Re: Afterstep?
On 22 Apr, Bruce Perens wrote:
> Is our Afterstep maintainer still active?
Well that would be me...
Yes, I'm still active. The most recent upstream version of Afterstep
has existed as a Debian package since March 27, when it was uploaded to
master. This was about two days after the upsream version was
released. It did wait in Incoming for a long time, but is now in both
bo and hamm. This release fixes all outstanding bug-reports, though
there are a few improvements I plan to make after exams. (The big
problem is that if you don't install the menu package, the default
system.steprc provides no menu when you left-click on the background.
This can be fixed by someone without the menu package by simply
uncommenting a single line, and probably since almost everyone uses the
menu package, no one has yet filed a bug report about this.)
As nearly as I can tell, the author of the message below was either
looking at the version in rex (which was a bit old even when rex was
frozen) or was confused by my munging of the version number (1.0pre6 ->
.99pre6) in order to make things work with dpkg's version ordering.
I'm not entirely sure what he means when he says that the package
"doesn't work well at all," but I have replied to him privately to
hopefully clarify matters.
Neil
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>> From: frodo@PROBLEM_WITH_INEWS_DOMAIN_FILE (Noah L. Meyerhans)
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>> Subject: Afterstep and Debian: WOW!
>> Date: 20 Apr 1997 20:45:41 GMT
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>> I just installed Afterstep, and I love it. Kudos to the authors! My
>> only complaint goes out to whoever is managing the Debian package.
>> The package available on ftp.us.debian.org is very outdated, and
>> doesn't work well at all. I would be willing to take over package
>> maintenence duties, but I have yet to learn the package development
>> tools. Would other Debian users find it helpful if I did this? Would
>> the people currently working on the Afterstep package be cool with it?
>>
>> Noah
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