What the hell? It's taken this long to contact the actual maintainer of playmidi (me)?
I have no interest in debian, but I am still actively developing playmidi. Perhaps people should consider actually MAILING THE MAINTAINER when they make patches so that I (or other maintainers of other projects) could include the changes in the next release. >From an outsider's point of view Debian looks like the most irresponsible distro with no contact whatsoever with original package authors. -- Nathan Laredo [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Darren Salt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I demand that Brian Nelson may or may not have written... > > > Darren Salt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I'm looking for a sponsor for playmidi. > > >> I've fixed some of the reported bugs and applied an extra > patch or two of > >> my own. The diff and dsc files aren't available for > download but I'll send > >> them to anybody who's interested in sponsorship. > > > Are you planning to adopt playmidi? If so, you will really > need to take > > over as upstream as well, since it appears to be quite > dead. > > For that reason, I'm CC'ing upstream. Lack of response by the > end of this > month will be taken as "don't care about it", in which case I > may decide to > hijack upstream. > > > Otherwise, it would probably be best to just remove > playmidi from the > > archive. > > Maybe. OTOH, I use it and I know that one other uses it... > aside from that, > well - popularity-contest data? > > >> I've also considered splitting the package (ref. bug > 28471), but I'm not > >> sure that the hassle of doing this is worth the gain wrt > dependencies: the > >> main problem is in moving ownership of the debconf > configuration data to > >> another package. There's some pre-debconf-handling cruft > there too which > >> I'm cautious about removing because it postdates potato - > or would it be > >> better to just forget that question and ask afresh? > > > Debconf usage is definitely preferable to "manually" asking > questions in > > the maintainer scripts. > > True; I don't plan to change that. (I should have typed > "forget the original > answer".) > > > However, splitting an already small package into even > smaller pieces is > > discouraged; the ftp-masters will likely reject it. > > Then I'll just leave them in one package and mark that bug as > 'wontfix'. > > > Also, note that svgalib is very much dead. > > Maybe nobody will notice if I simply don't build that version > :-) > > -- > | Darren Salt | linux (or ds) at | nr. Ashington, > | woody, sarge, | youmustbejoking | Northumberland > | RISC OS | demon co uk | Toon Army > | I don't ask for much, just untold riches... > > He who hesitates is sometimes saved. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - File online, calculators, forms, and more http://tax.yahoo.com
