gmane.linux.debian.devel.general

Bug#507622: ITP: rpy2 -- Python interface to the GNU R language, version 2

Dirk Eddelbuettel — 2008-12-03T01:34:42

Package: wnpp Owner: Dirk Eddelbuettel debian.org> Severity: wishlist * Package name : rpy2 Version : 2.0.0 Upstream Author : Laurent Gautier * URL or Web page : http://rpy.sf.net * License : LPGL Description : Python interface to the GNU R language, version 2 This is Laurent Gautier's rewrite/extension of rpy (which we have had in Debian since 2003). Version 2.0.0 is the first real release of the new 'version 2'. It is not fully compatible with rpy (v1), but it has a compatibility mode. Given this, we intent to keep both around for the time being. I have a basic package ready. Documentation requires python-sphinc 0.4.3 which will hit unstable within a day (thanks, Piotr and Mikhail!) and I'll probably upload to unstable once I can add the rst-based docs. Drop me a line if you want to see a snapshot build. Dirk

Bug#507575: ITP: gksu-polkit -- run X-based applications as root

Gustavo Noronha Silva — 2008-12-02T16:57:11

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Gustavo Noronha Silva debian.org> * Package name : gksu-polkit Version : 0.0.1 Upstream Author : Gustavo Noronha Silva debian.org> * URL : http://live.gnome.org/gksu * License : GPLv3/LGPLv3 Programming Lang: C/Vala Description : command line utility to run programs as root This is the new generation of gksu, a simple utility to run programs as root, even in X-based environments. This version uses the new libgksu-polkit library, which uses PolicyKit for authorization purposes and a D-Bus service to actually perform the work. This package aims to replace the current gksu and libgksu packages; I'm going to work on a migration path.

Bug#507548: ITP: libtest-needsdisplay-perl -- Ensure that tests needing a display have one

Damyan Ivanov — 2008-12-02T10:23:00

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Damyan Ivanov debian.org> * Package name : libtest-needsdisplay-perl Version : 1.05 Upstream Author : Adam Kennedy cpan.org> * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Test-NeedsDisplay/ * License : same as Perl (GPL-1+ | Artistic) Programming Lang: Perl Description : Ensure that tests needing a display have one When testing GUI applications, sometimes applications or modules absolutely insist on a display, even just to load a module without actually showing any objects. . Regardless, this makes GUI applications pretty much impossible to build and test on headless or automated systems. And it fails to the point of not even running the Makefile.PL script because a dependency needs a display so it can be loaded to find a version. . In these situations, what is needed is a fake display. . The Test::NeedsDisplay module will search around and try to find a way to load some sort of display that can be used for the testing. Test-NeedsDisplay is needed during Padre build. Will be maintained under the umbrella of the Debian Perl Group.

Bug#507529: ITP: bauble -- Bauble is a biodiversity collection manager software application

Giacomo Catenazzi — 2008-12-02T06:12:46

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Giacomo Catenazzi debian.org> * Package name : bauble Version : 0.8.5 Upstream Author : Brett belizebotanic.org> * URL : http://bauble.belizebotanic.org * License : GPL v2 Programming Lang: Python Description : Bauble is a biodiversity collection manager software application Bauble is a software application to help you (yes you) manage a collection of botanical specimens. It is intended to be used by botanic gardens, herbaria, arboreta, etc. to manage their collection information. It is a open, free, cross-platform alternative to BG-Base and similiar software. Features: - Bauble is designed to be simple, elegant and intuitive. - Bauble can use different database backends and is tested against SQLite and PostgreSQL. - Bauble can generate reports through an XSL formatter backend. - Bauble is transaction safe. - Bauble can export data in CSV or Access to Biological Collection Data (ABCD) format. In the future we hope to support other standard formats such as DarwinCore, ITF2, BioCASE, TAPIR, etc. - Bauble supports tagging. You can tag any arbitrary data stored in a Bauble managed database with arbitrary names. - ....and lots more.

