Bug#315289: Orphaning jython

2006-02-21 Thread Ben Burton
> If you are okay with this I will adopt it under the Debian Java > Maintainers group coordination. I will take care of it and do an upload > to show this in the next days. Works for me -- thanks for looking after it. Ben. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsu

Bug#315289: Orphaning jython

2006-02-21 Thread Ben Burton
retitle 315289 O: jython -- Python seamlessly integrated with Java thanks mate Hi all, This is an FYI that I've just orphaned jython, as of version 2.1.0-21. As when I orphaned it last June, my time is squeezed and I don't use java much at all nowadays. Again, see #315289 for a summary of releva

Bug#315340: Orphaning kbear

2005-10-15 Thread Ben Burton
Hi, I'm looking at my time constraints (which are not getting any better these days), and I've decided I will need to orphan kbear. I'm making my last upload today to change maintainer to the Debian QA group. Pedro: Are you still interested in adopting kbear? If not, please let me know and I'l

Bug#325996: ftp.debian.org: please remove konq-speaker from testing/unstable

2005-09-07 Thread Ben Burton
Package: ftp.debian.org Severity: normal Hi, The konq-speaker package has outlived its usefulness. There has been no upstream action on konq-speaker for several years, and the "official" KDE text-to-speech system shipped with kdeaccessibility is now sophisticated enough that I think konq-speaker

Bug#325996: O: text-to-speech plugins for Konqueror and Kate -- extra

2005-09-06 Thread Ben Burton
Package: wnpp Severity: normal I'm hereby orphaning konq-speaker. This package contains text-to-speech plugins for Konqueror (the KDE file manager and web browser) and Kate (a KDE text editor). Text-to-speech is provided by the festival speech system. These plugins can be accessed throug

Bug#325995: O: XMMS playlist manager with search support -- optional

2005-09-02 Thread Ben Burton
Package: wnpp Severity: normal Hi. I'm hereby orphaning qbble: Qbble is a playlist manager based on Qt. It will connect to a running XMMS session and display the current playlist in a more manageable format. It also functions as an XMMS general plugin. The key feature is the ability t

Bug#315336: Plans for kdbg

2005-09-01 Thread Ben Burton
Okay; I'll leave it to you to do the g++-4 transition then. :) b. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#315336: Plans for kdbg

2005-09-01 Thread Ben Burton
Hi, May I ask when you're looking at uploading kdbg? One of us will need to take it through the g++-4 transition, which is nearing an end. Anyway, let me know if you're not uploading soon and I'll put it through the transition this weekend. Ben. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Bug#315340: Your plans for kbear

2005-09-01 Thread Ben Burton
Hi, I accidentally put the bug # in the subject field for my previous mail.. so if you're ignoring it as BTS junk, please take another look. The summary is that one of us needs to do a kbear upload for the g++-4 transition, so if you could let me know what your plans are for kbear that would be

Bug#315340: ITA: kbear -- graphical ftp client for KDE

2005-08-17 Thread Ben Burton
Hi, > i'm interested in adopting this package. > if there's no problem, i'll apply the patch available [1], and > repackage a new revision. Thanks for taking care of this. Note that you should also submit patch [1] to upstream via the sourceforge.net bug tracker, so that if they ever make a new

Bug#315340: RFA: kbear -- graphical ftp client for KDE

2005-06-21 Thread Ben Burton
Package: wnpp Severity: normal I hereby put kbear up for adoption. This KDE package is not easy to maintain, mainly because upstream has been silent for some time and there have been some rather nasty and hard-to-find bugs that needed fixing. Nevertheless, people still use this package so it wo

Bug#315337: RFA: kprof -- a KDE3 visual tool to help analyze profiling results

2005-06-21 Thread Ben Burton
Package: wnpp Severity: normal I hereby put kprof up for adoption. This KDE package is small and relatively straightforward to maintain. Although upstream is not nearly as active as it used to be, the package itself remains useful. An ability to dive into Qt/KDE code and fix it is preferable, s

