Re: [SUMMARY/PROPOSAL] Orphaning another maintainer's packages - getting orphaned packages marked as such

2012-10-26 Thread Bart Martens
On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 04:20:43PM +0200, Thibaut Paumard wrote: If someone notices that a package is in need of greater attention, but cannot commit to attending it themselves, it's important that the packages is marked at least as needing help. I understand the entire point here is to mark

orphaned packages

2012-10-25 Thread vangelis mouhtsis
Hi, Can please someone explain why a package should be orphaned from maintaining? (i hope the reason is not lack of maintainers) regards gnugr

Re: orphaned packages

2012-10-25 Thread Peter Samuelson
[vangelis mouhtsis] Can please someone explain why a package should be orphaned from maintaining? (i hope the reason is not lack of maintainers) Yes it is. Or more precisely, every package needs a maintainer with: 1) the skills to maintain it (familiarity not only with Debian packaging in

Re: Bug#438665: Orphaned packages with quite some users

2007-11-02 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 07:58:29AM +, Raphael Hertzog wrote: On Thu, 01 Nov 2007, Bart Samwel wrote: Hmmm. I'd require a sponsor for that, as I'm not a DD. Raphael, would you mind sponsoring? Yeah, I can. And you could most probably quickly become DM for those packages given your

Re: Bug#438665: Orphaned packages with quite some users

2007-11-01 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Thu, 01 Nov 2007, Bart Samwel wrote: Luk Claes wrote: Bart Samwel wrote: 3. Regarding the toshset package: I have a working Toshiba Tecra 8200, one of the models covered by toshset. I may be biased, but as far as I'm concerned the stuff is still useful. :-) Please do adopt the toshutils

Use of ttf-thryomanes for Greek/Cyrillic/Hungarian (was: Re: Orphaned packages with quite some users?)

2007-11-01 Thread Christian Perrier
(beware: wide crosspost. Please turn your brain ON to decide where you want to reply... :-))) Quoting Cyril Brulebois ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Luk Claes [EMAIL PROTECTED] (31/10/2007): Below you'll find a list of longtime orphaned packages with quite some users. It would be great if people could

Re: Bug#438665: Orphaned packages with quite some users

2007-11-01 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Thu, 01 Nov 2007, Michael Biebl wrote: Given that acpi-support is going to be deprecated in favor of pm-utils/hal [1] I'd rather see acpi-support removed from the laptop-task completely. [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PMUtilsSpec I'm all for this if this is possible. acpi-support has always

Re: Bug#438665: Orphaned packages with quite some users

2007-11-01 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 03:54:44AM +0100, Bart Samwel wrote: Luk Claes wrote: Bart Samwel wrote: 3. Regarding the toshset package: I have a working Toshiba Tecra 8200, one of the models covered by toshset. I may be biased, but as far as I'm concerned the stuff is still useful. :-) Please

Re: Use of ttf-thryomanes for Greek/Cyrillic/Hungarian (was: Re: Orphaned packages with quite some users?)

2007-11-01 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On Thursday 01 November 2007 10:19, Christian Perrier wrote: IMHO, even if I did not check this, the ttf-dejavu font(s) cover these languages pretty well. So, the font is maybe not very much relevant for being installed by default. Hi Christian, FWIW, greek is ok with the current set of fonts

Re: Orphaned packages with quite some users

2007-11-01 Thread Ben Goodger
On 31/10/2007, Steve Greenland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 31-Oct-07, 12:39 (CDT), Ben Goodger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: libvncserver has dropped out of use and been replaced by vlc. Huh? VNC != VLC. Oh yes, misread the N. Whoops. -- Benjamin F. Goodger ~ design and ideas lab ~

Re: Bug#438665: Orphaned packages with quite some users

2007-11-01 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Bart Samwel] 2. What we may actually require is a detection system which triggers the installation of packages at installation time, based on hardware detection. The discover package got the script discover-pkginstall which will do this. I've added mapping from hardware to packages for a

Re: Bug#438665: Orphaned packages with quite some users

2007-11-01 Thread Frans Pop
Bart Samwel wrote: 2. What we may actually require is a detection system which triggers the installation of packages at installation time, based on hardware detection. You should contact Petter Reinholdtsen, who has been working on a new life for the package discover to do exactly that. He

