Bug#502183: ITP: ExactImage -- A fast, modern and generic image processing library

2008-10-14 Thread Steve Greenland
On 14-Oct-08, 04:59 (CDT), Robert Wohlrab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Description: ExactImage is a fast, modern and generic image processing > library. It can be used with different frontends to replace > Imagemagick with some faster and more specialised tool

Bug#492157: ITP: apollo -- The Apollo Solr Server

2008-07-24 Thread Steve Greenland
On 23-Jul-08, 22:47 (CDT), Paul Waite <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * License : GPL, Apache 2.0, CDDL 1.0, BSD, MIT Really? All of those? > Programming Lang: (C, C++, C#, Perl, Python, etc.) Really? All of those? > Description : The Apollo Solr Server > > The Apollo Solr Serve

Bug#490997: ITP: mayanna -- A fork of gimmie, an elegant desktop organizer

2008-07-16 Thread Steve Greenland
On 15-Jul-08, 16:03 (CDT), Julian Andres Klode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Julian Andres Klode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * Package name: mayanna > Version : 0.2.8 > Upstream Author : Seif Lotfy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and others > * URL

Bug#486127: ITP: sock -- make a customized traffic over network

2008-06-13 Thread Steve Greenland
On 13-Jun-08, 10:05 (CDT), Joao Eriberto Mota Filho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Package name: sock > Version : 0.3 > Upstream Author : Willian Richard Stevens, Mike Borella and Christian > Kreibich. > * URL : http://www.icir.org/christian/sock.html > * License

Bug#485553: ITP: charybdis -- fast, scalable irc server

2008-06-10 Thread Steve Greenland
On 10-Jun-08, 06:38 (CDT), William Pitcock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > - openvpn (may or may not have exception, more checking needed) The copyright file has the necessary exceptions. Steve -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMA

Bug#481980: RFP: Jubler -- Jubler Subtitle Editor

2008-05-19 Thread Steve Greenland
rsion: 3.9.0 > Upstream Author: [Panayotis Katsaloulis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>] > URL: [http://www.jubler.org] > License: [GPL] No brackets, please. > Description: [Subtitle Editor] Needs a better short description, and a long description. -- Steve Greenland Th

Bug#477106: ITP: codecgraph -- generate a routing graph for an Intel-HDA codec

2008-04-20 Thread Steve Greenland
uot;Codecgraph is a utility..." (The first word of a sentence is capitilized.) Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net -- To

Bug#475822: ITP: fwsnort -- Fwsnort translates Snort rules into iptables rules.

2008-04-13 Thread Steve Greenland
tion. > fwsnort translates Snort rules into iptables rules and generates a English sentences always begin with a capital letter. You might want to break up that description into a couple of paragraphs, as it's pretty dense. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates c

Bug#475834: ITP: nlkt -- non-linear visual keyboard trainer

2008-04-13 Thread Steve Greenland
Author : Eugene V. Lyubimkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/nlkt/ > * License : GPL 2+ > Programming Lang: C++ > Description : non-linear visual keyboard trainer > > nlkt is a lightweight keyboard trainer (touch-t

Bug#475719: ITP: robotfactory -- Help Pedro to build robots in his factory (game)

2008-04-12 Thread Steve Greenland
a game...". (Yes, I know that the actual program is "robotfactory". None-the-less, in English, the first word of a sentence is always capitalized.) Also, the whole long description is misformated - every line should begin with a space. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is tha

Bug#468183: Many packaged programs that are doing the same thing

2008-03-07 Thread Steve Greenland
ackages available is unnecessary for this purpose. OTOH, I think it would be completely reasonable for the security team to object. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take ove

Bug#464388: RFP: alfresco -- open source enterprise content management

2008-02-06 Thread Steve Greenland
and long descriptions. See section 3.4 of the policy manual. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Bug#463973: ITP: deejayd -- A media player daemon

2008-02-04 Thread Steve Greenland
such features? Obviously, they'd have final say over a particular implementation. Thanks, Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net --

Bug#461104: RFP: label -- Set or change label to partition disk

2008-01-17 Thread Steve Greenland
ption: [Set or change label to partition disk] I realize this is just an RFP, but the proposed package name is way too generic. Something like 'partlabel' or 'disklabel' would be better. It also seems a rather trivial script for its own package... Steve -- Steve Greenland

