Hi, On 11.09.2012 00:45, Simon Schubert wrote: > For more than two years I've been trying to talk to Peter to get the > Debian package updated, but did not receive any answer so far. Out of > desperation I started maintaining my own debian/ directory at some > point, in the hope that Peter would have it easier to update the package.
This sounds like an unfortunate state, indeed. Peter, could you please elaborate your rationale to maintain your own set of patches to dma specific to Debian, which might considered to effectively be a fork instead of upgrading upstream releases? > I am extremely disappointed with the current situation, but I don't know > how to fix this issue. Maybe somebody in Debian could take over > maintenance of the package? I understand your frustration, but as a peer-driven community, we have limited possibilities to overrule a package maintainer. This can be done, but if so it must be considered as a very last step. Maybe, for now, let's try to work out everyone's arguments and positions. -- with kind regards, Arno Töll IRC: daemonkeeper on Freenode/OFTC GnuPG Key-ID: 0x9D80F36D
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