Marcus Frings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J�r�me Marant) wrote: > >> He hasn't done anything for 4 months. Did you write to him personaly? > > No, I didn't send a ping to him but just took a quick look at the open > bug reports for x-symbol and searched for answers of him to these > reports (which are very old partially). How can I find out if a DD is > MIA?
You can't. Well, at least the bug report backlog shall give some ideas. > I looked at <URL:https://db.debian.org/> and > <URL:http://qa.debian.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]> but > these didn't show much information. Is the echelon service (mentioned in > the Developer's Reference) only available after real logins at db.d.o? Yes, Echelon is only available to DDs. >> In the meantime, you could prepare an updated package. If you're not >> a DD, it doesn't matter. > > Yeah, but then I would probably need to beg a DD for sponsorship, right? Sure. > I have already thought of preparing an updated package of x-symbol but > then I just decided to install the current upstream package (which also > doesn't seem to be heavily maintained nowadays) via the given > instruction for GNU Emacs on the webpage. What you need is basically to unpack the tarball, copy the debian dir into it and finally rename the tarball to x-symbol_x.y-z.orig.tar.gz. Then cd x-symbol-x.y-z and debuild. However, please ping him first and you'll see. > If I created a native Debian package of the new upstream version there > would be the problem that I can't test it under XEmacs since I only use > GNU Emacs. It is not really difficult. Just install xemacs21-nomule and you'll see if it compiles fine with it when installing x-symbol. >> BTW, could you please shorten your message IDs? I do appreciate latin >> quotations, but not in message IDs :-P > > Hehehehehe. Well, actually the length of my MID is RFC-valid and is my > personal revenge to OE users who always put the referenced MID into the > attribution line. I'll think of changing the MID for this list. Yes, please :-) -- J�r�me Marant http://marant.org