Bug#460672: RFP: pymills -- James Mills Python Library

2008-01-14 Thread Steve Greenland
special purpose libraries and modules for the Python > programming language. English sentences begin with capital letters. Yes, even when the word is not normally capitalized. Regards, Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system

Bug#457473: ITP: extended_threading -- Extension of the python threading api

2007-12-22 Thread Steve Greenland
ce (subclassing) of locks > - debugging utility > - timeouts with locks > - locks with both exclusive and non-exclusive characteristics > - read/write mode lock (write locks are exclusive, read locks are not) > - "safe" object based locks to help debug lock code. Excellent

Bug#457473: ITP: extended_threading -- Extension of the python threading api

2007-12-22 Thread Steve Greenland
e posting the ITP? You're going to have to do it eventually, why not now? Is there some sort of fierce competition in ITPs that I'm unaware of? Regards, Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds c

Bug#456959: RFP: wnpp -- makehuman: software for the modelling of 3-Dimensional characters

2007-12-18 Thread Steve Greenland
fused the short and long descriptions, and it's not formatted correctly. Don't put the package name in the short description. Please use standard English capitalization rules. I assume it's a straight dump of the upstream website. Those are rarely suitable for Debian (or Ubuntu) packag

Bug#455064: ITP: sofa-framework -- SOFA is an Open Source framework primarily targeted at real-time simulation, with an emphasis on medical simulation.

2007-12-10 Thread Steve Greenland
it's FOSS. Try: Description: framework for real-time simulation, particularly medical simulation Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen

Bug#452153: ITP: haf-marketing-release -- Set of meta packages for Hildon desktop

2007-11-20 Thread Steve Greenland
velopment environment? If so, it would be good to mention it in the descriptions. Regards, Steve, N800 owner/user -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen o

Bug#450781: ITP: Plasmidomics -- gui for plasmid and vector map drawing with postscript export / debian-med

2007-11-13 Thread Steve Greenland
ications. It natively supports PostScript as output format. If you haven't looked at the Debian New Maintainers Guide, you might want to: http://www.us.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/index.en.html Regards, Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a sta

Bug#450781: ITP: Plasmidomics -- gui for plasmid and vector map drawing with postscript export / debian-med

2007-11-13 Thread Steve Greenland
alized ("draw plasmids..."), nor end in a period. Long description isn't formatted correctly. See section 5.6.13 of the policy manual. (It's entirely possible that you know this, and your control file is correct. But there's no way for me to tell...) Regards, Steve -

Bug#450781: ITP: Plasmidomics -- gui for plasmid and vector map drawing with postscript export / debian-med

2007-11-10 Thread Steve Greenland
ut the package name in the short description. We know it's open source since it's in Debian. Suggestion: Description: draw plasmid and vector maps with high-quality graphics export. 3. You're missing a long description. Regards, Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that B

Bug#447514: ITP: apt-cacher-ng -- Caching proxy for distribution of software packages

2007-10-23 Thread Steve Greenland
: BSD, original ^ "Original", as in the 4-clause anti-advertising version? It's your code, your license choice, of course, but it's so rarely used these days, I kind of wondered... Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a st

Bug#447014: ITP: detox -- utility to cleanup filenames from problematic characters

2007-10-17 Thread Steve Greenland
lines, you need two (or more) leading spaces. Also, the bulleted items need to either all be sentences (beginning with a capitalized letter and ending with a period) or not (not). Finally, watch out for the 80 char line-length. Regards, Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates c

Bug#446766: ITP: qavimator -- a BVH animation editor for 3D virtual worlds such as secondlife

2007-10-15 Thread Steve Greenland
u need to repost the ITP, since our exchange is in the bug log. Just make sure that you get the fixes into the package/templates before anyone spends time translating. That's why I (when I notice) send these kinds of trivial fixes to the ITP, so that they get fixed before a real upload. Steve --

Bug#446791: ITP: python-pycg -- NVIDIA's Cg 1.4 for Python

2007-10-15 Thread Steve Greenland
elves. ITPs serve as a marker, but also as way to get some of the package basics right before you upload debs and people spend time translating them. The sooner you find and fix a bug, the easier it is. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable oper

