[Pkg-octave-devel] Re: [Pre-RFA] Intending to drop twenty-some packages

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

Hi Martin,

Thanks very much for the very thorough follow-up!

On 2 May 2005 at 16:23, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
| * Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org> [2005-02-03 21:03]:
| > | Did you keep track which packages have been spoken for and for which
| > | you still need to file RFA or O reports?
| 
| Let's make another round.
| 
| > | * 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.
| 
| I see that octave-ci, octave-matcompat and octave2.0 still list you as
| maintainer.  Should they be transferred to
| pkg-octave-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org too?

Not necessarily. They all are on their way out:
-- most of octave-ci is by now in Octave itself so octave-matcompat will get
   removed after the next stable release 
-- octave-matcompat is the predecessor to octave-forge; the latter is active
   so octave-matcompat will get removed after the next stable release
-- octave2.0 is about to get replaced upstream as the current "upstream unstable"
   2.1.* is about converged to "upstream stable" and will replace octave2.0; 
   Debian already has the new and upcoming "upstream unstable" octave 2.9.* 
   in experimental.

I will file bug reports against ftp.debian.org for octave-ci and
octave-matcompat once sarge is out.  Assuming that that will happen :)

Now, concerning octave2.0 (which will also get an ftp.debian.org bug report),
I have been considering a "final" upload as there are one or baby bugs in it.

Any comment from the pkg-octave-devel crowd?  Shall we coordinate that?
 
| > | * 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.
| 
| Looking at gsl itself, I can see neither of their names.  Have they
| done any work and can they maybe do an upload fixing some bugs and
| adding themselves as uploaders?

GSL is low-key these days, so I am coping. I will bug both gentlemen when I
need them ;-)

| > | * the Perl "spreadsheet" complex:
| > -- was picked up en bloc by Gunnar Wolf, and already uploaded. Thanks, Gunnar!
| 
| OK.
| 
| > | * 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.
| 
| inline-octave has been adopted by the Octave group, and
| libmath-numbercruncher and libstatistics-descriptive-perl by the Perl
| group.  Maybe you can file RFAs for finance-streamer and dbd-odbc?

Yes, esp. DBD-ODBC. The other one is quasi-dead methinks.
 
| > | * bc (with binary packages bc and dc) 
| > -- picked up with an immediate upload by John Hasler. Thanks, John!
| 
| OK.
| 
| > | * 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!
| 
| OK.
| 
| > |   - time (dead upstream)
| > -- picked up by Tollef (no new upload yet). Thanks, Tollef!
| 
| OK (uploaded in the meantime).
| 
| > |   - tob (fairly dead upstream despite CPR and a new upstream author recently)
| > -- still mine, but not that much work.
| 
| OK.
| 
| > |   - 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
| 
| OK.
| 
| Great.  Seems most of the packages have been adopted now.

Yes. My count got down from low-80s to 67 before three new R packages crept
in.  70 is still insane given my workload and other stuff so I have to see
what I'll do about that.  A lot of it is R though ...

Cheers, Dirk

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