Bug#364609: O: Gnus -- A versatile News and mailing list reader for Emacsen.

2006-04-24 Thread James Troup
retitle 364609 ITA: Gnus -- A versatile News and mailing list reader for Emacsen. thanks Unless anyone, particularly the former maintainer, objects I'll adopt this package. It's my MUA of choice (has been for years) and I'm entirely reliant on it anyway, so maintaining it shouldn't be too much o

Bug#364609: O: Gnus -- A versatile News and mailing list reader for Emacsen.

2006-04-24 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On 24 Apr 2006, Bernhard R. Link spake thusly: > * Bernhard R. Link <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060424 18:14]: >> * Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060424 17:39]: >>> Package gnus, version x.y-z.dfsg. That way its clearly marked that gnus is modified to be dfsg free, and you dont change

Bug#364609: O: Gnus -- A versatile News and mailing list reader for Emacsen.

2006-04-24 Thread Manoj Srivastava
> Package gnus, version x.y-z.dfsg. > That way its clearly marked that gnus is modified to be dfsg free, > and you dont change any source/package name. A lot of other packages > in Debian already go this way, I dont see why gnus can't do it. In Debian, source package components have preci

Bug#364609: O: Gnus -- A versatile News and mailing list reader for Emacsen.

2006-04-24 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 10634 March 1977, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > I find myself unable to comply with calling the source package > Gnus, even though we remove all documentation from the package, and > pretending it is just a newer upstream version, since that implies to > people looking at the list of sou

Bug#364609: O: Gnus -- A versatile News and mailing list reader for Emacsen.

2006-04-24 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Package: wnpp Severity: normal Hi, After seven and a half years of maintaining Gnus, I am having to give away the package, on what I consider is a matter of principle. My upload removing non-DFSG bits was rejected, on the grounds that the upload renamed the source package name (the bi