Bug#224842: xsysinfo adoption

change it to O and mark the package orphaned. If any of my assumptions above are incorrect, please let me know; I'll hold off on doing anything until early next week. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTE

Bug#315297: Fedora Directory Server port to Debian ?

ready have OpenLDAP, having had the experience of dealing with FDS's technological predecessor. Is it just the multi-master replication that people are interested in? (Whatever the answer is, assuming there is some compelling feature not found in OpenLDAP, it should go into the package des

Bug#430140: ITP: hoard -- Fast, scalable, and efficient replacement memory allocator

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: hoard Version : 3.6.2 Upstream Author : Emery Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.hoard.org/ * License : GPL (with some docs under Apache 2.0) Prog

Bug#445866: ITP: perforce -- closed source revision control system

imes identifies packages that are really unnecessary for reasons that the prospective packager didn't realize. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#512360: RFH: openldap -- OpenLDAP server, libraries, and utilities

Package: wnpp Severity: normal The OpenLDAP packaging for Debian could use additional resources. No one on the current OpenLDAP maintenance team has very much time to work on the package, and we're having difficulty keeping up with both the bug queue and with upstream releases and fixes. Given t

Bug#512360: RFH: openldap -- OpenLDAP server, libraries, and utilities

ably run some test > instances. The versioning is always going to be hard since OpenLDAP releases so quickly, but I wonder if we could make the Debian packages more generally useful if we were active about backporting it. (Still doesn't help during release freeze, though.) -- Rus

Bug#382727: Remove gtimer

ckage any more, and no one else has had time to port it. Upstream still exists, but they haven't released a new version in many years. Accordingly, I think it's time to remove gtimer from Debian. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

Bug#457318: ITP: qmail -- a secure, reliable, efficient, simple message transfer agent

the community since djb's last release? -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#470365: [needs-packaging] mod_auth_cas

WebAuth, which is already packaged for Debian. See http://webauth.stanford.edu/ for more information, including a comparison of features (which alas doesn't include details about CASv2, since the last time I looked I couldn't find any useful documentation -- this may be better now). --

Bug#487732: Object to removing ispell without an alternative with -l

doesn't support contractions (see Bug#491638). Given that, I think keeping ispell for right now is better than the alternatives, although I'd happy use one of the alternatives if they properly supported -l. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

Bug#382727: RFA: gtimer -- GTK-based X11 task timer

Package: wnpp Severity: normal I don't actually use GTimer myself any more, so while I'm happy to continue doing basic maintenance (the package isn't very much work, although see below about oustanding bugs) and I wouldn't want to see it removed from the archive, I'm happy to hand the package over

Bug#388324: ITP: opensaml -- C++ library for Security Assertion Markup Language

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: opensaml Version : 1.1a Upstream Author : Internet2 * URL : http://shibboleth.internet2.edu/downloads/ * License : Apache 2.0 Programming Lang: C++ Description

Bug#390274: ITP: shibboleth-sp -- Shibboleth federated authorization system

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: shibboleth-sp Version : 1.3e Upstream Author : Internet2 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://shibboleth.internet2.edu/ * License : Apache 2.0 Program

Bug#304709: ITP: libafs-perl -- Perl interface to the AFS distributed filesystem

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libafs-perl Version : 2.2.3 Upstream Author : Norbert Gruener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.mpa-garching.mpg.de/kwiki/nog/afsperl/ * License : GPL

Bug#304728: ITP: webauth -- Cookie-based web authentication using Kerberos

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: webauth Version : 3.2.4 Upstream Author : WebAuth Team <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://webauthv3.stanford.edu/ * License : MIT/X Description : cook

Bug#304731: ITP: sident -- ident protocol varient with strong SASL authentication

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: sident Version : 3.3 Upstream Author : Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/software/sident/ * License : BSD (the CMU var

Bug#304745: ITP: kstart -- Kerberos kinit variant supporting ticket refreshing

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: kstart Version : 2.3 Upstream Author : Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/software/kstart/ * License : MIT/X Description

Bug#304747: ITP: remctl -- remote Kerberos-authenticated command execution

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: remctl Version : 1.7 Upstream Author : Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/software/remctl/ * License : MIT/X Description

Bug#304839: ITP: libauthen-krb5-perl -- Perl extension for Kerberos 5 API

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libauthen-krb5-perl Version : 1.4 Upstream Author : Jeff Horwitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : ftp://ftp.cpan.org/CPAN/modules/by-modules/Authen/ * License : GPL

Bug#308429: ITP: libpgp-sign-perl -- Perl module to create detached PGP signatures

