Bug#1083231: ITP: fonts-roboto-mono -- Monospace font from Google developed for Android

2024-10-03 Thread Russell Coker
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Russell Coker X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-de...@lists.debian.org * Package name: fonts-roboto-mono Version : 20240508-1 Upstream Contact: Christian Robertson * URL : https://github.com/googlefonts/RobotoMono/tree/main * License

Bug#671288: I don't think this is the way to go for this concept

2023-12-14 Thread Russell Coker
close 671288 thanks https://etbe.coker.com.au/2023/12/14/fat-finger-shell/ I think that this should be reimplemented with the source of a newer terminal program that uses Wayland or reimplemented as an on-screen Wayland keyboard that uses transparency. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coke

Bug#849719: O: cyclades-serial-client

2016-12-29 Thread Russell Coker
Package: wnpp Severity: normal The package cyclades-serial-client is designed to work with Cyclades terminal servers (which have not been manufactured for a while) and other devices using RFC 2217 (which probably includes some Cisco gear that's still in service). It has a shared object that takes

Bug#678926: RFA: maildir-bulletin -- Deliver bulletins directly to the users' Maildir.

2012-06-24 Thread Russell Coker
Package: wnpp Severity: normal I request an adopter for the maildir-bulletin package. The package description is: Deliver bulletins directly to the Maildir mail storage of users. Designed to be run from the /etc/aliases file with command-line parameters for which groups to send mail to. This

Bug#572174: adopted these packages

2010-07-02 Thread Russell Coker
close 572174 thanks Rudi told me that I could have this package, but I don't recall him mentioning that he had already orphaned it. So I'm closing the bug now. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.

Bug#436119: ITA: dict-gcide

2010-01-09 Thread Russell Coker
On Wed, 16 Dec 2009, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > Sure. Looks like a good candidate to start a new project with ? > Especially since it contains more than 8 decades of data which can stand of > value even if just archived and maintained. > > Probably we just host it on alioth and let interested part

Bug#519339: ITP: tmux -- an alternative to screen, licensed under 3-BSD

2009-03-13 Thread Russell Coker
On Sat, 14 Mar 2009, Mike Hommey wrote: > > [Mike Hommey] > > > > > Screen does that too, so that would hardly be less secure than screen. > > > > Well, if by "in /tmp" you mean "in /var/run/screen". > > Well, that's a Debian thing. Upstream default is /tmp/screens, and last > time I checked on RH

Bug#427605: ITP: privbind -- Allow unprivileged apps to bind to a privileged port

2007-06-06 Thread Russell Coker
On Wednesday 06 June 2007 20:05, Shachar Shemesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What benefits does this offer over authbind which has been in Debian for > > ages? > > It uses a (I think) much more secure mode of operation. In particular: > - No SUID executables > - User who launches the daemon must

Bug#427605: ITP: privbind -- Allow unprivileged apps to bind to a privileged port

2007-06-06 Thread Russell Coker
On Tuesday 05 June 2007 16:52, Shachar Shemesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Shachar Shemesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> What benefits does this offer over authbind which has been in Debian for ages? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Bl

Bug#416397: ITP: haproxy -- fast and reliable load balancing reverse proxy

2007-03-28 Thread Russell Coker
On Wednesday 28 March 2007 02:20, Arnaud Cornet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > HAProxy is a TCP/HTTP reverse proxy which is particularly suited for high > availability environments. It features connection persistence through HTTP > cookies, load balancing, header addition, modification, deletion bot

Bug#416151: ITP: nss -- Network Security Service libraries

2007-03-28 Thread Russell Coker
On Sunday 25 March 2007 20:07, Mike Hommey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Package name: nss > Version : 3.11.5 > Upstream Author : Mozilla Project > * URL : http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/pki/nss/ > * License : GPL/LGPL/MPL > Programming Lang: C > D

Bug#311214: auditd -- User space tools for 2.6 kernel SELinux auditing

2007-03-23 Thread Russell Coker
On Friday 23 March 2007 05:42, Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would prefer you do move it back to /sbin. A number of > SELinux tools are moving to depend on audit, and some of these do > require them to be functional before the other file systems are > mounted. I can liv

Bug#347832: Bug#349693: ITP: gst-fluendo-mp3 -- MP3 decoder plugin for GStreamer

2006-01-29 Thread Russell Coker
On Wednesday 25 January 2006 21:53, Florian Weimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There is no difference between decoders and encoders. Both require > patent licenses. There are a few references to a statement by some of > the patent holders (Thomson IIRC, the company representing one of the > larg

Bug#347832: Bug#349693: ITP: gst-fluendo-mp3 -- MP3 decoder plugin for GStreamer

2006-01-25 Thread Russell Coker
On Wednesday 25 January 2006 17:40, Joe Wreschnig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2006-01-25 at 17:08 +1100, Russell Coker wrote: > > MP3 software does not belong in Debian/main. Unlike many patents the > > MPEG patents probably have a good basis. > > To make i

Bug#349693: ITP: gst-fluendo-mp3 -- MP3 decoder plugin for GStreamer

2006-01-24 Thread Russell Coker
On Wednesday 25 January 2006 12:10, Joe Wreschnig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2) We take the patent issue seriously, and drop all MP3 support. MP3 software does not belong in Debian/main. Unlike many patents the MPEG patents probably have a good basis. Any software which is based on Frauhoffe

Bug#347832: ITP: mpc123 -- Command-line Musepack audio player

2006-01-23 Thread Russell Coker
On Friday 13 January 2006 08:35, Daniele Sempione <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > MPC is a lossy compression format like MP3 or Ogg Vorbis. It is > based on the MPEG-1 Layer-2 / MP2 algorithms, but has vastly > improved. If it's based on the MPEG algorithms then it's also subject to the MPEG patents

Bug#321054: ITP: mls -- Mls is a linux clone of Mdir.