Re: Bug#438665: Orphaned packages with quite some users

2007-11-01 Thread Tim Dijkstra
On Thu, 1 Nov 2007 09:11:33 +0100 Raphael Hertzog [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 01 Nov 2007, Michael Biebl wrote: Given that acpi-support is going to be deprecated in favor of pm-utils/hal [1] I'd rather see acpi-support removed from the laptop-task completely. [1]

Orphaned packages with quite some users

2007-10-31 Thread Luk Claes
Hi Below you'll find a list of longtime orphaned packages with quite some users. It would be great if people could adopt packages that are still usefull and give alternatives and/or migration plans for packages that are rather obsolete or not really usefull anymore. Cheers Luk http

Re: Orphaned packages with quite some users

2007-10-31 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Hi, http://packages.qa.debian.org/p/python-gnome.html python-gnome only useful for gnome 1. It could (should?) be replaced by a pseudo package which transitions to python-gnome2 probably, or just be removed from Debian. http://packages.qa.debian.org/p/pyzor.html Imho there're better ways to

Re: Orphaned packages with quite some users

2007-10-31 Thread Michal Čihař
Hi Dne Wed, 31 Oct 2007 17:21:24 +0100 Luk Claes [EMAIL PROTECTED] napsal(a): Below you'll find a list of longtime orphaned packages with quite some users. It would be great if people could adopt packages that are still usefull and give alternatives and/or migration plans for packages

Re: Orphaned packages with quite some users

2007-10-31 Thread Luk Claes
Bernd Zeimetz wrote: http://packages.qa.debian.org/x/xmms-crossfade.html If I remember right gtk-1 is supposed to be removed from lenny, so xmms will be gone, too. Yes, but this source package also builds audacious-crossfade which probably should stay? Cheers Luk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Orphaned packages with quite some users

2007-10-31 Thread Luk Claes
Michal Čihař wrote: Hi Dne Wed, 31 Oct 2007 17:21:24 +0100 Luk Claes [EMAIL PROTECTED] napsal(a): Below you'll find a list of longtime orphaned packages with quite some users. It would be great if people could adopt packages that are still usefull and give alternatives and/or migration

Re: Orphaned packages with quite some users

2007-10-31 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Luk Claes [EMAIL PROTECTED] (31/10/2007): Below you'll find a list of longtime orphaned packages with quite some users. It would be great if people could adopt packages that are still usefull and give alternatives and/or migration plans for packages that are rather obsolete or not really

Re: Orphaned packages with quite some users

2007-10-31 Thread Ben Goodger
On 31/10/2007, Luk Claes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://packages.qa.debian.org/libg/libglade.html http://packages.qa.debian.org/libv/libvncserver.html AFAIK these are unofficially or officially deprecated: libglade is now replaced by something nearly identical or perhaps merely renamed as a

Re: Orphaned packages with quite some users

2007-10-31 Thread Clint Adams
reopen 438665 quit On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 06:22:11PM +0100, Luk Claes wrote: That sounds like the Dependens should be a Recommends, if so please file a bug for it. It doesn't look like #438665 was actually fixed. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: Orphaned packages with quite some users

2007-10-31 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Luk Claes [EMAIL PROTECTED] (31/10/2007): Bernd Zeimetz wrote: http://packages.qa.debian.org/x/xmms-crossfade.html If I remember right gtk-1 is supposed to be removed from lenny, so xmms will be gone, too. Yes, but this source package also builds audacious-crossfade which probably

Re: Orphaned packages with quite some users

2007-10-31 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 01:37:38AM +0900, Michal Čihař wrote: Hi Dne Wed, 31 Oct 2007 17:21:24 +0100 Luk Claes [EMAIL PROTECTED] napsal(a): Below you'll find a list of longtime orphaned packages with quite some users. It would be great if people could adopt packages that are still

