Re: who maintains mklibs?

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> writes:

> Seeing ths's bug report on mklibs (#319620), which has a patch to fix
> the current breakage in the mips daily builds, I wondered who maintains
> the package. The maintainer is set to this list, but the alioth mklibs
> project has only one member (waldi). There seems to be no subversion (or
> arch or cvs) repository there, and the last uploads were made in 2004 by
> jbailey and pb.
>
> Aha! The repository is still in CVS on gluck.
>
> I'm left a bit confused about who's responsible to fix this. I don't
> think this list should be the maintainer if it's in a separate alioth
> project, and the existing alioth project seems to need some more members
> and a repository.
>
> There are several other bugs, some with patches, which someone ought to
> look at too.
>
> (In the meantime, I've released a new version from the CVS repo on gluck..)

Is anything but D-I using it? Maybe it should just be copied into the
D-I repository so people that find bugs could commit patches too.

Alternatively, if Falk has some spare time, maybe he and I could go
over the package and bug reports and take it over again. Falk, what do
you say?

MfG
        Goswin