Re: Can we orphan dlocate?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Steve Langasek wrote: > On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 11:45:58PM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: >> The maintainer appears to have lost interest in the package (last upload >> 1999). >> It's also his only package; he is probably

Re: Can we orphan dlocate?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Craig Sanders wrote: >>> Debian deliberately.) >> I don't think Craig has left debian. :) > > no, i haven't. i've been a bit pre-occupied with health issues over the last > few years. Sorry. I know what that's like, been doing that myself lately.

Can we orphan dlocate?

ocating it, so he may have left Debian deliberately.) Given the various NMUs I suspect that this one would be picked up quite quickly, but I'm sure nobody wants to step on the maintainer's toes Given the presence of bugs as old as seven years, it clearly needs a new maintainer.

Shall we consider removing 'deliver'?

feel free to fix it.) Oh, and there hasn't been an upstream release since 1999. -- Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [Insert famous quote here] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Packages still linked against libstdc++5 in unstable

jabber-jit juice kimwitu++ launchtool le logtools maildir-bulletin metacam pathogen playmp3list postal pwsafe qe qmc re shaperd sillypoker tardy tigr-glimmer vncsnapshot ---- -- Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "It's just a goddamned piece of paper." -- Preside

Update on orphaned packages with very low popcon numbers

quot;: gkrelldnet: 14 In "non-free": qla2x00: 11 (4 votes) -- this should be expected to have low popcon counts. But if nobody cares enough to fix the bugs (I don't), removal should be requested: it is non-free, after all. -- Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> A th

Update on GNOME 1 packages

ages which use it. - It's bug city, though. Needs work badly. Maybe I'll make a QA upload after etch releases to fix some of the worst. -- Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Read it and weep. http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Text_of_Gore_speech_0116.html -- To UNSUBS

Let's remove swingwt

Orphaned since February, no reverse dependencies, 11 popcon installs. There's Swing support in Classpath, and Sun's Java is being released under the GPL, so this is not the most necessary thing in the world now. Any objections? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "

Most popular orphaned packages

>From my periodic sweep, I find that these orphaned packages have over 1000 reported popcon installs. I may have missed some. dvipng (1211) -- ITAed. gnome-gv -- removal request filed gnome-libs (5259) -- GNOME 1 gnome-print (1974) -- GNOME 1 grdesktop (5488) imlib (8984) -- sort of GNOME 1, but

Re: Update on GNOME 1 cleanup status

tim hall wrote: On Wednesday 29 November 2006 04:57, Nathanael Nerode was like: > ? - pydict > ? ? - Maintainer [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ? ? - Maintainer probably MIA, last upload in 2002 > ? ? - unchanged since stable > ? ? -- Recommendation: remove from unstable > * gnome-pri

Could perl team take a look at the orphaned perl libraries?

Orphaned perl libraries constitute a meaningful proportion of the orphaned packages. Could the perl team take a look at them? Perhaps they might wish to adopt some, and perhaps they might be able to point to some which in their opinion should be removed from Debian (perhaps some are obsolete or f

Finding a Debian maintainer for libghttp (or removing it)

This is the obsolete GNOME HTTP library. It is orphaned, and has been since Auguest 2005. The packages in Debian which depend on it are: xmms-singit (maintainer [EMAIL PROTECTED]) telegnome (maintainer [EMAIL PROTECTED]) orpheus (maintainer [EMAIL PROTECTED], RFAed) digitaldj (maintainer [EMAIL

Update on orphaned packages with very low popcon numbers

Revisiting http://lists.debian.org/debian-qa/2006/09/msg00013.html . Some have been ITAed or adopted and are removed from the list. :-) Others have been removed from Debian or removal requests filed (some by me) and are likewise removed from the list. :-) It looks like we could use a Korean-spe

Update on GNOME 1 cleanup status

Most of the obsolete GNOME 1 packages are gone. Hooray! Removal of guikachu has been requested. Once this is processed, this will be what's left. Packages depending on the packages are listed below each package. * python-gnome -- See also #368515. - xkeysw-config - Maintainer [EMAIL PR

