Re: [SUMMARY/PROPOSAL] Orphaning another maintainer's packages - getting orphaned packages marked as such

On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 04:20:43PM +0200, Thibaut Paumard wrote: > If someone notices that a package is in need of greater attention, but > cannot commit to attending it themselves, it's important that the > packages is marked at least as needing help. > > I understand the entire point here is to

Re: orphaned packages

[vangelis mouhtsis] > Can please someone explain why a package should be orphaned > from maintaining? (i hope the reason is not lack of maintainers) Yes it is. Or more precisely, every package needs a maintainer with: 1) the skills to maintain it (familiarity not only with Debian packaging i

orphaned packages

Hi, Can please someone explain why a package should be orphaned from maintaining? (i hope the reason is not lack of maintainers) regards gnugr

Re: Bug#438665: Orphaned packages with quite some users

On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 07:58:29AM +, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Thu, 01 Nov 2007, Bart Samwel wrote: > > Hmmm. I'd require a sponsor for that, as I'm not a DD. Raphael, would you > > mind sponsoring? > > Yeah, I can. And you could most probably quickly become "DM" for those > packages given

Re: Bug#438665: Orphaned packages with quite some users

On Thu, 1 Nov 2007 09:11:33 +0100 Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 01 Nov 2007, Michael Biebl wrote: > > Given that acpi-support is going to be deprecated in favor of > > pm-utils/hal [1] I'd rather see acpi-support removed from the > > laptop-task completely. > > [1] https://w

Re: Bug#438665: Orphaned packages with quite some users

Bart Samwel wrote: > 2. What we may actually require is a detection system which triggers the > installation of packages at installation time, based on hardware > detection. You should contact Petter Reinholdtsen, who has been working on a new life for the package discover to do exactly that. He

Re: Bug#438665: Orphaned packages with quite some users

[Bart Samwel] > 2. What we may actually require is a detection system which triggers > the installation of packages at installation time, based on hardware > detection. The discover package got the script discover-pkginstall which will do this. I've added mapping from hardware to packages for a

Re: Orphaned packages with quite some users

On 31/10/2007, Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 31-Oct-07, 12:39 (CDT), Ben Goodger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > libvncserver has dropped out of use and been replaced by vlc. > > Huh? VNC != VLC. Oh yes, misread the N. Whoops. -- Benjamin F. Goodger ~ design and ideas lab ~

Re: Use of ttf-thryomanes for Greek/Cyrillic/Hungarian (was: Re: Orphaned packages with quite some users?)

On Thursday 01 November 2007 10:19, Christian Perrier wrote: > IMHO, even if I did not check this, the ttf-dejavu font(s) cover > these languages pretty well. So, the font is maybe not very much > relevant for being installed by default. Hi Christian, FWIW, greek is ok with the current set of fon

Re: Bug#438665: Orphaned packages with quite some users

On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 03:54:44AM +0100, Bart Samwel wrote: > Luk Claes wrote: > >Bart Samwel wrote: > >>3. Regarding the toshset package: I have a working Toshiba Tecra 8200, > >>one of the models covered by toshset. I may be biased, but as far as I'm > >>concerned the stuff is still useful. :-)

Use of ttf-thryomanes for Greek/Cyrillic/Hungarian (was: Re: Orphaned packages with quite some users?)

(beware: wide crosspost. Please turn your brain ON to decide where you want to reply... :-))) Quoting Cyril Brulebois ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Luk Claes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (31/10/2007): > > Below you'll find a list of longtime orphaned packages with quite some > > u

Re: Bug#438665: Orphaned packages with quite some users

On Thu, 01 Nov 2007, Michael Biebl wrote: > Given that acpi-support is going to be deprecated in favor of > pm-utils/hal [1] I'd rather see acpi-support removed from the > laptop-task completely. > [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PMUtilsSpec I'm all for this if this is possible. acpi-support has alway

Re: Bug#438665: Orphaned packages with quite some users

On Thu, 01 Nov 2007, Bart Samwel wrote: > Luk Claes wrote: >> Bart Samwel wrote: >>> 3. Regarding the toshset package: I have a working Toshiba Tecra 8200, >>> one of the models covered by toshset. I may be biased, but as far as I'm >>> concerned the stuff is still useful. :-) >> Please do adopt th

