Am 12.06.2005 um 18:56 schrieb Jean-François Mertens:
On 09 Jun 2005, at 11:45, Martin Costabel wrote:It is because those pkgs were broken since so long that I've put on june 2 in my experimental tree my local files for debconf and its deps intltool-debian and po- debconf, e-mailing the maintainerAndreas Dittrich wrote:Hi, I am just forwarding this since the maintainer didn't write me back and this seems like a solveable error for someone with a bit of knowledge. Does anybody of you have an idea?It's still the maintainer's job to either clean up the bitrot or scrap the package. According to the cvs log, he introduced the new patch file that does not work 5 months ago.[]sed 's|@FINKPREFIX@|/sw|' < /sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/ finkinfo/ base/debconf.patch | patch -p1patching file Debconf/Client/ConfModule.pm Hunk #1 FAILED at 71. Hunk #2 FAILED at 137.[] Martinthat he could use them. (and also for vflib3 and tex-guy were the breakage was worse). Also no news since then from the maintainer. Should I commit them myself ?
I'd say go for it. The maintainers job is to maintain a package. So if there is no way to get an answer for weeks we can safely call that maintainer inactive and/or completely gone. Though I have no idea what happened to the original maintainer I think it's not very cool to first take responsibility (voluntarily) and then just leave the community with the problems you introduced... I understand that ppl have jobs and a real life but once you take the responsibility for a community-project - no one forces you to - you should take this serious. I have a few other broken packages that I emailed the maintainers about but haven't gotten an answer after some mails and weeks, I'll introduce those problems step-by-step to this list, when I rechecked everything myself; I too have another life ;-)
Andreas
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