On Fri, Apr 03, 2015 at 10:34:37AM -0400, Antoine Beaupré wrote: > On 2015-04-01 14:35:48, Jelmer Vernooij wrote: > > Package: photofloat > > Version: 0~20120917+dfsg-3 > > Severity: wishlist > > > > Dear Maintainer, > > > > Please consider updating the copy of photofloat in Debian. The current > > version is 2 years old at the moment and upstream has a number of bugfixes > > since then. > > At this point, I can only say I am in a conflict of interest with this > package. I have struggled repeatedly with upstream to try to get them to > adopt a large patchset from the community. I have tried again and again > to convine him to merge 5 patches, including bugfixes and feature > improvements, to no avail. > > I am not using the Debian package for my deployments for that reason - I > always use the merged branch from git (on alioth) instead. I have not > seem positive feedback from upstream that he will merge patches from the > community at all. > > So yeah, maybe we should update the debian package, but considering how > upstream still hasn't down a single official release, I hardly feel any > pressure there. > > I would be happy to let someone else do this of course.
Thanks for the extended reply, much appreciated! In that case, I think I might hold off on moving to photofloat for the moment. Cheers, Jelmer -- Jelmer Vernooij <[email protected]> Debian Developer https://jelmer.uk/
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