Re: A plan to get rid of unnecessary package dependencies

gt; Excellent work :-). I didn't see a link to the checklib script itself. > Do you intend to release it some time? Thanks. > > Ganesan > This script ROCKS. Can we link it into the QA pages? -- Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Bush admitted to violating FISA and

Re: Update on orphaned packages with very low popcon numbers

still useful. And they're less easy to install from upstream than most packages. -- Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Bush admitted to violating FISA and said he was proud of it. So why isn't he in prison yet?... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a su

Re: QA packages with really high popcon numbers :-)

guppi: 1204. Don't adopt this, it's obsolete and being removed. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

GNOME 1 cleanup status

So, I've requested two QA uploads to stop producing useless binary packages. I've also requested that libgtk-perl stop producing libgtkhtml-perl, since that's at the top of the dependency chain. (If the maintainer of libgtk-perl wants to keep producing that package, he had damn well better adopt t

Roger So appears MIA

[EMAIL PROTECTED] Last uploads November 2005: im-sdk July 2005: im-sdk and libtabe hanzim last uploaded by maintainer in 2002 guikachu last uploaded by maintainer in 2004 guikachu is in dreadful shape and I have requested its removal. I recommend orphaning hanzim, im-sdk, and libtabe. --

Please QA-upload libglade (GNOME 1 cleanup)

Please could someone QA-upload libglade to stop producing libglade-bonobo0 and the corresponding -dev package. These two packages have no revdeps, and are the last users of the 'bonobo' source package apart from other unused libraries (which I'm also trying to get removed). Removal request has al

Please QA-upload python-gnome, and GNOME 1 stuff

I'm not up to doing this myself at the moment, but it should be done. So could someone on debian-gtk-gnome or debian-qa do this? python-gnome should be QA uploaded to stop generating the python-gnome-1.2 package. This package is no longer used by anything in unstable. And, python-gnome-1.2 is th

QA packages with really high popcon numbers :-)

dopt these packages. Hmm, maybe I'll adopt some of the fonts -- they're pretty easy to maintain. -- Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Bush admitted to violating FISA and said he was proud of it. So why isn't he in prison yet?... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Update on orphaned packages with very low popcon numbers

(5 votes) zorroutils: 2 (0 votes) In "contrib": gkrelldnet: 9 In "non-free": qla2x00: 6 (1 vote) -- Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Read it and weep. http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Text_of_Gore_speech_0116.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PR

Re: Adrian Bridgett ignoring nighthawk?

Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: > Hi Nathanael, > > On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 09:49:35PM -0400, Nathanael Nerode > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> So I'm not sure what to do. Normally, I would say that such a grossly >> obsolete and unmaintained package shou

Adrian Bridgett ignoring nighthawk?

a grossly obsolete and unmaintained package should be removed from Debian. I'm not really in the mood to do a NMU which packages a new upstream with two major version jumps, for a package I don't personally use. -- Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> A thousand reasons. http://www

Update on orphaned packages with very low popcon numbers

votes) ts10: 19 (4 votes) wmdonkeymon: 17 (3 votes) x10-automate: 18 (4 votes) xbox-raincoat: 3 (1 vote) xgdipc: 6 (0 votes) xiterm+thai: 16 (5 votes) zorroutils: 2 (0 votes) In "contrib": gkrelldnet: 9 relay-ctrl: 8 (7 votes) In "non-free": qla2x00: 6 (1 vote) -- Natha

Re: RM: ud -- RoQA; orphaned, no upstream, uptimed is better

Matej Vela wrote: > Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>> On 10734 March 1977, Matej Vela wrote: >>>> * popcon: 261 installs, 177 votes. >> >> This is actually quite a lot -- more than the level I'd use for removals, >> FY

Re: Packages that might need to be orphaned

1-09-17 2006-07-15 Yes > > > Thanks for any input on this list of packages. -- Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Bush admitted to violating FISA and said he was proud of it. So why isn't he in prison yet?... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RM: ud -- RoQA; orphaned, no upstream, uptimed is better

gt; * popcon: 261 installs, 177 votes. This is actually quite a lot -- more than the level I'd use for removals, FYI. > And as multiple others in this bug report - I disagree. Has enough > users, has no bugs > normal, no need to remove it yet. > Closing bug. -- Nathanael Nerode <

Is passivetex still being maintained?

