Re: Bug#71107: [wmono@debian.org: Re: RFC: removal of libqt1g from woody]

2000-09-12 Thread Torsten Landschoff
reopen 71107
retitle 71107 Explorer is unmaintained and should be removed
thanks

On Sun, Sep 10, 2000 at 03:27:00AM +1200, Michael Beattie wrote:
> > >  It's orphaned.  And has been for about 7 months.  The "maintainer"
> > >  should be debian-qa, but it has not been reset to that.
> > 
> > ...that would explain it. :)  
> 
> righto then, if people come to a consensus, file a bug on ftp.d.o to get it
> moved to project/orphaned/, removed, or have the maintainer overriden.

Please move it to orphaned. It's neither maintained in Debian nor upstream
and the homepage is dead. We have enough file manager in the dist. If 
a new version appears we can still add it to potato with a Replaces: explorer
and that's it.

Greetings

Torsten


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Re: Bug#71107: [wmono@debian.org: Re: RFC: removal of libqt1g from woody]

2000-09-09 Thread Michael Beattie
On Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 02:01:00AM -0700, Ivan E. Moore II wrote:
> >  Oh, yeah.
> > 
> >  http://bugs.debian.org/68274
> > 
> >  It's orphaned.  And has been for about 7 months.  The "maintainer"
> >  should be debian-qa, but it has not been reset to that.
> 
> ...that would explain it. :)  

righto then, if people come to a consensus, file a bug on ftp.d.o to get it
moved to project/orphaned/, removed, or have the maintainer overriden.

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Re: Bug#71107: [wmono@debian.org: Re: RFC: removal of libqt1g from woody]

2000-09-09 Thread Ivan E. Moore II
>  > The maintainer may be unaware of our conversation, (god knows why)
>  > and may be working on an upload as we speak. IMO, its the same
>  > philosophy as doing a NMU.
> 
>  Oh, yeah.
> 
>  http://bugs.debian.org/68274
> 
>  It's orphaned.  And has been for about 7 months.  The "maintainer"
>  should be debian-qa, but it has not been reset to that.

...that would explain it. :)  


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Re: Bug#71107: [wmono@debian.org: Re: RFC: removal of libqt1g from woody]

2000-09-09 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
>> Michael Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

 > The maintainer may be unaware of our conversation, (god knows why)
 > and may be working on an upload as we speak. IMO, its the same
 > philosophy as doing a NMU.

 Oh, yeah.

 http://bugs.debian.org/68274

 It's orphaned.  And has been for about 7 months.  The "maintainer"
 should be debian-qa, but it has not been reset to that.


   Marcelo


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Re: Bug#71107: [wmono@debian.org: Re: RFC: removal of libqt1g from woody]

2000-09-09 Thread Michael Beattie
On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 06:39:36PM -0700, Ivan E. Moore II wrote:
> 
> As it is now the current package does not work, cannot be installed due
> to dependencies, and it's not part of main.  The last few uploads have
> been done as NMU's...

that in itself could suggest that it could be removed. but...
 
> I understand not removing a package that works without the maintainers 
> approval, but a package that is non-functional and un-installable?
> (not trying to beat you up..just trying to understand...if this is 
> policy then I need to bring this scenerio up to debian-policy...)

The maintainer may be unaware of our conversation, (god knows why) and may
be working on an upload as we speak. IMO, its the same philosophy as doing
a NMU.

> Anyways,  I will continue to look online for this and hope either to get
> it to work or for the Maintainer to pipe up.

Feel free... I would suggest you simply file an RC bug on explorer, so that
when woody comes around to being frozen, it will be removed, if it has not
been resolved.

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Re: Bug#71107: [wmono@debian.org: Re: RFC: removal of libqt1g from woody]

2000-09-09 Thread Ivan E. Moore II
> > I would also recommend removing explorer as it depends on a non-existant 
> > package (qt1g and not libqt1g) and therefore isn't installable.
> 
> done.
> 
> I cannot remove explorer unless the maintainer asks. besides, it should be
> recompilable with qt2.2.
> 

ok...the source we (Debian) have for explorer does not compile against qt2.
The web site it refers to (and ftp site) don't work...it also seems that
upstream has changed the name of the package...and that site is also non
functional.  All documentation I have seen on the net says it is coded for
qt1 only and that documentation is 3 years old.

As it is now the current package does not work, cannot be installed due
to dependencies, and it's not part of main.  The last few uploads have
been done as NMU's...

I understand not removing a package that works without the maintainers 
approval, but a package that is non-functional and un-installable?
(not trying to beat you up..just trying to understand...if this is 
policy then I need to bring this scenerio up to debian-policy...)

Anyways,  I will continue to look online for this and hope either to get
it to work or for the Maintainer to pipe up.

Ivan

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