Bug#807241: ITP: archlinux-xdg-menu -- Convert freedesktop files to a format used by various WMs

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas Bamber * Package name: archlinux-xdg-menu Version : 0.7.6.2 Upstream Author : Sergej Pupykin * URL : https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xdg-menu * License : GPL Programming Lang: Perl Description

Bug#802225: ITP: libchatbot-eliza-perl -- Chatbot::Eliza

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas Bamber * Package name: libchatbot-eliza-perl Version : 1.05 Upstream Author : Neil Bowers URL : http://search.cpan.org/~neilb/Chatbot-Eliza-1.05/lib/Chatbot/Eliza.pm * License : (GPL or Artistic

Re: mass bug filing about packages manipulating/deleting shipped files

> I think it would be worth asking the release team about this. Fixing > them all might well take a while. These bugs were all presumably in > squeeze and if there are many of them delaying wheezy doesn't make > sense. Moreover as I understand it the version of piuparts that runs these tests is

Bug#686485: ITP: license-reconcile -- Reconcile license/copyright between package source and debian/copyright file

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas Bamber * Package name: license-reconcile Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : Nicholas Bamber * URL : https://github.com/periapt/license-reconcile * License : Perl Programming Lang: Perl Description

Bug#683173: ITP: mysqlreport -- friendly report of important MySQL status values

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas Bamber * Package name: mysqlreport Version : 3.5 Upstream Author : Daniel Nichter * URL : http://hackmysql.com/mysqlreport * License : GPL Programming Lang: Perl Description : friendly report of

Bug#678460: RFH: maradns -- simple security-focused Domain Name Service server

Package: wnpp Severity: normal I request assistance with maintaining the maradns package. The reason is mainly lack of time and having someone to talk to about it would add some interest. The package is in reasonably good shape except that we need to plan a transition to the 2.0 version (current

Bug#668565: ITP: libgedcom-perl -- interface to genealogy GEDCOM files

Package: wnpp Owner: Nicholas Bamber Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libgedcom-perl Version : 1.16 Upstream Author : Paul Johnson * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Gedcom/ * License

Re: really? (Debian Policy and LSB)

Ah thanks. YEs that rings a bell now. On 11/04/12 21:04, Raphael Hertzog wrote: Hi, On Wed, 11 Apr 2012, Nicholas Bamber wrote: Hmm... This contradicts section 6.1 of the Debian policy. "The package management system looks at the exit status from these scripts. It is important that

really? (Debian Policy and LSB)

tag 621020 +moreinfo thanks Regarding #621020 "/etc/init.d/mysql uses "set -e" for most of the script, but that is not compatible with the LSB library /lib/lsb/init-functions. This particularly causes problems whenever log_end_msg is called with a nonzero argument, as log_end_msg will return th

Bug#646751: ITP: libcgi-application-plugin-actiondispatch-perl -- attribute extension for CGI::Application

Package: wnpp Owner: Nicholas Bamber Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libcgi-application-plugin-actiondispatch-perl Version : 0.98 Upstream Author : Jason Yates * URL : http://search.cpan.org

Bug#641887: ITP: libcrypt-rc4-perl -- Perl implementation of the RC4 encryption algorithm

Package: wnpp Owner: Nicholas Bamber Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libcrypt-rc4-perl Version : 2.02 Upstream Author : Kurt Kincaid (sifuk...@yahoo.com) * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist

Re: Bug#639535: ITP: libdebian-copyright-perl -- perl module to parse, merge and write Debian copyright files

CPAN bug: http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70544 On 28/08/11 06:19, Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 10:08:55PM +0100, Nicholas Bamber a écrit : >> >> * Package name: libdebian-copyright-perl >> Version : 0.1 >> Upstream Author

Bug#639535: ITP: libdebian-copyright-perl -- perl module to parse, merge and write Debian copyright files

Package: wnpp Owner: Nicholas Bamber Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libdebian-copyright-perl Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : Nicholas Bamber * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Debian

Bug#630874: ITP: libcgi-application-plugin-configauto-perl -- Plugin that adds Config::Auto support to CGI::Application

Package: wnpp Owner: Nicholas Bamber Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libcgi-application-plugin-configauto-perl Version : 1.33 Upstream Author : Mark Stosberg * URL : http://search.cpan.org

Bug#630870: ITP: libcgi-application-plugin-autorunmode-perl -- CGI::App plugin to automatically register runmodes

