Re: Intent to help maintaining libxml++s
On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 07:32:49PM +0800, Deng Xiyue wrote:
> As confirmed by QA team that Chris Leishman <masklin@debian.org>, the
> maintainer of libxml++{,2.6} is kind of MIA, I would like to help
> comaintaining these libs. I've already file a wishlist bug for
> libxml++2.6 (#430142[1]), which contains a preliminary version of
> .diff.gz and .dsc against latest upstream version, which fixes various
> bugs on BTS.
>
> As for libxml++, currently it has 2 rdepends, which are ofx and
> passepartout. According to #460407[2], libofx might got removed from
> Debian in the nearing future, so that only leaves passepartout.
> Currently, its upstream hasn't start the transition, so
> libxml++1.0 has to stay for some time. I'll see if there's anything I
> can do to help, so I can be safely removed when it has 0 rdepends.
As the passepartout maintainer I have done basic maintenance of
libxml++1.0 in the past. I'm not really interested in it though. So I
would be quite happy if you take over. OTOH there is not much work to be
done either. The only things I did in the last years were uploads for
C++ transitions.
Gaudenz
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