Re: Bug#438665: Orphaned packages with quite some users

Bart Samwel wrote: > I wouldn't mind having the packages installed in the laptop task if that > fixes it. However, the laptop task currently uses the task-fields method, > which AFAICT means that the dependent packages should list themselves as > being part of the laptop task, something that wil

Re: Bug#438665: Orphaned packages with quite some users

Bart Samwel schrieb: > Joey Hess wrote: >> Raphael Hertzog wrote: >>> The problem is not so much on manually installed package but on initial >>> installation. I'm not sure what would get installed via the laptop >>> task if >>> we made that a Recommends... >> >> d-i can't afford to install recomme

Re: Bug#438665: Orphaned packages with quite some users

Joey Hess wrote: Raphael Hertzog wrote: The problem is not so much on manually installed package but on initial installation. I'm not sure what would get installed via the laptop task if we made that a Recommends... d-i can't afford to install recommends by default (best way to change that is

Re: Bug#438665: Orphaned packages with quite some users

Luk Claes wrote: Bart Samwel wrote: 3. Regarding the toshset package: I have a working Toshiba Tecra 8200, one of the models covered by toshset. I may be biased, but as far as I'm concerned the stuff is still useful. :-) Please do adopt the toshutils and toshset packages so people don't need t

Re: Bug#438665: Orphaned packages with quite some users

Josselin Mouette wrote: > You may be interested to learn that we plan to downgrade a number of > dependencies of the gnome metapackages to Recommends. > > If this means tracking them later on to be sure that everything needed > is installed, maybe we need a way to improve the coordination between

Re: Bug#438665: Orphaned packages with quite some users

Le mercredi 31 octobre 2007 à 18:05 -0400, Joey Hess a écrit : > d-i can't afford to install recommends by default (best way to change > that is to make all uses of recommends sane to be installed by default). > > So the laptop task would need to track and list the recommends. Doing > something sm

Re: Orphaned packages with quite some users

On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 12:45:29AM +0100, Frank S. Thomas wrote: > Hi, > > On Wednesday 31 October 2007, Luk Claes wrote: > > Below you'll find a list of longtime orphaned packages with quite some > > users. It would be great if people could adopt packages that are

Re: Orphaned packages with quite some users

Hi, On Wednesday 31 October 2007, Luk Claes wrote: > Below you'll find a list of longtime orphaned packages with quite some > users. It would be great if people could adopt packages that are still > usefull and give alternatives and/or migration plans for packages that > are r

Re: Orphaned packages with quite some users

Ben Goodger wrote: > On 31/10/2007, Luk Claes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> http://packages.qa.debian.org/libg/libglade.html >> http://packages.qa.debian.org/libv/libvncserver.html > > > AFAIK these are unofficially or officially deprecated: > libglade is now replaced by something nearly identica

Re: Orphaned packages with quite some users

Thomas Viehmann wrote: > Luk Claes wrote: >> http://packages.qa.debian.org/a/autobook.html > Based on the submitter's observation in #328219, maybe we should remove > autobook? > If it's non-free and increasingly outdated and doesn't have anone > wanting to maintain it, we might as well stop distri

Re: Bug#438665: Orphaned packages with quite some users

Bart Samwel wrote: > tag 438665 wontfix > merge 438665 445900 > thanks > > Clint Adams wrote: >> reopen 438665 >> quit >> >> On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 06:22:11PM +0100, Luk Claes wrote: >>> That sounds like the Dependens should be a Recommends, if so please file >>> a bug for it. >> >> It doesn't lo

Re: Orphaned packages with quite some users

On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 05:39:38PM +, Ben Goodger wrote: > libvncserver has dropped out of use and been replaced by vlc. I somehow don't think it's likely for a remote desktop server to have been replaced by a media player? -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and

Re: Bug#438665: Orphaned packages with quite some users

Raphael Hertzog wrote: > The problem is not so much on manually installed package but on initial > installation. I'm not sure what would get installed via the laptop task if > we made that a Recommends... d-i can't afford to install recommends by default (best way to change that is to make all use

