Hi! 2011/7/12 Thomas Goirand <z...@debian.org>: > Cc: Clint Byrum who maintains the package in Ubuntu. > > On 07/12/2011 08:01 PM, Angel Abad wrote: >> Hi Thomas, Im Angel Abad, Im Debian Maintainer and Ubuntu Developer. >> >> Im not use libdbi, but I think I can help you to improve the package >> and get it in better shape. > > Basically, we need to close the current bugs, and manage the transition > in Debian. Also, I disabled the postgress test suite from > libdbi-drivers, it would be great to re-enable it (but I have no time to > work on it).
Ok, I'll take a look! >> I made some probes, and I can help you to run it with dh 7 simplistic >> (6 lines) debian/rules, switch it to 3.0 (quilt) format, and also make >> it multi-arch for experimental. > > I don't think you can switch to a simplistic debian/rules style. It will > simply not work. I tried using the 3.0 (quilt) format, using autreconf > and other tools, it simply didn't work. I finally ended up making a > debian/build folder, copy all files there, build, and finally install > from there. Otherwise, building is modifying so many upstream files, > which either end up in the diff or in the Git. I think it's very goo > this way already. > > As for upstream, I think it would be great if they modified their > Makefile.am and such so that it would clean things correctly. There's so > many built files in the original archive ... I modified it and it works for me, Im preparing git-patch but git repository is outdated, could you push changes? Other thing, is necessary make autoreconf? isnt enough updating config.sub and config.guess? Regards, >> If you want my help please ping me, and I can send you debdiffs with my >> changes. >> >> Regards, > > Maybe a git patch would be better. > > On 09/29/2007 07:11 PM, Mario Iseli wrote: >> On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 02:05:09AM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: >>> Hello, >> >> Hi Thomas! >> >>> Bellow is the mail I received from the upstream of libdbi. The current >>> maintainer, David Parker, is Cc: to this message, so he can reply if he >>> is still interested in doing the maintenance. >>> >>> If David is not willing to continue maintaining it, I can try to take >>> over the package. >> >> He seems to be inactive for a quite long time. His MIA history is long >> too. I have orhpaned the package due to this and you can pick up the >> package if you want to maintain it. :) >> >> Regards, > > Exactly! I pinged him multiple times before I took over the > maintainer-ship, and had no reply. So I took over, because nobody did, > and it was one of the reverse-dependency of mod_sql. But I don't really > use libdbi. So I maintained it basically to help others, and finally, I > didn't do a good job. Mainly, the issue is the time it took to manage > issues (others complained about it), and this is what I want to avoid in > the near future, which is why I wrote this email to -release and -devel. > I didn't even keep him on Cc: to this email... > > Clint: *never* again ask me to hold on an upload, and especially not > because of an Ubuntu reason. I wont do that again. That's a very bad > idea, which have bring hate from others. > > Now, at this point, if we have enough volunteer, I think we should build > a project and a mailing list in Alioth, so that we can maintain > collectively. At least, it should be moved to colab-maint. Feel free to > pull from my repository: > > Vcs-Browser: http://git.debian.org/?p=users/zigo/libdbi.git > Vcs-Git: http://git.debian.org/git/users/zigo/libdbi.git > > and push that in colab-maint. Note that there's currently 4 branches, to > track upstream code vs the Debian additions in different releases: > debian-sid, debian-squeeze, upstream-sid, upstream-squeeze. > > Thomas > -- Angel Abad angela...@gmail.com | angela...@ubuntu.com | angela...@fsfe.org http://www.pastelero.net FPR: EBF6 080D 59D4 008A DF47 00D4 098D AE47 EE3B C279 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Got Input? Slashdot Needs You. Take our quick survey online. Come on, we don't ask for help often. Plus, you'll get a chance to win $100 to spend on ThinkGeek. http://p.sf.net/sfu/slashdot-survey _______________________________________________ libdbi-devel mailing list libdbi-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/libdbi-devel
