Re: [Pre-RFA] Intending to drop twenty-some packages
On 1 February 2005 at 14:46, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
| * Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org> [2005-01-15 11:51]:
| > Please CC me on follow-ups to debian-devel, or email me directly if
| > you have any interest. I should follow up with RFA and O bug reports
| > over the next few weeks, but doing this informally first may be
| > simpler. Or maybe not.
|
| Did you keep track which packages have been spoken for and for which
| you still need to file RFA or O reports?
Sorry for not replying sooner, but I was under the weather with some sort of
flu and slept every non-work hour of the last two days.
| It seems at least tob is still outstanding. Gunnar Wolf seemed
| interested in some of the Perl packages but it's not quite clear to me
| which he'll actually adopt.
I'll quote from my original email and then summarise by paragraph:
On 15 January 2005 at 11:51, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
| * the Octave complex
-- is now in the hands on the pkg-octave-devel group with octave2.1 as the
first (and only, so far) release. Thanks to Rafael for organising and
spear-heading this.
| * the gsl set:
-- is still mine though Bas Zoetekouw indicated that he would like to help. I
think I got Chris Steigies to agree to help too.
| * the Perl "spreadsheet" complex:
| - spreadsheet-writeexcel
| - spreadsheet-parseexcel (2 old open bugs, forwarded ages ago)
| - ole-storage-lite
| - dbd-excel (1 old open bug, forwarded)
-- was picked up en bloc by Gunnar Wolf, and already uploaded. Thanks, Gunnar!
| * other Perl packages:
| - dbd-odbc
| - finance-streamer
| - inline-octave [ related to Octave ]
| - math-numbercruncher
| - statistics-descriptive
Still up for grabs. Only dbd-octave had upstream releases lately -- and
should find a new home. The others are more esoteric. If it gets too bad I
can always orphan them later.
| * bc (with binary packages bc and dc)
-- picked up with an immediate upload by John Hasler. Thanks, John!
| * Miscellaneous
| - afio (2 open bugs, active upstream, pretty straightforward)
Picked up Erik Schanze who already uploaded a new package with several
patches that have since been blessed upstream. Thanks, Erik! (Eric is not a
full DD, if his AM reads this, my thumbs up!)
| - time (dead upstream)
-- picked up by Tollef (no new upload yet). Thanks, Tollef!
| - tob (fairly dead upstream despite CPR and a new upstream author recently)
-- still mine, but not that much work.
| - wajig (very active upstream, and well maintained upstream)
-- now officially Grahams, and I sponsor him -- Thanks, Graham!. Effectively,
that is what have done for the last one or two years anyway. (Graham is not a
full DD, if his AM reads this, my thumbs up!)
I still have approx 70 other packages ...
Dirk
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