Re: Update on orphaned packages with very low popcon numbers

2006-09-18 Thread Nathanael Nerode
still useful. And they're less easy to install from upstream than most packages. -- Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Bush admitted to violating FISA and said he was proud of it. So why isn't he in prison yet?... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a su

Re: A plan to get rid of unnecessary package dependencies

2006-10-10 Thread Nathanael Nerode
gt; Excellent work :-). I didn't see a link to the checklib script itself. > Do you intend to release it some time? Thanks. > > Ganesan > This script ROCKS. Can we link it into the QA pages? -- Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Bush admitted to violating FISA and

Update on GNOME 1 cleanup status

2006-11-28 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Most of the obsolete GNOME 1 packages are gone. Hooray! Removal of guikachu has been requested. Once this is processed, this will be what's left. Packages depending on the packages are listed below each package. * python-gnome -- See also #368515. - xkeysw-config - Maintainer [EMAIL PR

Update on orphaned packages with very low popcon numbers

2006-11-28 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Revisiting http://lists.debian.org/debian-qa/2006/09/msg00013.html . Some have been ITAed or adopted and are removed from the list. :-) Others have been removed from Debian or removal requests filed (some by me) and are likewise removed from the list. :-) It looks like we could use a Korean-spe

Finding a Debian maintainer for libghttp (or removing it)

2006-11-30 Thread Nathanael Nerode
This is the obsolete GNOME HTTP library. It is orphaned, and has been since Auguest 2005. The packages in Debian which depend on it are: xmms-singit (maintainer [EMAIL PROTECTED]) telegnome (maintainer [EMAIL PROTECTED]) orpheus (maintainer [EMAIL PROTECTED], RFAed) digitaldj (maintainer [EMAIL

Could perl team take a look at the orphaned perl libraries?

2006-11-30 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Orphaned perl libraries constitute a meaningful proportion of the orphaned packages. Could the perl team take a look at them? Perhaps they might wish to adopt some, and perhaps they might be able to point to some which in their opinion should be removed from Debian (perhaps some are obsolete or f

Re: Update on GNOME 1 cleanup status

2006-11-30 Thread Nathanael Nerode
tim hall wrote: On Wednesday 29 November 2006 04:57, Nathanael Nerode was like: > ? - pydict > ? ? - Maintainer [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ? ? - Maintainer probably MIA, last upload in 2002 > ? ? - unchanged since stable > ? ? -- Recommendation: remove from unstable > * gnome-pri

Most popular orphaned packages

2006-11-30 Thread Nathanael Nerode
>From my periodic sweep, I find that these orphaned packages have over 1000 reported popcon installs. I may have missed some. dvipng (1211) -- ITAed. gnome-gv -- removal request filed gnome-libs (5259) -- GNOME 1 gnome-print (1974) -- GNOME 1 grdesktop (5488) imlib (8984) -- sort of GNOME 1, but

Let's remove swingwt

2006-12-31 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Orphaned since February, no reverse dependencies, 11 popcon installs. There's Swing support in Classpath, and Sun's Java is being released under the GPL, so this is not the most necessary thing in the world now. Any objections? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "

Update on GNOME 1 packages

2007-01-07 Thread Nathanael Nerode
ages which use it. - It's bug city, though. Needs work badly. Maybe I'll make a QA upload after etch releases to fix some of the worst. -- Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Read it and weep. http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Text_of_Gore_speech_0116.html -- To UNSUBS

Update on orphaned packages with very low popcon numbers

2007-01-07 Thread Nathanael Nerode
quot;: gkrelldnet: 14 In "non-free": qla2x00: 11 (4 votes) -- this should be expected to have low popcon counts. But if nobody cares enough to fix the bugs (I don't), removal should be requested: it is non-free, after all. -- Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> A th

Packages still linked against libstdc++5 in unstable

2007-01-14 Thread Nathanael Nerode
jabber-jit juice kimwitu++ launchtool le logtools maildir-bulletin metacam pathogen playmp3list postal pwsafe qe qmc re shaperd sillypoker tardy tigr-glimmer vncsnapshot ---- -- Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "It's just a goddamned piece of paper." -- Preside

Shall we consider removing 'deliver'?

