Re: Volunteer-initiated team maintenance as a solution for packages with low activity

2012-04-18 Thread Moray Allan
On Wed, 2012-04-18 at 13:10 -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote: > So anyway, enough explanation, on to my proposed solution. Seeing as > team spirit has been a quite effective antidote to stagnation, lets go > ahead and use that again. I agree with the general intention, but not with the details of the

Re: what to do is maintainer is lacking? (was: wine-unstable in Debian)

2012-04-18 Thread Moray Allan
On Wed, 2012-04-18 at 10:16 +0100, Jon Dowland wrote: > We have hijacks, we have the tech committee: weapons of last resort. I was thinking about the same issue before this thread. My feeling is that over the same time period in which we've moved towards team maintenance, and moved to a lower thr

Re: Bug#668556: ITP: dparser -- a scannerless GLR parser generator

2012-04-14 Thread Moray Allan
On Sat, 2012-04-14 at 15:09 +0300, Andrew Shadura wrote: > During my university studies I had a course dedicated to compilers > theory, but while I knew (and still know) the meaning of all those > abbreviations I rarely tried to spell them out in full, but rather was > always using their abbreviate

Re: usefulness of ITPs (Re: mosh ITP not done, just package name taken over)

2012-04-14 Thread Moray Allan
On Sat, 2012-04-14 at 17:21 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > Might be best to both at once (using X-Debbugs-CC)? That's fine if the upstream author is sufficiently aware of Debian processes, but if not then the ITP template is rather an impersonal way to make contact. Despite licences, it's polite to st

Re: The future of non-dependency-based boot

2012-04-10 Thread Moray Allan
On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 11:55 AM, Jon Dowland wrote: > I was hesitant to suggest that investing energy into improving the > current init system, if it is likely to be wholesale replaced, might > not be worthwhile (when that same energy could be put into hastening > the inevitable). Yes, it's a pi

Re: The future of non-dependency-based boot

2012-04-10 Thread Moray Allan
On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 10:53 AM, Thomas Goirand wrote: > Considering that most (if not all) scripts would be user custom-scripts, > I'd say that the best way would be to, just move them away on a special > folder, and execute them one by one, without any particular order, and > print a huge warni

Bug#327568: ITP: gpe-calendar -- calendar for GPE

2005-09-10 Thread Moray Allan
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Moray Allan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: gpe-calendar Version : 0.64 Upstream Author : Philip Blundell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://gpe.handhelds.org/ * License : GPL Description : cale

Re: minimal documentation or usefulness of new package -- teleport?

2003-10-08 Thread Moray Allan
On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 12:50, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: > Colour me /clueless, but triggered by DWN, I tried > teleport, without much avail: Note that DWN simply picks up new packages; maintainers aren't asked whether they want them advertised or not. An initial teleport package has been in unstable

Bug#199899: ITP: gpe-taskmanager -- lists windows and kills errant programs

2003-07-03 Thread Moray Allan
Package: wnpp Version: unavailable; reported 2003-07-03 Severity: wishlist * Package name: gpe-taskmanager Version : 0.13 Upstream Author : Philip Blundell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://gpe.handhelds.org/ * License : GPL (version 2 or later) Description

Bug#199897: ITP: gpe-filemanager -- file manager for GPE

2003-07-03 Thread Moray Allan
Package: wnpp Version: unavailable; reported 2003-07-03 Severity: wishlist * Package name: gpe-filemanager Version : 0.09 Upstream Author : Damien Tanner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://gpe.handhelds.org/ * License : GPL (version 2 or later) Description

Bug#199896: ITP: libdm -- display migration support for GTK

2003-07-03 Thread Moray Allan
Package: wnpp Version: unavailable; reported 2003-07-03 Severity: wishlist * Package name: libdm Version : 0.25 Upstream Author : Philip Blundell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://gpe.handhelds.org/ * License : GPL Description : display migration support

Bug#199894: ITP: libtododb -- library that provides access to a to-do list database

2003-07-03 Thread Moray Allan
Package: wnpp Version: unavailable; reported 2003-07-03 Severity: wishlist * Package name: libtododb Version : 0.02 Upstream Authors: Philip Blundell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Luis Oliveira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://gpe.handhelds.org/ * License

Bug#198924: ITP: gpe-julia -- Julia/Mandelbrot set generator for GPE

2003-06-26 Thread Moray Allan
Package: wnpp Version: unavailable; reported 2003-06-26 Severity: wishlist * Package name: gpe-julia Version : 0.0.5 Upstream Author : Moray Allan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://gpe.handhelds.org/projects/GPE-games.shtml * License : GPL Descr