Re: Orphaned packages with quite some users

2007-10-31 Thread Adam Cécile (Le_Vert)
Cyril Brulebois a écrit : Luk Claes [EMAIL PROTECTED] (31/10/2007): Bernd Zeimetz wrote: http://packages.qa.debian.org/x/xmms-crossfade.html If I remember right gtk-1 is supposed to be removed from lenny, so xmms will be gone, too. Yes, but this source package

Re: Orphaned packages with quite some users

2007-10-31 Thread Steve Greenland
On 31-Oct-07, 12:39 (CDT), Ben Goodger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: libvncserver has dropped out of use and been replaced by vlc. Huh? VNC != VLC. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to

Re: Orphaned packages with quite some users

2007-10-31 Thread Daniel Baumann
Luk Claes wrote: Yes, but this source package also builds audacious-crossfade which probably should stay? I'll do a qa upload as we speak, removing the xmms package. One less to bother for the upcoming removal... -- Address:Daniel Baumann, Burgunderstrasse 3, CH-4562 Biberist Email:

Re: Bug#438665: Orphaned packages with quite some users

2007-10-31 Thread Bart Samwel
tag 438665 wontfix merge 438665 445900 thanks Clint Adams wrote: reopen 438665 quit On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 06:22:11PM +0100, Luk Claes wrote: That sounds like the Dependens should be a Recommends, if so please file a bug for it. It doesn't look like #438665 was actually fixed. rant OK,

Re: Orphaned packages with quite some users

2007-10-31 Thread Thomas Viehmann
Luk Claes wrote: http://packages.qa.debian.org/a/autobook.html Based on the submitter's observation in #328219, maybe we should remove autobook? If it's non-free and increasingly outdated and doesn't have anone wanting to maintain it, we might as well stop distributing it. Kind regards T. --

Re: Bug#438665: Orphaned packages with quite some users

2007-10-31 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Bart Samwel [Wed, 31 Oct 2007 21:32:57 +0100]: Hello Bart. While I understand your reasoning, it may be now the time to revisit it: or Recommends which behaves exactly like Depends (like some package managers treat Recommends, but not all), As announced in [1] and can be seen in [2], apt

Re: Bug#438665: Orphaned packages with quite some users

2007-10-31 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Wed, 31 Oct 2007, Adeodato Simó wrote: * Bart Samwel [Wed, 31 Oct 2007 21:32:57 +0100]: Hello Bart. While I understand your reasoning, it may be now the time to revisit it: or Recommends which behaves exactly like Depends (like some package managers treat Recommends, but not

Re: Bug#438665: Orphaned packages with quite some users

2007-10-31 Thread Joey Hess
Raphael Hertzog wrote: The problem is not so much on manually installed package but on initial installation. I'm not sure what would get installed via the laptop task if we made that a Recommends... d-i can't afford to install recommends by default (best way to change that is to make all uses

Re: Bug#438665: Orphaned packages with quite some users

2007-10-31 Thread Luk Claes
Bart Samwel wrote: tag 438665 wontfix merge 438665 445900 thanks Clint Adams wrote: reopen 438665 quit On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 06:22:11PM +0100, Luk Claes wrote: That sounds like the Dependens should be a Recommends, if so please file a bug for it. It doesn't look like #438665 was

Re: Orphaned packages with quite some users

2007-10-31 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 05:39:38PM +, Ben Goodger wrote: libvncserver has dropped out of use and been replaced by vlc. I somehow don't think it's likely for a remote desktop server to have been replaced by a media player? -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and

Re: Orphaned packages with quite some users

2007-10-31 Thread Luk Claes
Thomas Viehmann wrote: Luk Claes wrote: http://packages.qa.debian.org/a/autobook.html Based on the submitter's observation in #328219, maybe we should remove autobook? If it's non-free and increasingly outdated and doesn't have anone wanting to maintain it, we might as well stop distributing

Re: Orphaned packages with quite some users

2007-10-31 Thread Luk Claes
Ben Goodger wrote: On 31/10/2007, Luk Claes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://packages.qa.debian.org/libg/libglade.html http://packages.qa.debian.org/libv/libvncserver.html AFAIK these are unofficially or officially deprecated: libglade is now replaced by something nearly identical or

