On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 06:03:20PM +0100, Bas Zoetekouw wrote: > Hi guys! > > I don't seem to have enough free time to finish packaging dcc. If > anyone is interested in taking over the ITP, please contact me.
That's too bad. :-( I don't have time to work on it in the forseeable future, either. > Be warned though, that this is not very easy to package: the build > process is non-standard, the package installs files all over the place, > it requires some patching to be able to run as an ordinary user, and > from the docs it's not really clear what each binary exactly does, nor > which config files it wants read or write access to. This is not a "my > first package" package. It would probably be best if the person to take > this, has (unlike me) used dcc before. That's why I didn't try to take it in the first place. Have you contacted upstream for help? Generally in this sort of a situation, upstream is glad to help; the more users, the better it works. Thanks, -- Duncan Findlay
