Re: long list of give away or orphaned packages

1997-06-01 Thread Galen Hazelwood
Brian White wrote: > I wasn't aware that the Z-machine knowledge had changed in the past > half-dozen years or so. The "infocom" program handles all the games > I've ever tried with it, so I don't see why it is obsolete. Oh, it works fine in normal cases. But we now understand certain obscure v5

Re: long list of give away or orphaned packages

1997-06-01 Thread Brian White
> Right now, I believe we have an old version of the ITF interpreter in > the "infocom" package. This should probably be scrapped, as it is > highly obsolete given our current Z-machine knowledge. I wasn't aware that the Z-machine knowledge had changed in the past half-dozen years or so. The "in

Re: long list of give away or orphaned packages

1997-05-30 Thread Mark Baker
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Charles Briscoe-Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi! I subscribed a few days ago, (and have been somewhat overwhelmed > by the quantity of mail on this list; is there a digestified version?) > and would like to propose that I package up Inform, Frotz, a

Re: long list of give away or orphaned packages

1997-05-29 Thread Galen Hazelwood
Charles Briscoe-Smith wrote: > Hi! I subscribed a few days ago, (and have been somewhat overwhelmed > by the quantity of mail on this list; is there a digestified version?) > and would like to propose that I package up Inform, Frotz, and some of > the associated games. [pro-infocom propaganda snip

Re: long list of give away or orphaned packages

1997-05-29 Thread Charles Briscoe-Smith
>On a related note, games. Games are important. Please please please dont >reject someone who wants to package up a game. Thats one of the things I >like about debian, it has so many games. I first got mirrormagic working >under debian... And I hope to see abuse.svga working again too now that

Re: long list of give away or orphaned packages

1997-05-29 Thread Sven Rudolph
Brian White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > the list of debian packges needing a new maintainer is growing all the > > time. so - what about removeing some packages, if they are no longer > > maintained, or (better) moving them into section contrib (or a new > > section "orphaned" ?). > > There i

Re: long list of give away or orphaned packages

1997-05-29 Thread Kai Henningsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Welton) wrote on 28.05.97 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > While it would be nice if new developers took over some orphaned packages > (I plan to), unloading a package on someone that they have no interest in, > is, IMHO, a bad thing. If they are personally interested in it, th

Re: long list of give away or orphaned packages

1997-05-28 Thread Jim Pick
> Im not dissing your work, its excellent ;) Just hoping things can be a > little more open... It seems like its getting to be an old boys club. > You guys are pretty mature compared to the IRC channels, but it seems that > already the administration is top heavy, taking away a lot of coding/dev

Re: long list of give away or orphaned packages

1997-05-28 Thread David Welton
On Wed, 28 May 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | On another note. Is your screening process too vigorous? What happened | to the EPIC irc package that was discussed here a while back? I dont see | it in the distribution. Perhaps the screening process was too harsh? I am alive and well, as is my

Re: long list of give away or orphaned packages

1997-05-28 Thread jwalther
On Wed, 28 May 1997, Brian White wrote: > Perhaps we could integrate this with the "new developer" screening. To > become a new developer, you must take over one of the orphaned packages. This idea was raised before. *please*. Do not do this. If you have some enthusiastic developer come alon

Re: long list of give away or orphaned packages

1997-05-28 Thread Brian White
> the list of debian packges needing a new maintainer is growing all the > time. so - what about removeing some packages, if they are no longer > maintained, or (better) moving them into section contrib (or a new > section "orphaned" ?). There is a "project/orphaned" directory where things can be

Re: long list of give away or orphaned packages

1997-05-28 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus
On May 27, Vincent Renardias wrote > > On Tue, 27 May 1997, Christian Schwarz wrote: > > > > The new section should appear in the archive under the directory > > > "project/orpahned". It will store the binary/sources of orphaned > > > packages, but also the bug reports of the dropped packages.

Re: long list of give away or orphaned packages

1997-05-27 Thread Vincent Renardias
On Tue, 27 May 1997, Christian Schwarz wrote: > > The new section should appear in the archive under the directory > > "project/orpahned". It will store the binary/sources of orphaned > > packages, but also the bug reports of the dropped packages. > > But please don't mix "orphaned" packages w

Re: long list of give away or orphaned packages

1997-05-27 Thread Christian Schwarz
On Tue, 27 May 1997, Vincent Renardias wrote: > > On Tue, 27 May 1997, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote: > > > the list of debian packges needing a new maintainer is growing all the > > time. so - what about removeing some packages, if they are no longer > > maintained, or (better) moving them into sec

Re: long list of give away or orphaned packages

1997-05-27 Thread Vincent Renardias
On Tue, 27 May 1997, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote: > the list of debian packges needing a new maintainer is growing all the > time. so - what about removeing some packages, if they are no longer > maintained, or (better) moving them into section contrib (or a new > section "orphaned" ?). This is e