Re: Does anyone use barrendero, or know of an equivalent?
On Thu, Aug 21, 2003, Steve Langasek wrote: http://zoy.org/~sam/debian/barrendero_1.0-1.1.diff.gz I haven't contacted the maintainer yet because I was working on other bugs, but if he is MIA as you seem to be suggesting, I'll probably upload that NMU to DELAYED quite soon. Ok, thanks for the info. Can you estimate when you think you'll NMU? Given the package state (only one upload more than 3 years ago, trivial RC bugs, dormant upstream/maintainer) I think I'll NMU tonight (CEST) with a few additional fixes. If anyone objects, please speak up. Cheers, -- Sam.
Re: Does anyone use barrendero, or know of an equivalent?
Quoting Steve Langasek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Hello, The package barrendero is a candidate for removal from testing. It has I had a quick look at the BTS and it seems that the two RC bugs may be easily fixed (one is a missing Build-Depends on debhelper, the other an error in debian/rules for which a patch has been provided) Even the minor bug may be easily fixed. So, we could maybe consider a NMU (consider this volunteering for doing the work) ? I have absolutely no interest in this software but would just feel too bad that it disappears whilc fixing it is easy. Well, of course, if it is completely useless, I could revise my judgement.. :-)
Re: Does anyone use barrendero, or know of an equivalent?
On Wed, Aug 20, 2003, Steve Langasek wrote: But descriptions can be deceiving. Does anyone use this package who could comment on its reliability? Does the lack of other bugs indicate that the software is mature and stable, or unused? I am trying barrendero but don't trust it enough yet for production use. I had worked on an NMU that fixes all bugs and makes the package a bit more polished, I just reviewed it and uploaded it here: http://zoy.org/~sam/debian/barrendero_1.0-1.1.diff.gz I haven't contacted the maintainer yet because I was working on other bugs, but if he is MIA as you seem to be suggesting, I'll probably upload that NMU to DELAYED quite soon. Does anyone know of another package that provides similar functionality? mail-expire is very close to it. Cheers, -- Sam.
Re: Does anyone use barrendero, or know of an equivalent?
On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 10:42:28AM +0200, Sam Hocevar wrote: On Wed, Aug 20, 2003, Steve Langasek wrote: But descriptions can be deceiving. Does anyone use this package who could comment on its reliability? Does the lack of other bugs indicate that the software is mature and stable, or unused? I am trying barrendero but don't trust it enough yet for production use. I had worked on an NMU that fixes all bugs and makes the package a bit more polished, I just reviewed it and uploaded it here: http://zoy.org/~sam/debian/barrendero_1.0-1.1.diff.gz I haven't contacted the maintainer yet because I was working on other bugs, but if he is MIA as you seem to be suggesting, I'll probably upload that NMU to DELAYED quite soon. Does anyone know of another package that provides similar functionality? mail-expire is very close to it. Ok, thanks for the info. Can you estimate when you think you'll NMU? -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer pgp4QAtphkpu7.pgp Description: PGP signature
Does anyone use barrendero, or know of an equivalent?
Hello, The package barrendero is a candidate for removal from testing. It has two RC bugs, no response from the maintainer, and the upstream website seems to have vanished (the maintainer is also upstream). It seems like a useful tool: Description: Deletes messages on the spool dir depending on their age. Barrendero is intended to limit the disk space wasted at the spool directory. It deletes mail messages depending on their age, and has the ability to send warnings and reports to the users, to make full and partial backups, and to have different allowed ages on a per-user basis. Warning and report messages are cusomizable and can be translated easely in order to make this package useful in any environment. This way of handling mail as an advantage over the traditional 'quota' system: quotas make the end user loose NEW mail, barrendero deletes OLD mail, so the new mail is always available. But descriptions can be deceiving. Does anyone use this package who could comment on its reliability? Does the lack of other bugs indicate that the software is mature and stable, or unused? Does anyone know of another package that provides similar functionality? Thanks, -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer pgpy7v2KoqL8F.pgp Description: PGP signature
