FVWM packages for adoption

[Julian Gilbey <J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk>]

At the moment, I am the maintainer of almost all of the FVWM-related
packages:

 fvwm1
 fvwm
 fvwm-common (binary package from fvwm)
 fvwmconf (which I haven't made an upload of yet)

- fvwm1 is no longer maintained upstream and is now lintian
  error-free, so the only work needed will be to cope with Debian
  policy changes
- fvwmconf is probably going to need some serious hacking to bring it in
  line with the latest beta releases of FVWM
- it would be really nice to package fvwm-beta before the freeze,
  using FVWM 2.3.10 or later, which is gnome-aware
- I have been hoping to replace the icons in fvwm-common (which have
  no attribution or license; a real problem) with a new wm-icons
  package (see http://wm-icons.dns.org/).  I have done some work on
  the upstream source, including sorting out some license problems.
  There is still a bit of work to be done on that front, but it's in
  progress.  fvwm-common will have to provide compatibility symlinks
  for some while yet, though.
- fvwm has lots of bug reports against it.  Some of these are probably
  fixed in the CVS development branch (2.3.10), but I haven't found
  the time to check.  Some of them are hard.

I'm offering these for adoption, because I want to work on a few other
things: devscripts has a few long-outstanding wishlist reports, and I
really want to finish writing the libkpathsea-perl stuff to make the
mktex* scripts more secure.  And -qa could do with some help.

The interested maintainer should have a working knowledge of X
internals, as there is no easy stuff when it comes to a window
manager.  No X-toolkits in sight!

Finally, if someone would like mentoring for these packages, I would
be more than willing to do so.

In the meantime, I will continue maintaining the packages.

   Julian

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  Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, QMW, Univ. of London. J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk
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