Bug#1109020: ITP: sphinxcontrib-youtube -- Sphinx extension that allows you to embed YouTube and Vimeo

2025-07-10 Thread Ben Hutchings
ng sites/software, shouldn't the Debian package name be "sphinxcontrib-video"? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Never attribute to conspiracy what can adequately be explained by stupidity. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#1072579: RFP: cis-tools -- CIS file tools from pcmcia-cs

2025-07-08 Thread Ben Hutchings
I uploaded this some time ago but it is still in the NEW queue. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings All the simple programs have been written, and all the good names taken signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#1105839: ITP: ovpn-dkms -- OpenVPN data channel offload (ovpn)

2025-05-18 Thread Ben Hutchings
coinstalled, OpenVPN will use the correct module. > > I expect to be able to drop both for the Forky release. But once you do that, you will not be allowed to update the version in trixie-backports. So I'm not sure that this plan is going to work. Ben. -- Ben Hutc

Bug#1105145: ITP: linux-board-support-package-rb3gen2 -- Firmware for RB3Gen2

2025-05-18 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Wed, 2025-05-14 at 01:59 -0700, Roger Shimizu wrote: > Thanks for your feedback, Ben! > > On Mon, May 12, 2025 at 8:21 PM Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > > On Mon, 2025-05-12 at 19:33 -0700, Roger Shimizu wrote: [...] > > > > > For linux-board-support-package-

Bug#1105145: ITP: linux-board-support-package-rb3gen2 -- Firmware for RB3Gen2

2025-05-12 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2025-05-12 at 19:33 -0700, Roger Shimizu wrote: > [ update Dmitry's email ] > > Dear Ben, > > Thanks for your feedback! > > On Mon, May 12, 2025 at 7:05 PM Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > > On Mon, 2025-05-12 at 01:02 -0700, Roger Shimizu wrote: > &

Bug#1105145: ITP: linux-board-support-package-rb3gen2 -- Firmware for RB3Gen2

2025-05-12 Thread Ben Hutchings
e QCS6490, which is the main > SoC on the Robotics RB3 Gen2. Is there a reason this can't go into linux-firmware.git (and then into src:firmware-nonfree) like the firmware for similar Qualcomm SoCs? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Tomorrow will be cancelled due to lack of interest. signature.a

Bug#1072579: RFP: cis-tools -- CIS file tools from pcmcia-cs

2025-05-07 Thread Ben Hutchings
Control: tag -1 patch I created a repository: https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/cis-tools and opeend a merge request to add the packaging: https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/cis-tools/-/merge_requests/1 Ben. -- Ben Hutchings It's easier to fight for one's principles than to

Bug#1082026: ITP: aider -- CLI tool for pair programming with LLMs.

2024-09-18 Thread Ben Hutchings
t message. [...] This is not pair programming. In pair programming the two programmers are supposed to discuss what they're doing and learn from each other. This is just a way to generate boilerplate with subtle bugs and possible licensing issues. See: - https://arxiv.org/pdf/2401.15232 - h

Bug#1079473: ITP: tinyalsa -- TinyALSA is a small library to interface with ALSA in the Linux kernel.

2024-08-24 Thread Ben Hutchings
q6voiced was Qualcomm's own software from AOSP but now I see that it's not. So, OK, you are right. It still seems strange for an AOSP component to be used in non-Android software. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Any smoothly functioning technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo. signature

Bug#1079473: ITP: tinyalsa -- TinyALSA is a small library to interface with ALSA in the Linux kernel.

2024-08-24 Thread Ben Hutchings
ms to me that the real aim is: * Avoid the need for copyleft libraries in AOSP Please make it clear in the package description that this package is meant to support Android software and that Linux developers should normally use alsa-lib (or higher level APIs like Pipewire). Ben. -- Ben

Bug#1078475: ITP: python-tzdata -- provider of IANA time zone data

2024-08-21 Thread Ben Hutchings
ge, that adds further to the work that has to be done in stable and LTS updates. Ben. > On 11 August 2024 8:36:00 pm UTC, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > Since this is meant to be a fallback, and you can make the Debian > > package of pendulum depend on tzdata, is python-tzdata really

Bug#1078475: ITP: python-tzdata -- provider of IANA time zone data

2024-08-11 Thread Ben Hutchings
t is a dependency needed by pendulum 3.0. Since this is meant to be a fallback, and you can make the Debian package of pendulum depend on tzdata, is python-tzdata really needed? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Who are all these weirdos? - David Bowie, on joining IRC signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#1051678: RFP: ublksrv -- Daemon and library for user-space block devices

