Hi Nick: I might be interested in sponsoring you for this package, but I'd have to take a look at what you've done. Do you have somewhere that I can get your packaged upsd to take a look at it?
Pat. On Saturday 19 April 2003 01:21, Nick Estes wrote: > I would like to rescue the orphaned package upsd, but I am hindered by the > minor detail that I'm not yet a Debian developer. > > I have a new package put together for upsd with the newest upstream > version, one of the 2 outstanding bugs fixed (I need to look at the other > bug a little more to see what parts of it still apply after 4 years), > updated standards version, and it's now lintian clean. > > So now I'm looking for a sponsor to check my work and help me rescue upsd > from an almost certain demise... (-= > > > background info: > > upsd is a daemon that can watch a ups for power events (lost power, > restored power, battery low) via a serial interface. It sends power > events to init via the normal powerfail mechanism. > > As for me, I've been using Debian for a while, and I've been packaging > my own software for easy installation/managment in Debian for a year or > two now. I do a lot of programming, mostly in ruby & C++, but perl, C, > and a few other languages are not a problem... > > Thanks for your help! > > --Nick -- Patrick Patterson Open Source Ambassador Net Integration Technologies
