Re: List of packages that could be dropped

2001-01-03 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
Wichert Akkerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is any package using functions of dpkg-perl or dpkg-python? If yes, I think someone should take care of this packages and the bugs that are in them. If not, could we move this packages from our distribution to experimental until they are

Re: List of packages that could be dropped

2000-12-30 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On 20001226T152221+0100, Christian Kurz wrote: |malaga (210 days old) Has this package been dropped? No. -- %%% Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % http://www.iki.fi/gaia/ %%%

Re: List of packages that could be dropped

2000-12-29 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Tue, 26 Dec 2000, Christian Kurz wrote: Hi, Hi Christian, we currently have a really huge list of packages that are orphaned and so I looked at them to see if we can drop some of them. Here are some suggestion and my comments. Any comment from you is appreciated: ... |fnlib (104 days

Re: List of packages that could be dropped

2000-12-29 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, 29 Dec 2000, Adrian Bunk wrote: Hi Christian, we currently have a really huge list of packages that are orphaned and so I looked at them to see if we can drop some of them. Here are some suggestion and my comments. Any comment from you is appreciated: ... |fnlib (104 days old)

Re: List of packages that could be dropped

2000-12-28 Thread Christian Kurz
On 00-12-28 Wichert Akkerman wrote: Previously Christian Kurz wrote: |dpkg-scriptlib -- dpkg-perl and dpkg-python (142 days old) Is any package using functions of dpkg-perl or dpkg-python? If yes, I think someone should take care of this packages and the bugs that are in them. If not,

Re: List of packages that could be dropped

2000-12-27 Thread Christian Kurz
On 00-12-26 Ben Collins wrote: On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 03:22:21PM +0100, Christian Kurz wrote: |silo (195 days old) Has this package been removed from unstable and if yes, why? It's currently still listed in the wnpp but I could find it which apt-cache search silo. You can only

Re: List of packages that could be dropped

2000-12-27 Thread Christian Kurz
On 00-12-27 Jonathan McDowell wrote: On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 06:59:16PM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 03:22:21PM +0100, Christian Kurz wrote: |silo (195 days old) Has this package been removed from unstable and if yes, why? It's currently still listed in the

Re: List of packages that could be dropped

2000-12-27 Thread Ben Collins
On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 07:06:30PM -0700, John Galt wrote: If it's so important, why is it orphaned? I'm thinking that if the SPARC folx can't be bothered to maintain their bootloader, perhaps the port's utilization of resources needs to be called into question... What's the point in

Re: List of packages that could be dropped

2000-12-27 Thread Junichi Uekawa
In Wed, 27 Dec 2000 08:42:49 +0100 Christian Kurz [EMAIL PROTECTED] cum veritate scripsit : silo (0.9.9-1) unstable; urgency=low * New upstream * Took over silo's packaging -- Erick Kinnee [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon, 4 Sep 2000 10:54:23 -0500 Which I assumed meant Erick had

Re: List of packages that could be dropped

2000-12-27 Thread Petr Èech
On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 03:22:21PM +0100, Christian Kurz wrote: Hi, |mhash (235 days old) Has this package been dropped from unstable? If yes, can we close the wnpp-bug about it? No. I'm not sure if gorgo orphaned it or not. php4 builds an extension with this library. Dunno, how

Re: List of packages that could be dropped

2000-12-27 Thread Tamas TEVESZ
On Wed, 27 Dec 2000, [iso-8859-1] Petr ech wrote: |mhash (235 days old) No. I'm not sure if gorgo orphaned it or not. php4 builds an extension with he says, `i think i did... about the time when i orphaned php' -- [-] ``And there are plenty of other innovative pieces of software such as

Re: List of packages that could be dropped

2000-12-27 Thread John Galt
195 days is a lot of time to have an important package orphaned. At 6 or so months of orphaned-ness, if a maintainer is not found, one should and IMHO must look at the very real at that point possibility of going on without it. If this necessitates further changes as in removal of an entire

Re: List of packages that could be dropped

2000-12-27 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Christian Kurz wrote: |dpkg-scriptlib -- dpkg-perl and dpkg-python (142 days old) Is any package using functions of dpkg-perl or dpkg-python? If yes, I think someone should take care of this packages and the bugs that are in them. If not, could we move this packages from our

Re: List of packages that could be dropped

2000-12-27 Thread Ben Collins
On Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 04:26:57PM -0700, John Galt wrote: 195 days is a lot of time to have an important package orphaned. At 6 or so months of orphaned-ness, if a maintainer is not found, one should and IMHO must look at the very real at that point possibility of going on without it. If

Re: List of packages that could be dropped

2000-12-26 Thread Josip Rodin
On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 03:22:21PM +0100, Christian Kurz wrote: |ppd-gs (1 year and 357 days old) Do we really need this package still for users of alladin ghostscript or is it not needed anymore? Last time I asked for this to be removed, a few people said this was useful. FWIW. |silo (195

Re: List of packages that could be dropped

2000-12-26 Thread Junichi Uekawa
In Tue, 26 Dec 2000 15:22:21 +0100 Christian Kurz [EMAIL PROTECTED] cum veritate scripsit : |silo (195 days old) Has this package been removed from unstable and if yes, why? It's currently still listed in the wnpp but I could find it which apt-cache search silo. Wasn't this the only

Re: List of packages that could be dropped

2000-12-26 Thread Ben Collins
On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 03:22:21PM +0100, Christian Kurz wrote: |silo (195 days old) Has this package been removed from unstable and if yes, why? It's currently still listed in the wnpp but I could find it which apt-cache search silo. You can only remove this if you want sparc to be

Re: List of packages that could be dropped

2000-12-26 Thread Jonathan McDowell
On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 06:59:16PM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 03:22:21PM +0100, Christian Kurz wrote: |silo (195 days old) Has this package been removed from unstable and if yes, why? It's currently still listed in the wnpp but I could find it which apt-cache

Re: List of packages that could be dropped

2000-12-26 Thread John Galt
If it's so important, why is it orphaned? I'm thinking that if the SPARC folx can't be bothered to maintain their bootloader, perhaps the port's utilization of resources needs to be called into question... What's the point in Debian proper showing more support for SPARC than the SPARC community