2023-09-11 Thread Ben Hutchings
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: ublksrv Version : 1.1-rc1 Upstream Contact: Ming Lei < tom.leim...@gmail.com> * URL : https://github.com/ming1/ubdsrv * License : GPL-2, LGPL-2.1, MIT Programming Lang: C++, C Description : Support for Lin

Bug#1041643: ITP: ktls-utils -- TLS handshake utilities for in-kernel TLS consumers

2023-07-22 Thread Ben Hutchings
t. Once we have Linux 6.5 packaged, I can test and hopefully upload this package. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#1041643: ITP: ktls-utils -- TLS handshake utilities for in-kernel TLS consumers

2023-07-21 Thread Ben Hutchings
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ben Hutchings X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-de...@lists.debian.org, debian-ker...@lists.debian.org, Steve Dickson , Chuck Lever III * Package name: ktls-utils Version : 0.9 Upstream Contact: kernel-tls-handsh...@lists.linux.dev * URL

Bug#882640: ITP: dm-zoned-tools -- utilities for the dm-zoned device mapper

2022-07-16 Thread Ben Hutchings
Control: retitle -1 RFP: dm-zoned-tools -- utilities for the dm-zoned device mapper Control: noowner -1 I'm moving this back to RFP status, because this package didn't get sponsored and seems to have disappeared now. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Any sufficiently advanced bug is indisti

Bug#1014898: ITP: gcompat -- The GNU C library compatibility layer for musl

2022-07-14 Thread Ben Hutchings
ame as the glibc dynamic linker on glibc platforms; > when a binary is run that uses glibc as its dynamic linker, the stub > will run, redirecting it to use musl and automatically preloading the > gcompat library. > How would this be used in Debian, when all our ports already

Bug#1014908: ITP: gender-guesser -- Guess the gender from first name

2022-07-14 Thread Ben Hutchings
am Author : Israel Saeta Pérez > * URL : https://github.com/lead-ratings/gender-guesser > * License : GPL-3 & GFDL-1.2+ > Programming Lang: Python > Description : Guess the gender from first name [...] This is a horribly bad idea, what do you need it for?

Bug#974015: ITP: gn -- gn is a meta-build system that generates build files for Ninja

2020-11-09 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2020-11-09 at 14:41 +0800, Xialei Qin wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-de...@lists.debian.org > > * Package name: gn [...] Please consider using a longer package name, like generate-ninja. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings I'm always ama

Bug#973822: ITP: dosbox-staging -- DOSBox Staging is a full x86 CPU emulator (independent of host architecture), capable of running DOS programs that require real or protected mode.

2020-11-06 Thread Ben Hutchings
and hurt the project's prospects > for future. Oh well, thanks for asking anyway. I suggest you make the long description clearly state that this is independent of the original DOSBox project. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings To err is human; to really foul things up requires a computer. signa

Bug#973822: ITP: dosbox-staging -- DOSBox Staging is a full x86 CPU emulator (independent of host architecture), capable of running DOS programs that require real or protected mode.

2020-11-05 Thread Ben Hutchings
OSBox project, not an independent project. Are the upstream developers set on using this name or do you think they could be persuaded to use something more distinctive? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Humans are not rational beings; they are rationalising beings. signature.asc Description: This is a dig

Bug#968654: ITA: scons -- replacement for make

2020-08-23 Thread Ben Hutchings
27;ve pushed changes to fix it to a new 'buster' branch. For stretch I think it can be ignored. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it. - Donald Knuth signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#968655: ITA: scons-doc -- Documentation for SCons, a replacement for Make

2020-08-23 Thread Ben Hutchings
I haven't checked, but I strongly suspect that scons-doc does not have complete source. The scons-doc binary package should probably be built from the scons source package in future. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not t

Bug#966537: ITP: tomboy-ng -- Cross Platform Notes

2020-08-02 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2020-08-03 at 10:34 +1000, David Bannon wrote: > Ben, I am not sure if I am allowed to answer here, don't want Bart to > slap me down again. > > If I have it wrong again, very sorry, will withdraw > > > On 3/8/20 4:34 am, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > Gtk

Bug#966537: ITP: tomboy-ng -- Cross Platform Notes

2020-08-02 Thread Ben Hutchings
satisfactory using > the version of Lazarus in Buster. Bullseye is fine. In any case this will have to go into unstable first, and then (if all goes well) it can go into bullseye and maybe buster-backports. It won't be added to buster as we don't add new applications to stable

