Re: Stepping back from the Debian XML/SGML team, effectively orphaning all my packages (docbook*, xml-core, xmlto, etc. pp)

2015-08-17 Thread Daniel Leidert
Hi, Meeting at Debconf we discussed, how a policy compliant XML core and package registration system could look like. I'd like to share the results: - a package can install one or more catalogs, which go into the package directory in /usr/share (a catalog written by the package maintainer can of

Re: Stepping back from the Debian XML/SGML team, effectively orphaning all my packages (docbook*, xml-core, xmlto, etc. pp)

2015-07-24 Thread Kristoffer Rose
Yes, that would be great! --Kris On Jul 24, 2015 5:35 PM, "Daniel Leidert" wrote: > Hi Kris, > > Am Samstag, den 30.05.2015, 22:08 -0400 schrieb Kristoffer Rose: > > I have XML expertise, I am a DD, and I maintain nothing for now (only > > have a few ITPs out). > > > > Any chance you would be at

Re: Stepping back from the Debian XML/SGML team, effectively orphaning all my packages (docbook*, xml-core, xmlto, etc. pp)

2015-07-24 Thread Daniel Leidert
Hi Kris, Am Samstag, den 30.05.2015, 22:08 -0400 schrieb Kristoffer Rose: > I have XML expertise, I am a DD, and I maintain nothing for now (only > have a few ITPs out). > > Any chance you would be at DebCamp and could do a two day intense > "catchup" on the involved work? I'll be at DebConf.

Re: Stepping back from the Debian XML/SGML team, effectively orphaning all my packages (docbook*, xml-core, xmlto, etc. pp)

2015-05-30 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Samstag, den 30.05.2015, 22:08 -0400 schrieb Kristoffer Rose: > Dear Daniel and Osamu, > > > I have XML expertise, I am a DD, and I maintain nothing for now (only > have a few ITPs out). > > > Any chance you would be at DebCamp and could do a two day intense > "catchup" on the involved work?

Re: Stepping back from the Debian XML/SGML team, effectively orphaning all my packages (docbook*, xml-core, xmlto, etc. pp)

2015-05-30 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Samstag, den 30.05.2015, 19:00 +0200 schrieb W. Martin Borgert: > On 2015-05-28 23:24, Daniel Leidert wrote: [not using DB toolchain] > Just out of curiosity: What are you using now? I haven't done much documentation lately. But I use GROFF for writing manual pages for Debian packages. Even wi

Re: Stepping back from the Debian XML/SGML team, effectively orphaning all my packages (docbook*, xml-core, xmlto, etc. pp)

2015-05-30 Thread Kristoffer Rose
Dear Daniel and Osamu, I have XML expertise, I am a DD, and I maintain nothing for now (only have a few ITPs out). Any chance you would be at DebCamp and could do a two day intense "catchup" on the involved work? Best, Kris On Sat, May 30, 2015 at 10:28 AM, Osamu Aoki wrote: > Hi Daniel,

Re: [xml/sgml] Stepping back from the Debian XML/SGML team, effectively orphaning all my packages (docbook*, xml-core, xmlto, etc. pp)

2015-05-30 Thread W. Martin Borgert
On 2015-05-28 23:24, Daniel Leidert wrote: > I was part of the Debian XML/SGML team [1] for quite some time and it > was fun maintaining the whole DocBook toolchain. Unfortunately I'm not > using it anymore and thus have lost interest in these packages. Now > after Jessie has been released, I'm fin

Re: Stepping back from the Debian XML/SGML team, effectively orphaning all my packages (docbook*, xml-core, xmlto, etc. pp)

2015-05-30 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi Daniel, Thanks a lot for maintaining these in good shape. On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 11:24:17PM +0200, Daniel Leidert wrote: > x-post > > Hi everybody, > > I was part of the Debian XML/SGML team [1] for quite some time and it > was fun maintaining the whole DocBook toolchain. Unfortunately I'm

Stepping back from the Debian XML/SGML team, effectively orphaning all my packages (docbook*, xml-core, xmlto, etc. pp)

