On Thursday 23 August 2012 09:57:29 keenerd wrote: > Hello devs! > > Thank you Florian for trying this out. I do hope that we won't foul > up the S/N ratio too much. > > One of the big reasons for letting TUs post here was so that we would > have a place to formally/officially ask to have packages moved from > [extra] to [community]. Previously this went through side channels > such as private email. I know some TUs will be asking for specific > packages in the next few days, but I just wanted to kick things off by > posting a list of all of them. You can see it here: > > http://kmkeen.com/tmp/extra-to-community > > Now this is a mechanically generated list. Of the 340 orphans in > [extra], it picks out the 200 that could be (in theory) safely moved > to [community]. That is, nothing in [extra] depends on these > packages. The script is not smart enough to deal with optdeps, but we > are generally pretty lax about those anyway. Details below about how > to make the list. > > I am not asking for all of these to be moved, and I am certainly not > asking to maintain all 200 of them myself. Just saying that there are > a lot that would appreciate some love. > > What I will ask the devs to do is to see if there are any they'd like > to hold on to themselves. You can do this by install aurphan and > running > > aurphan -p | grep 'Extr' > > The -p mode was requested by Pierre. It will look at the packages you > have installed and of those will pick out the ones with no maintainer. > Since these will all be packages you use, hopefully they may be ones > you have an interest in maintaining. > > As a side note, there seems to be an unofficial policy among the devs > to randomly pick up flagged orphans packages in [extra] and fix them. > This is very good! But these packages are never adopted. This is > very confusing. It does seem a little odd that the people who build > the version bump just don't adopt the package. Is there some detail > that I am missing?
Thank you for doing this! -- Andrea
