Debian Bug report logs - #174346
Please remove btoa

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com>

To: submit@bugs.debian.org

Cc: Nicolás Lichtmaier <nick@debian.org>

Subject: O: btoa -- Convert binary to ascii and vice versa

Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2002 11:44:59 +0100

Package: wnpp
Severity: normal

The old maintainer of btoa, Nicolás Lichtmaier (nick), is apparently
not active anymore.  This package is thus being orphaned now.  If you
want to be the new maintainer, please take it -- retitle this bug from
'O:' to 'ITA:', fix the outstanding bugs and upload a new version with
your name in the Maintainer: field and a

   * New maintainer (Closes: #thisbug)

in the changelog so this bug is closed.


Some information about this package:

Package: btoa
Binary: btoa
Version: 5.2.1-6
Priority: optional
Section: non-free/utils
Maintainer: Nicolás Lichtmaier <nick@debian.org>
Architecture: any
Standards-Version: 2.4.0.0
Directory: pool/non-free/b/btoa
Files:
 9c13313d97669f096420603b7735175d 611 btoa_5.2.1-6.dsc
 febcbd5fdcf584190207a28dbbb5e535 10531 btoa_5.2.1.orig.tar.gz
 5d172151680793074b1206e909e670f8 3789 btoa_5.2.1-6.diff.gz

Package: btoa
Priority: optional
Section: non-free/utils
Installed-Size: 31
Maintainer: Nicolás Lichtmaier <nick@debian.org>
Architecture: i386
Version: 5.2.1-6
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.1.2)
Filename: pool/non-free/b/btoa/btoa_5.2.1-6_i386.deb
Size: 11972
MD5sum: 4543ff2de1fcf071ee6dfbb837baadf4
Description: Convert binary to ascii and vice versa
 Btoa converts 4 binary characters to 5 ascii ones, causing a 25%
 expansion. Spaces will not be used, which should make it safe
 to send files over Usenet without risking that blanks become
 tabs.


[ Justification: he has not been seen for months.  He was last seen on Debian
lists in Oct 2001; he was on ICQ but isn't anymore.  I hope you're well, Nick. ]

-- 
Martin Michlmayr
tbm@cyrius.com

Message #12 received at 174346@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.de>

To: 174346@bugs.debian.org, Ariel <asdebian@dsgml.com>

Subject: Old ITA

Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 23:17:13 +0200

Hi.

I currently inspect the Debian wnpp bug list and search for old ITAs
(Intent to Adopt) that are mistitled.

You have expressed in bug report #174346 [0] the intent to adopt
the package "btoa". The last comment to this from you is dated from
4 Feb 2003, which is more than six months ago. Do you still intent to adopt 
this package? If not, please retitle the bug, substituting "O:" for "ITA:".

[0] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?archive=no&bug=174346


Gruesse,
-- 
Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.de>
www: http://www.djpig.de/

Message #19 received at 174346@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com>

To: Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.de>

Cc: 174346@bugs.debian.org, Ariel <asdebian@dsgml.com>

Subject: Re: Old ITA

Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2003 14:51:53 +1000

tags 174346 - moreinfo
retitle 174346 Please remove btoa
reassign 174346 ftp.debian.org
thanks

* Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.de> [2003-09-19 23:17]:
> You have expressed in bug report #174346 [0] the intent to adopt
> the package "btoa". The last comment to this from you is dated from
> 4 Feb 2003, which is more than six months ago. Do you still intent to adopt 
> this package? If not, please retitle the bug, substituting "O:" for "ITA:".

No response for over two weeks, let's retitle this back to O:.  In
fact, since this tools looks pretty useless and is non-free, we might
just as well get it removed.

-- 
Martin Michlmayr
tbm@cyrius.com

Message #30 received at 174346-done@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Ryan Murray <rmurray@debian.org>

To: 174346-done@bugs.debian.org

Subject: done

Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2003 10:51:55 -0700

This package has been removed from testing and unstable.

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