OK. So I managed to construct a dselect source package which builds
independently of dpkg. It required duplicating substantial portions of
lib/ . I intend that to be temporary. Until those portions are gone,
I will keep an eye on any changes made to lib/ in dpkg.
My plan for dselect is to make
Package: wnpp
Severity: normal
I am doing this on behalf of the maintainer, who wrote in bug 412777:
>Sorry, I haven't had much time to work on it. I'd happily give it to anyone
>who wants to take it over. I think most of the utilities in the package have
>been obsoleted, and I rarely use them.
"RFH for an RFH".
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of the program
I started on this, and I still hope to do it eventually but it's a very large,
and ugly, task. Hence the lack of progress.
If someone else actually *accomplishes* this, then they should certainly take
this ITA away from me.
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I'm sure
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reassign 379257 ftp.debian.org
retitle 379257 RM: ida -- RoQA; orphaned, contrib, few users, many many many
alternatives, etc.
thanks
This is just another image viewer and editor, and there are a gazillion
alternatives to it. It's been orphaned since July (over 3 months), and nobody
has ITAed.
reassign 302261 ftp.debian.org
retitle 302261 RM: gnome-think -- RoQA; orphaned long time, dead upstream,
GNOME 1
thanks
Orphaned over a year with no nibbles, dead upstream.
As suggested, this package should be removed.
It is surprsingly popular; 407 installs. But only 70 of those are
votes; th
Package: wnpp
Severity: normal
Orphaned already, needs wnpp bug
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retitle 392901 RM: honyaku-el -- RoQA; "essentially useless", orphaned, very
few users
reassign 392901 ftp.debian.org
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4 popcon installs. Former maintainer describes it as "essentially
useless"; it's designed to work with a discontinued proprietary
product. It has only 4 popcon installs.
Package: wnpp
Severity: normal
Previously orphaned, needs WNPP bug.
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Previously orphaned, needs wnpp bug
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This orphaned package has 1655 popcon installs, probably because it's
used by apt-listbugs.
Anyone on the Ruby team, or Junichi, interested in adopting it?
The orphaning bug is at #374109.
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retitle 384226 RM: gnome-gv -- RoQA; orphaned, dead upstream, better
alternatives
reassign 384226 ftp.debian.org
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As documented in the bug report, this package is dead upstream and
has been superseded by 'evince' (as well as there being many alternative
PostScript viewers). This package sh
retitle 279592 RM: radiuscontext -- RoQA; very few users, orphaned since 2004,
obsolete w/r/t upstream
reassign 279592 ftp.debian.org
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Radiuscontext has been orphaned for over two years with no nibbles. It has 10
popcon installs (2 votes) and has only had a single NMU since the release of
reassign 340940 ftp.debian.org
retitle 340940 RM: rsplib -- RoQA; orphaned, out of date w/r/t upstream, very
few users
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This is a prototype implementation of something for which a newer
major version was released upstream in September,
and upstream no longer supplies the old implementation.
7;minimal' core database, and the
server has had its copyright and licensing handled carefully, so it's OK.
However,
anyone choosing to adopt it should be warned about the core databases.)
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will
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"nothing useful" in the package at the
time.
It's contrib. Popcon shows 8 installs, 7 votes.
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retitle 363497 RM: pfe -- RoQA; orphaned, 5-month old FTBFS, very few users
reassign 363497 ftp.debian.org
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The FTBFS is 362033. Orphaned 4 months with no nibbles.
Popcon shows 19 installs, only 1 vote.
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reassign 327671 ftp.debian.org
retitle 327671 RM: gtkhx -- RoQA; orphaned 1 year, very few users, dead
upstream since 2003
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Package was killed upstream by its author (see bug trail for 157923)
Popcon showed 17 installs, 4 votes.
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is grossly out of date: it is version 0.9, while upstream has
released version 1.0 (in June *2004*) and is working on version 1.1.
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Package: wnpp
Severity: normal
The maintainer has stated his desire to orphan this package in bug #378584.
The maintainer thinks that this package may no longer be of interest to anyone.