Bug#446766: ITP: qavimator -- a BVH animation editor for 3D virtual worlds such as secondlife

2007-10-15 Thread Steve Greenland
d of the sentence. Thus "Qavimator is a QT-based BVH animation editor..." Also, please reformat to fit in an 80-character line. Oh, and either "secondlife" needs to be capitalized in the short description, or lowercased in the long. Regards, Steve -- Steve Greenland

Bug#443904: ITP: jugglemaster -- graphical siteswap simulator

2007-10-10 Thread Steve Greenland
url with further information on the notion in every > manpage. Any reason not to include it in the long description? > If you would like to sponsor this package or know a sponsor, please let > me know. Sorry, can't help there. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bil

Bug#445866: ITP: perforce -- closed source revision control system

2007-10-10 Thread Steve Greenland
g another? > > I don't see the relevance of this argument, really, but if you really think > it's a problem: What if someone needed to access an existing Perforce > repository? They could download and install the client from Perforce? Steve -- Steve Greenland The

Bug#444334: ITP: libmowgli -- a high performance development framework for C

2007-09-28 Thread Steve Greenland
sentence, and so should NOT be capitalized. Isn't English fun?) Regards, Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Bug#443904: ITP: jugglemaster -- graphical siteswap simulator

2007-09-24 Thread Steve Greenland
a lot of package descriptions. However, spelling it out explicitly may be a bit much. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net --

Bug#443619: RFP: epdfview -- ePDFView is a free lightweight PDF document viewer

2007-09-23 Thread Steve Greenland
ries. > You should probably read the control file documentation on the distinction between "short description" and "long description". And about not repeating the package name in the short description. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims

Bug#434525: ITP: swing-layout -- Extensions to Swing layout

2007-07-25 Thread Steve Greenland
an eye towards the > needs of GUI builders, such as NetBeans. This project consists of the > following pieces: "This package provides the following functionality:" Regards, Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating syst

Bug#433143: ITP: bzr-rebase -- Rebase plugin for Bazaar

2007-07-17 Thread Steve Greenland
ackages will have to reflect *that*. Fine. Figure out a way to transition that doesn't involve automatically replacing baz with bzr. Or, just include in the bazaar package long description "This is baz, not bzr. You probably want the bzr package, instead." Or, just have 'bazaar

Bug#433472: ITP: dirbuster -- Directory & file brute forcing, with a twist

2007-07-17 Thread Steve Greenland
arch for. Does this package really have any non-cracker usefulness? If I'm the sys admin, then it's a lot easier for me to 'ls -R' and look at the configuration files to find what URLs might be in play. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making

Bug#433143: ITP: bzr-rebase -- Rebase plugin for Bazaar

2007-07-17 Thread Steve Greenland
and suggesting others. Wouldn't that cause people who currently have "bazaar" (the package) installed to suddenly change from 'baz' (aka "bazaar the old SCM tool") to 'bzr' (the new SCM tool)? That seems like a bad idea. Steve -- Steve Greenland The iron

Bug#429818: ITP: qemulator -- it's a free solution for easy setup and management of qemu

2007-06-20 Thread Steve Greenland
gt; Programming Lang: Python > Description : it's a free solution for easy setup and management of qemu I can't really say why this "Description" seems wrong (except for the redundant "free"), but it really doesn't fit the style, somehow. A simpler "ea

Bug#428212: ITP: linky -- an Iceweasel extension to handle web and image links

2007-06-09 Thread Steve Greenland
: MPL-1.1 > Description : an Iceweasel extension to handle web and image links Aren't iceweasel extension packages supposed to be named 'iceweasel-foo'? (No idea if there's actual policy, just looking at the existing packages) Thus "Package name : iceweasel-li

Bug#427871: ITP: skytools -- Skytools is tools for replication and failover

2007-06-07 Thread Steve Greenland
h putting the word "postgresql" in the short description. Also, don't put the package name in the short desciption. Thus: Description: tools for PostgreSQL database replication and failover Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable ope

Bug#419200: ITP: paris-traceroute -- A new version of the well known traceroute

2007-04-16 Thread Steve Greenland
ad balancers with the initial > implementation of traceroute. > The full detail with technical explanations is available at > http://www.paris-traceroute.net/newtraceroute.htm Your long description is malformed - the lines are too long and each line should begin with a space. Regards, Ste

