On Tue, 25 Jan 2011 23:12:01 +0100, Juliusz Chroboczek <jch@pps.jussieu.fr> wrote: > > There is always the option of either recruiting one of those > > disappointed users to maintain the package, or doing it yourself. > > Thanks for the suggestion -- but I'm already spending all of my > proverbial Copious Free Time on upstream work. That's why I was primarily suggesting that you contact the people that are telling you that they will miss it, and ask if they are willing to do the packaging work. Debian is primarily built by people for their own use, so if any of the people that have got in touch with you care about it enough to do the relatively small amount of work to build and upload the package, then it will be in Debian. On the other hand, if none of the users care that much, then the package fails to pass the not very rigorous bar to entry for Debian -- we require that at least one user cares enough to maintain each package. > I think so too. But I cannot be doing everything. I was only really suggesting that you pass on the suggestion to those that have contacted you. You should mention to them the version that was ready to go for Squeeze mentioned by Carsten Hey: http://snapshot.debian.org/package/cedilla/0.6%2B20090614-1/ which means that for the first upload, they need to do almost nothing. Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] http://www.hands.com/ |-| HANDS.COM Ltd. http://www.uk.debian.org/ |(| 10 Onslow Gardens, South Woodford, London E18 1NE ENGLAND
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