[RFC/RFH] Post-etch archive cleanup: let's work on something organized!

2007-02-28 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
Hi, The release of etch is approaching, and we now have a good idea of the list of packages that won't make it into etch. It would be interesting to review all those packages, because something might be wrong about them: - they might be target for removals from debian - their maintainers might be

Re: [RFC/RFH] Post-etch archive cleanup: let's work on something organized!

2007-02-28 Thread Bart Martens
On Wed, 2007-02-28 at 11:24 +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > Hi, > > The release of etch is approaching, and we now have a good idea of the > list of packages that won't make it into etch. It would be interesting > to review all those packages, because something might be wrong about > them: > - they

Re: [RFC/RFH] Post-etch archive cleanup: let's work on something organized!

2007-02-28 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Wed, 2007-02-28 at 11:24 +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > Any comments/suggestions on the proposed workflow ? Thanks for adding me, I've already started on some packages I was involved in earlier (e.g. via NMU's). I'm using "MAINTAINER_PINGED" for those where I've contacted the maintainer for mor

Re: [RFC/RFH] Post-etch archive cleanup: let's work on something organized!

2007-02-28 Thread Bart Martens
On Wed, 2007-02-28 at 12:55 +0100, Bart Martens wrote: > On Wed, 2007-02-28 at 11:24 +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > 1. A list of packages matching: > >"was in sid on etch freeze date, is still in sid, but isn't in etch" > >is generated and commited to the collab-qa svn repository > > T

Re: [RFC/RFH] Post-etch archive cleanup: let's work on something organized!

2007-02-28 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 28/02/07 at 12:55 +0100, Bart Martens wrote: > > I propose the following workflow: > > 1. A list of packages matching: > >"was in sid on etch freeze date, is still in sid, but isn't in etch" > >is generated and commited to the collab-qa svn repository > > That excludes young packages

Re: [RFC/RFH] Post-etch archive cleanup: let's work on something organized!

2007-02-28 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 28/02/07 at 13:21 +0100, Bart Martens wrote: > On Wed, 2007-02-28 at 12:55 +0100, Bart Martens wrote: > > On Wed, 2007-02-28 at 11:24 +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > > 1. A list of packages matching: > > >"was in sid on etch freeze date, is still in sid, but isn't in etch" > > >is gen

Re: [RFC/RFH] Post-etch archive cleanup: let's work on something organized!

2007-02-28 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 28/02/07 at 12:58 +0100, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: > On Wed, 2007-02-28 at 11:24 +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > Any comments/suggestions on the proposed workflow ? > > Thanks for adding me, I've already started on some packages I was > involved in earlier (e.g. via NMU's). I'm using "MAINTAINER_