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Re: old ITP's

On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 07:06:23PM -0700, Vikram wrote: > > If you are too busy for this I still offer to look into packaging tcptrace > with xplot. If you want to go ahead and package xplot, please do. You'll need to handle the fact that we've already got an xplot package that installs a program called xplot. Consider using the alternatives system for that. You'll need to coordinate with the maintainer of the other xplot package for that to work. noah -- _______________________________________________________ | Web: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/ | PGP Public Key: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/mail.html pgpdvk7rYoco3.pgp Description: PGP signature

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* | I know about the new release. Why does everyone assume that I don't? I'm | currently slogging through the debian-specific patches from the | previous-version packaging, and not enjoying it very much because the new | upstream reformatted all the C code. You are aware of the -l switch to patch? It might at least help somewhat. -- Tollef Fog Heen ,''`. UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are : :' : `. `' `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-qa-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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Re: old ITP's

On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 07:06:23PM -0700, Vikram wrote: > > If you are too busy for this I still offer to look into packaging tcptrace > with xplot. If you want to go ahead and package xplot, please do. You'll need to handle the fact that we've already got an xplot package that installs a program called xplot. Consider using the alternatives system for that. You'll need to coordinate with the maintainer of the other xplot package for that to work. noah -- _______________________________________________________ | Web: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/ | PGP Public Key: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/mail.html pgpdvk7rYoco3.pgp Description: PGP signature

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Re: old ITP's

Hi Mark, [ late answer, I know... ] Mark Howard wrote: > When I was looking through the RFP list a while back, I noticed many > of them were for packages that were not maintained upstream - sometimes > they were still at the planning stage after a number of years; sometimes > they had been abandoned (many napster clones); in other cases, upstream > just seemed to be very amateurish with little sign of development (e.g. > not using cvs; no mailing lists; seem to be only one developer; no I do not think all the points you are describing are _necessary_. I second that these things are good but in my opinion there's no must. I myself maintain a package (kover), which has not a mailing list and CVS seems only to be updated if there's a new version released which makes CVS quite senseless... > documentation; latest 'news' on the site being from many months or years > ago; poorly designed website). How do you define poorly designed website? A website has _not_ to use the newest crap to be functional and you can find there what you want to. In that case the kover Homepage (http://lisas.de/kover) is an example... Considering the 'news' aspect, you're right. That indicates that upstream development is slept or it died... Regards, Rene -- .''`. Rene Engelhard : :' : ** Debian GNU/Linux Developer ** `. `' http://www.debian.org | http://people.debian.org/~rene/ `- rene@xxxxxxxxxx pgpIKbDlo2YbW.pgp Description: PGP signature