Package: wnpp Owner: Nicholas Bamber Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libcgi-application-plugin-autorunmode-perl Version : 0.18 Upstream Author : Thilo Planz, * URL : http://search.cpan.org

Bug#623832: ITP: libfile-type-webimages-perl -- tool for determining web image file types using magic

Package: wnpp Owner: Nicholas Bamber Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libfile-type-webimages-perl Version : 1.01 Upstream Author : Mark Stosberg * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/File-Type

Bug#620180: ITP: liblwp-protocol-https-perl -- https driver for LWP::UserAgent

Package: wnpp Owner: Nicholas Bamber Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: liblwp-protocol-https-perl Version : 6.02 Upstream Author : Gisle Aas * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/LWP-Protocol

Bug#619336: ITP: libhttp-negotiate-perl -- implementation of content negotiation

Package: wnpp Owner: Nicholas Bamber Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libhttp-negotiate-perl Version : 6.00 Upstream Author : Gisle Aas * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/HTTP-Negotiate

Bug#619335: ITP: libhttp-cookies-perl -- HTTP cookie jars

Package: wnpp Owner: Nicholas Bamber Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libhttp-cookies-perl Version : 6.00 Upstream Author : Gisle Aas * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/HTTP-Cookies

Bug#619059: ITP: libmozilla-ca-perl -- Mozilla's CA cert bundle in PEM format

Package: wnpp Owner: Nicholas Bamber Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libmozilla-ca-perl Version : 20110301 Upstream Author : Gisle Aas * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Mozilla-CA

Bug#618281: ITP: libwww-robotrules-perl -- database of robots.txt-derived permissions

Package: wnpp Owner: Nicholas Bamber Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libwww-robotrules-perl Version : 6.01 Upstream Author : Gisle Aas * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/WWW-RobotRules

Bug#617975: ITP: libnet-http-perl -- module providing low-level HTTP connection client

Package: wnpp Owner: Nicholas Bamber Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libnet-http-perl Version : 6.00 Upstream Author : Gisle Aas * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Net-HTTP/ * License

Bug#617974: ITP: libfile-listing-perl -- module to parse directory listings

Package: wnpp Owner: Nicholas Bamber Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libfile-listing-perl Version : 6.00 Upstream Author : Gisle Aas * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/File-Listing

Bug#617707: ITP: libfile-listing-perl -- module to parse directory listings

Package: wnpp Owner: Nicholas Bamber Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libfile-listing-perl Version : 6.00 Upstream Author : Gisle Aas * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/File-Listing

Bug#617646: ITP: liblwp-mediatypes-perl -- module to guess media type for a file or a URL

Package: wnpp Owner: Nicholas Bamber Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: liblwp-mediatypes-perl Version : 6.01 Upstream Author : Gisle Aas * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/LWP-MediaTypes

Bug#617601: ITP: libhttp-date-perl -- module of date conversion routines

Package: wnpp Owner: Nicholas Bamber Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libhttp-date-perl Version : 6.00 Upstream Author : Gisle Aas * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/HTTP-Date/ * License

Bug#616492: ITP: libtest-pod-no404s-perl -- Test::Pod::No404s

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas Bamber * Package name: libtest-pod-no404s-perl Version : 0.01 Upstream Author : Apocalypse * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Test-Pod-No404s/ * License : Perl Programming Lang: Perl Description : Test

Bug#616490: ITP: libtest-autoloader-perl -- Test::AutoLoader

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas Bamber * Package name: libtest-autoloader-perl Version : 0.03 Upstream Author : Benjamin Warfield * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Test-AutoLoader/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: Perl Description

Bug#616470: ITP: libgetopt-usaginator-perl -- create usage function for applications

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas Bamber * Package name: libgetopt-usaginator-perl Version : 0.0012 Upstream Author : Robert Krimen * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Getopt-Usaginator/ * License : Perl Programming Lang: Perl Description

Bug#615825: ITP: libdevel-argnames-perl -- Devel::ArgNames

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas Bamber * Package name: libdevel-argnames-perl Version : 0.03 Upstream Author : Yuval Kogman * URL : http://searh.cpan.org/dist/Devel-ArgNames/ * License : Perl Programming Lang: Perl Description

Bug#615820: ITP: libsub-prototype-perl -- set a subroutines prototype

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas Bamber * Package name: libsub-prototype-perl Version : 0.02 Upstream Author : Florian Ragwitz * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Sub-Prototype/ * License : Perl Programming Lang: Perl Description

