Hello. On 14/09/16 02:44, Ross Vandegrift wrote: > 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.
That would be good :) > >>> 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. I moved my desktops to Fedora a while ago because even with SID I sometimes had the problem of missing or outdated packages for a desktop experience (not EFL, I compile that myself). I keep running it on a headless server. Nothing to test from my side. regards Stefan Schmidt ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
