Re: wnpp situation

[Vedran Furac <vedranf@riteh.hr>]

David Moreno Garza wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 11:02 +0200, Henning Makholm wrote:
> 
>>>But my intention was not to read the whole list and do this by hand!
>>>This should be done by the same script which sends the sem automated
>>>mails to the BTS.
>>
>>As there is a consensus that it is a good idea to close long-inactive
>>RFPs with a polite explanation, anyone who care enough should just
>>write a script to do it, and start running it. It can be done without
>>special privileges; the BTS control address is well known...
> 
> 
> Talking with adn on IRC, I've decided to launch an script that will
> close every opened ITP and RFP bug on the BTS with a lifetime greater
> than 600 days by tonight (or if anything goes wrong -I have an exam

Before you do that:

- note that there is software that probably can't be packaged:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=203211
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=201734
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=232658
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=301491
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=274003
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=321793
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=178062
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=321797
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=319860
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=323704
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=149568
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=298763
[...]
AFAIK, if they are not DFSG-compliant (or depend it) they should be
listed here:
http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/unable-to-package

- also note that there is software that waits some other software to get in:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=195236

- popular software with status unknown:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=113238
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=247337
[...]

- software that should be packaged because it's good and popular:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=200984
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=78209
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=255850
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=188153
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=246244
[...]

- software you should talk about:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=131404
It's good idea.