2015-05-28 Thread Daniel Leidert
x-post Hi everybody, I was part of the Debian XML/SGML team [1] for quite some time and it was fun maintaining the whole DocBook toolchain. Unfortunately I'm not using it anymore and thus have lost interest in these packages. Now after Jessie has been released, I'm finally stepping back as mainta

Re: Orphaning packages

2014-08-17 Thread Ana Guerrero Lopez
oceed? Make a new gpg key, package a new version and look for a > sponsor to make this last upload? Just fill the wnpp bug for html2ps and > be done with? Any advices? You only need to file the orphaning bugs. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-qa-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subj

Orphaning packages

2014-08-17 Thread Rafael Cunha de Almeida
Hello, I am too busy for working on my debian packages right now. Thus, I need to orphan my two packages (tcpstat and html2ps). However, I don't have my gpg key anymore and my sponsor is not available. I have filled a bug on wnpp regarding tcpstat (https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug

Re: Bug#692492: ITO: Orphaning audit package

2012-11-07 Thread Ricardo Mones
On Wed, Nov 07, 2012 at 09:26:28AM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > (Dropping the bug) > > On Tue, 06 Nov 2012, Steve Langasek wrote: > > Private mails should not be a justification for expedited orphaning of > > packages. With this bug report you have *now* used

Re: Bug#692492: ITO: Orphaning audit package

2012-11-07 Thread Raphael Hertzog
(Dropping the bug) On Tue, 06 Nov 2012, Steve Langasek wrote: > Private mails should not be a justification for expedited orphaning of > packages. With this bug report you have *now* used a proper channel for > notifying the maintainer that you want to salvage the package; so the clock

Re: Bug#692492: ITO: Orphaning audit package

2012-11-06 Thread Laurent Bigonville
son to prioritize responding to it? > > Private mails should not be a justification for expedited orphaning of > packages. With this bug report you have *now* used a proper channel > for notifying the maintainer that you want to salvage the package; so > the clock starts now, not when

Re: Bug#692492: ITO: Orphaning audit package

2012-11-06 Thread Steve Langasek
hould give the maintainer reason to prioritize responding to it? Private mails should not be a justification for expedited orphaning of packages. With this bug report you have *now* used a proper channel for notifying the maintainer that you want to salvage the package; so the clock starts now, no

Bug#692492: ITO: Orphaning audit package

2012-11-06 Thread Laurent Bigonville
Package: auditd Severity: serious Version: 1:1.7.18-1.1 Hi, I've tried to enter in contact with Philipp Matthias regarding the status of the audit package. I've sent a first mail a bit more than a month ago and a second one 15 days later. But I unfortunately didn't get any answer so far. The las

Please investigate orphaning/removing the diffmon package

2012-06-05 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hello, looking at dbs-using packages, diffmon looks like something that isn't really maintained: - last maintainer upload in 2002 - 5 NMUs in a row since then, first in 2006 I'd appreciate being kept in the loop, whatever the outcome is. Mraw, KiBi. signature.asc Description: Digital signatu

Re: [pkg-php-pear] Orphaning php-codesniffer, then take it over by the PHP PEAR team

2012-06-03 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 05/30/2012 02:49 AM, Thomas Goirand wrote: > So, if nobody objects within the next following 2 or 3 days, and if Jack > doesn't show up and oppose to this procedure, we'll do that. > > If anyone doesn't agree, please raise your concern *now* (including you, > Jack). > > Cheers, > > Thomas Goi

Re: Orphaning php-codesniffer, then take it over by the PHP PEAR team

2012-05-31 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Jonas Smedegaard dijo [Thu, May 31, 2012 at 05:52:47PM +0200]: > > > You avoided my question, it seems: What does "Maintainer:" mean, then? > > > > What does "Uploaders:" field mean? > > You still avoid my question: What does "Maintainer:" mean? This is getting silly. Please stop the word-defini

Re: Orphaning php-codesniffer, then take it over by the PHP PEAR team

2012-05-31 Thread Holger Levsen
On Donnerstag, 31. Mai 2012, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > You still avoid my question: What does "Maintainer:" mean? why do you ask rhetoric questions? It's defined in policy and you know it. So whats the point? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-qa-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "uns