Re: Bug#438665: Orphaned packages with quite some users

On Wed, 31 Oct 2007, Adeodato Simó wrote: > * Bart Samwel [Wed, 31 Oct 2007 21:32:57 +0100]: > > Hello Bart. While I understand your reasoning, it may be now the time to > revisit it: > > > or Recommends which > > behaves exactly like Depends (like some package managers treat Recommends, > > bu

Re: Bug#438665: Orphaned packages with quite some users

* Bart Samwel [Wed, 31 Oct 2007 21:32:57 +0100]: Hello Bart. While I understand your reasoning, it may be now the time to revisit it: > or Recommends which > behaves exactly like Depends (like some package managers treat Recommends, > but not all), As announced in [1] and can be seen in [2], a

Re: Orphaned packages with quite some users

Luk Claes wrote: > http://packages.qa.debian.org/a/autobook.html Based on the submitter's observation in #328219, maybe we should remove autobook? If it's non-free and increasingly outdated and doesn't have anone wanting to maintain it, we might as well stop distributing it. Kind regards T. --

Re: Bug#438665: Orphaned packages with quite some users

tag 438665 wontfix merge 438665 445900 thanks Clint Adams wrote: reopen 438665 quit On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 06:22:11PM +0100, Luk Claes wrote: That sounds like the Dependens should be a Recommends, if so please file a bug for it. It doesn't look like #438665 was actually fixed. OK, then I

Re: Orphaned packages with quite some users

Luk Claes wrote: > Yes, but this source package also builds audacious-crossfade which > probably should stay? I'll do a qa upload as we speak, removing the xmms package. One less to bother for the upcoming removal... -- Address:Daniel Baumann, Burgunderstrasse 3, CH-4562 Biberist Email:

Re: Orphaned packages with quite some users

On 31-Oct-07, 12:39 (CDT), Ben Goodger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > libvncserver has dropped out of use and been replaced by vlc. Huh? VNC != VLC. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying

Re: Orphaned packages with quite some users

Cyril Brulebois a écrit : > Luk Claes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (31/10/2007): > >> Bernd Zeimetz wrote: >> >> http://packages.qa.debian.org/x/xmms-crossfade.html >>> If I remember right gtk-1 is supposed to be removed from lenny, so >>> xmms will be gone, too. >>> >> Yes

Re: Orphaned packages with quite some users

On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 01:37:38AM +0900, Michal Čihař wrote: > Hi > > Dne Wed, 31 Oct 2007 17:21:24 +0100 > Luk Claes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> napsal(a): > > > Below you'll find a list of longtime orphaned packages with quite some > > users. It would be great i

Re: Orphaned packages with quite some users

Luk Claes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (31/10/2007): > Below you'll find a list of longtime orphaned packages with quite some > users. It would be great if people could adopt packages that are still > usefull and give alternatives and/or migration plans for packages that > are rather

Re: Orphaned packages with quite some users

On 31/10/2007, Luk Claes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > http://packages.qa.debian.org/libg/libglade.html > http://packages.qa.debian.org/libv/libvncserver.html AFAIK these are unofficially or officially deprecated: libglade is now replaced by something nearly identical or perhaps merely renamed a

Re: Orphaned packages with quite some users

Luk Claes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (31/10/2007): > Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > > >> http://packages.qa.debian.org/x/xmms-crossfade.html > > > > If I remember right gtk-1 is supposed to be removed from lenny, so > > xmms will be gone, too. > > Yes, but this source package also builds audacious-crossfade wh

Re: Orphaned packages with quite some users

reopen 438665 quit On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 06:22:11PM +0100, Luk Claes wrote: > That sounds like the Dependens should be a Recommends, if so please file > a bug for it. It doesn't look like #438665 was actually fixed. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe

Re: Orphaned packages with quite some users

Michal Čihař wrote: > Hi > > Dne Wed, 31 Oct 2007 17:21:24 +0100 > Luk Claes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> napsal(a): > >> Below you'll find a list of longtime orphaned packages with quite some >> users. It would be great if people could adopt packages that are still

Re: Orphaned packages with quite some users

Bernd Zeimetz wrote: >> http://packages.qa.debian.org/x/xmms-crossfade.html > > If I remember right gtk-1 is supposed to be removed from lenny, so xmms > will be gone, too. Yes, but this source package also builds audacious-crossfade which probably should stay? Cheers Luk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Orphaned packages with quite some users