Hi all, mentor searching

Alessandro Galli — 2008-12-01T21:23:47

Hi. I'm Alessandro Galli, an italian engeneer with the passion for open source. I'm cofounder of MontelLUG. Some time ago I've written a program to help sysadmin administering their servers. It's a wrapper for vnc and rdesktop: it's called krd and hosted in sourceforge. I've already made deb packages: there is someone that can help me adding this program in the debian repositories? Tks. Bye!

Bug#507480: ITP: libclass-unload-perl -- unload a Perl class

Damyan Ivanov — 2008-12-01T17:23:53

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Damyan Ivanov debian.org> * Package name : libclass-unload-perl Version : 0.03 Upstream Author : Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Class-Unload/ * License : same as Perl (GPL-1+|Aeristic) Programming Lang: Perl Description : unload a Perl class Unloads the given class by clearing out its symbol table and removing it from %INC Package is a dependency of Padre and will be maintained under te pkg-perl umbrella.

Bug#507472: ITP: hunspell-gl-es -- Galician dictionary for hunspell

Agustin Martin — 2008-12-01T16:43:38

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Agustin Martin Domingo debian.org> Package name : hunspell-gl-es Version : 2.2 Upstream Author : Mar Castro Pereiro (mancomun< at >mancomun.org) for mancomun URL : http://wiki.mancomun.org/index.php/Corrector_ortográfico_para_OpenOffice.org License : GPLv2 Description : Galician dictionary for hunspell This is the Galician dictionary for hunspell spellchecker which is currently used within OpenOffice.org and the mozilla variants. It uses the official RAG (Real Academie Galega) standard. As opposed to dictionaries currently in Debian for ispell, aspell or myspell, which follow the minimos convention (before this dictionary, the closest to the official one), this dictionary is build to match the official convention. Because of the rules complexity this needs to be done for hunspell.

Bug#507451: ITP: iptux -- IP Messenger client for Linux

LI Daobing — 2008-12-01T13:43:24

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: LI Daobing gmail.com> * Package name : iptux Version : 0.4.1 Upstream Author : Jally 163.com> * URL : http://code.google.com/iptux * License : GPLv2+ Programming Lang: C++ Description : IP Messenger client for Linux iptux is an IP Messenger client for Linux. . It support: - auto detect other clients in the intranet. - send message to other clients. - send file to other clients.

Bug#507447: ITP: python-simplecouchdb -- simple library for working with Apache CouchDB

Noah Slater — 2008-12-01T12:50:49

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Noah Slater tumbolia.org> * Package name : python-simplecouchdb Version : 0.9.1 Upstream Author : Benoit Chesneau gmail.com> * URL : http://www.example.org/ * License : Apache 2.0 Programming Lang: Python Description : simple library for working with Apache CouchDB Provides a simple high-level client library for Apache CouchDB, allowing you to model documents as Python classes. . Apache CouchDB is a distributed document database system with bi-directional replication. It makes it simple to build collaborative applications that can be replicated offline by users, with full interactivity (query, add, update, delete), and later "synced up" with everyone else's changes when back online.

Bug#507436: ITP: jalview -- multiple alignment editor

Vincent Fourmond — 2008-12-01T10:34:17

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Vincent Fourmond debian.org> * Package name : jalview Version : 2.4 Upstream Author : Andrew Waterhouse; Jim Procter; David Martin; Geoff Barton * URL : http://www.jalview.org * License : GPL (v2 or later) Programming Lang: Java Description : multiple alignment editor JalView is a Java alignement editor that can work with sequence alignement produced by programs implementing alignment algorithms such as clustalw and kalign. . It has lots of features, and can be considered a decent BioEdit replacement for Debian systems. This program is in java and therefore comes with the standard bunch of java-related problems: binary jars in the source and the like. I haven't checked yet wether all dependencies are truly free of if they are packaged for Debian. I intend to place this package under the juridiction of the debian-java team, but I am aware it could also belong to the Debian Med Team... Cheers, Vincent