Re: Orphaning php-codesniffer, then take it over by the PHP PEAR team

2012-05-31 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
On 12-05-31 at 04:43pm, George Danchev wrote: > On Thursday 31 May 2012 16:15:31 Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > [dropping PHP Pear team as cc] > > > > On 12-05-31 at 03:16pm, George Danchev wrote: > > > On Thursday 31 May 2012 11:47:21 Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > > > > You and a lot of others fail to

Re: Orphaning php-codesniffer, then take it over by the PHP PEAR team

2012-05-31 Thread George Danchev
On Thursday 31 May 2012 16:15:31 Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > [dropping PHP Pear team as cc] > > On 12-05-31 at 03:16pm, George Danchev wrote: > > On Thursday 31 May 2012 11:47:21 Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > > > You and a lot of others fail to realize that the *SPONSOR* is > > > > responsible for the

Re: Orphaning php-codesniffer, then take it over by the PHP PEAR team

2012-05-31 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
[dropping PHP Pear team as cc] On 12-05-31 at 03:16pm, George Danchev wrote: > On Thursday 31 May 2012 11:47:21 Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > > You and a lot of others fail to realize that the *SPONSOR* is > > > responsible for the package. > > > > Huh?!? > > > > What does "Maintainer:" mean if no

Re: Orphaning php-codesniffer, then take it over by the PHP PEAR team

2012-05-31 Thread George Danchev
On Thursday 31 May 2012 11:47:21 Jonas Smedegaard wrote: Hi, > > You and a lot of others fail to realize that the *SPONSOR* is > > responsible for the package. > > Huh?!? > > What does "Maintainer:" mean if not the entity being responsible for, > well, maintaining?!? Who is responsible for the

Re: Orphaning php-codesniffer, then take it over by the PHP PEAR team

2012-05-31 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Jonas Smedegaard (31/05/2012): > I have heard before the argument of the sponsor having responsibility, > but in reality I have *never* heard of sponsors actually being held > responsible for anything but the concrete upload of a specific > packaging release. Suggested reading: http://bugs.debi

Re: Orphaning php-codesniffer, then take it over by the PHP PEAR team

2012-05-31 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
On 12-05-31 at 09:22am, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > On 05/30/2012 11:11 AM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > It is better to have a well maintained package than to ait for > somebody who collected a number of NMUs and doesn't react to bug > reports for years. I perfectly agree. But it is better to have re

Re: Orphaning php-codesniffer, then take it over by the PHP PEAR team

2012-05-31 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 05/30/2012 11:11 AM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > On 12-05-30 at 11:30am, Thomas Goirand wrote: >> We aren't kicking him, we want to have the package team maintained. >> He's fine to come and join! > > You want to play by your rules (file), not his. That's kicking to me. > > >> This doesn't rea

Re: Orphaning php-codesniffer, then take it over by the PHP PEAR team

2012-05-30 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
On 12-05-30 at 09:41pm, Thomas Goirand wrote: > On 05/30/2012 05:11 PM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > you use Debian freeze as argument for swift takeover. I find it not > > respectful to rush processing like that! > > > > Again, no! That wasn't my point. My point was that it was left > unmaint

Re: Orphaning php-codesniffer, then take it over by the PHP PEAR team

2012-05-30 Thread Arno Töll
Hi, On 30.05.2012 18:17, Bart Martens wrote: > On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 09:41:30PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: >> By the way, do other think that, even in this case, I should keep the >> changes >> as minimum as possible? Or is it ok, considering that all of our >> toolsets have >> changed since t

Re: Orphaning php-codesniffer, then take it over by the PHP PEAR team

2012-05-30 Thread Bart Martens
On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 09:41:30PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: > By the way, do other think that, even in this case, I should keep the > changes > as minimum as possible? Or is it ok, considering that all of our > toolsets have > changed since the last upload (eg: we now have pkg-php-tools and dh

Re: Orphaning php-codesniffer, then take it over by the PHP PEAR team

2012-05-30 Thread Gergely Nagy
Thomas Goirand writes: > By the way, do other think that, even in this case, I should keep the > changes > as minimum as possible? Or is it ok, considering that all of our > toolsets have > changed since the last upload (eg: we now have pkg-php-tools and dh 8 > sequencer), that we do a bit more c

