Re: [gNewSense-users] Hastening of bugs.

[Chris Andrew]

Cool.

_vestigial_ good word, I had to look it up:

vestigial       (vě-stĭj'ē-əl)

Relating to a body part that has become small and lost its use because
of evolutionary change. Whales, for example, have small bones located
in the muscles of their body walls that are vestigial bones of hips
and hind limbs.

Chris.

On 14/09/2007, Kevin Dean <address@hidden> wrote:
> I'm a bit too relaxed to feel singled out; in this case even if you
> had singled me out it would have still been fitting. :)
>
> I'll not do anything with this bug for right now, I only have
> suspicion that it's non-free and I've only just today passed the issue
> off to another person, so that's not really enough time, IMO, to allow
> for a realistic resolution.
>
> As for the dependancies of the package, I'd say there are none, though
> a check couldn't hurt. This package is vestigial in Ubuntu... At one
> point it caused an issue because it contains artistic representations
> of nudity - Canonical scrapped it and never removed it. It's gone
> un-maintained for three years now and can be removed without adjusting
> other packages I think.
>
> On 9/14/07, Chris Andrew <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Kevin,
> >
> > Cheers for the update.
> >
> > Removing the packages THEN closing the bug sounds like a favourable
> > solution.  Obviously, we'd have to check any dependency problems,
> > also.
> >
> > Thanks for letting the list know your situation.
> >
> > BTW, my email wasn't aimed at you specifically, but thanks for giving
> > a real life example to the list.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Chris.
> >
> > On 14/09/2007, Kevin Dean <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > Chris, your "contact page maintainers" thing hit dead on with the
> > > Ubuntu Calendar bug...
> > >
> > > I actually just got contact back today from Jeff Waugh, the maintainer
> > > of that packages... He no longer works with Canonical and, despite
> > > being listed, isn't the maintainer.
> > >
> > > I've been directed to someone else who may be able to clearify the
> > > license on that package.
> > >
> > > If I don't hear anything by next week, I'll use Common Sense and close
> > > the bug then remove the packages from gNewSense... Truth be told, both
> > > the Ubuntu Devel team AND Jeff (the listed maintainer) were amazed
> > > that the packages were still in Ubuntu since they're not used by any
> > > packages still in the repos.
> > >
> > > On 9/14/07, Chris Andrew <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > > Hi, everybody.
> > > >
> > > > Please could you have a look at any bugs you have filed, and make sure
> > > > that they have had a recent update.
> > > >
> > > > Often we need to contact package maintainers, or other members of the
> > > > free software community.  These people are busy, and sometimes forget
> > > > to get back to us.  If your bug hasn't had an update for over a week,
> > > > could you please try to re-contact anybody that you are waiting for.
> > > >
> > > > If you don't have any bugs filed, it would be really useful if you
> > > > could have a look at one or two, some of them don't need special
> > > > skills to resolve.
> > > >
> > > > Hopefully we will be able to have two new columns on the bug page, so
> > > > that this job will be made easier (anyone able to do this?).
> > > >
> > > > Many thanks,
> > > >
> > > > Cheers,
> > > >
> > > > Chris.
> > > >
> > > > --
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> > > >
> > > > http://www.getgnulinux.org/
> > > >
> > > > A great GNU/Linux distro:
> > > >
> > > > http://wiki.gnewsense.org/
> > > >
> > > >
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Reasons why you may want to try GNU/Linux:

http://www.getgnulinux.org/

A great GNU/Linux distro:

http://wiki.gnewsense.org/