2007-04-10 Thread Nathanael Nerode
feel free to fix it.) Oh, and there hasn't been an upstream release since 1999. -- Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [Insert famous quote here] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Can we orphan dlocate?

2007-04-11 Thread Nathanael Nerode
ocating it, so he may have left Debian deliberately.) Given the various NMUs I suspect that this one would be picked up quite quickly, but I'm sure nobody wants to step on the maintainer's toes Given the presence of bugs as old as seven years, it clearly needs a new maintainer.

Re: Can we orphan dlocate?

2007-04-14 Thread Nathanael Nerode
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Craig Sanders wrote: >>> Debian deliberately.) >> I don't think Craig has left debian. :) > > no, i haven't. i've been a bit pre-occupied with health issues over the last > few years. Sorry. I know what that's like, been doing that myself lately.

Re: Can we orphan dlocate?

2007-04-14 Thread Nathanael Nerode
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Steve Langasek wrote: > On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 11:45:58PM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: >> The maintainer appears to have lost interest in the package (last upload >> 1999). >> It's also his only package; he is probably

notes on packages mentioned

2001-07-24 Thread Nathanael Nerode
sort of hacked up version of the alternatives system, ans so should probably be entirely removed too. There should be a dummy package "zcode-interpreter" which is supplied by frotz/xzip/jzip etc., and the 'alternatives' system should be used to select a default zcode interpreter. --Nathanael Nerode, interactive fiction fan

Re: Let's close down the QA committee

2001-07-24 Thread Nathanael Nerode
e? Well, the QA committee clearly does. Without a QA committee, who would feel comfortable doing this? If lots of people on this list would feel comfortable, then there's no problem. If not, then maybe the QA committee has a purpose. --Nathanael Nerode [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Intend to NMU the cruft package

2005-06-26 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Martin Quinson wrote: > Hello, > > the cruft package is in a rather sorry state, with no version in more than > 2 years, and a whole bunch of easy to fix bugs. Some of them greatly > reducing its usability while others hinder the whole debian installation > process (interactive post-inst script).

Re: Removing old orphaned packages?

2005-06-26 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Martin Michlmayr wrote: > moria -- A roguelike game with an infinite dungeon [#274472] > * Orphaned 255 days ago Really someone should be packaging the "new" GPL version. The switch from non-free to main will require it to go through NEW processing anyway, if I'm not mistaken. So I think the p

Integrate c102 transition status

2003-07-26 Thread Nathanael Nerode
The page at http://people.debian.org/~willy/gcc-transition/ should either be integrated into the main qa.debian.org page, or at least linked to from it (a la the FHS transition). Could someone with write access to qa.debian.org web pages consider doing this? :-)

Proposal: Remove gutenbrowser from unstable & testing, and MIA its maintainer

2003-10-04 Thread Nathanael Nerode
tus. 3. Orphan all his packages and reassign to QA. 4. Remove gutenbrowser from testing. 5. Consider removing gutenbrowser from unstable. -- Nathanael Nerode http://home.twcny.rr.com/nerode/neroden/fdl.html

Results of a trawl for old, ignored RC bugs

2003-10-12 Thread Nathanael Nerode
. His other package has *also* been NMUed because he's been absent. I believe he's probably MIA. pptpd: #179808 -- "completely fails to work" Complex solution, appears to be in progress. request-tracker: #191165 -- command line utilities don't work Already orphaned and maintained by QA. Not in 'stable'. I suggest total removal unless some other package depends on it. (I can't seem to figure out whether any do) That's it, I'll get r-z later. -- Nathanael Nerode http://home.twcny.rr.com/nerode/neroden/fdl.html

Further trawl for old, ignored RC bugs

2003-10-12 Thread Nathanael Nerode
g to ignore the bugs for these, since the X Strike Force is doing their best. zebra: #198458 -- segfault Maintainer: Takuo Kitame <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Presumably just busy, what with Mozilla and all. -- Nathanael Nerode http://home.twcny.rr.com/nerode/neroden/fdl.html

How to suggest that a maintainer 'cut back'?

