Re: last change to save (adopt) some packages

2005-10-12 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Andres Salomon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-09-18 18:24]: > * messagewall - An SMTP proxy daemon, designed to help keep out unwanted > * firedns - an asynch. dns resolver library > * firestring - a string handling library > * libxml-ruby - Ruby interface to libxml > * libxslt-ruby - Ruby interface t

Re: last change to save (adopt) some packages

2005-09-21 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
"Nathanael Nerode" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thomas Bushnell wrote: >>This is not the correct way to orphan a package. > > True. However, it is entirely legitimate for a maintainer to decide that a > package is worthless and withdraw it, which is what Andres Salomon is > planning to do. In

Re: last change to save (adopt) some packages

2005-09-20 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Thomas Bushnell wrote: This is not the correct way to orphan a package. True. However, it is entirely legitimate for a maintainer to decide that a package is worthless and withdraw it, which is what Andres Salomon is planning to do. In fact, it's a kindness to the QA volunteers. The orpha

Re: last change to save (adopt) some packages

2005-09-18 Thread David Moreno Garza
On Sun, 2005-09-18 at 18:24 -0400, Andres Salomon wrote: > * libxml-ruby - Ruby interface to libxml > * libxslt-ruby - Ruby interface to libxslt These may be maintained by the pkg-ruby-extras team. -- David Moreno Garza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://www.damog.net/ <[EMAIL PROT

Re: last change to save (adopt) some packages

2005-09-18 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Andres Salomon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have more than a few packages that I've been looking to get rid of for > some time. No one's taken them, so I'm going to request the ftp masters > drop some of them if no one takes them within the few weeks. This is not the correct way to orphan a