Hi all, it looks like we may have one more reason to explore other version control systems.
Have a nice day, -- Charles ----- Forwarded message from Eddy Petrișor <[email protected]> ----- Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 10:49:07 +0300 From: Eddy =?UTF-8?Q?Petri=C8=99or?= <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: Bug#528733: O: svn-buildpackage -- helper programs to maintain Debian packages with Subversion (Please CC me, I am not subscribed to debian-devel) Debian Bug Tracking System a scris: > If you wish to submit further information on this problem, please > send it to [email protected], as before. It might be of interest to many people reading debian-devel to know that svn-buildpackage is now orphaned and anybody wishing to take over maintaining it, is more than welcome. The package needs more attention than I can offer it now and Eduard Bloch, the original author, hasn't touched the package for more time than I did. Here is again the initial orphaning mail: ===================================================================== Package: wnpp Version: N/A; reported 2009-05-15 Severity: normal It has been about a year and a half* since svn-buildpackage hasn't been uploaded, the 0.6.24 is waiting in collab-maint's SVN for an upload for quite some time now. I am slowly but surely giving up on maintaining packages in SVN and, thus I lack the motivation to maintain the package. http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/collab-maint/deb-maint/svn-buildpackage/trunk/ Since there are multiple fixes for it and still people are using it and neither I nor Eduard Bloch had the time to maintain it properly I have decided is high time for this package to find another dedicated maintainer. People interested in maintaining it should be aware that there is a non-interactive way of running the scripts and these must be kept functional and there are several ways the scripts bend to accommodate native and non-native packages. There are some patches in the BTS and some of the scripts could use some love or maybe a full rewrite once the bug count lowers. Since the scripts were written in perl, a perl-er is desirable as a maintainer (I don't consider myself a perl coder and, as I understood, Eduard wrote the scripts in his early perl days, so you might expect some code horror). I really hope someone will step up fast to take over maintenance, since this is an important package for many people. *OTOH, there was a stable release with a long freeze during this time -- Regards, EddyP ============================================= "Imagination is more important than knowledge" A.Einstein ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
