Re: Idea for maintaining packages up for adoption

2005-07-13 Thread Michael Stone
On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 07:27:58PM +0200, Benjamin Bayart wrote: If you think it is satisfactory, then, well, perhaps there is nothing to change and I'm wrong on that. But if you think it have to be improved, my proposition is just to accept more-or-less automaticaly the contributions from the ou

Re: Idea for maintaining packages up for adoption

2005-07-13 Thread Russ Allbery
Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 3) There are about 1000 Debian developers and thousands of Debian >users out there. > 4) Not one of them has offered to maintain dvidvi, not you, not the >maintainers of the packages that depend on it I would be willing to maintain dvidvi, a

Re: Idea for maintaining packages up for adoption

2005-07-13 Thread Benjamin Bayart
Le Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 07:57:32PM +0200, Frank Lichtenheld: > > > > As smooth an upgrade as with any other distribution of any operating > > system, free or not. > > Ok, I can understand that it makes it you sad that a package you like > and use should be removed from Debian unstable. Well, yes

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Re: Idea for maintaining packages up for adoption

2005-07-13 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 07:07:06PM +0200, Benjamin Bayart wrote: > Le Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 05:41:54PM +0200, Frank Lichtenheld: > > > > On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 12:25:50PM +0200, Benjamin Bayart wrote: > > > Le Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 04:14:52AM +0900, Masayuki Hatta: > > > By the way I do have some o

Re: Idea for maintaining packages up for adoption

2005-07-13 Thread Benjamin Bayart
Le Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 05:54:51PM +0200, Frank Lichtenheld: > > But this doesn't depend on the availability of a VCS but on the > availability of people to upload the package. Perhaps during > creating the former you find the latter ones. But that's about > marketing, not about technical solution

Re: Idea for maintaining packages up for adoption

2005-07-13 Thread Benjamin Bayart
Le Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 05:41:54PM +0200, Frank Lichtenheld: > > On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 12:25:50PM +0200, Benjamin Bayart wrote: > > Le Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 04:14:52AM +0900, Masayuki Hatta: > > By the way I do have some other patches on this package, but there seem > > to be no emergency to subm

Re: Idea for maintaining packages up for adoption

2005-07-13 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 02:18:51PM +0200, Benjamin Bayart wrote: > Le Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 04:32:30PM +0200, Frank Lichtenheld: > But I disagree on your conclusion: if people just submit patches to the > bug tracking system, the patches will not find a way to the users, since > there is no maintain

Re: Idea for maintaining packages up for adoption

2005-07-13 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 12:25:50PM +0200, Benjamin Bayart wrote: > Le Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 04:14:52AM +0900, Masayuki Hatta: > By the way I do have some other patches on this package, but there seem > to be no emergency to submit :-) You know #274276 ? Gruesse, -- Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: Idea for maintaining packages up for adoption

2005-07-13 Thread Benjamin Bayart
Le Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 04:32:30PM +0200, Frank Lichtenheld: [ I previously sent a "private" answer to Frank, because I didn't know I was allowed to post to the mailing lists. Sorry if you receive some of the informations twice. ] > I'm still not convinced that this is really superior to just let

Re: Idea for maintaining packages up for adoption

2005-07-13 Thread Benjamin Bayart
Le Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 04:14:52AM +0900, Masayuki Hatta: > > > The problem is then : we have knowledgeable people willing to help > > but we don't have a Debian maintainer for them. Benjamin sent > > several patchs in the BTS and they are still there... waiting to be > > applied. > > I'm the mai