Work-needing packages report for Jul 27, 2018

2018-07-26 Thread wnpp
The following is a listing of packages for which help has been requested through the WNPP (Work-Needing and Prospective Packages) system in the last week. Total number of orphaned packages: 1274 (new: 6) Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 173 (new: 10) Total number of packages reque

Bug#904702: ITP: megadown -- Bash script for downloading files from mega.nz and megacrypter

2018-07-26 Thread Vivia Nikolaidou
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Vivia Nikolaidou * Package name: megadown Version : 0~20180705-+git83c53dd Upstream Author : A. L. Vivar * URL : https://github.com/tonikelope/megadown * License : GPLv3 Programming Lang: Bash, Python Description

Re: Should the weboob package stay in Debian?

2018-07-26 Thread Zlatan Todoric
On 7/26/18 11:32 PM, gregor herrmann wrote: > On Fri, 20 Jul 2018 13:34:19 +1000, Dmitry Smirnov wrote: > >> Can you explain what makes you feel uncomfortable about it? >> Is it (semantics of) the word itself or context? > For me: The context. > > > On Thu, 26 Jul 2018 03:09:45 +0200, Adam Borows

Bug#904701: ITP: golang-github-robertkrimen-otto -- JavaScript interpreter in Go

2018-07-26 Thread Jongmin Kim
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jongmin Kim X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, pkg-go-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org * Package name: golang-github-robertkrimen-otto Version : 0.0~git20180617.15f95af-1 Upstream Author : Robert Krimen * URL : http

Re: Should the weboob package stay in Debian?

2018-07-26 Thread gregor herrmann
On Fri, 20 Jul 2018 13:34:19 +1000, Dmitry Smirnov wrote: > Can you explain what makes you feel uncomfortable about it? > Is it (semantics of) the word itself or context? For me: The context. On Thu, 26 Jul 2018 03:09:45 +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > What's wrong with looking at boobs? Noth

Re: Should the weboob package stay in Debian?

2018-07-26 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 15109 March 1977, Adam Borowski wrote: >> It is covered. We explicitly list a number of things that we consider to be >> of higher priority than arbitrary compatibility with third parties (free >> software; our users' needs; creating a developer community that is welcoming >> to all people, in

Bug#904695: ITP: golang-gopkg-readline.v1 -- pure Go implementation for GNU Readline-like library

2018-07-26 Thread Jongmin Kim
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jongmin Kim X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, pkg-go-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org * Package name: golang-gopkg-readline.v1 Version : 1.4-1 Upstream Author : Chzyer * URL : https://github.com/chzyer/readline * L

Bug#904689: ITP: golang-github-zyedidia-terminal -- vt10x terminal emulation backend

2018-07-26 Thread Jongmin Kim
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jongmin Kim X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, pkg-go-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org * Package name: golang-github-zyedidia-terminal Version : 0.0~git20180726.533c623-1 Upstream Author : Zachary Yedidia * URL : ht

Re: Should the weboob package stay in Debian?

2018-07-26 Thread Ole Streicher
Marc Haber writes: > On Wed, 25 Jul 2018 21:25:11 +0200, Ole Streicher > wrote: >>Obviously we renamed packages (which made us incompatible with the rest >>of the world) already if needed. Rememver iceweasel or icedove? > > Didn't we ship aliases? Are firefox and thunderbird commonly invoked > fr

Re: Should the weboob package stay in Debian?

2018-07-26 Thread Alf Gaida
Wow - we should wait a few days and there will be more comments about this issue than users of this package. Impressive. To be honest - i don't really like the "humor" and the names of the package and the applications, but i fear that this heatened discussion does more harm than the package itself

Re: Should the weboob package stay in Debian?

2018-07-26 Thread Michael Stone
On Thu, Jul 26, 2018 at 05:16:52PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: On Wed, 25 Jul 2018 21:25:11 +0200, Ole Streicher wrote: Obviously we renamed packages (which made us incompatible with the rest of the world) already if needed. Rememver iceweasel or icedove? Didn't we ship aliases? Are firefox and

Re: Should the weboob package stay in Debian?

2018-07-26 Thread Marc Haber
On Wed, 25 Jul 2018 21:25:11 +0200, Ole Streicher wrote: >Obviously we renamed packages (which made us incompatible with the rest >of the world) already if needed. Rememver iceweasel or icedove? Didn't we ship aliases? Are firefox and thunderbird commonly invoked from scripts that might be expect

Bug#904679: ITP: libperl-critic-policy-variables-prohibitlooponhash-perl -- avoid write loops on hashes, only on keys and values of hashes

2018-07-26 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Dmitry Smirnov X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-p...@lists.debian.org Control: affects -1 libperl-critic-freenode-perl Package name: libperl-critic-policy-variables-prohibitlooponhash-perl Version: 0.005 Upstream Author: Sawyer

Re: Should the weboob package stay in Debian?

