Re: packages for removal from woody

2000-01-27 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Thu, Jan 27, 2000 at 02:22:33PM +0100, Thierry Laronde wrote: > This is a "semi-orphaned" package. It's proposed for adoption since 6 or > more months. By the way, the wnpp page on qa.debian.org needs at the > moment to be completed by the prospective-packages page. I see, thanks for the info

Re: packages for removal from woody

2000-01-27 Thread Thierry Laronde
Hello, On Thu, Jan 27, 2000 at 11:16:14PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Wed, Jan 26, 2000 at 01:18:24PM +0100, Richard Braakman wrote: > > Great! > > I love it when an orphaned package finds a home :) > > (*sniff*) (*wipe eyes*) > > :-) > > By the way, are you sure that it is orphaned? The b

Re: packages for removal from woody

2000-01-27 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Jan 26, 2000 at 01:18:24PM +0100, Richard Braakman wrote: > Great! > I love it when an orphaned package finds a home :) > (*sniff*) (*wipe eyes*) :-) By the way, are you sure that it is orphaned? The bugs db doesn't say it is, and neither does the wnpp page on qa.debian.org. Although the

Re: packages for removal from woody

2000-01-26 Thread Richard Braakman
On Wed, Jan 26, 2000 at 11:07:37PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > So, after all that rambling, I suppose I should accept! Great! I love it when an orphaned package finds a home :) (*sniff*) (*wipe eyes*) -- Richard Braakman

Re: packages for removal from woody

2000-01-26 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Jan 25, 2000 at 11:17:19PM +0100, Richard Braakman wrote: > On Mon, Jan 24, 2000 at 08:45:43PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > > I think playmidi serves a useful function. I have decent hardware MIDI > > so I do not need the software wavetable services of timidity. It works > > OK for me.

Re: packages for removal from woody

2000-01-25 Thread Richard Braakman
On Mon, Jan 24, 2000 at 08:45:43PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > I think playmidi serves a useful function. I have decent hardware MIDI > so I do not need the software wavetable services of timidity. It works > OK for me. I take it this is an offer to maintain it? :-) Remember, the package is or

Re: packages for removal from woody

2000-01-24 Thread Torsten Landschoff
Hi Josip, On Sat, Jan 22, 2000 at 06:54:10PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: [Packages to remove] > ppd-gs -- PostScript printer description files for > GhostScript Let me have a look at this. As I am maintaining gs I might take this if it has some valid use for us (

Re: packages for removal from woody

2000-01-24 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sat, Jan 22, 2000 at 07:37:57PM +0100, Thierry Laronde wrote: > I had a look to the BTS and all the bugs are upstream dependant (one open > since 1997). But : > > - I have been unable to find a sign of an active development : seems stop > till 1996; the only page found was referring to Debian p

Re: packages for removal from woody

2000-01-24 Thread Jeff Licquia
On Sat, Jan 22, 2000 at 06:54:10PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: > Hi people, > > I think we should remove some of the older orphaned packages from the > unstable archive (woody). No, not from frozen - we kept them this long, we > can keep them for this release. Richard Braakman (the release manager)

Re: packages for removal from woody

2000-01-23 Thread Hugo Haas
On Sat, Jan 22, 2000, Josip Rodin wrote: > I think we should remove some of the older orphaned packages from the > unstable archive (woody). No, not from frozen - we kept them this long, we > can keep them for this release. Richard Braakman (the release manager) told > me he agrees. > > The point

Re: packages for removal from woody

2000-01-23 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sat, Jan 22, 2000 at 02:50:21PM -0800, Christoph Lameter wrote: > > * By Christoph Lameter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > (612 Days Orphaned) > > mserver -- Network Modem Server > > optimizer -- Assembler Code optimizer for MMX, PPro and > >

Re: packages for removal from woody

2000-01-22 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Sat, 22 Jan 2000, Josip Rodin wrote: > * By Christoph Lameter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > (612 Days Orphaned) > mserver -- Network Modem Server > optimizer -- Assembler Code optimizer for MMX, PPro and > Pentium (non-free) > sh

Re: packages for removal from woody

2000-01-22 Thread Thierry Laronde
On Sat, Jan 22, 2000 at 06:54:10PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: > Hi people, > > I think we should remove some of the older orphaned packages from the > unstable archive (woody). No, not from frozen - we kept them this long, we > can keep them for this release. Richard Braakman (the release manager)