'passivetex' hasn't been uploaded since 2004, has two RC bugs, and has been removed from 'testing'. The maintainer is listed as [EMAIL PROTECTED] If it's not being maintained, I intend to request removal of the package from unstable. The most recent version of the package is present in 'stable',

Re: Pavel Wiecek appears to be MIA

Matej Vela wrote: >FWIW, a couple of weeks ago I removed the pending tag from one of his >long-standing RC bugs (#243007), and he retagged it within a day. So >he reads his mail at least. Oh hell. Then he's just irresponsible I don't know what we're supposed to do about people like this.

Pavel Wiecek appears to be MIA

Pavel Wiechek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) appears to be MIA. Last upload in 2004. I suggest orphaning all his packages, except for a few obsolete ones which I've filed removal requests for. -- Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Make sure your vote will count. http://www.verifie

Juan Alvarez MIA? Orphan 'prips'?

Juan Alvarez appears MIA; hasn't uploaded any packages or responded to any bugs since 2003. I've filed a removal request for ipsc. Is it OK to file a bug to orphan his other solo-maintained package, "prips", which has no bugs (and is quite simple)? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Orphaned packages with very low popcon numbers

There are *so many* orphaned packages that I didn't want to just start going through them alphabetically, which was my first instinct when looking for removal candidates! -- Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "(Instead, we front-load the flamewars and grudges in the interest of ef

Re: Orphaned packages with very low popcon numbers

users. IMNSHO, packages which have no maintainer and look unlikely to acquire one should be removed from Debian by *default*, and kept only if there's a good reason to keep them. A significant number of users is usually a good reason, hence the filter for packages with very few (if any) users. -- Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Bush admitted to violating FISA and said he was proud of it. So why isn't he in prison yet?...

Re: Orphaned packages with very low popcon numbers

nds do, but they ought to do something similar. > Except that > the package now gets *no* updates instead of minimal ones. > > Thomas -- Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Bush admitted to violating FISA and said he was proud of it. So why isn't he in prison yet?... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Orphaned packages with very low popcon numbers

et: 9 relay-ctrl: 8 (7 votes) In "non-free": qla2x00: 6 (1 vote) swt-pocketpc: 9 -- Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Bush admitted to violating FISA and said he was proud of it. So why isn't he in prison yet?... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

communication (was Re: Bug#350088: Forcibly orphaning mhash?

Chris Hanson wrote: > Nathanael Nerode wrote: >> As discussed in this bug, mhash's maintainer appears to be MIA or out to >> lunch. >> >> Is it OK if we forcibly orphan the package now? > > What exactly do you want me to do? The classic thing to do is to s

Forcibly orphaning mhash?

As discussed in this bug, mhash's maintainer appears to be MIA or out to lunch. Is it OK if we forcibly orphan the package now? -- Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "It's just a goddamned piece of paper." -- President Bush, referring to the US Constitution http

Compiler transitions status report

bug in most cases): aranym chromium csmash darkice fglrx-driver (non-free) fonty gav gbib im-sdk latd libcwd (non-free) mailsync mffm-fftw mozilla mozilla-firefox mssstest (non-free) povray-3.5 (non-free) rar (non-free) rig snes9express stella verbiste vlc

Antique RC bugs (many about licensing)

] [NONFREE-DATA:UNMODFIABLE] Non-free logo included in source This appears to be a matter of the maintainer not paying attention, because the non-free logo has been removed from the binary. NMU? -- Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Bush admitted to violating FISA and

Status of compiler transitions

h these; we need the equivalent for packages which depend on a package which existed before Nov 17, when the c2a transition started. Such a page would be a very good idea. -- Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "(Instead, we front-load the flamewars and grudges in the interest of effici

Re: Re: thuriaux's scripts

of almost *all* the other lists -- Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "It's just a goddamned piece of paper." -- President Bush, referring to the US Constitution http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_7779.shtml -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Stephan A Suerken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MIA

