Re: Bug#264774: Age horribly out-of-date RFPs.
Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
> Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
>> So this is similar to my last item, but different. There are 1707
>> wishlist items in WNPP now. Maybe 10% of those are ITP.
>>
>> My suggestion is to leave alone any RFP from the past year. But older
>> ones should be dealt with, I think:
>>
>> Many are wontfix, usually because of license problems. It seems to me
>> that such things should eventually get dropped from WNPP.
>>
>> Some are supposedly programs which have in fact been packaged!
>>
>> Some are programs whose upstream has vanished.
>>
>> All of those should get closed.
>
> Good idea, there's alot of cruft and with more than one megabyte size
> as HTML WNPP should really be put on a diet.
>
> I started with checking RFPs being older than three years. A program
> is considered "dead upstream" if there hasn't been development
> activity during the last 1.5 to 2 years and which thus don't even
> have the usual bitrot maintenance. Also note that lots of these RFPs
> have been ITPs in the past that have been retitled during WNPP
> cleanups and were never "true" RPFs. Any objections against the
> following candidates for getting closed?
The remaining RFPs, which are older than two years. Any objections
against the following candidates for getting closed?
* [1360]#109961: ITP: kwintv -- KDE TV viewer
Package: [1361]wnpp; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: [1362]Maximilian
Reiss <max.reiss@gmx.de>; 3 years and 1 day old.
Dead upstream, development continued in kdetv.
* [1375]#110652: RFP: gnocam -- GNOME interface for digital still
cameras
Package: [1376]wnpp; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: [1377]Ole Aamot
<oka@ping.uio.no>; 2 years and 360 days old.
Dead upstream, development continued as gtkam, which is already
packaged in Debian.
* [1384]#110835: RFP: libmodem -- libmodem is a library that allow you
to use your modems transparently
Package: [1385]wnpp; Severity: wishlist; Reported by:
[1386]debian-qa@lists.debian.org; 2 years and 359 days old.
Dead upstream: Last release Mar 2002.
* [1399]#111746: RFP: cadaverserver -- A.I. realtime combat simulation
Package: [1400]wnpp; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: [1401]Anthony
DeRobertis <asd@suespammers.org>; 2 years and 351 days old.
Dead upstream: Last release Jan 2000.
* [1402]#111747: RFP: cadaverspyboss -- QT client to view cadavergames
in `bo=
Package: [1403]wnpp; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: [1404]Anthony
DeRobertis <asd@suespammers.org>; 2 years and 351 days old.
Dead upstream: Last release Jan 2000.
* [1405]#111748: RFP: catrats -- Top-ranked Cadaver cyborg
Package: [1406]wnpp; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: [1407]Anthony
DeRobertis <asd@suespammers.org>; 2 years and 351 days old.
Dead upstream: Last release Jan 2000.
* [1408]#111749: RFP: hivemind -- Cyborg for cadaver
Package: [1409]wnpp; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: [1410]Anthony
DeRobertis <asd@suespammers.org>; 2 years and 351 days old.
Dead upstream: Last release Jan 2000.
* [1417]#112478: RFP: thoteditor -- customizable editor for structured
documents
Package: [1418]wnpp; Severity: wishlist; Reported by:
[1419]debian-qa@lists.debian.org; 2 years and 343 days old.
Dead upstream: Last release Feb 1997
* [1423]#113051: RFP: bcp -- Copies files over links so lossy TCP does
not work
Package: [1424]wnpp; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: [1425]Anthony
DeRobertis <asd@suespammers.org>; 2 years and 338 days old.
Dead upstream: Last release Dec 2001
* [1426]#113196: RFP: smjpeg -- specialized motion JPEG and audio tool
Package: [1427]wnpp; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: [1428]Robert
Millan <rmh@debian.org>; 2 years and 337 days old.
Dead upstream: Last release Mar 2000
* [1439]#113860: RFP: qed -- A (very) Quick English Dictionary for Linux
Package: [1440]wnpp; Severity: wishlist; Reported by:
[1441]debian-qa@lists.debian.org; 2 years and 331 days old.
Dead upstream: Last release Jul 2000
* [1445]#114244: RFP: dtv -- Home Entertainment System (dtv)
Package: [1446]wnpp; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: [1447]Eduard
Bloch <blade@debian.org>; 2 years and 327 days old.
