On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 11:27:58AM +0100, Joachim Breitner wrote: > > I haven’t looked yet, but I’m sure I can cook up a patch. But before I > do that: Is this package useful enough to warrant the effort of having > to patch around a not active enough upstream maintainer? I.e. are there > users of Debian that really want this package and are going to use it?
I can confirm this. I'm packaging this kind of specialised software at request exclusively. And yes, it will be a low popcon package but its packaging is requested due to the usage on clusters where manual installation is a pain. > Because it if it just “nice to have because it’s there, and who knows, > maybe someone is going to use it”, then I would rather not get into the > business of patching it. I can perfectly understand your point. > Note: You are welcome to say “Joachim, I really do want to have this in > Debian, and I have good reasons”, and I’ll help you with it. Just make > it a deliberate decision. It would be really helpful if we would have this in Debian (and as I said initially I would even love to have a backport to Jessie in the long run since this is what we are running on the target machines). Thanks for all your help Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de