Bug#323855: ITP: opencvs -- OpenBSD CVS implementation with special emphasis in security

2005-08-20 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 07:31:38PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: >> > > most popular open source revision control software. >> > >> > And among the most horrible ones. >> > >> Agreed. Why anyone would bother to reimplement an alrea

Bug#323855: ITP: opencvs -- OpenBSD CVS implementation withspecial emphasis in security

2005-08-22 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Gunnar Wolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thomas Bushnell BSG dijo [Sat, Aug 20, 2005 at 02:20:45PM -0700]: >> > For several reasons, one being that the BSD folks use CVS extensively, it's >> > part of how the ports system (and upgrades) work. >> >>

Bug#147303: ITP: winex -- A DESCRIPTION

2002-05-22 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Joe Drew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'd like to register my objection to this package being installed, even > in non-free. As a Transgaming subscriber and supporter of their work, I > don't want to see Transgaming's work be diluted, and I imagine that many > people feel similarly. I urge the pr

Bug#147303: ITP: winex -- A DESCRIPTION

2002-05-22 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Joe Drew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yes, I agree. But I also said "I urge the prospective maintainer to > reconsider." because I recognise that it's totally up to the prospective > maintainer. I personally don't wish it to be included, but can't do a > whole lot if the maintainer sees different

Bug#147303: ITP: winex -- A DESCRIPTION

2002-05-28 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Marc Leeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 6. Will it be in debian? > As things are now, no... > Distributing it would only be temporary (most likely, it would be > cut off before it even reaches unstable). Since Transgaming is essentially lying about the license, would it not be at least valuable

Bug#147303: ITP: winex -- A DESCRIPTION

2002-06-03 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Ove Kaaven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > But in the role of a transgaming affiliate, I'd prefer that you > don't if you want them to have an income; they're not "lying", the > license do allow you to make packages, but that permission is meant > to allow "fair use" (you can make packages for yours

Bug#147303: ITP: winex -- A DESCRIPTION

2002-06-03 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Ove Kaaven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 3 Jun 2002, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > > > If they simply change the license now to reflect their true > > intentions, then that would be fine. > > There was a change in the license preamble in the WineX CVS about

Bug#151036: r5rs-doc: srfi's should be in a package too

2002-07-01 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Chris Hanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I agree. But I don't think they should be part of the r5rs-doc > package. And I'm not over-keen to maintain the package, as I already > maintain a lot of packages. I was hoping that the r5rs-doc maintainer would be a good person to maintain the package

Bug#464952: ITP: wb -- disk-based associative array library for C, SCM, Java, and C#

2008-02-09 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist "WB" is a disk based (sorted) associative-array package with C, SCM, Java, and C# libraries. These associative arrays consist of variable length (0.B to 255.B) keys and values. Functions are provided to: * create, destroy, open and close disk-files and asso

Bug#156287: Advice on Drip (ITP #156287)

2003-07-30 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This is an arbitrary distinction that has no clear basis in the law. > You are also circumventing CSS by playing the DVD in question (viewing > is also a form of "access"). Remember that CSS is a standard developed > by a consortium of DVD *player manu

Bug#156287: Advice on Drip (ITP #156287)

2003-07-31 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 09:09:10AM -0700, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > > Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > This is an arbitrary distinction that has no clear basis in the law. > > > You

Bug#156287: Advice on Drip (ITP #156287)

2003-07-31 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian T. Sniffen) writes: > DMCA 1201(a)(1)(A): No person shall circumvent a technological > measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under > this title. The prohibition contained in the preceding sentence shall > take effect at the end of the 2-year period

Bug#385417: RFA: gwrapguile -- g-wrap: Tool for exporting C libraries into Scheme interpreters

2006-08-31 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Package: wnpp Severity: normal This is the old version of the g-wrap library, replaced by the Debian g-wrap package. There may be programs which still use it, so I'm not asking for its deletion outright. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Bug#122929: wpoison, is it okay?