Bug#315336: RFA: kdbg -- graphical debugger interface

2005-06-21 Thread Ben Burton
Package: wnpp Severity: normal I hereby put kdbg up for adoption. This KDE package is relatively straightforward to maintain, and upstream is active. Ben. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#315289: Putting jython up for adoption

2005-06-21 Thread Ben Burton
Last night I formally put the jython package up for adoption (#315289). The reasons are because my time is rather more constrained than it used to be, and because I have increasingly little to do with java these days. Since jython is a non-trivial piece of software, it seems worthwhile outlining

Bug#315289: RFA: jython -- Python seamlessly integrated with Java

2005-06-21 Thread Ben Burton
Package: wnpp Severity: normal I am hereby putting the Jython package up for adoption. If you wish to adopt this package, please write to me about it; there are several non-trivial issues involved. I will be posting a detailed explanation of some of these issues to this bug log shortly. (Pleas

Bug#314850: Orphaning packages

2005-06-18 Thread Ben Burton
Hi, > libarchive-zip-perl (bug #314850) I can look after this one if you like, since I use it. Though it seems Matthias Klose has been doing uploads for the last year, so if he'd rather look after it then this is fine by me. (Please CC me on replies related to libarchive-zip-perl adoption.)

Bug#299379: ITP: moodle-book -- moodle module for multi-page resources

2005-03-13 Thread Ben Burton
Hi, > This Moodle module makes it easy to create multi-page > resources with a book-like format. When you create the actual packages it might be nice to explain what moodle is, for those of us who have no idea. e.g.: This Moodle module makes it easy to create multi-page resources with a

Bug#286214: ITP: kwin-style-asteroid -- Pixel-for-pixel clone of Win2000 GUI style for KDE

2004-12-20 Thread Ben Burton
Hi, > I strongly disagree. It definitely makes a big difference to the user. > Why shall one be happy fetching bloated deb containing 10 styles > just because s/he wants one? Back in the days when I packaged kde-theme-plessky (which contained about 40 styles and kwin themes), I compromised by gr

Bug#280435: ITP: libkexif -- KDE library to read/edit EXIF informations

2004-11-10 Thread Ben Burton
> > Libkexif is a KDE library for manipulating EXIF information embedded in > > images. It currently supports viewing of all EXIF information via > > libexif. It also supports the modification of a few attributes in a save > > way that preserves all other EXIF information in the file. It can > > c

Bug#267377: ITP: porta -- software for analysing polytopes and polyhedra

2004-08-22 Thread Ben Burton
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: porta Version : 1.4.0 Upstream Author : Thomas Christof <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andreas Löbel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.zib.de/Optimization/Software/Porta/ * License : GPL Descripti

Bug#247318: ITP: xml2po -- XML document localization helper via POT/PO files

2004-05-04 Thread Ben Burton
Hi. > xml2po is a simple Python program which extracts translatable content > from free-form XML documents and outputs gettext compatible POT > files. FYI, the package poxml contains a tool /usr/bin/xml2pot which performs a similar task (it comes from the KDE software development kit). I'm not

Bug#181009: Uploading koffice-i18n

2003-09-01 Thread Ben Burton
> It wouldn't have harmed anyone but I think it doesn't make much sense > either - you don't have one for kde-i18n also. Which of course is not a particularly strong reason of itself. Anyway, I personally don't care too much whether the metapackage exists or not - I'm mainly arguing against what

Bug#181009: Uploading koffice-i18n

2003-09-01 Thread Ben Burton
> Ugh, why do you want to introduce a metapackage ? Is there a reason > for that ? kde-i18n doesn't have nor need one either :-) The reason for suggesting it was for the sort of people who would traditionally download koffice-i18n from the KDE servers and build and install it. As I see it, if y

Bug#181009: Uploading koffice-i18n

2003-08-31 Thread Ben Burton
Hi. I'm preparing a koffice-i18n upload ATM so we can get it into sarge before things start to freeze. Based on the latest discussion regarding package splitting with kde-i18n, my initial plan is to simply upload 30 different koffice-i18n-foo binary packages plus an additional koffice-i18n metap

