Bug#1106648: ITP: bitcoin-knots -- Bitcoin Knots enhanced Bitcoin node/wallet software

2025-05-27 Thread Marco d';Itri
On May 27, Léo Haf wrote: Bitcoin Knots is a Bitcoin node that lets users be fully sovereign with their money. Can you avoid the propaganda in the description please? -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#1100034: ITP: golang-github-astromechza-etcpwdparse -- Golang library for parsing /etc/passwd entries

2025-03-11 Thread Marco d';Itri
On Mar 10, Roland Mas wrote: > The only real caveat is that it doesn't pull user entries from other > sources like PAM or LDAP since it only operates by reading the file on > disk. This is why this library is broken and programs should not use it. It is not just about LDAP, but also things lik

Bug#1090749: ITP: bird3 -- Internet Routing Daemon (version 3.x)

2024-12-18 Thread Marco d';Itri
On Dec 18, Shengqi Chen wrote: > Currently Debian already has bird and bird2. bird3 is now released, > presumably to be packaged separately with previous versions. Yes, but I expect that the bird2 maintainer will package bird3 since he works for the same organization. -- ciao, Marco signatur

Bug#738884: signify and signify-openbsd names

2024-10-05 Thread Marco d';Itri
On Oct 05, Simon Josefsson wrote: > I would like that 'apt install signify' install OpenBSD's signify (from > the Debian 'signify-openbsd' package) and not the 2003 mail-related > signify perl script from the Debian 'signify' source package. Agreed: the current signify package is a niche tool mai

Bug#1080344: ITP: bcachfs-tools -- bcachefs userspace tools

2024-09-03 Thread Marco d';Itri
On Sep 02, Daniel Gröber wrote: > Based on publically available [information], my previous and recent > interactions with upstream this happend more due to personal > differences with upstream than for technical reasons and I hope to be > able to rebuild that damaged bridge. Based on my own perso

Bug#1059745: ITP: cryptsetup-2fa -- 2FA plugin for cryptsetup

2023-12-31 Thread Marco d';Itri
On Dec 31, YunQiang Su wrote: > Upstream Contact: YunQiang Su > * URL : https://github.com/wzssyqa/cryptsetup-2fa/ What are the benefits of this compared to systemd-cryptenroll? -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#1030845: RFP: sbctl -- Secure Boot Manager

2023-02-08 Thread Marco d';Itri
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: sbctl Version : 0.10 Upstream Contact: Morten Linderud * URL : https://github.com/Foxboron/sbctl/ * License : MIT Programming Lang: Go Description : Secure Boot Manager sbctl is a user-friendly secure bo

Bug#1030556: ITP: mkosi-initrd -- builds an initramfs using distribution packages

2023-02-04 Thread Marco d';Itri
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Marco d'Itri X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-de...@lists.debian.org * Package name: mkosi-initrd Version : 0 Upstream Contact: Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek * URL : https://github.com/systemd/mkosi-initrd * License :

Bug#1013132: ITP: BabaSSL -- BabaSSL is a base library for modern cryptography and communication security protocols.

2022-06-30 Thread Marco d';Itri
On Jun 30, Stephan Verbücheln wrote: > As far as I understand it, the main point of BabaSSL is to add support > for Chinese developed ciphers and algorithms. Is supporting Chinese cryptography standards a goal for Debian? If it is then they should be available to all packages, but if it is not t

Bug#1013132: ITP: BabaSSL -- BabaSSL is a base library for modern cryptography and communication security protocols.

2022-06-29 Thread Marco d';Itri
On Jun 22, Lance Lin wrote: > Yes, from my understanding it is a "drop in" replacement for OpenSSL. One of > my packages (Workflow) uses it but can also use OpenSSL. > > I think this package will be beneficial to the Workflow users and downstream > OS's. Can you explain exactly what benefits

Bug#1013132: ITP: BabaSSL -- BabaSSL is a base library for modern cryptography and communication security protocols.

