On Mon, Jan 02, 2012 at 04:59:00PM +0100, Didier Raboud wrote: > Le dimanche, 1 janvier 2012 15.36:21, Roger Leigh a écrit : > > Just a reminder that gutenprint is orphaned (#479397), and that it > > needs a maintainer. There will be a new stable release in a week > > or so, and I'll set the maintiner to > > [email protected] unless anyone wishes to > > adopt it. > > > > I'm happy to continue as a co-maintainer, but I don't have the time > > or hardware to maintain, debug and bugfix. > > Although I confess that I don't understand much of the internals of > Gutenprint, that I don't have access to hardware that needs it; that I don't > have much time to debug and bugfix, I think it should probably be possible > for me to maintain it together with Till, if he agrees. > > (I think I prefer to have gutenprint "loosely" maintained by myself under > the Printing Team umbrella, than orphaned; at least that tries to keep all > printing-related packages under a common umbrella. Finding more manpower > than mine's is of course on the TODO).
That sounds just fine. > Till: would you consider maintaining gutenprint together with me in Debian, > assuming that we could reach a reasonable agreement on the current Ubuntu > diff? I think that maintaining everything in "Debian first" (or at least > keeping the diff as minimal as possible) would help bring slightly more > manpower to that area. This would also be good. However, some parts of the existing Ubuntu delta are not appropriate for Debian. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `- GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 Please GPG sign your mail. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