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

2007-03-28 Thread Steve Greenland
Or are you asking how the internal server keeps track of the remote IP address? It shouldn't. Any webservice that uses the (supposed) client IP for anything other than amusement value is broken, given NAT and client proxies. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates clai

Bug#411708: ITP: ultrastar-ng -- free C++ Linux based clone of UltraStar

2007-02-20 Thread Steve Greenland
most users. "Clone of UltraStar" is not very informative to someone glancing/searching short descriptions for a karaoke game. So perhaps something like Description: karaoke game that allows user supplied songs might be more informative. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony

Bug#409341: ITP: hgview -- Graphical viewer for distributed version content managment tools

2007-02-02 Thread Steve Greenland
> display them graphicaly. 1. That's "graphically". 2. Does hgview really support anything besides mercurial? A quick glance at hgview.py implies otherwise. 3. In anycase, explicitly list the supported DSCM systems. "Tools such as" doesn't help the user. Steve --

Bug#408119: ITP: chessdb -- ChessDB is a free chess database which can be used on Microsoft Windows, Linux, Apple Macs running OS X as well as most if not all modern UNIX versions.

2007-01-23 Thread Steve Greenland
with Crafty for analysis, etc.) You *Don't* need to reproduce the entire webpage, just a paragraph or so of theh highlights. Regards, Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over

Bug#392672: O: positron - synchronization manager for the Neuros Audio Computer

2006-10-12 Thread Steve Greenland
Package: wnpp Severity: normal Probably dead upstream after version 1.1; Pierre Habouzit was kind enough to do an NMU taking this to 1.1 and the new Python policy, his patch is at bug #380895 Contact me for a CVS repository. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to

Bug#392671: O: ee - An "easy editor" for novices and compuphobics

2006-10-12 Thread Steve Greenland
Package: wnpp Severity: normal Not dead upstream, but "finished". Contact me for copy of CVS repository. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world.

Bug#392666: O: dgpsip - Correct GPS location with DGPS signal from internet

2006-10-12 Thread Steve Greenland
Package: wnpp Severity: normal This is probably useless now that selective availability has been turned off, but I'm orphaning it in case there's someone out there actually using it. If nobody picks it up, probably just remove from Debian. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is

Bug#392665: O: nvi - 4.4BSD re-implementation of vi

2006-10-12 Thread Steve Greenland
Package: wnpp Severity: normal Effectively dead upstream; probably worth keeping in Debian, though, as there are many who still prefer it to vim. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to

Bug#383940: ITP: aa -- astronomical almanac - calculate planet and star positions

2006-08-29 Thread Steve Greenland
On 28-Aug-06, 20:08 (CDT), "James R. Van Zandt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 20-Aug-06, 15:43 (CDT), "James R. Van Zandt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > aa computes th

Bug#384401: ITP: rash -- Rash is a PHP/MySQL script for the management of quotes

2006-08-24 Thread Steve Greenland
s a PHP/MySQL script for the management of quotes, similar to >the script in use at http://www.bash.org -- but designed as an entirely >seperate piece of code. >It is *highly* customizable to any layout you want to throw at it. Need a blank line between paragraphs. Steve --

Bug#383940: ITP: aa -- astronomical almanac - calculate planet and star positions

2006-08-21 Thread Steve Greenland
apitilization again. I'm a little concerned about the short name for the package. However, if it's widely known in the field, it's probably okay. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims

Bug#362266: ITP: scribus-ng -- developmental version of the desktop publishing program Scribus

2006-04-15 Thread Steve Greenland
kage) and sufficiently > stable to warrant its inclusion into the Debian distribution. Then why not just upload it as the new version of 'scribus' in unstable? Why do we need a whole new package? Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable oper

Bug#361253: ITP: zenoss -- Zenoss is a powerful, integrated, easy-to-use IT infrastructure monitoring software product.

2006-04-07 Thread Steve Greenland
t *do*? SNMP monitoring? Network service monitoring? Local resource (e.g. diskspace or CPU usage) monitoring? Alert by e-mail, or pager, or IM? Web based? How is it configured? Any autodetection capabilities? Please save the marketing nonsense for the upstream website, and provide the Debian us

Bug#359345: ITP: dbdesigner -- DBDesigner 4 is a visual database design system that integrates database design, modeling, creation and maintenance into a single, seamless environment.

