Kleandisk
Hi there,
I've been working on the orphaned Kleandisk package in the hopes that I could
find a sponsor and take over maintaining it. I've been able to get it
compiling against the KDE3/QT3 in unstable, and I've been working on cleaning
up the remaining lintian errors.
I also contacted the upstream author and after a delay of a few weeks he
wrote back telling me that he does not currently plan on developing Kleandisk
any more. This makes me wonder what, if anything, I should do...
Should I go ahead, find a sponsor and patch the current version to work with
KDE?
Should I file a bug report against Kleandisk and send my patches to the QA
Group so that the current version can stay in unstable for the time being?
Should I refrain from patching it and count on it being pulled once KDE3 gets
stabilized?
Should I notify the QA group that the upstream author doesn't plan on
developing it any more?
I like Kleandisk and find it quite usefull, but it does have some noticeable
flaws that need to be worked out. I wouldn't, for instance, let my wife use
it in it's current form, but I do think that it has potential. Even so, I'd
rather not take over a package with a dead upstream as my first package.
TIA
John Lightsey
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