2001-12-16 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This license fails DFSG 3 and I would recommend to the author that he > use the right tool for the job. If he wants trademark protection in the > Wpoison logo, he should apply for it. Of course, any party that > attempts to use laws other than copyr

Bug#122929: wpoison, is it okay?

2001-12-16 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
"Sunnanvind" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Re-read. It says "image should be inside the hyperlink", not the other > way around. You're right, but it still seems to prohibit any kind of distribution which is not by hyperlinks that include their logo. That's not trademark protection, it's rather

Bug#122929: wpoison, is it okay?

2001-12-16 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 20011215T235408-0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > > (The canonical example here is TeX > > which has such a restriction.) > > TeX is already a special case as it really does not have a clear > license, but ev

Bug#122929: wpoison, is it okay?

2001-12-16 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 20011216T112830-0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > > Um, no, TeX has a perfectly clear license. > > Would you please give a reference to it? >From tex.web: % This program is copyright (C) 1982 by D. E. Knuth;

Bug#122929: wpoison, is it okay?

2001-12-16 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
"Sunnanvind" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My own interpretation is that it can be distributed in the non-free > archive. It fails DFSG 3 by not allowing removal of the hyperlink; but as > long as the hyperlink is there, I don't see any problem for non-free. The non-free archive contains hyperl

Bug#122929: wpoison, is it okay?

2001-12-16 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
"Sunnanvind" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The license require no such thing. > What it does require is that the image is displayed, hyperlinked (i.e. > placed within hyperlink tags) to the specific page. Where are you proposing we place that hyperlink?

Bug#68096: Adoption

2001-12-29 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
I hereby intend to adopt the xpuzzles package.

Bug#71915: ITA: mgdiff

2002-01-03 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Hi Ian, Do you still intend to adopt this package? If yes, please upload a package; If no, please change this WNPP bug back to O:. Thanks, Thomas

Bug#68134: ITA: auto-pgp

2002-01-03 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Hi JAson, Do you still intend to adopt this package? If yes, please upload a package; If no, please change this WNPP bug back to RFA:. Thanks, Thomas

Bug#68637: ITA: vchkpw

2002-01-03 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Hi Martin, Do you still intend to adopt this package? If yes, please upload a package; If no, please change this WNPP bug back to O:. Thanks, Thomas

Bug#71676: ITA: swi-prolog

2002-01-03 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Hi sebastian, Do you still intend to adopt this package? If yes, please upload a package; If no, please change this WNPP bug back to O:. Thanks, Thomas

Bug#68639: ITA: fastforward

2002-01-03 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Hi Martin, Do you still intend to adopt this package? If yes, please upload a package; If no, please change this WNPP bug back to O:. Thanks, Thomas

Bug#76207: ITA: libv1.25

2002-01-03 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Hi Mark, Do you still intend to adopt this package? If yes, please upload a package; If no, please change this WNPP bug back to RFA:. Thanks, Thomas

Bug#88221: ITA cvs2html

2002-01-03 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Hi Bas, Do you still intend to adopt this package? If yes, please upload a package; If no, please change this WNPP bug back to RFA. Thanks, Thomas

Bug#87150: ITA: cccd

2002-01-03 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Hi Mark, Do you still intend to adopt this package? If yes, please upload a package; If no, please change this WNPP bug back to O:. Thanks, Thomas

Bug#77740: ITA: vchkpw

2002-01-03 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Hi Sean, Do you still intend to adopt this package? If yes, please upload a package; If no, please change this WNPP bug back to O:. Thanks, Thomas

Bug#82446: ITA: xcolorsel

2002-01-03 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Hi Ian, Do you still intend to adopt this package? If yes, please upload a package; If no, please change this WNPP bug back to O:. Thanks, Thomas

Bug#86242: ITA: upsd

2002-01-03 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Hi Sean, Do you still intend to adopt this package? If yes, please upload a package; If no, please change this WNPP bug back to RFA:. Thanks, Thomas

Bug#93561: ITA bf-utf

2002-01-03 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Hi Nicolas, Do you still intend to adopt this package? If yes, please upload a package; If no, please change this WNPP bug back to RFA:. Thanks, Thomas

