About package gnome-system-tools again.

Emilio Pozuelo Monfort pochu at debian.org
Mon Oct 6 18:22:53 UTC 2014


On 06/10/14 15:53, Andrej N. Gritsenko wrote:
>      Hello!
>
> Emilio Pozuelo Monfort has written on Monday,  6 October, at 15:27:
>> On 06/10/14 14:49, Andrej N. Gritsenko wrote:
>>> Emilio Pozuelo Monfort has written on Monday,  6 October, at 13:45:
>
>>>> gnome-system-tools, liboobs and system-tools-backends are unmaintained upstream
>>>> and no longer needed for GNOME. I was thinking in requesting removal from the
>>>> archive, but if you need them for LXDE, then I'd suggest you adopt them.
>
>>>       Well, I'm not against adopting them but in order to adopt them they
>>> should be orphaned or RFA declared first, right? They are neither O nor
>>> RFA ATM.
>
>> Not necessarily, given I'm explicitly giving you permission to adopt them. But
>> if you really care about it, I can open RFA bugs for them.
>
>      We should follow the procedure, aren't we? And the Debian docs at the
> https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMentorsFaq#How_do_I_adopt_an_existing_package.3F
> say it should be O: or RFA: bug to be renamed, then closed by upload. I
> never adopted any package so forgive me being not smart enough. Thank you
> very much.

It shouldn't matter as I gave them up for adoption in a public place, so you 
could just change the Maintainer etc and upload them. Anyway I just filed RFA 
bugs for the three of them, so you can properly adopt them now :)

Emilio



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