Bug#966229: ITP: protocol -- a simple command line tool for displaying standard network protocol headers

2020-07-25 Thread Ben Hutchings
r protocol or from RFC documents. >It is also helpful to generate RFC like ASCII header diagram for custom > protocol. > > - how do you plan to maintain it? >For now myself, might consider later to move it to Python application team. > -- Ben Hutchings Theory and pract

Bug#912677: ITP: oci-systemd-hook - OCI systemd hook enables users to run systemd in OCI compatible runtimes

2020-07-24 Thread Ben Hutchings
nism. Is there any plan to apply that in Debian? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings, Software Developer Codethink Ltd https://www.codethink.co.uk/ Dale House, 35 Dale Street Manchester, M1 2HF, United Kingdom

Bug#963225: ITP: prince-of-persia -- SDL port of the classic Prince of Persia game

2020-06-22 Thread Ben Hutchings
have been re-released under a vaguely free licence, and even that doesn't explicitly allow redistribution. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Hoare's Law of Large Problems: Inside every large problem is a small problem struggling to get out. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#958812: ITP: jinja-vanish -- Jinja2 environment for non-HTML auto-escaping

2020-04-25 Thread Ben Hutchings
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ben Hutchings * Package name: jinja-vanish Version : 0.2~gitXXX Upstream Author : Marc Brinkmann * URL : https://github.com/mbr/jinja-vanish * License : Expat Programming Lang: Python Description : Jinja2

Bug#953175: ITP: phoenix-firmware -- firmware necessary for boxes issued by project PHOENIX

2020-03-08 Thread Ben Hutchings
enix/ > This package provides the source and the binary formats for that firmware. > > I shall keep on maintaining packages expeyes and phoenix-firmware as > parts of my daily job (I do use this hardware to teach students). > > Source package can be found at https://salsa.debian

Bug#950832: ITP: ospd -- Open Scanner Protocol daemon (OSPd)

2020-02-07 Thread Ben Hutchings
ription. That way, the reader can tell whether it is the right kind of scanning software a few seconds earlier. :-) Ben. > This package is required for ospd-openvas, an openvas/greenbone > tool. > > I plan to maintain this package within the pkg-security team with the > other openvas/ g

Bug#947815: ITP: rust-spotify-tui -- Spotify for the terminal written in Rust

2019-12-31 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Tue, 2019-12-31 at 20:01 +, Ximin Luo wrote: > Ben Hutchings: > > On Tue, 2019-12-31 at 16:39 +, Ximin Luo wrote: > > > Ben Hutchings: > > > > On Tue, 2019-12-31 at 04:31 +, Ximin Luo wrote: > > > > > Package: wnpp > >

Bug#947815: ITP: rust-spotify-tui -- Spotify for the terminal written in Rust

2019-12-31 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Tue, 2019-12-31 at 16:39 +, Ximin Luo wrote: > Ben Hutchings: > > On Tue, 2019-12-31 at 04:31 +, Ximin Luo wrote: > > > Package: wnpp > > > Severity: wishlist > > > Owner: Ximin Luo > > > > > > * Package name: rust-spotify

Bug#947815: ITP: rust-spotify-tui -- Spotify for the terminal written in Rust

2019-12-31 Thread Ben Hutchings
7;ll need either an official Spotify client open or a lighter weight > alternative such as spotifyd. > > If you want to play tracks, Spotify requires that you have a Premium account. -- Ben Hutchings Experience is what causes a person to make new mistakes instead of old ones. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#944704: ITP: org-html-themes -- export Emacs Org mode files into awesome HTML in 2 minutes or less

2019-11-14 Thread Ben Hutchings
-html-themes > * License : GPL-3+ > Programming Lang: Org_style_markdown, HTML, CSS, js vs Debian's libjs-foos > Description : export Emacs Org mode files into awesome HTML in 2 minutes > > Org-HMTL themes is an open source framework that enables the [...] Typo

Bug#944138: ITP: libtraceevent -- The libtraceevent library provides APIs to access kernel tracepoint events

2019-11-11 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2019-11-11 at 21:37 +, Sudip Mukherjee wrote: > Hi Ben, > > On Sun, Nov 10, 2019 at 10:01 PM Ben Hutchings wrote: > > On Sun, 2019-11-10 at 21:29 +, Sudip Mukherjee wrote: > > > On Fri, Nov 08, 2019 at 07:56:55PM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > &

Bug#944138: ITP: libtraceevent -- The libtraceevent library provides APIs to access kernel tracepoint events

