Re: old ITAs

2002-01-02 Thread Bas Zoetekouw
Hi Thomas! You wrote: > I think it seems to me that the ITAers should get two weeks to confirm > their ITA. Is that really necessary? It costs probably less time to just rename it back to an ITA if a developer still want to adopt, than to respond to your mail. BTW: please note that some package

Re: old ITAs

2002-01-02 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Bas Zoetekouw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I think it seems to me that the ITAers should get two weeks to confirm > > their ITA. > > Is that really necessary? It costs probably less time to just rename it > back to an ITA if a developer still want to adopt, than to respond to > your mail. Tha

NMUs and such on packages maintained by QA

2002-01-02 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
So if you go look at http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?which=maint&data=packages%40qa.debian.org&archive=no you get a list of all the bugs filed on packages that QA is the maintainer for. Three of these are "NMU fixed bugs"; these should 1) At the very least be changed into normal

Re: NMUs and such on packages maintained by QA

2002-01-02 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 01:37:04PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG écrivait: > 2) More probably, be simply closed, since NMUs for QA packages are > not really sensible (as previously discussed on this list wrt my > recent upload) Yes, close the bugs which are already fixed in packages main

Re: NMUs and such on packages maintained by QA

2002-01-02 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Le Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 01:37:04PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG écrivait: > > 2) More probably, be simply closed, since NMUs for QA packages are > > not really sensible (as previously discussed on this list wrt my > > recent upload) > > Yes

incorrect QA maintainer addresses

2002-01-02 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Thirty-five of the QA-maintained packages have incorrect maintainer addresses. The correct address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] However, many packages have debian-qa@lists.debian.org, and a few have [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is suboptimal, because (among other things) it makes it harder to get a list of a

very old orphaned packages

2002-01-02 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
http://qa.debian.org/documentation/qa.html/ch-rules.html This says that for packages with Priority: lower than standard, after a package has been orphaned for three months, it's moved from the main archive to the "project/orphaned" directory. And, after another year, they get withdrawn entirely