On 11/19/06, Holger Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Am 18.11.2006 um 23:23 schrieb Alexander Hansen: > > > On 11/18/06, Holger Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> Am 18.11.2006 um 20:59 schrieb Alexander Hansen: > >> > >>> > >>> It sounds like a new upstream version might be needed, and if > >>> there is > >>> one anybody is certainly free to submit a package for it. > >> > >> I do not understand that. What is an "upstream version"? > > > > "upstream" means the developers for the package (as opposed to > > anything somebody from Fink does). > > > > So "upstream version" means "version". :-) (meaning that the gpsdrive > > developers have made changes, rather than anything being done in a > > patch for the package in Fink) > > I'm not quite sure, if I understand that. All I understand now is, > there's something wrong with that version I've installed. There's no > maintainer and it seems nobody will repair it. Perhaps it was not a > good idea to install an unstable version, there won't be a stable > one, I assume.
"unstable" really means that it's being tested, and given the fact that (A) this is broken, and (B) there's no maintainer, you're right. And since while it was being maintained no fix occurred, that leads me to think that (C) this version of the package isn't fixable easily. If the gpsdrive developers have a new one that will fix this problem (I have no idea whether this is true or not) then anybody who wants to take over the package and put forth the working version is welcome to become its new maintainer. > > >> > >> P.S.: Is it possible to set an In-Reply-To header in this list? > >> > > > > It looks like we can do things with a "Reply-To" header, but don't. > > (I'm not sure if that is the same as In-Reply-To) > > Sorry, yes. That's what I was thinking of. A Reply-To header would > make this list much more comfortable. > > hs > I'll look into why we don't do that. -- Alexander K. Hansen Fink Documenter (still) Got job? http://akhmac.blogdns.net/~hansen/akh_cv/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