Re: Orphaned packages with quite some users

2007-10-31 Thread Frank S. Thomas
Hi, On Wednesday 31 October 2007, Luk Claes wrote: Below you'll find a list of longtime orphaned packages with quite some users. It would be great if people could adopt packages that are still usefull and give alternatives and/or migration plans for packages that are rather obsolete

Re: Orphaned packages with quite some users

2007-10-31 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 12:45:29AM +0100, Frank S. Thomas wrote: Hi, On Wednesday 31 October 2007, Luk Claes wrote: Below you'll find a list of longtime orphaned packages with quite some users. It would be great if people could adopt packages that are still usefull and give alternatives

Re: Bug#438665: Orphaned packages with quite some users

2007-10-31 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mercredi 31 octobre 2007 à 18:05 -0400, Joey Hess a écrit : d-i can't afford to install recommends by default (best way to change that is to make all uses of recommends sane to be installed by default). So the laptop task would need to track and list the recommends. Doing something

Re: Bug#438665: Orphaned packages with quite some users

2007-10-31 Thread Bart Samwel
Luk Claes wrote: Bart Samwel wrote: 3. Regarding the toshset package: I have a working Toshiba Tecra 8200, one of the models covered by toshset. I may be biased, but as far as I'm concerned the stuff is still useful. :-) Please do adopt the toshutils and toshset packages so people don't need

Re: Bug#438665: Orphaned packages with quite some users

2007-10-31 Thread Joey Hess
Josselin Mouette wrote: You may be interested to learn that we plan to downgrade a number of dependencies of the gnome metapackages to Recommends. If this means tracking them later on to be sure that everything needed is installed, maybe we need a way to improve the coordination between

Re: Bug#438665: Orphaned packages with quite some users

2007-10-31 Thread Bart Samwel
Joey Hess wrote: Raphael Hertzog wrote: The problem is not so much on manually installed package but on initial installation. I'm not sure what would get installed via the laptop task if we made that a Recommends... d-i can't afford to install recommends by default (best way to change that is

Re: Bug#438665: Orphaned packages with quite some users

2007-10-31 Thread Michael Biebl
Bart Samwel schrieb: Joey Hess wrote: Raphael Hertzog wrote: The problem is not so much on manually installed package but on initial installation. I'm not sure what would get installed via the laptop task if we made that a Recommends... d-i can't afford to install recommends by default

Re: Bug#438665: Orphaned packages with quite some users

2007-10-31 Thread Joey Hess
Bart Samwel wrote: I wouldn't mind having the packages installed in the laptop task if that fixes it. However, the laptop task currently uses the task-fields method, which AFAICT means that the dependent packages should list themselves as being part of the laptop task, something that will

Soon-to-be orphaned packages need a caring maintainer

2006-10-04 Thread Eduardo Marcel Macan
Due to severe time constraints and interest shifts I'm putting some packages up to adoption. I considered taking a complete break from debian until things get better but I am just not able to do so. I've been a debian developer for 9 years now, that represents almost 1/3rd of my life involved with

Orphaned Packages

2006-08-17 Thread Klaus Ethgen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I read that the packages cvsps and xearth are orphaned now. I might be able to get over this packages. But there is a small problem: Years ago I start getting a official debian maintainer. Unfortunately it went asleep as I have no time to

Re: Orphaned Packages

2006-08-17 Thread Christoph Haas
Hi, Klaus... On Thursday 17 August 2006 10:47, Klaus Ethgen wrote: I read that the packages cvsps and xearth are orphaned now. I might be able to get over this packages. But there is a small problem: Years ago I start getting a official debian maintainer. Unfortunately it went asleep as I

Re: Orphaned Packages

2006-08-17 Thread Steffen Joeris
Hi Klaus So is there a way to give official packages to debian without being a official maintainer? Sure, you can prepare the package and then give it to an official debian developer who can upload it for you and therefore act as a kind of sponsor. You are still responsible for the package

Re: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages

2005-07-08 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-06-16 18:18]: There are currently over 200 orphaned packages, many of which have been on WNPP for quite a long time and some with RC bugs. I intend to request the removal of a number of packages in three weeks unless a package has been adopted