Dead upstream: Last release Oct 2001
* [1448]#114399: RFP: pod2texi -- The Perl documentation in texinfo
format
Package: [1449]wnpp; Severity: wishlist; Reported by:
[1450]debian-qa@lists.debian.org; 2 years and 326 days old.
Dead upstream: Last release Oct 1996
* [1451]#114451: RFP: leanedit -- An XML editor written in Java
Package: [1452]wnpp; Severity: wishlist; Reported by:
[1453]eric@andago.com; 2 years and 325 days old.
Dead upstream: Last release Mar 2000
* [1454]#114564: RFP: web-imap -- web-based IMAP and NNTP access using
apache/mod_perl
Package: [1455]wnpp; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: [1456]Roderick
Schertler <roderick@argon.org>; 2 years and 324 days old.
Dead upstream: Last release Aug 2001
* [1463]#116359: RFP: apron -- An MPEG player running in a text-console
Package: [1464]wnpp; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: [1465]Uwe
Hermann <uh1763@hermann-uwe.de>; 2 years and 310 days old.
Dead upstream: Last release 2001
* [1472]#117183: RFP: tclpro -- TclPro suite of Tcl tools
Package: [1473]wnpp; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: [1474]"David N.
Welton" <davidw@debian.org>; 2 years and 303 days old.
Dead upstream: Last CVS activity two years ago
* [1478]#117532: RFP: kmud -- Graphical MUD client for KDE
Package: [1479]wnpp; Severity: wishlist; Reported by:
[1480]=?iso-8859-1?Q?R=FCdiger?= Kuhlmann
<debian-bugs-moTsEbzxvVRt=spam@ruediger-kuhlmann.de>; 2 years and 300
days old.
Dead upstream: Last release Mar 2001
* [1499]#120692: RFP: mozstreamer -- Multimedia plug-in for mozilla
based on the gstreamer framework.
Package: [1500]wnpp; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: [1501]Viral
<viral@debian.org>; 2 years and 276 days old.
Dead upstream: Last CVS activity three years ago
* [1502]#121425: RFP: gxxcompat -- compatibility library for porting C++
code between g++ versions
Package: [1503]wnpp; Severity: wishlist; Reported by:
[1504]debian-qa@lists.debian.org; 2 years and 271 days old.
Doesn't even have an URL and is definitely no longer useful with
GCC 3.3 being the default C++ compiler.
* [1508]#121825: RFP: glimpse -- indexing and query system
Package: [1509]wnpp; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: [1510]Grant
Bowman <grantbow@svpal.org>; 2 years and 269 days old.
Should be put onto the "Can't be packaged" list.
* [1528]#122952: RFP: prolix -- chat bot framework for various gaming
networks with GTK+ support
Package: [1529]wnpp; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: [1530]Robert
Millan <rmh@debian.org>; 2 years and 260 days old.
Dead upstream: "The Project is Terminated"
* [1543]#126386: RFP: arkanae -- 3D role-playing game
Package: [1544]wnpp; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: [1545]Noel
Koethe <noel@debian.org>; 2 years and 244 days old.
Dead upstream: "We will completly rewrite arkanae from scratch"
* [1546]#126514: RFP: failsafe -- High-Availability (HA) solution
Package: [1547]wnpp; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: [1548]Noel
Koethe <noel@debian.org>; 2 years and 242 days old.
Dead upstream: Last CVS checkin three years ago.
* [1566]#127746: RFP: lcavision -- Scientific visualization tool
Package: [1567]wnpp; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: [1568]"Steven G.
Johnson" <stevenj@alum.mit.edu>; 2 years and 234 days old.
Dead upstream: Last changes in 2002
* [1572]#128257: RFP: hank -- A Network Intrusion Detection System
Package: [1573]wnpp; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: [1574]Martin
Schulze <joey@infodrom.org>; 2 years and 230 days old.
Dead upstream: Last release Jan 2002
* [1590]#130483: RFP: asmutils -- set of very small UNIX-like utilities
Package: [1591]wnpp; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: [1592]Matt
Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org>; 2 years and 215 days old.
Dead upstream: Last release Aug 2002
* [1593]#130599: RFP: sts -- Test suite for (pseudo)-random number
generators
Package: [1594]wnpp; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: [1595]Anthony
DeRobertis <asd@suespammers.org>; 2 years and 214 days old.
Dead upstream: Last release 2001
* [1596]#130637: RFP: tea -- mail encryption on the mailserver
Package: [1597]wnpp; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: [1598]Andreas
Tille <tille@debian.org>; 2 years and 214 days old.
