Hi, I did some analysis of the packages in non-US. Short summary: Only two are left over, but both have an interessted maintainer. One of them could be moved to main, the other is in non-US/non-free, and needs to stay there.
The only package in non-US/main left over is vtun. I spoke with the maintainer, and he wants to do a new upload as soon as the new release of vtun happens. I specifically asked him to upload his package to main ASAP if this is ok from the package. The only package in non-free left over is pgp5i; it is orphaned, but somebody wants to adopt it and has already made packages (quite recently). See http://bugs.debian.org/237370 for details. In my personal opinion, it would be a good thing to keep non-US/non-free; however, it's really questionable whether we need a full katie setup for this, or should move to something easier like apt-ftparchive, and make upgrade runs only on request. If wanted, I can offer some time for this. Of course, we should also reserve to resurrect non-US/main if the patent issues get really very silly in US (like the patent on sudo), but that's just a reserve remark for now. I appreciate any comments on this. The full list of packages follows below: Package: erlang-slang RoQA, #261981 Package: gutenbook moved Package: gutenbrowser removed, #221361 Package: httperf one and only upload on Sun, 22 Jul 2001 22:32:30 +0200. Package: libcrypt-des-perl moved Package: links-ssl moved Package: netsaint-nrpe -> nagios-nrpe Package: pavuk moved Package: pgpgpg moved Package: pipsecd moved Package: siege-ssl -> siege Package: ssh-askpass moved Package: tripwire moved Package: tunnelv last upstream release 1999-08-17, was dead in Debian before compromise Package: vtun last upstream release 04.06.2003 - maintainer want to keep package Package: zmailer-ssl RoM, #225423, should be merged with zmailer (but maintainer seems to be MIA/overloaded) non-free ~~~~~~~~ Package: pgp5i ITA, #237370 Package: rsaref2 in total 3 uploads, last on Sun, 10 Jun 2001 21:22:43 +1000 Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C
