Re: Connecting those interested in getting GT.M into the Debianrepositories

2010-08-04 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 06:08:43PM -0400, K.S. Bhaskar wrote: > Andreas, I took your name off the addressee list to avoid duplication. Thanks. > [KSB] I agree that we should target Unstable first. Note that the > bootstrap requires a release of GT.M, not the current release of GT.M > (agai

Re: What to do with draft packages?

2010-08-04 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, Aug 04, 2010 at 01:31:22PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > This said, other people may be intersted in the draft packages, or even > volunteer to finish them, so I wonder how much it would make sense to share > them in a places such as ssh://git.debian.org/git/debian-med/drafts or > svn://sv

Re: What to do with draft packages?

2010-08-04 Thread Steffen Möller
Hello, On 08/04/2010 09:41 AM, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Wed, Aug 04, 2010 at 01:31:22PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > >> This said, other people may be intersted in the draft packages, or even >> volunteer to finish them, so I wonder how much it would make sense to share >> them in a places s

Re: What to do with draft packages?

2010-08-04 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, Aug 04, 2010 at 12:31:44PM +0200, Steffen Möller wrote: > Andreas once took the effort to move my collection of draft > packages from a past home page of mine over to to Debian Med, > and funnily enough this has indeed helped me 5 years later :) :-) > > In principle we could drop such a f

Re: What to do with draft packages?

2010-08-04 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
On Wed, 04 Aug 2010, Andreas Tille wrote: > I don't think so. Perhaps I did not made my idea clear enough. While > "UNRELEASED" in the changelog is just a binary information (released or > not) I would like to know the reasons *why* the package is not (yet??) And we have debian/TODO for that as

Re: What to do with draft packages?

2010-08-04 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, Aug 04, 2010 at 08:29:43AM -0400, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: > And we have debian/TODO for that as well imho. I never used this, it might be a reasonable place as well. But we are actually talking about something the person who started tha packaging does not want "todo" anything any more.