Re: Orphaning php-codesniffer, then take it over by the PHP PEAR team

2012-05-30 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 05/30/2012 05:11 PM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > *nothing* qualifies for a hijacking. > > With hijacking I mean disrespectful takeover. > > Either respect maintainership by only NMUing, or respectfully resolve > with the Debian community that the current maintainer is unfit for the > task. Ok,

Re: Orphaning php-codesniffer, then take it over by the PHP PEAR team

2012-05-30 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
On 12-05-30 at 11:30am, Thomas Goirand wrote: > We aren't kicking him, we want to have the package team maintained. > He's fine to come and join! You want to play by your rules (file), not his. That's kicking to me. > This doesn't really qualify for an NMU, nor does the upgrade to the > latest

Re: Orphaning php-codesniffer, then take it over by the PHP PEAR team

2012-05-29 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 05/30/2012 03:51 AM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > I strongly object to this as a general principle: Debian freezing is no > excuse for hijacking! > That's not the reason, the reason is that we've been working on tools to improve PHP package quality, and recently noticed that php-codesniffer wa

Re: Orphaning php-codesniffer, then take it over by the PHP PEAR team

2012-05-29 Thread Bart Martens
On 12-05-30 at 02:49am, Thomas Goirand wrote: > we'd like to see the latest version in Wheezy OK, this request exists: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=599617 > We sent a mail 5 days ago to Jack Bates, and he didn't reply. It's > currently obvious that there's very few chances th

Re: Orphaning php-codesniffer, then take it over by the PHP PEAR team

2012-05-29 Thread Arno Töll
Hi, On 29.05.2012 21:51, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Seems you had several years of solving this issue, yet you waited until Similarly, the maintainer had 4 years to care about his package. > Did you consider an NMU? That might be an alternative, but looking at the current bug list people will a

Re: Orphaning php-codesniffer, then take it over by the PHP PEAR team

2012-05-29 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
On 12-05-30 at 02:49am, Thomas Goirand wrote: > Jack Bates is supposed to maintain php-codesniffer, [snip] > this package last upload was from 2008-10-05, [snip] > we'd like to see the latest version in Wheezy [snip] > We sent a mail 5 days ago to Jack Bates, and he didn't reply. It's > currently

Orphaning php-codesniffer, then take it over by the PHP PEAR team

2012-05-29 Thread Thomas Goirand
Hi, Jack Bates is supposed to maintain php-codesniffer, available from: http://pear.php.net/package/PHP_CodeSniffer Unfortunately, the PTS for this package shows that this package last upload was from 2008-10-05, few months after version 1.1.0 was released upstream (on the 2008-07-14). Upstream h

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*

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

Orphaning Paramiko

2008-03-29 Thread Vincent Bernat
Hi ! I would like to request orphaning of paramiko: http://packages.qa.debian.org/p/paramiko.html Only NMU upload have been done since more than one year and its current maintainer is totally unresponsive (see #460706 for example). It seems that its email address is now bouncing. Thanks

Re: orphaning Gnome 1 libraries

2006-09-11 Thread Hamish Moffatt
(Added debian-gtk-gnome to the lists.) On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 01:24:39PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > Now that the gnome-2 version of gnucash has migrated into testing, I'm > orphaning them. There are still a tiny number of packages that rely > on them, so they should not b

orphaning Gnome 1 libraries

2006-09-11 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
x27;m orphaning them. There are still a tiny number of packages that rely on them, so they should not be peremptorily removed without coordinating with or examining those other packages: something I don't have time to do right now. The gnome-1 packages concerned are bonobo, gal0.x, gnome-libs, g

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

2006-05-31 Thread Chris Hanson
Nathanael Nerode wrote: > The classic thing to do is to send a note to the bug trail saying one of > "I sent the fix upstream and will wait for them to fix it" > "I need help finding out whether this patch works" > "This patch doesn't work" > "I don't have time to deal with this, NMUs please" > >

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

2006-05-27 Thread Nathanael Nerode
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 send a note to the bug trail saying one of

Re: Forcibly orphaning mhash?

