Re: Can someone update the Freecell Solver Debian package?

[Shlomi Fish <shlomif@gmail.com>]

Hi Paul (and list),

On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 2:12 PM, Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 11:52 PM, Shlomi Fish <shlomif@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> My name is Shlomi Fish and I am the lead developer of Freecell Solver
>> ( http://fc-solve.berlios.de/ ), a C library and some programs to
>> automatically solve layouts of some card Solitaire variants. The
>> Freecell Solver package in Debian is horribly out of date. Can anyone
>> update it?
>
> Since we are (still) in the freeze for squeeze, any new upstream
> version will not reach squeeze. It could be updated in experimental
> though.

OK, thanks for the info.

>
>> The maintainer of this package appears to be RISKO Gergely who seems
>> to be missing-in-action.
>
> He was last active relatively recently:
>
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2010/10/msg00031.html
>
> He is probably deferring package updates until after squeeze is
> released, I know I have been doing that.
>

OK, thanks. He should still have replied to the bug report.

> If he doesn't update it soon after squeeze is released, please ping
> him and follow our MIA procedures:
>
> http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/beyond-pkging.html#mia-qa
>

OK, I will do.

>> Any response will be appreciated.
>
> Apologies for the lateness of this reply.
>

Thanks!

Regards,

-- Shlomi Fish

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