Hi, On Fri, 2016-03-25 at 14:44 +0000, Christopher Lees wrote: > I hope this is the correct place to try and get into touch with someone. > > I appear to have become the current upstream coder for the package openBVE: > https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=openbve > My Github repository is here: > http://github.com/leezer3/OpenBVE/ > > This was abandoned by the original developer in ~2007 or so, and > unfortunately the version in the Debian repositories is broken on anything > above Wheezy. I had a go with the version in unstable using some routes I found and things seem to work ok. What exactly is broken? > Whilst I'm not sure I'd currently consider my much updated version ready > for Debian itself, I would like to get into touch with someone who could > potentially adopt the maintainership of the current package, and fix the > current breaking issues with it. > > When that's done, discussion could be had about what is required, and guide > me through the process of getting a version of my builds into the > repositories. > > I have tried mailing the current maintainer- Paul Sladen, but whilst I've > had two replies promising he'll get back to me, I've had nothing more. > Whilst I have no experience in Debian packaging, I'm happy to work with > someone to get this situation sorted out. Did you contact the Debian CLI Applications Team, the team listed in the maintainer field of the package as well? pkg-cli-apps-team@lists.alioth.debian.org How long ago were those replies? The package was last updated in January this year so it doesn't seem unmaintained. James
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