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Re: Orphaning (some of) my packages



On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 09:31:25AM +0100, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 11:57:10PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 01:15:29PM +0100, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote:
> > > - tcltutor (non-free) - a few bugs and I'm not very Tcl knowledgeable (that's why I
> > > packaged it). I believe the maintainer could be asked to move to a free license in
> > > any case (since some restrictions I believe are unnecesary)
> > 
> > If you can't find a new maintainer for this, please file a bug against
> > ftp.debian.org requesting its removal.
> 
> 	If I can't find a new maintainer I'll probably contact the author
> myself and try to make it go into main.

If I understand how the katie database works[1], then it's about as much
work for the archive admins to move a package from non-free to main as
it is to accept a new one, so why not go ahead and request the package's
removal?  It can always be pushed into main when it has been freed.

> I won't get into flames. We had enough in Debian's BOF at Hispalinux
> congress Madrid) last weekend.

Ooh, sounds like fun; I'll have to ask Amaya for the gory details.  ;)

[1] which I don't certify is necessarily the case

-- 
G. Branden Robinson                |    There is no housing shortage in
Debian GNU/Linux                   |    Lincoln today -- just a rumor that
branden@debian.org                 |    is put about by people who have
http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |    nowhere to live.    -- G. L. Murfin

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