Project has completely vanished from the net, non-free (doesn't
allow distribution, nor commercial use)
* [1611]#131750: RFP: olbookmarks - On-Line Bookmarks Manager
Package: [1612]wnpp; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: [1613]Ryszard
Lach <rla@id.pl>; 2 years and 206 days old.
Dead upstream: Last CVS activity 18 months ago
* [1614]#131815: RFP: osrtspproxy -- RTSP Proxy Kit -- reference
implementation of RTSP proxy
Package: [1615]wnpp; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: [1616]Kaz
Sasayama <Kaz.Sasayama@HyperLinuxJP.com>; 2 years and 206 days old.
Dead upstream: Last release Jan 2001
* [1617]#131886: RFP: klendar -- A calendar tool for KDE
Package: [1618]wnpp; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: [1619]Yann
Forget <yann@codalis.ch>; 2 years and 205 days old.
Dead upstream: Last release Feb 2001
* [1620]#132231: RFP: gcafe -- GNU internet-cafe administration tool
Package: [1621]wnpp; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: [1622]Robert
Millan <rmh@debian.org>; 2 years and 203 days old.
Dead upstream: Last release Dec 2001
* [1627]#132257: RFP: macaulay2 -- Computer commutative algebra system
Package: [1628]wnpp; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: [1629]Daniel
Schepler <schepler@math.berkeley.edu>; 2 years and 203 days old.
Dead upstream: Last release Jan 2002
* [1646]#133776: RFP: garp -- A Gratuitous ARP Implementation
Package: [1647]wnpp; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: [1648]John G
Ineson <john@sneakerpimp.fsnet.co.uk>; 2 years and 193 days old.
Dead upstream: Project is completely vanished.
* [1655]#134137: RFP: fcptools -- Set of Freenet command-line tools.
Package: [1656]wnpp; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: [1657]Robert
Millan <rmh@debian.org>; 2 years and 191 days old.
Dead upstream: Last release Oct 2001
* [1658]#134546: RFP: tuxnes -- emulator for the Nintendo Entertainment
System
Package: [1659]wnpp; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: [1660]Keegan
Quinn <ice@thebasement.org>; 2 years and 189 days old.
Dead upstream: Last release Apr 2001
* [1664]#134728: RFP: clusternfs -- Patches to UNFSD for multiple
diskless clients
Package: [1665]wnpp; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: [1666]Viral
<viral@debian.org>; 2 years and 187 days old.
Dead upstream: Last release May 2000
* [1667]#135181: RFP: dumb -- a 3d game engine that can play Doom and
related games
Package: [1668]wnpp; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: [1669]Robert
Millan <rmh@debian.org>; 2 years and 184 days old.
Dead upstream: Last release 2001
* [1678]#136033: RFP: tradeclient -- E-mail client width shared calendar
and address book
Package: [1679]wnpp; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: [1680]Yann
Forget <yann@codalis.ch>; 2 years and 180 days old.
Dead upstream: Last CVS activity three years ago
* [1687]#136306: RFP: ovnibus -- XML based project for clinical and
research purposes
Package: [1688]wnpp; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: [1689]Andreas
Tille <tille@debian.org>; 2 years and 177 days old.
Project is completely vanished.
* [1708]#138020: RFP: ppower4 -- PDF Presentation Post Processor
Package: [1709]wnpp; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: [1710]Adrian
Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>; 2 years and 166 days old.
Dead upstream: Last release Nov 2002
* [1711]#138189: RFP: mathml-fonts -- Fonts for MathML-enabled Mozilla
Package: [1712]wnpp; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: [1713]laurent
bonnaud <Laurent.Bonnaud@inpg.fr>; merged with [1714]#152875; 2 years
and 165 days old.
Last news time from 2001, MathML seems integrated in recent
Mozilla versions?
* [1721]#138819: RFP: glchess -- a 3D chess interface
Package: [1722]wnpp; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: [1723]Jeronimo
Pellegrini <pellegrini@mpcnet.com.br>; 2 years and 161 days
old.
Dead upstream: Last release Sep 2002
* [1724]#138859: RFP: clearcase-elisp -- Emacs support for the Clearcase
version control system
Package: [1725]wnpp; Severity: wishlist; Reported by:
[1726]walles@mailblocks.com; 2 years and 161 days old.
