Re: Update of rsyntaxtextarea

[Benjamin Mesing <bensmail@gmx.net>]

Btw. I would also like to track packaging within git instead of SVN
(rsyntaxtextarea is currently maintained within SVN). Since there is not
very much history, I would freshly start from git and leave a README
file in subversion, deleting all the other content.

Best regards

Ben

On Sat, 2013-09-21 at 10:58 +0200, Benjamin Mesing wrote:
> [resent to debian-java since it seems not to have reached
> pkg-java-maintainers@l.a.d.o]
> 
> Hello,
> 
> currently the package rsyntaxtextarea is maintained by Vladimir Kotov
> and Debian Java Maintainers. The package is in good shape but has not
> seen any updates to a recent upstream version for two years. I suspect
> no one is actively maintaining this package. Also there are no reverse
> dependencies.
> 
> Since I require a more recent version, I would like to package and
> upload the new version.
> 
> When packaging the new version I intend to remove the maven parts,
> because they are not provided upstream and add to the packaging
> complexity. The package has a popcon inst of "7" and a vote of "0", so I
> suspect that nobody will notice. Please let me know, if you object.
> 
> @Vladmir if I upload a new version, I will add myself to the uploaders
> field. If you do not intend to actively maintain the package any longer,
> I could remove you from there as well.
> 
> Best regards
> 
> Benjamin
>