No uploads since the release of sarge. No response to RC bug reports. Last upload 2004-08-02. sp-gxmlcpp, xpcd, and uae have RC bugs. gom is the only one which doesn't, and it prompts without debconf. -- Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [Insert famous quote here] -- To

Oldest RC bugs affecting etch

ing build-depends in tkrat 344981 -- patched FTBFS in tkrat Orphan package and make QA upload? 147187 -- xdelta fails on all 64-bit systems Orphan package and work on QA upload? -- Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [Insert famous quote here] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROT

thuriaux's scripts & definite MIAs

pwgen html2wml kdoc Objections? Thoughts? Should some of these packages be removed outright instead? If all goes well with this, I'll look at the maintainers who last uploaded in 2003, but I think those are a more complicated situation. -- Nathanael Nerode Doom! Doom! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] MIA?

Last upload in April 2004 (mova); last before that in Feb 2004 (phpix); last before that in 2003. RC bugs in xnap, xnap-snapshot 254 days old. Important mispackaging bug in tk-brief unfixed for over two years. Important bugs in phpix, mueller open for over a year. (All with no reply from him

Should we remove 'queue' from unstable?

Dead upstream, maintainer appears to be MIA, C++ package built with g++ 2.95 (!), "totally broken" according to some people who've tried to use it. -- Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> A thousand reasons. http://www.thousandreasons.org/ Lies, theft, war, kidnapping,

Should we remove guitar?

QA-maintained, dead upstream, last release in 1999, just a wrapper program, only 35 popcon votes. -- Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "(Instead, we front-load the flamewars and grudges in the interest of efficiency.)" --Steve Lanagasek, http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/

Rafal Zawadzki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MIA, packages need orphaning

. Blackbook is dead upstream and needs to undergo the C++ transition. Screentest is actually usable. Strongly suggest orphaning his packages. -- Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> A thousand reasons. http://www.thousandreasons.org/ Lies, theft, war, kidnapping, torture, rape, murder... Get me

Request for sponsored NMU

nsor and upload please? :-? I feel a little silly asking for sponsorship of any upload that any DD could have written themselves in an hour -- but the fact is that no DD *has* written it, so I figured I needed to do so. -- Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This space intentionally lef

Re: Candidates for removal

now. Otherwise, has anyone been in contact with Bradley? Not as far as I know. Email him and if you don't get a message back (quick), take it over; since it was going to be removed, it might as well be taken over! Leave a note on the potential removal bug so it doesn't get removed

glademm and removing gnome1/c++ libraries

Christof Petig wrote: > There is no reason for glademm to build "depend" on libgnomemm-dev! It > simply tests libgnomemm for existance to provide a reasonable default > version. Since these days libgnomemm is rarely used (to say the least) > nobody would notice a missing default version. Thank you!

Candidates for removal

anish] 3 popcon installs (all 'nofiles'). Bug requesting transition to libssl0.9.7 open 1 year 124 days. libssl0.9.6 removed 9 August 2005. Should be removed. OK to reassign bug to ftp.debian.org for removal? So, that's more than enough for now. This is all the packages ma

Bradley Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MIA?

It looks like it. I've been looking at packages which need to undergo the C++ transition, and haven't, and most of them have him listed as maintainer. Could someone give him a poke? -- Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> A thousand reasons. http://www.thousandreasons.org/

Packages which aren't getting into "testing"

9 days. "Maintainer" Anthony Fok ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is MIA. Remove package. -- Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [Insert famous quote here] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Standard form for poking maintainers?

So there's a fair number of maintainers who need polite pokes regarding their packages (before declaring them MIA and orphaning/removing packages). However, I am not known for my tact. So I wondered if anyone had devised a semi-standard "form letter" for contacting maintainers and saying "Please

Re: Source packages apparantly without any users (popcon)

php-clamav (not filed RC bug, not in testing nor stable) Uninstallable. Mainainter needs a wake-up call. pcrd (1 bug, same version in oldstable as in unstable) 124-day-old copyright file problem. Maintainer needs a poke. ninpaths (1 bug) Might be OK to leave this. (non-free) mush (

Re: Source packages apparantly without any users (popcon)

Note that the RC bugs are integrated in total bug count: I'm going to ignore the ones with no bugs for now. Roxen seems to deserve some analysis of its own. Perhaps it could be strongly suggested to Turbo that he drop the entire constellation of roxen3 packages (roxen3, libroxen-*)? xmms-

C++ packages still compiled with gcc 2.95

I filed bugs against these packages. The first four appear to have been misbuilds by the maintainers. intel2gas queue robotour maelstrom (non-free) xmovie (contrib) However, xmovie seems to be severely undermaintained. Does anyone know David Martinez Moreno who can politely suggest that he eithe

Re: Removing old orphaned packages?

