Package: wnpp Version: N/A; reported 2003-10-06 Severity: normal Hi, I intend to adopt the wmclock package. It is not orphaned per se, but given the following facts I think it's up for adoption: - according to debian/changelog, the package has had three uploads; two were sponsored Maintainer Uploads and the last is a NMU by Branden Robinson which fixed an (obvious) FTBFS bug. This last NMU happened on Wed, 18 Jul 2001 and was never acknowledged. - the current maintainer was in the NM queue but withdrew his application in 2001.[1] - the package is in poor shape, to say the least: it claims localization but doesn't ship with the right files and has a stupid y2k-compliance bug which was never fixed even though a patch is attached[2]. All in all, the package is the barely edited result of a dh_make run. I have tried to contact the current maintainer but didn't get a reply (yet?). Given that he never reapplied to the NM process and never even fixed the bugs in wmclock, I don't think he'll be willing to keep this package. Branden Robinson who last NMUed the package isn't willing to maintain it either. I have prepared a new package which fixes all the bugs and is in conformance with nowadays standards, I would like to see it in Sarge, so I'll wait 2 or 3 days more and upload it, unless someone objects. If you know the whereabouts of the previous maintainer (Szabolcs Horvath <horvaths@janus.gimsz.sulinet.hu>), please tell me. Thanks, -- ,''`. : :' : Romain Francoise <rfrancoise@debian.org> `. `' http://people.debian.org/~rfrancoise/ `- [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-newmaint-discuss/2001/debian-newmaint-discuss-200103/msg00043.html [2] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=126742
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