Bug#276392: O: bochs -- IA-32 PC emulator

2004-10-13 Thread Robert Millan
Package: wnpp Severity: normal I intend to orphan the bochs package. The package description is: Bochs is a highly portable free IA-32 (x86) PC emulator written in C++, that runs on most popular platforms. It includes emulation of the Intel x86 CPU, common I/O devices, and a custom BIOS. .

Bug#276391: O: vgabios -- VGA BIOS software for the Bochs and Qemu emulated VGA card

2004-10-13 Thread Robert Millan
Package: wnpp Severity: normal I intend to orphan the vgabios package. The package description is: The goal of this project is to provide a Video BIOS for Bochs and Qemu. This VGA BIOS is very specific to the bochs/qemu emulated VGA card. It is NOT meant to drive a physical vga card. You wil

Re: doomlegacy

2004-09-05 Thread Robert Millan
On Sat, Sep 04, 2004 at 12:19:06PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Do you still want to maintain doomlegacy in Debian? It's currently > > in violation of Raven Corp.'s license in upstream, and has other >

doomlegacy

2004-09-04 Thread Robert Millan
Hi Gordon, QA people, Do you still want to maintain doomlegacy in Debian? It's currently in violation of Raven Corp.'s license in upstream, and has other release-critical problems. It also has a number of deficiencies, and with better alternatives like prboom I'd suggest removal. - doomlegacy

Abandoned packages

2004-05-27 Thread Robert Millan
Hello! I noticed the following packages have been unmaintained for many years: mocka, opustex, wwwcount I think they should be orphaned. -- Robert Millan "[..] but the delight and pride of Aule is in the deed of making, and in the thing made, and neither in possession nor in hi

Re: Introducing RFH (again) (Was: Re: Are the GRUB packages maintained or orphaned?)

2004-05-10 Thread Robert Millan
, but not necessarily), just > like is done now for packages that request a full maintainer > takeover[4]. I'm filing an RFH on grub. -- Robert Millan "[..] but the delight and pride of Aule is in the deed of making, and in the thing made, and neither in possession nor in his ow

Re: avifile

2004-03-24 Thread Robert Millan
On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 01:31:05PM +0100, Zdenek Kabelac wrote: > On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 04:59:21PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > > > > Hi! > > > > Anyone taking care of avifile? It has had many RC bugs for quite a long > > time and the maintainer (CCed) appea

avifile

2004-03-23 Thread Robert Millan
Hi! Anyone taking care of avifile? It has had many RC bugs for quite a long time and the maintainer (CCed) appears to be MIA. -- Robert Millan "[..] but the delight and pride of Aule is in the deed of making, and in the thing made, and neither in possession nor in his own mastery; wher

Re: Bug#213018: please package autoconf 2.57d

2003-09-28 Thread Robert Millan
On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 01:03:58PM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote: > Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Could you roll out a 2.57d package into experimental, then? Some GNU > > projects, like libtool, already require autoconf 2.58 for bootstrapping > > from CVS.

Re: Bug#213018: please package autoconf 2.57d

2003-09-28 Thread Robert Millan
en deal with bugs in 2.58 after it comes out. I wasn't aware of this, I'm afraid. Could you roll out a 2.57d package into experimental, then? Some GNU projects, like libtool, already require autoconf 2.58 for bootstrapping from CVS. -- Robert Millan "[..] but the delight and pride of

Re: Bug#213018: please package autoconf 2.57d

2003-09-28 Thread Robert Millan
[ CCing debian-qa ] On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 02:30:37PM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote: > Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > As you most certainly know, the autoconf team is going to release 2.58 very > > soon, and they have rolled out a release candidate known as

libc6.1-dev: please stop providing "libc6-dev"

2003-09-25 Thread Robert Millan
Package: libc6.1-dev Version: unavailable; reported 2003-09-23 Severity: wishlist Please could you remove "libc6-dev" from the Provides line in the libc6.1-dev package? The Debian package-set should be aware that libc-dev is not libc6-dev and stop depending on libc6-dev unconditionaly. Providing

Re: maintainership of binutils

2003-09-10 Thread Robert Millan
er candidates? It should be noted that there are more names in the list of NMUers: Julien LEMOINE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> LaMont Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I'm CCing them. (See the thread in debian-qa for details.) -- Robert Millan "[.

maintainership of binutils

2003-09-09 Thread Robert Millan
rphan it or find another maintainer. Any comments from the QA people? -- Robert Millan "[..] but the delight and pride of Aule is in the deed of making, and in the thing made, and neither in possession nor in his own mastery; wherefore he gives and hoards not, and is free from care, passi

Bug#117822: xsu may be useful with this program

2001-10-31 Thread Robert Millan
. Regards, -- ------ Robert Millan Debian GNU/Hurd user zeratul2 wanadoo eshttp://getyouriso.dyndns.org/ -- GPG ID C8D6942C 237F 8688 C2E5 BC64 E152 97B4 FB28 D41B