2019-11-10 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2019-11-10 at 21:29 +, Sudip Mukherjee wrote: > On Fri, Nov 08, 2019 at 07:56:55PM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > On Mon, 2019-11-04 at 21:44 +, Sudip Mukherjee wrote: > > [...] > > > The code for libtracevent lives in the kernel tree at > > > g

Bug#944138: ITP: libtraceevent -- The libtraceevent library provides APIs to access kernel tracepoint events

2019-11-08 Thread Ben Hutchings
kefile to make perf use the shared library. Add libtraceevent to the dependencies of linux-perf- in debian/templates/control.tools-versioned.in. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings The two most common things in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#941568: ITP: multiprocess -- better multiprocessing and multithreading in Python

2019-10-02 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Wed, 2019-10-02 at 19:14 +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Wed, Oct 02, 2019 at 04:00:49PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > On Wed, 2019-10-02 at 05:26 +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > > > Multiprocess is a fork of multiprocessing, and is developed as par

Bug#941568: ITP: multiprocess -- better multiprocessing and multithreading in Python

2019-10-02 Thread Ben Hutchings
the original multiprocessing module and this fork. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Design a system any fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#936043: ITP: gitbatch -- Manage git repositories in one place

2019-08-29 Thread Ben Hutchings
at once. > Does not need additional dependencies, only those already in archive. We already have "mr", which can do this for git and several other version control systems. Does gitbatch offer anything new? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Experience is what causes a person to make new mistak

Bug#930500: ITP: intel-undervolt -- tool for undervolting Intel CPUs

2019-06-14 Thread Ben Hutchings
working with Intel CPUs since Generation Haswell. > It can also change power and temperature limits. > Note: undervolting can cause stability issues [...] Please don't do this. It will probably cause crashes and bug reports against other packages, which waste the time of other maintain

Bug#922628: ITP: dt -- DNS tool - display information about your domain

2019-02-18 Thread Ben Hutchings
e dt begun: > > https://github.com/farrokhi/dnsdiag/issues/16 > > So I would love to see this in Debian. As usual, I would co-maintain > this in the golang team. This command name is very short, and in fact we already have a dt command (in the ditrack package). I suggest you try t

Bug#920919: ITP: xoreos-tools -- collection of tools around BioWare's Aurora engine games

2019-01-30 Thread Ben Hutchings
ink "contrib" is right. > The section itself is also not clear to me. It's all about games, > lintian tells me though that packages in the section games must > provide binaries under /usr/games/... I think reverse-engineering would fall under "devel". Ben. --

Bug#920437: ITP: displaylink -- Proprietary driver for DisplayLink devices

2019-01-25 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Fri, 2019-01-25 at 14:21 -0500, Hanno Stock wrote: > Am Fr, 25. Jan 2019, um 17:03, schrieb Ben Hutchings: > > Please consider choosing a more specific package name. Since we > > have > > free drivers for some DisplayLink devices, we should encourage > > users to &

Bug#920437: ITP: displaylink -- Proprietary driver for DisplayLink devices

2019-01-25 Thread Ben Hutchings
es > the opensource evdi kernel module for presenting a virtual graphics > device to the system. [...] Please consider choosing a more specific package name. Since we have free drivers for some DisplayLink devices, we should encourage users to use those where possible. Ben. -- Ben Hu

Bug#913880: ITP: overlay-userns -- Overlay mounting in user namespaces (DKMS)

2018-11-21 Thread Ben Hutchings
rather than packaging a fragile hack? > > thanks for the pointer. Do you think about something like the attached > patch? Would you recommend a post in debian-kernel@l.d.o about it or > better a salsa merge request? I'd prefer a merge request. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings If at fir

Bug#913880: ITP: overlay-userns -- Overlay mounting in user namespaces (DKMS)

2018-11-16 Thread Ben Hutchings
Why don't you talk to the kernel team about adding a module parameter enable this, rather than packaging a fragile hack? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings It's easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#911802: Re: Bug#911802: ITP: kovri -- C++ I2P router

2018-11-02 Thread Ben Hutchings
this new package won't go into Debian 9. Ben. > I checked the different repositories, and 1.62 looks like the latest > version. > > Thanks for your quick reply, sorry about the delay on my end. > > - oneiric > -- Ben Hutchings Any smoothly functioning technology is i

Bug#811377: closed by Dmitry Bogatov (Bug#811377: fixed in sysvinit 2.88dsf-60)

