My debian info is a little old, assume this information to be about 90%
correct. :)
What that means is that there is no longer anyone on the debian team that is
assigned to maintain the debian package for texmacs. So bug reports will
not go anywhere, and the version will not get updated. I believe if a
debian package is orphaned for long enough, it can get dropped from the
distribution, but don't quote me on that part.
Anyway, as to what to do about it, one possibility would be to "campain" for
a new maintainer. (I.E. try to find someone who's interested in becoming
part of the debian team, and is willing to take on the maintaince of the
texmacs package.)
Any voulenteers?
If your thinking of starting a group to promote texmacs, you may want to
consider your position in the other major distributions too. For example
gentoo's version of texmacs is currently at: 1.0.6-r1 ("r1" is a gentoo
thing), so most likely a gentoo maintainer would be helpfull too.
Corey
On 1/19/07, Joris van der Hoeven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 10:10:41AM +0100, Bas Spitters wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I happened to stumble across the following message:
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=404375
>
> Texmacs has been orphaned in Debian (and thus Ubuntu etc.) :-(
What does that mean, exactly? What should we do about it?
--Joris
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