2022-06-20 Thread Marco d';Itri
On Jun 17, Lance Lin wrote: > - BabaSSL is a modern cryptographic and secure protocol library > developed by the amazing people in Alibaba Digital Economy. What is the plan? Are there any current or new packages which will depend on it? -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#1006264: RFH: dhcpcd5 -- DHCPv4, IPv6RA and DHCPv6 client with IPv4LL support

2022-02-22 Thread Marco d';Itri
On Feb 22, Noah Meyerhans wrote: > For servers, the ideal situation is somewhat less clear, but there was > at least some interest in using systemd-networkd (with or without > netplan). Why even consider netplan, I wonder? > So we may not need to specifically promote a DHCP client like dhcpcd5 t

Bug#1005090: ITP: node-zx -- Tool to launch modern Javascript scripts

2022-02-07 Thread Marco d';Itri
On Feb 07, Yadd wrote: > Bash is great, but when it comes to writing scripts, > people usually choose a more convenient programming language. [citation needed] > JavaScript is a perfect choice, This is a quite peculiar opinion. Maybe you want to adopt a more neutral tone for the package descrip

Bug#986334: O: ladvd -- LLDP/CDP sender

2021-04-03 Thread Marco d';Itri
Package: wnpp Severity: normal Control: affects -1 src:ladvd I intend to orphan the ladvd package. I do not care for it anymore because, when systemd-networkd is not enough, then I think that lldpd is generally better. The package description is: ladvd sends link layer advertisements on all a

Bug#963891: Bug#963889: O: ifenslave -- configure network interfaces for parallel routing (bonding)

2020-06-28 Thread Marco d';Itri
On Jun 28, Guus Sliepen wrote: > ifenslave used to be a standalone binary that sent ioctls to the kernel, > but nowadays bonding can be configured via the "ip" command from the > iproute2 package, and by writing to the /sys/ tree. The package no > longer contains the standalone binary, but just p

Bug#958908: ITP: bgpq4 -- automatic BGP filter generator using IRR routing data

2020-04-26 Thread Marco d';Itri
On Apr 26, Vincent Bernat wrote: > It is a fork of bgpq3. I appreciate the ITP, but is there any point now in keeping bgpq3 around? -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#929024: [RPKI] Bug#929024: ITP: routinator -- An RPKI Validator

2020-03-02 Thread Marco d';Itri
On Dec 30, Marco d'Itri via RPKI wrote: > > Building a real package will still require a few more crates to be > Right now I am stuck on rpki depending on a very old version of ring. > The verification API has changed since then and I do not know enough > Rust to upd

Bug#950775: RFP: boringtun -- userspace WireGuard implementation in Rust

2020-02-06 Thread Marco d';Itri
On Feb 06, Dmitry Smirnov wrote: > URL: https://github.com/cloudflare/boringtun > Description: userspace WireGuard implementation in Rust What is the purpose of having this packaged in Debian? It is at most a proof of concept, with hardly any improvements since it has been relea

Bug#929024: [RPKI] Bug#929024: ITP: routinator -- An RPKI Validator

2020-01-15 Thread Marco d';Itri
On Jan 02, Marco d'Itri via RPKI wrote: > I have packaged all missing dependencies: at this point the only blocker > is ring and possibly other not up to date dependencies (I have not > checked all of them). bcder is a problem too, since now it is uninstallable: https://bugs.debi

Bug#929024: [RPKI] Bug#929024: ITP: routinator -- An RPKI Validator

2020-01-02 Thread Marco d';Itri
On Jan 02, Martin Hoffmann wrote: > > > Building a real package will still require a few more crates to be > I think you can just ask the Debian Rust team to include them or > somesuch? I have packaged all missing dependencies: at this point the only blocker is ring and possibly other not up to

Bug#929024: [RPKI] Bug#929024: ITP: routinator -- An RPKI Validator

2019-12-29 Thread Marco d';Itri
On Dec 29, Marco d'Itri via RPKI wrote: > Building a real package will still require a few more crates to be Right now I am stuck on rpki depending on a very old version of ring. The verification API has changed since then and I do not know enough Rust to update rpki. -- cia

Bug#929024: ITP: routinator -- An RPKI Validator

2019-12-29 Thread Marco d';Itri
Updated Debian packaging is available in the git repository: https://salsa.debian.org/md/routinator/ . Building a real package will still require a few more crates to be packaged in Debian: ├── daemonize v0.4.1 │ ├── boxfnonce v0.1.1 ├── listenfd v0.3.3 ├── * │ └── once_cell v1.2.0 ├── unwr

Bug#942321: ITP: fort-validator -- An RPKI Validator and RTR Server

2019-10-14 Thread Marco d';Itri
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Marco d'Itri * Package name: fort-validator Version : 1.0.0 Upstream Author : NIC MX and LACNIC * URL : https://nicmx.github.io/FORT-validator/ * License : MIT Programming Lang: C Description : An RPKI Vali