2003-11-17 Thread Nathanael Nerode
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on debian-devel, in http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2003/debian-devel-200311/msg01218.html: This nasty behavior shows that being an officiel Debian developer does not mean quality. He's referring to Filip Van Raemdock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uploading some packages with

Old, ignored RC bugs revisited

2003-12-04 Thread Nathanael Nerode
's it. Hope someone will do something useful with this. Once these have been dealt with I'll start looking at ignored RC bugs from August, maybe, in search of more MIA maintainers. ;-) -- Nathanael Nerode http://home.twcny.rr.com/nerode/neroden/fdl.html

MIA (or derelict) maintainers list

2003-12-14 Thread Nathanael Nerode
; Apologies if any of the people above are on official, announced vacations from Debian. Otherwise, no apologies! There's no shame in orphaning your packages! -- Nathanael Nerode http://home.twcny.rr.com/nerode/neroden/fdl.html

Additional MIA maintainer

2003-12-14 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Will Lowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: No uploads since 2002. Hasn't been responding to bugs on his packages, either. -- Nathanael Nerode http://home.twcny.rr.com/nerode/neroden/fdl.html

"The maintainer has returned"

2003-12-18 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Timshel Knoll wrote: I have been MIA for some time but am back ... I've had a very crazy few months organising a wedding, during which time I moved and due to telecommunication company issues lost my internet connection :-(. But it's all back to normal now. Hooray! :-) :-) :-) Gnomba has been

MIA/non-MIA maintainers

2003-12-24 Thread Nathanael Nerode
(Following up on http://lists.debian.org/debian-qa/2003/debian-qa-200312/msg00050.html and http://lists.debian.org/debian-qa/2003/debian-qa-200312/msg00051.html) Well, this is fun. Several maintainers appear to have returned from whereever they were. :-) Whee! Merry Christmas to Debian, I g

MIA maintainer watch

2003-12-30 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Another update. First, the reappeared maintainers (hooray!): -- Will Lowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. Welcome back. Second, the new maybe-MIA entries. Apologies if any of the below are on official, announced vacations from Debian (I haven't been able to find a way to look up whether people are). O

Another MIA maintainer

2003-12-31 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Mark W. Eichin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Last upload in April. Last before that in 2002. Two packages in NMU versions, one never made it into testing. Lots of *really* old bugs. Suggestion: Orphan all his packages.

Re: Re: Another MIA maintainer

2003-12-31 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Apparently his last activity in the BTS was 28 October; maybe mail him and ask if he needs help? -- Colin Watson Your tools are better than mine. What are you using to get information? :-)

QA confirmation wanted for the following actions

2004-01-14 Thread Nathanael Nerode
/2004/debian-qa-200401/msg00039.html). Thanks. -- Nathanael Nerode http://home.twcny.rr.com/nerode/neroden/fdl.html

Remove vlad from sid?

2004-01-14 Thread Nathanael Nerode
eats me to it. -- Nathanael Nerode http://home.twcny.rr.com/nerode/neroden/fdl.html

Mini-mass bug filing for dependency breakage in sid?

2004-01-15 Thread Nathanael Nerode
appropriate bugs. But 36 is enough that it seems like a mass-filing, so -- Nathanael Nerode http://home.twcny.rr.com/nerode/neroden/fdl.html

Removing mindi?

2004-01-16 Thread Nathanael Nerode
be removed from testing (in which case I'll send a message to -release)? -- Nathanael Nerode http://home.twcny.rr.com/nerode/neroden/fdl.html

License bugs for sarge

2004-01-27 Thread Nathanael Nerode
r way to filter for these licensing bugs. Perhaps "undistributable" and "non-free". Of course, such bugs shouldn't really be necessary, since undistributable stuff should be removed from the archive immediately, but -- Nathanael Nerode http://home.twcny.rr.com/nerode/neroden/fdl.html

Re: License bugs for sarge

2004-01-28 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Andreas Barth wrote: >I want to support this. For example, the discussion about the total >removal of rocks-n-diamonds is not even one week old. So, I'd like to >wait just a bit. Following a very long background, including long-standing consensus that the current version of the package should not

Othmar Pasteka MIA?

