The Debian axkit package was orphaned a couple of months ago. This could prevent AxKit from getting into the upcoming "sarge" release. I like AxKit and I'd like it to be easy for Debian users to get started with it. So I just sent an e-mail to the debian-mentors list volunteering to serve as the Debian package maintainer.
There are no bugs filed against the axkit packages in the Debian BTS, so I anticipate that most of what I will do at first is to learn how to shepherd packages through the autobuild and propagate-to-testing stages of the release process. If there are specific patches that people would like to see applied to the Debian package (or to other packages that AxKit depends on), please let me know directly or via the axkit-users list. Ditto for sample code and test cases that you would like to see added to the axkit-examples package and for general advice about packaging for end users. Thanks to the AxKit developers for creating a very useful toolkit for XML/Web development. (Most of my work with it isn't on a public web site, but there's an article on www.sane.net about a trivial implementation of an XML-RPC server using AxKit.) Hopefully no one minds my appearing out of the blue and offering to maintain the Debian package; if someone else feels more qualified to do so, let me know and I'll step aside. - Michael --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