2006-05-09 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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? There is no procedure for forcible orphaning the package. If you have a fix for the bu

Re: Bug#350088: Forcibly orphaning mhash?

2006-05-09 Thread Chris Hanson
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? I released a new version recently, and as far as I can tell there's no consensus on whether the sugg

Forcibly orphaning mhash?

2006-05-09 Thread Nathanael Nerode
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://www.capitolhillblue.com/art

QA-Upload for goobox / Orphaning?

2006-02-11 Thread Helge Kreutzmann
Hello QA-Team, I am interested in keeping goobox current in Etch. The maintainer (who is in NM) seems MIA (c.f. [1] where Vorlon indicates that orphaning may be appropriate): Dan Korostelev ([EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED]) has 4 packages in Debian: Name: Last upload

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

2005-10-24 Thread Nathanael Nerode
. 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

Re: orphaning of a package

2005-04-13 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 01:22:56PM +0200, Jeremiah Foster wrote: > I would like Debian to consider aspseek orphaned due to lack of CVS, > forum, and mail reponse from develpers and maintainers. There has been a mail exchange with the maintainer already, it's not in sarge atm so not a urgent issue

orphaning of a package

2005-04-13 Thread Jeremiah Foster
I would like Debian to consider aspseek orphaned due to lack of CVS, forum, and mail reponse from develpers and maintainers. Jeremiah Foster -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: libmng possibly in need of orphaning

2004-10-04 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 05:56:05PM +1000, Anibal Monsalve Salazar wrote: > On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 09:24:15AM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > >For the record: the PTS says that 1.0.8-1 has been uploaded to Unstable, > >presumably by the maintainer. > > It FTBFS on powerpc. See: > > http://buildd

Re: libmng possibly in need of orphaning

2004-10-01 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Anibal Monsalve Salazar [Sat, 02 Oct 2004 06:36:18 +1000]: > On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 12:45:07PM -0500, Graham Wilson wrote: > >libmng 1.0.8-1 builds fine for me on powerpc. I wonder if the build > >error on voltaire is transient or not. In any case, I can upload a > >local build if needed. > Ple

Re: libmng possibly in need of orphaning

2004-10-01 Thread Anibal Monsalve Salazar
On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 12:45:07PM -0500, Graham Wilson wrote: >libmng 1.0.8-1 builds fine for me on powerpc. I wonder if the build >error on voltaire is transient or not. In any case, I can upload a >local build if needed. Please do so and close #274334 when you upload it. Anibal Monsalve Salaza

Re: libmng possibly in need of orphaning

2004-10-01 Thread Graham Wilson
On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 05:56:05PM +1000, Anibal Monsalve Salazar wrote: > On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 09:24:15AM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > >For the record: the PTS says that 1.0.8-1 has been uploaded to Unstable, > >presumably by the maintainer. > > It FTBFS on powerpc. See: > > http://buildd

Re: libmng possibly in need of orphaning

2004-10-01 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 05:56:05PM +1000, Anibal Monsalve Salazar wrote: > It FTBFS on powerpc. See: > > http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.php?&pkg=libmng&ver=1.0.8-1&arch=powerpc&stamp=1096518953&file=log&as=raw Please file a bug instead. As you've seen in my latest mail in the thread[1], this issu

Re: libmng possibly in need of orphaning

2004-10-01 Thread Anibal Monsalve Salazar
On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 09:24:15AM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote: >Hi, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: >>On Sat, Sep 25, 2004 at 02:53:59AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: >>>The libmng package has not seen an upload since April 2003. [...] >>>It looks like this package is i

Re: libmng possibly in need of orphaning

2004-10-01 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 09:24:15AM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > For the record: the PTS says that 1.0.8-1 has been uploaded to Unstable, > presumably by the maintainer. Yeah, after a polite reminder, he set himself quite actively to maintaining his packages again, and actively harrassing (in a

Re: libmng possibly in need of orphaning

2004-10-01 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > On Sat, Sep 25, 2004 at 02:53:59AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: >> The libmng package has not seen an upload since April 2003. [...] >> It looks like this package is in serious need of orphaning. Can someone >> in QA confirm this to t