Need news for DeveloperNews

Raphael Hertzog — 2008-12-01T09:52:01

Hello, it's been a long time since I have been able to send out the last issue of "Misc devel news". I would like all developers to (regularly) make the effort to share some words about the cool stuff they are doing or are planning to do so that we can have something at least twice a month or so. The bar is not very high, I need 5 news and they can be as short as one paragraph. You can also use the DeveloperNews to post call for helps. Random ideas of stuff that would be (IMO) ok but that nobody has added yet: - packages.debian.org web interface runs on two hosts (round-robin DNS) - ftpmasters accept AGPL 3.0 in main - switch to mono 2.0 in preparation - important changes to debian-cd, hence tester needed - security team meeting results - lintian 2.X important changes - any nice new devscripts tool (or important improvement) - any important stuff that goes on in your team Basically when you post an important announce on a dedicated list, it can make sense to write a paragraph in DeveloperNews and point to that announce. I currently need 2 news: http://wiki.debian.org/DeveloperNews Cheers,

Bug#507412: ITP: liq-contrib -- contributed scripts for liquidsoap

Romain Beauxis — 2008-11-30T23:43:15

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Romain Beauxis rastageeks.org> * Package name : liq-contrib Version : 08.11 Upstream Author : The Savonet Team lists.sourceforge.net> * URL : http://savonet.sf.net/ * License : GPL v2+ Programming Lang: liquidsoap Description : contributed scripts for liquidsoap liq-contrib contains various scripts implemented using the liquidsoap audio streaming language. . Currently, it contains: o liq123: a command line audio player o streamliqueur: an audio stream ripper o simpleliq: a program to create and test simple streaming examples using the liquidsoap language.

Bug#507400: ITP: libi18n-ruby -- I18n and localization solution for Ruby

Roberto C. Sanchez — 2008-11-30T21:11:08

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Roberto C. Sanchez" connexer.com> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 * Package name : libi18n-ruby Version : 0.1.1~git20081120 Upstream Author : The Ruby i18n Team googlegroups.com> * URL : http://rails-i18n.org/ * License : MIT/X Programming Lang: Ruby Description : I18n and localization solution for Ruby Implementation of the Ruby on Rails I18n core api. - -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-6-k7 Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFJMwEW5SXWIKfIlGQRAtl5AJ9ZvfcSzNeNVJVKE0lyMP7L2MrptQCfUCPe B49czepEvcJWldil4RcIhtg= =wiDP -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

Bug#507376: ITP: upprint -- tools for better n-up printing

Paulus Esterhazy — 2008-11-30T17:47:56

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel< at >lists.debian.org Package name : upprint Version : 1.5 Upstream Author : Peter Selinger (selinger< at >users.sourceforge.net) URL : http://www.mscs.dal.ca/~selinger/upprint/ License : GPL / psutils licence Programming Lang: C The upprint package contains tools for better formatting of print jobs. Unlike print systems such as CUPS, which delegate all formatting to the print server, the upprint tools are designed to work on the user side, and therefore under the user's control. The package provides the following tools: pstops-clip: an extension of Angus J. C. Duggan's pstops program for reformatting postscript files. The extension allows configurable page clipping. psdim: a small utility to be used in conjunction with pstops or pstops-clip. It determines the true margins of a postscript documents and calculates the optimal page placement for n-up printing. It outputs a format string suitable for processing by pstops or pstops-clip. In order to accurately determine the size of the pages in a postscript document, psdim internally uses the ghostscript interpreter to render the document. For this reason, psdim is relatively slow, but much more accurate than other tools. lprwrap: a wrapper around the standard "lpr" program. Lprwrap is a client-side program, which means, all processing is done under your control before passing the print job to lpr. Lprwrap can convert common file formats to postscript. It recognizes special options for duplex printing and n-up printing. It handles n-up printing intelligently, with optimal margins based on the actual document (see above illustration). I have packaged an initial version and am looking for a sponsor the preliminary packages are accessible here: http://loevborg.karmafish.net/debian/upprint/

