Re: Task: check packages not installed by anyone

2004-12-30 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 01:50:49AM +0100, Cl?ment Stenac wrote: > What might be worth checking on these packages ? > - Are bugs handled ? > - Package cleanness (lintian/linda + quick manual check if possible) > - Is the maintainer MIA ? This all relates to quality of the Debian package, in other

Re: Task: check packages not installed by anyone

2004-12-30 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Clément Stenac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-12-30 01:50]: > What might be worth checking on these packages ? > - Are bugs handled ? > - Package cleanness (lintian/linda + quick manual check if possible) > - Is the maintainer MIA ? > - Is upstream alive / is it still developed ? Yeah, things like th

Re: Task: check packages not installed by anyone

2004-12-30 Thread Cai Qian
On Wed, 2004-12-29 at 21:19 +, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > The following is from an IRC conversation I had with Petter > Reinholdtsen a few months ago. The idea was to go through the > popularity contest output and check packages which aren't installed by > any or only by few people: > > 22:39

Re: Task: check packages not installed by anyone

2004-12-29 Thread Emanuele Rocca
Hi, * [ 30-12-04 - 01:50 ] Clément Stenac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What might be worth checking on these packages ? > - Are bugs handled ? > - Package cleanness (lintian/linda + quick manual check if possible) > - Is the maintainer MIA ? > - Is upstream alive / is it still developed ? -

Re: Task: check packages not installed by anyone

2004-12-29 Thread Clément Stenac
Hello, > Reinholdtsen a few months ago. The idea was to go through the > popularity contest output and check packages which aren't installed by > any or only by few people: > Maybe someone has some time to do this. I'm interested in working on this. I'm currently doing a very small webpage to

Re: Task: check packages not installed by anyone

2004-12-29 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 09:19:59PM +, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > The following is from an IRC conversation I had with Petter > Reinholdtsen a few months ago. The idea was to go through the > popularity contest output and check packages which aren't installed by > any or only by few people: > >

Task: check packages not installed by anyone

2004-12-29 Thread Martin Michlmayr
The following is from an IRC conversation I had with Petter Reinholdtsen a few months ago. The idea was to go through the popularity contest output and check packages which aren't installed by any or only by few people: 22:39 check out popcon, and look at the packages which aren't i