Re: plans on orphaning / removing packages not in testing

2004-06-20 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 02:28:04PM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * Matthew Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-06-20 11:44]: > > I'll volunteer to check my own packages, with a couple of recommendations: > > I wish more people had an attitude like this. Maybe it would make > sense to ask people o

Re: plans on orphaning / removing packages not in testing

2004-06-20 Thread Andreas Barth
* Martin Michlmayr ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [040620 14:25]: > * Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-06-20 12:06]: > > If as maintainer you want your package not to be released but to remain > > in unstable, then file a serious bug on the package to that effect and > > tell the release team. > Is the

Re: plans on orphaning / removing packages not in testing

2004-06-20 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-06-20 21:20]: > I played around a bit, my current stuff (nothing serious yet) > is at http://people.debian.org/~djpig/pkg-invest/ > status.html at least shows the amount of work we're talking about: > today it were 3350 new source packages when comparin

Re: plans on orphaning / removing packages not in testing

2004-06-20 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 02:20:38PM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > In any case, I'd really like volunteers for something else: check > which packages are going to ship new with sarge (i.e. which have not > been in woody or another stable release) and take a closer look at > them to see if we reall

yadex removal

2004-06-20 Thread Emanuele Rocca
Last maintianer upload in 1999 (initial release). >From #138072: yadex was packaged originally for a person who was planning to join the project before the sponsorship procedure was standard practice. He never joined the project and the package has more or less languished in his absence since the

rexxtk and rxsock removal

2004-06-20 Thread Emanuele Rocca
Hi, should we remove rexxtk and rxsock? Rick, the previous maintainer, said in #253206 that there is no big interest in rexxtk, I don't know about rxsock. Rick, what's your opinion? RC bugs, last upload in 2001, both for rexxtk and rxsock. ciao, ema -- Questo è il domani di cui ti preo

gbuffy needs a QA Team upload

2004-06-20 Thread Adeodato Simó
hi, gbuffy (orphaned) is not release quality in its current testing version: #241371 [crashes after adding new mailbox] makes it mostly unusable, since it's impossible to use the configuration dialog. the fix for that nasty bug is really trivial. I have uploaded a version to mentors.deb

Re: plans on orphaning / removing packages not in testing

2004-06-20 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Matthew Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-06-20 11:44]: > I'll volunteer to check my own packages, with a couple of recommendations: I wish more people had an attitude like this. Maybe it would make sense to ask people on d-d-a to review their own new packages and consider whether it makes sense

Re: plans on orphaning / removing packages not in testing

2004-06-20 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 01:19:28PM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-06-20 12:06]: > > If as maintainer you want your package not to be released but to remain > > in unstable, then file a serious bug on the package to that effect and > > tell the release team

Re: changelogs.debian.net

2004-06-20 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 11:39:07AM +1000, Andrew Pollock wrote: > On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 01:38:57AM +0200, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 12:20:22AM +1000, Andrew Pollock wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > Not sure if anyone else is going to find this of massive use, but I find > > > I'

Re: plans on orphaning / removing packages not in testing

2004-06-20 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-06-20 12:06]: > If as maintainer you want your package not to be released but to remain > in unstable, then file a serious bug on the package to that effect and > tell the release team. Is there no cleaner solution so those RC bugs don't show up in the RC b

Re: changelogs.debian.net

2004-06-20 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Andrew Pollock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-06-20 11:39]: > > Nice but I thought someone else had changelog in people.debian.org too ... > > Oh okay. Probably helps if these things get linked somewhere vaguely > official so they can be found... Frank Lichtenheld has done the same for packages.d.o.

Re: plans on orphaning / removing packages not in testing

2004-06-20 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 11:44:53AM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: > Do I bug FTPmasters about getting those two removed from testing, or the > release team? If as maintainer you want your package not to be released but to remain in unstable, then file a serious bug on the package to that effect and