Re: [Pre-RFA] Intending to drop twenty-some packages

2005-05-03 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-05-02 19:50]: > | maintainer. Should they be transferred to > | [EMAIL PROTECTED] too? > > Not necessarily. They all are on their way out: ... > I will file bug reports against ftp.debian.org for octave-ci and > octave-matcompat once sarge is out. As

Re: [Pre-RFA] Intending to drop twenty-some packages

2005-05-02 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Hi Martin, Thanks very much for the very thorough follow-up! On 2 May 2005 at 16:23, Martin Michlmayr wrote: | * Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-02-03 21:03]: | > | Did you keep track which packages have been spoken for and for which | > | you still need to file RFA or O reports? |

Re: [Pre-RFA] Intending to drop twenty-some packages

2005-05-02 Thread Bas Zoetekouw
Hi Martin! You wrote: > > | * the gsl set: > > > > -- is still mine though Bas Zoetekouw indicated that he would like to help. > > I > > think I got Chris Steigies to agree to help too. > > Looking at gsl itself, I can see neither of their names. Have they > done any work and can they maybe d

Re: [Pre-RFA] Intending to drop twenty-some packages

2005-05-02 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-02-03 21:03]: > | Did you keep track which packages have been spoken for and for which > | you still need to file RFA or O reports? Let's make another round. > | * the Octave complex > -- is now in the hands on the pkg-octave-devel group with octave2.

Re: [Pre-RFA] Intending to drop twenty-some packages

2005-02-06 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Dirk Eddelbuettel | | - time (dead upstream) | | -- picked up by Tollef (no new upload yet). Thanks, Tollef! Just uploaded. -- Tollef Fog Heen,''`. UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are : :' :

Re: [Pre-RFA] Intending to drop twenty-some packages

2005-02-03 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 1 February 2005 at 14:46, Martin Michlmayr wrote: | * Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-01-15 11:51]: | > Please CC me on follow-ups to debian-devel, or email me directly if | > you have any interest. I should follow up with RFA and O bug reports | > over the next few weeks, but doing

Re: [Pre-RFA] Intending to drop twenty-some packages

2005-02-01 Thread Rafael Laboissiere
* Gunnar Wolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-02-01 12:10]: > I have not adopted dbd-odbc, finance-streamer, inline-octave, > math-numbercruncher, statistics-descriptive inline-octave will probably be adopted by the Debian OCtave Group @ Alioth. -- Rafael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: [Pre-RFA] Intending to drop twenty-some packages

2005-02-01 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Martin Michlmayr dijo [Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 02:46:04PM +]: > * Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-01-15 11:51]: > > Please CC me on follow-ups to debian-devel, or email me directly if > > you have any interest. I should follow up with RFA and O bug reports > > over the next few weeks,

Re: [Pre-RFA] Intending to drop twenty-some packages

2005-02-01 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-01-15 11:51]: > Please CC me on follow-ups to debian-devel, or email me directly if > you have any interest. I should follow up with RFA and O bug reports > over the next few weeks, but doing this informally first may be > simpler. Or maybe not. Did yo

Re: [Pre-RFA] Intending to drop twenty-some packages

2005-02-01 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-01-16 11:26]: > > | - time (dead upstream) > > > > I'd like time, please. > > All yours. Are you going to make an upload soon? -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscri

Re: [Pre-RFA] Intending to drop twenty-some packages

2005-01-22 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Dirk Eddelbuettel dijo [Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 11:51:20AM -0600]: > (...) > * the Perl "spreadsheet" complex: > - spreadsheet-writeexcel > - spreadsheet-parseexcel (2 old open bugs, forwarded ages ago) > - ole-storage-lite > - dbd-excel (1 old open bug, forwarded) I can take this three, as

Re: [Pre-RFA] Intending to drop twenty-some packages

2005-01-18 Thread Rafael Laboissiere
* Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-01-15 11:51]: > I have tried to unload this onto Rafael for a few years now, but he can't > take Octave either. This may be best served by a maintainer group via > alioth, and I could be persuaded to help. But I can't set up such a group > or lead it,

Re: [Pre-RFA] Intending to drop twenty-some packages

2005-01-16 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 10:05:46AM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > * Dirk Eddelbuettel > > | - time (dead upstream) > > [...] > > | Please CC me on follow-ups to debian-devel, or email me directly if you have > | any interest. I should follow up with RFA and O bug reports over the next > | fe