2006-03-28 Thread Steve Greenland
x27;s see, it's in Debian main, so I know that it's a) Linux and b) free. The rest is advertising. I had to scroll through 30 lines to find out what database it supports. Is it really mysql only? Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable o

Bug#359340: ITP: opencity -- a 3D city simulator game

2006-03-27 Thread Steve Greenland
What events might happen? To be clear: I think it's okay to say "If you want SimCity 4, this isn't it", but that's hardly a complete description. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Lin

Bug#355030: ITP: ultimate-othello -- classic othello game with nice graphics

2006-03-02 Thread Steve Greenland
On 02-Mar-06, 15:01 (CST), Jari Aalto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The ultimate othello game with aqua-friendly graphics, full > cocoa interface and animations. And how is that relevant to a Debian GNU/Linux user? Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to

Bug#353365: ITP: gt5 -- Terminal program for visual disk usage with navigation

2006-02-18 Thread Steve Greenland
"; I initially pictured something like xterm with some sort of status bar. The phrase "terminal program" brings to mind a terminal emulator to a lot of people, I would guess. Also, the first character in the short description should be lowercase. Steve -- Steve Greenland

Bug#344991: ITP: dotproject -- Web-based project management tool

2005-12-28 Thread Steve Greenland
//www.dotproject.net/ > * License : GNU General Public License version 2 or later > Description : Web-based project management tool > Ummm, where's the long description? Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system

Bug#340624: ITP: sendcard -- web-based virtual greeting card (e-card) software

2005-11-25 Thread Steve Greenland
*wanted*? Okay, maybe "Unsolicited Crap E-mail" is more correct, but it's still UCE. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on t

Bug#340624: ITP: sendcard -- web-based virtual greeting card (e-card) software

2005-11-25 Thread Steve Greenland
postcard program written in PHP. Suitable > for large or small sites, it is very easy to setup, and comes with an > installation wizard. What could be easier? I know the usual criteria for Debian packages are "Free" and "Someone is willing to maintain it", do we really

Bug#338657: ITP: Buoh -- Buoh is a reader for online strips comics, designed to work well under the GNOME Desktop

2005-11-11 Thread Steve Greenland
comics, designed to > work well under the GNOME Desktop Repeats the package name, too long, and "online strips comics" is not the standard English phrase. Perhaps: Description: online comic-strip reader for GNOME works? > > (Include the long description here.) > Yes, pl

Bug#338094: ITP: sword-comm-scofield -- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition for SWORD

2005-11-09 Thread Steve Greenland
ections. Ummm, reference notes for *what*? Yes, by context I can guess it's related to the Christian Bible, but making it explicit would be nice. You might also say what version of the Bible is considered; presumably (from the dates) KJV? Also, neither "Edition" nor "Based"

Bug#335260: ITP: dnspython -- DNS toolkit for Python

2005-10-23 Thread Steve Greenland
nspython.org > * License : ^^ The little '*' means the field is not optional. :-) Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on t

Bug#335367: ITP: abakus -- KDE calculator

2005-10-23 Thread Steve Greenland
ally try not to criticize descriptions unless I can offer something better, but I'm at a complete loss on this one. "Not as blindess"? "because of its it is..."? Anybody? Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating syste

Bug#326691: ITP: freebob -- FreeBoB aims to provide a free driver implemenation for the BeBob

2005-09-05 Thread Steve Greenland
for > the BeBob Don't repeat the package name in the short description. How about: Description: a free driver for BeBob IEEE 1394 breakout boxes Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying

Bug#323076: ITP: dealer -- bridge hand generator

2005-08-16 Thread Steve Greenland
On 14-Aug-05, 11:09 (CDT), Christoph Berg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * License : Public domain with some files GPLv2+ Doesn't that effectively reduce to "GPLv2+"? Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operat

Bug#319256: ITP: nadoka - IRC Client Server Program

2005-07-20 Thread Steve Greenland
ersations and responding to specially formatted requests. You define and customize these responses in Ruby. Nadoka is conceptually similar to Madoka, an older proxy written in Perl. (I'm sure there's an IRC-specific term for "specially formatted requests", but I can't think