2004-01-29 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Look at bug 209338 on yank. Maintainer has not commented. Of his other packages, dcd is fine, modlogan is in NMU versions since September, and trueprint has two year-old bugs. He's not on vacation. -- Nathanael Nerode http://home.twcny.rr.com/nerode/neroden/fdl.html

Consider removing iraf from testing

2004-01-29 Thread Nathanael Nerode
o be removed from sarge. It may be more reasonable to remove the package entirely, from sid as well, despite the maintainer's statements of intent -- that's why this is CC:ed to QA. -- Nathanael Nerode http://home.twcny.rr.com/nerode/neroden/fdl.html

Removing quickppp

2004-02-07 Thread Nathanael Nerode
nks for your comments, > >-- >Zorglub >Cl?ment Stenac Can we get QA consensus here and file a removal bug against ftp.debian.org? -- Nathanael Nerode US citizens: if you're considering voting for Bush, look at these first: http://www.misleader.org/ http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/arar/ http://www.house.gov/reform/min/politicsandscience/

Re: Special NMU for pgperl

2004-02-10 Thread Nathanael Nerode
>Some weeks ago I separated some auxillary postgresql packages out of >the main source tree into separate proper source packages, among them >pgperl. > >pgperl is the original upstream name, so I just used it; but after it >was uploaded, I noticed that there already was an unrelated pgperl >package

Re: mondo and Debian

2004-02-11 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Hugo Rabson wrote: >Bear in mind that the principle reason for the mindi-kernel's existence is >(or was) the nonstandard nature of Debian's kernel. The use of cramfs in the >kernel made it incompatible with Mindi. Mindi will run fine without >mindi-kernel, so long as your kernel is sane. Debian's k

Re: mondo and Debian

2004-02-11 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Hugo Rabson wrote: >Hector has already taken it upon himself to try to solve part of the source >of this philosophical incompatibility between Debian and Mondo. Kudos, >Hector! He is looking at rootfs, specifically - not what you're e-mailing me >about, but still a matter for concern within Debian

possible MIAs/ proposed forced orphanings

2004-02-23 Thread Nathanael Nerode
aves him as a co-maintainer of kernel-patch-2.4.21-s390 and s390-tools, which Bastian Blank is maintaining. -- Nathanael Nerode US citizens: if you're considering voting for Bush, look at these first: http://www.misleader.org/ http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/arar/ http://www.house.gov/reform/min/politicsandscience/

xemacs21 status

2004-02-25 Thread Nathanael Nerode
good. Perhaps someone with more diplomacy than I could do something about this, either getting the maintainer to fix the bugs, getting a co-maintainer added who will, or something? In the last resort, these would have to be removed from sarge, but that really shuoldn't be necessary. -- Nathan

Xemacs needs help

2004-02-26 Thread Nathanael Nerode
The maintainer, James Lewis-Moss, appears to be too busy (or something) to maintain the xemacs packages properly at the moment. Co-maintainers and/or NMUs are definitely needed. Volunteers? ;-) -- Nathanael Nerode US citizens: if you're considering voting for Bush, look at these first:

Re: Xemacs needs help

2004-02-26 Thread Nathanael Nerode
James LewisMoss wrote: On Thu, 26 Feb 2004 13:06:23 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nathanael Nerode) said: Nathanael> The maintainer, James Lewis-Moss, appears to be too busy Nathanael> (or something) to maintain the xemacs packages properly at Nathanael> the moment. Nathanael> Co

Re: Any plans to continue maintaining Stardict?

2004-02-28 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Andreas Tille wrote: >there was no upload of StarDict for a very long time. We currently hit >upstream version 2.4.3 which is much more powerfull and not only restricted >to Chinese-English so much more users could profit from an updated package. > >The maintainer seems not to care for closing RC

Giving someone else package-removal/override-editing abilities?

