(Ean, you are Cc'd just in case you aren't sub'd to -devel, please feel free to denote otherwise to avoid duplicates)
Over the course of potato release, there were several NMU's done on the kaffe package to fix some RC bugs. I've listed them here for clarity and reference: 59420: kaffe_1:1.0.5e-0.3(frozen): bad register names on m68k 58434: kaffe: can't build from source 59575: jit3 not supported on sparc build 58434: can't build from source 55835: kaffe_1:1.0.5e-0.1(frozen): build error: make -j fails 55618: kaffe: shell scripts starting kaffe components contain invalid paths 55848: jdk1.1: paths screwed up ? 55961: url in copyright file doesn't work 55618: kaffe: shell scripts starting kaffe components contain invalid paths 49893: New upstream version 52911: Kaffe new version available 34385: kaffe: symlinks for appletviewer missing 36715: kaffe: javaverify alternative 36869: kjavac and kjavadoc missing 36711: kaffe: change dependencies 51416: debian kaffe is missing functionality 51230: kaffe: No exception raised when an external program is not found Some of these are rather important bug fixes. Some are not. According to the changelog in potato, the last upload Ean made was in April of 1999, followed by 5 NMU's by myself, Adam Heath and Zed Pobre. Note Adam works for Ean, and it is Ean's contention that since he asked Adam to make those NMU's on the clock (paid), that he was not ignoring the package, but delegating it to him. Now, here's the real problem. In the woody package, none of the NMU's show up. Not only are they gone, but all of the modifications that were made are gone aswell. So the "fixed" status of all of these bugs is now incorrect and they all need to be set back to their original severity and checked/fixed again! All of this work gone to waste, when before Jul, the maintainer had nothing to do with his own package, and others had to fix the damn thing. Even more suspicious is a new entry in the woody changelog from Dec of 1999, that never shows up potato (which has a last changelog date of March 2000). So now not only are all the NMU's ignored, but false changelog entries are made, for uploads that were never done! This is rediculous. Ean knows about these NMU's. He asked Adam to peform his, and I emailed him about the ones I did, and he responded. Why must our packages take a step back!? -- -----------=======-=-======-=========-----------=====------------=-=------ / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=========------=======-------------=-=-----=-===-======-------=--=---'