2018-07-26 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, Jul 26, 2018 at 02:44:56PM +0200, Stephan Seitz wrote: > On Do, Jul 26, 2018 at 01:59:08 +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > Stephan Seitz - 26.07.18, 11:10: > > > I don’t understand the problem. No one forces anyone to keep the > > > package in Debian. Upstream made clear it isn’t interes

Re: Should the weboob package stay in Debian?

2018-07-26 Thread Stephan Seitz
On Do, Jul 26, 2018 at 01:59:08 +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: Stephan Seitz - 26.07.18, 11:10: I don’t understand the problem. No one forces anyone to keep the package in Debian. Upstream made clear it isn’t interested in changing the names. The point is that it currently is in Debian, binar

Bug#904668: ITP: libfortran-format-perl -- Package to parse Fortran formats string descriptors in Perl

2018-07-26 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Francesco Paolo Lovergine * Package name: libfortran-format-perl Version : 0.90 Upstream Author : Ivan Tubert-Brohman * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/Fortran-Format * License : Artistic Programming Lang: Perl Descr

Re: Should the weboob package stay in Debian?

2018-07-26 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Stephan Seitz - 26.07.18, 11:10: > On Do, Jul 26, 2018 at 09:32:34 +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > >Adam Borowski - 26.07.18, 03:09: > >> I for one don't protest inclusion of the Bible in Debian, despite > >> that text having been the cause of 100M deaths, nor Quran with its > >> 75M. I> > >Tha

Bug#904666: ITP: golang-github-zyedidia-tcell -- a cell based view for text terminals, like xterm

2018-07-26 Thread Jongmin Kim
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jongmin Kim X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, pkg-go-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org * Package name: golang-github-zyedidia-tcell Version : 0.0~git20171006.a221f2f-1 Upstream Author : Zachary Yedidia * URL : https

Bug#904665: ITP: golang-github-zyedidia-tcell -- This is a fork of https://github.com/gdamore/tcell

2018-07-26 Thread Jongmin Kim
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jongmin Kim X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, pkg-go-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org * Package name: golang-github-zyedidia-tcell Version : 0.0~git20171006.a221f2f-1 Upstream Author : Zachary Yedidia * URL : https

Re: Should the weboob package stay in Debian?

2018-07-26 Thread Stephan Seitz
On Do, Jul 26, 2018 at 09:32:34 +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: Adam Borowski - 26.07.18, 03:09: I for one don't protest inclusion of the Bible in Debian, despite that text having been the cause of 100M deaths, nor Quran with its 75M. I That text did not *directly* cause anything. It were sti

Re: Should the weboob package stay in Debian?

2018-07-26 Thread Stephan Seitz
On Mi, Jul 25, 2018 at 09:25:11 +0200, Ole Streicher wrote: Obviously we renamed packages (which made us incompatible with the rest of the world) already if needed. Rememver iceweasel or icedove? Yes, I do. And I remember the problems with this renaming. And do you remember the reason? This wa

Re: Should the weboob package stay in Debian?

2018-07-26 Thread Rens Houben
In other news for Thu, Jul 26, 2018 at 09:16:42AM +0100, Jonathan Dowland has been seen typing: > On Thu, Jul 26, 2018 at 08:46:29AM +0100, Nikolaus Rath wrote: > > I honestly don't see any connection to religion here. > It's a tenuous (and frankly ridiculous) attempt to demonize a position >

Re: Should the weboob package stay in Debian?

2018-07-26 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Thu, Jul 26, 2018 at 08:46:29AM +0100, Nikolaus Rath wrote: On Jul 26 2018, Adam Borowski wrote: That "objectification" is an invention of your particular religion[1]. I honestly don't see any connection to religion here. It's a tenuous (and frankly ridiculous) attempt to demonize a posi

Re: Should the weboob package stay in Debian?

2018-07-26 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2018-07-26, Marc Dequènes wrote: > I also like the idea of a single binary with subcommands, would be > easier than remembering all the commands. > > But as I said unless upstream does agree on something, we're not going > to maintain an alternate version. Would it be sufficient small mainte

Re: Should the weboob package stay in Debian?

2018-07-26 Thread Nikolaus Rath
On Jul 26 2018, Adam Borowski wrote: >> Promoting objectification of half of the world's population doesn't >> count as constructive social interaction in my understanding. > > That "objectification" is an invention of your particular religion[1]. I honestly don't see any connection to religion h

Re: Should the weboob package stay in Debian?

2018-07-26 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Adam Borowski - 26.07.18, 03:09: > On Thu, Jul 26, 2018 at 12:55:50AM +0200, gregor herrmann wrote: > > On Wed, 25 Jul 2018 21:56:10 +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > > > On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 12:18:53PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > > It is covered. We explicitly list a number of things that w

Re: Should the weboob package stay in Debian?

2018-07-26 Thread Ole Streicher
Adam Borowski writes: > On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 09:25:11PM +0200, Ole Streicher wrote: >> Marc Haber writes: >> > Staying compatible with the rest of the world is not covered by our >> > core principles? >> >> Obviously we renamed packages (which made us incompatible with the rest >> of the worl