2004-02-28 Thread Nathanael Nerode
aps more important, what *ahem* social changes would need to be made? Martin, perhaps you could help with this question, being both QA and DPL? -- Nathanael Nerode US citizens: if you're considering voting for Bush, look at these first: http://www.misleader.org/ http://www.cbc.ca/news/ba

Candidates for oldlibs

2004-02-28 Thread Nathanael Nerode
verted and may not. I guess there's no equivalent of oldlibs for devel or doc packages, or I'd suggest some of those too. :-P -- Nathanael Nerode US citizens: if you're considering voting for Bush, look at these first: http://www.misleader.org/ http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/a

Really, really ancient standards versions

2004-02-28 Thread Nathanael Nerode
01 sauce: Ian Jackson (surprise!) sgrep: Orphaned translate: Matthias Kabel -- last upload 2001 urlredir: Chris Leishman -- last upload 2001 xlispstat: Douglas Bates xtranslate: Matthias Kabel -- last maintainer upload 2000 -- Nathanael Nerode US citizens: if you're considering voting for Bush, l

Re: Giving someone else package-removal/override-editing abilities?

2004-02-28 Thread Nathanael Nerode
>This was largely because there was no good tool to make changes to the >overrides of just one package. However, Daniel Silverstone recently >wrote a script, so such requests should be dealt with much more >quickly. That's very cool. :-) >In any case, it's also not that removals are >only done b

Another maybe-MIA maintainer

2004-03-04 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Johann Botha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. One package (ldap2dns) with RC bug open since October -- hasn't responded to bug trail yet. -- Nathanael Nerode US citizens: if you're considering voting for Bush, look at these first: http://www.misleader.org/ http://www.cbc.ca/news/backg

Mattia Monga MIA?

2004-03-04 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Mattia Monga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Three packages. Last upload in October (for tkrat). No uploads in recorded history for sleuthkit or autopsy; both are markedly out of date with respect to upstream, and sleuthkit has ignored RC bugs plus other quite-old bugs. -- Nathanael Nerode US ci

Hakan Ardo MIA?

2004-03-04 Thread Nathanael Nerode
wful lot of other bugs. :-P -- Nathanael Nerode US citizens: if you're considering voting for Bush, look at these first: http://www.misleader.org/ http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/arar/ http://www.house.gov/reform/min/politicsandscience/

Didier Dhollande almost certainly MIA

2004-03-04 Thread Nathanael Nerode
nd that's been ignored for over a month. Also, no GPG key! (Actually, I'd consider adopting this if I could find upstream) -- Nathanael Nerode US citizens: if you're considering voting for Bush, look at these first: http://www.misleader.org/ http://www.cbc.ca/news/backgro

Xemacs needs a real maintainer

2004-03-09 Thread Nathanael Nerode
l packages, but no more (most packages depending on xemacs21 have alternative dependencies on 'emacsen' or 'emacs21'). -- Nathanael Nerode US citizens: if you're considering voting for Bush, look at these first: http://www.misleader.org/ http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/arar/ http://www.house.gov/reform/min/politicsandscience/

Orp in bad shape -- worth keeping or not?

2004-03-12 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Orp is very broken and has been for quite a while. (for example, bugs 128732, 185881, 236118, 168536) Maintainer, are you still maintaining this, or would you rather just have it removed from unstable? -- Make sure your vote will count. http://www.verifiedvoting.org/

David Martinez Moreno MIA or busy?

2004-03-13 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Last upload October. xmovie (contrib) has been pretty seriously ignored -- notably bug 140474, but also all the others. :-p Technically, it has no RC bugs, but I'm betting that's because nobody's using it. Perhaps he'd rather drop it? -- Make sure your vote will count. http://www.verifiedvoti

Jean-Marc Bourdaret probably MIA

2004-03-13 Thread Nathanael Nerode
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> No GPG key according to qa.debian.org/developer.php. Last upload 2002. Three packages: twin: Has been seriously out of date w/r/t upstream for at least a year (#184746) twutils: Hasn't undergone c102 transition gtans: comment-free bug #143999 -- Make sure your vote will

Hanno Wagner MIA?