Popular packages in Ubuntu that is missing in Debian/main

Petter Reinholdtsen — 2008-11-30T15:05:09

To see which popular packages are missing in Debian/main at the moment, I decided to compare the list of popular pckaages in Ubuntu with the list of packages in Debian/main. The result was interesting. There are at the moment 823762 reports colleected in popcon.ubuntu.com. I decided to use 5000 (~0.6%) installations as the cutoff point defining "popular", as 5000 installations could be seen as quite a significant user base, even if it is a very small fraction of the user base.. This gave me a list of 1543 packages in Ubuntu. There are 31595 debian/main packages listed as used by popcon.debian.org, and comparing these lists give this list of 152 packages only in Ubuntu and not in Debian/main: acroread acroread-escript adobe-flashplugin apparmor apparmor-utils apport apturl avidemux binutils-static bluez bluez-gstreamer busybox-initramfs compiz-wrapper displayconfig-gtk dkms dvdrip emerald example-content firefox-2 firefox-3.0 firefox-3.0-branding firefox-3.0-gnome-support gdebi-kde gstreamer0.10-pitfdll gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad-multiverse gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly-multiverse hwdb-client-common hwdb-client-gnome hwtest hwtest-gtk iceauth inputattach jockey-common jockey-gtk jockey-kde kdebase-workspace-bin kde-window-manager kio-umountwrapper kubuntu-artwork-usplash lame landscape-common language-pack-de language-pack-de-base language-pack-en language-pack-en-base language-pack-es language-pack-es-base language-pack-fr language-pack-fr-base language-selector language-selector-common launchpad-integration libbluetooth3 libcamel1.2-14 libcanberra-gnome libcryptui0 libdca0 libebackend1.2-0 libedataserver1.2-11 libemeraldengine0 libfaac0 libgnome-desktop-2-7 libgp11-0 libgucharmap7 liblaunchpad-integration1 libltdl7 libplasma2 linux-firmware linux-headers-2.6.24-21 linux-headers-2.6.24-21-generic linux-headers-2.6.27-7 linux-headers-2.6.27-7-generic linux-image-2.6.22-14-generic linux-image-2.6.22-15-generic linux-image-2.6.24-16-generic linux-image-2.6.24-19-generic linux-image-2.6.24-21-generic linux-image-2.6.27-7-generic linux-restricted-modules-2.6.24-19-generic linux-restricted-modules-2.6.24-21-generic linux-restricted-modules-common linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24-19-generic linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24-21-generic mencoder mjpegtools nspluginwrapper nvidia-173-modaliases nvidia-177-kernel-source nvidia-177-modaliases nvidia-71-modaliases nvidia-96-modaliases nvidia-common nvidia-glx nvidia-glx-177 nvidia-glx-new nvidia-settings onboard openoffice.org-l10n-common openoffice.org-style-human opera picasa powermanagement-interface pxljr python-apport python-bittorrent python-cupshelpers python-gconf python-gnomecanvas python-launchpad-bugs python-launchpad-integration python-problem-report python-virtkey python-xkit rar restricted-manager restricted-manager-core seahorse-plugins sessreg skype smartdimmer soprano-daemon sun-java5-bin sun-java5-jre sun-java6-bin sun-java6-jdk sun-java6-jre system-config-printer-common system-config-printer-gnome system-config-printer-kde sysvutils transcode ufw unrar update-motd upstart upstart-compat-sysv upstart-logd usb-creator usplash-theme-ubuntu virtualbox virtualbox-2.0 vlc-plugin-pulse volumeid w32codecs xdpyinfo xkbutils xmodmap xorg-driver-fglrx xrdb xset xsetroot xvinfo I was a bit surprised that there were so few popular packages missing in Debian/main. A lot of these packages are due to different package structure or other differences between Debian and Ubuntu, while others are already available in contrib or non-free (like sun-java*). A lot of the rest is multimedia related (like avidemux, lame, mencoder, mjpegtools, transcode) which would be very nice to have available in Debian. The onboard package for example seem to be related to accessibility support. Should we try to get any of these packages into Debian/main? This is how I made the list: GET http://popcon.ubuntu.com/by_vote.gz | gunzip > ubuntu-by_vote-all GET http://popcon.debian.org/main/by_vote.gz | gunzip > debian-by_vote-main grep -v '#' ubuntu-by_vote-all |awk '$4 > 10000 {print $2}' | \ sort > ubuntu-popular awk '{print $2}' debian-by_vote-main | sort > debian-main comm -23 ubuntu-popular debian-main Happy hacking,