We'll see if anyone's interested in this package. If nobody's interested,
after a few months it will be remov
We're waaaiting
How's it going? Think you'll be able to upload a new netcdf package soon,
perhaps fixing some of the outstanding bugs?
Please reply to the bug trail. Thanks.
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It's
also dead upstream.
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retitle 312209 RM: postit; RoQA: orphaned, dead upstream, no users, plenty of
alternatives
retitle 312208 RM: newsflash; RoQA: orphaned, dead upstream, few users, plenty
of alternatives
reassign 312209 ftp.debian.org
reassign 312208 ftp.debian.org
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Both orphaned since June 2005, with nobod
reassign 297473 ftp.debian.org
retitle 297473 RM: openmcl; RoQA, orphaned, no installations, RC-buggy
reassign 297475 ftp.debian.org
retitle 297473 RM: openmcl-build-tools; RoQA, orphaned, useless without openmcl
thanks
Popcon installs: one, old, for openmcl; none for openmcl-build-tools.
Both orp
retitle 369209 RM: animal; RoQA; obsolete, orphaned, unpopular, many
alternatives exist
reassign 369209 ftp.debian.org
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Current 'animal' package is obsolete and out of date. Upstream animal has
been merged into siptoolbox -- which is also unpopular and was recently
removed from Debian.
retitle 323469 ITA: fv -- a tool for viewing and editing FITS format files
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I'm planning to adopt this because it's handy for some work I've been doing.
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reassign 294316 ftp.debian.org
retitle 294316 RM: wmufo -- RoQA, orphaned, obsolete, non-functional
thanks
wmufo suffers from the same problem as several other packages. It works
only with [EMAIL PROTECTED] Classic, and [EMAIL PROTECTED] Classic is now a
dead project which
isn't accepting any wo
I would enjoy working on dselect. Unfortunately it is rather badly entangled
with the dpkg source, and I do not enjoy working on it in this situation. I
have tried, but failed, to disentangle it into a separate source package. If
someone manages to do that, get back to me and I'll help work o
They are the only reason this package *exists*.
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clone 272127 -1
reassign -1 freecdb
retitle -1 freecdb: must provide shared library or _pic library
tags -1 -moreinfo
severity -1 serious
tags 272127 -moreinfo
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See the bug trail; this is what the bug started out as originally.
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since there weren't any substantive changes I actually want to make at the
moment. What's considered best practice on this?
However, I've found a substantive change worth making, so :-) I should be
adopting it as soon as I get that working.
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What's the status of this; have you uploaded a version with the mistakes
corrected yet? Do you still need a sponsor?
I ask because I was about to file a C++ transition bug for this package, but
if you're on top of it, there's no need.
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into the public domain by
its author:
....etc.
Get the idea?
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And more interestingly, what have you done about the legal issues?
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More seriously, it would be better if this were distributed as a more
generic program which represented the system activity by a series of pictures.
The pictures could be distributed in separate packages, with a deliberatly
non-erotic default option, and a pictures-off package for pictures which
mi
If this is packaged, I respectfully request that alternate graphics of a hot
hunk be available.
I think this measure would render it a significantly more general-purpose
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> On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 09:46:26PM -0300, Guilherme de S. Pastore wrote:
>> Package: wnpp
>> Severity: wishlist
>>
>> * Package name: xmms-skins
>> Version : 0.3
>> Upstream Author : Guilherme de S. Pastore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> * URL : http://www.majufran.com.br/x
rial
remains in 'main' for the time being, I hope this is not considered
an excuse to add new GNU FDL material into main.
> Description : Documentation for The GIMP, version 2
Please remember that this is a *non-free* package. Thank you.
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This WNPP bug has been in 'IDA' mode for a long time, and the bugs
against abuse-sdl due to its obsoleteness are piling up.
Is this (not to mention abuse-frabs and the semi-obsolete abuse-lib) really
being adopted? How are the freeness issues going? (It sounded like they'd
been resolved.)
Rep
nks for your comments,
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Can we get QA consensus here and file a removal bug against ftp.debian.org?
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