Bug#93864: ITA metrics

2002-01-03 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Hi Greg, Do you still intend to adopt this package? If yes, please upload a package; If no, please change this WNPP bug back to O:. Thanks, Thomas

Bug#92800: ITA treetool

2002-01-03 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Hi Guenter, Do you still intend to adopt this package? If yes, please upload a package; If no, please change this WNPP bug back to O:. Thanks, Thomas

Bug#91943: ITA asclock-gtk

2002-01-03 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Hi Miquel, Do you still intend to adopt this package? If yes, please upload a package; If no, please change this WNPP bug back to O:. Thanks, Thomas

Bug#90361: ITA dialdcost

2002-01-03 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Hi Mark, Do you still intend to adopt this package? If yes, please upload a package; If no, please change this WNPP bug back to O:. Thanks, Thomas

Bug#90313: ITA tya

2002-01-03 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Hi Mark, Do you still intend to adopt this package? If yes, please upload a package; If no, please change this WNPP bug back to RFA:. Thanks, Thomas

Bug#89332: ITA libax25

2002-01-03 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Hi Patrick, Do you still intend to adopt this package? If yes, please upload a package; If no, please change this WNPP bug back to RFA:. Thanks, Thomas

Bug#90924: ITA wmf

2002-01-03 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Hi Igor, Do you still intend to adopt this package? If yes, please upload a package; If no, please change this WNPP bug back to O:. Thanks, Thomas

Bug#90312: ITA sted

2002-01-03 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Hi Dafydd, Do you still intend to adopt this package? If yes, please upload a package; If no, please change this WNPP bug back to RFA:. Thanks, Thomas

Bug#93965: ITA barracuda

2002-01-03 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Hi Martin, Do you still intend to adopt this package? If yes, please upload a package; If no, please change this WNPP bug back to O:. Thanks, Thomas

Bug#71676: ITA: swi-prolog

2002-01-03 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Sebastian Schaffert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 01:59:36PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > > > > > > Hi sebastian, > > > > Do you still intend to adopt this package? > > > > If yes, please upload a packag

Bug#106271: ITA cursel

2002-01-03 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Hi Bao, Do you still intend to adopt this package? If yes, please upload a package; If no, please change this WNPP bug back to O:. Thanks, Thomas

Bug#103406: ITA gap

2002-01-03 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Hi Ian, Do you still intend to adopt this package? If yes, please upload a package; If no, please change this WNPP bug back to O:. Thanks, Thomas

Bug#100259: ITA saydate

2002-01-03 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Hi Ian, Do you still intend to adopt this package? If yes, please upload a package; If no, please change this WNPP bug back to O:. Thanks, Thomas

Bug#100221: ITA fastlink

2002-01-03 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Hi, Do you still intend to adopt this package? If yes, please upload a package; If no, please change this WNPP bug back to O:. Thanks, Thomas

Bug#100252: ITA powershell

2002-01-03 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Hi Michael, Do you still intend to adopt this package? If yes, please upload a package; If no, please change this WNPP bug back to O:. Thanks, Thomas

Bug#100230: ITA grunch

2002-01-03 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Hi Jim, Do you still intend to adopt this package? If yes, please upload a package; If no, please change this WNPP bug back to O:. Thanks, Thomas

Bug#108346: ITA cost

2002-01-03 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Hi Ian, Do you still intend to adopt this package? If yes, please upload a package; If no, please change this WNPP bug back to O. Thanks, Thomas

Bug#107817: ITA tkps

2002-01-03 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Hi Rich, Do you still intend to adopt this package? If yes, please upload a package; If no, please change this WNPP bug back to O. Thanks, Thomas

Bug#106272: ITA ipmenu

2002-01-03 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Hi Bao, Do you still intend to adopt this package? If yes, please upload a package; If no, please change this WNPP bug back to O:. Thanks, Thomas

Bug#107814: ITA lpe

2002-01-03 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Hi Adam, Do you still intend to adopt this package? If yes, please upload a package; If no, please change this WNPP bug back to RFA. Thanks, Thomas