2018-10-26 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Fri, 2018-10-26 at 20:55 +, Dmitry Bogatov wrote: > [2018-10-26 13:58] Ben Hutchings > > part 1 text/plain1014 > > On Fri, 2018-10-26 at 10:39 +, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: > > > This is an automatic notification regarding your Bu

Bug#911802: ITP: kovri -- C++ I2P router

2018-10-24 Thread Ben Hutchings
s. It is recommended to use shared libraries in Debian packages where possible. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings The obvious mathematical breakthrough [to break modern encryption] would be development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers. - B

Bug#911245: ITP: libvma -- libvma is a LD_PRELOAD-able library that boosts performance

2018-10-18 Thread Ben Hutchings
> bypass and get better throughput, latency and packets/sec rate. > > No application binary change is required for that. > libvma is supported by RDMA capable devices that support "verbs" > IBV_QPT_RAW_PACKET QP for Ethernet and/or IBV_QPT_UD QP for IPoIB. > -- Ben Hutchi

Bug#906250: ITP: execline -- small and non-interactive scripting language

2018-09-02 Thread Ben Hutchings
xecline/ > [2] https://www.mail-archive.com/skaware@list.skarnet.org/msg01225.html > -- Ben Hutchings I say we take off; nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#904309: RFP: tilda -- [SHORT DESCRIPTION]

2018-07-23 Thread Ben Hutchings
P 10939)] > [New Thread 0x7fffde5e8700 (LWP 10940)] > [New Thread 0x7fffddde7700 (LWP 10941)] > [New Thread 0x7fffdd5e6700 (LWP 10942)] > [New Thread 0x7fffdcde5700 (LWP 10943)] > > Thread 1 "tilda" received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. > 0x75ea4339

Bug#904019: ITP: libxcrypt -- Extended crypt library for DES, MD5, Blowfish and others

2018-07-20 Thread Ben Hutchings
/lib/$DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH/libxcrypto/libcrypt.so.*; do dst=/lib/$DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH/$(basename $src) dpkg-divert --package libxcrypt1 --remove --divert $dst $dst.glibc mv $dst.glibc $dst done Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Anthony's Law of Force: Don't force it, get a larger hammer. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#884641: ITP: lwip -- small implementation of the TCP/IP protocol suite

2017-12-19 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Tue, 2017-12-19 at 12:11 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Ben Hutchings, on mar. 19 déc. 2017 03:37:03 +, wrote: > > On Mon, 2017-12-18 at 01:44 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > > Ben Hutchings, on lun. 18 déc. 2017 00:37:48 +, wrote: > > > > On Mon, 201

Bug#884641: ITP: lwip -- small implementation of the TCP/IP protocol suite

2017-12-18 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2017-12-18 at 01:44 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Ben Hutchings, on lun. 18 déc. 2017 00:37:48 +, wrote: > > On Mon, 2017-12-18 at 00:12 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > > It can be used as a maintained user-land TCP/IP stack. > > > > Why would thi

Bug#884641: ITP: lwip -- small implementation of the TCP/IP protocol suite

2017-12-17 Thread Ben Hutchings
se > in embedded systems with tens of kilobytes of free RAM and room for > around 40 kilobytes of code ROM. > > It can be used as a maintained user-land TCP/IP stack. Why would this be useful for Debian systems, which already have a much better performing TCP/IP stack? (At least Linux a

Bug#882640: RFP: dm-zoned-tools -- utilities for the dm-zoned device mapper

2017-11-24 Thread Ben Hutchings
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: dm-zoned-tools Version : 1.0.0 (?) Upstream Author : Western Digital * URL : https://github.com/hgst/dm-zoned-tools * License : GPL-3 Programming Lang: C Description : Utilities for the dm-zoned device map

Bug#881513: O: rfkill -- tool for enabling and disabling wireless devices

2017-11-17 Thread Ben Hutchings
Control: retitle -1 ITA: rfkill -- tool for enabling and disabling wireless devices Control: owner -1 ! I think I can adopt this, possibly under the umbrella of the kernel team. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Teamwork is essential - it allows you to blame someone else. signature.asc Description

Bug#881513: O: rfkill -- tool for enabling and disabling wireless devices

2017-11-17 Thread Ben Hutchings
retitle -1 ITA: rfkill -- tool for enabling and disabling wireless devices owner -1 ! I think I can adopt this, possibly under the umbrella of the kernel team. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Teamwork is essential - it allows you to blame someone else. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally

Bug#879714: ITP: libusbauth-configparser1 -- Library for USB Firewall including flex/bison parser