Bug#929024: ITP: routinator -- An RPKI Validator

2019-05-19 Thread Marco d';Itri
A first attempt at packaging is available in https://salsa.debian.org/md/routinator/ . -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#929024: ITP: routinator -- An RPKI Validator

2019-05-15 Thread Marco d';Itri
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Marco d'Itri * Package name: routinator Version : 0.3.3 Upstream Author : NLnet Labs * URL : https://nlnetlabs.nl/rpki * License : BSD Programming Lang: Rust Description : An RPKI Validator The Routinator

Bug#906008: ITP: lizzie -- GUI for analyzing games in real time using Leela Zero

2018-08-13 Thread Marco d';Itri
On Aug 13, Ximin Luo wrote: > Description : GUI for analyzing games in real time using Leela Zero Games of what? Please clarify the description. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#904019: ITP: libxcrypt -- Extended crypt library for DES, MD5, Blowfish and others

2018-07-20 Thread Marco d';Itri
On Jul 20, Guillem Jover wrote: > > And this means that perl (a libcrypt dependency) would be broken between > > 1 and 5 (or maybe 1 and 3): is this ever going to work? > > Given that this new package is going to replace a part of glibc, it > will need to behave as if it was part of the pseudo-

Bug#904019: ITP: libxcrypt -- Extended crypt library for DES, MD5, Blowfish and others

2018-07-20 Thread Marco d';Itri
On Jul 20, Philipp Kern wrote: > I think it's odd to say "here, I'm packaging up a replacement for your > library, but I'm not going to coordinate with you" when we are preparing > a (somewhat) coherent distribution, so I don't think that option should > be discarded. (Unless you have a reasonabl

Bug#904019: ITP: libxcrypt -- Extended crypt library for DES, MD5, Blowfish and others

2018-07-20 Thread Marco d';Itri
On Jul 20, Philipp Kern wrote: > Make sure that glibc splits out libcrypt into its own package, have libc6 > depend on it and then provide libcrypt1? (Because it's really providing > libcrypt's ABI from another package.) Versioning might be tricky, though. At some point glibc will just stop build

Bug#904019: ITP: libxcrypt -- Extended crypt library for DES, MD5, Blowfish and others

2018-07-19 Thread Marco d';Itri
On Jul 18, Marco d'Itri wrote: > Some day it may replace crypt(3), currently provided by glibc: > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Replace_glibc_libcrypt_with_libxcrypt I tried creating a package which would divert libc's libcrypt, but it appears to be much harde

Bug#904019: ITP: libxcrypt -- Extended crypt library for DES, MD5, Blowfish and others

2018-07-18 Thread Marco d';Itri
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Marco d'Itri I intend to package the new version of libxcrypt, which will replace the orphaned libxcrypt source package. Some day it may replace crypt(3), currently provided by glibc: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ch

Bug#890816: ITP: autovpn -- Connect to a VPN in a country of your choice

2018-02-19 Thread Marco d';Itri
On Feb 19, Michael Meskes wrote: > > * It relies upon the external VPNGate.net site/service. If this > > goes away in the lifetime of a stable Debian release users will > > be screwed. For the records I do not think that this is important since the whole purpose of the program is acce

Bug#888986: ITR: gnats -- problem report management system - central database

2018-01-31 Thread Marco d';Itri
On Feb 01, Adam Borowski wrote: > This removal would also allow retiring one of hard-coded uids from > /etc/passwd that's currently present on every Debian system. Yes please! -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#882814: ITP: snooze -- run a command at a particular time

2017-11-27 Thread Marco d';Itri
On Nov 27, Nicolas Braud-Santoni wrote: > `snooze` is a new tool for waiting until a particular time and then running a > command. This looks like a lot of NOH work just to not use systemd timer units... -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#880151: O: sm-archive -- A milter for archiving email

2017-10-29 Thread Marco d';Itri
Package: wnpp Severity: normal I intend to orphan the sm-archive package. The package description is: This milter adds recipients to messages in transit accordingly to the rules specified in its configuration file. The package is mature and in decent shape, but I do not currently use it. --

Bug#862698: ITP: minecraft -- blocks to build anything you can imagine

2017-05-17 Thread Marco d';Itri
On May 16, Simon McVittie wrote: > Yes, that's why I suggested Flatpak. It would also be possible to use > a long bwrap command-line - that's what Flatpak does internally. > One day I should try making game-data-packager's games (mostly the quake > family) use bwrap like that. This would be easie

Bug#853932: ITP: adnauseam -- firefox extension that hides ad and simulates clicks on each blocked ad

