I had to let your message sink in.... George Danchev wrote: > Since it seems you have put so much work and time into that package, > I guess you deserve at least an honest reply ;-) Thanks. > I'm not familiar with the lesstif2 concepts and internals, which > doesn't seem to be trivial at all, so I wouldn't be able to properly > review and upload, but I think that, in general, before putting > considerable amount of work into whatever neglected or understaffed > package, it is a good idea to sound the interest and intentions of > your prospective sponsors. That might eventually avoid wasting > sponsoree's own time. Otherwise, taking care of such packages is very > welcome, indeed, so I hope you find a proper sponsor! I do agree that the internals of lesstif2 are not trivial. However according to popcon [1] it is a highly popular (if that can be said of a library), which has received very little attention (both upstream and in Debian). I am working, albeit slowly, together with the Fedora maintainer of lesstif2, because he also thinks that the large distro's should team up to resurrect lesstif. My maintenance work on upstream (the new release) has been taken up by several distro's, but not by Debian, where I started to do the work for. I agreed with Sam Hocevar, the maintainer of lesstif2, that I could co-maintain, but he already said that I should also seek elsewhere for uploads in case he did not respond. Now do I understand correctly that you mean that I should sorta search for a sponsor in advance? As said, I basically have a sponsor, but he is not very responsive. Furthermore, my sponsor for Nedit also promised that he could have a look at it, but apparently he also has different priorities. For those reasons I am looking on this list as well. The changes with respect to the previous version of lesstif2 in Debian are not that big (remember that most changes in upstream are already applied in the current Debian version) and mainly two things: "rebootstrapping", ie running libtoolize/aclocal/autoconf/autoheader/automake again (script in debian/patches/000_bootstrap_script.diff) and fixing several obsoleted macro functions (005_libtool_obsolete.diff). Next Sunday I will start working with a friend on a problematic part of lesstif, which is related to bug 545672 [2]. Copy/paste is not very well implemented and causes strange behavior when a clipboard manager is working. Now, I don't know much yet about icccm, but we'll try to figure it out. Apart from helping FOSS, I also consider this a learning experience for myself, so I do not consider my time waisted. Paul [1] http://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=lesstif2 [2] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=545672
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