Bug#907104: O: freecdb -- creating and reading constant databases

[Albert van der Horst]

Albert van der Horst schreef op 2018-08-25 13:48:

Tobias Frost schreef op 2018-08-23 22:34:

Package: wnpp

The current maintainer of freecdb, Gerrit Pape ,
is apparently not active anymore.  Therefore, I orphan this package 
now.


Embarassed by asking an unneeded question.
I forgot to look up the meaning of orphan. It means a new
maintainer is sought and if the package is important it is even a
severe bug.








Groetjes Albert


--
Suffering is the prerogative of the strong, the weak -- perish.
Albert van der Horst

Bug#907104: O: freecdb -- creating and reading constant databases

[Albert van der Horst]

Tobias Frost schreef op 2018-08-23 22:34:

Package: wnpp

The current maintainer of freecdb, Gerrit Pape ,
is apparently not active anymore.  Therefore, I orphan this package 
now.


I take this as an example of the many packages to be orphaned in one go.
I looked into it and I see only one minor bug
and a few whishlist items. One wishlist item of 2007 contains a patch 
(.diff)

and is not rejected nor adapted, or even acknowledged.
I think that is not acceptable. So I can see that measures have to be 
taken.

OTOH the lack of maintenance doesn't pose problems to Debian users,
so there seems no need to remove this package from Debian immediately.

Doesn't it make more sense to put such packages up for adoption
instead of orphaning it?
Maybe there is more to it, like superseeded by a better program,
low quality, obsoleteness etc.

P.S.
I would not have made this remarks if it was phrased
"Therefore, I orphan this package of low interest to Debian now."

Groetjes Albert

--
Suffering is the prerogative of the strong, the weak -- perish.
Albert van der Horst

Bug#907104: O: freecdb -- creating and reading constant databases

[Tobias Frost]

Package: wnpp

The current maintainer of freecdb, Gerrit Pape ,
is apparently not active anymore.  Therefore, I orphan this package now.

Maintaining a package requires time and skills. Please only adopt this
package if you will have enough time and attention to work on it.

If you want to be the new maintainer, please see
https://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/#howto-o for detailed
instructions how to adopt a package properly.

Some information about this package:

Package: freecdb
Binary: freecdb
Version: 0.75
Maintainer: Gerrit Pape 
Architecture: any
Standards-Version: 3.6.2.0
Format: 1.0
Files:
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 ecdf409a1124feb0a29af19b665a62ad 239385 freecdb_0.75.tar.gz
Checksums-Sha256:
 441633e148149286f2cfb7a267301c55cecc168cb3c287b50eb1ac839bbdb5c3 452 
freecdb_0.75.dsc
 95214e485bd3ece2dc2a035e7bd25f080603f8f3b7a1ff329c1c67303700a0e3 239385 
freecdb_0.75.tar.gz
Directory: pool/main/f/freecdb
Priority: source
Section: utils

Package: freecdb
Version: 0.75
Installed-Size: 136
Maintainer: Gerrit Pape 
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.5-1)
Description-en: creating and reading constant databases
 freecdb is a fast, reliable, simple package for creating and reading
 constant databases. Its database structure provides several features:
 .
  * Fast lookups: A successful lookup in a large database normally takes
just two disk accesses.  An unsuccessful lookup takes only one.
  * Low overhead: A database uses 2048 bytes, plus 24 bytes per record,
plus the space for keys and data.
  * No random limits: cdb can handle any database up to 4 gigabytes.
There are no other restrictions; records don't even have to fit into
memory.  Databases are stored in a machine-independent format.
  * Fast atomic database replacement: cdbmake can rewrite an entire
database two orders of magnitude faster than other hashing packages.
  * Fast database dumps: cdbdump prints the contents of a database in
cdbmake-compatible format.
 .
 This package is derived from the cdb package, and uses the original
 cdb library.  See http://cr.yp.to/cdb.html
Description-md5: 3c180c3b533714dec12c5c38f2b58eee
Tag: interface::commandline, role::program, scope::utility, works-with::db
Section: utils
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/f/freecdb/freecdb_0.75_amd64.deb
Size: 22426
MD5sum: 38acaa470b371a8d0145db11c2e417ac
SHA256: b9586731cc512d156c9e0802e1592d8b73829824530b9dca5e993b3d0509b26c



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