Re: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages
* Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-06-16 18:18]: There are currently over 200 orphaned packages, many of which have been on WNPP for quite a long time and some with RC bugs. I intend to request the removal of a number of packages in three weeks unless a package has been adopted by someone by then. ... (if you need a sponsor) or debian-qa (for other reasons). However, unless there is a good reason, an upload should happen within the next 3 weeks. I've requested the removal of 72 packages now; the following packages have been adopted and will be kept for now (most of them haven't actually be uploaded yet): findimagedupes (#218699) gfpoken (#219061) gkdial (#287992) iceme (#227054) icepref (#227077) libffm (#235632) xasteroids (#227783) xsok (#242100) -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages
On Mon, 20 Jun 2005, Andreas Tille wrote: README.Debian for the C++ version. If there is nobody hwo would be really keen on taking this over himself, I'll go for an upload in the next couple of days. I prepared a new upload but browsing through the list of bugs I found out that we might be able a new upstream maintainer (#87017). I wrote Jonathan an e-mail and would like to wait for a response for some days. I tagged the wnpp bug report ITA. Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages
On Fri, 17 Jun 2005, Will Newton wrote: Thanks for investigating this. It would be great if somebody could fix this issue which is probably not much effort for a C++ programmer. If it would compile nicely I would take the package (or would leave it for somebody who cares for it inside Debian). I haven't tested this change but it does compile. The diff leads to smooth compilation of the C++ code but I have to admit that I have no idea what this code really does. On the other hand the perl code was acceptable fast for the job I was doing with it and it did it to my complete satisfaction. So perhaps I go for an upload of the original program and add a hint to the README.Debian for the C++ version. If there is nobody hwo would be really keen on taking this over himself, I'll go for an upload in the next couple of days. Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages
On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 06:18:06PM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote: iceme -- A graphical menu editor for IceWM [#227054] * Orphaned 520 days ago * Package orphaned 360 days ago. icepref -- Yet another configuration tool for IceWM [#227077] * Orphaned 520 days ago * Package orphaned 360 days ago. I use both of these and would like to adopt them. I will upload next week (via Anibal). -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr pgpNfAq6XxJaG.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages
On Friday 17 June 2005 07:04, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 06:18:06PM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote: iceme -- A graphical menu editor for IceWM [#227054] * Orphaned 520 days ago * Package orphaned 360 days ago. icepref -- Yet another configuration tool for IceWM [#227077] * Orphaned 520 days ago * Package orphaned 360 days ago. I use both of these and would like to adopt them. I will upload next week (via Anibal). These two also use pygtk 1.2 which is rather outdated. There seems to be a new upstream version that uses pygtk 2.0, but I'm not sure if it is functionally equivalent. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages
On Thu, 16 Jun 2005, Sven Mueller wrote: [2001/03/03 10:05] Markus Schoder has contributed finddupes.cpp, GPL'ed source code for a C++ based version ... It's only compilable in its current state with g++-2.95 (regarding compilers in Debian stable). There is a single error when compiling with g++-3.4 which I am unable to fix (as I don't know the STL at all). Thanks for investigating this. It would be great if somebody could fix this issue which is probably not much effort for a C++ programmer. If it would compile nicely I would take the package (or would leave it for somebody who cares for it inside Debian). Apart from that, it works quite fine. Good news. Thanks, the time is on your side as I also would like to have a command line based tool. Yes, plaaasse. So if we have so many people who want it, we will find a maintainer for the package. If it is necessary to keep it inside Debian I would just volunteer to take it over like it is - but the final goal would be to replace the perl script with the C++ version. Any clue? Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages
On Friday 17 June 2005 13:40, Andreas Tille wrote: It's only compilable in its current state with g++-2.95 (regarding compilers in Debian stable). There is a single error when compiling with g++-3.4 which I am unable to fix (as I don't know the STL at all). Thanks for investigating this. It would be great if somebody could fix this issue which is probably not much effort for a C++ programmer. If it would compile nicely I would take the package (or would leave it for somebody who cares for it inside Debian). I haven't tested this change but it does compile. --- finddupes.cpp.orig 2005-06-17 13:57:57.0 +0100 +++ finddupes.cpp 2005-06-17 13:57:36.0 +0100 @@ -96,12 +96,13 @@ vectorFingerprint a; while(cin.getline(buf, buf_size)) { +Fingerprint fp; char *p = strchr(buf, ':'); if(!p) continue; -a.push_back(); -a.back().name = string(buf, p - buf); -hex_convert8(a.back().u, p + 1); +fp.name = string(buf, p - buf); +hex_convert8(fp.u, p + 1); +a.push_back(fp); } size_t n = a.size();
Re: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages
On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 06:18:06PM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote: There are currently over 200 orphaned packages, many of which have been on WNPP for quite a long time and some with RC bugs. I intend to request the removal of a number of packages in three weeks unless a package has been adopted by someone by then. some of these packages are useful and interesting, and I feel they should not be removed from unstable at least. perhaps they could be moved to a different section which is not necessarily stabilized for release. I used rtf2latex myself only 5 minutes ago before reading this message in which you propose to remove it! and I think boust is cool. peace, Sam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages
Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] scrisse: Martin Michlmayr wrote: gkdial -- PPP dial-up configuration and dialing tool [#287992] * Orphaned 164 days ago * 1 RC bugs. Does any graphical ppp frontend exist that can be used instead of this? Under gnome you can find gpppkill and gpppon, but they can't manage provider setting. However you can find the modem-light applet for the gnome panel. Gkdial is a great tool, but ATM is really buggy :( Ciao, Luca -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Luca Bruno : :' : The Universal O.S.| luca.br(AT)uno.it `. `'` | GPG Key ID: 0x3BFB9FB3 `- http://www.debian.org | Proud Debian GNU/Linux User -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages
On Friday 17 June 2005 12:10, Sam Watkins wrote: some of these packages are useful and interesting, and I feel they should not be removed from unstable at least. perhaps they could be moved to a different section which is not necessarily stabilized for release. http://archive.debian.org/debian-archive/ I used rtf2latex myself only 5 minutes ago before reading this message in which you propose to remove it! and I think boust is cool. Would you consider maintaining them? Or persuading someone you know to maintain them? Without a maintainer they may become unbuildable, contain security flaws or break installation of other unrelated software. Someone has to fix these issues and if the QA team are the only ones caring for the package they have the right to ask for the packages removal. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages
I use both of these and would like to adopt them. I will upload next week (via Anibal). I think they are no longer maintained upstream. Take a look at http://www.icewm.org/FAQ/IceWM-FAQ-11.html#tools4icewm for more modern and supported alternatives. Greetings Ben -- Please do not sent any email to the [EMAIL PROTECTED] - all email not originating from the mailing list will be deleted automatically. Use the reply to address instead. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages
Luca writes: Under gnome you can find gpppkill and gpppon, but they can't manage provider setting. Gpppon doesn't need to manage settings. It uses the same settings as pon/poff, which can be managed with pppconfig. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages
Rich Walker wrote on 16/06/2005 23:23: Sven Mueller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Martin Michlmayr wrote on 16/06/2005 19:18: findimagedupes -- Finds visually similar or duplicate images [#218699] * Orphaned 590 days ago * Package orphaned 360 days ago. Though I probably can't adopt it (due to lack of time), it would be a pity to loose this since there is no comparable commandline tool fdupes? Doesn't do partial matching, but is otherwise excellent. That's (almost?) the point: findimagedupes (or the c++-implementation finddupes.cpp) is intended for the location of duplicate images, with a given fuzziness (not too far apart in size, very similar content). There are a lot of tools which find exact duplicates of files, but those matching images are really rare. cu, sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages
On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 12:57:13PM +0100, Will Newton wrote: On Friday 17 June 2005 07:04, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 06:18:06PM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote: iceme -- A graphical menu editor for IceWM [#227054] * Orphaned 520 days ago * Package orphaned 360 days ago. icepref -- Yet another configuration tool for IceWM [#227077] * Orphaned 520 days ago * Package orphaned 360 days ago. I use both of these and would like to adopt them. I will upload next week (via Anibal). These two also use pygtk 1.2 which is rather outdated. There seems to be a new upstream version that uses pygtk 2.0, but I'm not sure if it is functionally equivalent. OK. I will look into it. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr pgpYQntRJ8KO8.pgp Description: PGP signature
Upcoming removal of orphaned packages
There are currently over 200 orphaned packages, many of which have been on WNPP for quite a long time and some with RC bugs. I intend to request the removal of a number of packages in three weeks unless a package has been adopted by someone by then. The packages are split into two sections. The first section lists packages which have been manually selected by Frank Lichtenheld. For each of these packages, there is a brief description why it should be removed. If you want to adopt any of these packages, you should have good arguments against these reasons. The second list has been more liberally put together by me (although I could have included many more packages). If you want to keep any of the following packages, please make sure to - have a good reason why you want to adopt it (you use it, there are other users, you think you can fix its bugs) - change the title of the WNPP bug from O: to ITA: as described on http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp - make an upload to the archive, change the Maintainer: field to you, fix as many bugs as possible, also check for new upstream releases (or, in many cases, be willing to take over upstream), etc. - Make sure to close the WNPP bug in your upload. If you cannot make an upload for some reason then contact debian-mentors (if you need a sponsor) or debian-qa (for other reasons). However, unless there is a good reason, an upload should happen within the next 3 weeks. Please refer to http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp for more information. Section 1: manually selected packages - bock -- bootstrap-only compiler kit for a subset of Java(tm) [#201409] orphaned 696 days ago, Debian native, alternatives are probably way better, no install base cce -- Console Chinese Environment - display Chinese (GB) on console [#189523] orphaned 784 days ago, 2 RC bugs which limit functionality, new upstream version available, very small install base epic4-script-thirdeye -- Third Eye EPIC script [#181509] orphaned 843 days ago, upstream 5 years old, very small install base gfpoken -- Recreate a grid of mirrors from clues given by tests [#219061] orphaned 584 days ago, upstream 5 years old, alternatives available, small install base, only a game gpppkill -- GTK+ pppd monitoring and control utility [#237144, #244187] orphaned 458 days ago, upstream about 3 years old, very small install base jitterbug -- A cgi-bin tool for problem reporting and tracking [#206880] orphaned 657 days ago, upstream 6 years old, alternatives available, very small install base libffm -- Fast math library routines for DEC Alpha [#235632] orphaned 466 days ago, upstream about 5 years old, very specialised package (optimised math routines for DEC Alpha), so almost no install base lpkg -- Newton MessagePad PDA Package Loader [#189526] orphaned 784 days ago, upstream 7 years old, don't know if someone even has a Newton still, popcon stats seem to suggest not meshio -- MeshIO is a simple C++ library for the loading of 3D model files [#206871] orphaned 657 days ago, upstream 4 years old, probably alternatives available, very small install base mp3kult -- Organizes your MP3 collection in a MySQL database [#239860] orphaned 443 days ago, upstream about 3 years old, small install base nase-a60 -- An Algol-60 interpreter [#141181] orphaned 1163 days ago, upstream 6 years old, no install base nqxml -- pure Ruby implementation of a non-validating XML processor [#224372] orphaned 540 days ago, upstream 3 years old, alternatives available, very small install base phototk -- GUI interface for digital cameras [#206121] orphaned 662 days ago, upstream about 7 years old, many alternatives available, small install base ptknettools -- A selection of Internet service clients written in Perl/Tk [#189809, #246855] orphaned 405 days ago, Debian native, 5 years old, many alternatives to these programs AFAIK, very small install base pup -- Printer Utility Program [#202232] orphaned 690 days ago, upstream about 5 years old, which probably means that none of the supported printers is sold (and perhaps even used) anymore, very small install base race -- 3D arcade overhead car game [#251706] orphaned 376 days ago, about 3 years old, new upstream releases not uploaded, medium install base, only a game rubymagick -- Ruby interface for ImageMagick [#224367] orphaned 540 days ago, upstream 4 years old, probably obsoleted by librmagick-ruby, very small install base sel -- Fullscreen file-selection and execution tool [#210593] orphaned 637 days ago, upstream 4 years old, many alternatives available, very small install base splitdigest -- split mailinglist digests [#227781] orphaned 513 days ago, upstream 7 years old, small install base stklos -- An efficient Scheme System providing a powerful Object System [#235318] orphaned 468 days ago, FTBFS, several releases behind upstream, very small
