Andrew, the upstream maintainers are *not* active. also, the their email addresses are defunct.
Deva Seetharam On Sun, 27 Oct 2002, Andrew Lau wrote: > On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 12:27:43AM -0400, Deva Seetharam wrote: > > i noticed that it is simulating > > 16c84, an obsolete device. microchip has replaced this device with 16f84.= > =20 > > i have changed the code to simulate 16f84. also, i fixed some critical > > bugs and added docs in english (currently, the docs are only in italian).= > =20 > > Dear Deva, > If upstream (ie. the original author) is still active, you > really should send them your patches to their code. So in future, they > won't inadvertently duplicate the work you have already done. It will > also give him/her the chance to make suggestions before you distribute > a program that may operate differently from the one they original > released. It'll also make the next package release easier since you > won't have to figure out how to get your code working again if > upstream changes the structure of his source code. > > Yours sincerely, > Andrew "Netsnipe" Lau > > --=20 > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > * Andrew 'Netsnipe' Lau Computer Science & Sturep, UNSW * > * "apt-get into it" Debian GNU/Linux Packager * > * <netsnipe(+)debianplanet.org\0> <alau(+)cse.unsw.edu.au\0> * > * GnuPG 1024D/2E8B68BD 0B77 73D0 4F3B F286 63F1 9F4A 9B24 C07D 2E8B 68BD * > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- >
