Bug#112645: xmailtool was withdrawn

2001-09-25 Thread Richard Braakman
eue. If you are interested in this package, then I encourage you to find a Debian maintainer for it, or to become one yourself. Without a maintainer this package does not have much of a future (if any). -- Richard Braakman Will write free software for money. See http://www.xs4all.nl/~dark/resume.html

Re: Officially drop Linux 2.0 support? (was Some /usr/doc NMUs coming up)

2001-03-26 Thread Richard Braakman
ll patiently wait for one of them to step up for modutils-linux2.0 before I do anything as silly as volunteering :-) Richard Braakman

Re: Officially drop Linux 2.0 support? (was Some /usr/doc NMUs coming up)

2001-03-26 Thread Richard Braakman
before linux 2.2 was out. It's sort of cool to be able to keep upgrading those without losing their uptime -- it demonstrates one of Debian's technical principles. Richard Braakman (always amused when his Red Hat using colleagues have to wipe their machines to go from 7.x to 7.y or whatever).

Reminder about release-critical bug in dotfile-bash

2000-03-22 Thread Richard Braakman
You have packages on the "bug horizon" list. They will be considered for removal in 5 days, if the bugs are still open at that time. If you do not think a bug is release-critical, then please downgrade its severity. This is an automated message. Package: dotfile-bash (debian/main). Maintainer:

Re: packages for removal from woody

2000-01-26 Thread Richard Braakman
On Wed, Jan 26, 2000 at 11:07:37PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > So, after all that rambling, I suppose I should accept! Great! I love it when an orphaned package finds a home :) (*sniff*) (*wipe eyes*) -- Richard Braakman

Re: packages for removal from woody

2000-01-25 Thread Richard Braakman
ackage is orphaned. Richard Braakman

Re: 2utf got no maintainer

1999-12-26 Thread Richard Braakman
Package: ftp.debian.org I'm filing this as a reminder. Richard Braakman On Sun, Dec 26, 1999 at 08:50:45PM +0100, Bart Schuller wrote: > On Mon, Dec 27, 1999 at 03:41:38AM +0800, Anthony Wong wrote: > > [ Please CC me as I'm not subscribed ] > > > > The pac

Re: Release-critical bug inventory

1999-12-12 Thread Richard Braakman
On Sun, Dec 12, 1999 at 07:26:10PM +0100, Christian Kurz wrote: > On 99-12-12 Richard Braakman wrote: > > Greetings. The code freeze is almost upon us (34 days to go), and it's > > past time to take stock of the remaining release-critical bugs. > > Unfortunately there a

Release-critical bug inventory

1999-12-12 Thread Richard Braakman
e that a bug is "release-critical" if we cannot reasonably release a package with that bug still present, or if the bug interferes with an established release goal. Package: dotfile-procmail (main). Maintainer: Debian QA Group 52439 dotfile-procmail: Doesn't work at all (tcl error?)

Re: Bug#18337: marked as done (lesstif-bin: Missing manpages)

1999-10-06 Thread Richard Braakman
Please reopen this. The bugreport mentions four missing manpages, only one of which has been written. > Package: lesstif-bin > Version: 19980216-1 > Severity: wishlist > > LessTif lacks several manpages. > * E: lesstif-bin: binary-without-manpage mwm > * E: lesstif-bin: binary-without-manpage mx

Re: Patch for bash

1999-08-28 Thread Richard Braakman
Anthony Towns wrote: > On Sat, Aug 28, 1999 at 12:22:37PM +0200, Richard Braakman wrote: > > Frankly, I think this whole process is too risky for the benefit gained, > > certainly too much risk for a non-maintainer upload, and that we shouldn't > > do it with curren

Re: Patch for bash

1999-08-28 Thread Richard Braakman
ll be upgrading from slink, which has a pretty old APT. Frankly, I think this whole process is too risky for the benefit gained, certainly too much risk for a non-maintainer upload, and that we shouldn't do it with current tools. Richard Braakman

Re: Signature for QA?

1999-04-01 Thread Richard Braakman
t pointless. It shows that the bugreports are spread widely across the packages. Maybe a more interesting statistic would be the distribution of the bugreports that are still open after 60 days. Richard Braakman

Re: Debian QA Policy Draft

1999-03-29 Thread Richard Braakman
Martin Schulze wrote: > Joey Hess wrote: > > Martin Schulze wrote: > > > Re-upload the known orphaned packages with the 'Maintainer' field > > > set to: "Orphaned Package " > > > > We're currently using "Maintainer: Debian QA Group > > " > > > > I forget whatever log-ago discussion requted i

Bug#34627: mozilla: mozilla dumps core on every page

1999-03-16 Thread Richard Braakman
Package: mozilla Version: 19981008-0.1 Since I upgraded to glibc 2.1, mozilla stopped working. When I invoke it with an URL on the command line, it manages to render the page, and then dumps core. It does this with every page I've tried, including http://www.debian.org. Richard Bra

Bug#34483: ispell 3.1.21 available

1999-03-14 Thread Richard Braakman
I don't! I looked on metalab.unc.edu and found only ispell-3.1.20.tar.gz there. Richard Braakman

Re: List of bugs that *must* be fixed before releasing Slink

1999-02-01 Thread Richard Braakman
of. How can I check if a binary is linked statically to gettext? The binaries are stripped, so I don't have symbol information. Richard Braakman

Re: Mozilla status

1998-11-30 Thread Richard Braakman
J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\) wrote: > When that happens, can I close these bugs rather than mark them Severity: > fixed? If not, who has the authority to close them? I'd say that anyone on this list can act as maintainer for orphaned packages. Richard Braakman

Re: /bin/csh link

1998-09-02 Thread Richard Braakman
roken link, then csh and tcsh could be moved to /bin instead. Richard Braakman

Bug#17976: ftplib 3 available

1998-02-09 Thread Richard Braakman
ver ftplib and uploaded the new version. It's currently in Incoming, and likely to stay there for a while because it split into ftplib3 and ftplib-dev. Richard Braakman -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Bug#16531: link shared libs against other shared libs

1998-01-03 Thread Richard Braakman
automatically. Linking shared libraries this way was marked as a release goal for Debian 2.0, in Brian White's "Upcoming Debian Releases" list, the last of which was mailed to debian-devel on 8 Sep 1997. Richard Braakman -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word &