Evening ladies and gents, OK, I know I've been an on again/off again maintainer so far. Unfortunately, that trend will continue for a bit longer. (even longer than *I* expected). I've had quite a few In Real Life problems surface that are demanding 100% of my time at the moment. (I don't even have net access on consistent basis yet.) I finally made the move from Susanville, CA USA to Buffalo, NY USA. In the process of the move, several life altering issues cropped up. First, it's become necessary for me to start and extremely involved court process to force the mother of one of my children to recognize paternl standing. (Long involvedissue where I just found out I had a daughter I never knew existed. All I'm willing to state on a public forum). The final issue, however, is of a much larger caliber and could vastly affect my online status and my work with Debian and libpam-pgsql. (Yes, I fully recognize and accept that my record for stability has not been the best so far as it is.) Those of you that I talk to privately know I've been having medical problems as of late. Well, the doctors at the Veterans Hospital have explained why I've been so sick lately. Seems, I have colon cancer. I'm not willing to just walk away from Debian, libpam-pgsql, or any future pacakges I may be graced with the care of. However, until these two monumental issues in my life both allow me some semblance of mental equilibrium, and time to concentrate on other issues I find myself unable to manage. Anyone out there willing to do NMUs, please do so with my blessings, with 2 caveats. 1) No drastic changes to the core functionality (aka no rewrites). Bug fixes for what's on the BTS right now and future security patches to any popup issues is fine. Several people have written patches that have not been incorporated and tested, and they've emailed my consistently about it privately. To them I say, your voice has not gone unnoticed. Life just has not been dealing a workable hand at the present time. Your time and effort will be rewarded. 2) No deleting or changing out of the dependancy of pam-pgsql on mhash/mhash2, as the FreeBSD maintainer has requested. I'm not opposed to the change *after* much more careful consideration, and indepth talks between myself and him occur. Not to mention the required (to me) discourse of such a fundamental change in the package on the debian-devel list among interested parties. I'm hoping to be back online within a month or two. I'm also hoping to be capable of working on these issues and others by then, though I make no promises at all. (The cancer issue alone decries that capability). I will be monitoring my email sporatically (even more so than before, unfortunately), but I will try to answer. Thanks for understanding folks. I truly do want to help with Debian. I do believe in the Social Contract and the potential for honest, open source, high quality software to affect a change for good in man's technological evolution. I agree and accept that my participation up to now has been rather spotty. I can only say that I plan to change that, once I stabilize my life. -- David D.W. Downey <david-downey@codecastle.com> Upstream - libpam-pgsql.codecastle.com Debian - Woody: 0.5.2-3 Sid: 0.5.2-5 State - bugs.debian.org/libpam-pgsql "The price of Free Software is Eternal Literacy." "I'd rather die on my feet, than live on my knees." Deloris Clayborn
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