2017-02-02 Thread Marco d';Itri
On Feb 02, Félix Sipma wrote: > AdNauseam works like an ad-blocker (it is built atop uBlock-Origin) to > silently > simulate clicks on each blocked ad, confusing trackers as to one's real Are you familiar with the concept of "click fraud"? -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: PGP signat

Bug#830983: ITP: field -- extracts a list of fields from a file

2016-07-13 Thread Marco d';Itri
On Jul 13, Trevor Bramwell wrote: > field it is a simpler version of: > > awk '{ print $5,$3,$1; }' Do we really need this trivial program which barely saves typing a few characters, especially in a standalone package? Also, what is wrong with cut(1)? -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Descripti

Bug#830624: ITP: xplayer -- Simple media player based on GStreamer.

2016-07-09 Thread Marco d';Itri
On Jul 09, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: > Do we really need yet another fork of GNOME? Probably not, but I suspect that this problem should be solved upstream... -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#816847: ITP: dislocker -- read/write encrypted BitLocker volume

2016-03-05 Thread Marco d';Itri
On Mar 05, Giovani Augusto Ferreira wrote: > The driver used to only read volumes encrypted under a Windows 7 system but > is > now Windows Vista and 8 capable and has the write functionality. The package description is not the right place to explain the development history of the package: ju

Bug#810586: ITP: dumb-init -- minimal init system for Linux containers

2016-01-09 Thread Marco d';Itri
On Jan 10, ChangZhuo Chen wrote: > dumb-init is a simple process supervisor and init system designed to run > as PID 1 inside minimal container environments (such as Docker). It is a > deployed as a small, statically-linked binary written in C. While I can see how distributing statically-linke

Bug#808414: ITP: ms-sys -- Program for writing Microsoft compatible boot records

2015-12-20 Thread Marco d';Itri
On Dec 20, lucas castro wrote: > I'll take a look at ms-sys-free. Can you clarify which features it provides over the existing mbr package? -- ciao, Marco

Bug#795898: ITP: pd-tclpd -- Tcl objects for Pd

2015-08-17 Thread Marco d';Itri
On Aug 17, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote: > This library allows to to write externals for Pd using the Tcl language. In this and the other packages maybe it would be a good idea to expand the "Pd" acronym at least once? -- ciao, Marco pgpX2S5NyuchM.pgp Description: PGP signature

Bug#791857: ITP: daemonize -- tool to run a command as a daemon

2015-07-09 Thread Marco d';Itri
On Jul 09, Martín Ferrari wrote: > I can say that it does: start-stop-daemon misses some functionality you > need for programs that don't daemonise and log to stdout/stderr, which > is something I needed only last week. Having said that, I think that This looks like a job for systemd. -- ciao,

Bug#763112: RFP: udiskie -- automounter for removable media

2014-09-27 Thread Marco d';Itri
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: udiskie Version : 1.1.2 Upstream Author : Byron Clark et al. * URL : https://github.com/coldfix/udiskie * License : MIT/X Programming Lang: Python Description : automounter for removable media udiskie is

Bug#729203: [FFmpeg-devel] Reintroducing FFmpeg to Debian

2014-07-28 Thread Marco d';Itri
On Jul 28, Alessio Treglia wrote: > Personally I don't feel like dropping libav in favor of ffmpeg now at > this stage. It's too late for Jessie. Except that, for a lot of the depending packages, there would be an immediate benefit in the number of bugs fixed. Personally I feel that we have inf

Bug#729203: [FFmpeg-devel] Reintroducing FFmpeg to Debian

2014-07-27 Thread Marco d';Itri
On Jul 28, Reinhard Tartler wrote: > Moreover, I am curious why I haven't seen you working on libavcodec > bugs in Debian before, and why do you believe you can do a better job > with the ffmpeg package currently on NEW? Why should he work on libavcodec when he (along with many other people) wan

Bug#754513: ITP: libressl -- SSL library, forked from OpenSSL

2014-07-11 Thread Marco d';Itri
On Jul 12, Toni Mueller wrote: > * Package name: libressl I am highly doubtful at best. What are your plans exactly? Would it have the same SONAME of openssl and conflict+provide it? Would it be a totally different library which packages would build-depend on? Which packages are supposed to

Bug#736604: ITP: r10k -- Smarter Puppet deployment, powered by killer robots

2014-01-25 Thread Marco d';Itri
On Jan 25, Sebastien Badia wrote: > Description : Smarter Puppet deployment, powered by killer robots I recommend that we keep packages descriptions to factual statements. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#736485: ITP: oslo.rootwrap -- allows fine filtering of shell commands to run as root

