Candidates for removal from testing (2012-10-30)

2012-10-30 Thread Niels Thykier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, We are considering removing the following packages from testing as they have unfixed RC bugs filed against them. The packages can be found in the attached dd-list. The bugs that put them on this list can be found in the removals file (also

Re: Candidates for removal from testing (2012-10-30)

2012-10-30 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List, does it make sense to establish a list of candidates for reintroduction to testing ? I have in mind packages that were discarded too quickly because an easy to fix a RC appeared a some point while it was unofficially orphaned. Jerome On 30/10/12 14:32, Niels Thykier wrote:

Re: Candidates for removal from testing (2012-10-30)

2012-10-30 Thread Jon Dowland
On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 04:53:24PM +0100, Jerome BENOIT wrote: does it make sense to establish a list of candidates for reintroduction to testing ? Is this not something best managed on a case-by-case basis? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: Candidates for removal from testing (2012-10-30)

2012-10-30 Thread Jerome BENOIT
On 30/10/12 17:36, Jon Dowland wrote: On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 04:53:24PM +0100, Jerome BENOIT wrote: does it make sense to establish a list of candidates for reintroduction to testing ? Is this not something best managed on a case-by-case basis? my experience as potential sponsoree for

Re: Candidates for removal from testing (2012-10-30)

2012-10-30 Thread Neil Williams
On Tue, 30 Oct 2012 17:47:53 +0100 Jerome BENOIT g62993...@rezozer.net wrote: On 30/10/12 17:36, Jon Dowland wrote: On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 04:53:24PM +0100, Jerome BENOIT wrote: does it make sense to establish a list of candidates for reintroduction to testing ? Is this not something

Re: Candidates for removal from testing (2012-10-30)

2012-10-30 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 12:47 PM, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Is this not something best managed on a case-by-case basis? my experience as potential sponsoree for such a package answers me no because it is hard to get a sponsor. If it fixes *only* rc bugs, then send a bug to sponsorship-requests. I