Bug#302309: ITP: bcron -- Bruce's cron system

2005-04-07 Thread Steve Greenland
ult. Is that really necessary? The important thing is that you don't pickup .dpkg-dist etc. in default mode. For the sake of consitency, you should use the same conventions as run-parts. Feel free to take the code from cron. And yeah, I'll pick up fixing the permissions in cron. Send m

Bug#302309: ITP: bcron -- Bruce's cron system

2005-04-07 Thread Steve Greenland
s the file naming conventions (both Debian and LSB) that apply in /etc/cron.d. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net -- To UNSUBSCR

Bug#301700: ITP: update-manager -- a GNOME application that manages apt updates

2005-03-28 Thread Steve Greenland
w apt-watch Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe&qu

Bug#297629: ITP: gallery2 -- web-based photo album written in PHP

2005-03-01 Thread Steve Greenland
re's no sign of an upgrade path yet. There are are several web photo albums in Debian. Another one that's likely to be popular and well supported long term won't hurt. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Lin

Bug#294845: ITP: holotz-castle -- platform game with high dosis of mistery

2005-02-12 Thread Steve Greenland
nd Ludar to scape alive from the castle? ^ "escape", probably. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world

Bug#294084: ITP: life -- Linux Instrumentation for Enterprise - a set of WBEM management providers from Novell

2005-02-08 Thread Steve Greenland
no released files, no nothing. The CVS tree hasn't been modified in months. Is this really something that can be usefully packaged? Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take o

Bug#292546: ITP: ps2client --

2005-01-27 Thread Steve Greenland
kb.x?T=985 Please read about the difference betwewen the long and short description, as well as where the Copyright statement goes. -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world.

Bug#290614: ITP: bazaar -- arch-based distributed revision control system

2005-01-19 Thread Steve Greenland
ified (and reminded me that I had previously read about bazaar). Perhaps Description: alternate implementation of arch with a superior UI would be better? Perhaps not... I agree that it's hard to describe in 80 chars. Regards, Steve "Random Thoughts R Us" Greenland -- Steve Gr

Bug#290614: ITP: bazaar -- arch-based distributed revision control system

2005-01-19 Thread Steve Greenland
ified (and reminded me that I had previously read about bazaar). Perhaps Description: alternate implementation of arch with a superior UI would be better? Perhaps not... I agree that it's hard to describe in 80 chars. Regards, Steve "Random Thoughts R Us" Greenland -- Steve Gr

Bug#283005: ITP: vhcs -- Virtual Hosting Control System

2004-12-31 Thread Steve Greenland
domains that can be created. Would it be possible to have a description of what the package *does*, rather than marketing gobbledy-gook? Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take

Bug#220345: Status of this ITP?

2004-12-08 Thread Steve Greenland
ktop.org package by now in > debian. If you're going to CC debian-devel, at least have the courtesy to mention what the hell you're babbling about, instead of forcing us to go look up the bug number. > Get off your ass. Ah. I see. Courtesy is not your strong point. Steve -- Steve G

Bug#284313: ITP: gcursor -- gtk2 tool to configure Xcursors themes (introduced in XFree86 4.3 iirc).

2004-12-05 Thread Steve Greenland
be correct. Suggestion: Description: gtk2 to configure Xcursors themes The long description needs a *lot* of work, as it is not even close to grammatically correct. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus

Bug#277766: ITP: moniwiki [*snip*]

2004-10-22 Thread Steve Greenland
between the "short description" and the "long description". :-) Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net

Bug#275371: ITP: bandersnatch -- Bandersnatch is a complete logging system for jabber conversations with database backend

2004-10-08 Thread Steve Greenland
essages to a database Description: Log Jabber conversations to a peer-visible database Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net

Bug#267694: ITP: wininfo -- displays information about X windows under the mouse cursor

2004-08-24 Thread Steve Greenland
server supporting the X-Resource ^ Is that a typo? Is this package really different than the xwininfo in xbase-clients? Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net

Bug#263175: ITP: kwinex-installer -- This KDE-package will download and build TransGaming winex

2004-08-03 Thread Steve Greenland
really: does having a kwinex-installer program really serve any purpose that wouldn't be met by having a menu entry that ran 'xterm -e winex-installer'? Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds

