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Re: xletters - seeking new maintainer



Hi, I posted on the bug #800238 a patch for the bug and some other issues.

cheers,

G.





Il Martedì 29 Settembre 2015 13:11, Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu> ha scritto:
Forwarding to Debian Games as well ...

On Sun, Sep 27, 2015 at 06:54:29PM -0300, Ben Armstrong wrote:
> I'd really like to see xletters go to a good home. I mentioned last
> month there's a good chance Debian would be better off switching
> upstreams to one that supports Unicode (see #798004) and today I just
> received this. As our own kids have not used this software since longer
> ago than when I last did anything for this package, I'd like to put one
> last call here, to the Debian Jr. and Edu lists before I simply orphan
> the package. I hope someone new would like to bring new energy to
> looking after what was certainly a favourite of my kids when they were
> very young.
> 
> Please contact me if you would like to take over xletters.
> 
> Thanks,
> Ben
> 
> 
> -------- Forwarded Message --------
> Subject:     Bug#800238: xletters: Please migrate a supported debhelper
> compat level
> Resent-Date:     Sun, 27 Sep 2015 15:52:44 +0000
> Resent-From:     niels@thykier.net
> Resent-To:     Ben Armstrong <synrg@sanctuary.nslug.ns.ca>
> Date:     Sun, 27 Sep 2015 17:35:06 +0200
> From:     niels@thykier.net
> Reply-To:     niels@thykier.net, 800238-maintonly@bugs.debian.org
> To:     maintonly@bugs.debian.org
> 
> 
> 
> Source: xletters
> Severity: important
> Usertags: deprecated-debhelper-compat-leq-3
> 
> Hi,
> 
> The package xletters is using a debhelper compat level of 3 or less
> according to lintian.  These compat levels have been deprecated for
> the past ~10 years and debhelper will remove support for them in the near
> future (as declared in [1]).
> 
>  * Please migrate the package to a supported debhelper compat level.
>    - Compat 9 is recommended
>    - Compat 5 is the bare minimum (compat 4 will be removed soon as
>      well)
> 
>  * If your package uses any of the following tools, please remove them
>    from the rules files.  Neither of them does anything except warn
>    about their deprecation.
>    - dh_desktop
>    - dh_scrollkeeper (deadline: January 1st 2016)
>    - dh_suidregister
>    - dh_undocumented
> 
>  * Please note that your package might have been flagged for using
>    e.g. "DH_COMPAT=2 dh_foo ...".
>    - This will still cause issues when the compat level is removed.
> 
>  * If the package has been relying on dh_install being lenient about
>    missing files, please see "MIGRATING TO COMPAT 5 OR LATER" in [1].
> 
>  * Deadline: 
>    - compat 1+2: November 1st 2015
>    - compat 3: January 1st 2016
> 
> If you are using other deprecated debhelper features (such as omitting
> the debian/compat file), please consider fixing those while you are at
> it.
> 
> Thanks,
> ~Niels
> 
> [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2015/09/msg00257.html
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 

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