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wnpp | 1 Jan 01:28
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Work-needing packages report for Jan 1, 2010

The following is a listing of packages for which help has been requested
through the WNPP (Work-Needing and Prospective Packages) system in the
last week.

Total number of orphaned packages: 646 (new: 1)
Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 131 (new: 2)
Total number of packages requested help for: 54 (new: 0)

Please refer to http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ for more information.

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The following packages have been orphaned:

   crossvc (#562509), orphaned 6 days ago (non-free)
     Description: graphical CVS frontend
     Installations reported by Popcon: 120

645 older packages have been omitted from this listing, see
http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/orphaned for a complete list.

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The following packages have been given up for adoption:

   crossvc (#562509), offered 6 days ago (non-free)
     Description: graphical CVS frontend
     Installations reported by Popcon: 120

   dpatch (#562697), offered 4 days ago
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Jonathan Yu | 1 Jan 02:20
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Bug#563213: ITP: libcolor-library-perl -- comprehensive named-colour library

Package: wnpp
Owner: Jonathan Yu <jawnsy <at> cpan.org>
Severity: wishlist
X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel <at> lists.debian.org,debian-perl <at> lists.debian.org

* Package name    : libcolor-library-perl
  Version         : 0.02
  Upstream Author : Robert Krimen <rkrimen <at> cpan.org>
* URL             : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Color-Library/
* License         : Artistic or GPL-1+
  Programming Lang: Perl
  Description     : comprehensive named-colour library

Color::Library is a Perl module that provides a library of web (SVG, HTML
and CSS) colours, X11 colours, Windows system palette colours, and more. It
provides a simple way to specify colour names and retrieve the corresponding
RGB definition in return.

NOTE: this is needed for Chart::Clicker indirectly (there's a rather
large dependency chain there)
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Jonathan Yu | 1 Jan 02:48
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Bug#563216: ITP: libmoosex-aliases-perl -- Moose extension for easy aliasing of methods and attributes

Package: wnpp
Owner: Jonathan Yu <jawnsy <at> cpan.org>
Severity: wishlist
X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel <at> lists.debian.org,debian-perl <at> lists.debian.org

* Package name    : libmoosex-aliases-perl
  Version         : 0.07
  Upstream Author : Jesse Luehrs <doy <at> tozt.net>, Chris Prather
<chris <at> prather.org>,
Justin Hunter <justin.d.hunter <at> gmail.com>
* URL             : http://search.cpan.org/dist/MooseX-Aliases/
* License         : Artistic or GPL-1+
  Programming Lang: Perl
  Description     : Moose extension for easy aliasing of methods and attributes

MooseX::Aliases is an extension to Moose that facilitates simple aliasing of
methods and attributes. It provides an alias parameter for has() to generate
aliased accessors as well as the standard ones. Further, attributes can also
be initialized in the constructor via their aliased names.

Note: needed for Chart::Clicker
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Gabriele Giacone | 1 Jan 03:04
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Bug#563217: ITP: jxplorer -- A Java Ldap Browser

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Gabriele Giacone <1o5g4r8o <at> gmail.com>

* Package name    : jxplorer
  Version         : 3.2rc2
  Upstream Author : Chris Betts <jxplorer <at> pegacat.com>
* URL             : http://sourceforge.net/projects/jxplorer/
* License         : Computer Associates Open Source Software License V.1.0
  Programming Lang: Java
  Description     : A Java Ldap Browser

 JXplorer is an open source ldap browser originally developed by
 Computer Associates' eTrust Directory development lab. It is a
 standards compliant general purpose ldap browser that can be used
 to read and search any ldap directory, or any X500 directory with
 an ldap interface. 
 JXplorer is a fully functional piece of software with advanced
 security integration and support for the more difficult and
 obscure parts of the ldap protocol. It should run on any java
 supporting operating system. It's features include:
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  * Standard ldap operations: add/delete/copy/modify
  * Complex operations: tree copy and tree delete
  * Optional GUI based search filter construction
  * SSL and SASL authentication
  * pluggable editors/viewers
  * pluggable security providers
  * HTML templates/forms for data display
  * Full i18n support
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Jonathan Yu | 1 Jan 03:46
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Bug#563219: ITP: libforest-perl -- collection of N-ary tree related modules

Package: wnpp
Owner: Jonathan Yu <jawnsy <at> cpan.org>
Severity: wishlist
X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel <at> lists.debian.org,debian-perl <at> lists.debian.org

* Package name    : libforest-perl
  Version         : 0.07
  Upstream Author : Stevan Little <stevan.little <at> iinteractive.com>
* URL             : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Forest/
* License         : Artistic or GPL-1+
  Programming Lang: Perl
  Description     : collection of N-ary tree related modules

Forest is a collection of Perl modules implementing a generalized N-ary tree
data structure. It also includes several modules useful for manipulating this
data, including loading data from file, indexing it in memory, and writing it
back out to files (in various formats).