Project is vanished.
* [1782]#142009: RFP: SashXB -- SashXB is an open source application
environment that exposes native functionality to JavaScript.
Package: [1783]wnpp; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: [1784]Debian
User <jrmegia@terra.es>; 2 years and 138 days old.
Dead upstream: Last release Jul 2002
* [1796]#142982: RFP: kuery -- MySQL database administration tool with
KDE interface
Package: [1797]wnpp; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: [1798]Yann
Forget <yann@codalis.ch>; 2 years and 133 days old.
Dead upstream: Last release Feb 2003
* [1806]#143813: RFP: willows-twin -- Architecture-independant M$
Windows emulator
Package: [1807]wnpp; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: [1808]Robert
Millan <rmh@debian.org>; 2 years and 127 days old.
Dead upstream: Last release Apr 1999, seems completely vanished
* [1815]#144247: RFP: protozilla -- Protozilla-ipc is required for
things like enigmail
Package: [1816]wnpp; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: [1817]John
Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org>; 2 years and 124 days old.
Dead upstream: Last release Jun 2002
* [1821]#144980: RFP: sgi-sysadm-base -- infrastructure for system
administration
Package: [1822]wnpp; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: [1823]Cajus
Pollmeier <c.pollmeier@gmx.net>; 2 years and 118 days old.
Dead upstream: Last release Dec 2000
* [1824]#145351: RFP: ppr -- A legacy-free print spooler system
Package: [1825]wnpp; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: [1826]Lars
Clausen <lrclause+debian@cs.uiuc.edu>; 2 years and 117 days
old.
Dead upstream: Last release Jan 2003
* [1830]#145556: RFP: gnome-chord -- guitar chord and scale database for
Package: [1831]wnpp; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: [1832]Tom Cato
Amundsen <tca@debian.org>; 2 years and 115 days old.
Dead upstream: Last relase Oct 2002
* [1839]#145702: RFP: ipfc -- software infrastructure for managed
security services
Package: [1840]wnpp; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: [1841]Matt
Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org>; 2 years and 114 days old.
Dead upstream: Last release Apr 2002
* [1851]#146291: RFP: avfs -- A Virtual File System
Package: [1852]wnpp; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: [1853]Alexander
Kotelnikov <sacha@debian.org>; 2 years and 109 days old.
Dead upstream: Last release Jan 2002
* [1880]#147800: RFP: xdms -- An uncompressor for Amiga DMS archives
Package: [1881]wnpp; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: [1882]Gurkan
Sengun <gurkan@linuks.mine.nu>; 2 years and 95 days old.
Dead upstream: Last release Mar 1999
* [1889]#147998: RFP: mapit -- a web-application to navigate raster-maps
Package: [1890]wnpp; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: [1891]Silke
Reimer <silke@intevation.de>; 2 years and 94 days old.
Seems completely vanished.
* [1892]#148007: RFP: unadf -- Extract files from an Amiga Disk File
dump (.adf)
Package: [1893]wnpp; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: [1894]Gurkan
Sengun <gurkan@linuks.mine.nu>; 2 years and 94 days old.
Dead upstream: Last release Dec 2000
* [1921]#148855: RFP: ghttpd -- a fast and efficient HTTP server
Package: [1922]wnpp; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: [1923]"Bas
Zoetekouw" <bas@debian.org>; 2 years and 84 days old.
Dead upstream: Last release Sep 2002
* [1924]#149020: RFP: plugger4 -- plugin manager for Mozilla on woody
Package: [1925]wnpp; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: [1926]Daniel
Martins <dmartins@das.ufsc.br>; 2 years and 82 days old.
Should be added to the "Can't be packaged" list
* [1927]#149048: RFP: pstack -- print stack trace of running processes
Package: [1928]wnpp; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: [1929]Thom May
<thom@debian.org>; 2 years and 82 days old.
Seems completely vanished.
* [1976]#151027: RFP: washerdryer -- wmaker dock applet for timing your
wash
Package: [1977]wnpp; Severity: wishlist; Reported by:
[1978]rmgolbeck@debian.org; 2 years and 61 days old.
Dead upstream: Last release Mar 2002
* [1988]#151353: RFP: gppp -- a PPP setup program.
Package: [1989]wnpp; Severity: wishlist; Reported by:
[1990]=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ram=F3n?= Rey Vicente <rrey@augcyl.org>; 2 years
and 58 days old.