Bug#259872: ITP: gamin -- File and directory monitoring system

2004-07-17 Thread Steve Greenland
ome.org/~veillard/gamin/ > * License : LGPL > Description : File and directory monitoring system > > Gamin is a file and directory monitoring system defined to be a subset > of the FAM (File Alteration Monitor) system. And that subset would be what? Is it API compatibl

Bug#258746: ITP: nufw -- NuFW, an Authentication Firewall Suite for Linux

2004-07-12 Thread Steve Greenland
ugh the gateway. > > The daemons currently run on Linux and software clients are available > for Windows and Linux. That's a nice manifesto, but doesn't really measure up as a useful description. General note to ITPers: copying the frontpage of a project webpage for the

Bug#258235: ITP: pylint -- python code static checker

2004-07-08 Thread Steve Greenland
hat is intended, feel free to clarify. :-) Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net

Bug#257249: ITP: gfs - Global file system

2004-07-02 Thread Steve Greenland
ms a remarkably inadequate and misleading description. Plus, you're missing several fields from the ITP. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net

Bug#252632: ITP: wmtemp -- WindowMaker dock applet displaying lm_sensors temperature values

2004-06-05 Thread Steve Greenland
r, perhaps, the functional duplication of GNOME and KDE... Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net

Bug#244682: ITP: aewan -- Ascii-art Editor

2004-04-19 Thread Steve Greenland
ough it currently also > compiles under FreeBSD and possibly other *NIX systems. Irrelevant to the consumer of a Debian package. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net

Bug#239548: ITP: gnome-keyring -- gnome keyring system is a program that keep password and other secrets for

2004-03-23 Thread Steve Greenland
gnome-keyring is a GUI front end or a back end that other packages can use (which other packages?), or both. Regards, Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net

Bug#238864: ITP: mnews -- Text-based Mini NEWS-reader and also mail-reader

2004-03-19 Thread Steve Greenland
7;s program name: Mnews can read news via NNTP Regards, Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net

Bug#237116: ITP: rlplot -- RLPlot is is a plotting program to create high quality graphs from data. The Graphs are displayed as you get them (Wysiwyg). It supports most scientific graphing formats including bar charts, error bars and scatter plots.

2004-03-09 Thread Steve Greenland
m, and update in real time? It would be useful to know what the output format is - Postscript, on the X display, both? Regards, Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net

Bug#236298: ITP: xmms-stats -- Make stats of your preferred songs

2004-03-05 Thread Steve Greenland
filename, song title and artist, ..." (I don't read French, so you'll need to fill in and correct the last sentence about what it actuall saves.) Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net

Bug#234477: ITP: logsurfer+ -- real-time system log monitor

2004-02-24 Thread Steve Greenland
emely efficient...". Sorry, that's not a true statement: use of a particular language doesn't automagically make a program efficient. How about something like "Logsurfer is written with a concern for efficiency, and easily support busy sites with a high amoutn of log traffic

Bug#225502: ITP: reoback -- REOBack (pronounced as ray-o-back), is a backup solution designed for Linux users/system admins.

2003-12-30 Thread Steve Greenland
ed "ray-o-back" is designed to be simple to configure and easy to use." as a new first sentence. The rest is fine. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net

Bug#217169: ITP: gnue-appserver -- The core of the n-tier variant of the GNU Enterprise system

2003-10-23 Thread Steve Greenland
Or perhaps it doesn't. Entirely up to you. Steve [1] Yes, I see that your original is pretty much what's on the upstream site. It's awkward and inscrutable there, too. -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torva

Bug#216776: ITP: smilutils -- DV command line utilities

2003-10-20 Thread Steve Greenland
ce somewhere in the short or long description. I've no idea what this package is about. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net

Bug#211118: ITP: php-gtk -- PHP extension for GTK+ ....

2003-09-16 Thread Steve Greenland
ent only if you are running the webserver locally. It > is intended for creating standalone GUI applications. > > (Include the long description here.) Please read the debian maintainers guide and debian policy on how to write the short and long descriptions. Steve -- Steve Greenland

Bug#201561: ITP: elfutils -- Tools to read from and write to ELF files

2003-07-16 Thread Steve Greenland
nt of this would be? I mean, I certainly don't object to you packaging this, but I've no idea why I would want to install it, given binutils. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims

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