2017-10-26 Thread Ben Hutchings
ebian unstable. You titled this as an ITP (Intent To Package) but this sentence makes it sound like an RFP (Request For Package). Which is it? Ben. > See also: openSUSE package request > (https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/533512) > -- Ben Hutchings The most exhausting thing in life

Bug#874339: ITP: rpy2-2.8 -- Python interface to the GNU R language and environment

2017-09-05 Thread Ben Hutchings
ebian. Since sagemath depends > on rpy2 while using Python 2, this package reintroduces the Python 2 version > of > Rpy2, based on the 2.8 series. We're aiming to remove Python 2 from Debian, so it doesn't make sense to introduce another reverse dependency on it. sagemath should

Bug#872795: ITP: adv-17v35x-dkms -- DKMS source for Advantech PCIe Multiport device driver

2017-08-21 Thread Ben Hutchings
ltiport Advantech > boards. Driver sources are taken from support.advantech.com (search for > "Linux Driver for ACOM"). > > This package is aimed to provide DKMS sources for the driver. These devices ought to be supported by the in-tree 8250_exar driver, though it doesn'

Bug#862698: ITP: minecraft -- blocks to build anything you can imagine

2017-05-15 Thread Ben Hutchings
n either case I think the package needs to be changed to avoid trademark infringement. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Humour is the best antidote to reality. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#862311: ITP: hfi1-firmware -- non-free firmware for Intel Omni-Path hfi1 fabric interface

2017-05-11 Thread Ben Hutchings
hese are already part of linux-firmware.git so they could (and I think should) be packaged through firmware-nonfree, not in a separate source package. Despite the freeze, it's still OK to add new hardware support and so you could get this firmware into stretch. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings I say w

Bug#855074: RFP: installer -- [SHORT DESCRIPTION]

2017-02-13 Thread Ben Hutchings
only one installer, with these two different interface modes. So it's hard to imagine why the behaviour of the installed system would differ. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings For every complex problem there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#854606: ITP: libnfc-nci -- NFC stack for NCI based NFC Controllers by NXP

2017-02-08 Thread Ben Hutchings
h anything else packaged in Debian. [...] > However this library can be used with devices and nfc addon boards by other > vendors providing they feature a supported nfc chip. > Such it could benefit a much broader audience than just SR customers. [...] Really? The documentation says i

Bug#854181: RFH: busybox -- Tiny utilities for small and embedded systems

2017-02-04 Thread Ben Hutchings
#x27;s used by initramfs-tools (by default). Ben. -- Ben Hutchings A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular. - Adlai Stevenson signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#850222: ITP: node-plur -- Pluralize a word

2017-01-05 Thread Ben Hutchings
resorhus.com) > > * URL : https://github.com/sindresorhus/plur > * License : Expat >   Programming Lang: JavaScript >   Description : Pluralize a word (as long as it's English) Ben. -- Ben Hutchings In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to

Bug#850220: ITP: node-get-port -- Get an available port

2017-01-05 Thread Ben Hutchings
eturns the port that was used. But the port could immediately be allocated by another process, before the caller tries to use it. If I understood correctly, this should not be packaged and whatever depends on it should be fixed to avoid the race condition. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings In a hierarchy,

Bug#849338: ITP: hxtools -- Collection of tools and scripts

2016-12-26 Thread Ben Hutchings
...] util-linux already has unshare(1), but if newns does something extra then maybe unshare should be extended. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Humour is the best antidote to reality. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#849338: ITP: hxtools -- Collection of tools and scripts

2016-12-26 Thread Ben Hutchings
ibpam-mount package (currently patched in). > > > > What exactly of hxtools is used in libpam-mount? > > ofl and fd0ssh (packaged in /usr/bin/pmt-*). > > > * Ben Hutchings [2016-12-25 23:00]: > > These look mostly very esoteric; could you consider packaging jus

Bug#849338: ITP: hxtools -- Collection of tools and scripts

2016-12-25 Thread Ben Hutchings
s for wxWidgets [...] >   * rpmdep.pl(1) - read RPM dependencies and output a graph [...] Extensions like .pl in command names are forbidden by policy. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings I say we take off; nuke the site from orbit.  It's the only way to be sure. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#845488: ITP: linux-firmware-raspi3 -- Raspberry Pi 3 GPU firmware and bootloaders

2016-12-15 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2016-11-27 at 22:31 +0100, Michael Stapelberg wrote: > Given that the package has cleared the NEW queue by now, I’ve just done the > rename and uploaded the new package. Will file a request for removal for > the old one once the new one is in. Thanks. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings It