Bug#507352: ITP: qlandkartegt -- GPS mapping (GeoTIFF and vector) and Garmin GPSr management

Michael Hanke — 2008-11-30T12:50:26

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Michael Hanke gmail.com> * Package name : qlandkartegt Version : 0.9.0 Upstream Author : Oliver Eichler gmx.de> * URL : http://www.qlandkarte.org/ * License : GPL-2 Programming Lang: C++ Description : GPS mapping (GeoTiff and vector) and GPSr management This package provides a versatile tool for GPS maps in GeoTiff format as well as Garmin's img vector map format. QLandkarteGT is the successor of QLandkarte. Among various improvements (e.g. 2D/3D map rendering and reduced ressource demands) the major difference is its device-independent architecture, which is not limited to Garmin devices anymore. Therefore, the package also does not include device drivers. Drivers for a number of Garmin devices are available from the package. Additionally, QLandkarteGT serves as a frontend to the GDAL tools, to make georeferencing of scanned maps feasible for users. In contrast to similar tools (e.g. QGis) its straightforward interface is especially suited for non-scientific users.

ITP: taglib-rusxmms -- TagLib + RusXMMS patch

ivan — 2008-11-30T12:09:32

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel< at >lists.debian.org --- Please fill out the fields below. --- Package name: taglib-rusxmms Version: 1.5 Upstream Author: Scott Wheeler kde.org> URL: http://ktown.kde.org/~wheeler/taglib License: LGPL-2.1 Description: TagLib Audio Meta-Data Library RusXMMS Project =============== Originally, the project was aimed to provide means to work with multiple encodings of the same language through adapting encoding of ID3 tags, M3U and PLS playlists (including file names) to local settings on-the-fly. Both the tag reading and writing back using any selected encoding was supported. Nowadays there are library available providing the same functionality for almost any program with just a few lines of code. The library is not limited to ID3 tags, it can be useful for any program working with small titles or file names in different languages and encodings. The patches for several music players, ID3 tag libraries and some other programs are available on the project page.

ITP: bml -- modular, free, open source music studio (BuzzMachineloader)

Sebastian Dröge — 2008-11-30T10:07:14

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: slomo< at >debian.org * Package name : bml Version : 0.4.0 Upstream Author : Stefan Kost users.sourceforge.net> * URL : http://www.buzztard.org * License : LGPL 2.1+ Description : modular, free, open source music studio Hi, I'm planning to package buzztard soonish, now that some fundamental issues are solved in 0.4.0. Together with buzztard the three dependencies gst-buzztard, bml and bsl will also be packaged. This package will be maintained by the pkg-gstreamer team.

ITP: bsl -- modular, free, open source music studio (BuzzSongloader)

Sebastian Dröge — 2008-11-30T10:07:13

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: slomo< at >debian.org * Package name : gst-buzztard Version : 0.4.0 Upstream Author : Stefan Kost users.sourceforge.net> * URL : http://www.buzztard.org * License : LGPL 2.1+ Description : modular, free, open source music studio Hi, I'm planning to package buzztard soonish, now that some fundamental issues are solved in 0.4.0. Together with buzztard the three dependencies gst-buzztard, bml and bsl will also be packaged. This package will be maintained by the pkg-gstreamer team.

ITP: buzztard -- modular, free, open source music studio

Sebastian Dröge — 2008-11-30T10:07:03

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: slomo< at >debian.org * Package name : buzztard Version : 0.4.0 Upstream Author : Stefan Kost users.sourceforge.net> * URL : http://www.buzztard.org * License : LGPL 2.1+ Description : modular, free, open source music studio Hi, I'm planning to package buzztard soonish, now that some fundamental issues are solved in 0.4.0. Together with buzztard the three dependencies gst-buzztard, bml and bsl will also be packaged. This package will be maintained by the pkg-gstreamer team.

ITP: gst-buzztard -- modular, free, open source music studio(GStreamer extensions)

Sebastian Dröge — 2008-11-30T10:07:10