Package: stterm Version: 0.6-1 Severity: important X-Debbugs-CC: [email protected], [email protected]
I believe that the 'stterm' package is currently unmaintained. I filed at least a couple of bugs in the last years, reporting problems, sending patches and asking for new upstream versions to be packaged: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=838439 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=838372 but no action has been taken. The latest reply from the current maintainer dates back to 2016: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=838439#23 and although the maintainer wrote "I'll see what changes are needed", no work has been done so far. The package is buggy and outdated, and as you can see from those threads I'm not the only one who is concerned. Several months ago I volunteered to co-maintain the package in a private email, but I've got no reply. On May 7 2018 I wrote again, offering to carry on the packaging work on my own, Cc: [email protected]; again I've got no reply. In general, I think that stterm's maintainer is MIA. For these reasons, I intend to salvage stterm. I reiterate that I am fine with co-maintaining it, provided that I'm left with enough freedom to refactor the current packaging. Paride
