On 09/13/2016 07:07 PM, Stefan Schmidt wrote: > On 14/09/16 00:13, Ross Vandegrift wrote: >> On 09/13/2016 05:58 PM, Stefan Schmidt wrote: >> The current Debian maintainer has been missing, but supposedly returning >> soon. > > Soon as in this year?
Yep, that's what I've heard - of course people's plans change, so who knows for sure. >> Soon, I hope we'll be able to get these into the archive. > > I have seen you mention this before and I wonder how realistic this hope > is. Are you a Debian Developer or maintainer? Do you have a sponsor that > would sponsor your non packager uploads? No, I am not a DD or DM. But I think I could find a sponsor. I've been waiting for Albin - he's expressed interest to me to be involved, and I'd like to wait. But if it doesn't pan out, I don't think it's the end of the road. I think your pessimism is fair, but hope to help improve the situation. >> Hypothesis: E17 on EFL 1.8 might be old, but it's reasonably stable and >> useful. So end-users that do not follow EFL development might not >> know/care about new features. Those that do probably build from source. > > You think these users do also not care about bug fixes and security > fixes? You know many people that are using efl 1.8 and e17 and are happy > that Debian does not update to newer versions? Oh I don't think anyone is happy about it - I haven't been. But that doesn't mean it's been impossible to get by. > I talk about Debian unstable here and not some years old > release. (I have been using Debian SID myself for over 10 years and > at that point packages have been updated when new versions came out) If you have time and interest, I'd be happy to get bug/success reports on the packages so far. Ross ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