Re: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages
* Sven Mueller [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-06-16 20:53]: findimagedupes -- Finds visually similar or duplicate images [#218699] Though I probably can't adopt it (due to lack of time), it would be a pity to loose this since there is no comparable commandline tool available and it works quite well. If all else fails, I might re-think adopting it. Andreas Tille expressed interest in this package and I find the description quite interesting too. Does anyone know if there's a suitable replacement which is still maintained? -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages
On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 20:00 +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote: * Sven Mueller [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-06-16 20:53]: Though I probably can't adopt it (due to lack of time), it would be a pity to loose this since there is no comparable commandline tool available and it works quite well. If all else fails, I might re-think adopting it. Andreas Tille expressed interest in this package and I find the description quite interesting too. Does anyone know if there's a suitable replacement which is still maintained? Quoting[1]: [2002/02/06 23:55] PixiePlus[2] now supports similar image finding using an algorithm based on mine, and for those unable to run a current version of KDE, gqview[3] will also find your similar images, albeit using a different algorithm whose results I haven't compared with my own. Both are FAR faster than findimagedupes and, I would say, both make it obsolete. If someone else would like to continue its development for web or other non-GUI purposes (this means you, Debian maintainers ;) ), by all means feel free, but consider my itch scratched. Thus I may think it is enough (no more upstream activity, abadonned more than three years ago, has other and problably better alternatives) to remove this package, but let others do the choice. Regards, Laszlo/GCS [1] http://www.kudla.org/raindog/perl/ [2] http://www.mosfet.org/pixie/ [3] http://gqview.sourceforge.net/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages
On Thu, 16 Jun 2005, Laszlo Boszormenyi wrote: [2002/02/06 23:55] PixiePlus[2] now supports similar image finding using an algorithm based on mine, and for those unable to run a current version of KDE, gqview[3] will also find your similar images, albeit using a different algorithm whose results I haven't compared with my own. Both are FAR faster than findimagedupes Perhaps this might be true for the initial Perl implementation, but: [2001/03/03 10:05] Markus Schoder has contributed finddupes.cpp, GPL'ed source code for a C++ based version of my horribly slow compare routine. In his testing on a directory of 35,000 images, it was about 300 times faster than findimagedupes' perl implementation. and, I would say, both make it obsolete. If both would have a command line interface. I do not know both but the page you quoted mentioned that findimagedupes is the only command line tool. If someone else would like to continue its development for web or other non-GUI purposes (this means you, Debian maintainers ;) ), by all means feel free, but consider my itch scratched. Thus I may think it is enough (no more upstream activity, abadonned more than three years ago, has other and problably better alternatives) to remove this package, but let others do the choice. I would really love a command line alternative. If you tell me any I will be quiet immediately. But I would love to have a test first. Please give me two weeks. Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages
Martin Michlmayr wrote on 16/06/2005 19:18: findimagedupes -- Finds visually similar or duplicate images [#218699] * Orphaned 590 days ago * Package orphaned 360 days ago. Though I probably can't adopt it (due to lack of time), it would be a pity to loose this since there is no comparable commandline tool available and it works quite well. If all else fails, I might re-think adopting it. rio500 -- command-line utilities for the Diamond Rio500 digital audio player [#225259] * Orphaned 534 days ago * Package orphaned 360 days ago. don't know anything about the state of this package, but I know that the rio500 is still used by a lot of people. cu, sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages
* Simon Richter [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-06-16 22:53]: if-transition -- A Change in the Weather, an interactive short story [#260720] * Orphaned 327 days ago I cannot find this one on powerpc. It's in non-free. moria -- A roguelike game with an infinite dungeon [#274472] * Orphaned 255 days ago I think that would be a shame. As I don't play it myself, I might not be the best choice for a maintainer, but I'd offer sponsoring. :-) It's non-free. There were discussions about moving to GPL but this hasn't happened yet. It can always be re-uploaded once it's GPL. -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages
On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 22:13 +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: Perhaps this might be true for the initial Perl implementation, but: [2001/03/03 10:05] Markus Schoder has contributed finddupes.cpp, GPL'ed source code for a C++ based version of my horribly slow compare routine. In his testing on a directory of 35,000 images, it was about 300 times faster than findimagedupes' perl implementation. Yup, but that's even more old, more than four years old. Will download it and check if its still compilable even. and, I would say, both make it obsolete. If both would have a command line interface. I do not think they have. I do not know both but the page you quoted mentioned that findimagedupes is the only command line tool. Yes, and this is sad. What I need is a command line tool as well. I can not have any GUI where I would like to use it. I would really love a command line alternative. If you tell me any I will be quiet immediately. I do not know any. But if any of you find an alternative, then please tell me as well. But I would love to have a test first. Please give me two weeks. Thanks, the time is on your side as I also would like to have a command line based tool. Regards, Laszlo/GCS -- BorsodChem Joint-Stock Company www.debian.org Linux Support Center Software engineerDebian Developer Developer +36-48-511211/25-90 +36-20-4441745 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages
Martin Michlmayr wrote: ... trustees -- Advanced permission management system for Linux [#251189] orphaned 379 days ago, according to maintainer upstream dead, removal already suggested one year ago, very small install base One more issue in favour of this is that Novell have released the NSS filesystem for Linux with SLES9, so an alternative inspired by NSS isn't really necessary now... -- Paul http://paulgear.webhop.net signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages
Sven Mueller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Martin Michlmayr wrote on 16/06/2005 19:18: findimagedupes -- Finds visually similar or duplicate images [#218699] * Orphaned 590 days ago * Package orphaned 360 days ago. Though I probably can't adopt it (due to lack of time), it would be a pity to loose this since there is no comparable commandline tool fdupes? Doesn't do partial matching, but is otherwise excellent. cheers, Rich. -- rich walker | Shadow Robot Company | [EMAIL PROTECTED] technical director 251 Liverpool Road | need a Hand? London N1 1LX | +UK 20 7700 2487 www.shadow.org.uk/products/newhand.shtml -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages
Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * Simon Richter [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-06-16 22:53]: if-transition -- A Change in the Weather, an interactive short story [#260720] * Orphaned 327 days ago I cannot find this one on powerpc. It's in non-free. moria -- A roguelike game with an infinite dungeon [#274472] * Orphaned 255 days ago I think that would be a shame. As I don't play it myself, I might not be the best choice for a maintainer, but I'd offer sponsoring. :-) It's non-free. There were discussions about moving to GPL but this hasn't happened yet. It can always be re-uploaded once it's GPL. Perhaps you haven't seen: http://groups-beta.google.com/group/rec.games.roguelike.angband/browse_thread/thread/d667a1ca262882f7/a198687e1e992879?q=moria+debian+authorrnum=1#a198687e1e992879 Most of the creditted authors have stated that they are happy for it to be converted to GPL. And moria hasn't had a bug in a long time. cheers, Rich. -- rich walker | Shadow Robot Company | [EMAIL PROTECTED] technical director 251 Liverpool Road | need a Hand? London N1 1LX | +UK 20 7700 2487 www.shadow.org.uk/products/newhand.shtml -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages
On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 10:39:39PM +0100, Rich Walker wrote: And moria hasn't had a bug in a long time. While many bugs are a reason to remove a package quickly, no bugs aren't a reason to keep it forever. The Debian QA group maintains packages that are orphaned to give other maintainers the chance to adopt it without too much hassle, and as a service to those that use them. But this has to be only a temporary solution. Gruesse, -- Frank Lichtenheld [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.djpig.de/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages
Hi, Martin Michlmayr schrieb: race -- 3D arcade overhead car game [#251706] orphaned 376 days ago, about 3 years old, new upstream releases not uploaded, medium install base, only a game race eats up 640MB of memory, then dies on my system (ppc). arpd -- User-space ARP daemon [#191870] * Orphaned 771 days ago * Package orphaned 360 days ago. This matches a kernel option that is still present in current 2.6 but has a description that says it's obsolete. if-transition -- A Change in the Weather, an interactive short story [#260720] * Orphaned 327 days ago I cannot find this one on powerpc. moria -- A roguelike game with an infinite dungeon [#274472] * Orphaned 255 days ago I think that would be a shame. As I don't play it myself, I might not be the best choice for a maintainer, but I'd offer sponsoring. :-) Simon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages
Rich Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Most of the creditted authors have stated that they are happy for it to be converted to GPL. Most isn't enough; someone needs to decide that all of the code has now been covered or replace the code that hasn't been covered. And moria hasn't had a bug in a long time. Someone really needs to step up to the place and adopt it if we're going to keep it. I'm tempted personally too, but I'm not willing to adopt a non-free package, and I think it probably really is still non-free (being familiar with the similar issue with Angband). -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages
Laszlo Boszormenyi wrote on 16/06/2005 23:13: On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 22:13 +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: Perhaps this might be true for the initial Perl implementation, but: [2001/03/03 10:05] Markus Schoder has contributed finddupes.cpp, GPL'ed source code for a C++ based version of my horribly slow compare routine. In his testing on a directory of 35,000 images, it was about 300 times faster than findimagedupes' perl implementation. Yup, but that's even more old, more than four years old. Will download it and check if its still compilable even. It's only compilable in its current state with g++-2.95 (regarding compilers in Debian stable). There is a single error when compiling with g++-3.4 which I am unable to fix (as I don't know the STL at all). Apart from that, it works quite fine. and, I would say, both make it obsolete. If both would have a command line interface. I do not think they have. Exactly. I do not know both but the page you quoted mentioned that findimagedupes is the only command line tool. Yes, and this is sad. What I need is a command line tool as well. I can not have any GUI where I would like to use it. Same for me. I would really love a command line alternative. If you tell me any I will be quiet immediately. I do not know any. But if any of you find an alternative, then please tell me as well. /aol But I would love to have a test first. Please give me two weeks. Thanks, the time is on your side as I also would like to have a command line based tool. Yes, plaaasse. cu, sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages
On 6/16/05, Paul Gear [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: trustees -- Advanced permission management system for Linux [#251189] orphaned 379 days ago, according to maintainer upstream dead, removal already suggested one year ago, very small install base One more issue in favour of this is that Novell have released the NSS filesystem for Linux with SLES9, so an alternative inspired by NSS isn't really necessary now... Is this already packaged for Debian? -- Besos, Marga
Re: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages
Frank Lichtenheld [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: While many bugs are a reason to remove a package quickly, no bugs aren't a reason to keep it forever. The Debian QA group maintains packages that are orphaned to give other maintainers the chance to adopt it without too much hassle, and as a service to those that use them. But this has to be only a temporary solution. Point taken. cheers, Rich. -- rich walker | Shadow Robot Company | [EMAIL PROTECTED] technical director 251 Liverpool Road | need a Hand? London N1 1LX | +UK 20 7700 2487 www.shadow.org.uk/products/newhand.shtml -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages
Martin Michlmayr wrote: gkdial -- PPP dial-up configuration and dialing tool [#287992] * Orphaned 164 days ago * 1 RC bugs. Does any graphical ppp frontend exist that can be used instead of this? -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages
