To adopt or not to adopt: smstools
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Hi there,
i am a so-far happy long-time-user of debian and now would like to give
something back to the debian project. Now i've seen a while ago that the
package smstools is far from the upstream smstools (and has not been
changed since a year, except a security issue by s.d.o), what is bad,
because upstream has slightly changed and improved smstools (they
perform better and contain less errors - i use them in a production
environment much more successful since a while). Also the upstream
author has changed, with a new branch 3.0 of smstools.
Now i asked the maintainer of this package, if he lost time on this
project or something like that. He did not respond. But he seems to be
active otherwise and i know he might be busy because of the upcoming
release. But how to go on with this? I would happily package further
versions of smstools if someone let me. I even have packaged a current
version on-top of the original maintainers work. I've uploaded it to
mentors.d.o but i'm unsure if i should RFS because it *has* a
maintainer. Maybe it would be an alternative to add a new package smstools3?
d.m.o address:
http://mentors.debian.net/cgi-bin/sponsor-pkglist?action=details;package=smstools
What do you think should i do?
Greets
Patrick Schönfeld
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