Giram: Request for removal

2001-05-07 Thread Jérôme Marant
Hi, I'm requesting giram (giram, giram-gnome, giram-mesa, giram-gnome-mesa) to be removed from Debian for the following reasons: - the upstream author is not responsive (possibly because he's working at MadrakeSoft) - it's development is very slow (8 months between 0.1.7 and 0.1.8)

Re: Giram: Request for removal

2001-05-07 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 07 May 2001, Jérôme Marant wrote: I'm requesting giram (giram, giram-gnome, giram-mesa, giram-gnome-mesa) to be removed from Debian for the following reasons: Jérôme, could you please file a ITO (intent to orphan) or maybe even a O: (orphaned) bug against wnpp for giram* ? The

Re: Giram: Request for removal

2001-05-07 Thread Jérôme Marant
Jérôme, could you please file a ITO (intent to orphan) or maybe even a O: (orphaned) bug against wnpp for giram* ? The instructions on bug severity and how to do it are in http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp. If you've already done that, I apologise for the nitpick. I did not orphan it

Re: Giram: Request for removal

2001-05-07 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Mon, 7 May 2001, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: ... Jérôme, could you please file a ITO (intent to orphan) or maybe even a O: ... s/ITO/RFA/ (Request for adoption) cu Adrian -- Nicht weil die Dinge schwierig sind wagen wir sie nicht, sondern weil wir sie nicht wagen sind sie

Re: Giram: Request for removal

2001-05-07 Thread Egon Willighagen
On Monday 07 May 2001 19:55, Jérôme Marant wrote: Jérôme, could you please file a ITO (intent to orphan) or maybe even a O: (orphaned) bug against wnpp for giram* ? The instructions on bug severity and how to do it are in http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp. If you've already done

Re: Giram: Request for removal

2001-05-07 Thread Jérôme Marant
En réponse à Peter S Galbraith [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hope you're not relying on this message to get the packages removed. You need to file a bug report against ftp.debian.org (but I'm sure you know that! I'm just making sure.) Yes, I know this is not the standard procedure. This is just a

Clarifications [ Was Re: Giram: Request for removal ]

2001-05-07 Thread Jérôme Marant
Steve Greenland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just in case you haven't done so, the standard way to remove a package is to file a bug against the package ftp.debian.org with subject like Please remove giram packages from the archive, and then list the exact pacakages in the body. There has been a

Re: Giram: Request for removal

2001-05-07 Thread Vince Mulhollon
On 05/07/2001 02:03:33 PM Egon Willighagen wrote: What about a Debian policy to remove packages for which alternatives are available with same or similar functionality *and* for which development has stopped or almost stopped completely? All you'll get is endless flamewars about same or