Re: MIA maintainer watch

2004-01-27 Thread Andreas Barth
* Martin Michlmayr ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [040127 19:40]: > * Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-12-30 22:23]: > > Warren Stramiello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > *One* package (xdrawchem). Last maintainer upload in May 2001. > > Five consecutive NMUs since then. > Michael Banck is sort of co-ma

Re: License bugs for sarge

2004-01-27 Thread Andreas Barth
* Martin Michlmayr ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [040127 19:10]: > * Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-01-26 22:49]: > > debian-qa: In most cases this is going to require removal of > > packages from sid. It may be appropriate to remove undistributable packages > > from sid even if they will be fix

Re: License bugs for sarge

2004-01-27 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nathanael Nerode) I ran over Nathanael's list of bugs to provide an independent assessment from a d-l point of view; here are my findings. Note that some of the activity seems to be in response to pings from NN earlier today. > 224913: gpsdrive Closed by upload earlie

Re: [debacle@debian.org: Re: PFE]

2004-01-27 Thread Bas Zoetekouw
Hi Martin! You wrote: > Could someone QA upload a new upstream of pfe? Then we could get rid > of the build-depends on xm-tool and at least remove this (orphaned) > package. I'm on it. -- Kind regards, ++ | Bas Zoetekouw

Re: MIA (or derelict) maintainers list

2004-01-27 Thread Graham Wilson
On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 06:29:12PM +, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * Graham Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-12-14 15:16]: > > I'd also like to add Fabien Ninoles to the list. I emailed him a few > > days ago, and haven't heard back yet. He maintains maitains tkworld, > > xmltex, and passivetex. >

Re: MIA (or derelict) maintainers list

2004-01-27 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Graham Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-12-14 15:16]: > I'd also like to add Fabien Ninoles to the list. I emailed him a few > days ago, and haven't heard back yet. He maintains maitains tkworld, > xmltex, and passivetex. Graham said he'd adopt xmltex and passivetex, and orphan tkworld. Graham,

Re: MIA maintainer watch

2004-01-27 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-12-30 22:23]: > announced vacations from Debian (I haven't been able to find a way > to look up whether people are). Look at http://db.debian.org/ (but I wouldn't worry about this; if a package hasn't been maintained for years, it's clear the maintainer

Re: Another MIA maintainer

2004-01-27 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-12-31 12:06]: > Mark W. Eichin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Last upload in April. Last before that in 2002. > Two packages in NMU versions, one never made it into testing. Lots of > *really* old bugs. > Suggestion: Orphan all his packages. I'm fairly su

Re: License bugs for sarge

2004-01-27 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-01-26 22:49]: > debian-qa: In most cases this is going to require removal of > packages from sid. It may be appropriate to remove undistributable packages > from sid even if they will be fixed "later". Appropriate nagging of the > ftpmasters will be ne

Re: Removing mindi?

2004-01-27 Thread Santiago Vila
On Tue, 27 Jan 2004, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * Santiago Vila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-01-27 10:40]: > > It could be that mindi does not really need to depend on mindi-kernel > > but only on a kernel which has certain features (which an ordinary > > kernel-image-* probably has), in which case th

Removal of pgeasy [was: Re: License bugs for sarge]

2004-01-27 Thread Martin Pitt
Hi again! On 2004-01-27 14:39 +0100, Martin Pitt wrote: > Hi! > > On 2004-01-26 22:49 -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > > 227793: libpgeasy > > [...] > > -- unhelpful upstream, QA has requested removal from sid > > Could you please wait a bit more before removing this? I > contacted upstream jus

Re: Removing mindi?

2004-01-27 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Santiago Vila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-01-27 17:31]: > No. I was just pointing out that removing package B on which package A > depends does not make it necessarily "obvious" (as you said) that > package A has to be removed as well. Yeah, okay, s/obvious/easy/ (solution) then. > Consider for e

Re: Let's remove xfonts-greek-ph

2004-01-27 Thread Martin Michlmayr
reassign 202615 ftp.debian.org retitle 202615 Please remove xfonts-greek-ph thanks * Andrew Pollock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-01-27 19:32]: > * orphaned 187 days > * last NMUed well over a year ago > * #172687 suggests the package is fairly screwed with XFree86 >=4 and it's > non-trivial to rect

Re: Remove wmcdplay

2004-01-27 Thread Martin Michlmayr
reassign 189819 ftp.debian.org retitle 189819 Please remove wmcdplay thanks * Andrew Pollock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-01-27 18:56]: > I think wmcdplay is a bit of a lost case: > > * last upload 2 years ago > * orphaned 281 days. > * beta software > * upstream URL as specified in debian/copyright

Re: Remove vlad from sid?

