Re: Orphaning some perl packages

2008-12-27 Thread Ryan Niebur
Hi, I intend to adopt these for pkg-perl: > * libtest-number-delta-perl > libx11-freedesktop-desktopentry-perl > libexporter-tidy-perl > libextutils-depends-perl > libextutils-pkgconfig-perl >Misc perl libs. Should probably go to the perl group. > and these too: > * libcairo-perl*

Should tenmado be removed from sid?

2008-12-27 Thread Carsten Hey
Hi, tenmado is a shoot 'em up game in 1990s style. It is dead upstream and unmaintained in Debian since three years. It is RC-buggy and although the bug was trivial to fix it took over two years until someone wrote a patch that fixes this bug. I doubt that anybody today is still interested in p

Re: Tracking transitional packages migration request

2008-12-27 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Sandro Tosi [Sat, 27 Dec 2008 20:34:37 +0100]: Hm. Two comments: > if all bugs for a given package are closed (after a little manual > check, e.g. no rdepends are left for sure) we can ask for transitional > package removal. Don't we usually let transitional packages exist in one stable releas

Tracking transitional packages migration request

2008-12-27 Thread Sandro Tosi
Hi all! I don't know if such a tool already exists or if it's needed at all, but I wrote the same :) Basically it's a simple script[1] to check the status of bugs filed to ask for migration from transitional package to "real" new one. It has a simple config file[2] where the information about tra

Orphaning some perl packages

2008-12-27 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
retitle 456924 O: libgstreamer-perl -- Perl interface to the gstreamer noowner 456924 thanks Heya, In my quest to get rid of tasks I don't have the motivation to actually work on, I want to give up some of my packages. Basically, there are three groups: Packages that are just fine and need a main