Re: looking for a sponsor for upsd...
Hi Nick:
I might be interested in sponsoring you for this package, but I'd have to take
a look at what you've done. Do you have somewhere that I can get your
packaged upsd to take a look at it?
Pat.
On Saturday 19 April 2003 01:21, Nick Estes wrote:
> I would like to rescue the orphaned package upsd, but I am hindered by the
> minor detail that I'm not yet a Debian developer.
>
> I have a new package put together for upsd with the newest upstream
> version, one of the 2 outstanding bugs fixed (I need to look at the other
> bug a little more to see what parts of it still apply after 4 years),
> updated standards version, and it's now lintian clean.
>
> So now I'm looking for a sponsor to check my work and help me rescue upsd
> from an almost certain demise... (-=
>
>
> background info:
>
> upsd is a daemon that can watch a ups for power events (lost power,
> restored power, battery low) via a serial interface. It sends power
> events to init via the normal powerfail mechanism.
>
> As for me, I've been using Debian for a while, and I've been packaging
> my own software for easy installation/managment in Debian for a year or
> two now. I do a lot of programming, mostly in ruby & C++, but perl, C,
> and a few other languages are not a problem...
>
> Thanks for your help!
>
> --Nick
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Patrick Patterson
Open Source Ambassador
Net Integration Technologies
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