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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