Re: gpaint adoption (resurrection) anyone?
On Tue, 18 Dec 2001, Ben Armstrong wrote:
> Gpaint was unceremonially dumped from Debian as the last maintainer
> indicated that it didn't work very well and upstream was apparently
> dead.
Hmm, the upstream source has a date stamp from 21. Nov 2000 and latest
CVS entries are 8 month old (real minor changes). Its a shame but
the Debian maintainer might be correct :-(.
> Is anyone interested in taking on this package? We have gimp
> and xpaint, but xpaint's GUI shows its age. I really think gpaint
> is a step in the right direction and only needs some encouragement
> (like emailing the upstream maintainer to indicate that this would
> be neat for Debian Jr. if developed further).
May be the upstream maintainer has lost interrest and/or has no
time because of changing job or something else. In my opinion it
needs a list with more people reading it (perhaps some GTK+ related
list) to ask for a new maintainer of this fine software.
Could please someone step in here and take over itself or at least
find a way to tell the world that this program needs a push. It would
be really sad if this w not be developed further!
> Please see http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gpaint
>
> Also, I have the diffs for the old abandoned package if anyone wants
> them.
Please make sure that they will not vanish at all.
Where there any open bugs. Why not set Maintainer to
Debian QA Group <packages@qa.debian.org>. It is not necessary to
drop the package at all if it is bug free.
Kind regards
Andreas.
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