Re: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages

2005-06-24 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, 20 Jun 2005, Andreas Tille wrote: README.Debian for the C++ version. If there is nobody hwo would be really keen on taking this over himself, I'll go for an upload in the next couple of days. I prepared a new upload but browsing through the list of bugs I found out that we might be

Re: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages

2005-06-20 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, 17 Jun 2005, Will Newton wrote: Thanks for investigating this. It would be great if somebody could fix this issue which is probably not much effort for a C++ programmer. If it would compile nicely I would take the package (or would leave it for somebody who cares for it inside

Re: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages

2005-06-17 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 06:18:06PM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote: iceme -- A graphical menu editor for IceWM [#227054] * Orphaned 520 days ago * Package orphaned 360 days ago. icepref -- Yet another configuration tool for IceWM [#227077] * Orphaned 520 days ago * Package

Re: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages

2005-06-17 Thread Will Newton
On Friday 17 June 2005 07:04, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 06:18:06PM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote: iceme -- A graphical menu editor for IceWM [#227054] * Orphaned 520 days ago * Package orphaned 360 days ago. icepref -- Yet another configuration tool for

Re: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages

2005-06-17 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 16 Jun 2005, Sven Mueller wrote: [2001/03/03 10:05] Markus Schoder has contributed finddupes.cpp, GPL'ed source code for a C++ based version ... It's only compilable in its current state with g++-2.95 (regarding compilers in Debian stable). There is a single error when compiling with

Re: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages

2005-06-17 Thread Will Newton
On Friday 17 June 2005 13:40, Andreas Tille wrote: It's only compilable in its current state with g++-2.95 (regarding compilers in Debian stable). There is a single error when compiling with g++-3.4 which I am unable to fix (as I don't know the STL at all). Thanks for investigating this.

Re: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages

2005-06-17 Thread Sam Watkins
On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 06:18:06PM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote: There are currently over 200 orphaned packages, many of which have been on WNPP for quite a long time and some with RC bugs. I intend to request the removal of a number of packages in three weeks unless a package has been

Re: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages

2005-06-17 Thread Luca Bruno
Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] scrisse: Martin Michlmayr wrote: gkdial -- PPP dial-up configuration and dialing tool [#287992] * Orphaned 164 days ago * 1 RC bugs. Does any graphical ppp frontend exist that can be used instead of this? Under gnome you can find gpppkill and gpppon,

Re: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages

2005-06-17 Thread Will Newton
On Friday 17 June 2005 12:10, Sam Watkins wrote: some of these packages are useful and interesting, and I feel they should not be removed from unstable at least. perhaps they could be moved to a different section which is not necessarily stabilized for release.

Re: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages

2005-06-17 Thread Benjamin Mesing
I use both of these and would like to adopt them. I will upload next week (via Anibal). I think they are no longer maintained upstream. Take a look at http://www.icewm.org/FAQ/IceWM-FAQ-11.html#tools4icewm for more modern and supported alternatives. Greetings Ben -- Please do not sent any

Re: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages

2005-06-17 Thread John Hasler
Luca writes: Under gnome you can find gpppkill and gpppon, but they can't manage provider setting. Gpppon doesn't need to manage settings. It uses the same settings as pon/poff, which can be managed with pppconfig. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages

2005-06-17 Thread Sven Mueller
Rich Walker wrote on 16/06/2005 23:23: Sven Mueller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Martin Michlmayr wrote on 16/06/2005 19:18: findimagedupes -- Finds visually similar or duplicate images [#218699] * Orphaned 590 days ago * Package orphaned 360 days ago. Though I probably can't adopt it (due

Re: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages

2005-06-17 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 12:57:13PM +0100, Will Newton wrote: On Friday 17 June 2005 07:04, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 06:18:06PM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote: iceme -- A graphical menu editor for IceWM [#227054] * Orphaned 520 days ago * Package orphaned

Upcoming removal of orphaned packages

2005-06-16 Thread Martin Michlmayr
There are currently over 200 orphaned packages, many of which have been on WNPP for quite a long time and some with RC bugs. I intend to request the removal of a number of packages in three weeks unless a package has been adopted by someone by then. The packages are split into two sections

