Bug#283994: ITP: glastree -- builds live backup trees, with branches for each day

2004-12-02 Thread Charles Fry
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: glastree Version : 1.03 Upstream Author : Jeremy Wohl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://igmus.org/code/ * License : public domain Description : builds live backup trees, with branches for each day The poor

Re: Bug#283994: ITP: glastree -- builds live backup trees, with branches for each day

2004-12-02 Thread Charles Fry
> In what ways is this package different to, say, dirvish, which I use > in a manner which is, AFAICS, identical to the way this package > operates? glastree provides a subset of the functionality of dirvish. It is actually most closely related pdumpfs. Like pdumpfs, glastree works locally and not

Re: Bug#283994: ITP: glastree -- builds live backup trees, with branches for each day

2004-12-02 Thread Charles Fry
> On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 05:59:09PM -0500, Charles Fry wrote: > > > In what ways is this package different to, say, dirvish, which I use > > > in a manner which is, AFAICS, identical to the way this package > > > operates? > > > > glastree provides a sub

Re: Bug#283994: ITP: glastree -- builds live backup trees, with branches for each day

2004-12-02 Thread Charles Fry
> > > Is there any benefit to using glastree over dirvish or pdumpfs? > > > > The advantage of using glastree over pdumpfs is that it is implemented > > in Perl rather than Ruby (this is in fact the reason that I encountered > > it in the first place). > > How is that an advantage of use? Well

Re: Bug#283994: ITP: glastree -- builds live backup trees, with branches for each day

2004-12-03 Thread Charles Fry
> > Well, if one had a small system and desired not to install ruby, it > > would still be possible to obtain pdumpfs' functionality. Of course > > that could be called an installation issue rather than a usability > > issue. > > 3314kB, including pdumpfs itself. I'll donate a 32MB USB key to sto

Re: Bug#283994: ITP: glastree -- builds live backup trees, with branches for each day

2004-12-03 Thread Charles Fry
> > In what ways is this package different to, say, dirvish, which I use > > in a manner which is, AFAICS, identical to the way this package > > operates? > > Or storebackup? > > (Actually, storebackup's one-line description doesn't really hint at > this functionality. But I'm using it to create

debian swirl analog clock

2005-11-21 Thread Charles Fry
Does anyone know of an analog clock built on top of the Debian swirl? Through a configuration error, I discovered the cool XMMS Debian theme, and got to wishing that I had a bit more of a Debian feel to my desktop. I love running an analog clock, and seeing it next to my new XMMS, I couldn't help

Bug#342504: ITP: libjgrapht-java -- mathematical graph theory library for Java

2005-12-07 Thread Charles Fry
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Charles Fry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libjgrapht-java Version : 0.6.0 Upstream Author : Barak Naveh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://jgrapht.sourceforge.net/ * License : LGPL Description :

Re: apt PARALLELISM

2005-12-10 Thread Charles Fry
> Seperate repositiories are already parallelized, which is what I think > you are asking for here. But if multiple URLs could satisfactorily serve requests for a single repository, only one of them is currently used. Ideally, the amount of parallelism could match the number of redundant URLs pro

Re: Bug#348728: ITP: php-net-imap -- PHP PEAR module implementing IMAP protocol

2006-01-18 Thread Charles Fry
> * Package name: php-net-imap > Version : 1.0.3 > Upstream Author : Damian Alejandro Fernandez Sosa > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * URL : http://pear.php.net/package/Net_IMAP > * License : php license You should be aware that per the current REJECT_FAQ [1] your pac

Re: Bug#348728: ITP: php-net-imap -- PHP PEAR module implementing IMAP protocol

2006-01-19 Thread Charles Fry
> > >2. http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2006/01/msg00066.html > > the project decision is clear IMHO : read the php license, you'll see it > can only apply to the main and official PHP distribution. Please read the message to debian-legal that I originally referenced. It outlines recent

Re: PHP License for PHP Group packages

2006-02-02 Thread Charles Fry
discussion and deal professionally with the upstream authors of the current RC bugs related to the PHP License. cheers, Charles -Original Message- > From: Charles Fry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: PHP License for PHP Group packages > Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 18:41:33 -0500 > To

Re: PHP License for PHP Group packages

2006-02-03 Thread Charles Fry
-Original Message- > From: José Carlos do Nascimento Medeiros <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: PHP License for PHP Group packages > Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2006 15:27:53 -0200 > To: Charles Fry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], debian-legal@lists.debia

hijacking libhtml-mason-perl

2005-06-08 Thread Charles Fry
Hi, I am an active user of the libhtml-mason-perl package, and am quite interested in seeing it continue to progress in Debian. Unfortunately, as outlined in my [1]message to debian-qa in January, the package appears to have been abandoned, and all attempts to contact the package maintainer have