2014-01-24 Thread Marco d';Itri
On Jan 24, Thomas Goirand wrote: > Unlike other Oslo deliverables, it should not be used as a Python library, > but > called as a separate process through the oslo-rootwrap command. Is this really important enough to be part of the package description? -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Descript

Bug#693774: ITP: grub-finnix -- Build a Finnix bootloader stanza on GRUB 2 systems

2012-12-02 Thread Marco d';Itri
On Nov 20, Ryan Finnie wrote: > > I think that we can assume the "you should read README.Debian for more > > information" part for all packages... > True, but that was more to guide the user, given the fact that the > package does absolutely nothing without user configuration. Perhaps in This a

Bug#693774: ITP: grub-finnix -- Build a Finnix bootloader stanza on GRUB 2 systems

2012-11-20 Thread Marco d';Itri
On Nov 20, Ryan Finnie wrote: > Description : Build a Finnix bootloader stanza on GRUB 2 systems I think that you should add one or two lines to explain what Finnix is. At least, the word "rescue" would help a lot... > Note that there are certain restrictions regarding where the ISO may b

Bug#690183: ITP: apt-fast -- shellscript wrapper for apt-get or aptitude

2012-10-10 Thread Marco d';Itri
On Oct 11, Hideki Yamane wrote: > > apt-fast is a shellscript wrapper for apt-get that can drastically improve > > apt > > download times by downloading packages in parallel, with multiple > > connections > > per package. > well, isn't it huge load for repository servers? As a mirror operator

Bug#684396: ITP: openrc -- alternative boot mechanism that manages the services, startup and shutdown of a host

2012-08-09 Thread Marco d';Itri
Please do not bother. openrc was recently discussed on debian-devel@ and there was a large consensus that it is not a credible alternative to upstart and systemd. We do not need to be able to choose among multiple init implementations. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: Digital signatur

Bug#679078: ITP: acpi-support-minimal -- minimal acpi scripts

2012-06-27 Thread Marco d';Itri
On Jun 27, "Bernhard R. Link" wrote: > I'd prefer to get this fixed in acpi-support-base, but I think you > have made your point very clear that the only purpose of that package is > to not do anything if some power manager is running and that to detect this > perfectly you are totally willing to

Bug#652284: ITP: libkmod -- a library to handle kernel modules

2011-12-15 Thread Marco d';Itri
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Marco d'Itri" * Package name: libkmod Version : 1 Upstream Author : ProFUSION embedded systems * License : LGPLv2 or later Programming Lang: C Description : a library to handle kernel modules libkmod prov

Bug#650198: ITP: fcgi-daemon -- Perl-aware FastCGI daemon

2011-11-27 Thread Marco d';Itri
On Nov 27, Dmitry Smirnov wrote: > > There are plenty of other popular web servers which support fastcgi... > I'm a bit sceptical to your "plenty". It is pretty hard to find easy > to use and lightweight and working ones and in Debian. Looks like I was confusing the functionality of this package

Bug#650198: ITP: fcgi-daemon -- Perl-aware FastCGI daemon

2011-11-27 Thread Marco d';Itri
On Nov 27, Dmitry Smirnov wrote: > FCGI::Daemon is a small FastCGI server for use as fcgiwrap alternative with > nginx web server. It is enforcing RLIMITs and running unmodified Is this software actually nginx-specific in some way? There are plenty of other popular web servers which support fas

Bug#647505: ITP: tcp-over-dns -- TCP tunnel through the standard DNS protocol

2011-11-03 Thread Marco d';Itri
On Nov 03, gregor herrmann wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 03, 2011 at 12:13:46PM +0100, Wolfgang Frisch wrote: > > > Description : TCP tunnel through the standard DNS protocol > > How does this differ to dns2tcp? > Or iodine? iodine tunnels IP, which is not very efficient if you only need ssh. --

Bug#647505: ITP: tcp-over-dns -- TCP tunnel through the standard DNS protocol

2011-11-03 Thread Marco d';Itri
On Nov 03, Wolfgang Frisch wrote: > * Package name: tcp-over-dns How is this different from dns2tcp? -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#638504: ITP: mat -- Metadata anonymising toolkit

2011-08-19 Thread Marco d';Itri
On Aug 19, intrigeri+deb...@boum.org wrote: > Metadata consist of information that characterizes data. Metadata are Interesting program, but the description should list all the file formats it supports. -- ciao, Marco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a s

