Re: on package removal notifications

2012-04-14 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Samstag, 14. April 2012, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > Related to this: package > removal is a bit of a PITA to undo, unless I'm mistaken. get the source from snapshots.d.o and reupload it - whats the big deal? > 1) notify the last maintainer of a orphaned package when requesting its >

Re: on package removal notifications

2012-04-14 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Arno Töll , 2012-04-14, 16:03: Maybe we could establish some best practices for package removals like filing a RC bug against the package assigned beforehand and reassign to ftp.d.o a few days - say 10 or so - later. [...] Moreover, these bugs could be filed with a specific user tag to allow

Re: on package removal notifications

2012-04-14 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Stefano Zacchiroli , 2012-04-14, 15:41: - Second problem: AFAICT from Jakub's mail, he has been notified of the removal only *after* it has actually happened. In fact, a "[wnpp] removal of aafigure has been requested!" mail was sent to me via PTS[0] (sent by "WNPP Monitor "[1]) about 8 hour

Re: on package removal notifications

2012-04-14 Thread Arno Töll
Hi, On 14.04.2012 15:41, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > 1) notify the last maintainer of a orphaned package when requesting its >removal (that could happen automatically --- if someone provides the >appropriate patch to the appropriate piece of infrastructure --- or >simply documented as