Re: [Pre-RFA] Intending to drop twenty-some packages

2005-01-16 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 10:21:37PM +0100, Erik Schanze wrote: > Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > * Miscellaneous > > - afio (2 open bugs, active upstream, pretty straightforward) > I like afio for my compressed backups and use it very often. > I'd like to take over maintainership for i

Re: [Pre-RFA] Intending to drop twenty-some packages

2005-01-16 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 10:14:41PM +0100, Bas Zoetekouw wrote: > Hi Dirk! > > You wrote: > > > * the gsl set: > > - gsl > > - gsl-ref-html > > - gsl-ref-psdoc > > > > The two doc packages are currently a week behind packaging the new > > upstream > > gsl. Well maintained upstream,

Re: [Pre-RFA] Intending to drop twenty-some packages

2005-01-16 Thread David Weinehall
On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 10:05:46AM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > * Dirk Eddelbuettel > > | - time (dead upstream) > > [...] > > | Please CC me on follow-ups to debian-devel, or email me directly if you have > | any interest. I should follow up with RFA and O bug reports over the next > | fe

Re: [Pre-RFA] Intending to drop twenty-some packages

2005-01-16 Thread Isaac Clerencia
On Saturday, 15 de January de 2005 18:51, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > * the Octave complex > - octave2.0 (to be removed once sarge is release; frozen upstream ages > ago; one bug that'll never get fixed, we can barely build it as it requires > g++ pre-3.0) > - octave2.1 (two minor bugs against t

Re: [Pre-RFA] Intending to drop twenty-some packages

2005-01-16 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Dirk Eddelbuettel | - time (dead upstream) [...] | Please CC me on follow-ups to debian-devel, or email me directly if you have | any interest. I should follow up with RFA and O bug reports over the next | few weeks, but doing this informally first may be simpler. Or maybe not. I'd like t

Re: [Pre-RFA] Intending to drop twenty-some packages

2005-01-15 Thread Bas Zoetekouw
Hi Dirk! You wrote: > * the gsl set: > - gsl > - gsl-ref-html > - gsl-ref-psdoc > > The two doc packages are currently a week behind packaging the new upstream > gsl. Well maintained upstream, maybe two releases a year. This should > probably go to another egghead ph.d. type, pre

Re: [Pre-RFA] Intending to drop twenty-some packages

2005-01-15 Thread Erik Schanze
Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > * Miscellaneous > - afio (2 open bugs, active upstream, pretty straightforward) I like afio for my compressed backups and use it very often. I'd like to take over maintainership for it, if no otherone has already asked for. Kindly regards, Erik --

Re: [Pre-RFA] Intending to drop twenty-some packages

2005-01-15 Thread John Hasler
Ok, I'll take bc. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Elmwood, WI USA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Pre-RFA] Intending to drop twenty-some packages

2005-01-15 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 12:40:28PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > I will take bc if no one else wants it. You'd need to talk to Lars, he came in a few minutes earlier. I'm sure between the two of you you can work it out. Dirk -- Better to have an approximate answer to the right question than a pre

Re: [Pre-RFA] Intending to drop twenty-some packages

2005-01-15 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 08:32:23PM +0200, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > la, 2005-01-15 kello 11:51 -0600, Dirk Eddelbuettel kirjoitti: > > * bc (with binary packages bc and dc) > > > > Pretty stale upstream, has 5 open bugs most of which are feature requests > > that are unlikely to ever be addres

Re: [Pre-RFA] Intending to drop twenty-some packages

2005-01-15 Thread John Hasler
I will take bc if no one else wants it. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Pre-RFA] Intending to drop twenty-some packages

2005-01-15 Thread Lars Wirzenius
la, 2005-01-15 kello 11:51 -0600, Dirk Eddelbuettel kirjoitti: > * bc (with binary packages bc and dc) > > Pretty stale upstream, has 5 open bugs most of which are feature requests > that are unlikely to ever be addressed. Most of these have been forwarded. > > Given its "Priority: stan

[Pre-RFA] Intending to drop twenty-some packages

2005-01-15 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Given my available time and all the things competing for it (work, family, other hacking endeavours [quantian, a few small code projects, ...], running, ...), I have too many packages to continue to do a reasonable or better job at keeping the packages in shape. So from the 80+ packages I have, a