2004-03-14 Thread Nathanael Nerode
One package (qps), last maintainer upload in the year 2000. This package is still a qt2 package compiled with gcc-2.95 (despite what it says in some of the NMUs). It has a standards version of 2.5.0 and the postinst sets a /usr/doc symlink. -- Make sure your vote will count. http://www.verified

Better coordinating when pages update?

2004-03-15 Thread Nathanael Nerode
So, http://bugs.debian.org/release-critical/other/all.html and http://packages.qa.debian.org/ and http://bts.turmzimmer.net/ all show packages as being in 'testing' which aren't, because they were removed on the last run. Perhaps there's some way to schedule the (apparently daily) update of these

Re: David Martinez Moreno MIA or busy?

2004-03-15 Thread Nathanael Nerode
>Sorry, Nathanael. I'm not MIA, for example I've uploaded two >versions of >linux-ntfs in the last two weeks. Glad to hear it, and sorry about the mistaken suggestion. :-) I thought I'd checked all your packages for most-recent-upload, but I must have missed linux-ntfs. :-/ >

Suggest removing logout-button from unstable

2004-03-19 Thread Nathanael Nerode
See #236055. Oh, and the minor bugs too, but mostly #236055. Also, the policy version on this package is too damn old (2.5.0). The maintainer suggested removing it, but apparently couldn't be bothered to actually ask to have it removed. You may remember him from the 'animals' fiasco. -- Make

Re: commons-collections in main

2004-04-09 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Arnaud Vandyck wrote: > Thanks, note that with this package in main, I'm able to move two other > java packages to main... and with these two, more (and more, and > more...) ;-) > > http://java.debian.net/index.php/MovingJavaToMain May I ask how you're dealing with the architecture coordination

Re: commons-collections in main

2004-04-10 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Arnaud Vandyck wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Arnaud Vandyck wrote: >> >>> Thanks, note that with this package in main, I'm able to move two other >>> java pac

Re: Bug#239703: About to remove kernel-patch-2.2.20-p3

2004-04-23 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Camm Maguire wrote: > Greetings! > > Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Hi, >> >> I agree on removing the package. So, if no-one disagrees, I'm going to >> reassign this bug to ftp.d.o next weekend. >> > > At least some of the functionality in my 4 packages appears to be > missing

Re: gutenbrowser in non-US

2004-04-23 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Andreas Barth wrote: > Furthermore, even if it is removed, non-US is > not processed at the moment, so it wouldn't change anything. Unfortunately non-US really does need to start being processed. Is there anyone capable of doing that who isn't completely swamped? -- There are none so blind as t

Re: gutenbrowser in non-US

2004-04-25 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Colin Watson wrote: > On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 07:48:20PM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: >> Andreas Barth wrote: >> > Furthermore, even if it is removed, non-US is >> > not processed at the moment, so it wouldn't change anything. >> >> Unfortun

Re: The use of setserial?

2004-06-02 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Ola Lundqvist wrote: > Hello > > I'm the current maintainer of setserial. I'm in the process of > getting it adopted (because I do no longer need it, but has not > started that yet). But before I do I'm asking if setserial is needed > at all today? Probably not. If you don't remove it entirely,

Re: weblint probably isn't worth adopting

2004-08-28 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Russ Allbery wrote: >I think this package should instead be removed from the archive. I agree. Procedure in this case is to file a bug in the BTS against the pseudo-package ftp.debian.org titled "Please remove weblint from unstable", and to note there that this is a request of QA, that the pack

C++ packages still compiled with gcc 2.95

2005-08-03 Thread Nathanael Nerode
I filed bugs against these packages. The first four appear to have been misbuilds by the maintainers. intel2gas queue robotour maelstrom (non-free) xmovie (contrib) However, xmovie seems to be severely undermaintained. Does anyone know David Martinez Moreno who can politely suggest that he eithe

Re: Source packages apparantly without any users (popcon)

2005-08-05 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Note that the RC bugs are integrated in total bug count: I'm going to ignore the ones with no bugs for now. Roxen seems to deserve some analysis of its own. Perhaps it could be strongly suggested to Turbo that he drop the entire constellation of roxen3 packages (roxen3, libroxen-*)? xmms-

Re: Source packages apparantly without any users (popcon)

2005-08-05 Thread Nathanael Nerode
php-clamav (not filed RC bug, not in testing nor stable) Uninstallable. Mainainter needs a wake-up call. pcrd (1 bug, same version in oldstable as in unstable) 124-day-old copyright file problem. Maintainer needs a poke. ninpaths (1 bug) Might be OK to leave this. (non-free) mush (

Standard form for poking maintainers?

