fluxbox

["Dmitry E. Oboukhov" <dimka@avanto.org>]

I perfectly understand what experimental is.

I mean rather another problem: the new package version has been
realised, and this version maintains different charsets in locales. This
option is very important for not-Englishspeaking users. But maintainer
is lazy to commit this version to Debian.

The version in experimental hasn't any extravagant dependences or
problems with building/upgrade/compatibility with previous versions.

As far as I understand maintainer placed it into experimental only
because the new version (0.9.15) in original is also called RC2:1.0.
Probably he supposed that RC would soon be replaced with Release, but it
may take a few years more.

In the context of Etch release I think it is very important to work on
maintaining of UTF-8 and internationalization on the whole. Especially
as the upstream version gives such possibility. The question is: what
can be done if maintainer doesn't busy himself with the package and
doesn't answer the messages and bug-reports? It is impossible to make a
commit while maintainer hasn't denied his responsibility, but it would
be very desirable to solve the problem.


On 20:46 Tue 13 Feb     , Greg Folkert wrote:
GF> On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 01:30 +0300, Dmitry E. Oboukhov wrote:
>> Hi!
>> There's the following problem with the fluxbox package.
>> 
>> The locale in the etch distributive ia already set into UTF-8 as
>> default. Fluxbox has been maintaining  UTF-8 for a long time.
>> 
>> From July in experimental/ there had been  0.9.15version with
>> full maintaining of  UTF-8.
>> 
>> But in spite of the sent bug
>> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=397482
>> maintainer shows no sign of life and doesn't pay attention on
>> personal messages.
GF> Dmitry, experimental isn't for putting things into Sid or Testing or
GF> Stable.
GF> I am sure yoush hasn't done a thing with it, as Experimental packages
GF> don't need to be maintained, period.
GF> Experimental is experimental. If you don't understand what the word
GF> means, please go look it up. In terms of Debian, it MAY be used for
GF> testing new ways to package things. It may also be used to put newer
GF> versions into the pool without screwing up a freeze. But your July issue
GF> is far before the Etch Freeze.
GF> Which in turn means (to me) it was either a courtesy thing that got put
GF> in Experimental, or that it isn't as easy as you'd think to "fix it up"
GF> to get that or a newer version into Etch. Perhaps, doing the upgrade
GF> from Woody-Etch would break, or maybe the version in Sarge is completely
GF> incompatible and has to be handled gingerly and is causing lots of
GF> heartache.