Martin Michlmayr wrote: > moria -- A roguelike game with an infinite dungeon [#274472] > * Orphaned 255 days ago Really someone should be packaging the "new" GPL version. The switch from non-free to main will require it to go through NEW processing anyway, if I'm not mistaken. So I think the p

Re: Intend to NMU the cruft package

Martin Quinson wrote: > Hello, > > the cruft package is in a rather sorry state, with no version in more than > 2 years, and a whole bunch of easy to fix bugs. Some of them greatly > reducing its usability while others hinder the whole debian installation > process (interactive post-inst script).

Re: weblint probably isn't worth adopting

Russ Allbery wrote: >I think this package should instead be removed from the archive. I agree. Procedure in this case is to file a bug in the BTS against the pseudo-package ftp.debian.org titled "Please remove weblint from unstable", and to note there that this is a request of QA, that the pack

Re: The use of setserial?

Ola Lundqvist wrote: > Hello > > I'm the current maintainer of setserial. I'm in the process of > getting it adopted (because I do no longer need it, but has not > started that yet). But before I do I'm asking if setserial is needed > at all today? Probably not. If you don't remove it entirely,

Re: gutenbrowser in non-US

Colin Watson wrote: > On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 07:48:20PM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: >> Andreas Barth wrote: >> > Furthermore, even if it is removed, non-US is >> > not processed at the moment, so it wouldn't change anything. >> >> Unfortun

Re: gutenbrowser in non-US

Andreas Barth wrote: > Furthermore, even if it is removed, non-US is > not processed at the moment, so it wouldn't change anything. Unfortunately non-US really does need to start being processed. Is there anyone capable of doing that who isn't completely swamped? -- There are none so blind as t

Re: Bug#239703: About to remove kernel-patch-2.2.20-p3

Camm Maguire wrote: > Greetings! > > Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Hi, >> >> I agree on removing the package. So, if no-one disagrees, I'm going to >> reassign this bug to ftp.d.o next weekend. >> > > At least some of the functionality in my 4 packages appears to be > missing

Re: commons-collections in main

Arnaud Vandyck wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Arnaud Vandyck wrote: >> >>> Thanks, note that with this package in main, I'm able to move two other >>> java pac

Re: commons-collections in main

Arnaud Vandyck wrote: > Thanks, note that with this package in main, I'm able to move two other > java packages to main... and with these two, more (and more, and > more...) ;-) > > http://java.debian.net/index.php/MovingJavaToMain May I ask how you're dealing with the architecture coordination

Suggest removing logout-button from unstable

See #236055. Oh, and the minor bugs too, but mostly #236055. Also, the policy version on this package is too damn old (2.5.0). The maintainer suggested removing it, but apparently couldn't be bothered to actually ask to have it removed. You may remember him from the 'animals' fiasco. -- Make

Re: David Martinez Moreno MIA or busy?

>Sorry, Nathanael. I'm not MIA, for example I've uploaded two >versions of >linux-ntfs in the last two weeks. Glad to hear it, and sorry about the mistaken suggestion. :-) I thought I'd checked all your packages for most-recent-upload, but I must have missed linux-ntfs. :-/ >

Better coordinating when pages update?

So, http://bugs.debian.org/release-critical/other/all.html and http://packages.qa.debian.org/ and http://bts.turmzimmer.net/ all show packages as being in 'testing' which aren't, because they were removed on the last run. Perhaps there's some way to schedule the (apparently daily) update of these

Hanno Wagner MIA?

