On Sun, 2012-09-16 at 13:28 +0000, Bart Martens wrote: > I'm looking at this now. I agree with most of your patch. I'm having doubts > on this paragraph : ... > I suggest to replace the paragraph quoted above by these two paragraphs : Done in the attached patch, thanks. Based on feedback from IRC I also changed the ftp-master removals link to http://ftp-master.debian.org/#removed since the page I was linking to was about pending removals instead of completed ones. > Other than that, I read good info in your patch, so I think it's a good > addition. Thanks for the ack! -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
Index: common.ent =================================================================== --- common.ent (revision 9361) +++ common.ent (working copy) @@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ <!ENTITY www-debian-org "www.debian.org"> <!ENTITY ftp-debian-org "ftp.debian.org"> <!ENTITY release-debian-org "release.debian.org"> +<!ENTITY snap-debian-org "snapshot.debian.org"> <!ENTITY lists-host "lists.debian.org"> <!ENTITY archive-host "archive.debian.org"> <!ENTITY keyserver-host "keyring.debian.org"> Index: pkgs.dbk =================================================================== --- pkgs.dbk (revision 9361) +++ pkgs.dbk (working copy) @@ -1238,7 +1238,7 @@ </section> <section id="archive-manip"> -<title>Moving, removing, renaming, adopting, and orphaning packages</title> +<title>Moving, removing, reintroducing, renaming, adopting, and orphaning packages</title> <para> Some archive manipulation operations are not automated in the Debian upload process. These procedures should be manually followed by maintainers. This @@ -1385,6 +1385,51 @@ </section> +<section id="reintroducing-pkgs"> +<title>Reintroducing packages</title> +<para> +Packages are often removed due to release-critical bugs, absent maintainers, +too few users or poor quality in general. There are some things you should be +aware of when reintroducing removed packages. +</para> +<para> +You should check why the package was removed in the first place. This +information can be found in the removal item in the news section of the PTS +page for the package or by browsing the log of +<ulink url="http://&ftp-master-host;/#removed";>removals</ulink>. +The removal bug will tell you why the package was removed and will give some +indication of what you will need to work on in order to reintroduce the package. +It may indicate that the best way forward is to switch to some other piece of +software instead of reintroducing the package. +</para> +<para> +It may be appropriate to contact the former maintainers to find out if +they are working on reintroducing the package, interested in co-maintaining +the package or interested in sponsoring the package if needed. +You should do all the things required before introducing new packages +(<xref linkend="newpackage"/>). +</para> +<para> +You should base your work on the latest packaging available that is suitable. +That might be the latest version from <literal>unstable</literal>, which will +still be present in the <ulink url="&snap-debian-org;">snapshot archive</ulink>. +</para> +<para> +The version control system used by the previous maintainer might contain useful +changes, so it might be a good idea to have a look there. Check if the control +file of the previous package contained any headers linking to the version +control system for the package and if it still exists. +</para> +<para> +Package removals from unstable (not testing, stable or oldstable) trigger the +closing of all bugs related to the package. You should look through all the +closed bugs (including archived bugs) and unarchive and reopen any that were +closed in a version ending in <literal>+rm</literal> and still apply. Any that +no longer apply should be marked as fixed in the correct version if that is +known. +</para> +</section> + <section id="s5.9.3"> <title>Replacing or renaming packages</title> <para>
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