Dead upstream: Author recommends to use gnome-ppp instead.
* [1994]#151711: RFP: badurl -- Custom 403, 404's to slow CGI
vulnerability scans (cgi tarpit)
Package: [1995]wnpp; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: [1996]Drew Scott
Daniels <umdanie8@cc.UManitoba.CA>; 2 years and 54 days old.
Dead upstream: Last release Nov 2000
* [2006]#152506: RFP: afd -- Automatic File Distributor
Package: [2007]wnpp; Severity: wishlist; Reported by:
[2008]madduck@debian.org; 2 years and 46 days old.
Dead upstream: Last update Jun 2002
* [2009]#152738: RFP: psd -- The portable scheme debugger.
Package: [2010]wnpp; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: [2011]"Adrian
Kubala" <adrian@sixfingeredman.net>; 2 years and 45 days old.
Dead upstream: Last release from 1994.
* [2012]#152842: RFP: oggdoctor -- advanced Vorbis tag editor
Package: [2013]wnpp; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: [2014]"Warren A.
Layton" <zeevon@debian.org>; 2 years and 43 days old.
Dead upstream: Last release May 2002
* [2019]#153006: RFP: eccp109 -- internet distributed effort to solve
Certicom's ECCp-109 challenge.
Package: [2020]wnpp; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: [2021]Robert
Millan <rmh@debian.org>; 2 years and 42 days old.
The challenge is over and the software no longer useful.
* [2022]#153516: RFP: mpscan -- Multi Purpose scanner written in C;
fast, flexible, useful to check the banner sent by a specific service.
Package: [2023]wnpp; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: [2024]"miasma"
<miasma@freepingu.it>; 2 years and 38 days old.
Dead upstream: Last release Jul 2002
* [2025]#153522: RFP: libconnect -- A library wrapper that offers
transparent network access through Web proxies
Package: [2026]wnpp; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: [2027]"Andrea
Zicchetti" <asus@elitel.biz>; 2 years and 38 days old.
Dead upstream: Last release Jul 2002
* [2038]#153804: RFP: kernel-patch-supermount-2.4 -- supermount patch
2.4.18
Package: [2039]wnpp; Severity: wishlist; Reported by:
[2040]=?iso-8859-1?Q?R=FCdiger?= Kuhlmann
<debian-bugs-WC1Bep5yBBxt=spam@ruediger-kuhlmann.de>; 2 years and 35
days old.
supermount is no longer developed, the last releases don't
apply to kernels shipped in Debian and supermount-ng is already
packaged in Debian.
* [2041]#153884: RFP: gambc -- Gambit Scheme System
Package: [2042]wnpp; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: [2043]Walter
Tautz <wtautz@math.uwaterloo.ca>; 2 years and 34 days old.
Dead upstream: Last release May 1998
* [2065]#154389: RFP: kmencoder -- KDE frontend for Mencoder
Package: [2066]wnpp; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: [2067]"Till
Gerken" <till@tantalo.net>; 2 years and 30 days old.
Dead upstream: Last release Jul 2002
* [2077]#154711: RFP: 9term -- 9term terminal emulator for system 9 OS?
Package: [2078]wnpp; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: [2079]Walter
Tautz <wtautz@plg3.uwaterloo.ca>; 2 years and 27 days old.
Dead upstream: Last release Nov 1998
* [2125]#156609: RFP: libauthen-opie -- perl interface to opie
Package: [2126]wnpp; Severity: wishlist; Reported by:
[2127]sen_ml@eccosys.com; 2 years and 12 days old.
Dead upstream: Last release Apr 2001
* [2133]#156783: RFP: gasp -- Generator and analyzer system for
protocols
Package: [2134]wnpp; Severity: wishlist; Reported by:
[2135]debacle@debian.org; 2 years and 10 days old.
Dead upstream: Last release Aug 2002
* [2136]#157202: RFP: nuppelvideo -- Nuppel video tools: capture on slow
machines
Package: [2137]wnpp; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: [2138]"Marc
Leeman" <marc.leeman@ieee.org>; 2 years and 7 days old.
Dead upstream: Last release Jul 2001
* [2178]#158568: RFP: ifile.procmail -- Scripts to integrate ifile and
procmail.
Package: [2179]wnpp; Severity: wishlist; Reported by:
[2180]kraai@ftbfs.org; 1 year and 363 days old.
Dead upstream: Last release Sep 2002.
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