Hello, when Dwarf maintained glibc, it was soon clear that it was too much work for one maintainer to maintain glibc and care about the bug reports etc.
I was helping Dwarf, and digged through all bug reports, classifying them and closing fixed ones in his name. It was a big success. I was able to close several dozens in a few days, and merge a couple. I would offer the same for dpkg, but extend this offer to make small point releases for very trivial fixes, like one or two character fixes or other obvious things. The idea is that dpkg needs capable maintainers for development and design issues, but capable people are often very very busy. So a maintainer with more time to answer easy bug reports and do simple things could ease the workload on the real maintainers. I am not ignorant of dpkg, I ported it to Hurd and spent quite some hours inside the source tree, and I have "lots of time" (an exaggeration). You may or may not like the idea. If you feel you will have more time in the future to maintain dpkg, that's just fine. If you think my help could be needed, you can approve me. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org finger brinkmd@ Marcus Brinkmann GNU http://www.gnu.org master.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] for public PGP Key http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ PGP Key ID 36E7CD09