On 17/06/05, Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Martin Michlmayr wrote: gkdial -- PPP dial-up configuration and dialing tool [#287992] * Orphaned 164 days ago * 1 RC bugs. Does any graphical ppp frontend exist that can be used instead of this? there is kppp (?) for KDE, and i'm SURE i've seen a similar one with gnome... of course on the otherhand, i don't know of any others which would have similar bindings (i.e. if you are on a desktop that has low HD, you don't exactly want all the KDE/Gnome libs!) But in direct reply to the question: yes there is. -- see shy jo BodyID:33238079.2.n.logpart (stored separately) -- N Jones Blogging @ http://nigelj.blogspot.com Proud Debian FOSS User Debian Maintainer of: html2ps ipkungfu
Re: PostgreSQL admin tools (Was: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages)
On 16-Apr-03, 19:23 (CDT), Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Apr 15, 2003 at 07:51:59PM -0300, Andre Luis Lopes wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-cache show rhdb-admin Package: rhdb-admin What is wrong here? rhdb-admin echo $? 1 I assume it is meant to do more then just emulate the false command? ;-) It's a (reported) bug in the libpgtcl package: /usr/lib/libtclpg.so is linked to ../postgresql/lib/libtclpg.so instead of postgresql/lib/libtclpg.so. Fix the link, and it will work. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net
Re: PostgreSQL admin tools (Was: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages)
On Thu, Apr 17, 2003 at 10:23:06AM +1000, Brian May wrote: On Tue, Apr 15, 2003 at 07:51:59PM -0300, Andre Luis Lopes wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-cache show rhdb-admin Package: rhdb-admin What is wrong here? rhdb-admin echo $? 1 I assume it is meant to do more then just emulate the false command? ;-) Actually, I don't use it. I was just replying hinting that the package seemed to be already available as a Debian package. -- ++--++ || André Luís Lopes [EMAIL PROTECTED] || || Debian-BR Project http://debian-br.cipsga.org.br || || Public GPG KeyID 9D1B82F6 || || Keyserver wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net || pgpAx8IxyDD2g.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: PostgreSQL admin tools (Was: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages)
On Tue, 15 Apr 2003, Carl B. Constantine wrote: http://pgadmin.postgresql.org/pgadmin2.php?ContentID=1 which only runs under non-free operating system. The closest I've found for *nix is pgaccess http://www.pgacess.org/ which is a tcl/tk app and works quite well. I use it at work on my solaris system. Please check the whole functionality of pgaccess before you call it close to PgAdmin. I think everybody who knows PostgreSQL knows pgaccess - as well as its constraints and drawbacks. Kind regards Andreas. -- Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind. John F. Kennedy
Re: PostgreSQL admin tools (Was: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages)
On Tue, Apr 15, 2003 at 07:51:59PM -0300, Andre Luis Lopes wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-cache show rhdb-admin Package: rhdb-admin What is wrong here? rhdb-admin echo $? 1 I assume it is meant to do more then just emulate the false command? ;-) -- Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED]
PostgreSQL admin tools (Was: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages)
On Mon, 14 Apr 2003, Georges Khaznadar wrote: There is a nice graphical front-end to Postgresql, in the non-US section : I would like to vote against nice here. :) Moreover you can do several stuff but it is not comparable to PgAdmin http://pgadmin.postgresql.org/pgadmin2.php?ContentID=1 which only runs under non-free operating system. If you search ad www.postgresql.org for admin tool you get several links for instance also http://sources.redhat.com/rhdb/ which might end in a necie tool perhaps. Would be nice if somebody could check this out. Another tool which might be promissing is mergeant (apt-cahce show mergeant) but I cant currently check this out because I will not upgrade to unstable on currently. The KDE pendant to Gnome Mergeant might be Knoda (http://www.knoda.org/, Bug #160321). So in fact we do not really seem to keep the non-free tool, but we need a stable replacement soon. Kind regards Andreas. -- Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind. John F. Kennedy
Re: PostgreSQL admin tools (Was: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages)
* Andreas Tille ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Mon, 14 Apr 2003, Georges Khaznadar wrote: There is a nice graphical front-end to Postgresql, in the non-US section : I would like to vote against nice here. :) Moreover you can do several stuff but it is not comparable to PgAdmin http://pgadmin.postgresql.org/pgadmin2.php?ContentID=1 which only runs under non-free operating system. The closest I've found for *nix is pgaccess http://www.pgacess.org/ which is a tcl/tk app and works quite well. I use it at work on my solaris system. -- .''`. Carl B. Constantine : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `'GnuPG: 135F FC30 7A02 B0EB 61DB 34E3 3AF1 DC6C 9F7A 3FF8 `- Debian GNU/Linux -- The power of freedom
Re: PostgreSQL admin tools (Was: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages)
On Tue, Apr 15, 2003 at 07:51:48AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: snip If you search ad www.postgresql.org for admin tool you get several links for instance also http://sources.redhat.com/rhdb/ which might end in a necie tool perhaps. Would be nice if somebody could check this out. Another tool which might be promissing is mergeant snip [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-cache search redhat postgresql rhdb-admin - Graphical tool to administer PostgreSQL/RHDB Databases [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-cache show rhdb-admin Package: rhdb-admin Priority: optional Section: misc Installed-Size: 2240 Maintainer: Roberto Mello [EMAIL PROTECTED] Architecture: i386 Version: 1.1-3 Depends: tcl8.3, itcl3.1, tk8.3, iwidgets3.1, postgresql-client(= 7.2.1), libpgtcl(= 7.2.1), tktable(= 2.7), blt(= 2.4) Filename: pool/main/r/rhdb-admin/rhdb-admin_1.1-3_i386.deb Size: 312494 MD5sum: 39fde2860fe87e6c2dcbb89a1b5684bd Description: Graphical tool to administer PostgreSQL/RHDB Databases Red Hat Database (aka PostgreSQL) Administrator is a cross-platform graphical tool designed to allow DBA's to manage their database clusters. It provides both database browse (inspect tables, table contents, indices, functions, aggreggate operators, etc.), and database management (creating indices, dropping objects, etc.) capabilities. . Red Hat Database is the PostgreSQL-based Object-Relational Database Management System marketed by Red Hat, Inc. . Homepage: http://sources.redhat.com/rhdb/tools.html [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ -- ++--++ || André Luís Lopes [EMAIL PROTECTED] || || Debian-BR Project http://debian-br.cipsga.org.br || || Public GPG KeyID 9D1B82F6 || || Keyserver wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net || pgpw1BFW0mjbW.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages
Andreas Tille wrote: mpsql -- A graphical frontend for PostgreSQL [#89957] * Orphaned 755 days ago It would be great if someone would step in here. Graphical frontends to PostgreSQL are quite rare. It's non-free. However, Erik Tews fixed the package so it has proper build dependencies and after a rebuild the package installs again. I've just uploaded the package. Is there no GTK based SQL monitor for PostgreSQL? I can't believe that the non-free mpsql is the only graphical one. Regards, Joey -- Long noun chains don't automatically imply security. -- Bruce Schneier Please always Cc to me when replying to me on the lists.
