Re: ITA for an abandoned package: evolver case

2016-06-30 Thread Tobias Frost
Am Donnerstag, den 30.06.2016, 11:17 +0100 schrieb Jerome BENOIT: >  > > > > in the meanwhile, according to quantz, the MIA process started some > > time ago (on 2016-05-24), > > > How can we get the current status of the process ?  > This is not supposed to be posted to a public mailing lists

Re: ITA for an abandoned package: evolver case

2016-06-30 Thread Mattia Rizzolo
On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 12:37:14PM +0200, Tobias Frost wrote: > This is not supposed to be posted to a public mailing lists, but as DD > you can logon to qa.debian.org and check there yourself* [1]. > > [1] https://wiki.debian.org/qa.debian.org/MIATeam Except that Jerome is no DD :) -- regards,

Re: ITA for an abandoned package: evolver case

2016-06-30 Thread Mattia Rizzolo
[removing Gianfranco and gladk from Cc, I know they follow these lists] On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 11:17:34AM +0100, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > On 08/06/16 09:51, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: > > in the meanwhile, according to quantz, the MIA process started some > > time ago (on 2016-05-24), > > How ca

Re: ITA for an abandoned package: evolver case

2016-06-30 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hi, On 08/06/16 09:51, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: > Hi, > > > >> i am maintaining many packages, which were maintained by Adam >> originally. But all of them are team-maintained (Debian Science), >> and this one is not. >> >> AFAIK Adam is not active in Debian last several years. From my >>

Re: ITA for an abandoned package: evolver case

2016-06-08 Thread Tobias Frost
Am Mittwoch, den 08.06.2016, 11:59 +0100 schrieb Jerome BENOIT: > Thanks for the reply. > > On 08/06/16 10:40, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: > > Hi, > > > > > May I fill an ITA or something to signify that someone to working > > > > > the [surface] evolver package ? > > > > A bug with patches sh

Re: ITA for an abandoned package: evolver case

2016-06-08 Thread Gianfranco Costamagna
Hi, >Right now the package rocks. >But the upstream version is (very) old, and the Debian package material >clearly needs some refreshment. Is a patch really appropriate here ? >May I rather wait for clear orphaning instead ? I see (2.30 VS 2.70)... what about: gbp import-dscs --debsnap git-imp

Re: ITA for an abandoned package: evolver case

2016-06-08 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Thanks for the reply. On 08/06/16 10:40, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: > Hi, > >> May I fill an ITA or something to signify that someone to working > >> the [surface] evolver package ? > > A bug with patches should be enough, ITA means somebody orphaning the package > and only the maintainer/MIA

Re: ITA for an abandoned package: evolver case

2016-06-08 Thread Gianfranco Costamagna
Hi, >May I fill an ITA or something to signify that someone to working >the [surface] evolver package ? A bug with patches should be enough, ITA means somebody orphaning the package and only the maintainer/MIA team can do it. But a bug with patches and you proposing the maintainership is someth

Re: ITA for an abandoned package: evolver case

2016-06-08 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hi, On 08/06/16 09:51, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: > Hi, > > > >> i am maintaining many packages, which were maintained by Adam >> originally. But all of them are team-maintained (Debian Science), >> and this one is not. >> >> AFAIK Adam is not active in Debian last several years. From my >>

Re: ITA for an abandoned package: evolver case

2016-06-08 Thread Gianfranco Costamagna
Hi, >i am maintaining many packages, which were maintained by Adam >originally. But all of them are team-maintained (Debian Science), and this >one is not. > >AFAIK Adam is not active in Debian last several years. From my point of >view, it will not be too offensive, if evolver will be moved und

Re: ITA for an abandoned package: evolver case

2016-06-07 Thread Anton Gladky
Hi, i am maintaining many packages, which were maintained by Adam originally. But all of them are team-maintained (Debian Science), and this one is not. AFAIK Adam is not active in Debian last several years. From my point of view, it will not be too offensive, if evolver will be moved under the r

ITA for an abandoned package: evolver case

2016-06-07 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello All, since a while I [0] have wanted to update the [surface] evolver package [1,2] because I used it a few years ego [and because I may use it a gain sooner or later]: I try to contact several times the current maintainer in view to get the package officially orphaned before any ITA submiss