Re: I'm the new developer on parcellite, but the debian maintainer for it hasn't responded

[Doug Springer <Doug@Dnkdesigns.net>]

Niels,
Thanks for getting back to me. The trouble with the packages is they are 
a bit old. Parcellite is on 1.0.1, and I think I've made things a little 
easier for any debian maintainter since I've fixed a few build problems 
regarding debian packages.  I've recently removed all the bogus 
dependencies (in svn trunk), since parcellite only needs GTK+.

I'd be glad to be a co-maintainer.  In order to do that I just have to 
ask?  Not sure the protocol here.  Thanks for everyone's patience.

Andrew, would you like for me to become a co-maintainer?  I wonder if it 
would be useful to maintain key files like control, changelog copyright 
(or copying) under SVN for parcellite?  I think I've killed most of 
those "dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: dependency on xxx could be avoided if 
xxx were not uselessly linked against it" in the trunk revision.  I've 
built an amd64 and a i386 deb package, so perhaps as a start (if you are 
willing) you could take a look at those and see what I did wrong/right?

Parcellite only needs to link against Gtk+, so that long list of 
dependencies can go away.

Kind Regards,
Doug Springer


On 03/11/2011 01:40 AM, Niels Thykier wrote:
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> On 2011-03-10 21:14, Doug Springer wrote:
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> > Niels,
> > I took over from the original developer, and parcellite is no longer
> > inactive.
> >
> >      
> Hey,
>
> That sounds good.
>
>    
> > There is a fork, it's called clipit, but there were lots of changes
> > occurring, and I thought that parcellite (after a few bugs were
> > addressed) was just fine as it was. I don't mind simple features, but
> > once it looks like klipper, what's the point?
> >
> >      
> Yes, clipit was the fork I was thinking of.  As pabs mentioned in a
> separate email, clipit is currently its own package but there was talk
> about replacing parcellite with it.
>
>    
> > My intent it to primarily bug fix/build fix, add bare essentials from
> > time to time, and keep parcellite just as it is - but I've sent Andrew
> > several emails and no response yet. I figured if he doesn't want to
> > maintain it, I'll take over that part as well.
> >
> > How do I go about doing that?
> >
> >      
> As far as I can tell, the maintainer of parcellite is definitely active,
> since he uploaded a version of parcellite 5 days ago[1].  I have CC'ed
> Andrew, whom I hope will reply within a couple of days.
>    If you want an active part in maintaining parcellite, your best option
> right is to offer to become a co-maintainership.
>
> [1] http://packages.qa.debian.org/p/parcellite/news/20110306T041708Z.html
>
>    
> > Best Regards,
> > Doug Springer
> >
> >
> > On 03/10/2011 12:53 PM, Niels Thykier wrote:
> > On 2011-03-10 15:40, doug Springer wrote:
> >
> >      
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > > I started developing parcellite because I didn't want it to disappear
> > > > > from the repositories.
> > > > >
> > > > > I've been developing parcellite for several months now and have a new
> > > > > release that's been tested and packaged to i386 and amd64. I'd like to
> > > > > see this make it into main stream.
> > > > >
> > > > > Where do I go from here? I'll can take over the maintenance if I need
> > > > > to.
> > > > > Thanks,
> > > > > Doug Springer
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >            
> > Hey,
> >
> > I remember parcellite from a while back; as I recall I managed to reach
> > the maintainer via his other email: andrewsomething@ubuntu.com
> >     That being said; the last I heard was that parcellite was being
> > replaced by a fork, since parcellite was inactive.  Unfortunately the
> > name of the fork eludes me at the time.
> >
> > ~Niels
> >
> >      
> > >        
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