Re: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages

2005-06-16 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Sven Mueller [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-06-16 20:53]: findimagedupes -- Finds visually similar or duplicate images [#218699] Though I probably can't adopt it (due to lack of time), it would be a pity to loose this since there is no comparable commandline tool available and it works quite

Re: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages

2005-06-16 Thread Laszlo Boszormenyi
On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 20:00 +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote: * Sven Mueller [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-06-16 20:53]: Though I probably can't adopt it (due to lack of time), it would be a pity to loose this since there is no comparable commandline tool available and it works quite well. If all

Re: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages

2005-06-16 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 16 Jun 2005, Laszlo Boszormenyi wrote: [2002/02/06 23:55] PixiePlus[2] now supports similar image finding using an algorithm based on mine, and for those unable to run a current version of KDE, gqview[3] will also find your similar images, albeit using a different algorithm whose

Re: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages

2005-06-16 Thread Sven Mueller
Martin Michlmayr wrote on 16/06/2005 19:18: findimagedupes -- Finds visually similar or duplicate images [#218699] * Orphaned 590 days ago * Package orphaned 360 days ago. Though I probably can't adopt it (due to lack of time), it would be a pity to loose this since there is no comparable

Re: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages

2005-06-16 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Simon Richter [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-06-16 22:53]: if-transition -- A Change in the Weather, an interactive short story [#260720] * Orphaned 327 days ago I cannot find this one on powerpc. It's in non-free. moria -- A roguelike game with an infinite dungeon [#274472] *

Re: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages

2005-06-16 Thread Laszlo Boszormenyi
On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 22:13 +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: Perhaps this might be true for the initial Perl implementation, but: [2001/03/03 10:05] Markus Schoder has contributed finddupes.cpp, GPL'ed source code for a C++ based version of my horribly slow compare routine. In his testing on a

Re: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages

2005-06-16 Thread Paul Gear
Martin Michlmayr wrote: ... trustees -- Advanced permission management system for Linux [#251189] orphaned 379 days ago, according to maintainer upstream dead, removal already suggested one year ago, very small install base One more issue in favour of this is that Novell have released the

Re: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages

2005-06-16 Thread Rich Walker
Sven Mueller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Martin Michlmayr wrote on 16/06/2005 19:18: findimagedupes -- Finds visually similar or duplicate images [#218699] * Orphaned 590 days ago * Package orphaned 360 days ago. Though I probably can't adopt it (due to lack of time), it would be a pity

Re: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages

2005-06-16 Thread Rich Walker
Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * Simon Richter [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-06-16 22:53]: if-transition -- A Change in the Weather, an interactive short story [#260720] * Orphaned 327 days ago I cannot find this one on powerpc. It's in non-free. moria -- A roguelike game

Re: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages

2005-06-16 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 10:39:39PM +0100, Rich Walker wrote: And moria hasn't had a bug in a long time. While many bugs are a reason to remove a package quickly, no bugs aren't a reason to keep it forever. The Debian QA group maintains packages that are orphaned to give other maintainers the

Re: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages

2005-06-16 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, Martin Michlmayr schrieb: race -- 3D arcade overhead car game [#251706] orphaned 376 days ago, about 3 years old, new upstream releases not uploaded, medium install base, only a game race eats up 640MB of memory, then dies on my system (ppc). arpd -- User-space ARP daemon [#191870]

Re: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages

2005-06-16 Thread Russ Allbery
Rich Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Most of the creditted authors have stated that they are happy for it to be converted to GPL. Most isn't enough; someone needs to decide that all of the code has now been covered or replace the code that hasn't been covered. And moria hasn't had a bug in

Re: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages

2005-06-16 Thread Sven Mueller
Laszlo Boszormenyi wrote on 16/06/2005 23:13: On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 22:13 +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: Perhaps this might be true for the initial Perl implementation, but: [2001/03/03 10:05] Markus Schoder has contributed finddupes.cpp, GPL'ed source code for a C++ based version of my horribly

