Kenneth Pronovici
On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 03:11:58AM +, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * Kenneth Pronovici <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-01-31 19:09]: > > Ok, after a quick look through the existing NEWS.Debian files on my box, > > I concede that this is the way most developers use the file. I st

Re: Ubuntu and its "appropriation" of Debian maintainers

2005-05-01 Thread Kenneth Pronovici
On Sun, May 01, 2005 at 01:48:26PM -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Sat, Apr 30, 2005 at 08:34:09PM -0500, Adam Majer wrote: > > PS. This is not a troll against Ubuntu. > > In that case, can I ask why you addressed your concerns to debian-devel, > rather than to the parties responsible for the we

Re: Ubuntu and its "appropriation" of Debian maintainers

2005-05-01 Thread Kenneth Pronovici
On Sun, May 01, 2005 at 03:00:54PM -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Sun, May 01, 2005 at 04:19:03PM -0500, Kenneth Pronovici wrote: > > > Besides that, I didn't see anyone from Ubuntu ever make a general > > announcement to Debian developers about who they should c

Re: Debian AMD64 Archive Move

2005-05-10 Thread Kenneth Pronovici
On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 01:07:30PM -0400, Ed Cogburn wrote: > On Tuesday 10 May 2005 11:19am, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > Ed Cogburn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Sunday 08 May 2005 9:27am, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > > > In fact, looking through the non-free docs section, most of that can go

Bug#315808: ITP: cedar-backup2 -- Secure backup to CD-R and CD-RW media

2005-06-26 Thread Kenneth Pronovici
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Kenneth J. Pronovici" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: cedar-backup2 Version : 2.4.2 Upstream Author : Kenneth J. Pronovici <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://cedar-solutions.com/software/cedar-backup/ * License : GPL

Re: Bug#315808: ITP: cedar-backup2 -- Secure backup to CD-R and CD-RW media

2005-06-26 Thread Kenneth Pronovici
On Sun, Jun 26, 2005 at 12:34:43PM +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > First, this sounds like an interesting piece of software, and I'm happy > to see it packaged. Thanks. > su, 2005-06-26 kello 01:51 -0500, Kenneth Pronovici kirjoitti: > > Package: wnpp > > Severity: wish

Re: Bug#315808: ITP: cedar-backup2 -- Secure backup to CD-R and CD-RW media

2005-06-26 Thread Kenneth Pronovici
On Sun, Jun 26, 2005 at 07:59:32PM +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > su, 2005-06-26 kello 11:13 -0500, Kenneth Pronovici kirjoitti: > > Perhaps you would prefer this? > > > >Description : local and remote backups to CD-R/CD-RW media > > > > It's probabl

Re: Bug#315903: ITP: evilfinder -- proves that any given subject is evil

2005-06-27 Thread Kenneth Pronovici
On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 11:27:21AM +0900, Miles Bader wrote: > Glenn Maynard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > It's a novelty joke program. If that's a "great utility" in your view, > > then I find your opinion hard to take seriously ... > > So is debian "business apps only" now? Oh come on, of co

Re: Bug#315903: ITP: evilfinder -- proves that any given subject is evil

2005-06-27 Thread Kenneth Pronovici
On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 01:37:25PM +0900, Miles Bader wrote: > Kenneth Pronovici <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Oh come on, of course not. But if you can't admit that this is a > > novelty application and not a utility, you're kidding yourself. > > For the r

Upstream requires forked Date::Manip

2003-06-29 Thread Kenneth Pronovici
The upstream maintainer of XMLTV, which I package for Debian, has temporarily forked the Perl Date::Manip module. He says: Over the past six months or so I've accumulated various bug fixes to the Date::Manip module, most of them because of xmltv bug reports sent by users. Rather than wa

Re: Upstream requires forked Date::Manip

2003-06-30 Thread Kenneth Pronovici
> The upstream maintainer of XMLTV, which I package for Debian, has > temporarily forked the Perl Date::Manip module. He says: > >Over the past six months or so I've accumulated various bug fixes to >the Date::Manip module, most of them because of xmltv bug reports >sent by users. Ra

Re: About NM and Next Release

2003-08-07 Thread Kenneth Pronovici
> Uh, no. You have 3 possible pools. > > 1: Someone likes Debian. > 2: Someone dislikes Debian. > 3: Someone hasn't formed an opinion of Debian or doesn't care about Debian. > > Do you want contributions from 2 or 3? IE, someone who dislikes it or > someone who is uninformed or ambivale

