Package: wnpp Severity: normal smsclient is a program for sending short messages to mobile phones or pagers by using modem / isdn gateways (it calls the gateway with modem and sends the message).
Problem here is, it was virtually unmaintained by upstream for years. Until recent i even was the upstream - with the work delegated to another person (who did next to nothing). The source is bad and i was about to make a complete clean rewrite, but due to a couple of reasons this plans vanished, and in fact i'm for now are just unable to continue the work (complete rewrite would take months, no modem, ...). I know that there is a not too small userbase of this package out there, therefore i refrain for now from just removing the package from debian - which would otherwise be the correct solution. Maybe someone out there is interested in adopting the package (to clarify: this does not mean that the new maintainer should do the rewrite, but a couple of bugs in the current package need to be fixed). If no one is interested i will probably have the package removed from debian in a few weeks. In the current state it should not appear in our next release. This all is the result of personal failure, and i should have done this much earlier. I shame for my bad maintenance of this particular package and hope that this will at least act as a warning example for others. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux zeus 2.4.19 #2 Fri Dec 6 03:45:09 CET 2002 i686 Locale: LANG=C, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