Bug#110669: ITA saytime

2002-01-03 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Hi Ian, Do you still intend to adopt this package? If yes, please upload a package; If no, please change this WNPP bug back to O:. Thanks, Thomas

Bug#112558: ITA lockdev

2002-01-03 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Hi Ole, Do you still intend to adopt this package? If yes, please upload a package; If no, please change this WNPP bug back to O. Thanks, Thomas

Bug#111658: ITA knapster2

2002-01-03 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Hi Jason, Do you still intend to adopt this package? If yes, please upload a package; If no, please change this WNPP bug back to RFA:. Thanks, Thomas

Bug#109254: ITA mpg123

2002-01-03 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Hi Make, Do you still intend to adopt this package? If yes, please upload a package; If no, please change this WNPP bug back to O. Daniel Kobras expressed an interest in maintaining the package also, so if you decide you don't want to adopt it, you might want to send him a note. ([EMAIL PROTEC

Bug#117947: ITA libgtrans-mysql-3-23

2002-01-03 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Hi Jan-Hendrik, Do you still intend to adopt this package? If yes, please upload a package; If no, please change this WNPP bug back to RFA. Thanks, Thomas

Bug#117932: ITA libgtrans-postgresql-6-5-3

2002-01-03 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Hi JAn-Hendrik, Do you still intend to adopt this package? If yes, please upload a package; If no, please change this WNPP bug back to RFA. Thanks, Thomas

Bug#116551: ITA kyahoo

2002-01-03 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Hi Jacob, Do you still intend to adopt this package? If yes, please upload a package; If no, please change this WNPP bug back to O. Thanks, Thomas

Bug#117922: ITA libgtrans-ifase0

2002-01-03 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Hi Jan-Hendrik, Do you still intend to adopt this package? If yes, please upload a package; If no, please change this WNPP bug back to RFA. Thanks, Thomas

Bug#119085: ITA fortune-mod

2002-01-03 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Hi Mark, Do you still intend to adopt this package? If yes, please upload a package; If no, please change this WNPP bug back to RFA. Thanks, Thomas

Bug#89332: ITA libax25

2002-01-03 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Patrick Ouellette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I adopted the package and uploaded version 0.0.9-1 some time ago. > Not sure why the WNPP bug didn't close. I'll close it now via > email. Great!

Bug#93864: ["Greg Wiley" ] Re: ITA metrics

2002-01-03 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
--- Begin Message --- Hi Thomas- OK, I will get it uploaded. I have been writing replacements for the parts of the package that are not free. I assume that I should not include the non-free programs in the interim package. -=greg - Original Message - From: "Thomas Bushnell

Bug#109254: [Mako Hill ] Re: ITA mpg123

2002-01-05 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
--- Begin Message --- > Do you still intend to adopt this package? > > If yes, please upload a package; >> If no, please change this WNPP bug back to O. > Daniel Kobras expressed an interest in maintaining the package also, > so if you decide you don't want to adopt it, you might want to send > h

Bug#93965: ITA barracuda

2002-01-05 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Martin Sjögren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 02:30:40PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > > Do you still intend to adopt this package? > > The way I recall it, it was decided to remove this package from the > archive, and it doesn't seem

Bug#116551: [Jacob Robert Wilkins ] Re: ITA kyahoo

2002-01-05 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
--- Begin Message --- Yeah, thanks for the nudge, I'll get on that. The holiday season had be a bit distracted. jrw On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 03:07:49PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > > Hi Jacob, > > Do you still intend to adopt this package? > > If yes, please up

Bug#100230: [Jim Lisi ] Re: ITA grunch

2002-01-07 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
--- Begin Message --- On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 02:35:38PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > > Hi Jim, > > Do you still intend to adopt this package? > > If yes, please upload a package; > If no, please change this WNPP bug back to O:. > > Thanks, > Thomas Um y