Re: libmng possibly in need of orphaning

2004-09-25 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
lude various important security fixes. > > It looks like this package is in serious need of orphaning. Can someone > in QA confirm this to their satisfaction and orphan the package? Will look into it, but pinging & waiting for feedback might take one to two months until the actual orp

libmng possibly in need of orphaning

2004-09-25 Thread Steve Langasek
of orphaning. Can someone in QA confirm this to their satisfaction and orphan the package? Thanks, -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: plans on orphaning / removing packages not in testing

2004-06-25 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 11:36:50AM +1000, Andrew Pollock wrote: > On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 06:42:32PM +0200, Adeodato Sim? wrote: > > then do not many orphaned packages (if not most) fit into one of the > > proposed resons and should be removed from testing? > > > > I think many packages coul

Re: plans on orphaning / removing packages not in testing

2004-06-25 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 06:42:32PM +0200, Adeodato Sim? wrote: > * Matthew Palmer [Mon, 21 Jun 2004 10:12:22 +1000]: > > On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 02:28:04PM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > > > > I wish more people had an attitude like this. Maybe it would make > > > sense to ask people on d-d-a t

Re: plans on orphaning / removing packages not in testing

2004-06-24 Thread Andrew Pollock
On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 06:42:32PM +0200, Adeodato Sim? wrote: [snip] > > then do not many orphaned packages (if not most) fit into one of the > proposed resons and should be removed from testing? > > I think many packages could benefite from this in-the-middle approach: > instead of co

Re: plans on orphaning / removing packages not in testing

2004-06-24 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Matthew Palmer [Mon, 21 Jun 2004 10:12:22 +1000]: > On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 02:28:04PM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > > I wish more people had an attitude like this. Maybe it would make > > sense to ask people on d-d-a to review their own new packages and > > consider whether it makes sense t

Re: plans on orphaning / removing packages not in testing

2004-06-20 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 02:28:04PM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * Matthew Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-06-20 11:44]: > > I'll volunteer to check my own packages, with a couple of recommendations: > > I wish more people had an attitude like this. Maybe it would make > sense to ask people o

Re: plans on orphaning / removing packages not in testing

2004-06-20 Thread Andreas Barth
* Martin Michlmayr ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [040620 14:25]: > * Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-06-20 12:06]: > > If as maintainer you want your package not to be released but to remain > > in unstable, then file a serious bug on the package to that effect and > > tell the release team. > Is the

Re: plans on orphaning / removing packages not in testing

2004-06-20 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-06-20 21:20]: > I played around a bit, my current stuff (nothing serious yet) > is at http://people.debian.org/~djpig/pkg-invest/ > status.html at least shows the amount of work we're talking about: > today it were 3350 new source packages when comparin

Re: plans on orphaning / removing packages not in testing

2004-06-20 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 02:20:38PM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > In any case, I'd really like volunteers for something else: check > which packages are going to ship new with sarge (i.e. which have not > been in woody or another stable release) and take a closer look at > them to see if we reall

Re: plans on orphaning / removing packages not in testing

2004-06-20 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Matthew Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-06-20 11:44]: > I'll volunteer to check my own packages, with a couple of recommendations: I wish more people had an attitude like this. Maybe it would make sense to ask people on d-d-a to review their own new packages and consider whether it makes sense

Re: plans on orphaning / removing packages not in testing

2004-06-20 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 01:19:28PM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-06-20 12:06]: > > If as maintainer you want your package not to be released but to remain > > in unstable, then file a serious bug on the package to that effect and > > tell the release team

Re: plans on orphaning / removing packages not in testing

2004-06-20 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-06-20 12:06]: > If as maintainer you want your package not to be released but to remain > in unstable, then file a serious bug on the package to that effect and > tell the release team. Is there no cleaner solution so those RC bugs don't show up in the RC b

Re: plans on orphaning / removing packages not in testing

2004-06-20 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 11:44:53AM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: > Do I bug FTPmasters about getting those two removed from testing, or the > release team? If as maintainer you want your package not to be released but to remain in unstable, then file a serious bug on the package to that effect and