Re: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages
On Mon, 14 Apr 2003, Martin Schulze wrote: Andreas Tille wrote: mpsql -- A graphical frontend for PostgreSQL [#89957] * Orphaned 755 days ago It would be great if someone would step in here. Graphical frontends to PostgreSQL are quite rare. It's non-free. However, Erik Tews fixed the package so it has proper build dependencies and after a rebuild the package installs again. I've just uploaded the package. Is there no GTK based SQL monitor for PostgreSQL? I can't believe that the non-free mpsql is the only graphical one. I can't believe to, but it seems to be so. There wwas some rumor that the nice VB-tool would be ported to Linux ... Kind regards Andreas. -- Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind. John F. Kennedy
Re: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages
Andreas Tille [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, 14 Apr 2003, Martin Schulze wrote: Andreas Tille wrote: mpsql -- A graphical frontend for PostgreSQL [#89957] * Orphaned 755 days ago It would be great if someone would step in here. Graphical frontends to PostgreSQL are quite rare. It's non-free. However, Erik Tews fixed the package so it has proper build dependencies and after a rebuild the package installs again. I've just uploaded the package. Is there no GTK based SQL monitor for PostgreSQL? I can't believe that the non-free mpsql is the only graphical one. I can't believe to, but it seems to be so. There wwas some rumor that the nice VB-tool would be ported to Linux ... What about Tora? -- Jérôme Marant http://marant.org
Re: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages
There is a nice graphical front-end to Postgresql, in the non-US section : gk:~$ apt-cache show pgaccess| grep -A 100 Description Description: Tk/Tcl interface to PostgreSQL A Tk/Tcl program for X that provides a front-end to PostgreSQL. It can be used to generate and store queries, views, reports and forms. . The PostgreSQL database may be local or on a remote machine. Task: database-server Package: pgaccess Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: non-US Installed-Size: 1524 Maintainer: Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Source: postgresql Version: 7.2.1-2woody2 Depends: libpgtcl (= 7.1) Description: Tk/Tcl front-end for PostgreSQL database A Tk/Tcl program for X that provides a front-end to PostgreSQL. It can be used to generate and store queries, views and new forms. Andreas Tille a écrit : On Mon, 14 Apr 2003, Martin Schulze wrote: Andreas Tille wrote: mpsql -- A graphical frontend for PostgreSQL [#89957] * Orphaned 755 days ago It would be great if someone would step in here. Graphical frontends to PostgreSQL are quite rare. It's non-free. However, Erik Tews fixed the package so it has proper build dependencies and after a rebuild the package installs again. I've just uploaded the package. Is there no GTK based SQL monitor for PostgreSQL? I can't believe that the non-free mpsql is the only graphical one. I can't believe to, but it seems to be so. There wwas some rumor that the nice VB-tool would be ported to Linux ...
Re: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages
* Fumitoshi UKAI | At Fri, 11 Apr 2003 13:52:12 -0400 (EDT), | Joe Nahmias wrote: | | Will these packages will still be available through archive.d.o or will | they be purged from there as well? | | These packages will be available through http://snapshot.debian.net/, | as much as I can afford to maintain. How does the disk space situation look? I think snapshot.d.n is a so useful service that Debian should consider using funds for paying for hard drives for it, assuming the growth isn't «too bad», for some value of that. -- Tollef Fog Heen,''`. UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are : :' : `. `' `-
Re: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages
* Bernd Eckenfels [EMAIL PROTECTED] [030412 15:49]: I guess you thought about http://snapshot.debian.net/ instead of archive? s.d.n main page explicitely says that removed pkgs will be retained there. So there's no problem recovering the latest version from sid of a package. Well, they have to be stored on archive, too. Mainly for GPL licensing issues. Why that? I thought we use 3a and not 3b for distribution thus avoiding such problems? Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- Sendmail is like emacs: A nice operating system, but missing an editor and a MTA.