Bug#93561: ITA bf-utf

2002-01-07 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Nicolas SABOURET <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Thomas Bushnell, BSG" wrote: > > > > Hi Nicolas, > > > > Do you still intend to adopt this package? > > > > If yes, please upload a package; > > If no, please change this WNPP bug back

Bug#369135: RFA: imlib -- Imaging Library for X

2006-05-27 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Package: wnpp Severity: normal This is the old imlib library, which was used by the old gnome-1 system. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#369133: RFA: gtkhtml -- GTK HTML Rendering Libraries

2006-05-27 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Package: wnpp Severity: normal This is the old gnome-1 version of the gtkhtml rendering library. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#369138: RFA: oaf -- Object Activation Framework for GNOME

2006-05-27 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Package: wnpp Severity: normal This is the old gnome-1 version of the oaf object library. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#369136: RFA: libcapplet -- Gnome Control Center Capplet Library

2006-05-27 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Package: wnpp Severity: normal This is the old gnome-1 version of the capplet support library. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#369137: RFA: libglade -- Library to load .glade files at runtime

2006-05-27 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Package: wnpp Severity: normal This is the old gnome-1 version of the glade loading library. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#369129: RFA: gal0.x -- G App Libs

2006-05-27 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Package: wnpp Severity: normal This is the old gnome-1 version of gal. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#369128: RFA: bonobo -- The GNOME Bonobo System

2006-05-27 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Package: wnpp Severity: normal This is the old gnome-1 version of bonobo. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#369131: RFA: gnome-print -- GNOME Print Architecture

2006-05-27 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Package: wnpp Severity: normal This is the old gnome-1 version of the gnome printing architecture. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#369130: RFA: gnome-libs -- GNOME Libraries

2006-05-27 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Package: wnpp Severity: normal This is the old gnome-1 version of the core gnome libraries. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#369139: RFA: oaf -- Object Activation Framework for GNOME

2006-05-27 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Package: wnpp Severity: normal This is the old gnome-1 version of the oaf object library. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#369161: O: malaga -- A system for automatic language analysis

2006-05-27 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Package: wnpp Severity: normal I cannot maintain malaga any longer, and don't use it anymore myself. It is a nifty program and someone should pick it up. Note that there is a more recent version at http://home.arcor.de/bjoern-beutel/malaga/. Upstream does maintain this package and is responsive

Bug#299849: ITP: ec-fonts-mftraced -- EC PostScript Type1 fonts with TFMs for TeX

2005-03-16 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist These are PostScript Type1 renderings and TFMs of the EC variants of the standard TeX CMR font family. These fonts include characters with European accents. This package is necessary for packaging newer versions of lilypond. http://lilypond.org/download/fonts.

Bug#216879: Debian roleplaying package

2004-08-08 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Are you still planning to take over maintenance of the Debian "roleplaying" package? On May 25 you said you were planning to start working on it. If you no longer intend to adopt the package, please change its status back to orphaned (I would be happy to do that for you if you like). If you d

WNPP cleanup procedures

2004-08-09 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
There used to be an established set of procedures for aging stale ITP and ITA wnpp entries, and setting them back to O. As I recall, it was something like: If the ITA or ITP is more than a month old, then: QA/WNPP sends email asking if they still intend to package or need help, If no respons

Bug#257994: freehoo

2004-08-09 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
See bug 228039. Freehoo should, in my opinion, be dropped from unstable. The last change in the upstream CVS was seven months ago, and given that yahoo changes its protocols frequently (and deliberately to frustrate free clients)--and since gaim is doing a decent job of keeping up--there doesn

Re: WNPP cleanup procedures

2004-08-09 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > for any action; however, if I saw good reason from the history of a > > > bug report to not do anything, then I didn't write mail at all. > > > By RFP you mean ITA? > > No, I meant: Request for Packages and Intend to Package. Oh; I'm thinking spe

Re: WNPP cleanup procedures

2004-08-09 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I did take 6 months for an ITP, and one year for a RFP as lower limit > for any action; however, if I saw good reason from the history of a > bug report to not do anything, then I didn't write mail at all. By RFP you mean ITA? I think six months and a

