Hello Francesco, I do understand your frustration. I have also been in the position where the maintainer of some piece of software didn't fix a bug that I cared about. There can be many reasons for this including maintainer incomprehension or sloth. Usually, however, it comes down to the fact that the maintainer is volunteering his/her time and such time is divided amongst many tasks and priorities in life. Sometimes the favourite piece of software suffers.
I am the first to admit that I don't place much priority on geomview; indeed the last upload was 2 years ago. Moreover, upstream is virtually non-existant for years, so geomview suffers from a double whammy in this regard. I have to further admit that I'm not going to put much effort into geomview in the future. I am no longer engaged in the computational geometry community and geomview is not something I use anymore. Because of that, I've recently asked for help maintaining it (#547611) and have today placed geomview under maintenance of the debian-science team. I hope that others will become more active. Indeed, you needn't be a Debian developer to help out; please see http://wiki.debian.org/DebianScience Thanks for your understanding, -Steve
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