On Friday 01 December 2006 04:00, Nathanael Nerode was like: > 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.
Thanks for that clarification Nathaniel. :) -- cheers, tim hall http://glastonburymusic.org.uk/tim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
