Dear Sean, >Thank you for revising your work in light of my review. We're too late >to get 4Pane into stretch, so there's no longer any time pressure on >this review process.
I know. It missed the jessie freeze too ;) >So I'd like to reply regarding only the Bakefile >issue, since that's the biggest blocker to uploading this. Good; I've found more issues in d/copyright that need sorting out first. >(Also, by the time the ftp-masters are accepting NEW packages again, I >will be a DD, so I can actually do the upload for you.) //snip >I suspect that those other packages are buggy, then. I note that the >ftp-masters have stated that their review process does not operate on >precedent: the presence of any given package in the archive does not >itself constitute a reason for accepting another. I see. >Why not just go ahead and package Bakefile? It might be useful to >someone else. You don't have to invoke it during the 4Pane build; it >just needs to be possible for someone else to get everything they need >to do so from the Debian mirrors. > >I will review and sponsor your packaging of Bakefile. Many thanks for the offer. I don't mind packaging Bakefile, and it shouldn't be difficult to do. However will it be accepted into debian? The project is moribund: apart from a single commit 3 years ago, it's been unmaintained for 6 years. That was supposed to give time for a rewrite which hasn't happened. On the other hand it works as well as ever and is still easily available (http://bakefile.org/). Do you feel this alters the situation? Regards, David Hart