One package (qps), last maintainer upload in the year 2000. This package is still a qt2 package compiled with gcc-2.95 (despite what it says in some of the NMUs). It has a standards version of 2.5.0 and the postinst sets a /usr/doc symlink. -- Make sure your vote will count. http://www.verified

Jean-Marc Bourdaret probably MIA

<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> No GPG key according to qa.debian.org/developer.php. Last upload 2002. Three packages: twin: Has been seriously out of date w/r/t upstream for at least a year (#184746) twutils: Hasn't undergone c102 transition gtans: comment-free bug #143999 -- Make sure your vote will

David Martinez Moreno MIA or busy?

Last upload October. xmovie (contrib) has been pretty seriously ignored -- notably bug 140474, but also all the others. :-p Technically, it has no RC bugs, but I'm betting that's because nobody's using it. Perhaps he'd rather drop it? -- Make sure your vote will count. http://www.verifiedvoti

Orp in bad shape -- worth keeping or not?

Orp is very broken and has been for quite a while. (for example, bugs 128732, 185881, 236118, 168536) Maintainer, are you still maintaining this, or would you rather just have it removed from unstable? -- Make sure your vote will count. http://www.verifiedvoting.org/

Xemacs needs a real maintainer

l packages, but no more (most packages depending on xemacs21 have alternative dependencies on 'emacsen' or 'emacs21'). -- Nathanael Nerode US citizens: if you're considering voting for Bush, look at these first: http://www.misleader.org/ http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/arar/ http://www.house.gov/reform/min/politicsandscience/

Didier Dhollande almost certainly MIA

nd that's been ignored for over a month. Also, no GPG key! (Actually, I'd consider adopting this if I could find upstream) -- Nathanael Nerode US citizens: if you're considering voting for Bush, look at these first: http://www.misleader.org/ http://www.cbc.ca/news/backgro

Hakan Ardo MIA?

wful lot of other bugs. :-P -- Nathanael Nerode US citizens: if you're considering voting for Bush, look at these first: http://www.misleader.org/ http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/arar/ http://www.house.gov/reform/min/politicsandscience/

Mattia Monga MIA?

Mattia Monga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Three packages. Last upload in October (for tkrat). No uploads in recorded history for sleuthkit or autopsy; both are markedly out of date with respect to upstream, and sleuthkit has ignored RC bugs plus other quite-old bugs. -- Nathanael Nerode US ci

Another maybe-MIA maintainer

Johann Botha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. One package (ldap2dns) with RC bug open since October -- hasn't responded to bug trail yet. -- Nathanael Nerode US citizens: if you're considering voting for Bush, look at these first: http://www.misleader.org/ http://www.cbc.ca/news/backg

Re: Giving someone else package-removal/override-editing abilities?

>This was largely because there was no good tool to make changes to the >overrides of just one package. However, Daniel Silverstone recently >wrote a script, so such requests should be dealt with much more >quickly. That's very cool. :-) >In any case, it's also not that removals are >only done b

Really, really ancient standards versions

01 sauce: Ian Jackson (surprise!) sgrep: Orphaned translate: Matthias Kabel -- last upload 2001 urlredir: Chris Leishman -- last upload 2001 xlispstat: Douglas Bates xtranslate: Matthias Kabel -- last maintainer upload 2000 -- Nathanael Nerode US citizens: if you're considering voting for Bush, l

Candidates for oldlibs

verted and may not. I guess there's no equivalent of oldlibs for devel or doc packages, or I'd suggest some of those too. :-P -- Nathanael Nerode US citizens: if you're considering voting for Bush, look at these first: http://www.misleader.org/ http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/a

Giving someone else package-removal/override-editing abilities?

aps more important, what *ahem* social changes would need to be made? Martin, perhaps you could help with this question, being both QA and DPL? -- Nathanael Nerode US citizens: if you're considering voting for Bush, look at these first: http://www.misleader.org/ http://www.cbc.ca/news/ba

Re: Any plans to continue maintaining Stardict?