Bug#196455: ITP: wv2 -- a library for converting Microsoft Word documents

2003-06-06 Thread Ben Burton
verting them to other formats. This library is intended as an eventual replacement for the wv library. -- Ben Burton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Public Key: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Morality is the attitude we adopt toward people whom we personally dislike. - Oscar Wilde

Bug#182489: ITP: eukleides -- a Euclidean geometry drawing language

2003-02-25 Thread Ben Burton
Hi. Not sure if this is the same thing? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> apt-cache show xeukleides Package: xeukleides ... Maintainer: Muhammad Hussain Yusuf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ... Version: 0.9.1rev1-1 ... Description: a program to create Euclidean geometry figures. xeukleides is a system for editing and

Bug#181009: ITP: koffice-i18n -- i18n files for koffice

2003-02-15 Thread Ben Burton
> I'll try to explain my point of view on koffice-i18n. It's very simple: if we > have kde and koffice (separate) packages, with different release cycles and > so, why should we package koffice-i18n and kde-i18n together? You're right, it's a bad solution. The problem is that the other solutio

Bug#181009: ITP: koffice-i18n -- i18n files for koffice

2003-02-14 Thread Ben Burton
> * Package name: koffice-i18n Hi. The situation with koffice i18n stuff is a bit unclear; in particular, it has been included in kde-i18n at various times in the past, though it doesn't seem to be at the moment. There was a short thread on debian-kde regarding koffice i18n stuff (http://li

Bug#166846: O: konverse

2002-10-28 Thread Ben Burton
Package: wnpp Version: unavailable; reported 2002-10-29 Severity: normal Hi. I'm orphaning konverse and have also filed for its removal from testing/unstable (#166839). Ben. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux espresso 2.4.19-686 #1 Thu Aug 8

Bug#166847: O: kdestudio

2002-10-28 Thread Ben Burton
Package: wnpp Version: unavailable; reported 2002-10-29 Severity: normal Hi. I'm orphaning kdestudio and have also filed for its removal from testing/unstable (#166840). Ben. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux espresso 2.4.19-686 #1 Thu Aug

Bug#159406: O: kde-theme-plessky -- Matte family of themes for KDE

2002-09-03 Thread Ben Burton
Package: wnpp Version: N/A; reported 2002-09-03 Severity: normal Due to time contraints, I'm orphaning kde-theme-plessky. The package description is: The Matte family of themes for KDE. Themes can be used to customise the look and feel of KDE and of applications written for KDE. Themes can be

Bug#159405: O: kleandisk -- a file cleanup and backup tool for KDE

2002-09-03 Thread Ben Burton
Package: wnpp Version: N/A; reported 2002-09-03 Severity: normal Due to time constraints, I'm orphaning kleandisk. A very hasty examination suggests that the current upstream sources do not build against KDE3, so whoever picks this up might need to do a port when the KDE3 transition takes place (

Bug#158543: RFA: python-pgsql -- A Python DB-API 2.0 interface to PostgreSQL v7.x

2002-08-27 Thread Ben Burton
ne can > adopt it that will keep it updated better than I can. Hi. I use this fairly regularly (and did the last NMU), and I'll be happy to take care of it. Ben. - -- Ben Burton [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://baasil.humbug.org.au/bab/ Public Key: finger [EMAIL PROTECT

Bug#156372: RFA: terraform -- A height field manipulation program

2002-08-12 Thread Ben Burton
Package: wnpp Version: N/A; reported 2002-08-12 Severity: normal I have less and less to do with GNOME anything and so I suspect this package would really be better off with someone else. Anyone wants to adopt it, be my guest. There's a new upstream version, and hopefully the povray patches can

Bug#141126: ITP: konq-speaker -- text-to-speech plugins for Konqueror and Kate

2002-04-04 Thread Ben Burton
Package: wnpp Version: N/A; reported 2002-04-04 Severity: wishlist * Package name: konq-speaker Version : 0.4 Upstream Author : George Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org/~grrussel/speaker.html * License : GPL and LGPL Descriptio

