> > - with the bug tracking system, you have a patch which sleeps there for
> > years, waiting for someone to care
>
> Because, of course, the debian bts is inaccessible to everyone but
> debian developers...
Recently (a few months ago) the debian-qa team did an update of dvidvi,
applying the
Le Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 05:41:01AM -0400, Michael Stone:
>
> On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 10:34:05AM +0200, Benjamin BAYART wrote:
> >If a package is orphaned in Debian, but still have users and people
> >willing to maintain the software, this proposition can help.
>
> I
> and I can't see how the proposal will add anything that
> can't already be done if you have active users & developers.
The main difference is between having developpers and having
Debian-developpers. When you say a package is orphaned this is a Debian
status, which might not be that right in the
[Same remark: I answer from the web package, so no quotation, sorry]
I agree with you, as you know :-)
That would lead to several groups like the debian-perl one, one of those
being debian-orphaned. Another, of more interest for me, would be a
debian-texware to maintain packages in the TeX world
[Sorry not to quote you, I'm answering from the web interfae]
There would be mainly two differences from the current situation:
1. A user of the package can have acces to the patched source and build
the fixed package automaticaly, this is a way to obtain the fixed
package without waiting fo
Le Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 03:25:44PM +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar:
>
> As far as I can see though, there are not really technical problems
> with the low maintainance of orphaned packages, but more the reason
> that they are still orphaned -- nobody has a really big interest in
> them.
When you say
Mike Stone:
>
> If you're pretty much automatically accepting any kind of contribution
> it's not a debian package any more. Just set up your own package archive
> somewhere for packages like this and encourage people to use it.
> notquitedebian.org is available...
My guess is that it sounds lik
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
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
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
> &g
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
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
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