FWD: [Bug#528733: O: svn-buildpackage -- helper programs to maintain Debian packages with Subversion]
Hi all,
it looks like we may have one more reason to explore other version control
systems.
Have a nice day,
-- Charles
----- Forwarded message from Eddy Petrișor <eddy.petrisor@gmail.com> -----
Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 10:49:07 +0300
From: Eddy =?UTF-8?Q?Petri=C8=99or?= <eddy.petrisor@gmail.com>
To: 528733@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Bug#528733: O: svn-buildpackage -- helper programs to maintain Debian packages with Subversion
(Please CC me, I am not subscribed to debian-devel)
Debian Bug Tracking System a scris:
> If you wish to submit further information on this problem, please
> send it to 528733@bugs.debian.org, as before.
It might be of interest to many people reading debian-devel to know that
svn-buildpackage is now orphaned and anybody wishing to take over
maintaining it, is more than welcome.
The package needs more attention than I can offer it now and Eduard
Bloch, the original author, hasn't touched the package for more time
than I did.
Here is again the initial orphaning mail:
=====================================================================
Package: wnpp
Version: N/A; reported 2009-05-15
Severity: normal
It has been about a year and a half* since svn-buildpackage hasn't
been uploaded, the 0.6.24 is waiting in collab-maint's SVN for an
upload for quite some time now. I am slowly but surely giving up
on maintaining packages in SVN and, thus I lack the motivation to
maintain the package.
http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/collab-maint/deb-maint/svn-buildpackage/trunk/
Since there are multiple fixes for it and still people are using it
and neither I nor Eduard Bloch had the time to maintain it properly
I have decided is high time for this package to find another dedicated
maintainer.
People interested in maintaining it should be aware that there is a
non-interactive way of running the scripts and these must be kept
functional and there are several ways the scripts bend to accommodate
native and non-native packages. There are some patches in the BTS and
some of the scripts could use some love or maybe a full rewrite once
the bug count lowers.
Since the scripts were written in perl, a perl-er is desirable as a
maintainer (I don't consider myself a perl coder and, as I understood,
Eduard wrote the scripts in his early perl days, so you might expect
some code horror).
I really hope someone will step up fast to take over maintenance,
since this is an important package for many people.
*OTOH, there was a stable release with a long freeze during this time
--
Regards,
EddyP
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"Imagination is more important than knowledge" A.Einstein
----- End forwarded message -----
--
Charles Plessy
Debian Med packaging team,
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan
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