Bug#617820: support for installing unconfigured systems (VM images, Debian Live images, preinstalled mobile/tablet images)

2011-08-14 Thread Marco d';Itri
On Aug 14, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > Yes, because the upstream maintainers decided that the current scheme > > cannot work and will remove support for it. > > I do not know how long it will be feasible to keep it as a Debian patch. > It works today for many users. I don't see why it would stop wo

Bug#617820: support for installing unconfigured systems (VM images, Debian Live images, preinstalled mobile/tablet images)

2011-08-13 Thread Marco d';Itri
On Aug 13, Colin Watson wrote: > > Marco, do you have any plans for using this scheme as an option or as > > the default? Yes, because the upstream maintainers decided that the current scheme cannot work and will remove support for it. I do not know how long it will be feasible to keep it as a De

Bug#635283: ITP: openbgpd -- OpenBSD BGP routing daemon

2011-07-24 Thread Marco d';Itri
On Jul 24, Jérémy Bobbio wrote: > * Package name: openbgpd > Version : 4.6+port4.9.20110612 Which port is this, and where does it come from? Is it kFreeBSD-only? Does it have any limitations compared with the native OpenBSD version? -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: Digi

Bug#612901: O: asused -- To run a check on the usage of your registry's allocations

2011-02-11 Thread Marco d';Itri
On Feb 11, Jan Wagner wrote: > I intend to orphan the asused package. It only supports IPv4 and upstream is > dead since ages. True, but this does not make it less useful since its purpose has not changed... -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#602503: ITP: ppp-2.4.5-eaptls-mppe -- PPP daemon with EAP-TLS authentication support

2010-11-11 Thread Marco d';Itri
reassign 602503 ppp retitle 602503 integrate the EAP-TLS patch severity wishlist thanks On Nov 11, werner.jae...@t-systems.com wrote: > I contacted him and asked him about that. Here is his answer: > > "yes, that's correct: it has been on my TODO list for quite some time now to > work through t

Bug#602503: ITP: ppp-2.4.5-eaptls-mppe -- PPP daemon with EAP-TLS authentication support

2010-11-11 Thread Marco d';Itri
On Nov 05, Werner Jaeger wrote: > This package contains an extended Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) daemon > with support for EAP-TLS authentication. I expect that the ftpmasters will not accept a seconda copy of the whole ppp package without a good reason. Why the EAPTLS patch cannot be merged bo

Bug#595820: ITP: woof -- A small, simple, stupid webserver to share files

2010-09-07 Thread Marco d';Itri
On Sep 07, Andrea Gasparini wrote: > Brian, it lacks the long description, right, we'll provide one asap. > Though, it serves just one file a given number of times, and then shutdown. > It's something useful for distributing file in a LAN, if you don't want to > install and setup a complete/com

Bug#589632: RFH: ppp -- Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) - daemon

2010-07-19 Thread Marco d';Itri
Package: wnpp Severity: normal I request assistance with maintaining the ppp package. The package is in an acceptable shape, but I need a lot of help with bugs triaging and fixing. The upstream maintainers are not exactly MIA, but they tend to ignore patches and requests. -- ciao, Marco signat

Bug#568161: ITP: tacacs+ -- TACACS+ authentication daemon

2010-02-03 Thread Marco d';Itri
On Feb 03, Guus Sliepen wrote: > But, that's still a license. But look carefully, it says "without fee" in the > license. I don't know if that means "you can use it without paying anyone" or > "you can only redistribute it if you don't charge anyone". The first meaning is the one widely accepted

Bug#556386: ITP: libdigest-sha-pureperl-perl -- Digest::SHA::PurePerl - Perl implementation of SHA-1/224/256/384/512

2009-11-15 Thread Marco d';Itri
On Nov 16, Andres Mejia wrote: > Well, really the only reason why I'm even bothering to package this is > because > I'm working on an assignment which I want to make sure builds and runs on > CentOS and OSX and making Digest::SHA::PurePerl work would be easier for me > than making Digest::SHA

Bug#556131: ITP: opensips -- very fast and configurable SIP server

2009-11-13 Thread Marco d';Itri
On Nov 13, "Alejandro Rios P." wrote: > Description : very fast and configurable SIP server It may be a good idea to mention in the long description that it is a fork of OpenSER. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#550031: ITP: libjs-extjs -- a cross-browser JavaScript library

