tim hall wrote: On Wednesday 29 November 2006 04:57, Nathanael Nerode was like: > ? - pydict > ? ? - Maintainer [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ? ? - Maintainer probably MIA, last upload in 2002 > ? ? - unchanged since stable > ? ? -- Recommendation: remove from unstable > * gnome-print > ? - terraform > ? ? -- Maintainer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Is it possible to clarify or re-iterate occasionally the purpose of this >mission for some of us less savvy lurkers? Are you querying these packages >because they are known to be broken or just that they will become broken once >the old GNOME libraries are cleaned up? Just because they'll become broken if the old GNOME libraries are cleaned up.... ... well, and because the old GNOME libraries are orphaned and unmaintained, and if they break, we probably won't fix them. And they have lots of irritating bugs and are a pretty ripe target for cleaning up. Among other things, they spread 'recursive dependency disease' and have been the prime culprit in a number of problematic transitions. If it weren't for these packages, the old GNOME libraries would have been removed already. They're really only there as a courtesy to the maintainers and users of these packages. If I thought there was a high likelihood that the old GNOME libraries would find a ready adopter and maintainer, I wouldn't be doing this. The package list actually exists for three purposes: to spot packages which might deserve to be removed, to spot packages which should be upgraded to GNOME 2, and to spot maintainers who might be willing to pick up the GNOME 1 libraries, since the GNOME 1 libraries are now in Debian primarily for their benefit. >I don't wish to interfere with a worthwhile cleanup process, I confess to >being a terrible hoarder myself and I'd just like some reassurance that >you're not proposing to throw out any babies with the bathwater. It's not >like I actually use any of these applications either. Each package needs to be examined individually to identify which of the three categories above it is in. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
