Hello Source: aptitude Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <[email protected]> XSBC-Original-Maintainer: Aptitude Development Team <[email protected]>
The upstream development team does not particularly have the resources to adequately support this package in Ubuntu. We are seeking at least one developer to assist directly with the packaging and support tasks. The current status: - aptitude is a package manager; - moderately sized program with a number of outstanding issues; - major issue (i.e. broken) on multi-arch Precise systems; - minor issues with multi-arch support in the latest version; - minor issues in the Ubuntu packaging. There will be major changes in the near future, particularly pertaining to apt and dpkg integration, but also improving support for multi-arch. These are areas where subtle differences between Ubuntu and Debian can be critical (e.g. the style of earlier vs. later m-a support in dpkg). We would like to work closely with an Ubuntu developer during this period rather than rely on the ad hoc support of ubuntu-devel's team maintenance approach and sponsored uploads. Although these have served us ok in the past, moving forward will happen best if there is someone paying close attention to the incoming changes as they happen. Specifically, who seek someone who is (or becomes) familiar with the program and its issues, and will: - follow upstream development by subscribing to aptitude-devel mailing list; - prepare and upload Ubuntu packaging for new releases; - provide support for and backport fixes to Ubuntu stable; and - regularly use and test aptitude on Ubuntu systems, providing feedback upstream and diagnosing problems that may arise. Some bug triage on launchpad and maintanence of the current Ubuntu patches is also nice. If this sounds like you, please get in touch: <mailto:[email protected]> Regards _______________________________________________ Aptitude-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/aptitude-devel