Bug#615559: ITP: libio-handle-util-perl -- IO::Handle::Util perl pakage

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas Bamber * Package name: libio-handle-util-perl Version : 0.01 Upstream Author : Yuval Kogman * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/IO-Handle-Util/ * License : Perl Programming Lang: Perl Description : IO

Bug#615502: ITP: libtest-cpan-meta-yaml-perl -- validate a META.yaml file from CPAN

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas Bamber * Package name: libtest-cpan-meta-yaml-perl Version : 0.17 Upstream Author : Barbie * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Test-CPAN-Meta-YAML/ * License : Perl Programming Lang: Perl Description

Bug#615002: ITP: libjson-pp-perl -- yet another json package

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas Bamber * Package name: libjson-pp-perl Version : 2.27104 Upstream Author : Makamaa hannyaharamitu * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/JSON-PP/ * License : Perl Programming Lang: Perl Description : yet

Bug#612229: ITP: maradns2 -- new major release of the Simple Security focused DNS server

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas Bamber * Package name: maradns2 Version : 2.0.02 Upstream Author : Sam Trenholme * URL : http://maradns.org/download.html * License : BSD Programming Lang: C Description : new major release of the

Bug#611209: ITP: libcpan-meta-yaml-perl -- Read and write a subset of TAML for cPAN meta files

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas Bamber * Package name: libcpan-meta-yaml-perl Version : 0.003 Upstream Author : David Golden * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/CPAN-Meta-YAML/ * License : Perl Programming Lang: Perl Description

Bug#611207: ITP: libperl-ostype-perl -- map perl operating system names to generic types

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas Bamber * Package name: libperl-ostype-perl Version : 1.002 Upstream Author : David Golden * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Perl-OSType/ * License : Perl Programming Lang: Perl Description : map perl

Bug#609562: ITP: libconfig-merge-perl -- Load a directory worth of config files

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas Bamber * Package name: libconfig-merge-perl Version : 1.01 Upstream Author : Clinton Gormley * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Config-Merge/ * License : perl Programming Lang: perl Description : Load

Re: Re: /etc/profile.d

Adam, Thanks for the explanation. I'm glad I avoided the hassle of raising a bug report on this occasion. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4d2ae50

/etc/profile.d

According to #370348, since 5.3 base-files has supported /etc/profile sourcing /etc/profile.d. I am using version 6.0. However /etc/profiles seems to be doing no such thing. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listm

Bug#609172: ITP: libvendorlib-perl -- Package to enforce only core and vendor perl module usage

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas Bamber * Package name: libvendorlib-perl Version : 0.05 Upstream Author : Rafael * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/vendorlib/ * License : perl Programming Lang: perl Description : Package to enforce

Bug#609043: ITP: libstring-dirify-perl -- convert a string into a directory like name

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas Bamber * Package name: libstring-dirify-perl Version : 1.01 Upstream Author : Ron Savage * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/String-Dirify * License : Artistic_1 Programming Lang: perl Description

Bug#608899: ITP: libtest-image-gd-perl -- module for testing images using GD

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas Bamber * Package name: libtest-image-gd-perl Version : 0.03 Upstream Author : Stevan Little * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Test-Image-GD/ * License : perl Programming Lang: perl Description

Bug#608897: ITP: libcgi-minimal-perl -- a lightweight cgi form processing package

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas Bamber * Package name: libcgi-minimal-perl Version : 1.29 Upstream Author : Benjamin Franz * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/CGI-Minimal/ * License : perl Programming Lang: perl Description : a

Bug#608896: ITP: libtext-lorem-perl -- generate random latin looking text

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas Bamber * Package name: libtext-lorem-perl Version : 0.3 Upstream Author : Adeola Awoyemi * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Text-Lorem/ * License : perl Programming Lang: perl Description : generate

Bug#608883: ITP: libtest-cgi-multipart-perl -- test posting of multipart data

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas Bamber * Package name: libtest-cgi-multipart-perl Version : 0.0.3 Upstream Author : Nicholas Bamber * URL : http://search.cpan.otg/dist/Test-CGI-Multipart/ * License : perl Programming Lang: perl

Bug#608882: ITP: libcgi-application-plugin-ajaxupload-perl -- run mode to handle a file upload and return a JSON response

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas Bamber * Package name: libcgi-application-plugin-ajaxupload-perl Version : 0.0.3 Upstream Author : Nicholas Bamber * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/CGI-Application-Plugin-AJAXUload/ * License : perl