Re: WNPP cleanup procedures

2004-08-10 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * Thomas Bushnell BSG ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [040809 22:55]: > > Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Well, there is a list of ITA packages. Of course, you need to take a > > > look into the bug report i

Re: WNPP cleanup procedures

2004-08-10 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Well, if you prepare text and code for it, I'll put it on the web > page. But the issue there is IMHO: How can the program dectect when > the title was changed? So, it needs to permanently track each bug. Well, I can prepare text. ;) I'm not good at th

Re: WNPP cleanup procedures

2004-08-10 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Thomas Bushnell BSG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Well, if you prepare text and code for it, I'll put it on the web > > page. But the issue there is IMHO: How can the program dectect when > > the title was c

Bug#229961: sgrep orphaned?

2004-08-17 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
It looks like you adopted sgrep on August 12, but the wnpp bug marking the package as orphaned (bug 229961) is still open. You created a bug (260113) when you did the ITA, and closed it with your new upload, but the orphaning bug (229961) is still open. Can you please close 229961, to indicate t

Bug#329425: RFA: psutils -- A collection of PostScript document handling utilities

2005-09-21 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > As it stands now, there hasn't been any upstream work on it in a long > time, and my impression from the last time I spoke with the author was > that he wasn't sure when he might be able to work on it heavily again. That's fair enough. They are, however,

Bug#330677: O: bonobo-activation

2005-09-29 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Loïc Minier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If you're interested in adopting this package, please take contact with > Thomas Bushnell (which is in copy) since he suggested he might adopt > the packages. I do not intend to adopt bonobo-activation. (At present.) It does not seem to be necessary

Bug#331112: O: libgal19

2005-10-01 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Loïc Minier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > After some checks with the pkg-gnome maintainers and after the > confirmation of Takuo KITAME, and following the discussions in > debian-gtk-gnome and debian-release concerning the status of GNOME 1, > I'm orphaning a couple of GNOME 1 packages. > >

Bug#335407: ITP: qof -- Query Object Framework library

2005-10-24 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist --- Begin Message --- QOF - Query Object Framework - library to add a query engine to C applications with generic XML backend. A SQL database is not needed; any collection of C/C++ objects can act as tables. Used by GnuCash, GnoTime, pilot-QOF, cashutil and qof

Bug#201376: O: x-ttcidfont-conf -- Configure TrueType and CID fonts for X.

2005-11-03 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Martin Michlmayr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > gnucash and xfonts-thai-ttf are the only two packages which depend on > x-ttcidfont-conf, a package that has been orphaned for over 2 years. > I think I asked you before whether gnucash really needs > xfonts-thai-ttf but I cannot find anything in my m

Bug#206886: Planning a libglade to libglade2 transition

2005-11-03 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Martin Michlmayr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is anyone who maintains a package depending on libglade up to this, or > could the GNOME team adopt libglade? > > [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/06/msg01199.html Since I'm the de facto gnome 1 weenie, being the last maintainer of a big

Bug#395935: ITP: jacal -- interactive symbolic mathematics

2006-10-28 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Jacal is a symbolic math package written in scm by Aubrey Jaffer. It is distributed under the GPL. Current upstream version is 1b7, released on October 22, 2006. http://www-swiss.ai.mit.edu/~jaffer/JACAL.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

Bug#379564: How to handle filename conflict "aleph" (Packages aleph, tetex-bin, texlive-bin)?

2006-12-12 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 21:20 +0100, Frank Küster wrote: > We've got a problem here, since all three packages are in testing, > provide /usr/bin/aleph, and conflict with each other (or rather, the > *tex* packages conflict with aleph). Eek. > > The right solution to this would be to package the "n

Bug#379564: How to handle filename conflict "aleph" (Packages aleph, tetex-bin, texlive-bin)?

2006-12-13 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
From Paul's comments, it seems to me that there is no need for the current Aleph it's been replaced, and it's three years old. I have no opinion about whether it ought to be dropped from Debian. Paul also explains that AFNIX replaced Aleph, and should not be thought of as just a new version with