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> Can please someone explain why a package should be orphaned
> from maintaining? (i hope the reason is not lack of maintainers)
Yes it is. Or more precisely, every package needs a maintainer with:
1) the skills to maintain it (familiarity not only with Debian
packaging i
On 31/10/2007, Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On 31-Oct-07, 12:39 (CDT), Ben Goodger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > libvncserver has dropped out of use and been replaced by vlc.
>
> Huh? VNC != VLC.
Oh yes, misread the N. Whoops.
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On Thursday 01 November 2007 10:19, Christian Perrier wrote:
> IMHO, even if I did not check this, the ttf-dejavu font(s) cover
> these languages pretty well. So, the font is maybe not very much
> relevant for being installed by default.
Hi Christian,
FWIW, greek is ok with the current set of fon
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Quoting Cyril Brulebois ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Luk Claes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (31/10/2007):
> > Below you'll find a list of longtime orphaned packages with quite some
> > users. It would be great if people
On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 12:45:29AM +0100, Frank S. Thomas wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Wednesday 31 October 2007, Luk Claes wrote:
> > Below you'll find a list of longtime orphaned packages with quite some
> > users. It would be great if people could adopt packages that are still
> > usefull and give alter
Hi,
On Wednesday 31 October 2007, Luk Claes wrote:
> Below you'll find a list of longtime orphaned packages with quite some
> users. It would be great if people could adopt packages that are still
> usefull and give alternatives and/or migration plans for packages that
> are rather obsolete or not
Ben Goodger wrote:
> On 31/10/2007, Luk Claes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> http://packages.qa.debian.org/libg/libglade.html
>> http://packages.qa.debian.org/libv/libvncserver.html
>
>
> AFAIK these are unofficially or officially deprecated:
> libglade is now replaced by something nearly identica
Thomas Viehmann wrote:
> Luk Claes wrote:
>> http://packages.qa.debian.org/a/autobook.html
> Based on the submitter's observation in #328219, maybe we should remove
> autobook?
> If it's non-free and increasingly outdated and doesn't have anone
> wanting to maintain it, we might as well stop distri
On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 05:39:38PM +, Ben Goodger wrote:
> libvncserver has dropped out of use and been replaced by vlc.
I somehow don't think it's likely for a remote desktop server to have been
replaced by a media player?
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Luk Claes wrote:
> http://packages.qa.debian.org/a/autobook.html
Based on the submitter's observation in #328219, maybe we should remove
autobook?
If it's non-free and increasingly outdated and doesn't have anone
wanting to maintain it, we might as well stop distributing it.
Kind regards
T.
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Luk Claes wrote:
> Yes, but this source package also builds audacious-crossfade which
> probably should stay?
I'll do a qa upload as we speak, removing the xmms package. One less to
bother for the upcoming removal...
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On 31-Oct-07, 12:39 (CDT), Ben Goodger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> libvncserver has dropped out of use and been replaced by vlc.
Huh? VNC != VLC.
Steve
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Cyril Brulebois a écrit :
> Luk Claes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (31/10/2007):
>
>> Bernd Zeimetz wrote:
>>
>>
http://packages.qa.debian.org/x/xmms-crossfade.html
>>> If I remember right gtk-1 is supposed to be removed from lenny, so
>>> xmms will be gone, too.
>>>
>> Yes
On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 01:37:38AM +0900, Michal Čihař wrote:
> Hi
>
> Dne Wed, 31 Oct 2007 17:21:24 +0100
> Luk Claes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> napsal(a):
>
> > Below you'll find a list of longtime orphaned packages with quite some
> > users. It would be great if people could adopt packages that are
Luk Claes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (31/10/2007):
> Below you'll find a list of longtime orphaned packages with quite some
> users. It would be great if people could adopt packages that are still
> usefull and give alternatives and/or migration plans for packages that
> are rather obsolete or not really
On 31/10/2007, Luk Claes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> http://packages.qa.debian.org/libg/libglade.html
> http://packages.qa.debian.org/libv/libvncserver.html
AFAIK these are unofficially or officially deprecated:
libglade is now replaced by something nearly identical or perhaps merely
renamed a
Luk Claes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (31/10/2007):
> Bernd Zeimetz wrote:
>
> >> http://packages.qa.debian.org/x/xmms-crossfade.html
> >
> > If I remember right gtk-1 is supposed to be removed from lenny, so
> > xmms will be gone, too.
>
> Yes, but this source package also builds audacious-crossfade wh
reopen 438665
quit
On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 06:22:11PM +0100, Luk Claes wrote:
> That sounds like the Dependens should be a Recommends, if so please file
> a bug for it.
It doesn't look like #438665 was actually fixed.
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Michal Čihař wrote:
> Hi
>
> Dne Wed, 31 Oct 2007 17:21:24 +0100
> Luk Claes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> napsal(a):
>
>> Below you'll find a list of longtime orphaned packages with quite some
>> users. It would be great if people could adopt packages that are still
>> usefull and give alternatives and/
Bernd Zeimetz wrote:
>> http://packages.qa.debian.org/x/xmms-crossfade.html
>
> If I remember right gtk-1 is supposed to be removed from lenny, so xmms
> will be gone, too.
