Bug#554260: marked as done (O: cabextract -- a program to extract Microsoft Cabinet files)
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has caused the Debian Bug report #554260,
regarding O: cabextract -- a program to extract Microsoft Cabinet files
to be marked as done.
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Package: wnpp
Severity: normal
The current maintainer of cabextract, Eric Sharkey <sharkey@debian.org>,
is apparently not active anymore. Therefore, I orphan this package now.
Maintaining a package requires time and skills. Please only adopt this
package if you will have enough time and attention to work on it.
If you want to be the new maintainer, please see
http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/index.html#howto-o for detailed
instructions how to adopt a package properly.
Some information about this package:
Package: cabextract
Binary: cabextract
Version: 1.2-3
Priority: optional
Section: utils
Maintainer: Eric Sharkey <sharkey@debian.org>
Build-Depends: debhelper (>> 5.0.0), sharutils
Architecture: any
Standards-Version: 3.7.3
Format: 1.0
Directory: pool/main/c/cabextract
Files:
3bd73356f7e8c63b6a1fb7ff73d04732 579 cabextract_1.2-3.dsc
dc421a690648b503265c82ade84e143e 194006 cabextract_1.2.orig.tar.gz
82dd05f170ea0d68e5f2f93cbb074784 12221 cabextract_1.2-3.diff.gz
Package: cabextract
Binary: cabextract
Version: 1.2-3
Priority: optional
Section: utils
Maintainer: Eric Sharkey <sharkey@debian.org>
Build-Depends: debhelper (>> 5.0.0), sharutils
Architecture: any
Standards-Version: 3.7.3
Format: 1.0
Directory: pool/main/c/cabextract
Files:
3bd73356f7e8c63b6a1fb7ff73d04732 579 cabextract_1.2-3.dsc
dc421a690648b503265c82ade84e143e 194006 cabextract_1.2.orig.tar.gz
82dd05f170ea0d68e5f2f93cbb074784 12221 cabextract_1.2-3.diff.gz
Package: cabextract
Priority: optional
Section: utils
Installed-Size: 188
Maintainer: Eric Sharkey <sharkey@debian.org>
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1.2-3
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.7-1)
Filename: pool/main/c/cabextract/cabextract_1.2-3_amd64.deb
Size: 53796
MD5sum: 7ab9a5c838ffd5d68a9159bd0c26fe57
SHA1: 59638f12a65a24fc5560607c97f3c079fb8e1b7a
SHA256: 837c5588be76459a57acc2b4ea0eefcb767977d54b913e6bcef4b295390977b1
Description: a program to extract Microsoft Cabinet files
Cabextract is a program which unpacks cabinet (.cab) files, which
are a form of archive Microsoft uses to distribute their software
and things like Windows Font Packs.
Enhances: konqueror
Tag: interface::commandline, role::program, scope::utility, works-with::archive
Package: cabextract
Priority: optional
Section: utils
Installed-Size: 188
Maintainer: Eric Sharkey <sharkey@debian.org>
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1.2-3
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.7-1)
Filename: pool/main/c/cabextract/cabextract_1.2-3_amd64.deb
Size: 53796
MD5sum: 7ab9a5c838ffd5d68a9159bd0c26fe57
SHA1: 59638f12a65a24fc5560607c97f3c079fb8e1b7a
SHA256: 837c5588be76459a57acc2b4ea0eefcb767977d54b913e6bcef4b295390977b1
Description: a program to extract Microsoft Cabinet files
Cabextract is a program which unpacks cabinet (.cab) files, which
are a form of archive Microsoft uses to distribute their software
and things like Windows Font Packs.
Enhances: konqueror
Tag: interface::commandline, role::program, scope::utility, works-with::archive
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--- Begin Message ---
On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 6:24 PM, Sandro Tosi <morph@debian.org> wrote:
> So can you comment these bugs (only for cabextract):
>
> #528187 - quite easy to fix (it also has a patch); no reply
> #451698 - 5 minutes to fix; no reply
Yes, they're easy to fix. Should I fix them? Of course I should. Is
it going to take 5 minutes to make the changes, test the packages,
making sure that this command line application functions appropriately
when called from a GUI. No, of course not. That's no excuse for
having let it go this long, but don't be ridiculous in your arguments.
> #393828 - did you actually forward it upstream? where is the 'forwarded' tag?
No, because it was unnecessary. Upstream was included in the original
bug report by the submitter. You can see the comment from Stuart
(upstream) in the bug report requesting additional information, which
was not, to my knowledge, ever provided. The bug has an upstream tag.
>> This bug is completely inappropriate.
>
> if you *really* think that, close it with an upload. Else, what you do
> is only talking, and we need packages in good shape.
Your point is taken, but I'm closing this bug right now as it never
should have been opened in the first place.
If you want to take me to task for not fixing these exceedingly minor
issues and claim that every little thing is important to giving
Debian's overall polish, that's one thing. If you really think that
these packages are in such bad state that they need to be orphaned,
the polite thing to do would be to ask me to orphan them, and only if
I don't respond within a specified time take over. The way you've
done this is just rude.
Eric
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