Bug#298227: ITP: maildirsync -- Simple and efficient Maildir synchronisation utility

[Per Olofsson]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

URL: http://hacks.dlux.hu/maildirsync/
License: GPL/Artistic

Package: maildirsync
Description: Simple and efficient Maildir synchronisation utility
 maildirsync is a utility for synchronising Maildir folders. It uses
 its own custom protocol for efficient communication, and uses ssh as
 its transport.

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Re: Does it sometimes happen that people send mails before NMU ?

[Per Olofsson]

Hi,

Mike Hommey:
> The patch was 8 minutes prior to the NMU.

I'm sorry about that, I had misinterpreted the 0-day NMU policy.

By the way, does anybody have a recommendation on how long the delay
between an NMU patch and upload should be?

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Re: ./configure in debian/rules

[Per Olofsson]

Frank Küster:
> Were can I read up on how and why I should do this?

/usr/share/doc/autotools-dev/README.Debian.gz

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Re: Bug#301081: ITP: mutt-ng -- Mutt next generation (mutt-ng) is a fork of the well-known email client mutt

[Per Olofsson]

Elimar Riesebieter:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Elimar Riesebieter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 
> * Package name: mutt-ng

Also note that Norbert Tretkowski has already created a mutt-ng
package, although he doesn't intend to upload it (yet). It is
available at .

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Bug#396117: ITP: cpufreq-detect -- detect CPU frequency control driver

[Per Olofsson]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Per Olofsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

* Package name: cpufreq-detect
  Version : 0.1
  Upstream Author : Per Olofsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* License : GPL
  Programming Lang: shell
  Description : detect CPU frequency control driver

 This package will attempt to detect and load the appropriate CPU
 frequency control driver for your hardware. This is useful together
 with packages such as powernowd, which can dynamically adjust the CPU
 frequency in order to save power.

You can download the package here:
http://dsv.su.se/~pelle/tmp/cpufreq-detect/

It is based on the detection code from Ubuntu's powernowd package.

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Re: Bug#396117: ITP: cpufreq-detect -- detect CPU frequency control driver

[Per Olofsson]

Hi,

Marco d'Itri:
> On Oct 30, Michael Biebl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > Why do you want to make a separate package for such a tiny shell script?
> > The overhead is just two much.
> > I'd propose to include it into the powermgmt-base package.
> I fully agree, it's silly to create a package for a 2 KB shell script.

Chris, would you accept the cpufreq-detect script into powermgmt-base?

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Re: Bug#396117: ITP: cpufreq-detect -- detect CPU frequency control driver

[Per Olofsson]

Chris Hanson:
> Probably yes, but I'd like to see it before I decide.

Attached. I will probably change a few things though, it should
probably by default try to load the module instead of merely
outputting it.

> Does this have to make it into etch?

Nope. Although it would be nice, of course.

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cpufreq-detect.sh
Description: Bourne shell script

Re: Bug#396117: ITP: cpufreq-detect -- detect CPU frequency control driver

[Per Olofsson]

Peter Palfrader:
> How come it never outputs p4_clockmod?  I use that happily on several
> different machines.

It's disabled in Ubuntu with the following comment:

# Disabled for now - the latency tends to be bad enough to make it
# fairly pointless.
# echo "FREQDRIVER=p4-clockmod" >/etc/default/powernowd
# to override this

Maybe they're wrong?

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Bug#375362: ITP: xdg-utils -- Desktop integration utilities from freedesktop.org

[Per Olofsson]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Per Olofsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

* Package name: xdg-utils
  Version : 1.0beta1
  Upstream Author : Portland Project <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* URL : http://portland.freedesktop.org/
* License : MIT
  Programming Lang: Shell
  Description : Desktop integration utilities from freedesktop.org

xdg-utils contains utilities for integrating applications with the
desktop environment, regardless of which desktop environment is used.
.
The following utilities are included:
.
 * xdg-menu - Place a menu into the users menu structure
 * xdg-mime - Gather mime information about a file
 * xdg-open - Open a URL in the user's preferred application that
  handles the respective URL or file type
 * xdg-email - Open the users preferred email client,
   potentially with subject and other info filled in
 * xdg-copy - Copy one URI to another
 * xdg-su - Run a command as a different (usually root) user
 * xdg-screensaver - Enable, disable, or suspend the screensaver


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-2-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

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Re: Help me test new pcmcia-cs

[Per Olofsson]

sean finney:
> this package seems to work for me without any major problems (so far,
> anyway...), and it in fact seems to have fixed a couple problems from
> which i was quietly suffering on my thinkpad.

OK. Thank you for testing it!

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ITP: pcmciautils -- PCMCIA userspace utilities (Linux 2.6.13+)

[Per Olofsson]

retitle 319583 ITP: pcmciautils -- PCMCIA userspace utilities (Linux 2.6.13+)
thanks

I'm the maintainer of pcmcia-cs so I'm intending to package
pcmciautils.

* Package name: pcmciautils
  Version : 007
  Upstream Author : Dominik Brodowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* URL : http://kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/pcmcia/pcmcia.html
* License : GPL
  Description : PCMCIA userspace utilities (Linux 2.6.13+)
  PCMCIAutils contains hotplug scripts and initialization tools
  necessary to allow the PCMCIA subsystem to behave (almost) as every
  other hotpluggable bus system. It only works 2.6.13 kernels and
  later.

