Your message dated Sun, 26 Mar 2000 14:42:50 +0200 with message-id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and subject line Mechanism for detecting unmaintained packages has caused the attached Bug report to be marked as done.
This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with. If this is not the case it is now your responsibility to reopen the Bug report if necessary, and/or fix the problem forthwith. (NB: If you are a system administrator and have no idea what I am talking about this indicates a serious mail system misconfiguration somewhere. Please contact me immediately.) Darren Benham (administrator, Debian Bugs database) -------------------------------------- Received: (at submit) by bugs.debian.org; 10 Aug 1999 15:15:09 +0000 Received: (qmail 26921 invoked from network); 10 Aug 1999 15:15:08 -0000 Received: from mailimailo.univ-rennes1.fr (129.20.128.39) by master.debian.org with SMTP; 10 Aug 1999 15:15:08 -0000 Received: from medicis2.univ-rennes1.fr (IDENT:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [129.20.24.29]) by mailimailo.univ-rennes1.fr (8.9.3/jtpda-5.3.1) with ESMTP id RAA05456 for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Tue, 10 Aug 1999 17:15:07 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from [EMAIL PROTECTED]) by medicis2.univ-rennes1.fr (8.9.3/8.8.7) id RAA20337; Tue, 10 Aug 1999 17:13:11 +0200 Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 17:13:11 +0200 Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Authentication-Warning: medicis2.univ-rennes1.fr: otto set sender to [EMAIL PROTECTED] using -f From: "Ottavio G. Rizzo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: manpages-it Hello, I suppose this is to report a bug on your bug reporting mechanism... I'm the maintainer (the real one, not the Debian one) of the Italian translations of the man-pages. I found out by mere chance (I'm not a Debian user) that you have an internal bug reporting system where users report bugs on the packages. The problem is, my package is unmaintained (the last deb package dates back to four releases --- almost two years --- ago), so Debian users who are reporting bugs related to the manpages to bugs.debian, and are not getting any answer, may think poorly of the group of people who are working hard on translating manpages: clearly this is unacceptable. Therefore I suggest that, if a package does not get updated in a reasonable time, all bug reports get forwarded to the real maintainer. Of course the idea that a user will report a bug in the package (as opposed to a bug in the packaging) to the distribution packager and not to the real responsible is completely idiotic, but who am I to say that? Ottavio -- Ottavio Rizzo, PhD Coordinatore del progetto di traduzione [EMAIL PROTECTED] in italiano delle manpagine di Linux http://www.pluto.linux.it/ildp/projects/man/index.html --------------------------------------- Received: (at 42795-done) by bugs.debian.org; 26 Mar 2000 12:42:54 +0000 Received: (qmail 28948 invoked from network); 26 Mar 2000 12:42:53 -0000 Received: from i511.resi.insa-lyon.fr (HELO k6.resI.insa-lyon.fr) (134.214.164.9) by master.debian.org with SMTP; 26 Mar 2000 12:42:53 -0000 Received: by k6.resI.insa-lyon.fr (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 5A3C04045; Sun, 26 Mar 2000 14:42:50 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2000 14:42:50 +0200 From: Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Mechanism for detecting unmaintained packages Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93i Hi, people who wish to do this kind of work already can (and I encourage them to do so), they can use the lintian reports (with the error/warning called ancient-standard-version) and then post to debian-qa asking us to take over the package after having tried to contact the maintainer. Or they can check the changelog to see the date of the last upload ... this is already done by a little script (written by Joey Hess) and you can see the result here (the list is quite long :-() : http://master.debian.org/~hertzog/non-maintained-packages.txt I'm also setting up the qa.debian.org virtual package in the BTS which may be used by our users to report this kind of problem (maintainer MIA, package out of date, ...). I'll try to publicize this but I don't know yet where and how. Anyway, this bug can be closed. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog >> 0C4CABF1 >> http://tux.u-strasbg.fr/~raphael/ <pub> CD Debian : http://tux.u-strasbg.fr/~raphael/debian/#cd Formations Linux et logiciels libres : http://www.logidee.com </pub>