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libpgp-sign-perl Version : 0.19 Upstream Author : Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/software/pgp-sign/ * License : GPL

Bug#304709: Status of libafs-perl

ill be farther along than I am and should contact me (also as co-maintainer of OpenAFS) before working further on it, but this is likely to take a while. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a su

Bug#308431: ITP: libnews-article-perl -- Perl modules for manipulating Usenet articles

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libnews-article-perl Version : 1.27 Upstream Author : Andrew Gierth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.erlenstar.demon.co.uk/perl/ * License : GPL

Bug#344626: svn2cl will probably be included in subversion-tools

I will close this bug. > Progress for including svn2cl into subversion-tools can be followed > here: > http://bugs.debian.org/350133 Ah, excellent! That's wonderful news. Thank you! -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To

Bug#350231: ITP: libsocket++ -- a family of C++ classes for Socket Operations

the above copyright notice > and this paragraph are preserved on all copies. This software is > provided "as is" with no express or implied warranty. That license doesn't appear to grant the right to distribute modified works. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

Bug#350231: ITP: libsocket++ -- a family of C++ classes for Socket Operations

James Vega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 07:52:35PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: >> James Vega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > Copyright Notice: >> > - >> > Copyright (C) 1992-1996 Gnanasekaran

Bug#357486: libfont-ttf-scripts-perl is more work than I have time

few of the scripts have much documentation, so man pages would have to be written for all of them. I'm afraid I just don't have the time to look at this right now given that I don't use the package myself. Hopefully someone else will be willing to take it. -- Russ Allbery ([

Bug#368551: ITP: xml-security-c -- C++ library for XML Digital Signatures

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: xml-security-c Version : 1.2.1 Upstream Author : The Apache Software Foundation * URL : http://xml.apache.org/security/ * License : Apache 2.0 Programming L

Bug#368551: ITP: xml-security-c -- C++ library for XML Digital Signatures

Guus Sliepen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 05:28:07PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >> * Package name: xml-security-c >> Programming Lang: C++ >> Description : C++ library for XML Digital Signatures > If it is a C++ library, please n

Bug#368551: ITP: xml-security-c -- C++ library for XML Digital Signatures

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 23 May 2006, Russ Allbery wrote: >> I'd really rather stick with the upstream name, > Why not ask upstream WHY they are misnaming the library? > libxml-security-c++ is a perfectly ok and valid name...

Bug#201390: xfonts-jmk packaged, waiting for sponsor

I have a new package of xfonts-jmk finished. Mailed debian-mentors about a sponsor. The package can be obtained from: deb http://archives.eyrie.org/debian unstable main or: Sponsorship or feedback on the package would both

Bug#329257: ITP: libstat-lsmode-perl -- Perl module to format file modes like ls -l

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libstat-lsmode-perl Version : 0.50 Upstream Author : Mark-Jason Dominus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.plover.com/~mjd/perl/lsMode/ * License : GPL

Bug#329977: RFA: libcurses-ui-perl -- A curses based OO user interface framework

Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In my crusade to lose packages, I request an adopter for the > libcurses-ui-perl package. I use this one for a personal project and am willing to take it if no one else has volunteered. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECT

Bug#340349: RFA: openldap2.2 -- OpenLDAP server (slapd)

't adopt this myself, but I'm willing to be part of a maintenance team. I think this would be a very good package to team-maintain, since as you say it's large and complex and it's also a dependency of quite a lot of software. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

Bug#340349: RFA: openldap2.2 -- OpenLDAP server (slapd)

s busy. I work with one of the OpenLDAP core team members, and I'm going to try to get him involved in the package maintenance as well. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#344626: ITP: svn2cl -- Convert Subversion logs to GNU-style ChangeLogs

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: svn2cl Version : 0.4 Upstream Author : Arthur de Jong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://ch.tudelft.nl/~arthur/svn2cl/ * License : BSD (3-clause)

Bug#345869: ITP: cdrbq -- graphical cd burning frontend

ster, the developers > decided some time ago to change the name. > The package is now in Ubuntu Dapper > http://packages.ubuntu.com/dapper/otherosfs/cdrbq It's also already in Debian. :) -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> --

Bug#1081174: O: gnubg -- graphical or console backgammon program with analysis

Package: wnpp Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: gn...@packages.debian.org, r...@debian.org Control: affects -1 + src:gnubg I intend to orphan the gnubg package. The package is in good shape, but I rarely use it and am not the best person to continue to maintain it. The package description is: GNU B

Bug#750576: ITP: debdry -- Semi-assisted automatic Debian packaging

he actual packaging file generation (and the applies its overrides). -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists

Bug#1075905: ITP: python-fraction -- Fraction carries out all the fraction operations including addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, reciprocation

uot; specifically: https://docs.python.org/3/library/fractions.html -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

Bug#561177: RFS: cobertura

thors to create a derivative work. We want to honor their license. Unless GPLv3 licensors relax this interpretation of their own license regarding linking, our licensing philosophies are fundamentally incompatible. This is an identical issue for both GPLv2 and GPLv3. This is exactl

Bug#572400: ITP: libheimdal-kadm5-perl -- Perl module to administer a Heimdal Kerberos KDC

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Russ Allbery * Package name: libheimdal-kadm5-perl Version : 0.08 Upstream Author : Leif Johansson * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Heimdal-Kadm5/ * License : BSD (3-clause) Programming Lang: Perl/C Description

Bug#666263: ITP: log4shib -- log4j-style configurable logging library for C++

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Russ Allbery This ITP probably needs some additional discussion. log4shib is a fork of log4cpp (as described in the long description below) that is the recommended logging library for the Shibboleth web authentication project. Shibboleth is already

Bug#655396: ITP: krb5-sync -- Kerberos Active Directory synchronization plugin

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Russ Allbery * Package name: krb5-sync Version : 2.2 Upstream Author : Russ Allbery * URL : http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/software/krb5-sync/ * License : MIT/X Programming Lang: C, Perl Description : Kerberos

Bug#656472: ITP: xmltooling -- low-level library to work with XML objects as regular Java beans

y you'll have to use a different source package name. Maybe xmltooling-java? -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contac

Bug#184363: weblint probably isn't worth adopting

someone's time, time that really would be better used improving other equivalent packages. In fact, weblint-perl already conflicts with and provides weblint. I think this package should instead be removed from the archive. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

Bug#592071: Pending removal of deborphan

lease which was in preparation should go into squeeze. I'm sorry that it's Wednesday and I've not yet written the message that I promised to write Sunday night about this. I've been deluged with work since I got back from DebConf and can only plead lack of time. I will

Bug#598477: ITP: opencl-headers -- OpenCL (Open Computing Language) header files

ibOpenCL.so.1 some day. The same > happened recently for libvdpau1. This probably won't work with ftp-master, since there's no current free implementation. They'll probably want them in contrib. It's fairly easy to move them to main later once a free implementation is

Bug#697869: ITP: librrd-simple-perl -- Simple interface to create and store data in RRD files

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Russ Allbery * Package name: librrd-simple-perl Version : 1.44 Upstream Author : Nicola Worthington * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/RRD-Simple/ * License : Apache 2.0 Programming Lang: Perl Description

Bug#585587: ITP: libafs-perl -- Perl interface to the AFS distributed filesystem

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Russ Allbery * Package name: libafs-perl Version : 2.6.2 Upstream Author : Norbert E Gruener * URL : http://www.mpa-garching.mpg.de/kwiki/nog/afsperl/ * License : Artistic | GPL-1+ Programming Lang: Perl, C

Bug#722626: ITP: libafs-pag-perl -- Perl bindings for AFS PAG manipulation

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Russ Allbery * Package name: libafs-pag-perl Version : 1.00 Upstream Author : Russ Allbery * URL : http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/software/afs-pag/ [1] * License : MIT Programming Lang: Perl, C Description : Perl

Bug#725753: ITP: krb5-strength -- Password strength checking for Kerberos KDCs

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Russ Allbery * Package name: krb5-strength Version : 2.0 Upstream Author : Russ Allbery * URL : http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/software/krb5-strength/ * License : Expat Programming Lang: C, Perl Description

Bug#698988: Bug#729660: ITP: xemacs21 -- highly customizable text editor

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh writes: > On Sun, 17 Nov 2013, Russ Allbery wrote: >> Yeah, I know, which is part of why I used it for an example. I looked >> at it yesterday and will probably adopt it at some point when I have >> enough free time to do a proper job on the in

Bug#733201: RFP: automake -- autogen.sh looks for automake-1.13

doing and how it's forcing automake-1.13 (and whether that's really needed or automake 1.14 would work fine). I don't think the solution is to package Automake 1.13, which we just recently managed to get rid of. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~e

Bug#733201: RFP: automake -- autogen.sh looks for automake-1.13

libraries from Automake 1.14? I suspect something went wrong with updating the alternative for aclocal. I would try a dpkg-reconfigure automake and see if that fixes it, or at least produces some interesting output. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~

Bug#776992: ITP: python-dicttoxml -- Convert a Python dict or other data type to XML

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Russ Allbery * Package name: python-dicttoxml Version : 1.5.8 Upstream Author : Ryan McGreal * URL : https://pypi.python.org/pypi/dicttoxml * License : GPL 2.0 Programming Lang: Python Description : Convert a

Bug#777089: ITP: python-moto -- Mock framework for boto AWS library

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Russ Allbery * Package name: python-moto Version : 0.4.0 Upstream Author : Steve Pulec * URL : https://github.com/spulec/moto * License : Apache 2.0 Programming Lang: Python Description : Mock framework for boto

Bug#401489: RFA: perl-tk -- Perl module providing the Tk graphics library.