Bug#608880: ITP: libgeo-google-mapobject-perl -- code to help manage the server side of google maps api

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas Bamber * Package name: libgeo-google-mapobject-perl Version : 0.06 Upstream Author : Nicholas Bamber * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Geo-Google-MapObject/ * License : perl Programming Lang: perl

Bug#608877: ITP: libtie-persistent-perl -- persistent data structures via tie made easy

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas Bamber * Package name: libtie-persistent-perl Version : 1.00 Upstream Author : Roland Giersig * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Tie-Persistent/ * License : perl Programming Lang: perl Description

Bug#608838: ITP: libhtml-template-pluggable-perl -- extends HTL::Template with plugin support

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas Bamber * Package name: libhtml-template-pluggable-perl Version : 0.17 Upstream Author : Rhesa Rozedaal * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/HTML-Template-Pluggable/ * License : perl Programming Lang: perl

Bug#608825: ITP: libtest-mocktime-datecalc-perl -- fake time for Date::Calc functions

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas Bamber * Package name: libtest-mocktime-datecalc-perl Version : 5 Upstream Author : Kevin Ryde * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Test-MockTime-DateCalc * License : GPL3 Programming Lang: perl Description

Bug#608824: ITP: libtest-html-w3c-perl -- wrapper for testing purposes around W3C service

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas Bamber * Package name: libtest-html-w3c-perl Version : 0.3 Upstream Author : Victor * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Test-HTML-W3C/ * License : perl Programming Lang: perl Description : wrapper for

Bug#606511: ITP: libcgi-application-plugin-tt-perl -- Add template toolkit support to CGI::Application

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas Bamber * Package name: libcgi-application-plugin-tt-perl Version : 1.05 Upstream Author : Cees Hek * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/CGI-Application-Plugin-TT/ * License : perl Programming Lang: perl

Bug#606508: ITP: libcgi-application-plugin-authorization-perl -- authoriation framework for CGI::Application

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas Bamber * Package name: libcgi-application-plugin-authorization-perl Version : 0.07 Upstream Author : Cees Hek * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/CGI-Application-Plugin-Authorization/ * License : perl

Bug#605530: ITP: libcgi-application-plugin-authentication-perl -- CGI::Application authentication module

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas Bamber * Package name: libcgi-application-plugin-authentication-perl Version : 0.19 Upstream Author : Nicholas Bamber * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/CGI-Application-Plugin-Authentication/ * License

Bug#605522: ITP: libcgi-application-plugin-anytemplate-perl -- use any template system from within CGI::Application

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas Bamber * Package name: libcgi-application-plugin-anytemplate-perl Version : 0.18 Upstream Author : Michael Graham * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/CGI-Application-Plugin-AnyTemplate/ * License : Perl

Bug#605137: ITP: libcss-dom-perl -- implementation of the DOM interface to CSS

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas Bamber * Package name: libcss-dom-perl Version : 0.13 Upstream Author : Father Chrysostomos * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/CSS-DOM/ * License : perl Programming Lang: perl Description

Bug#605064: ITP: libtest-identity-perl -- assert the referential identity of a reference

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas Bamber * Package name: libtest-identity-perl Version : 0.01 Upstream Author : Paul Evans * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Test-Identity/ * License : Perl Programming Lang: Perl Description : assert

Bug#605062: ITP: libtest-database-perl -- facilitates testing against several databases

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas Bamber * Package name: libtest-database-perl Version : 1.11 Upstream Author : Phillpe Bruhat * URL : http://seach.cpan.org/dist/Test-Database * License : perl Programming Lang: perl Description

Bug#602040: ITP: libmodule-starter-plugin-simplestore-perl -- Three methods for managing Module::Starter templates

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas Bamber * Package name: libmodule-starter-plugin-simplestore-perl Version : 0.143 Upstream Author : Ricardo Signes * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Module-Starter-Plugin-SimpleStore/ * License : perl

Bug#602027: ITP: libmodule-starter-plugin-tt2-perl -- TT2 templates for Module::Starter::Template

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas Bamber * Package name: libmodule-starter-plugin-tt2-perl Version : 0.125 Upstream Author : Ricardo Signes * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Module-Starter-Plugin-TT2/ * License : perl Programming Lang