2005-08-16 Thread Nathanael Nerode
So there's a fair number of maintainers who need polite pokes regarding their packages (before declaring them MIA and orphaning/removing packages). However, I am not known for my tact. So I wondered if anyone had devised a semi-standard "form letter" for contacting maintainers and saying "Please

Packages which aren't getting into "testing"

2005-08-19 Thread Nathanael Nerode
9 days. "Maintainer" Anthony Fok ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is MIA. Remove package. -- Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [Insert famous quote here] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bradley Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MIA?

2005-09-13 Thread Nathanael Nerode
It looks like it. I've been looking at packages which need to undergo the C++ transition, and haven't, and most of them have him listed as maintainer. Could someone give him a poke? -- Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> A thousand reasons. http://www.thousandreasons.org/

Candidates for removal

2005-09-29 Thread Nathanael Nerode
anish] 3 popcon installs (all 'nofiles'). Bug requesting transition to libssl0.9.7 open 1 year 124 days. libssl0.9.6 removed 9 August 2005. Should be removed. OK to reassign bug to ftp.debian.org for removal? So, that's more than enough for now. This is all the packages ma

glademm and removing gnome1/c++ libraries

2005-10-01 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Christof Petig wrote: > There is no reason for glademm to build "depend" on libgnomemm-dev! It > simply tests libgnomemm for existance to provide a reasonable default > version. Since these days libgnomemm is rarely used (to say the least) > nobody would notice a missing default version. Thank you!

Re: Candidates for removal

2005-10-02 Thread Nathanael Nerode
now. Otherwise, has anyone been in contact with Bradley? Not as far as I know. Email him and if you don't get a message back (quick), take it over; since it was going to be removed, it might as well be taken over! Leave a note on the potential removal bug so it doesn't get removed

Request for sponsored NMU

2005-10-11 Thread Nathanael Nerode
nsor and upload please? :-? I feel a little silly asking for sponsorship of any upload that any DD could have written themselves in an hour -- but the fact is that no DD *has* written it, so I figured I needed to do so. -- Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This space intentionally lef

Rafal Zawadzki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MIA, packages need orphaning

2005-10-24 Thread Nathanael Nerode
. Blackbook is dead upstream and needs to undergo the C++ transition. Screentest is actually usable. Strongly suggest orphaning his packages. -- Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> A thousand reasons. http://www.thousandreasons.org/ Lies, theft, war, kidnapping, torture, rape, murder... Get me

Should we remove guitar?

2005-11-27 Thread Nathanael Nerode
QA-maintained, dead upstream, last release in 1999, just a wrapper program, only 35 popcon votes. -- Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "(Instead, we front-load the flamewars and grudges in the interest of efficiency.)" --Steve Lanagasek, http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/

Should we remove 'queue' from unstable?

2005-12-10 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Dead upstream, maintainer appears to be MIA, C++ package built with g++ 2.95 (!), "totally broken" according to some people who've tried to use it. -- Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> A thousand reasons. http://www.thousandreasons.org/ Lies, theft, war, kidnapping,

[EMAIL PROTECTED] MIA?

