Re: Orphan packages

2011-03-29 Thread Steve Langasek
Hi Dmitry, On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 10:07:39AM +0400, Dmitry E. Oboukhov wrote: There was (he doesn't maintain anything now) a maintainer who uploaded his packages using me (and some other DDs) as a sponsor [4]. Not long ago he had a conflict with ftp-team [1]. As a result one of his

Re: Orphan packages

2011-03-29 Thread Dmitry E. Oboukhov
There was (he doesn't maintain anything now) a maintainer who uploaded his packages using me (and some other DDs) as a sponsor [4]. Not long ago he had a conflict with ftp-team [1]. As a result one of his packages was removed from Debian [2] and Ubuntu [3]. It becomes clear that he

Re: Orphan packages

2011-03-29 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Tue, 29 Mar 2011, Dmitry E. Oboukhov wrote: The key point is he disagrees DFSG. I also witnessed this when I contacted him about his dropbox package (before it got removed). He's not a Debian developer (and not a DM AFAIK) and you were his entry points to Debian, so I don't think there's

Re: Orphan packages

2011-03-29 Thread Dmitry E. Oboukhov
Please CC me :) DEO The key point is he disagrees DFSG. RH I also witnessed this when I contacted him about his dropbox package RH (before it got removed). RH He's not a Debian developer (and not a DM AFAIK) and you were his RH entry points to Debian, so I don't think there's much to discuss.

Re: Orphan packages

2011-03-29 Thread Alexander Reichle-Schmehl
Hi! Am 29.03.2011 11:01, schrieb Dmitry E. Oboukhov: I don't want to do that by myself. In this case the conflict will continue. I think that there will no conflict if anyone of Debian leaders has done that. I wouldn't count myself as leader, but I can orphan the packages, unless you want

Re: Orphan packages

2011-03-29 Thread Dmitry E. Oboukhov
I don't want to do that by myself. In this case the conflict will continue. I think that there will no conflict if anyone of Debian leaders has done that. ARS I wouldn't count myself as leader, but I can orphan the packages, unless ARS you want someone, who hasn't been involved at all, to do

Re: Orphan packages

2011-03-29 Thread Dmitry E. Oboukhov
I don't want to do that by myself. In this case the conflict will continue. I think that there will no conflict if anyone of Debian leaders has done that. ARS I wouldn't count myself as leader, but I can orphan the packages, unless ARS you want someone, who hasn't been involved at all, to do

Re: Orphan packages

2011-03-29 Thread Dmitry E. Oboukhov
ARS I wouldn't count myself as leader, but I can orphan the packages, unless ARS you want someone, who hasn't been involved at all, to do it. You can do it as ftp-team member :) ARS Done. Thanks! There are a few popular packages in the list, so I think all they will be adopted soon. -- .

Re: Orphan packages

2011-03-29 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 11:13:39AM +0400, Dmitry E. Oboukhov wrote: There was (he doesn't maintain anything now) a maintainer who uploaded his packages using me (and some other DDs) as a sponsor [4]. Not long ago he had a conflict with ftp-team [1]. As a result one of his packages was

Re: Orphan packages

2011-03-29 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 29 Mar 2011, Steve Langasek wrote: On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 11:13:39AM +0400, Dmitry E. Oboukhov wrote: Now he trolls in debian-russian@ on the subject. If he's abusing the mailing list, you can of course report this to listmas...@lists.debian.org. If you provide us

Re: Orphan packages

2011-03-29 Thread Dmitry E. Oboukhov
The key point is he disagrees DFSG. He said that he could continue to maintain but he disagreed DFSG so he wouldn't do anything to fix license issues etc. So I and the other his sponsor (jackyf) don't want to check his packages: if a maintainer disagrees Debian law it is no worth to check