Re: Reporting unmaintained packages

2016-01-25 Thread Francois Gouget
On Thu, 21 Jan 2016, Chris Bannister wrote: [...] > Also, I'm under the impression that the bug submitter doesn't > automatically get sent any responses to the bug report. I don't know if I receive them all, but I do receive responses to bug reports I submitted. I'm not so sure about bug reports

Re: Reporting unmaintained packages

2016-01-21 Thread Brian
On Thu 21 Jan 2016 at 22:35:19 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 07:19:00PM +, Brian wrote: > > On Wed 20 Jan 2016 at 20:02:37 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > > > > > On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 07:03:33PM +, Brian wrote: > > > > A small point: duplicate bugs are merged,

Re: Reporting unmaintained packages

2016-01-21 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 07:19:00PM +, Brian wrote: > On Wed 20 Jan 2016 at 20:02:37 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > > > On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 07:03:33PM +, Brian wrote: > > > A small point: duplicate bugs are merged, not closed. You could do it if > > >

Re: Reporting unmaintained packages

2016-01-20 Thread Brian
On Wed 20 Jan 2016 at 20:02:37 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 07:03:33PM +, Brian wrote: > > A small point: duplicate bugs are merged, not closed. You could do it if > > > > you are confident in your judgement. A more pe

Re: Reporting unmaintained packages

2016-01-19 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 07:03:33PM +, Brian wrote: > A small point: duplicate bugs are merged, not closed. You could do it if > > you are confident in your judgement. A more pertinent point is whether >

Re: Reporting unmaintained packages

2016-01-19 Thread Brian
On Tue 19 Jan 2016 at 16:27:36 +0100, Francois Gouget wrote: > On Mon, 18 Jan 2016, Francesco Ariis wrote: > > > On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 12:36:34PM +0100, Francois Gouget wrote: > > >> The clamav-unofficial-sigs package has quite important bugs that cause > > >> it to fail to retrieve the Securi

Re: Reporting unmaintained packages

2016-01-19 Thread Francois Gouget
On Mon, 18 Jan 2016, Francesco Ariis wrote: > On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 12:36:34PM +0100, Francois Gouget wrote: > >> The clamav-unofficial-sigs package has quite important bugs that cause > >> it to fail to retrieve the SecuriteInfo virus signatures and send cron > >> spam every 4 hours. > >> >

Re: Reporting unmaintained packages

2016-01-18 Thread Brian
On Mon 18 Jan 2016 at 15:40:57 +0100, Francesco Ariis wrote: > On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 12:36:34PM +0100, Francois Gouget wrote: > >> The clamav-unofficial-sigs package has quite important bugs that cause > >> it to fail to retrieve the SecuriteInfo virus signatures and send cron > >> spam every

Re: Reporting unmaintained packages

2016-01-18 Thread Francesco Ariis
On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 12:36:34PM +0100, Francois Gouget wrote: >> The clamav-unofficial-sigs package has quite important bugs that cause >> it to fail to retrieve the SecuriteInfo virus signatures and send cron >> spam every 4 hours. >> >> [..] >> >> So what's the proper way to report this is

Re: Reporting unmaintained packages

2016-01-18 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 1/18/16, Brian wrote: > On Mon 18 Jan 2016 at 12:36:34 +0100, Francois Gouget wrote: > >> I'm not sure the developer is MIA but he does have quite a few other >> packages to maintain so may he's swamped or just lost interest in this >> particular package. >> https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?

Re: Reporting unmaintained packages

2016-01-18 Thread Brian
On Mon 18 Jan 2016 at 12:36:34 +0100, Francois Gouget wrote: > > The clamav-unofficial-sigs package has quite important bugs that cause > it to fail to retrieve the SecuriteInfo virus signatures and send cron > spam every 4 hours. > > These issues were reported in april 2015 and changing the p

Reporting unmaintained packages

2016-01-18 Thread Francois Gouget
The clamav-unofficial-sigs package has quite important bugs that cause it to fail to retrieve the SecuriteInfo virus signatures and send cron spam every 4 hours. These issues were reported in april 2015 and changing the package so it no longer tries to retrieve these virus signatures if they a