severity 488901 important retitle 488901 lakai: should this package be orphaned? thanks
On 02/07/2008, Moritz Muehlenhoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Raphael Geissert wrote: > > Source: lakai > > Version: 0.1-1 > > Severity: serious > > User: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Usertags: proposed-removal > > > > Hi, > > > > While reviewing some packages, your package came up as a possible > > candidate for removal from Debian, because: > > > > * First and last maintainer upload was on 2004 > > * Popcon has never reached 25 installs > > * It has two, minor, bugs with no maintainer reply for over 237 days > > * Uses the ancient standards version 3.6.1.1 > > * Upstream is dead (only released one version) > > > I don't see a point in removing this. This is a tool for special > purpose hardware; it's natural not to have thousands of popcon users. Might be so, but there are other issues. > The only bugs are watchfile related (which is known problematic with > sourceforge's download service) No, it is no longer that problematic. Please refer to uscan(1) for more information on how to check for new versions for sourceforge projects-based software. > and no bugs indicate a problem with > the software itself. > > Unless you present functional problems the serious severity isn't > warranted. Ack. But there are issues that should be solved, by an upload of course. Some examples are lintian-based: W debian-rules-ignores-make-clean-error line 50 W ancient-standards-version 3.6.1.1 (current is 3.8.0) W dpatch-build-dep-but-no-patch-list lakai W binary-without-manpage usr/bin/lakbak usr/bin/lakclear usr/bin/lakres W package-contains-empty-directory usr/sbin/ W old-fsf-address-in-copyright-file W copyright-without-copyright-notice I mean, the binary-without-manpage should be addressed, it's been a long time since the package was uploaded, there haven't been any change at upstream, and still no man pages? I've just also confirmed the copyright-without-copyright-notice tag, it does only list upstream, but not the copyright owner. If there was no, or just little, dust on the package nobody would have noticed the package and the issues. And the thing is, with few users it is not easy to know whether there are really no bugs, or the very few users have never reported them. Now that the situation of the package has been clarified it would be better to make an upload removing all the dust. So I'm lowering the severity of the report and retitling it. > > Cheers, > > Moritz > Cheers, -- Atomo64 - Raphael Please avoid sending me Word, PowerPoint or Excel attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