Bug#846366: ITP: bcc -- Command line tools for BPF Compiler Collection (BCC)

2016-11-30 Thread Ben Hutchings
bcc. [...] Please don't do this. When the same name is used for a binary package and for a source package that doesn't build that binary, it tends to result in mis-assigned bugs as BTS users don't consistently specify which they mean. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings A free society

Bug#845488: ITP: linux-firmware-raspi3 -- Raspberry Pi 3 GPU firmware and bootloaders

2016-11-24 Thread Ben Hutchings
e Raspberry Pi 3. The package is based on the linux-firmware-raspi2 > package from Ubuntu. > -- Ben Hutchings [W]e found...that it wasn't as easy to get programs right as we had thought. ... I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent in finding mistakes in

Bug#841113: ITP: extremetools -- tools for running processes under extreme uid and gid

2016-10-17 Thread Ben Hutchings
introduce this program into Debian in its current shape. Ben. --  Ben Hutchings The two most common things in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#841113: ITP: extremetools -- tools for running processes under extreme uid and gid

2016-10-17 Thread Ben Hutchings
Jan Mojzis  wrote: [...] > I'm going to maintain the package using collab-maint. > I need sponsor. > > Debian package: >  - has autotest >  - is using debhelper >  - is using git-dpm https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/extr emetools.git >  - lintian clean (no warnings) However, the code:

Bug#839210: Re: Bug#839210: ITP: bash-unit -- bash unit testing enterprise edition framework for professionals

2016-10-03 Thread Ben Hutchings
hat would leed to the following description : > Description : bash unit testing framework [...] Yes, that is more appropriate. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Horngren's Observation:    Among economists, the real world is often a special case. signature.asc Description: Th

Bug#839279: ITP: gocryptfs -- Encrypted overlay filesystem written in Go

2016-10-01 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sat, 2016-10-01 at 09:03 -0400, David Steele wrote: > On Sat, Oct 1, 2016 at 7:58 AM, Ben Hutchings > wrote: > > > > On Sat, 2016-10-01 at 02:35 +, David Steele wrote: > > > > > > Package: wnpp > > > Severity: wishlist > > > >

Bug#839279: ITP: gocryptfs -- Encrypted overlay filesystem written in Go

2016-10-01 Thread Ben Hutchings
t/gocryptfs/security/) design document. [...] What benefits does it provide over ecryptfs, which is already supported in Debian? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Klipstein's 4th Law of Prototyping and Production: A fail-safe circuit will destroy others. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#839210: ITP: bash-unit -- bash unit testing enterprise edition framework for professionals

2016-09-30 Thread Ben Hutchings
/pgrange/bash-unit > * License : GPL >   Programming Lang: Bash >   Description : bash unit testing enterprise edition framework for > professionals [...] Please leave vague marketing terms ('enterprise', 'for professionals') out of the package description.

Bug#832451: ITP: aufs4 -- advanced multi layered unification filesystem version 4.x

2016-07-25 Thread Ben Hutchings
; > I need a sponsor for the package. > > We have already overlayfs in modern kernels. Could you explain why we > need aufs4 as well? I believe aufs stil has these advantages over overlayfs: - Can be exported via NFS - White-outs share an inode rather than requiring an inode each -

Bug#829257: RFP: ndctl -- NVDIMM management utility

2016-07-01 Thread Ben Hutchings
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: ndctl Version : 53.1 Upstream Author : Dan Williams * URL : https://github.com/pmem/ndctl * License : LGPL 2.1 Programming Lang: C Description : NVDIMM management utility ndctl is a utility for managing

Bug#825785: ITP: tab -- Typesetter for lute tablature

2016-05-29 Thread Ben Hutchings
and the binary is called "tab". > > Would you still suggest the "lute" prefix? I would - 'tab' is a very generic name and is also used to refer to other kinds of tablature notation, a control character, a user interface element, etc. Ben. -- Ben

Bug#825785: ITP: tab -- Typesetter for lute tablature

2016-05-29 Thread Ben Hutchings
ian notation. You edit a > plain text file with special commands to enter the lute tablature, > then you run tab to convert that input into PostScript output that > you can print or display with the right program. > > > Regards, > -- Ben Hutchings Editing code like this is ak

