Hi Tim, Debian has its own standards for how to propagate changes downstream. I don't know much about Ubuntu, but I believe it follows the Debian system as well.
The Debian maintainer for VM, Manoj Srivastava, had lost interest in VM and has been looking for a replacement for a while. See the "Developer information" link here: http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/vm The best thing to do may be for you to become a co-maintainer of the Debian package, if you are interested, so that we can speed up its propagation inside Debian. Given your level of interest in VM, I think it would be appropriate to add you to the VM developers mailing list, [email protected]. There is not too much traffic on it, except for an occasional bug report. (I am the biggest generator of bug reports at the moment, and I put mine on Launchpad directly.) Are you ok to be added? Cheers, Uday Tim Cross writes: > Hi Uday, > > was just wondering if there are any plans or if anyone has thought > about crating a deb package for the last release of VM? It would be > good to get more recent version of VM into ubuntu and debian. The > next ubuntu release is in October, so it probably needs to be done > sooner rather than later. I was thinking that if we bundled up a new > version, the ubuntu team that takes care of the emacs stuff might be > more likely to take it on than if we don't. Even if we just created > a package and put it in a PPA, it would probably get more moving to > the latest release rather than the old one currently being included > in the distros. > > Tim > > -- > Tim Cross [email protected] > > There are two types of people in IT - those who do not manage what > they understand and those who do not understand what they manage. > > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~vm Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~vm More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