Re: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages

2005-06-16 Thread Margarita Manterola
On 6/16/05, Paul Gear [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: trustees -- Advanced permission management system for Linux [#251189] orphaned 379 days ago, according to maintainer upstream dead, removal already suggested one year ago, very small install base One more issue in favour of this is that

Re: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages

2005-06-16 Thread Rich Walker
Frank Lichtenheld [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: While many bugs are a reason to remove a package quickly, no bugs aren't a reason to keep it forever. The Debian QA group maintains packages that are orphaned to give other maintainers the chance to adopt it without too much hassle, and as a service

Re: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages

2005-06-16 Thread Joey Hess
Martin Michlmayr wrote: gkdial -- PPP dial-up configuration and dialing tool [#287992] * Orphaned 164 days ago * 1 RC bugs. Does any graphical ppp frontend exist that can be used instead of this? -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages

2005-06-16 Thread Nigel Jones
On 17/06/05, Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Martin Michlmayr wrote: gkdial -- PPP dial-up configuration and dialing tool [#287992] * Orphaned 164 days ago * 1 RC bugs. Does any graphical ppp frontend exist that can be used instead of this? there is kppp (?) for KDE, and i'm SURE

Re: Intersection of installed packages with orphaned packages

2005-04-12 Thread Dan Christensen
Stephen Quinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 07:14:23PM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 02:12:13AM -0700, Stephen Birch wrote: I am interested in the intersection of packages installed on my machines with the list of orphaned packages. You'd

Re: Intersection of installed packages with orphaned packages

2005-04-12 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
installed on my machines with the list of orphaned packages. You'd be wanting wnpp-check, in the devscripts package. Check out rc-check while you're at it. Both are cronable. I think you mean wnpp-alert and rc-alert (at least that's what they seem to be called on my sid machine

Re: Intersection of installed packages with orphaned packages

2005-04-12 Thread Dan Christensen
Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On my systems, wnpp-alert lists packages that I don't have installed. For example: # wnpp-alert ... O 279824 perlftlib -- Perl module for the FreeType library ... # dpkg -l \*perlftlib\* No packages found matching *perlftlib*. perlftlib

Re: Intersection of installed packages with orphaned packages

2005-04-12 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Dan Christensen [Tue, 12 Apr 2005 10:46:18 -0400]: the command to find out which binary packages a source package produces? $ apt-cache showsrc (bin|source)-package You need a deb-src entry in apt/sources.list for that to work. -- Adeodato Simó EM: asp16 [ykwim] alu.ua.es | PK:

Intersection of installed packages with orphaned packages

2005-04-08 Thread Stephen Birch
I am interested in the intersection of packages installed on my machines with the list of orphaned packages. This is to be sure a program in use isn't orphaned without me becoming aware of it. Ideally the program would be run from cron about once a week and email a status report

Re: Intersection of installed packages with orphaned packages

2005-04-08 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 02:12:13AM -0700, Stephen Birch wrote: I am interested in the intersection of packages installed on my machines with the list of orphaned packages. This is to be sure a program in use isn't orphaned without me becoming aware of it. Ideally the program would be run from

Re: Intersection of installed packages with orphaned packages

2005-04-08 Thread Stephen Birch
Matthew Palmer([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2005-04-08 19:14: You'd be wanting wnpp-check, in the devscripts package. Check out rc-check while you're at it. Both are cronable. ahh ... devscripts. I think you meant wnpp-alert not wnpp-check. Thanks for the tip. Perfect, thanks! Steve -- To

Re: Intersection of installed packages with orphaned packages

2005-04-08 Thread Stephen Quinney
On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 07:14:23PM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 02:12:13AM -0700, Stephen Birch wrote: I am interested in the intersection of packages installed on my machines with the list of orphaned packages. This is to be sure a program in use isn't orphaned

Re: Intersection of installed packages with orphaned packages

2005-04-08 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 02:45:19AM -0700, Stephen Birch wrote: Matthew Palmer([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2005-04-08 19:14: You'd be wanting wnpp-check, in the devscripts package. Check out rc-check while you're at it. Both are cronable. ahh ... devscripts. I think you meant wnpp-alert not

