On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 02:27:51AM +0900, Masayuki Hatta wrote: > >>>>> Patrik Fimml <patrik@fimml.at> wrote: > > > the abiword package, maintained by mhatta and joshk, could > > definitely use some more care. The version that is in Debian was > > released back in Nov 2006 [1], and it currently includes a grave bug > > that makes the package nearly unusable on amd64 [2]. > > > [1] http://www.abisource.com/downloads/abiword/ > > [2] http://bugs.debian.org/514525 > > Well, the current Debian version is 2.6.4 (in stable and unstable), > released in 13-Jul-2008. Seems Ubuntu Hardy somehow has 2.4.6, which > was released in Nov. 2006 and is definitely a really old version. I > guess you confused that with Debian. Sorry for the wrong accusation. Indeed 2.6.4 and 2.4.6 (and nothing inbetween) appearing everywhere on the QA page confused me. Sorry! > > As already mentioned, the package is not very up-to-date, which is > > why I'd offer to take it over. As maintainer of the eboard package, > > I already have some experience in packaging and with the BTS. > > I'm planning to form a maintenance team for abiword, move debian/ to > Alioth and use SVN or Git extensively. How do you think? Sounds good to me, I'm hereby offering co-maintainership. Josselin Mouette pointed out the possibility of using the Debian-GNOME infrastructure [1] (SVN) earlier—the mail didn't reach the list apparently. Personally, though, I prefer Git by far. [1] http://pkg-gnome.alioth.debian.org/ Before migrating to a VCS, one might consider splitting the source package. It seems a bit awkward to have four separate source tarballs in one source package, which then builds four separate binary packages again. Do you agree? Kind regards, Patrik
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