2004-01-27 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-01-14 15:59]: > Note that it is dead upstream and has a long-standing RC bug (#191722). > > QA, does it sound reasonable to remove this package from unstable? (It's > already removed from testing). > > If I get agreement, I'll file a bug against ftp.d

Re: License bugs for sarge

2004-01-27 Thread Raphael Goulais
Le mar 27/01/2004 à 04:49, Nathanael Nerode a écrit : > 228085: airstrike > -- unhelpful upstream, will probably need to be removed from sid I don't know about unhelpful upstream, but I'm the one who filled the five bug reports on airstrike, this one included. Five newer upstream releases are ava

[debacle@debian.org: Re: PFE]

2004-01-27 Thread Martin Michlmayr
Could someone QA upload a new upstream of pfe? Then we could get rid of the build-depends on xm-tool and at least remove this (orphaned) package. - Forwarded message from "W. Borgert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - From: "W. Borgert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: PFE Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 11

Re: Removing mindi?

2004-01-27 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Santiago Vila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-01-27 10:40]: > It could be that mindi does not really need to depend on mindi-kernel > but only on a kernel which has certain features (which an ordinary > kernel-image-* probably has), in which case the "obviously right thing > to do" would be to remove t

Re: License bugs for sarge

2004-01-27 Thread Martin Pitt
Hi! On 2004-01-26 22:49 -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > 227793: libpgeasy > [...] > -- unhelpful upstream, QA has requested removal from sid Could you please wait a bit more before removing this? I contacted upstream just 12 days ago about this matter and just now using a different email addres

Processed: Re: 185 Packages that look orphaned

2004-01-27 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > reassign 227738 ftp.debian.org Bug#227738: ftp.debian.org: Please remove eshell and w3-el from unstable Bug reassigned from package `qa.debian.org' to `ftp.debian.org'. > thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. Debi

License bugs for sarge

2004-01-27 Thread Nathanael Nerode
I was browsing through http://bts.turmzimmer.net/list.html, and I note the following bugs due to non-DFSG-free or undistributable packages: 228085: airstrike -- unhelpful upstream, will probably need to be removed from sid 224913: gpsdrive 225537: hdate -- unhelpful upstream, maintainer has alre

Bug#162608 acknowledged by developer ([stephen@debian.org: Accepted libhdf4 4.1r4-18 (i386 source all)])

2004-01-27 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report #162608: O: libhdf4 -- The Hierarchical Data Format, version 4, which was filed against the wnpp package. It has been closed by one of the developers, namely Martin Michlmayr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. Their explanation is attached below. If

Re: Removing mindi?

2004-01-27 Thread Santiago Vila
On Tue, 27 Jan 2004, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-01-16 16:46]: > > Mindi depends on mindi-kernel, which had to be removed for license reasons. > > (See bug 227757.) QA, what do you think of removing mindi from unstable > > as well? It seems correct to m

Let's remove xfonts-greek-ph

2004-01-27 Thread Andrew Pollock
Hi, * orphaned 187 days * last NMUed well over a year ago * #172687 suggests the package is fairly screwed with XFree86 >=4 and it's non-trivial to rectify * Didn't get any response from http://lists.debian.org/debian-qa/2003/debian-qa-200311/msg00037.html Andrew signature.asc Description: D

Remove wmcdplay

2004-01-27 Thread Andrew Pollock
Hi, I'm back on the orphaned-packages-with-wrong-maintainer trail again. I think wmcdplay is a bit of a lost case: * last upload 2 years ago * orphaned 281 days. * beta software * upstream URL as specified in debian/copyright doesn't work (first page of Google doesn't look promising either) *