Bug#206807: ITP: pythoncard -- PythonCard GUI Framework

2003-08-22 Thread Kenneth Pronovici
Package: wnpp Version: unavailable; reported 2003-08-22 Severity: wishlist * Package name: pythoncard Version : 0.7.2 Upstream Author : PythonCard Developers * URL : http://pythoncard.sourceforge.net/ * License : BSD Description : PythonCard GUI Framework

Re: Horrific new levels of changelog abuse

2003-09-21 Thread Kenneth Pronovici
> This seems like a lot of argument over avoiding putting six more words > into the changelog file giving information that the maintainer clearly > already has (since otherwise they wouldn't know that they could close the > bug), and which is obviously useful for users. Hear, hear. You can't te

Someone to take over XMTLV packages

2005-09-27 Thread Kenneth Pronovici
Hi, I maintain the Debian XMLTV packages. I no longer use these packages, and I would like to give up maintaining them. I would normally just file an O: and be done with it, but there are a lot of XMLTV users, and I don't want to leave them completely hanging. So, I'm looking for someone to tak

Re: Someone to take over XMTLV packages

2005-09-27 Thread Kenneth Pronovici
On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 02:10:19AM +0200, Mathias Weyland wrote: > On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 06:48:39PM -0500, Kenneth Pronovici wrote: > > I maintain the Debian XMLTV packages. I no longer use these packages, > > and I would like to give up maintaining them. > > I use xmltv

Re: Someone to take over XMTLV packages

2005-09-28 Thread Kenneth Pronovici
On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 03:00:40PM +0200, Emilio Jesús Gallego Arias wrote: > Kenneth Pronovici <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hi, > > > I have to, I will also continue to host the backport APT repository, > > although I would prefer not to. > >

Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program

2005-11-03 Thread Kenneth Pronovici
On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 11:25:22AM -0800, Erast Benson wrote: > To make it happen, we need to resolve "dpkg" issue and initial boot > strapping process. Which is quite possible to re-write dpkg as CDDL > software. But to avoid duplication of work, it will be wise for Debian > community to release d

Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program

2005-11-03 Thread Kenneth Pronovici
On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 12:26:51PM -0800, Erast Benson wrote: > On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 13:55 -0600, Kenneth Pronovici wrote: > > It really seems like you jumped into this "base our system on Debian" > > thing without really understanding what Debian is about. Consider w

Re: Request: Source for parts of GNU/Solaris

2005-11-08 Thread Kenneth Pronovici
On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 11:39:20AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > I'm amazed at the level of intolerence that's greeting a pretty major > contribution to the free software community. There are, what, five major > OS/kernels for PCs/workstatsions these days -- Windows, OS X, Solaris, > BSD and Linux.

Re: Request: Source for parts of GNU/Solaris

2005-11-09 Thread Kenneth Pronovici
On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 02:53:01PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 08:55:41PM -0600, Kenneth Pronovici wrote: > > many of Erast's responses were at best antagonistic, > > and at worst showed a complete disregard for what Debian is all about. > >

Re: Request: Source for parts of GNU/Solaris

2005-11-11 Thread Kenneth Pronovici
On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 05:18:09PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 01:40:27PM -0600, Kenneth Pronovici wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 02:53:01PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > > On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 08:55:41PM -0600, Kenneth Pronovici wrote: >

Looking for Moshe Zadka

2003-10-21 Thread Kenneth Pronovici
Has anyone heard from Moshe Zadka lately, or know where I can find him? He hasn't responded to most of his currently-open bugs, and all of his bugs closed recently enough to still show up in the BTS have been closed by NMU. The developer database hasn't heard from him since June sometime. He has

Bug#276606: ITP: libsub-override-perl -- Perl module used to temporarily override subroutines

2004-10-14 Thread Kenneth Pronovici
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Package name: libsub-override-perl Version : 0.05 Upstream Author : Curtis "Ovid" Poe URL : http://cpan.org/modules/by-module/Sub/Sub-Override-0.05.tar.gz License : Perl Description : Perl module used to temporarily

Bug#140863: ITP: babygimp -- An icon editor in Perl-Tk

2002-04-01 Thread Kenneth Pronovici
Package: wnpp Version: N/A; reported 2002-04-01 Severity: wishlist * Package name: babygimp Version : 0.41 Upstream Author : Christian Lederer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://babygimp.sourceforge.net/ * License : GPL Description : An icon editor in Perl

Bug#794036: ITP: cedar-backup3 -- local and remote backups to CD/DVD media or Amazon S3 storage

2015-07-29 Thread Kenneth Pronovici
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Kenneth J. Pronovici" * Package name: cedar-backup3 Version : 3.0.0 Upstream Author : Kenneth J. Pronovici * URL : https://bitbucket.org/cedarsolutions/cedar-backup3 * License : GPL v2 Programming Lang: Python 3 Des