On Fri, 15 May 2009 10:49:07 +0300 Eddy Petrișor <eddy.petrisor@gmail.com> wrote: > (Please CC me, I am not subscribed to debian-devel) > > Debian Bug Tracking System a scris: > > If you wish to submit further information on this problem, please > > send it to 528733@bugs.debian.org, as before. > > It might be of interest to many people reading debian-devel to know that > svn-buildpackage is now orphaned and anybody wishing to take over > maintaining it, is more than welcome. I'll take a look at it - I use SVN heavily for developing various packages/projects and use svn-bp to build them for Debian. My only concern is that I haven't ever used the svn-upgrade or svn-inject functionality, so if others with more experience of those areas want to join the maintenance effort it would help. Note that there is this bug which is an O: bug (which I'll retitle ITA and take as owner) and an RFH: bug #377467 which I'll leave in place because it is still valid due to the above. > The package needs more attention than I can offer it now and Eduard > Bloch, the original author, hasn't touched the package for more time > than I did. There are a few lintian reports and some bugs marked pending upload, I'll investigate those first, as well as the current bug reports that already have patches. > People interested in maintaining it should be aware that there is a > non-interactive way of running the scripts and these must be kept > functional and there are several ways the scripts bend to accommodate > native and non-native packages. There are some patches in the BTS and > some of the scripts could use some love or maybe a full rewrite once > the bug count lowers. A full rewrite is not on my ToDo list for svn-bp. At least not until after Squeeze. If anybody wants to help with a rewrite once the package is back in routine maintenance, let me know. > Since the scripts were written in perl, a perl-er is desirable as a > maintainer (I don't consider myself a perl coder and, as I understood, > Eduard wrote the scripts in his early perl days, so you might expect > some code horror). Doesn't look too bad at this stage but I haven't started hacking it around yet. :-) -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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