Re: Arla (Re: RFC: Removing old ncurses versions)

[Sam Hartman <hartmans@debian.org>]

>>>>> "Mikael" == Mikael Andersson <mikan@mikan.net> writes:

    Mikael> Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> writes:
    >> On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 06:24:32PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
    >> 
    >> > If nobody objects, I'll file a bug against ftp.debian.org to
    >> have arla > removed.  Its two grave bugs (1 year/92 days and
    >> 270 days old) have never > received any response from the
    >> maintainer.  It didn't make it into potato, > probably because
    >> of these bugs, and it won't make it into woody either, > unless
    >> someone adopts it.  It probably doesn't even work with recent
    >> kernels, > while OpenAFS does and is actively being developed
    >> and maintained.
    >> 
    >> According to the project page at
    >> http://www.stacken.kth.se/projekt/arla/, arla seems to still be
    >> under active development.  I guess it just needs a new
    >> maintainer.  Is it appropriate to file an O: wnpp bug for it?

    Mikael> If I remember it right the maintainer (gstark@mit.edu)
    Mikael> already have orphaned it. I have begun the work of a new
    Mikael> version of the packages, but I not done yet. I haven't
    Mikael> filed a bug against wnpp about it yet, because I want to
    Mikael> be sure that I can handle it. It compiles with never
    Mikael> version now, but I still have to figure out how to create
    Mikael> a source package for the kernel module.

    Mikael> And I'm looking for a sponsor :-)

I can probably help with the modules source package and with
sponsorship.  You may wish to look at openafs's debian/rules for how
to set up the source package.