On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 12:50:55AM +0000, Simon Huggins wrote:
> > There are currently 11 orphaned xfce4-* packages in unstable, including
> > three that have just been removed from testing due to RC bugs that went
> > virtually unnoticed since the last upload in May.
>
> I know the -goodies packages are in bad shape.
>
> > Please take some time to help figure out what should be done with
> > these packages -- cleaned up/adopted, or removed from the archive --
> > before ITPing more packages in the xfce4 namespace.
>
> Sure. I think for sarge they can be cleaned up/updated. I've just
> finished a stretch getting the 22 packages for the main body of xfce4
> for 4.2.0 for experimental sorted this weekend so I'm a bit knackered
> currently.
>
> To be honest I'd been expecting others to sort out the -plugins for
> sarge given people had said they would.
Hi Simon,
Being the maintainer that parented the xfce4-goodies Debian packages I
feel somewhat responsible for the current state that they're in. I only
have so much time free to work on them since I switched over to working
with the Debian-GNOME team, but since a freeze is "coming soon (TM)", I
would be willing to help co-maintain them and get them back on the road
again.
Apart from time constraints, I've been reluctant to update xfce4-goodies
again since I don't have XFce 4.2 libraries to build against.
One thing that would get the ball moving again would be to check
everything into a svn.debian.org tree so that almost anyone can chip in
(just like in pkg-gnome).
Cheers,
Andrew "Netsnipe" Lau
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