Re: Need maintainers for update-manager/update-notifier

2008-06-03 Thread Thibaut Paumard


Le 3 juin 08 à 08:45, Raphael Hertzog a écrit :


Hello,

please see the attached message. The Debian Gnome team needs help to
properly maintain the update-manager/update-notifier packages.


I'm giving it a try.

Regards, T.



In this specific case, maintaining also means developing some code (in
python) to properly integrate those ubuntu-originated software in  
Debian.


Those software are important for many beginners using the Debian  
desktop

so I hope we will find some volunteers. They have been removed from
testing due to RC bugs (though those are relatively easy to fix) and
really need some love as bugs tend to accumulate otherwise.

http://packages.qa.debian.org/u/update-manager.html
http://packages.qa.debian.org/u/update-notifier.html

Cheers,
--
Raphaël Hertzog

Le best-seller français mis à jour pour Debian Etch :
http://www.ouaza.com/livre/admin-debian/

De : Gustavo Noronha Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date : 2 juin 2008 22:02:21 HAEC
À : Raphael Hertzog [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc : Pierre Habouzit [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED],  
Philipp Kern [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Objet : Rép : Policy wrt to removal of packages which are part of a  
task



Hey,

On Mon, 2008-06-02 at 16:33 +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
Josselin told that they need volunteers in the Gnome team to take  
care of
those packages and that he should prod Gustavo. Loic then told  
that we
shouldn't count on Gustavo because he sent a mail a few months ago  
stating

that he had no time for Debian anymore.


Not really for all of my work in Debian (although for a large chunk of
it =/), but I didn't have enough time to keep up the work
update-notifier requires. It is quite a lot of utnubu work,  
figuring out

where ubuntu deviates from Debian on stuff such as python-apt, and it
does involve writing a bit of code and sending patches to the ubuntu
maintainer from time to time.

As for the removal of update-*, the problem does seem to be quite
straightforward to solve, but it would really be nice to try to  
upgrade

the package to the newest ubuntu version, too. While I have no time to
be the responsible maintainer, I'm up for working with anyone who  
wants

to get those back into testing.

See you,

--
Gustavo Noronha Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Debian Project






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Re: Need maintainers for update-manager/update-notifier

2008-06-03 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Tue, 03 Jun 2008, Thibaut Paumard wrote:
 Le 3 juin 08 à 08:45, Raphael Hertzog a écrit :
 Hello,

 please see the attached message. The Debian Gnome team needs help to
 properly maintain the update-manager/update-notifier packages.

 I'm giving it a try.

Thanks! 

But there's room for more than one maintainer, so if others are
interested, feel free to step in and coordinate with Gustavo and Thibaut.

Cheers,
-- 
Raphaël Hertzog

Le best-seller français mis à jour pour Debian Etch :
http://www.ouaza.com/livre/admin-debian/


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