Re: plans on orphaning / removing packages not in testing

2004-06-19 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 02:20:38PM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > In any case, I'd really like volunteers for something else: check > which packages are going to ship new with sarge (i.e. which have not > been in woody or another stable release) and take a closer look at > them to see if we reall

Re: plans on orphaning / removing packages not in testing

2004-06-19 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-06-18 18:38]: > I'm prepared to do the work for it, but would like to pre-warn the > other developers in time. Therefor, I would e.g. like to send a mail > like this to d-d-a: I think it's a good idea in principle to check which stuff should be removed. >

Re: plans on orphaning / removing packages not in testing

2004-06-18 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
es keep on being > unfit for release, these packages will be removed after release. > > Of course, investing the time for reviewing before orphaning / removal > should be done about release of sarge. ok, I just misunderstood you. Gruesse, -- Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www: http://www.djpig.de/

Re: plans on orphaning / removing packages not in testing

2004-06-18 Thread Michael Stone
ies for removal / orphaning. OK, that sounds reasonable. Mike Stone

Re: plans on orphaning / removing packages not in testing

2004-06-18 Thread Andreas Barth
elow: Of course, if the maintainer considers his own package unfit for release because upstream is not stable enough, than this is ok. But - if the package was removed from testing because of FTBFS, and just didn't manage to re-enter, because this bug is still open, than the packa

Re: plans on orphaning / removing packages not in testing

2004-06-18 Thread Michael Stone
On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 08:27:14PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: Well, I'm not speaking of investing any time now on them, but just to alert their maintainers and users that if the packages keep on being unfit for release, these packages will be removed after release. Why? I'd actually like to se

Re: plans on orphaning / removing packages not in testing

2004-06-18 Thread Andreas Barth
to alert their maintainers and users that if the packages keep on being unfit for release, these packages will be removed after release. Of course, investing the time for reviewing before orphaning / removal should be done about release of sarge. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C

Re: plans on orphaning / removing packages not in testing

2004-06-18 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 06:38:58PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > I'd consider it a good idea if we try to get rid of some of the > packages that are in unstable, but not in the release of sarge > ("release" as in: stable -> sarge). I'm prepared to do the work for > it, but would like to pre-warn th

plans on orphaning / removing packages not in testing

2004-06-18 Thread Andreas Barth
Hi, I'd consider it a good idea if we try to get rid of some of the packages that are in unstable, but not in the release of sarge ("release" as in: stable -> sarge). I'm prepared to do the work for it, but would like to pre-warn the other developers in time. Therefor, I would e.g. like to send a

Re: Orphaning packages maintained by Scott K. Ellis ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

2004-06-05 Thread Scott K. Ellis
r" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: ; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, June 05, 2004 4:25 AM Subject: Re: Orphaning packages maintained by Scott K. Ellis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > On 2004-06-04 Martin Michlmayr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > * Andreas Metzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Orphaning packages maintained by Scott K. Ellis ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

2004-06-05 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2004-06-04 Martin Michlmayr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Andreas Metzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-06-03 12:14]: > > Scott seems to be MIA for quite some time, all his packages > > (liblogfile-rotate-perl, tree, xpp) have seen multiiple NMUs and > > However, the packages have not been actuall

Re: Orphaning packages maintained by Scott K. Ellis ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

2004-06-04 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Andreas Metzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-06-03 12:14]: > Scott seems to be MIA for quite some time, all his packages > (liblogfile-rotate-perl, tree, xpp) have seen multiiple NMUs and > However, the packages have not been actually orphaned. Shall I do the > honors? See the end of #215551. I d

Orphaning packages maintained by Scott K. Ellis ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

2004-06-03 Thread Andreas Metzler
Hello, Scott seems to be MIA for quite some time, all his packages (liblogfile-rotate-perl, tree, xpp) have seen multiiple NMUs and [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ /org/qa.debian.org/mia/mia-history scott [...] 2003-10-13: Orphaning: liblogfile-rotate-perl 2003-10-13: Orphaning: tree 2003-10-13

Re: orphaning gwenview

2004-05-11 Thread Christopher Martin
Hello, I sent Jérôme a message asking whether he'd be willing to sponsor gwenview. In a burst of enthusiasm, he uploaded the (recompiled for powerpc) package immediately. :) The maintainer field was set for myself in that upload, so I guess I'm the maintainer now. I hope that's not a problem.