2009-10-07 Thread Marco d';Itri
On Oct 07, Thomas Goirand wrote: > may be a fail of the dissident test, as there is the word "must". Which would not make it non-free either, as it is not part of the DFSG. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#546831: ITP: perdition-pbs -- POP / IMAP Before SMTP Tool

2009-09-16 Thread Marco d';Itri
On Sep 16, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > People are still using pop/imap before smtp? OMG. People are also still using 10 years old systems in production, so anything that helps integrating them in modern infrastructure is useful. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#533348: ITP: udev-extras -- a collection of udev rules and helper programs

2009-06-16 Thread Marco d';Itri
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Marco d'Itri" http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/hotplug/udev-extras.git;a=summary It will be uploaded next month, I expect that it will not differ much from the Ubuntu package. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#446028: tg3 firmware - was (Fw: [CASE#221365]: Closed - need firmware files)

2009-04-09 Thread Marco d';Itri
On Apr 10, "brian m. carlson" wrote: > I don't know about you, but I'd much prefer to modify any sort of > program, firmware or not, using C or assembly rather than editing the > binary directly. I suspect that this is the case for any reasonable > programmer. Thus, we do not have the preferred

Bug#517906: O: uucp - unix to unix copy

2009-03-03 Thread Marco d';Itri
On Mar 02, Peter Palfrader wrote: > If somebody still uses UUCP it would be great if they could take care of > it from now on. It isn't exactly a fast moving target, but as this I still happily use it for my mail and if nobody else feels more qualified I will give it the love it needs. Co-mainta

Bug#457318: qmail and related packages in NEW

2008-11-30 Thread Marco d';Itri
On Nov 30, Joerg Jaspert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Qmail is dead upstream and requires a whole set of patches to even begin to > work in the manner expected of a modern MTA. Given this, the fact that this > means there is also no upstream security support, and the fact that Debian > already co

Bug#494043: ITP: ozymandns -- An experimental DNS server and miscellaneous DNS tools

2008-08-06 Thread Marco d';Itri
On Aug 07, Jacob Appelbaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Micah Anderson encouraged me to package this software. We were both > annoyed that it is both very useful and seemingly abandoned software. What does it provide exactly over the other DNS tunneling packages available in Debian? -- ciao, Mar

Bug#493697: ITP: mobile-manager -- mobile manager GPRS/3G daemon

2008-08-04 Thread Marco d';Itri
On Aug 04, Juan Manuel Garcia Molina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This daemon cover the GPRS/3G functions for develop and work > over GPRS/3G Can you try again with a description written in english? -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#414534: ITP: sucrack -- multithreaded su bruteforcer

2007-03-12 Thread Marco d';Itri
On Mar 12, Tim Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm packaging a bunch of security tools that I use in my job pen testing. I do not understand how you would use such a tool in packaged form. If you can install a package then obviously you already have root access, and at that point you can chec

Bug#414534: ITP: sucrack -- multithreaded su bruteforcer

2007-03-12 Thread Marco d';Itri
On Mar 12, Tim Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > sucrack is a multithreaded Linux/UNIX tool for cracking local user > accounts via wordlist bruteforcing su What is the point of packaging this? -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#396648: ITP: rt73 -- Linux device driver for Ralink RT73 a/b/g WLAN Card

2006-11-03 Thread Marco d';Itri
On Nov 03, Piotr Roszatycki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The packages from main should work without things from non-free, I think... The rule is that they must not depend on packages not in main. "Work without other things" is not the criteria we use, and e.g. ICQ clients fail it. > The rt73 driv

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

2006-10-30 Thread 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. -- c

Bug#389798: ITP: hapm -- high availability port monitor

2006-09-27 Thread Marco d';Itri
On Sep 27, Joao Eriberto Mota Filho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > High Availability Port Monitor (HAPM) is a local port status check. It is a > simple, light and fast daemon to check TCP/UDP ports. If one or more monitored > ports (per IP) downs then the Heartbeat will be killed by HAPM. This is a

Bug#385887: ITP: daemonize -- run a command as a Unix daemon

2006-09-03 Thread Marco d';Itri
On Sep 03, Stanley Jaddoe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Most programs that are designed to be run as daemons do that work for > themselves. However, you?ll occasionally run across one that does not. When > you > must run a daemon program that does not properly make itself into a true Unix > daemon

Bug#382531: ITP: furl -- a small utility for displaying the HTTP headers returned by Web servers

2006-08-14 Thread Marco d';Itri
On Aug 14, martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is libwww-perl. I don't object to furl, but so far I am not > convinced. I object, since so far it looks like a worthless waste of disk space. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#345977: ITP: polld -- Polling demon