Re: Some important orphaned packages

2003-05-18 Thread Donald J Bindner
On Sat, May 17, 2003 at 11:39:00PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: On Mon, 12 May 2003 13:30:00 -0500, Donald J Bindner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe I should roll my sleeves up and send them some patches. apg's upstream is pretty responsive. I checked out the source, and I don't think it is a

Re: Some important orphaned packages

2003-05-17 Thread Marc Haber
On Mon, 12 May 2003 13:30:00 -0500, Donald J Bindner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe I should roll my sleeves up and send them some patches. apg's upstream is pretty responsive. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber |

Re: Recently orphaned packages

2003-04-23 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-04-21 16:54]: Here's a listing of packages I orphaned recently. If you're interested in any, check the bug report if the package is still available and retitle the bug (see http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp for instructions). and: Bug#190188: O: bbppp -- PPP tool

Recently orphaned packages

2003-04-21 Thread Martin Michlmayr
Here's a listing of packages I orphaned recently. If you're interested in any, check the bug report if the package is still available and retitle the bug (see http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp for instructions). Bug#189528: O: ttfprint -- A utility to print Chinese text using truetype fonts

Re: Recently orphaned packages

2003-04-21 Thread Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 21 Apr 2003, Martin Michlmayr wrote: Bug#189952: O: device3dfx -- Device driver source for 3Dfx boards for 2.2+ kernels I don't use it anymore but I still have a working 3Ffx. If anyone wants the package i can donate the card to the

Re: PostgreSQL admin tools (Was: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages)

2003-04-18 Thread Steve Greenland
On 16-Apr-03, 19:23 (CDT), Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Apr 15, 2003 at 07:51:59PM -0300, Andre Luis Lopes wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-cache show rhdb-admin Package: rhdb-admin What is wrong here? rhdb-admin echo $? 1 I assume it is

Re: PostgreSQL admin tools (Was: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages)

2003-04-17 Thread Andre Luis Lopes
On Thu, Apr 17, 2003 at 10:23:06AM +1000, Brian May wrote: On Tue, Apr 15, 2003 at 07:51:59PM -0300, Andre Luis Lopes wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-cache show rhdb-admin Package: rhdb-admin What is wrong here? rhdb-admin echo $? 1 I assume it is meant

Re: PostgreSQL admin tools (Was: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages)

2003-04-16 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 15 Apr 2003, Carl B. Constantine wrote: http://pgadmin.postgresql.org/pgadmin2.php?ContentID=1 which only runs under non-free operating system. The closest I've found for *nix is pgaccess http://www.pgacess.org/ which is a tcl/tk app and works quite well. I use it at work on

Re: PostgreSQL admin tools (Was: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages)

2003-04-16 Thread Brian May
On Tue, Apr 15, 2003 at 07:51:59PM -0300, Andre Luis Lopes wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-cache show rhdb-admin Package: rhdb-admin What is wrong here? rhdb-admin echo $? 1 I assume it is meant to do more then just emulate the false command? ;-) -- Brian May

PostgreSQL admin tools (Was: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages)

2003-04-15 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, 14 Apr 2003, Georges Khaznadar wrote: There is a nice graphical front-end to Postgresql, in the non-US section : I would like to vote against nice here. :) Moreover you can do several stuff but it is not comparable to PgAdmin http://pgadmin.postgresql.org/pgadmin2.php?ContentID=1

Re: PostgreSQL admin tools (Was: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages)

2003-04-15 Thread Carl B. Constantine
* Andreas Tille ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Mon, 14 Apr 2003, Georges Khaznadar wrote: There is a nice graphical front-end to Postgresql, in the non-US section : I would like to vote against nice here. :) Moreover you can do several stuff but it is not comparable to PgAdmin

Re: PostgreSQL admin tools (Was: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages)

2003-04-15 Thread Andre Luis Lopes
On Tue, Apr 15, 2003 at 07:51:48AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: snip If you search ad www.postgresql.org for admin tool you get several links for instance also http://sources.redhat.com/rhdb/ which might end in a necie tool perhaps. Would be nice if somebody could check this out.

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