Re: Restoring the removed e16 package

2012-08-28 Thread Ian Jackson
The Wanderer writes (Restoring the removed e16 package): I'm not positive whether this properly belongs here; if it would be more appropriate on another mailing list, just let me know which one. ... As e17 does not constitute a suitable replacement for e16 for my purposes, I have an interest

Re: Restoring the removed e16 package

2012-08-28 Thread The Wanderer
On 08/28/2012 06:51 AM, Ian Jackson wrote: The Wanderer writes (Restoring the removed e16 package): I'm not positive whether this properly belongs here; if it would be more appropriate on another mailing list, just let me know which one. On this point, I've already been advised (by Bart

Re: Restoring the removed e16 package

2012-08-28 Thread Ian Jackson
The Wanderer writes (Re: Restoring the removed e16 package): On this point, I've already been advised (by Bart Martens, in off-list mail) that debian-mentors would probably be a more appropriate venue. Fair enough. I'll try to keep my response here to one point which I think is probably

Re: Restoring the removed e16 package

2012-08-28 Thread Noel David Torres TaƱo
Find someone (preferably a team) to be the maintainers, prepare a suitable package, get someone to sponsor it, and reopen all the bugs which were closed by the removal. I volunteer to help with the packaging work. I'm not a Debian Developer, so we would need sponsors anyway, but I can

Restoring the removed e16 package

2012-08-24 Thread The Wanderer
I'm not positive whether this properly belongs here; if it would be more appropriate on another mailing list, just let me know which one. I'm a long-time user of e16, which has been removed from Debian, per bug 619707. The reasons cited for removal are that it has been replaced by e17, that it