Yes, but this source package also builds audacious-crossfade which
probably should stay?
Cheers
Luk
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Hi,
> http://packages.qa.debian.org/p/python-gnome.html
python-gnome only useful for gnome 1. It could (should?) be replaced by
a pseudo package which transitions to python-gnome2 probably, or just be
removed from Debian.
> http://packages.qa.debian.org/p/pyzor.html
Imho there're better ways t
Hi
Dne Wed, 31 Oct 2007 17:21:24 +0100
Luk Claes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> napsal(a):
> Below you'll find a list of longtime orphaned packages with quite some
> users. It would be great if people could adopt packages that are still
> usefull and give alternatives and/or migration plans for packages t
Hi Klaus
> So is there a way to give official packages to debian without being a
> official maintainer?
Sure, you can prepare the package and then give it to an official debian
developer who can upload it for you and therefore act as a kind of sponsor.
You are still responsible for the package a
Hi, Klaus...
On Thursday 17 August 2006 10:47, Klaus Ethgen wrote:
> I read that the packages cvsps and xearth are orphaned now. I might be
> able to get over this packages. But there is a small problem:
>
> Years ago I start getting a official debian maintainer. Unfortunately it
> went asleep as
Hi
On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 11:53:00AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 01:08:10AM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> > I have this sneaking suspicion that we need a tool more appropriate than
> > the BTS to handle the WNPP. The BTS seems rather fragile for this
> > purpose - the form
* Michael Stone
| On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 01:08:10AM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
| > I have this sneaking suspicion that we need a tool more appropriate than
| > the BTS to handle the WNPP. The BTS seems rather fragile for this
| > purpose - the format for bug titles and to a greater extent the way
On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 01:08:10AM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> I have this sneaking suspicion that we need a tool more appropriate than
> the BTS to handle the WNPP. The BTS seems rather fragile for this
> purpose - the format for bug titles and to a greater extent the way
> followups for bug repor
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 10:05:07PM +0200, Uwe Hermann wrote:
> Chris Cheney indends to adopt the package, yes, but he only mailed
> to [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead of properly renaming the bug to ITA.
I have this sneaking suspicion that we need a tool more appropriate than
the BTS to handle the WNPP
Hi Adam!
You wrote:
> I agree. Although we should perhaps have a second mailing to
> debian-devel listing packages that have been unmaintained for a while,
> and are getting old enough to remove.
I'm currently working on this. See also the threads on -qa on this (some
weeks ago).
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On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 07:07:54PM +, Adam Olsen wrote:
> Anyway, I did some searching and found two interesting posts, although
> not the one by Bas Zoetekouw that was mentioned earlier.
http://lists.debian.org/debian-qa/2001/debian-qa-200111/msg00188.html
Cheers,
aj
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Adam Olsen) writes:
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2000/debian-devel-23/msg01353.html,
> which says there's a lintian error/warning called
> "ancient-standard-version", which I believe can detect when a debian
> package is far behind the upstream version.
Nope, it t
Hello,
On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 07:15:53PM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote:
> Sean Neakums wrote:
> > How about listing packages that are orphaned on DWN once, when it
> > happens, with a pointer to the full list of orphaned packages?
> > Something like:
> >
> > Three packages were orphaned this wee
On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 07:15:53PM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote:
> Sean Neakums wrote:
> > begin Adam Olsen quotation:
> >
> > > On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 09:18:55AM -0800, John H. Robinson, IV wrote:
> > >> keeping the community updated is a nice thing, this is why so very few
> > >> of our lists h
Sean Neakums wrote:
> begin Adam Olsen quotation:
>
> > On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 09:18:55AM -0800, John H. Robinson, IV wrote:
> >> keeping the community updated is a nice thing, this is why so very few
> >> of our lists have closed subscriptions. using DWN as a forum for _this_
> >> purpose i bel
On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 05:45:08PM +, Sean Neakums wrote:
> begin Adam Olsen quotation:
>
> > On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 09:18:55AM -0800, John H. Robinson, IV wrote:
> >> keeping the community updated is a nice thing, this is why so very few
> >> of our lists have closed subscriptions. using DW
begin Adam Olsen quotation:
> On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 09:18:55AM -0800, John H. Robinson, IV wrote:
>> keeping the community updated is a nice thing, this is why so very few
>> of our lists have closed subscriptions. using DWN as a forum for _this_
>> purpose i believe is bad.
>
> Perhaps. Cert
On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 09:18:55AM -0800, John H. Robinson, IV wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 04:53:54PM +, Adam Olsen wrote:
> > How about we post a list of orphaned packages in the weekly news?
>
> not every week! news is for _new_ stuff, not the same-old from the
> previous week.
If the
On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 04:53:54PM +, Adam Olsen wrote:
> How about we post a list of orphaned packages in the weekly news?
not every week! news is for _new_ stuff, not the same-old from the
previous week.
perhaps a monthly/biweekly post to #debian-devel, or some other
(moderated) list set up
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