Re: orphaning gwenview

2004-05-11 Thread Christopher Martin
Hello, I have a new gwenview package essentially ready. I will contact my current sponsor, Jérôme Marant, today, and see if he would be willing to sponsor Gwenview as well. I'll post here once I have his reply. Cheers, Christopher Martin On May 11, 2004 13:20, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * Micha

Re: orphaning gwenview

2004-05-11 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Michael Spanier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-05-11 18:54]: > I'm the maintainer of gwenview, a kde image viewer. > As i do not have that much free time to maintain the package, I hereby > orphan this this package. > > Christopher Martin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) has showed some > interested in taking t

orphaning gwenview

2004-05-11 Thread Michael Spanier
Hi, I'm the maintainer of gwenview, a kde image viewer. As i do not have that much free time to maintain the package, I hereby orphan this this package. Christopher Martin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) has showed some interested in taking the package over. gwenview was a sponored upload by colin wats

Re: Orphaning some packages?

2004-04-18 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-04-17 13:32]: > atmelwlandriver, drsync, gloo, gtk-menu, matchbox, > mmenu, motion, xkbd, xstroke, maintainer Paul Hedderly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > According to the mia db migus contacted him in February. Was there > any response? I see occasional activi

Re: Orphaning some packages?

2004-04-18 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-04-17 13:32]: > vipec, maintainer Chris Ruffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > tbm threated to orphan it already, last in his mail three weeks ago. > Should we proceed? Well, the told me in private mail that he was really going to do it. Perhaps someone could he

Orphaning some packages?

2004-04-17 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
vipec, maintainer Chris Ruffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> tbm threated to orphan it already, last in his mail three weeks ago. Should we proceed? atmelwlandriver, drsync, gloo, gtk-menu, matchbox, mmenu, motion, xkbd, xstroke, maintainer Paul Hedderly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> According to the mia db migus co

Re: Orphaning all packages by Matthias Kabel but gtk-gnutella.

2004-04-17 Thread Andreas Metzler
(0.9n-1) >>>> Latest maintainer contribution to the currently open (15+7) bugs: >>>> But he only seems to maintain gtk-gnutella. The others share ancient >>>> standard versions and bugs that are not commented on at all. >>> Well, I'm all for orpha

Re: Orphaning all packages by Matthias Kabel but gtk-gnutella.

2004-04-02 Thread Andreas Barth
pen (15+7) bugs: > >> > >> But he only seems to maintain gtk-gnutella. The others share ancient > >> standard versions and bugs that are not commented on at all. > > > Well, I'm all for orphaning it. > [...] > Ok. How does this continue, what is pro

Re: Orphaning all packages by Matthias Kabel but gtk-gnutella.

2004-04-02 Thread Andreas Metzler
a. The others share ancient >> standard versions and bugs that are not commented on at all. > Well, I'm all for orphaning it. [...] Ok. How does this continue, what is proper procedure? cu andreas

Re: Orphaning all packages by Matthias Kabel but gtk-gnutella.

2004-03-31 Thread Martin Michlmayr
t commented on at all. Well, I'm all for orphaning it. I've been trying to chase Matthias for several months, but since he was uploading at least some packages I never orpaned any packages. At the same time, he never responded to any of my mails... I don't know why people do that. -- Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Orphaning all packages by Matthias Kabel but gtk-gnutella.

2004-03-30 Thread Andreas Metzler
Hello, I started checking gtklp: Last upload: 2003-06-20 (0.9n-1) Latest maintainer contribution to the currently open (15+7) bugs: 2002-11-21 (#170025). This looked fishy, so I checked qa.d.o. Mathias is listed as maintainer of 7 packages: cd-circleprint gtk-gnutella gtklp newsflas

Re: Orphaning lightning

2004-03-24 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2004-03-23 Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [lightning] > Technical speaking you make a QA upload, because as soon as you set > the maintainer field to QA, bugs will be closed. > So, I'd say: make a maintainer-upload, and do a -v1.1-2, so that the > NMUed bug is also closed. [o] Done.

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