Hi Rogério, 2009/4/24 Rogério Brito <[email protected]>: > Hi, Sandro. > > On Apr 24 2009, Sandro Tosi wrote: >> 2009/4/24 Rogério Brito <[email protected]>: >> > I have reported, one or another bug, but they seem to have gone into the >> > bit bucket, unfortunately, but I would like to do something about such >> > packages. >> >> If these packages have still a formal maintainer, you can either >> propose them an updated package, so they can upload it; > > Some of them have, some don't.
The latter case is easier, because a simple QA upload is in order, the first needs some more "politic" :) >> That's always a very good things to do qa upload. > > Thanks. I'm concerned with the status of Debian: it has too many > packages and many of them are bit-rotting. Not a pleasant thing. :-( Indeed, and many new contributors prefer to add new packages, instead of take care of the existing one. So I'm really happy you're pursuing this road :) >> You can start from this page [2] to find orphaned or up to adoption >> packages you might start work on. > > Yes, there's where I actually started. Since I use a powerpc iBook, I > would love to keep pbbuttonsd, powerprefs, and gtkpbbuttons in the > distribution. If you really care for these packages, consider also adopting them, but that's not strictly required. > Another one that would be nice to keep is gutenprint and lprng, which > are especially nice to have with low-powered computers that are serving > printers, for instance. > >> Well, upload to mentors.d.n and send a RFS here, as usual. I suggest >> to write explicitly in the RFS email subject that's a QA upload. > > Done. but please *also* state the name of the package you're RFSing :) I've changed teh subject to add also the pkg name. If no-one comes first, I'll try to review your package withing the weekend. Cheers, -- Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu) My website: http://matrixhasu.altervista.org/ Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