2005-12-11 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Last upload in April 2004 (mova); last before that in Feb 2004 (phpix); last before that in 2003. RC bugs in xnap, xnap-snapshot 254 days old. Important mispackaging bug in tk-brief unfixed for over two years. Important bugs in phpix, mueller open for over a year. (All with no reply from him

thuriaux's scripts & definite MIAs

2005-12-26 Thread Nathanael Nerode
pwgen html2wml kdoc Objections? Thoughts? Should some of these packages be removed outright instead? If all goes well with this, I'll look at the maintainers who last uploaded in 2003, but I think those are a more complicated situation. -- Nathanael Nerode Doom! Doom! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Oldest RC bugs affecting etch

2006-01-05 Thread Nathanael Nerode
ing build-depends in tkrat 344981 -- patched FTBFS in tkrat Orphan package and make QA upload? 147187 -- xdelta fails on all 64-bit systems Orphan package and work on QA upload? -- Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [Insert famous quote here] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROT

Stephan A Suerken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MIA

2006-01-05 Thread Nathanael Nerode
No uploads since the release of sarge. No response to RC bug reports. Last upload 2004-08-02. sp-gxmlcpp, xpcd, and uae have RC bugs. gom is the only one which doesn't, and it prompts without debconf. -- Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [Insert famous quote here] -- To

Re: Re: thuriaux's scripts

2006-01-16 Thread Nathanael Nerode
of almost *all* the other lists -- Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "It's just a goddamned piece of paper." -- President Bush, referring to the US Constitution http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_7779.shtml -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Status of compiler transitions

2006-02-14 Thread Nathanael Nerode
h these; we need the equivalent for packages which depend on a package which existed before Nov 17, when the c2a transition started. Such a page would be a very good idea. -- Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "(Instead, we front-load the flamewars and grudges in the interest of effici

Antique RC bugs (many about licensing)

2006-03-12 Thread Nathanael Nerode
] [NONFREE-DATA:UNMODFIABLE] Non-free logo included in source This appears to be a matter of the maintainer not paying attention, because the non-free logo has been removed from the binary. NMU? -- Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Bush admitted to violating FISA and

Compiler transitions status report

2006-03-12 Thread Nathanael Nerode
bug in most cases): aranym chromium csmash darkice fglrx-driver (non-free) fonty gav gbib im-sdk latd libcwd (non-free) mailsync mffm-fftw mozilla mozilla-firefox mssstest (non-free) povray-3.5 (non-free) rar (non-free) rig snes9express stella verbiste vlc

Forcibly orphaning mhash?

2006-05-09 Thread Nathanael Nerode
As discussed in this bug, mhash's maintainer appears to be MIA or out to lunch. Is it OK if we forcibly orphan the package now? -- Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "It's just a goddamned piece of paper." -- President Bush, referring to the US Constitution http

communication (was Re: Bug#350088: Forcibly orphaning mhash?

2006-05-27 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Chris Hanson wrote: > Nathanael Nerode wrote: >> As discussed in this bug, mhash's maintainer appears to be MIA or out to >> lunch. >> >> Is it OK if we forcibly orphan the package now? > > What exactly do you want me to do? The classic thing to do is to s

Orphaned packages with very low popcon numbers

2006-06-10 Thread Nathanael Nerode
et: 9 relay-ctrl: 8 (7 votes) In "non-free": qla2x00: 6 (1 vote) swt-pocketpc: 9 -- Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Bush admitted to violating FISA and said he was proud of it. So why isn't he in prison yet?... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Orphaned packages with very low popcon numbers

2006-06-11 Thread Nathanael Nerode
nds do, but they ought to do something similar. > Except that > the package now gets *no* updates instead of minimal ones. > > Thomas -- Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Bush admitted to violating FISA and said he was proud of it. So why isn't he in prison yet?... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Orphaned packages with very low popcon numbers

2006-06-11 Thread Nathanael Nerode
users. IMNSHO, packages which have no maintainer and look unlikely to acquire one should be removed from Debian by *default*, and kept only if there's a good reason to keep them. A significant number of users is usually a good reason, hence the filter for packages with very few (if any) users. -- Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Bush admitted to violating FISA and said he was proud of it. So why isn't he in prison yet?...

Re: Orphaned packages with very low popcon numbers

2006-06-20 Thread Nathanael Nerode
There are *so many* orphaned packages that I didn't want to just start going through them alphabetically, which was my first instinct when looking for removal candidates! -- Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "(Instead, we front-load the flamewars and grudges in the interest of ef

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