Re: Orphaned packages in testing which were never in stable

2002-04-23 Thread Jan-Hendrik Palic
Hi .. On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 02:43:21AM +0200, Jan-Hendrik Palic wrote: >>#123484: ITA: gnobog -- GNOME Bookmarks Organizer >I uploaded it .. :) >Ok, there is a buildbug on hppa, but I think, I should fix it tomorrow! The last problem is fixed,too. This deb builded on all arches successfully.

Re: Orphaned packages in testing which were never in stable

2002-04-22 Thread Tille, Andreas
On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, Torsten Landschoff wrote: > Ugh, smupsd is to be pulled from woody? *arg* I really need that package > for our server and I am not sure if the package I built for potato > will continue working. Perhaps I am taking this over but it is a bit > complicated to test a package for

Re: Orphaned packages in testing which were never in stable

2002-04-21 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 02:18:24PM +0200, Tille, Andreas wrote: > > * #143030: smupsd should not release with woody > ---> I did my statement according to this package which was introduced > and orphaned by myself. It is not a target for woody but I would > love to see it in Debian

Re: Orphaned packages in testing which were never in stable

2002-04-19 Thread Tille, Andreas
On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 11:36:28AM +0200, Tille, Andreas wrote: > > My vote for archiving those software you decide to remove to > > All removed packages are kept in /org/ftp.debian.org/morgue/rhona/ > on auric (and a similar directory on pandora) as dis

Re: Orphaned packages in testing which were never in stable

2002-04-18 Thread Jan-Hendrik Palic
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 02:26:02AM +0200, Martin Michlmayr wrote: >#123484: ITA: gnobog -- GNOME Bookmarks Organizer I uploaded it .. :) Ok, there is a buildbug on hppa, but I think, I should fix it tomorrow! :) Regards Jan -- One time, you all will be emulated by linux!

Re: Orphaned packages in testing which were never in stable

2002-04-17 Thread Anthony Towns
On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 11:36:28AM +0200, Tille, Andreas wrote: > My vote for archiving those software you decide to remove to All removed packages are kept in /org/ftp.debian.org/morgue/rhona/ on auric (and a similar directory on pandora) as disk space permits. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <[EM

Re: Orphaned packages in testing which were never in stable

2002-04-17 Thread Tille, Andreas
On Tue, 16 Apr 2002, Colin Watson wrote: > Which -qa doesn't have the capacity to do. One of the zope-* packages in > question sat with release-critical bugs for over a *year*; I finally Well, as I said I fixed and tested those zope-* packages I was interested in as -qa. In general I agree with yo

Re: Orphaned packages in testing which were never in stable

2002-04-16 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 01:59:04PM +0200, Tille, Andreas wrote: > On Tue, 16 Apr 2002, Anthony Towns wrote: > > It takes, what, twenty minutes to upload a package with the Maintainer: > > field changed? A few hours every couple of months are enough to keep > > it fairly adequately maintained. If th

Re: Orphaned packages in testing which were never in stable

2002-04-16 Thread Anthony Towns
On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 01:59:04PM +0200, Tille, Andreas wrote: > Hmm, you do not honestly want to tell me that "Maintaining" is equal > to uploading a package with correctly set maintainer field. No. What I'm saying is that no one cares enough about these packages to do that. > It is > caring ab

Re: Orphaned packages in testing which were never in stable

2002-04-16 Thread Tille, Andreas
On Tue, 16 Apr 2002, Martin Michlmayr wrote: (but my text is related to ajt who atempts to remove those packages completely.) > * #143005: zope-pythonmethod should not release with woody A real reson would be the following quote from the URL mentioned in the copyright file: As of versi

Re: Orphaned packages in testing which were never in stable

2002-04-16 Thread Tille, Andreas
On Tue, 16 Apr 2002, Anthony Towns wrote: > It takes, what, twenty minutes to upload a package with the Maintainer: > field changed? A few hours every couple of months are enough to keep > it fairly adequately maintained. If the packages aren't worth that much > time from anyone, they're not worth

Re: Orphaned packages in testing which were never in stable

2002-04-16 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Anthony Towns [20020416 15:35]: > This isn't any easier on anyone than just sending a single bug > report to ftp.debian.org saying "these packages are unsuitable for > release", and it's a lot more of a nuisance since those bugs have to > be closed individually. You always claim that filing a s

Re: Orphaned packages in testing which were never in stable

2002-04-16 Thread Anthony Towns
On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 09:13:30AM +0200, Tille, Andreas wrote: > On Tue, 16 Apr 2002, Anthony Towns wrote: > > Further, it's still not clear why these packages should be kept in sid, > > if they aren't suitable for woody and no one is interested in > > maintaining them. > I think it is no valit as