Bug#134668: ITP: magnus -- Computational group theory software with GUI

2002-02-18 Thread Ben Burton
Package: wnpp Version: N/A; reported 2002-02-19 Severity: wishlist * Package name: magnus Version : 4.1.1-beta Upstream Author : Dmitri Bormotov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Gilbert Baumslag, C.F. Miller III, Hamish Short and many others. * URL

Bug#119160: ITP: decompyle -- A Python byte-code decompiler

2001-11-11 Thread Ben Burton
FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE # SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE. -- Ben Burton [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://baasil.humbug.org.au/bab/ Public Key: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing. - Oscar Wilde

Bug#119019: ITP: kdeedu -- education module for KDE

2001-11-10 Thread Ben Burton
things, this will contain kgeo and kstars which are currently standalone debian packages. -- Ben Burton [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://baasil.humbug.org.au/bab/ Public Key: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] I go into a real vulnerable side of myself. That's where I am finding a l

Bug#114151: reginacalc -> regina-normal

2001-10-01 Thread Ben Burton
retitle 114151 ITP: regina-normal -- Regina, the 3-manifold normal surface theory calculator thanks Renaming the package to something more indicative of its purpose. Ben.

Bug#114151: ITP: reginacalc -- Regina, the 3-manifold normal surface theory calculator

2001-10-01 Thread Ben Burton
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist I intend to package Regina. Package: reginacalc License: GPL URL: http://regina.sourceforge.net/, though this is out of date and there will be significant changes for the 2.2 release which is what will actually be packaged for debian (I'm the upstream author).

Bug#112736: ITP: btools -- miscellaneous Java utility classes

2001-09-18 Thread Ben Burton
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist I intend to package BTools. Package: btools License: GPL URL: http://btools.sourceforge.net/, though this is out of date and there will be significant changes for the 1.1 release which is what will actually be packaged for debian (I'm the upstream author). The p

Bug#98590: uploading ktexmaker2

2001-09-16 Thread Ben Burton
Uploading ktexmaker2 now to incoming with the blessing of the original submitter of the ITP. Ben.

Bug#110808: ITP: lib-editline-java -- readline-compatible functions for Java

2001-08-31 Thread Ben Burton
pure Java implementation; it is merely a JNI wrapper for the standard system readline library. -- Ben Burton [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://baasil.humbug.org.au/bab/ Public Key: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... the brain-damaged Honorable Member for Bruce made his first parliamentary

Bug#110173: ITP: kgeo -- an interactive geometry program for KDE

2001-08-26 Thread Ben Burton
can be altered into any shape you want, just by moving its corners around. At the same time you can see that the angles change, but that they always add up to 180 degrees. -- Ben Burton [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://baasil.humbug.org.au/bab/ Public Key: finger [EMAIL

Bug#109969: qbble license

2001-08-26 Thread Ben Burton
I have word back from upstream; license is indeed GPL. Ben.

Bug#109969: ITP: qbble -- XMMS playlist manager with search support

2001-08-24 Thread Ben Burton
current playlist in a more manageable format. It also functions as an XMMS general plugin. The key feature is the ability to type a string into the 'search' box at the top of the dialog, and have the playlist reduced to items containing your search text as a substring. -- Ben Bur

Bug#98590: ktexmaker2 and debian

2001-08-08 Thread Ben Burton
Hi.. just wondering: are you still planning to package ktexmaker2? I wouldn't mind seeing it come out in woody so I figured I'd ask. If you no longer plan to package it, I'll happily have a shot. Ben. :)

Bug#68287: Somebody interested in packaging Jython ?

2001-07-03 Thread Ben Burton
Just realised I should have sent this to the ITP bug log also. - Ben. -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: Somebody interested in packaging Jython ? Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2001 12:21:02 -0500 From: Ben Burton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], debian-python@lists.debi

Bug#102928: ITP: lib-readline-java -- GNU readline for Java

2001-06-30 Thread Ben Burton
a JNI wrapper for the standard system readline library. -- Ben Burton [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://baasil.humbug.org.au/bab/ Public Key: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] I don't have to try in the least to shock people. My beliefs are sufficiently shocking to most people. Becau

