Re: RFS: playmidi
What the hell?
It's taken this long to contact the actual maintainer of
playmidi (me)?
I have no interest in debian, but I am still actively
developing playmidi.
Perhaps people should consider actually MAILING THE MAINTAINER
when they make patches so that I (or other maintainers of other
projects) could include the changes in the next release.
>From an outsider's point of view Debian looks like the most
irresponsible distro with no contact whatsoever with original
package authors.
-- Nathan Laredo
laredo@gnu.org
--- Darren Salt <linux@youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> I demand that Brian Nelson may or may not have written...
>
> > Darren Salt <linux@youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk> writes:
> >> I'm looking for a sponsor for playmidi.
>
> >> I've fixed some of the reported bugs and applied an extra
> patch or two of
> >> my own. The diff and dsc files aren't available for
> download but I'll send
> >> them to anybody who's interested in sponsorship.
>
> > Are you planning to adopt playmidi? If so, you will really
> need to take
> > over as upstream as well, since it appears to be quite
> dead.
>
> For that reason, I'm CC'ing upstream. Lack of response by the
> end of this
> month will be taken as "don't care about it", in which case I
> may decide to
> hijack upstream.
>
> > Otherwise, it would probably be best to just remove
> playmidi from the
> > archive.
>
> Maybe. OTOH, I use it and I know that one other uses it...
> aside from that,
> well - popularity-contest data?
>
> >> I've also considered splitting the package (ref. bug
> 28471), but I'm not
> >> sure that the hassle of doing this is worth the gain wrt
> dependencies: the
> >> main problem is in moving ownership of the debconf
> configuration data to
> >> another package. There's some pre-debconf-handling cruft
> there too which
> >> I'm cautious about removing because it postdates potato -
> or would it be
> >> better to just forget that question and ask afresh?
>
> > Debconf usage is definitely preferable to "manually" asking
> questions in
> > the maintainer scripts.
>
> True; I don't plan to change that. (I should have typed
> "forget the original
> answer".)
>
> > However, splitting an already small package into even
> smaller pieces is
> > discouraged; the ftp-masters will likely reject it.
>
> Then I'll just leave them in one package and mark that bug as
> 'wontfix'.
>
> > Also, note that svgalib is very much dead.
>
> Maybe nobody will notice if I simply don't build that version
> :-)
>
> --
> | Darren Salt | linux (or ds) at | nr. Ashington,
> | woody, sarge, | youmustbejoking | Northumberland
> | RISC OS | demon co uk | Toon Army
> | I don't ask for much, just untold riches...
>
> He who hesitates is sometimes saved.
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