2005-08-05 Thread Russell Coker
On Wednesday 03 August 2005 16:02, Ki-Heon Kim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: "Ki-Heon Kim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MLS also stands for "Multi Level Security". It would probably avoid confusion if the package was named "mdir". NB We will have MLS in Debian

Bug#251980: ITP: hc-cron -- A cron daemon for home computers

2004-06-02 Thread Russell Coker
On Wed, 2 Jun 2004 06:42, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > It runs specified jobs at periodic intervals and will remember the > > > time when it was shut down and catch up jobs that have occurred > > > during down time when it is started again. Hc-cron is based on the

Bug#190312: O: kernel-patch-2.4-speedtouch -- speedtouch USB ADSL support for 2.4

2003-04-23 Thread Russell Coker
Package: wnpp Version: unavailable; reported 2003-04-23 Severity: normal I intend to orphan the kernel-patch-2.4-speedtouch package. The package description is: The Alcatel SpeedTouch USB ADSL device is one of the cheapest pieces of hardware you can use for an ADSL connection. This patch suppl

Bug#179055: Adopting lilo

2003-02-01 Thread Russell Coker
support and the people who never want debconf support. Russell Coker

Bug#179055: O: lilo -- LInux LOader - The Classic OS loader can load Linux and others

2003-01-30 Thread Russell Coker
Package: wnpp Version: unavailable; reported 2003-01-30 Severity: important I intend to orphan the lilo package. This package takes up too much time and gets me too many bug reports from idiots. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux lyta 2.4.20

Bug#174525: ITP: dar -- Disk ARchive: Backup directory tree and files.

2002-12-28 Thread Russell Coker
On Sun, 29 Dec 2002 00:52, Brian May wrote: > > Shouldn't be a problem, just do "ssh client restore-comand" and then the > > client's stdin and stdout are the two pipes you need. Gotta test it > > first of course, but I expect it to work. > > That only brings STDOUT and STDIN to the local computer

Bug#174525: ITP: dar -- Disk ARchive: Backup directory tree and files.

2002-12-28 Thread Russell Coker
On Sat, 28 Dec 2002 08:28, Brian May wrote: > - The Author recommends linking with -static, so restoration programs > will work without extra libraries. I haven't decided if this is a good > idea or not, if it needs to be applied to all binaries. lintian > gets upset if my package contains st

Bug#157916: RSBAC support in Debian

2002-12-17 Thread Russell Coker
On Sat, 7 Dec 2002 22:43, Russell Coker wrote: > On Wed, 6 Nov 2002 12:29, Christoph Martin wrote: > > In http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ch-nexttime.html it says that work on > > RSBAC support in Debian is in progress. I have not seen any discussion > > of it on the list. Ho

Bug#157916: RSBAC support in Debian

2002-12-07 Thread Russell Coker
ckage as I don't have the user-space tools (or the time to spare). Even though I don't plan to use RSBAC myself I think it's a worthy thing to have in Debian, so I'm happy to maintain the kernel packages for a while (sans proper testing) to help kick-start the Debian/RSBAC project. Russell Coker

Bug#171253: ITP: libdjbdns -- DNS client library designed to replace the BIND res_*/dn_* library

2002-11-30 Thread Russell Coker
On Sat, 30 Nov 2002 15:34, Gerrit Pape wrote: > License: Bernstein has put the .[ch] files (dns.h, dns_dfd.c, > dns_domain.c, dns_dtda.c, dns_ip.c, dns_ipq.c, dns_mx.c, dns_name.c, > dns_nd.c, dns_packet.c, dns_random.c, dns_rcip.c, dns_rcrw.c, > dns_resolve.c, dns_sortip.c, dns_transmit.c, dns_txt

Bug#155275: ITP: iozone3 -- Filesystem, disk-system benchmarking tool

2002-08-02 Thread Russell Coker
author probably doesn't intend it quite that way - but until get get some clarification in writing I think we have to interpret it in it's most strict fashion. Russell Coker

Bug#152036: ITP: mls -- MLS: MailListStat - a text mode program to display MBOX statistics

2002-07-07 Thread Russell Coker
On Fri, 5 Jul 2002 15:31, Kevin M. Rosenberg wrote: > * Package name: mls MLS is a commonly used acronym which is about to become more common with it's use in systems such as NSA SE Linux. Perhaps it would be less confusing if you choose a different name... >From V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entit

Bug#114757: ITP: kernel-patch-2.4.10-speedtouch -- kernel patch for SpeedTouch USB ADSL modem

2001-10-07 Thread Russell Coker
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist I downloaded the patch from: Speedtouch: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=3581 Sarlib: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=1 Copyright: GPL 2.0

Bug#114756: ITP: kernel-patch-2.4.10-pppoa -- kernel patch for PPP over ATM

2001-10-07 Thread Russell Coker
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist I downloaded the patch from: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/axboe/PPPoATM/2.4.8-pre5/ Copyright: GPL 2.0