On Wed, 14 Nov 2007, Roman Kyrylych wrote:
font-bh-ttf should we keep it? I can maintain it in Community, you can move it right there (if there are no objections). Instead, I'd like to bring ttf-freefont and ttf-liberation to Extra, which are much more important.
Why moving it (and the other packages you propose to adopt) to community? Why not adopting them and maintaining them in extra? To me it seems like unecessary work, unless you have a personal preference in maintaining suff in community. I don't see any problem in keeping most of these packages in extra IF they have a maintainer. The 'if' is the key part here. Some of the packages that were/will be removed are more worthy to remain in extra than some stupid package like xsnow but the fact of the matter is that they don't have a maintainer while xsnow has one. Unless someone think of them being worthy enough to say: "Wait a minute! This package should stay in extra. We must find a maintainer for it.", much like what has happened with bind and exim, they 'll go in unsupported.
gnet1 unused lib Hm, probably it is a (make)depend for some community package IIRC, but that's not critical if you move it to Unsupported (can be moved back to Community if needed).
Before removing anything, I'll check for community repo dependencies and such packages will be moved directly in community.
gstreamer0.10-alsaspdif gstreamer0.10-cdaudio gstreamer0.10-jack should not be removed (drastic loss of function for any gstreamer using app) - if nobody takes the gstreamer pkgs, i will (damir) gstreamer0.10-mpeg2enc gstreamer0.10-musicbrainz gstreamer0.10-pitfdll gstreamer0.10-sndfile gstreamer0.10-wavpack gstreamer0.10-x264
IMO all gsteamer0.10 packages should be kept in the same repo (Extra) for easier maintainence. I can offer my help in this.
I also think it would be nice if they stay in extra. I could also help out in maintaining some of them or their dependencies.
lineak_defaultplugin The lineak packages could be substituted by my (Eric) keytouch pkg in community. It has more dependencies (gtk2) but has much or more functionality. lineak_xosdplugin same comment as above
Lineak is pretty old but it may still be used by someone. I think it shouldn't be just deleted, but moved to Unsupported.
That's what I meant: moving lineak to unsupported and keytouch to extra (after the cleanup, I plan to consolidate my packages so some (all?) my community packages will be moved to extra).
xpdf-arabic i18n support, should be kept xpdf-chinese-simplified i18n support, should be kept xpdf-chinese-traditional i18n support, should be kept xpdf-cyrillic i18n support, should be kept xpdf-greek i18n support, should be kept xpdf-hebrew i18n support, should be kept xpdf-japanese i18n support, should be kept xpdf-korean i18n support, should be kept xpdf-latin2 i18n support, should be kept xpdf-thai i18n support, should be kept xpdf-turkish i18n support, should be kept Weren't we going to remove xpdf from Extra? (and lesstiff?) If no, then xpdf maintainer should maintain packages above, I think.
xpdf is one of the rare packages that have a maintainer but were submitted to removal. The others are achessclock and arch. I had planned bringing that up later on. Anyway, I won't remove these packages without the consent of their current maintainer. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.