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Re: ITP: pcmciautils -- PCMCIA userspace utilities (Linux 2.6.13+)

[Per Olofsson]

Marc Haber:
> On Sun, Jul 31, 2005 at 07:00:37PM +0200, Per Olofsson wrote:
> > retitle 319583 ITP: pcmciautils -- PCMCIA userspace utilities (Linux 
> > 2.6.13+)
> > thanks
> > 
> > I'm the maintainer of pcmcia-cs so I'm intending to package
> > pcmciautils.
> 
> May I ask for the status of this ITP?

I haven't done anything yet, actually. Help (maybe co-maintenance?) is
welcome.

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Re: Please focus on one generic spell checker in Debian

[Per Olofsson]

Hi,

Don Armstrong wrote:
> I have no idea if it's trivially possible, but it would be ideal if
> whatever spell checker we switched to had some sort of compatibility
> layer for ispell to reduce the number of applications that are
> affected by such a migration.

Both hunspell and aspell have such compatibility modes. However, most
applications simply call 'ispell', so maybe that name should be managed through
alternatives.

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Re: Bug#446028: ITP: tg3dfsg -- firmware free Broadcom Tigon3 network driver

[Per Olofsson]

Hi,

Robert Edmonds wrote:
> The only rationale for removing the *firmware* is compliance with GR
> 2006-004...

Am I missing something here? Didn't that GR fail?

http://www.debian.org/vote/2006/vote_004

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Bug#276229: RFH: ion2, ion3 -- Keyboard-friendly window manager with tiled windows

[Per Olofsson]

Package: wnpp
Severity: normal

I currently don't have the time and energy to maintain ion2 and ion3
as well as I should, so I hereby request a co-maintainer for
them. There are no big problems with the packages as they are, but
they need to be updated to the latest upstream versions.

The package description is:
 Ion, based on PWM, is an unusual window manager with no overlapping
 windows. Windows are placed in tabbed frames which may be arbitrarily
 split to create additional frames, making keyboard navigation much
 easier. Flexible configuration is possible thanks to Lua, which is
 used as the configuration language.
 .
 There is also support for so-called "floating workspaces" where
 windows are managed the conventional way, so that you can still run
 applications which do not fit very well into Ion's window management
 approach. A pwm2 binary is included which starts Ion with floating
 workspaces as the default, thus replacing the now obsolete PWM window
 manager.

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Bug#276228: RFH: pcmcia-cs -- PCMCIA Card Services for Linux

[Per Olofsson]

Package: wnpp
Severity: normal

I currently don't have the time and energy to maintain this package
properly, so I hereby request co-maintainer(s) for it. There are
currently no RC bugs in it and I will probably fix them if they arise,
but there are other things to do like updating to the latest upstream
version (although not for sarge). The package has an Alioth project
with a Subversion repository so it should be fairly easy to cooperate,
and I will also be available to discuss things by email.

The PCMCIA support in debian-installer could also use some
improvement.

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Re: Fixing the mime horror ini Debian

[Per Olofsson]

Hi,

2012-07-13 11:13, Norbert Preining skrev:

Hi everyone,

can we somehome make $subject a target for the*next*  release?
It is ridiculous that it is in fact completely arbitrary what
program is used to open files. Currently in my gnome-shell
pdfs are opened with a file-manager, as well as .txt files, as
well as anything.

That is when using xdg-open or gnome-open of gvfs-open.
When I try see, in contrast the funny okular from KDE
is started, together with these very useful services of KDE.

So maybe someone can explain what are the problems, that these
things are simply not fixd. Cannot be so complicated, right?



I think the most viable solution would be to:

1. Rewrite xdg-utils so that it is robust and always works. Instead of 
relying on desktop environments, it should do the needed work by itself. 
Currently it's something of a hack, especially when running in "generic" 
mode. It should probably be written in another language than shell (e.g. 
Perl, Python, C). A nicer user interface for the command line wouldn't 
hurt either.


2. Make all other packages either use xdg-utils or follow the 
freedesktop.org MIME specs.


I'm not planning on doing it myself though.

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Re: Bug#667703: Mostly solved (was Re: Filed (Re: Preinstalled package manager(s) for PCs (wheezy)))

[Per Olofsson]

2012-07-21 18:37, Joey Hess skrev:
> gnome-core depends on nautilus, which recommends synaptic.
> Unless such recommends are being skipped by something, it should be
> installed.


nautilus (3.2.1-2) unstable; urgency=low

...
- Drop Recommends on synaptic and app-install-data. We no longer call
  synaptic for mimetypes without a handler as this functionality is
  provided by alternatives like PackageKit or sessioninstaller now.

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Help me test new pcmcia-cs

[Per Olofsson]

Hi,

I've uploaded a new version of the pcmcia-cs package to experimental,
3.2.8-2. This package has a lot of new features, including:

* Latest upstream version.
* Starts much earlier on boot, in the S runlevel.
* Doesn't ifup network cards, lets hotplug handle them instead.
* Detects some problematic laptops and gives them correct resource
  options.
* Asks fewer questions during installation and upgrade.
* Never restarts PCMCIA during upgrade so that your network connection
  won't be messed up.
* Uses dpatch instead of one big patch.
* ... Many other changes and bug fixes, see the changelog.

It would be very nice if you could help me test it before I upload it
to sid. Since I've done a lot of changes, I suspect that there might
be some bugs in it. And don't forget to read NEWS.Debian and
README.Debian.

Thanks in advance.

(Please CC me on replies.)

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