Hi, > http://packages.qa.debian.org/p/python-gnome.html python-gnome only useful for gnome 1. It could (should?) be replaced by a pseudo package which transitions to python-gnome2 probably, or just be removed from Debian. > http://packages.qa.debian.org/p/pyzor.html Imho there're better ways t

Re: Orphaned packages with quite some users

Hi Dne Wed, 31 Oct 2007 17:21:24 +0100 Luk Claes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> napsal(a): > Below you'll find a list of longtime orphaned packages with quite some > users. It would be great if people could adopt packages that are still > usefull and give alternatives and/or migratio

Orphaned packages with quite some users

Hi Below you'll find a list of longtime orphaned packages with quite some users. It would be great if people could adopt packages that are still usefull and give alternatives and/or migration plans for packages that are rather obsolete or not really usefull anymore. Cheers Luk

Soon-to-be orphaned packages need a caring maintainer

Due to severe time constraints and interest shifts I'm putting some packages up to adoption. I considered taking a complete break from debian until things get better but I am just not able to do so. I've been a debian developer for 9 years now, that represents almost 1/3rd of my life involved with

Re: Orphaned Packages

Hi Klaus > So is there a way to give official packages to debian without being a > official maintainer? Sure, you can prepare the package and then give it to an official debian developer who can upload it for you and therefore act as a kind of sponsor. You are still responsible for the package a

Re: Orphaned Packages

Hi, Klaus... On Thursday 17 August 2006 10:47, Klaus Ethgen wrote: > I read that the packages cvsps and xearth are orphaned now. I might be > able to get over this packages. But there is a small problem: > > Years ago I start getting a official debian maintainer. Unfortunately it > went asleep as

Orphaned Packages

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I read that the packages cvsps and xearth are orphaned now. I might be able to get over this packages. But there is a small problem: Years ago I start getting a official debian maintainer. Unfortunately it went asleep as I have no time to fini

Re: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages

* 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 > packag

Re: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages

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

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

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

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

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

> 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

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

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

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 > pack

Re: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* 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

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

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

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

* 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: Intersection of installed packages with orphaned packages

* Dan Christensen [Tue, 12 Apr 2005 10:46:18 -0400]: > the command to find out which binary packages a source package > produces? $ apt-cache showsrc (bin|source)-package You need a deb-src entry in apt/sources.list for that to work. -- Adeodato Simó EM: asp16 [ykwim] alu.ua.es | PK: DA

Re: Intersection of installed packages with orphaned packages

Jeroen van Wolffelaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> On my systems, wnpp-alert lists packages that I don't have installed. >> For example: >> >> # wnpp-alert >> ... >> O 279824 perlftlib -- Perl module for the FreeType library >> ... >> # dpkg -l \*perlftlib\* >> No packages found matching *perl

Re: Intersection of installed packages with orphaned packages

I am interested in the intersection of packages installed on my > >> > machines with the list of orphaned packages. > >> > >> You'd be wanting wnpp-check, in the devscripts package. Check out rc-check > >> while you're at it. Both are cronable. &g

Re: Intersection of installed packages with orphaned packages

Stephen Quinney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 07:14:23PM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: >> On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 02:12:13AM -0700, Stephen Birch wrote: >> > I am interested in the intersection of packages installed on my >> > machines w

Re: Intersection of installed packages with orphaned packages

On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 02:45:19AM -0700, Stephen Birch wrote: > Matthew Palmer([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2005-04-08 19:14: > > You'd be wanting wnpp-check, in the devscripts package. Check out rc-check > > while you're at it. Both are cronable. > > ahh ... devscripts. I think you meant wnpp-alert not

Re: Intersection of installed packages with orphaned packages

On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 07:14:23PM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: > On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 02:12:13AM -0700, Stephen Birch wrote: > > I am interested in the intersection of packages installed on my > > machines with the list of orphaned packages. This is to be sure > > a

Re: Intersection of installed packages with orphaned packages

Matthew Palmer([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2005-04-08 19:14: > You'd be wanting wnpp-check, in the devscripts package. Check out rc-check > while you're at it. Both are cronable. ahh ... devscripts. I think you meant wnpp-alert not wnpp-check. Thanks for the tip. Perfect, thanks! Steve -- To UNS

