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 b

Re: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages

2005-06-23 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 abl

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 Debian).

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 o

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

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 subjec

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 I think they are no longer maintained upstream.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 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. http://archive.debian.org/

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

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 ad

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

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 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 to

Re: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages

2005-06-16 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

2005-06-16 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

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 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 se

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

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 m

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

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 [#19

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 cha

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. > >> > mor

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

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

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

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 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 compara

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 result

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. >

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 qu

Re: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages

2003-04-14 Thread Georges Khaznadar
There is a nice graphical front-end to Postgresql, in the non-US section : gk:~$ apt-cache show pgaccess| grep -A 100 Description Description: Tk/Tcl interface to PostgreSQL A Tk/Tcl program for X that provides a front-end to PostgreSQL. It can be used to generate and store queries, views, repo

Re: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages

2003-04-14 Thread Jérôme Marant
Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, 14 Apr 2003, Martin Schulze wrote: > >> Andreas Tille wrote: >> > > mpsql -- A graphical frontend for PostgreSQL [#89957] >> > > * Orphaned 755 days ago >> > It would be great if someone would step in here. Graphical frontends to >> > PostgreS

Re: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages

2003-04-14 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, 14 Apr 2003, Martin Schulze wrote: > Andreas Tille wrote: > > > mpsql -- A graphical frontend for PostgreSQL [#89957] > > > * Orphaned 755 days ago > > It would be great if someone would step in here. Graphical frontends to > > PostgreSQL are quite rare. > > It's non-free. However, Eri

Re: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages

2003-04-14 Thread Martin Schulze
Andreas Tille wrote: > > mpsql -- A graphical frontend for PostgreSQL [#89957] > > * Orphaned 755 days ago > It would be great if someone would step in here. Graphical frontends to > PostgreSQL are quite rare. It's non-free. However, Erik Tews fixed the package so it has proper build dependenc

Re: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages

2003-04-13 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Bernd Eckenfels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030412 15:49]: > > I guess you thought about http://snapshot.debian.net/ instead of archive? > > s.d.n main page explicitely says that removed pkgs will be retained there. > > So there's no problem recovering the latest version from sid of a package. > > Wel

Re: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages

2003-04-13 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Fumitoshi UKAI | At Fri, 11 Apr 2003 13:52:12 -0400 (EDT), | Joe Nahmias wrote: | > | > Will these packages will still be available through archive.d.o or will | > they be purged from there as well? | | These packages will be available through http://snapshot.debian.net/, | as much as I can a

Re: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages

2003-04-12 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi, On Sat, Apr 12, 2003 at 05:39:14PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Sat, 12 Apr 2003, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > > sabre -- Fighter plane simulator. [#175226] > > * Orphaned 97 days ago > > * 1 RC bugs. > Hmm, would be a shame if noone would care for it. My son likes it and > the bugs on i

Re: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages

2003-04-12 Thread Guus Sliepen
On Sat, Apr 12, 2003 at 05:39:14PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > > mpsql -- A graphical frontend for PostgreSQL [#89957] > > * Orphaned 755 days ago > It would be great if someone would step in here. Graphical frontends to > PostgreSQL are quite rare. It's not installable (#175816) and upstrea

Re: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages

2003-04-12 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sat, 12 Apr 2003, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > biomode -- [Biology] An Emacs mode to edit genetic data [#100215] > * Orphaned 671 days ago I hope that the bugs will be fixed soon - at least I have heard rumors that work is going on. > bugsx -- evolve biomorphs using genetic algorithms [#86636]

Re: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages

2003-04-12 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
On Sat, Apr 12, 2003 at 03:15:17PM +0200, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder wrote: > I guess you thought about http://snapshot.debian.net/ instead of archive? > s.d.n main page explicitely says that removed pkgs will be retained there. So > there's no problem recovering the latest version fro

Re: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages

2003-04-12 Thread Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder
On Friday 11 April 2003 19:52, Joe Nahmias wrote: > Will these packages will still be available through archive.d.o or will > they be purged from there as well? I guess you thought about http://snapshot.debian.net/ instead of archive? s.d.n main page explicitely says that removed pkgs will be ret

Re: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages

2003-04-12 Thread Fumitoshi UKAI
At Fri, 11 Apr 2003 13:52:12 -0400 (EDT), Joe Nahmias wrote: > > Will these packages will still be available through archive.d.o or will > they be purged from there as well? These packages will be available through http://snapshot.debian.net/, as much as I can afford to maintain. Regards, Fumito

Re: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages

2003-04-12 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-04-11 23:11]: > These packages all look likely to be leaves, but have you checked > for other packages depending on them just to be sure? Not yet, but I intend to do so before the removal. -- Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages

2003-04-12 Thread Joey Hess
Martin Michlmayr wrote: > # The rules: > # * All packages orphaned less than 90 days ago will be kept! > # * Ignore all bugs less than 30 days old. > # otherwise: > # * Packages with RC bugs will be removed. > # * Packages orphaned 180 days ago and with NMUed RC bugs will be removed. > #

Re: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages

2003-04-11 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Joe Nahmias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-04-11 13:52]: > Will these packages will still be available through archive.d.o or > will they be purged from there as well? They won't be removed from already released versions of Debian. So if the packages were in potato or woody, they will be available t

Re: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages

2003-04-11 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 11 Apr 2003, Joe Nahmias wrote: > Will these packages will still be available through archive.d.o or will > they be purged from there as well? archive.d.o stores stable distros, and is never "purged" of packages (although too old releases just might. Depends on the amount of space, I suppo

Re: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages

2003-04-11 Thread Joe Nahmias
Will these packages will still be available through archive.d.o or will they be purged from there as well? Joe Nahmias, DD wannabe Martin Michlmayr wrote: > There are currently about 200 orphaned packages, many of which have been > on WNPP for quite a long time and some with RC bugs. I intend to

Re: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages

2003-04-11 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sat, Apr 12, 2003 at 03:06:32AM +1000, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > If you want to keep one of the following packages, please make sure to > - change the title of the bug from O: to ITA: as described on > http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp > - make an upload to the archive, change the Maintai