2006-01-04 Thread Marco d';Itri
On Jan 04, Nathan Poznick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a USB card reader which has 5 different slots for various media. > If I plug in the card reader and then later insert a CF card, the CF > card slot's device does not have the partition device created when using > udev (I have to insert

Bug#328434: ITP: grepmap -- Parse module map files produced by depmod

2005-09-15 Thread Marco d';Itri
On Sep 15, Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In any case we do need to get d-i's udev support fully sorted out fairly > urgently as 2.6.13 approaches, and that will likely involve at least As I explained on -boot, I understand that you can start integrating udev now and later convert the h

Bug#328434: ITP: grepmap -- Parse module map files produced by depmod

2005-09-15 Thread Marco d';Itri
On Sep 15, Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I realise that this package will eventually be superseded by changes in > (or rewrites of) the udev/hotplug stack. However, in the meantime it "Eventually" will be next month. Do you really want to do this? -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Descr

Bug#294671: ITP: hotplug-ng

2005-02-10 Thread Marco d';Itri
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist I plan to package hotplug-ng (license: GPL v2). Probably the first uploads will go to experimental, because I think that the program will change its interfaces frequently and will not be a full hotplug replacement for a while. Considering that I also maintain ude

Bug#287317: ITP: eid -- software to support the eID, the new Belgian electronical ID card

2004-12-28 Thread Marco d';Itri
On Dec 28, Eric Dorland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > the biggest issue is: belpic includes gtk code so it can do a gui > > popup to ask for a pin. I'm not sure it is nice to link libopensc > > with gtk. I'd rather prefer a mechanism where the application > > registeres a callback function. maybe

Bug#275806: ITP: acx100-kernel-src -- kernel module for TI acx100 based wireless lan cards

2004-10-10 Thread Marco d';Itri
On Oct 10, Bas Zoetekouw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The driver needs firmware to function, so this package is going into > crontrib. The driver does not need any firmware, your card does. This is a free driver and should go in main. -- ciao, | Marco | [8450 tr8U7gAHS8DGw] signature.asc Descr

Bug#237370: pgp5i

2004-09-29 Thread Marco d';Itri
On Aug 06, Ian Beckwith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After asking on debian-security, it appears that there is still a > demand for pgp in debian. Although gpg provides a superset of > features, it doesn't have IDEA support compiled in (it is > patent-encumbered) but pgp, as it is non-US/non-free,

Bug#230767: ITP: devlabel -- storage device abstraction layer

2004-04-01 Thread Marco d';Itri
Any news? I consider devlabel an important complement to hotplug and udev. Please don't waste time trying to support devfs, it's going away soon anyway. -- ciao, | Marco | [5502 tiPo8yz7i6nsU]

Bug#207389: ITP: canlock

2004-01-29 Thread Marco d';Itri
On Jan 29, Laurent Fousse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >retitle 207389 ITP: canlock - library for creating and verifying cancel locks. I packaged libcanlock years ago and then asked for it to be removed from the distribution because no program ever used it. Why do you want to package it? -- ciao

Bug#199752: ITP: zebra-pj -- A possible successor to the orphaned Zebra OSPF/RIP/BGP routing suite

2003-07-03 Thread Marco d';Itri
On Jul 03, Christian Hammers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >* Package name: zebra-pj > Version : 0.94+cvs20030701 I'm happy you decided to package zebra-pj, but I think it should just replace the current zebra package. The official code is old and buggy, and I see no reason to keep it

Bug#180762: ITP: nglister -- Program to download active and newsgroups files from news servers

2003-02-12 Thread Marco d';Itri
On Feb 12, John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >* Package name: nglister This really looks overkill, this program could be replaced with a couple of perl one liners. Please do not package it. -- ciao, Marco

Bug#176477: ITP: rott -- Rise of the Triad, a first person shooter

2003-01-13 Thread Marco d';Itri
On Jan 13, Joe Drew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >And due to Apogee's idiotic position on this, we will likely not be able >to distribute rott at all, since it depends on data files. Allowing users to install the binary package and provide their own data files would be useful as well. -- ciao, M

Bug#138949: ITP: wvtftpd -- Scarily FAST Trivial FTP Server

2002-03-19 Thread Marco d';Itri
On Mar 18, Patrick Patterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >* Package name: wvtftpd Are you really sure debian needs its third TFTP daemon? -- ciao, Marco

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