Re: Better team maintenance of orphaned packages (Was: Bug#492503: marked as done (ITA: feh -- imlib2 based image viewer))

2008-11-25 Thread tim hall
Andreas Tille wrote: On Tue, 26 Aug 2008, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: Your message dated Tue, 26 Aug 2008 06:47:03 + with message-id [EMAIL PROTECTED] and subject line Bug#492503: fixed in feh 1.3.4.dfsg.1-2 has caused the Debian Bug report #492503, regarding ITA: feh -- imlib2 based

Re: Better team maintenance of orphaned packages

2008-09-06 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 11:55:14AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: Well, yes, I do not follow this list. I've thought d-d-a is enough. Starting from some time it should be (look for DeveloperNews on wiki.debian.org, which is periodically posted to d-d-a), but it hasn't always been like that. If

Better team maintenance of orphaned packages (Was: Bug#492503: marked as done (ITA: feh -- imlib2 based image viewer))

2008-08-26 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 26 Aug 2008, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: Your message dated Tue, 26 Aug 2008 06:47:03 + with message-id [EMAIL PROTECTED] and subject line Bug#492503: fixed in feh 1.3.4.dfsg.1-2 has caused the Debian Bug report #492503, regarding ITA: feh -- imlib2 based image viewer to be

Re: Better team maintenance of orphaned packages

2008-08-26 Thread Russ Allbery
Andreas Tille [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So my question is: Do you think it makes sense to create a VCS on Alioth where we could build a pool for those packages that are orphaned or just taken over and do not find a better home. I would feel much better if my packaging stuff would not reside

Re: Better team maintenance of orphaned packages (Was: Bug#492503: marked as done (ITA: feh -- imlib2 based image viewer))

2008-08-26 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 26/08/08 at 09:32 +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: On Tue, 26 Aug 2008, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: Your message dated Tue, 26 Aug 2008 06:47:03 + with message-id [EMAIL PROTECTED] and subject line Bug#492503: fixed in feh 1.3.4.dfsg.1-2 has caused the Debian Bug report #492503,

Re: Better team maintenance of orphaned packages

2008-08-26 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 26 Aug 2008, Russ Allbery wrote: Why not just use collab-maint for this? Good question - I was just as unaware about this project as I was about wnpp-alert script. :-( Is it just me that I'm ignorant about important pieces of information or is it just not well enough advertised?

Re: Better team maintenance of orphaned packages (Was: Bug#492503: marked as done (ITA: feh -- imlib2 based image viewer))

2008-08-26 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 26 Aug 2008, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: This idea cames up on a regular basis. I think that the consensus is that it's better to simply use the Debian archive as VCS. When you change/fix something in an orphaned package, just upload ;) Well, OK, this might make some sense if you just not

Re: Better team maintenance of orphaned packages

2008-08-26 Thread Y Giridhar Appaji Nag
Hi Andreas, On 08/08/26 10:16 +0200, Andreas Tille said ... On Tue, 26 Aug 2008, Russ Allbery wrote: Why not just use collab-maint for this? Good question - I was just as unaware about this project as I was about wnpp-alert script. :-( Is it just me that I'm ignorant about important

Re: Better team maintenance of orphaned packages

2008-08-26 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 26/08/08 at 10:16 +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: On Tue, 26 Aug 2008, Russ Allbery wrote: Why not just use collab-maint for this? Good question - I was just as unaware about this project as I was about wnpp-alert script. :-( Is it just me that I'm ignorant about important pieces of

Re: Better team maintenance of orphaned packages

2008-08-26 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 26 Aug 2008, Y Giridhar Appaji Nag wrote: You probably do not follow the low volume debian-news mailing list See http://lists.debian.org/debian-news/2006/msg00016.html Well, yes, I do not follow this list. I've thought d-d-a is enough. It is a little bit hard to decide which channel

Re: Better team maintenance of orphaned packages

2008-08-26 Thread Y Giridhar Appaji Nag
Hi Andreas, On 08/08/26 11:55 +0200, Andreas Tille said ... On Tue, 26 Aug 2008, Y Giridhar Appaji Nag wrote: You probably do not follow the low volume debian-news mailing list See http://lists.debian.org/debian-news/2006/msg00016.html Well, yes, I do not follow this list. I've thought