Re: Orphaned packages with very low popcon numbers

2006-06-16 Thread Michael Stone
On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 05:18:13PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: Yes. Deleting information is a big step. Luckily we aren't doing that, since the information itself is still available in archives. I was myself bit by this, when the gnome maintainers decided that gnome-1 was obsolete, a

messagewall - remove from debian or not?

2006-06-16 Thread Paul Wise
Hi all, I was looking at the list of packages that are orphaned but don't have their maintainer set to QA[1]. First package on the list is messagewall, so I went looking for a new upstream (mentioned in #249840). I talked to the upstream ex-maintainer on freenode @ Fri Jun 16 22:56:24 +0800 2006:

Bug#274732: Info received (messagewall - remove from debian or not?)

2006-06-16 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Re: Orphaned packages with very low popcon numbers

2006-06-16 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 05:18:13PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: >> Yes. Deleting information is a big step. > > Luckily we aren't doing that, since the information itself is still > available in archives. Whose archives? Ours? Perhaps if you woul

Re: messagewall - remove from debian or not?

2006-06-16 Thread Amaya
Paul Wise wrote: > To debian-qa folks and the debian maintainer: > What do we think about removing messagewall from debian? It will be sad to see it go, as I have used it thoroughly (though not in Debian systems, and with great bitterness beacuse of this). Knowing Messagewall as I do, in my opini