NOTE: needed for Chart::Clicker
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Florian Weimer | 1 Jan 10:09
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Re: where is /etc/hosts supposed to come from?

* Philipp Kern:

>> That's false.  You can use protocol-level gateways, which do NAT and PT
>> (protocol translation).
>
> Can you point me to one please?

There's DNS64 and BEHAVE, probably with some free implementation.  Of
course, there are hardly any users because the entire IPv6 user base
is rather small, and we're talking about a renegade faction of that.

IOS has NAT-PT support, IIRC.  It's also patent-encumbered.
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Stephen Leake | 1 Jan 11:44
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Bug#563242: ITP: gprbuild-4.4 -- a multi-language extensible build tool

Package: wnpp 
version: 1.0
Severity: wishlist
Upstream Author : AdaCore (report <at> adacore.com)
URL             : http://libre.adacore.com/libre/
License         : GPL
Programming Lang: Ada
Description     : a multi-language extensible build tool

 A set of tools for processing GNAT project files. gprbuild runs tools
 on the specified source files; gprclean removes the corresponding
 built files; gprconfig configures both tools. It is highly
 configurable; the default configuration supports compiling Ada,
 Assembler, C, C++, and Fortran sources.
 .
 This package contains the executables gprbuild, gprclean, gprconfig.

The package name includes "-4.4" because it is tightly tied to gnat;
gnat is currently at version 4.4. Future releases of gprbuild will
coincide with future releases of gnat.

It might make sense to have the "gnat" meta-package install gprbuild
as well (the AdaCore distributions of the GNAT toolset do this).
However, gprbuild can be used without gnat.

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-- Stephe
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Philipp Kern | 1 Jan 14:11
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Re: where is /etc/hosts supposed to come from?

On 2010-01-01, Florian Weimer <fw <at> deneb.enyo.de> wrote:
> * Philipp Kern:
>>> That's false.  You can use protocol-level gateways, which do NAT and PT
>>> (protocol translation).
>> Can you point me to one please?
> There's DNS64 and BEHAVE, probably with some free implementation.  Of
> course, there are hardly any users because the entire IPv6 user base
> is rather small, and we're talking about a renegade faction of that.

I wouldn't call them renegade, to be honest.  I wondered back then how
to achieve an IPv6-only network to check applications for compatibility,
but missed the option to still connect to IPv4 hosts without the use
of proxies.  I don't care about the additional NAT layer because I'm
NATed anyway.  Thanks for those pointers, although the implementations
seem to be missing (not for Windows but for others as it seems).

> IOS has NAT-PT support, IIRC.  It's also patent-encumbered.

Oh ok, I just saw documents deprecating NAT-PT altogether, but I didn't
know the latter.

Thanks a lot,
Philipp Kern
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Magnus Holmgren | 1 Jan 15:18
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Re: perl and perl-modules; reflexive dependencies vs. archive bloat

On fredagen den 23 oktober 2009, Don Armstrong wrote:
> Currently there is a proposal[0] to combine perl-modules and perl into
> a single package. perl-modules currently contains architecture
> independent bits, and perl contains architecture dependent bits.
> 
> FWICT, the primary argument[1] to do this is because perl and
> perl-modules both require the other to function properly (so a
> reflexive dependency or combining is reqeuired), and because circular
> dependencies make things complicated for dpkg and other frontends.

IIUC, the problem is with the ordering of the postinst scripts. "Depends" 
means that the other package has to be in the configured state before the 
depending package's postinst script can be run, but in many cases the 
depending package has no postinst script or the dependency doesn't apply to 
the postinst script but merely to the application as such after installation.

Would  a new package relationship, say "Post-Depends", be helpful?

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Debian Developer
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Jonathan Yu | 1 Jan 16:18
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Bug#563258: ITP: libgeometry-primitive-perl -- module to represent geometric entities

Package: wnpp
Owner: Jonathan Yu <jawnsy <at> cpan.org>
Severity: wishlist
X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel <at> lists.debian.org,debian-perl <at> lists.debian.org

* Package name    : libgeometry-primitive-perl
  Version         : 0.20
  Upstream Author : Cory Watson <gphat <at> cpan.org>
* URL             : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Geometry-Primitive/
* License         : Artistic or GPL-1+
  Programming Lang: Perl
  Description     : module to represent geometric entities

Geometry::Primitive is a device- and library-agnostic system for representing
geometric entities such as points, lines, and shapes. It provides some simple
objects and many convenience methods you would expect from a simple geometry
library.

NOTE: Needed for Chart::Clicker
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