Re: Orphaned packages in testing which were never in stable

2002-04-16 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 03:35:37PM +1000, Anthony Towns écrivait: > This isn't any easier on anyone than just sending a single bug report > to ftp.debian.org saying "these packages are unsuitable for release", > and it's a lot more of a nuisance since those bugs have to be closed > individually. Y

Re: Orphaned packages in testing which were never in stable

2002-04-16 Thread Tille, Andreas
On Tue, 16 Apr 2002, Anthony Towns wrote: > Further, it's still not clear why these packages should be kept in sid, > if they aren't suitable for woody and no one is interested in > maintaining them. I think it is no valit assumption that no one is interested in maintaining them just because they

Re: Orphaned packages in testing which were never in stable

2002-04-16 Thread Anthony Towns
On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 07:09:06PM +0200, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * Martin Michlmayr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20020407 02:26]: > > There are a couple of orphaned packages in testing which were never > > part of a stable release. > I have now filed serious bugs on a couple of those packages to pull >

Re: Orphaned packages in testing which were never in stable

2002-04-15 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Martin Michlmayr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20020407 02:26]: > There are a couple of orphaned packages in testing which were never > part of a stable release. I have now filed serious bugs on a couple of those packages to pull them out of testing. In my first run I took packages orphaned for over 100

Re: Orphaned packages in testing which were never in stable

2002-04-12 Thread Ola Lundqvist
Hi On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 11:53:00AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 01:08:10AM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > > I have this sneaking suspicion that we need a tool more appropriate than > > the BTS to handle the WNPP. The BTS seems rather fragile for this > > purpose - the form

Re: Orphaned packages in testing which were never in stable

2002-04-11 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
Em Thu, 11 Apr 2002 22:54:17 +0200, Torsten Landschoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escreveu: > On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 02:26:02AM +0200, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > > # 87431: O: ilu -- Inter Language Unification system > > I doubt anybody is really using this. It is a big mess and there > are better alter

Re: Orphaned packages in testing which were never in stable

2002-04-11 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 02:26:02AM +0200, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > # 87431: O: ilu -- Inter Language Unification system I doubt anybody is really using this. It is a big mess and there are better alternatives. And the potato version did not really work iirc (I was the maintainer for a while but n

Re: Orphaned packages in testing which were never in stable

2002-04-08 Thread Michael Stone
On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 01:08:10AM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > I have this sneaking suspicion that we need a tool more appropriate than > the BTS to handle the WNPP. The BTS seems rather fragile for this > purpose - the format for bug titles and to a greater extent the way > followups for bug repor

Re: Orphaned packages in testing which were never in stable

2002-04-07 Thread Mark Brown
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 10:05:07PM +0200, Uwe Hermann wrote: > Chris Cheney indends to adopt the package, yes, but he only mailed > to [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead of properly renaming the bug to ITA. I have this sneaking suspicion that we need a tool more appropriate than the BTS to handle the WNPP

Re: Orphaned packages in testing which were never in stable

2002-04-07 Thread Colin Watson
retitle 127699 ITA: c-cpp-reference -- c/c++ reference set for kdevelop thanks On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 10:05:07PM +0200, Uwe Hermann wrote: > On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 01:48:19AM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > > > #127699: O: c-cpp-reference -- c/c++ reference set for kdevelop > > > > This is logged as

Re: Orphaned packages in testing which were never in stable

2002-04-07 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 10:12:25PM +0200, Uwe Hermann wrote: > On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 02:26:02AM +0200, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > > #100252: ITA: powershell -- powerful terminal emulator for GNOME > > I'm working on a new version of powershell, but that might take a bit > longer as I intend a com

Re: Orphaned packages in testing which were never in stable

2002-04-07 Thread Uwe Hermann
Hi. On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 02:26:02AM +0200, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > Someone is interested in adopting the following packages. I pinged > them to see if they are still interested. If I don't hear back from > them, I will probably request removal from testing (justification: > it's not clear w

Re: Orphaned packages in testing which were never in stable

2002-04-07 Thread Uwe Hermann
Hi. On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 01:48:19AM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > > #127699: O: c-cpp-reference -- c/c++ reference set for kdevelop > > This is logged as having been adopted by Chris Cheney > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> but was later reset to orphaned by Uwe Heremann > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with no reason

Re: Orphaned packages in testing which were never in stable

2002-04-06 Thread Joey Hess
Martin Michlmayr wrote: > #135057: O: manpages-ru -- Russian translations of Linux manpages This is in the russian task. It would probably be better to leave it, unless it has other bugs. -- see shy jo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Con

Re: Orphaned packages in testing which were never in stable

2002-04-06 Thread Mark Brown
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 02:26:02AM +0200, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > #127699: O: c-cpp-reference -- c/c++ reference set for kdevelop This is logged as having been adopted by Chris Cheney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> but was later reset to orphaned by Uwe Heremann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with no reason logged i