On Fri, 5 Jan 2007 11:08:49 -0800 Kees Cook <kees@outflux.net> wrote: > Hello! libdevice-serialport-perl has been languishing with a bad > regression (bug#390387: version 1.002 was NMU'd into version 0.22). > Zak Elep produced an "official" non-NMU update, but it was never > sponsored[1]. The obvious question is : Has anyone been able to contact the current maintainer? The mentors archive indicates that this has been attempted: http://www.archivum.info/linux.debian.devel.mentors/2006-08/msg00111.html CC'ing him just to see if there is any update. A new maintainer would seem appropriate if there is no response. Popcon indicates increasing usage of this package, so something does need to be done. I could be interested if I had more confidence in being able to test it reliably. > Since software that depends on libdevice-serialport-perl breaks, > finding the wrong version installed, I'd really like to get this > fixed (I'm also the upstream author). What needs to happen to get > this package sorted out? The problem is finding a sponsor who is interested and able to test this package. What is involved? There only appears to be one package depending on this package: sendpage-server and it's -common and -client versions, used to send alphanumeric pages to a pager. Is there some way to reliably test this package without having a pager and supporting service? (Something more than just running the test suite, which, according to the BTS, has had it's own problems.) A sponsor does need to be able to test the package prior to upload, it is insufficient for all testing to be done upstream and/or by the maintainer when that maintainer is not a DD. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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