Re: Orphaning debmirror

2009-08-03 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Siggy Brentrup deb...@psycho.i21k.de writes: Hi, sorry for the late reply, we were celebrating my wife's birthday at the seaside until yesterday late in the evenign. On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 17:53 +0100, Steve Kemp wrote: On Fri Jul 31, 2009 at 18:47:58 +0200, Siggy Brentrup wrote: Who

Re: Orphaning debmirror

2009-08-03 Thread Siggy Brentrup
On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 10:36 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: I doubt there is much style left in the code. Thanks for this helpful line :) Siggy -- Please don't Cc: me when replying, I might not see either copy. bsb-at-psycho-dot-informationsanarchistik-dot-de

Re: Orphaning debmirror

2009-08-03 Thread Frans Pop
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Ok, you've got it unless you find someone else. Probably best to give it a few days for others to raise their hand as well. Looks like I'm stuck with it :-) I'll first contact Goswin privately for some practical matters and then decide on how to maintain the

Re: Orphaning debmirror

2009-08-02 Thread Siggy Brentrup
Hi, sorry for the late reply, we were celebrating my wife's birthday at the seaside until yesterday late in the evenign. On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 17:53 +0100, Steve Kemp wrote: On Fri Jul 31, 2009 at 18:47:58 +0200, Siggy Brentrup wrote: Who wrote debmirror? Without installing I can't find

Orphaning debmirror

2009-07-31 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Hi, I'm still looking for a new maintainer of debmirror and I'm considering orphaning the package now if nobody steps up. Description: Debian partial mirror script, with ftp and package pool support This program downloads and maintains a partial local Debian mirror. It can mirror any

Re: Orphaning debmirror

2009-07-31 Thread Frans Pop
I use debmirror (stable version) and am quite happy with it, so I'm willing to take it. However, I'm not a perl expert and cannot promise super active maintenance. I can try to at least keep it working though. If anybody else wants to take it, feel free. If someone would like to co-maintain,

Re: Orphaning debmirror

2009-07-31 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Frans Pop elen...@planet.nl writes: I use debmirror (stable version) and am quite happy with it, so I'm willing to take it. However, I'm not a perl expert and cannot promise super active maintenance. I can try to at least keep it working though. If anybody else wants to take it, feel free.

Re: Orphaning debmirror

2009-07-31 Thread Siggy Brentrup
Hi Goswin, on Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 12:51 +0200, you wrote: I'm still looking for a new maintainer of debmirror and I'm considering orphaning the package now if nobody steps up. Debmirror is written in perl so you should have some grasp and love for the language. No way. I hate perl and

Re: Orphaning debmirror

2009-07-31 Thread Sandro Tosi
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 18:47, Siggy Brentrupdeb...@psycho.i21k.de wrote: Who wrote debmirror?  Without installing I can't find out since only maintainers are listed in the PTS.  I'm asking because but PTS has a link to the changelog:

Re: Orphaning debmirror

2009-07-31 Thread Steve Kemp
On Fri Jul 31, 2009 at 18:47:58 +0200, Siggy Brentrup wrote: Who wrote debmirror? Without installing I can't find out since only maintainers are listed in the PTS. Look at the copyright file: e.g.

Re: Orphaning debmirror

2009-07-31 Thread Dmitry E. Oboukhov
GvB I'm still looking for a new maintainer of debmirror and I'm GvB considering orphaning the package now if nobody steps up. some time i had a bad connection to internet and tried to use debmirror and conditions forced me to write a patch for debmirror. but it wasnt applied with strange

Re: Orphaning debmirror

2009-07-31 Thread Jonathan Yu
Hi Frans: First of all, thanks very much for stepping up and offering to help maintain this package! :-) I should mention I've never used debmirror, and thus don't feel that I would make for a very competent maintainer of it. Nonetheless, I feel I'd be remiss if I didn't offer to help out,