Re: rp-pppoe already in Debian!

[Justin Penney <justin@solve.net>]

Joerg Friedrich wrote...
>Hi Justin!
>
>I've just seen your ITP of rp-pppoe.
>This is already in Debian. the package is called pppoe and
>packaged by Christian Hudon <chrish@debian.org>
>

I feel somewhat foolish, but I did not notice this until almost a week after
I did an ITP.

>But Christian seems to be MIA. I recently tried to contact him
>but he never answered. I asked him to update to newest upstream.
>
>I intended to apply as Debian-Developer and overtake (rp-)pppoe.
>I'm still willing to do just to keep this package up to date. But 
>if you want to maintain it I do not need to. I packaged latest rp-pppoe
>(V2.8 released 2001-02-05) which closes all open bugs except one. 
>You can take a look at 
>http://iris.rz.uni-konstanz.de/~jfried/rp­pppoe and use it if you like to.
>

Yes I am definitely still interested in it. I will also contact the maintainer
to verify the MIA and take a look at your packages.

>Please tell me if you're still interested in packaging rp-pppoe.
>If you do not answer within one week (until Sun 2001-02-17) I will apply 
>as Debian-Developer and overtake rp-pppoe.
>
>
>-- 
>Heute ist nicht alle Tage, ich komm' wieder, keine Frage!!!
>
>   Joerg
>

Thank you.

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