Re: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages
Martin Michlmayr wrote: # The rules: # * All packages orphaned less than 90 days ago will be kept! # * Ignore all bugs less than 30 days old. # otherwise: # * Packages with RC bugs will be removed. # * Packages orphaned 180 days ago and with NMUed RC bugs will be removed. # * Packages orphaned with a Standards-Version less than 3.0 (which # would be a RC bug anyway) will be removed. # * Packages orphaned more than 360 days ago will be removed in any case. These packages all look likely to be leaves, but have you checked for other packages depending on them just to be sure? -- see shy jo pgpyW8mmZxWX5.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages
* Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-04-11 23:11]: These packages all look likely to be leaves, but have you checked for other packages depending on them just to be sure? Not yet, but I intend to do so before the removal. -- Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages
At Fri, 11 Apr 2003 13:52:12 -0400 (EDT), Joe Nahmias wrote: Will these packages will still be available through archive.d.o or will they be purged from there as well? These packages will be available through http://snapshot.debian.net/, as much as I can afford to maintain. Regards, Fumitoshi UKAI
Re: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages
On Friday 11 April 2003 19:52, Joe Nahmias wrote: Will these packages will still be available through archive.d.o or will they be purged from there as well? I guess you thought about http://snapshot.debian.net/ instead of archive? s.d.n main page explicitely says that removed pkgs will be retained there. So there's no problem recovering the latest version from sid of a package. cheers -- vbi -- Help! I'm trapped in a PDP 11/70! pgpEi9952IEnQ.pgp Description: signature
Re: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages
On Sat, Apr 12, 2003 at 03:15:17PM +0200, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder wrote: I guess you thought about http://snapshot.debian.net/ instead of archive? s.d.n main page explicitely says that removed pkgs will be retained there. So there's no problem recovering the latest version from sid of a package. Well, they have to be stored on archive, too. Mainly for GPL licensing issues. Greetings Bernd -- (OO) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ( .. ) [EMAIL PROTECTED],linux.de,debian.org} http://home.pages.de/~eckes/ o--o *plush* 2048/93600EFD [EMAIL PROTECTED] +497257930613 BE5-RIPE (OO) When cryptography is outlawed, bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl!
Re: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages
On Sat, 12 Apr 2003, Martin Michlmayr wrote: biomode -- [Biology] An Emacs mode to edit genetic data [#100215] * Orphaned 671 days ago I hope that the bugs will be fixed soon - at least I have heard rumors that work is going on. bugsx -- evolve biomorphs using genetic algorithms [#86636] * Orphaned 780 days ago ... fastlink -- [Biology] A faster version of pedigree programs of Linkage [#100221] * Orphaned 671 days ago I see no reason to remove bug free packages. I just used to take over all orphaned packages which have bugs filed on it in the past. As long as theses packages are free of bugs I see no reason for an upload. In general I would offer to care for biology related packages if noone else would be able to do this instead of me. freetds-jdbc -- Pure Java JDBC driver for MS SQL and Sybase [#117543] * Orphaned 529 days ago ACK. I was the former maintainer and think if noone insists it can be removed. mpsql -- A graphical frontend for PostgreSQL [#89957] * Orphaned 755 days ago It would be great if someone would step in here. Graphical frontends to PostgreSQL are quite rare. njplot -- [Biology] A tree drawing program [#100249] * Orphaned 671 days ago Same as for bugsx and fastlink. If you think the wishlist bug is a problem I would care for it soon. sabre -- Fighter plane simulator. [#175226] * Orphaned 97 days ago * 1 RC bugs. Hmm, would be a shame if noone would care for it. My son likes it and the bugs on it do not seem really hard, IMHO. Kind regards Andreas. PS: In general I like the idea to consolidate the archive ... -- Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind. John F. Kennedy
Re: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages
On Sat, Apr 12, 2003 at 05:39:14PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: mpsql -- A graphical frontend for PostgreSQL [#89957] * Orphaned 755 days ago It would be great if someone would step in here. Graphical frontends to PostgreSQL are quite rare. It's not installable (#175816) and upstream seams to be gone. -- Met vriendelijke groet / with kind regards, Guus Sliepen [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgpMiOXW3cLse.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages
Hi, On Sat, Apr 12, 2003 at 05:39:14PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: On Sat, 12 Apr 2003, Martin Michlmayr wrote: sabre -- Fighter plane simulator. [#175226] * Orphaned 97 days ago * 1 RC bugs. Hmm, would be a shame if noone would care for it. My son likes it and the bugs on it do not seem really hard, IMHO. The Upstream site has disappeared. And a quick google doesn't show anything interesting about it or its upstream author. regards, guillem
Upcoming removal of orphaned packages
There are currently about 200 orphaned packages, many of which have been on WNPP for quite a long time and some with RC bugs. I intend to request the removal of the following packages in two weeks unless a package has been adopted by someone until then. If you want to keep one of the following packages, please make sure to - change the title of the bug from O: to ITA: as described on http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp - make an upload to the archive, change the Maintainer: field to you, fix as many bugs as possible, also check for new upstream releases, etc. - Make sure to close the WNPP bug in your upload. If you cannot make an upload for some reason (e.g., you need a sponsor), then contact me privately. However, unless there is a good reason, an upload should happen within the next 2 weeks. Below is the listing of packages. If you want to know the rules used to compile this list, look at the end of this posting. Again, if you want to keep any of them, make sure to upload within the next 2 weeks. biomode -- [Biology] An Emacs mode to edit genetic data [#100215] * Orphaned 671 days ago bnetd -- Battle.Net server for Unix like systems [#123479] * Orphaned 485 days ago * 3 RC bugs fixed in NMU. bugsx -- evolve biomorphs using genetic algorithms [#86636] * Orphaned 780 days ago cgiemail -- CGI Form-to-Mail converter [#129109] * Orphaned 452 days ago chpp -- a powerful and simple preprocessor [#88986] * Orphaned 763 days ago clif -- C language interpreter [#86241] * Orphaned 783 days ago doc-linux-zh-text -- Linux HOWTO in Chinese [#130150] * Orphaned 445 days