Bug#98838: oops

2001-06-29 Thread Ben Burton
forgot to close this one with the original upload. ben. -- Ben Burton [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://baasil.humbug.org.au/bab/ Public Key: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] The rebellion is not about what clothes you are wearing or whether you turn your back to the audience - it'

Bug#101347: ITP: kdeaddons -- plugins for various components of KDE

2001-06-18 Thread Ben Burton
browser) and Noatun (KDE media player), as well as applets for Kicker (KDE panel). -- Ben Burton [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://baasil.humbug.org.au/bab/ Public Key: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nothing, except my genius. (Replying to a US customs official on being asked if he had

Bug#101244: ITP: kdeartwork -- official styles and themes released with KDE

2001-06-17 Thread Ben Burton
officially announced KDE modules (new to KDE 2.2; some of the stuff was moved out of kdebase into here). -- Ben Burton [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://baasil.humbug.org.au/bab/ Public Key: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on; it is never of any use

Bug#98838: ITP: kde-theme-plessky -- Various families of themes for KDE

2001-05-26 Thread Ben Burton
be used to customise the look and feel of KDE and of applications written for KDE. Themes can be applied using the theme manager in the KDE Control Center. . Each family is part of a large collection designed by Vadim Plessky. -- Ben Burton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://baasil.humbug.org.au/bab

Bug#97458: ITP: kleandisk -- a file cleanup and backup tool for KDE

2001-05-14 Thread Ben Burton
used as a backup and archiving tool. -- Ben Burton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://baasil.humbug.org.au/bab/ Director of Training Australian Informatics Olympiad Committee That you Jim? Paul Keating here. Just because you swallowed a f***ing dictionary when you were about 15 doesn't give yo

Bug#97069: ITP: konverse -- a Jabber client for KDE

2001-05-10 Thread Ben Burton
. -- Ben Burton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://baasil.humbug.org.au/bab/ Director of Training Australian Informatics Olympiad Committee One should never trust a woman who tells one her age. A woman who would tell one that, would tell one anything. - Oscar Wilde

Bug#94328: ITP: gb -- VB compatible Basic for GNOME

2001-04-19 Thread Ben Burton
> So, what became of guile, or is gb not intended to act as an extension > language? I believe the difference is that Gnome Basic aims for Visual Basic compatibility. Ben. -- Ben Burton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://baasil.humbug.org.au/bab/ Director of Training Australian Infor

Bug#94328: ITP: gb -- VB compatible Basic for GNOME

2001-04-18 Thread Ben Burton
. -- Ben Burton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://baasil.humbug.org.au/bab/ Director of Training Australian Informatics Olympiad Committee Whenever a relationship of mine is falling apart I hear this song, usually on the radio. The relationship's falling apart and I'm contemplating doing some

Bug#93484: ITP: kweather -- a weather display applet for KDE Kicker

2001-04-09 Thread Ben Burton
your mouse over the applet the dialog will give you information on windspeed and direction, temprature. -- Ben Burton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://baasil.humbug.org.au/bab/ Director of Training Australian Informatics Olympiad Committee I'm not nice music for your apartment. - Tori

Bug#84531: Has this package been adopted?

2001-03-16 Thread Ben Burton
a new maintainer. Perhaps I'm missing something here? - anyway, I thought I'd ask. Anyway, if you're adopting the package could you please change the bug title to ITA: instead of O: (as according to procedure) just so everything's clear? Thanks very much, Ben. :) --

Bug#89626: ITP: kcd -- a CD player applet for KDE Kicker

2001-03-14 Thread Ben Burton
-time. It also features CDDB support. This is an early development version for testing purposes. -- Ben Burton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://baasil.humbug.org.au/bab/ Director of Training Australian Informatics Olympiad Committee If God dislikes gays so much, how come he picked Michelangelo

ITP: keuklid -- an interactive geometry program for KDE

2001-03-06 Thread Ben Burton
that the angles change, but that they always add up to 180°. -- Ben Burton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://baasil.humbug.org.au/bab/ Director of Training Australian Informatics Olympiad Committee If God dislikes gays so much, how come he picked Michelangelo, a known homosexual, to paint the