Hi Salvatore On 18/11/2014 17:23, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote: > On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 04:58:39PM +0000, Roy Marples wrote: >> On 18/11/2014 16:47, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote: >>> just in case we hear from Roy >> >> I've made this known to quite a few Debian developers - I don't want >> anything more to do with the Debian project. It takes me more time to >> look after the Debian package than it does for the other distro's I >> regularly contribute to combined. Maybe I'm doing it wrong but, frankly, >> I find the whole process tedious and I'd much rather someone else deal >> with this. So again, I'll say for about the 5th time in the strongest >> possible way. >> >> I NO LONGER WISH TO MAINTAIN ANY PACKAGE IN DEBIAN. >> I also don't have a Debian machine anymore, it's since been re-purposed >> for something else. >> >> I still develop my software on numerous platforms and am happy to >> address issues with it in Debian, just not the package itself. >> If anyone wants to take it up, fine. Just subcribe to >> dhcpcd-disc...@marples.name where I make release announcements or just >> use the deb-watch foo which worked the last time I looked at it. > > First of all thanks for your that quick feedback, I certainly wasn't > aware of that and feel sad that was such a tedious process for you. In > any case thanks for the work on the Debian package itself you did so > far! > > Given the above also, can you orphan the packages properly, see > https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/pkgs.html#orphaning > such that other might be aware that the packages are up to adoption?
And this is the problem I read the paragraph and see that I have to file a bug per package. I then started reading this: https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting As I no longer have a Debian box, I no longer have reportbug. So that leaves me having to write custom email headers, which none of my email clients I use support, or at least it's not obvious to me the end user. This is too complicated and too time consuming for a distribution I no longer have a direct interest in supporting, especially for someone who has never been a Debian developer. Sorry, but even NetBSD's archaic bug handling system is easier to use than this method, by sheer virtue of a web interface to submit bugs. Why is this so hard? With other distributions I just email an active $random developer and ask them to remove me from the package. Normally job done at this point. What possible motivation is there have to many checks in place in an overly complicated system? I really regret ever putting my name on the Debian packages at this point. Please just remove it from them with my thanks. Thanks Roy
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