Andreas Tille wrote: >there was no upload of StarDict for a very long time. We currently hit >upstream version 2.4.3 which is much more powerfull and not only restricted >to Chinese-English so much more users could profit from an updated package. > >The maintainer seems not to care for closing RC

Re: Xemacs needs help

James LewisMoss wrote: On Thu, 26 Feb 2004 13:06:23 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nathanael Nerode) said: Nathanael> The maintainer, James Lewis-Moss, appears to be too busy Nathanael> (or something) to maintain the xemacs packages properly at Nathanael> the moment. Nathanael> Co

Xemacs needs help

The maintainer, James Lewis-Moss, appears to be too busy (or something) to maintain the xemacs packages properly at the moment. Co-maintainers and/or NMUs are definitely needed. Volunteers? ;-) -- Nathanael Nerode US citizens: if you're considering voting for Bush, look at these first:

xemacs21 status

good. Perhaps someone with more diplomacy than I could do something about this, either getting the maintainer to fix the bugs, getting a co-maintainer added who will, or something? In the last resort, these would have to be removed from sarge, but that really shuoldn't be necessary. -- Nathan

possible MIAs/ proposed forced orphanings

aves him as a co-maintainer of kernel-patch-2.4.21-s390 and s390-tools, which Bastian Blank is maintaining. -- Nathanael Nerode US citizens: if you're considering voting for Bush, look at these first: http://www.misleader.org/ http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/arar/ http://www.house.gov/reform/min/politicsandscience/

Re: mondo and Debian

Hugo Rabson wrote: >Hector has already taken it upon himself to try to solve part of the source >of this philosophical incompatibility between Debian and Mondo. Kudos, >Hector! He is looking at rootfs, specifically - not what you're e-mailing me >about, but still a matter for concern within Debian

Re: mondo and Debian

Hugo Rabson wrote: >Bear in mind that the principle reason for the mindi-kernel's existence is >(or was) the nonstandard nature of Debian's kernel. The use of cramfs in the >kernel made it incompatible with Mindi. Mindi will run fine without >mindi-kernel, so long as your kernel is sane. Debian's k

Re: Special NMU for pgperl

>Some weeks ago I separated some auxillary postgresql packages out of >the main source tree into separate proper source packages, among them >pgperl. > >pgperl is the original upstream name, so I just used it; but after it >was uploaded, I noticed that there already was an unrelated pgperl >package

Removing quickppp

nks for your comments, > >-- >Zorglub >Cl?ment Stenac Can we get QA consensus here and file a removal bug against ftp.debian.org? -- Nathanael Nerode US citizens: if you're considering voting for Bush, look at these first: http://www.misleader.org/ http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/arar/ http://www.house.gov/reform/min/politicsandscience/

Consider removing iraf from testing

o be removed from sarge. It may be more reasonable to remove the package entirely, from sid as well, despite the maintainer's statements of intent -- that's why this is CC:ed to QA. -- Nathanael Nerode http://home.twcny.rr.com/nerode/neroden/fdl.html

Othmar Pasteka MIA?

Look at bug 209338 on yank. Maintainer has not commented. Of his other packages, dcd is fine, modlogan is in NMU versions since September, and trueprint has two year-old bugs. He's not on vacation. -- Nathanael Nerode http://home.twcny.rr.com/nerode/neroden/fdl.html

Re: License bugs for sarge

Andreas Barth wrote: >I want to support this. For example, the discussion about the total >removal of rocks-n-diamonds is not even one week old. So, I'd like to >wait just a bit. Following a very long background, including long-standing consensus that the current version of the package should not

License bugs for sarge

r way to filter for these licensing bugs. Perhaps "undistributable" and "non-free". Of course, such bugs shouldn't really be necessary, since undistributable stuff should be removed from the archive immediately, but -- Nathanael Nerode http://home.twcny.rr.com/nerode/neroden/fdl.html

Removing mindi?

be removed from testing (in which case I'll send a message to -release)? -- Nathanael Nerode http://home.twcny.rr.com/nerode/neroden/fdl.html

Mini-mass bug filing for dependency breakage in sid?

appropriate bugs. But 36 is enough that it seems like a mass-filing, so -- Nathanael Nerode http://home.twcny.rr.com/nerode/neroden/fdl.html

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