Debian Bug report logs - #335916
RM: netmon-applet -- RoQA; orphaned 3 years, better alternatives available

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

From: christophe barbe <christophe@debian.org>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: O: netmon-applet

Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 14:01:01 -0400

Package: wnpp
Severity: normal


I orphan this package.
Christophe

Message #12 received at 335916@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Frank Lichtenheld <djpig@debian.org>

To: 335916@bugs.debian.org

Cc: christophe barbe <christophe@debian.org>, pkg-gnome-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org

Subject: Removing netmon-applet

Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2008 15:43:37 -0300

severity 335916 serious
thanks

Hi,

netmon-applet has been orphaned for a very long time now and I am evaluating
whether a request for removal should be finally filed.

You are receiving this mail because:
 - your name showed up somewhere in the history of the package
 - I think that you might be interested for some reason
 - or you maintain a related/similar package

Are you interested in adopting this package? Do you know potential adopters?
If so, please could you forward them this mail, Ccing the BTS and me?

If there is no action from anyone, I'll request the removal of this package
from Debian after a month.

Thank you,
-- 
Frank Lichtenheld <djpig@debian.org>
www: http://www.djpig.de/

Message #25 received at 335916@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org>

To: Frank Lichtenheld <djpig@debian.org>

Cc: 335916@bugs.debian.org, christophe barbe <christophe@debian.org>, pkg-gnome-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org

Subject: Re: Removing netmon-applet

Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2008 00:43:09 +0200

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Le vendredi 08 août 2008 à 15:43 -0300, Frank Lichtenheld a écrit :
> netmon-applet has been orphaned for a very long time now and I am evaluating
> whether a request for removal should be finally filed.
> 
> You are receiving this mail because:
>  - your name showed up somewhere in the history of the package
>  - I think that you might be interested for some reason
>  - or you maintain a related/similar package
> 
> Are you interested in adopting this package? Do you know potential adopters?
> If so, please could you forward them this mail, Ccing the BTS and me?
> 
> If there is no action from anyone, I'll request the removal of this package
> from Debian after a month.

I’d recommend to drop this package. We already have netspeed which is
decently maintained upstream and in Debian, plus netstatus. I don’t
think we need three applets doing almost exactly the same thing.

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Message #30 received at 335916@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Stephan Peijnik <debian@sp.or.at>

To: Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org>, 335916@bugs.debian.org

Cc: Frank Lichtenheld <djpig@debian.org>, christophe barbe <christophe@debian.org>, pkg-gnome-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#335916: Removing netmon-applet

Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2008 07:06:25 +0200

On Sat, 2008-08-30 at 00:43 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le vendredi 08 août 2008 à 15:43 -0300, Frank Lichtenheld a écrit :
> > Are you interested in adopting this package? Do you know potential adopters?
> > If so, please could you forward them this mail, Ccing the BTS and me?
> > 
> > If there is no action from anyone, I'll request the removal of this package
> > from Debian after a month.
> 
> I’d recommend to drop this package. We already have netspeed which is
> decently maintained upstream and in Debian, plus netstatus. I don’t
> think we need three applets doing almost exactly the same thing.

Looking at popcon netmon-applet is still being used by some people.
Also, both netspeed and netstatus are a bit 'heavier' on the UI code,
as netmon-applet uses text-only displaying.

It is true however that upstream seems to have dropped this package,
so on the other hand orphaning it might be a good idea.

Maybe there should be an alternative for this package though, providing
the same clean, text-only display method.

Having had a deeper look into the upstream activity dropping this
package seems like a good idea though. I am going to put this package
in orphaned status again.

Regards,

Stephan

Message #45 received at 335916-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Debian Archive Maintenance <ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org>

To: 335916-close@bugs.debian.org

Cc: netmon-applet@packages.debian.org, netmon-applet@packages.qa.debian.org

Subject: Bug#335916: fixed

Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2008 22:26:41 +0000

We believe that the bug you reported is now fixed; the following
package(s) have been removed from unstable:

netmon-applet |     0.4-11 | source, alpha, amd64, arm, armel, hppa, i386, ia64, m68k, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc

Note that the package(s) have simply been removed from the tag
database and may (or may not) still be in the pool; this is not a bug.
The package(s) will be physically removed automatically when no suite
references them (and in the case of source, when no binary references
it).  Please also remember that the changes have been done on the
master archive (ftp-master.debian.org) and will not propagate to any
mirrors (ftp.debian.org included) until the next cron.daily run at the
earliest.

Packages are never removed from testing by hand.  Testing tracks
unstable and will automatically remove packages which were removed
from unstable when removing them from testing causes no dependency
problems.

Bugs which have been reported against this package are not automatically
removed from the Bug Tracking System.  Please check all open bugs and
close them or re-assign them to another package if the removed package
was superseded by another one.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
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