Bug#702255: efitools: changing back from ITP to RFP

2016-04-18 Thread Ben Hutchings
ork again on this ITP. >  > I've uploaded the sbsigntool package to NEW (See #702254), which is > required to build efitools. If/when sbsigntool is accepted, upload for > efitools will follow. Go on then! Ben.   -- Ben Hutchings Usenet is essentially a HUGE group of people passing not

Bug#820614: ITP: vuls -- package inventory scanner for CVE vulnerabilities

2016-04-10 Thread Ben Hutchings
ing to > their CVE (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures) indentifiers. The backends > supports a couple of OSs (Debian, RHEL, CentOS, Amazon Linux). Scanning > servers > over the network is possible. [...] Presumably this uses the secure-testing data for Debian? Ben. -- Ben Hutchi

Bug#820052: RFP: uefi-shim -- UEFI shim boot loader to support Secure Boot

2016-04-04 Thread Ben Hutchings
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: uefi-shim Version : 0.9 Upstream Author : Red Hat, Inc * URL : https://github.com/rhinstaller/shim * License : OpenSSL license (I think) Programming Lang: C Description : UEFI shim boot loader to support S

Bug#820050: RFP: grub2-signed -- Signed versions of GRUB for UEFI Secure Boot

2016-04-04 Thread Ben Hutchings
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: grub2-signed Version : 1.65 Upstream Author : Colin Watson * URL : https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2-signed * License : GPL-3+ Programming Lang: Python Description : Signed versions of GRUB for U

Bug#820006: ITP: linux-signed -- Signatures for Linux kernel and modules

2016-04-04 Thread Ben Hutchings
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ben Hutchings * Package name: linux-signed Version : 1 Upstream Author : Ben Hutchings * URL : https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/kernel/linux-signed.git/ * License : GPL-2+ Programming Lang: Python Description

Bug#811377: Adopting Sysvinit

2016-03-01 Thread Ben Hutchings
upload permission?  I am in the Debian > maintainer database with key 8E192076 and fingerprint: > >   C3A5 0484 0B67 8260 DA12  766A D25D 611C 8E19 2076 I'm not a maintainer for sysvinit, so I leave the decision to the previous maintainers. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings - Debian develo

Bug#812533: ITP: plugn -- hook system for shell programs

2016-01-24 Thread Ben Hutchings
any hook scripts by that name. > > plugn provides a mechanism for arguments broadcasting, > it could accept streams and pass them through each plugin > as well. What does this do that run-parts can't? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Time is nature's way of making sure that everyth

Bug#812373: ITP: odhcp6c -- IPv6 DHCP and RA client from OpenWRT

2016-01-22 Thread Ben Hutchings
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ben Hutchings * Package name: odhcp6c Version : 1.1 Upstream Author : Steven Barth * URL : https://github.com/sbyx/odhcp6c * License : GPLv2 Programming Lang: C Description : IPv6 DHCP and RA client from OpenWRT

Bug#811377: RFA: sysvinit -- System-V-like init utilities - transitional package

2016-01-19 Thread Ben Hutchings
An additional point from Petter Reinholdtsen: 09:39 < pere> bwh: note, the insserv and startpar packages are part of the    sysvinit group of packages, and should probably be handled by the    same group of people. --  Ben Hutchings Horngren's

Bug#811377: RFA: sysvinit -- System-V-like init utilities - transitional package

2016-01-18 Thread Ben Hutchings
Package: wnpp Severity: normal I request an adopter for the sysvinit package. Although it is team-maintained, I have found that none of the listed uploaders are still active: - Petter Reinholdtsen says he has retired from maintenance - Henrique de Moraes Holschuh has not committed for over 6 yea

Bug#605090: [RFC] Proposal for a new linux-grsec source package

2015-12-19 Thread Ben Hutchings
pms+0x8e/0x90 [drm_kms_helper]() [...] > Lots of things like that in my kernel log... Almost certainly an upstream bug.  See <https://wiki.freedesktop.org/nouveau/Bugs/> for bug reporting. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Always try to do things in chronological order; it's less confusing that way. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#808373: ITP: libwaive -- Allow processes to waive their rights

2015-12-19 Thread Ben Hutchings
block the new execveat() system call.  At any time, Linux may be extended with new variants of old system calls, and those new unknown system calls need to be blocked as well. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Always try to do things in chronological order; it's less confusing that way. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#806516: ITP: booleanoperations -- Boolean operations on paths

2015-11-28 Thread Ben Hutchings
ption : Boolean operations on paths > >  Boolean operations on paths based on a super fast polygon clipper > library. > -- Ben Hutchings Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat. - John Lehman, Secretary of the US Navy 1981-1987 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

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