Bug#601498: ITP: pkg-components -- support for packaging components

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas Bamber * Package name: pkg-components Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : Nicholas Bamber * URL : http://github.com/periapt/pkg-components/ * License : Artistic Programming Lang: perl Description : support

Re: Thinking about bundles

fastened onto nose) look into these modules and try to maintain one it gets worse. Having the tools in Debian but not officially encouraged might be a workable compromise if it comes to it. Raphael Hertzog wrote: On Thu, 09 Sep 2010, Nicholas Bamber wrote: I have recently looked into a num

Thinking about bundles

I have been looking into the packaging of bundles - that is packages that have multiple upstream sources. There was recently an article on the subject: http://raphaelhertzog.com/2010/09/07/how-to-use-multiple-upstream-tarballs-in-debian-source-packages/ . However one must notice this quote: "T

Bug#594854: ITP: libexporter-renaming-perl -- Allow renaming of symbols on import

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas Bamber * Package name: libexporter-renaming-perl Version : 1.19 Upstream Author : Anno Siegel * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Exporter-Renaming * License : Perl Programming Lang: Perl Description

Bug#594767: ITP: libapache-htgroup-perl -- Manage Apache authentication group files

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas Bamber * Package name: libapache-htgroup-perl Version : 1.22 Upstream Author : Rich Bowen * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Apache-Htgroup/ * License : Perl Programming Lang: Perl Description

Bug#594764: ITP: libtest-weaken-perl -- Test that freed memory objects really were freed

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas Bamber * Package name: libtest-weaken-perl Version : 3.004000 Upstream Author : Jeffrey Kegler * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Test-Weaken * License : Perl Programming Lang: Perl Description : Test

Bug#594699: ITP: libtest-regression-perl -- test library for comparing output against normative output

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas Bamber * Package name: libtest-regression-perl Version : 0.5 Upstream Author : Nicholas Bamber * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Test-Regression/ * License : Perl Programming Lang: Perl Description

Bug#594523: ITP: libhtml-scrubber-perl -- A package to clean up HTML

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas Bamber Useful in creating web form bckends to a rich text editor. The package itself seems to be rather dead and there are a number of bugs in rt which could probably be usefully fixed as patches. * Package name: libhtml-scrubber-perl

Bug#592986: ITP: w3c-sgml-lib -- DTDs etc for W3C markup validator

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas Bamber * Package name: w3c-sgml-lib Version : 1.1 Upstream Author : http://www.w3.org * URL : http://validator.w3.org/dist * License : W3C-SOFTWARE Programming Lang: SGML/XML/DTD etc Description : DTDs

Re: less is somehow in a sour state

I don't see how you can really have packages maintained by more than one person. I reckon the always has to be one person responsible. So I was wondering exactly what extra privileges those persons would have. Norbert Preining wrote: On Mo, 02 Aug 2010, Nicholas Bamber wrote: So you

Re: less is somehow in a sour state

So you would want an extra control field "extra-contacts" being a list of emails that would receive the same emails as the maintainer but would have no special privileges with respect to uploading or ownership of the package except possibly to orphan the package in some circumstances. Or perhap

Would appreciate advice on Debian Policy and draft webapp sub policy

I am in the process of trying to fix the bugs associated with w3c-markup-validator. I have hit a particular problem as I look into #477792. The package requires a web server with CGI support and support for SSI includes. The dependencies specify a dependency on "apache2 | httpd". The latter

Bug#590079: ITP: w3c-linkchecker -- Script to check web links

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas Bamber * Package name: w3c-linkchecker Version : 4.6 Upstream Author : W3 * URL : http://validator.w3.org/docs/checklink.html#csb * License : W3C Programming Lang: perl Description : Script to check

Re: How to make Debian more attractive for users

Okay so that's what I learnt in school today. Could we have a link to it on the from page? There is room in that red menu bar. Actually I tried to look for it under "support" and various other places, but I could not find it. Paul Wise wrote: On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 9:21 PM,

Re: How to make Debian more attractive for users

I reckon a forum would be much easier to finance (even with moderators) than a phone line. It could probably be integrated with one of the mailing lists which would go a long way to make it look friendlier. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "un

Re: How to make Debian more attractive for users, was: Re: The number of popcon.debian.org-submissions is falling

I would have thought that would be really confusing. It sounds like "what is the purpose of this machine" question you get during installation. Better would be stable => solid, testing => edgy, unstable => bleeding_edge That said I think there is noting wrong with the current terms. Hans-J.