Hi Curt, On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 02:14:31PM -0500, David Aitcheson wrote: > Please pardon my intrusion in the conversation if you are not a Amateur Radio > Operator. I'm LU2DFM. > Would the information provided in the link mentioned also apply to updates to > the Xastir package? If you refer to the guidelines for sponsorees provided by Petter, yes, but I think Xastir is not orphaned. The current maintainer for Xastir is the Debian Hams group. I'm also a new member of this group and I'm not a Debian Developer myself; I don't know if Xastir is actively maintained here. > Several of us on the Xastir user group have been pushing to get an update into > both Debian and Ubuntu. There's a bug report on Debian BTS quite old about new version 1.9.6 and 1.9.8, I don't know if the reporters are in your group. > Any guidance would be greatly appreciated, provided you are not pressed for > time. I think this list is the correct place to start. Probably someone else knows better than I about this ;-) I can't really help because I barely used Xastir, I'm not familiarized with it's source code and I lack the time to study it right now. Are in your group a programmer who already knows how to make a deb package? If so, point him to this site: http://mentors.debian.net/cgi-bin/welcome I think he should read the bug reports for xastir too: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=xastir;dist=unstable That should be a start point for him. Best regards, -- Fernando M. Maresca
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