Re: ghdl package has been removed from Mentors

2014-07-21 Thread Guido van Steen
I have just submitted the issue as bug# 314771. On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 5:17 PM, Guido van Steen wrote: > Hi Thibaut, > > } this is not what I mean: I don't like the "comments" feature of debexpo, > } my opinion is that comments on a to-be-sponsored package should be sent > } to the corresponding

Re: ghdl package has been removed from Mentors

2014-07-21 Thread Guido van Steen
Hi Thibaut, } this is not what I mean: I don't like the "comments" feature of debexpo, } my opinion is that comments on a to-be-sponsored package should be sent } to the corresponding RFS bug. Sorry for my misunderstanding. Yes, comments could indeed be "referred" to the RFS/ITP bug. Debexpo coul

Re: ghdl package has been removed from Mentors

2014-07-21 Thread Thibaut Paumard
Le 21/07/2014 10:37, Guido van Steen a écrit : > } IMHO, the right place for discussing a particular package is it's ITP > } bug (when the package is prospective) or the RFS bug. > > AFAIAA there is no ITP or RFS for the package debexpo (the software at > issue, which is running at mentors.debian.

Re: ghdl package has been removed from Mentors

2014-07-21 Thread Guido van Steen
} IMHO, the right place for discussing a particular package is it's ITP } bug (when the package is prospective) or the RFS bug. AFAIAA there is no ITP or RFS for the package debexpo (the software at issue, which is running at mentors.debian.net). Guido -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentor

Re: ghdl package has been removed from Mentors

2014-07-21 Thread Thibaut Paumard
Le 19/07/2014 17:00, Guido van Steen a écrit : > I agree with Joris. > > Users are not properly informed that discussions on mentors.debian.net > may be automatically lost after a package is removed from > mentors.debian.net. This should be changed. I would rather see the > information backed-up i

Re: ghdl package has been removed from Mentors

2014-07-19 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Jul 19, 2014 at 5:17 PM, Joris van Rantwijk wrote: > I actually found two Debian developers who have been very helpful and > were willing to sponsor the package. Unfortunately we then discovered > a copyright issue which makes it impossible to distribute GHDL in the > Debian archive. I'm s

Re: ghdl package has been removed from Mentors

2014-07-19 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Jul 19, 2014 at 11:00 PM, Guido van Steen wrote: > Does this require a bug report again debexpo, or is this mailing list > the place for a discussion? I think a patch would be more useful, AFAICS no-one has found the time to work on debexpo since February. The point of the removal is tha

Re: ghdl package has been removed from Mentors

2014-07-19 Thread Guido van Steen
I agree with Joris. Users are not properly informed that discussions on mentors.debian.net may be automatically lost after a package is removed from mentors.debian.net. This should be changed. I would rather see the information backed-up in some way before it is deleted. Does this require a bug r

Re: ghdl package has been removed from Mentors

2014-07-19 Thread Andrew Shadura
Joris, Don't give up. Upload it again and continue trying to find a sponsor. I used to be a ghdl user in the past, but I'm not good at Ada stuff (afaik ghdl is written in Ada), so maybe I'm not the best person for this. Try to approach someone from the Ada team, maybe they can help you. -- Cheer

Re: ghdl package has been removed from Mentors

2014-07-19 Thread Joris van Rantwijk
Hi Andrew, On 2014-07-19, Andrew Shadura wrote: > Don't give up. Upload it again and continue trying to find a sponsor. > I used to be a ghdl user in the past, but I'm not good at Ada stuff > (afaik ghdl is written in Ada), so maybe I'm not the best person for > this. Try to approach someone from

Re: ghdl package has been removed from Mentors

2014-07-19 Thread Joris van Rantwijk
On 2014-07-19, mentors.debian.net wrote: > Your package ghdl all versions has been removed from > mentors.debian.net for the following reason: > > Your package found no sponsor for 20 weeks Ok. This comes as a bit of a surprise, and it may be unfortunate. My idea was that, even if no sponsor wou