Hi Kurt, On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 06:33:31PM -0400, Kurt B. Kaiser wrote: > While the packages do not appear to have received adequate attention in > the last year and a half, Julien Valroff has in fact been working > diligently to prepare the new upstream release (from January) for upload > into experimental. This is the first solid release upstream release > in several years.
Interesting. My bug filing was bad timing then... :) > I would like to request a stay of execution, and suggest the > following plan: > > First, determine which of the uploaders still have an interest in dspam. > I think there are currently at least three people who would like to > contribute to maintaining official Debian dspam packages. Are you going to pursue this, i.e. check on the other maintainers? > Second, continue with the development of the experimental upload. I > think Julien is pretty close. Since his work differs considerably from > the current package, I think experimental is still warranted. > > Third, prepare an upload to unstable which takes the current package to > 3.6.8-10, fixing the RC issues and bringing it back into policy > compliance. I will work on that, if Julien has no objection. Sounds good. Any chance of a time line? Do you think this is something to be done within the next four weeks (and thus to be considered for squeeze)? > DSPAM has been a Debian package for many years, and IMO it would be > unfortunate to remove it just when upstream finally got straightened > out and produced a new stable release. Well, I filed the bug because it seemed noone cared. If you do, all the better! Hauke -- .''`. Jan Hauke Rahm <[email protected]> www.jhr-online.de : :' : Debian Developer www.debian.org `. `'` Member of the Linux Foundation www.linux.com `- Fellow of the Free Software Foundation Europe www.fsfe.org
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