Re: Removal of packages Beast and Rapicorn in 2014

2015-10-21 Thread James Cowgill
Hi, On Wed, 2015-10-21 at 23:57 +0200, Tim Janik wrote: > On 18.10.2015 23:20, James Cowgill wrote: > > For rapicon, there was a lull in development (as you can see on the > > github contributors page) early 2014, just before the package was > > removed. > > From this page it was failing to build

Re: Removal of packages Beast and Rapicorn in 2014

2015-10-21 Thread Tim Janik
Thanks James. I've read up on the maintainer intro as far as I could. Up to now, I started the packaging efforts and have filed an ITP. On 18.10.2015 23:20, James Cowgill wrote: > For rapicon, there was a lull in development (as you can see on the > github contributors page) early 2014, just

Removal of packages Beast and Rapicorn in 2014

2015-10-18 Thread Tim Janik
Hello all, https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/beast https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/rapicorn show that Beast and Rapicorn have been removed from Debian last year. Reading up on the bug reports, it seems that: a) It was assumed the packages are unmaintained upstream; b) a guile-1.8 dependency of

Re: Removal of packages Beast and Rapicorn in 2014

2015-10-18 Thread James Cowgill
Hi, On Sun, 2015-10-18 at 22:43 +0200, Tim Janik wrote: > Hello all, > > https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/beast > https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/rapicorn > > show that Beast and Rapicorn have been removed from Debian last year. > > Reading up on the bug reports, it seems that: > a) It was