Re: Intersection of installed packages with orphaned packages

On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 02:12:13AM -0700, Stephen Birch wrote: > I am interested in the intersection of packages installed on my > machines with the list of orphaned packages. This is to be sure > a program in use isn't orphaned without me becoming aware of it. > Ideally the pro

Intersection of installed packages with orphaned packages

I am interested in the intersection of packages installed on my machines with the list of orphaned packages. This is to be sure a program in use isn't orphaned without me becoming aware of it. Ideally the program would be run from cron about once a week and email a status report. Is th

Re: Some important orphaned packages

On Sat, May 17, 2003 at 11:39:00PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > On Mon, 12 May 2003 13:30:00 -0500, Donald J Bindner > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Maybe I should roll my sleeves up and send them some patches. > > apg's upstream is pretty responsive. I checked out the source, and I don't think it

Re: Some important orphaned packages

On Mon, 12 May 2003 13:30:00 -0500, Donald J Bindner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Maybe I should roll my sleeves up and send them some patches. apg's upstream is pretty responsive. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber

Re: Recently orphaned packages

* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-04-21 16:54]: > Here's a listing of packages I orphaned recently. If you're > interested in any, check the bug report if the package is still > available and retitle the bug (see http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp > for instructions). and: Bug#190188: O: bbppp -- PPP to

Re: Recently orphaned packages

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 21 Apr 2003, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > Bug#189952: O: device3dfx -- Device driver source for 3Dfx boards for 2.2+ > kernels I don't use it anymore but I still have a working 3Ffx. If anyone wants the package i can donate the card to the futu

Recently orphaned packages

Here's a listing of packages I orphaned recently. If you're interested in any, check the bug report if the package is still available and retitle the bug (see http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp for instructions). Bug#189528: O: ttfprint -- A utility to print Chinese text using truetype fonts Bug#18

Re: PostgreSQL admin tools (Was: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages)

On 16-Apr-03, 19:23 (CDT), Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 15, 2003 at 07:51:59PM -0300, Andre Luis Lopes wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-cache show rhdb-admin > > Package: rhdb-admin > > What is wrong here? > > > rhdb-admin > > echo $? > 1 > >

Re: PostgreSQL admin tools (Was: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages)

On Thu, Apr 17, 2003 at 10:23:06AM +1000, Brian May wrote: > On Tue, Apr 15, 2003 at 07:51:59PM -0300, Andre Luis Lopes wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-cache show rhdb-admin > > Package: rhdb-admin > > What is wrong here? > > > rhdb-admin > > echo $? > 1 > > I assu

Re: PostgreSQL admin tools (Was: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages)

On Tue, Apr 15, 2003 at 07:51:59PM -0300, Andre Luis Lopes wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-cache show rhdb-admin > Package: rhdb-admin What is wrong here? > rhdb-admin > echo $? 1 I assume it is meant to do more then just emulate the false command? ;-) -- Brian May

Re: PostgreSQL admin tools (Was: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages)

On Tue, 15 Apr 2003, Carl B. Constantine wrote: > > http://pgadmin.postgresql.org/pgadmin2.php?ContentID=1 > > > > which only runs under non-free operating system. > > The closest I've found for *nix is pgaccess > which is a tcl/tk app and works quite well. I use it

Re: PostgreSQL admin tools (Was: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages)

On Tue, Apr 15, 2003 at 07:51:48AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > If you search ad www.postgresql.org for "admin tool" you get several links > for instance also > > http://sources.redhat.com/rhdb/ > > which might end in a necie tool perhaps. Would be nice if somebody could > check this out

Re: PostgreSQL admin tools (Was: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages)

* Andreas Tille ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, 14 Apr 2003, Georges Khaznadar wrote: > > > There is a nice graphical front-end to Postgresql, in the non-US > > section : > I would like to vote against "nice" here. :) > Moreover you can do several stuff but it is not comparable to PgAdmin >

PostgreSQL admin tools (Was: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages)

On Mon, 14 Apr 2003, Georges Khaznadar wrote: > There is a nice graphical front-end to Postgresql, in the non-US > section : I would like to vote against "nice" here. :) Moreover you can do several stuff but it is not comparable to PgAdmin http://pgadmin.postgresql.org/pgadmin2.php?ContentID

Re: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages

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

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