Re: Giram: Request for removal

2001-05-07 Thread Vince Mulhollon
On 05/07/2001 02:03:33 PM Egon Willighagen wrote: >> What about a Debian policy to remove packages for which alternatives are >> available with same or similar functionality *and* for which development has >> stopped or almost stopped completely? All you'll get is endless flamewars about "same o

Clarifications [ Was Re: Giram: Request for removal ]

2001-05-07 Thread Jérôme Marant
Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just in case you haven't done so, the standard way to remove a package > is to file a bug against the package "ftp.debian.org" with subject like > "Please remove giram packages from the archive", and then list the exact > pacakages in the body. There h

Re: Giram: Request for removal

2001-05-07 Thread Jérôme Marant
En réponse à Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hope you're not relying on this message to get the packages > removed. You need to file a bug report against ftp.debian.org > (but I'm sure you know that! I'm just making sure.) Yes, I know this is not the standard procedure. This is ju

Re: Giram: Request for removal

2001-05-07 Thread Egon Willighagen
On Monday 07 May 2001 19:55, Jérôme Marant wrote: > > Jérôme, could you please file a ITO (intent to orphan) or maybe even a > > O: > > (orphaned) bug against wnpp for giram* ? The instructions on bug > > severity > > and how to do it are in http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp. If you've > > already

Re: Giram: Request for removal

2001-05-07 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Mon, 7 May 2001, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: >... > Jérôme, could you please file a ITO (intent to orphan) or maybe even a O: >... s/ITO/RFA/ (Request for adoption) cu Adrian -- Nicht weil die Dinge schwierig sind wagen wir sie nicht, sondern weil wir sie nicht wagen sind sie schwie

Re: Giram: Request for removal

2001-05-07 Thread Jérôme Marant
> Jérôme, could you please file a ITO (intent to orphan) or maybe even a > O: > (orphaned) bug against wnpp for giram* ? The instructions on bug > severity > and how to do it are in http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp. If you've > already > done that, I apologise for the nitpick. I did not orphan

Re: Giram: Request for removal

2001-05-07 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 07 May 2001, Jérôme Marant wrote: > I'm requesting giram (giram, giram-gnome, giram-mesa, giram-gnome-mesa) > to be removed from Debian for the following reasons: Jérôme, could you please file a ITO (intent to orphan) or maybe even a O: (orphaned) bug against wnpp for giram* ? The ins

Giram: Request for removal

2001-05-07 Thread Jérôme Marant
Hi, I'm requesting giram (giram, giram-gnome, giram-mesa, giram-gnome-mesa) to be removed from Debian for the following reasons: - the upstream author is not responsive (possibly because he's working at MadrakeSoft) - it's development is very slow (8 months between 0.1.7 and 0.1.8)