#x27;s fairly widely used. I'm afraid I don't know enough about it to be of much help personally. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#706985: ITP: opensmtpd -- Simple Mail Transfer Protocol daemon

mildly prefer the latter just because it's simple, although it isn't as informative or robust against any namespace issue. Note that you will have to pass --force-badname to adduser to let you use an underscore in the name. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <

Bug#754503: ITP: libnet-duo-perl -- Perl API for Duo multifactor authentication service

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Russ Allbery * Package name: libnet-duo-perl Version : 1.00 Upstream Author : Russ Allbery * URL : http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/software/net-duo/ * License : Expat Programming Lang: Perl Description : Perl API

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

erver, but I'm quite sure that one could get more restrictive than this with some work (for example, I didn't even start on syscall filtering). PrivateUsers=true ProtectSystem=full ProtectHome=true ProtectKernelTunables=true ProtectControlGroups=true NoNewPrivileges=true ProtectKernelModules=t

Bug#885665: O: webauth - Site-wide web authentication system

Package: wnpp Severity: normal I no longer use this software and won't for the forseeable future, so I can't test or properly maintain the packaging. Note for any potential adopters: this software has also been orphaned upstream. Stanford seems uninterested in any future development or even merg

Bug#885791: O: lbcd -- return system load via UDP for remote load balancers

Package: wnpp Severity: normal I am orphaning the lbcd package. The package description is: lbcd is a daemon that answers UDP queries for system load information and returns such information as uptime, load, number of logged-in users, percentage free of /tmp and /var/tmp, and whether there is

Bug#873753: GnuPG Perl bindings in Debian [Re: Bug#873753: O: libcrypt-gpg-perl -- An Object Oriented Interface to GnuPG]

it properly. It's best ignored for the purposes of finding a good general solution in Debian. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

Bug#836330: package build failure: "No rule to make target"

ning perl Makefile.PL to regenerate the Makefile. (And that generated Makefile was generated with an older version of Perl, namely 5.20 instead of 5.24 which is the current version in Debian unstable.) -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

Bug#737362: ITP: libcrypt-pbkdf2-perl -- Perl implementation of PBKDF2 password hash algorithm

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Russ Allbery * Package name: libcrypt-pbkdf2-perl Version : 0.10 Upstream Author : Andrew Rodland * URL : http://metacpan.org/release/Crypt-PBKDF2 * License : GPL-1+ or Artistic Programming Lang: Perl

Bug#978083: ITP: docknot -- Generate package documentation from metadata

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Russ Allbery X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-de...@lists.debian.org * Package name: docknot Version : 4.0.0 Upstream Author : Russ Allbery * URL : https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/software/docknot/ * License : Expat Programming Lang

Bug#986026: ITP: libpod-thread-perl -- Convert POD to thread, an HTML macro language

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Russ Allbery X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-de...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libpod-thread-perl Version : 2.00 Upstream Author : Russ Allbery * URL : https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/software/pod-thread/ * License : MIT

Bug#923220: Bug#922965: Bug#923220: DFSG compliance concerns

Debian for working with non-free software. This sort of upstream repackager, if it itself is released under a free software license, is in general acceptable for contrib if someone is willing to sponsor it. (I haven't looked at the details of this specific package.) -- Russ Allbery

Bug#907361: O: libpam-afs-session -- PAM module to set up a PAG and obtain AFS tokens

Package: wnpp Severity: normal I intend to orphan the libpam-afs-session package. I no longer use the package and it doesn't seem likely that I will again soon, so I'm no longer a good maintainer for it. The package description is: AFS is a distributed network file system. It uses in-kernel cr

Bug#907366: O: krb5-sync -- MIT Kerberos Active Directory synchronization plugin

Package: wnpp Severity: normal I intend to orphan the krb5-sync package. I no longer use the package and it doesn't seem likely that I will again soon, so I'm no longer a good maintainer for it. The package builds two binary packages. krb5-sync-plugin's description: This plugin synchronizes pa