Bug#315368: ITP: php-pager -- PHP PEAR module for paging

2005-06-22 Thread Charles Fry
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Charles Fry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: php-pager Version : 2.3.2 Upstream Author : Lorenzo Alberton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and Richard Heyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://pear.php.net/packa

Bug#315366: ITP: php-cache-lite -- PHP PEAR module for a lite cache system

2005-06-22 Thread Charles Fry
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Charles Fry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: php-cache-lite Version : 1.4.1 Upstream Author : Fabien Marty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://pear.php.net/package/Cache_Lite/ * License : LGPL Descripti

Bug#368542: ITP: libcolt-java -- libraries for scientific and technical computing in Java

2006-05-22 Thread Charles Fry
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Charles Fry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libcolt-java Version : Upstream Author : Wolfgang Hoschek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://dsd.lbl.gov/~hoschek/colt/ * License : BSD(ish) and LGPL Prog

Bug#368931: ITP: libjung-java -- Java Universal Network/Graph Framework

2006-05-26 Thread Charles Fry
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Charles Fry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libjung-java Version : 1.7.4 Upstream Author : Joshua O'Madadhain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.example.org/ * License : BSD Programming Lang: J

Bug#378568: ITP: courieruserinfo -- Retrieve courier user account information

2006-07-17 Thread Charles Fry
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Charles Fry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: courieruserinfo Version : 1.1.1 Upstream Author : Andrew St. Jean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.arda.homeunix.net/store/ * License : GPL

Bug#378569: ITP: courierpasswd -- Authenticate courier passwords with checkpassword interface

2006-07-17 Thread Charles Fry
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Charles Fry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: courierpasswd Version : 1.1.1 Upstream Author : Andrew St. Jean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.arda.homeunix.net/store/ * License : GPL

Bug#318204: ITP: php-simpletest -- Unit testing and web testing framework for PHP

2005-07-13 Thread Charles Fry
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Charles Fry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: php-simpletest Version : 1.0.0 Upstream Author : Marcus Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.lastcraft.com/simple_test.php * License : The Open Grou

packaging for multiple JDKs

2005-08-05 Thread Charles Fry
Hi, I am currently working on bug #234048 to package Bouncy Castle Crypto, a Java implementation of various cryptographic algorithms, for Debian. My previous post about issues I have encountered went unanswered: http://lists.debian.org/debian-java/2005/07/msg3.html My primary dilema is th

Bug#321918: ITP: fortunes-bible -- KJV Bible for fortune

2005-08-08 Thread Charles Fry
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Charles Fry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: fortunes-bible Version : 0.0.20020527/ Upstream Author : Doug Poland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://fortunebible.sourceforge.net/ * License : BSD

Re: packaging for multiple JDKs

2005-08-12 Thread Charles Fry
> This way, your package could go to main, which is a very good thing. > Another approach would be to build the package with some jdk's (1.4 and > 1.5 are enough) and add jdk14 and jdk15 to the binary name. > > Maybe you can have a look at libpg-java I think it builds several jars > for different

Re: Bug#326779: fixed in wmfire 1.2.1-6

2005-09-11 Thread Charles Fry
> In the future, please try to find out if your package is part of some > transition, in order not to interfere with it. The Release Team is > also aware this information is not very easily accessible, and will > think of ways of improving the situation. First of all, I apologize for compl

Bug#330238: ITP: xom -- tree-based API for processing XML with Java

2005-09-26 Thread Charles Fry
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Charles Fry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: xom Version : 1.0 Upstream Author : Elliotte Rusty Harold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.xom.nu/ * License : LGPL Description : tree-based API fo

Bug#330239: ITP: hibernate -- a powerful, ultra-high performance object/relational persistence and query service for Java

2005-09-26 Thread Charles Fry
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Charles Fry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: hibernate Version : 3.0.5 Upstream Author : hibernate-devel@lists.sourceforge.net * URL : http://www.hibernate.org/ * License : LGPL Description : a object/rela

Re: License for PEAR packages

2005-10-26 Thread Charles Fry
> Today my packages with PEAR modules was rejected from incoming queue. > The reason is that PHP License was used for PEAR library. > > I've found many packages already existing in Debian archive which are > licensed with PHP License. What does it mean? Should I fill bug reports > with critical se

Re: License for PEAR packages

2005-10-27 Thread Charles Fry
> >http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2005/08/msg00188.html > > > > Currently the Pear team claims to be "in the process of resolving this > > situation" (see Pear request #5473). > > What does it mean? Is the problem already solved? Can I upload the packages? No, it is not solved. To be sp