Re: Do we need a new Lintian maintainer ?

2001-07-24 Thread Stephen Zander
> "Sean" == Sean Perry writes: Sean> Married life has taken more time than I ever expected. Yeah, it'll do that to you; wait till you've got kids as well :) -- Stephen "A duck!"

package cint with two serious policy violations (m68k)

2001-07-24 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
Regarding to the bugs #97691 and #96234 and the inactivity of its maintainer (Richard Krekel, [EMAIL PROTECTED]) and this unsatisfying situations (cint "killed" today an m68k autobuilder) we moved cint to not-for-us section to avoid further problems. For people who are interested in the whole logf

Re: Let's close down the QA committee

2001-07-24 Thread Christian Kurz
On 01-07-24 Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Le Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 06:24:07AM -0400, Michael Stone écrivait: > > On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 05:00:36AM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > > > Who has the authority to remove a package in this state, and forestall > > > angry complaints should the maintainer com

Re: Sudhakar Chandrasekharan is MIA [MAILER-DAEMON@ywing.netscape.com: Returned mail: see transcript for details]

2001-07-24 Thread Sudhakar Chandra
Colin Watson proclaimed: > > Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Hi, > > > >This has been going on for quite a while. Unless someone can reach thaths, > >he should be considered MIA and his packages should be orphaned. :/ > > Hi Sudhakar, > > Is this a valid e-mail address for you? Do you

Re: Sudhakar Chandrasekharan is MIA [MAILER-DAEMON@ywing.netscape.com: Returned mail: see transcript for details]

2001-07-24 Thread Colin Watson
Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi, > >This has been going on for quite a while. Unless someone can reach thaths, >he should be considered MIA and his packages should be orphaned. :/ Hi Sudhakar, Is this a valid e-mail address for you? Do you need NMUs to change the maintainer address on

Sudhakar Chandrasekharan is MIA [MAILER-DAEMON@ywing.netscape.com: Returned mail: see transcript for details]

2001-07-24 Thread Josip Rodin
Hi, This has been going on for quite a while. Unless someone can reach thaths, he should be considered MIA and his packages should be orphaned. :/ - Forwarded message from Mail Delivery Subsystem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Delivery-date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 16:50:40 +0200 Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001

Re: Let's close down the QA committee

2001-07-24 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 07:55:13AM -0400, Michael Stone écrivait: > > The QA committee was designed to play such a role. Sorry. > > The committee may have been designed that way, but it never had any > more authority to act than any maintainer already has. (IOW, a QA Yes, that's true, but many ma

Re: Let's close down the QA committee

2001-07-24 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 12:59:57PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Le Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 06:24:07AM -0400, Michael Stone écrivait: > > On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 05:00:36AM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > > > Who has the authority to remove a package in this state, and forestall > > > angry compla

Re: notes on packages mentioned

2001-07-24 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 04:49:05AM -0400, Nathanael Nerode écrivait: > Jordi Mallach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >infocom, int-fiction, jlex, libggidemos, propsel, rocks-n-diamonds, >xserver-ggi: this maintainer looks like completely MIA. I see tbm has >noticed already :> > > "infocom" w

Re: Let's close down the QA committee

2001-07-24 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 06:24:07AM -0400, Michael Stone écrivait: > On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 05:00:36AM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > > Who has the authority to remove a package in this state, and forestall > > angry complaints should the maintainer come back some years in the > > future? Well

Re: Let's close down the QA committee

2001-07-24 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 05:00:36AM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > Who has the authority to remove a package in this state, and forestall > angry complaints should the maintainer come back some years in the > future? Well, the QA committee clearly does. Not really. The QA committee was never g

Re: Let's close down the QA committee

2001-07-24 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Raphael Herzog said: >Le Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 12:02:18PM +0200, Martin Michlmayr écrivait: >> Basically, I tried to come up with what a QA committee could actually >> do. And, well, I couldn't find anything. So I suggest to officially >> close the committee down. However, perhaps not coming up

notes on packages mentioned

2001-07-24 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Jordi Mallach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >infocom, int-fiction, jlex, libggidemos, propsel, rocks-n-diamonds, xserver-ggi: this maintainer looks like completely MIA. I see tbm has noticed already :> "infocom" was abandoned upstream several years ago. The "Infocom Task Force", who wrote it,

rtl8139

2001-07-24 Thread Neven Boric
Hi I successfully installed debian 2.2r3 on my PC, but I'm having trouble configuring my Genius GF100TXRIII network card. The bundled disk says I have to use the rtl8139 kernel module I have RedHat installed on another partition on the same PC, and it works (using 8139too module, since it's redhat