ago dot-forward -- .forward compatibility for qmail [#68638] * Orphaned 978 days ago dstooltk -- dynamical systems investigation (Tk version) [#68311] * Orphaned 1185 days ago dstooltk-doc -- dynamical systems investigation (Tk version) [#68312] * Orphaned 1185 days ago emacs-dl-canna -- Canna DL module for emacs20-dl [#140997] * Orphaned 373 days ago emacs-dl-wnn -- Wnn DL module for emacs20-dl [#140998] * Orphaned 373 days ago emacs20-dl -- The GNU Emacs editor. (Dynamic Loading supported) [#141006] * Orphaned 373 days ago ezmanage -- Manage multiple ezmlm mailing lists [#115468] * Orphaned 545 days ago fastlink -- [Biology] A faster version of pedigree programs of Linkage [#100221] * Orphaned 671 days ago flick -- Flexible IDL Compiler Kit [#123495] * Orphaned 485 days ago freetds-jdbc -- Pure Java JDBC driver for MS SQL and Sybase [#117543] * Orphaned 529 days ago gadfly -- SQL database and parser generator for Python [#113080] * Orphaned 566 days ago gcdb -- MySQL/PHP billing system [#161707] * Orphaned 202 days ago * 2 RC bugs. gnome-vfs-extras -- GPL gnome-vfs modules, includes SMB support [#162408] * Orphaned 197 days ago * 1 RC bugs fixed in NMU. ibm-jdk1.1-installer -- An Installer for IBM Developer Kit for Linux [#141521] * Orphaned 369 days ago icqlib -- icq library implementation [#89582] * Orphaned 758 days ago ines -- Emulator for the NES/Famicom/Dandy game system [#136813] * Orphaned 402 days ago ipchains-perl -- Perl interface to ipchains [#123694] * Orphaned 484 days ago jikespg -- Jikes Parser Generator [#123520] * Orphaned 485 days ago knapster2 -- Napster Client for KDE [#111658] * Orphaned 580 days ago * 2 RC bugs. knapster2 -- Napster Client for KDE [#111658] * Orphaned 580 days ago * 2 RC bugs. langdrill -- Language Drills [#88244] * Orphaned 770 days ago libcomprex -- GNUpdate Multi-purpose compression library [#170300] * Orphaned 140 days ago * 1 RC bugs. linuxconf -- a powerful Linux administration kit [#112187] * Orphaned 574 days ago * 1 RC bugs. lshell -- Enforce limits to protect system integrity. [#93894] * Orphaned 727 days ago mova -- Scripts for Mova-format dictionary [#135061] * Orphaned 413 days ago moxftp -- Athena X interface to ftp [#109219] * Orphaned 600 days ago mpsql -- A graphical frontend for PostgreSQL [#89957] * Orphaned 755 days ago mserver -- Network Modem Server [#80924] * Orphaned 831 days ago nase-a60 -- An Algol-60 interpreter [#141181] * Orphaned 371 days ago njplot -- [Biology] A tree drawing program [#100249] * Orphaned 671 days ago peruser -- Suite for offline reading and composing of Usenet articles [#88383] * Orphaned 768 days ago playmidi -- MIDI player [#120021] * Orphaned 509 days ago pm3i386 -- Polytechnique Montreal Modula-3 Bootstrap [#129593] * Orphaned 449 days ago psptools -- Tools for PostScript printers and devices [#68594] * Orphaned 979 days ago qcl -- A Language for quantum computers [#162060] * Orphaned 199 days ago * 1 RC bugs. rrlogind -- Login daemon for the Road Runner Cable Modem Service [#83344] * Orphaned 807 days ago sabre -- Fighter plane simulator. [#175226] * Orphaned 97 days ago * 1 RC bugs. siag -- The SIAG Office suit [#92447] * Orphaned 739 days ago taper -- Full-screen system backup
Re: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages
Will these packages will still be available through archive.d.o or will they be purged from there as well? Joe Nahmias, DD wannabe Martin Michlmayr wrote: There are currently about 200 orphaned packages, many of which have been on WNPP for quite a long time and some with RC bugs. I intend to request the removal of the following packages in two weeks unless a package has been adopted by someone until then. If you want to keep one of the following packages, please make sure to - change the title of the bug from O: to ITA: as described on http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp - make an upload to the archive, change the Maintainer: field to you, fix as many bugs as possible, also check for new upstream releases, etc. - Make sure to close the WNPP bug in your upload. If you cannot make an upload for some reason (e.g., you need a sponsor), then contact me privately. However, unless there is a good reason, an upload should happen within the next 2 weeks. snip # The rules: # * All packages orphaned less than 90 days ago will be kept! # * Ignore all bugs less than 30 days old. # otherwise: # * Packages with RC bugs will be removed. # * Packages orphaned 180 days ago and with NMUed RC bugs will be removed. # * Packages orphaned with a Standards-Version less than 3.0 (which # would be a RC bug anyway) will be removed. # * Packages orphaned more than 360 days ago will be removed in any case.
Re: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages
On Sat, Apr 12, 2003 at 03:06:32AM +1000, Martin Michlmayr wrote: If you want to keep one of the following packages, please make sure to - change the title of the bug from O: to ITA: as described on http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp - make an upload to the archive, change the Maintainer: field to you, fix as many bugs as possible, also check for new upstream releases, etc. - Make sure to close the WNPP bug in your upload. If you cannot make an upload for some reason (e.g., you need a sponsor), then contact me privately. However, unless there is a good reason, an upload should happen within the next 2 weeks. taper -- Full-screen system backup utility. [#115960] * Orphaned 541 days ago taper -- Full-screen system backup utility. [#115960] * Orphaned 541 days ago I use taper on a regular basis, but I wouldn't actually have time to maintain it. It does seem to work pretty well, the bugs filed against it are all pretty much easy to work with, and it would be a shame to lose it. So I offer, er, gratitude? to whoever keeps it alive... -- 2. That which causes joy or happiness.
Re: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages
On Fri, 11 Apr 2003, Joe Nahmias wrote: Will these packages will still be available through archive.d.o or will they be purged from there as well? archive.d.o stores stable distros, and is never purged of packages (although too old releases just might. Depends on the amount of space, I suppose). If the packages ever went in a Debian stable distro, that version won't be purged. -- One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie. -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh
Re: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages
* Joe Nahmias [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-04-11 13:52]: Will these packages will still be available through archive.d.o or will they be purged from there as well? They won't be removed from already released versions of Debian. So if the packages were in potato or woody, they will be available through archive.d.o. (Otherwise, they will be kept in the morgue on auric for a whilw but that's only accessiable for developers.) -- Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED]