I had the misfortune of recommending Debian to a group I associate with and then, while helping them install everything, finding that the Debian testing/unstable apcupsd package is completely non-functional. I checked online and sure enough, there is a "158 days old" grave bug report that basically explains how the package does not work at all (and since this is UPS power-outage shutdown support, that is really important). I won't go into detail as to what is broken, the bug report handles that nicely. Suffice it to say that I had to edit an included script just to enable basic functionality, and most of the features still don't work. I looked on the packages needing work, and up for adoption, etc... but it is not there. Basically what I want to know is what I can do about this. I am not a Debian Developer (yet ;) and can't do much myself, though I would take over maintenance of this package if I were (assuming that is even an option, since there is technically someone who is supposedly maintaining it already). I've heard differing opinions on this list (e-mail the developer, don't e-mail the developer, etc...), and am really not sure what I can do about this. Thanks. -- Steaphan Greene <stea@cs.binghamton.edu> GPG public key: http://www.cs.binghamton.edu/~sgreene/gpg.key.txt
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