On Wed, 7 Sep 2011 12:08:57 +0200, Sven Hoexter <sven@timegate.de> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 07, 2011 at 10:34:11AM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > > > OK - do you have any pointers to migration documentation? The main > > > intent of the NMU was to fix the FTBFS, not really overhaul the whole > > > package, but it would indeed be better to avoid leaving predictable > > > future FTBFSes... > > > > It seems strange to me to have changes of this scale in a NMU. Wouldn't > > you rather either hijack the package or talk to Liu Qi about adding > > yourself as a co-maintainer? Especially since it's your 5th NMU of this > > package in a row, you're kind of its official non-maintainer :p > > I've uploaded one the NMUs in the past and last time Liu ACK'ed the NMU > because he had not enough time to care at the time. I think I already > proposed to Steve to take over the whole thing upstream because it's dead > otherwise. Steve and some other people from other distros currently pass > around patches and the mess is getting bigger every other month. :-/ I went for a large-scale NMU mainly because, compared to the work involved fixing the FTBFS bug (the patches adding support for Evolution 3 and switching to GTK+ 3), the rest was rather simple and addressed either nasty bugs (the eggtrayicon segfault and Polish crash), important missing functionality people have been waiting for for years (SSL) or a trivial text-formatting fix (<b> instead of <span>). Then I fixed some lintian warnings because I know some sponsors prefer a reasonably lintian-clean package! I have indeed ended up being the "de facto" maintainer, and Qi agreed in March that we should probably co-maintain it (well, strictly speaking the agreement was that I should have access to a repository used to maintain mail-notification). Since then though I haven't heard anything. I also attempted to get in touch with Jean-Yves Lefort but haven't heard anything from him either. In any case I don't mind either taking over upstream or taking over the Debian package (or both). I don't know if it's possible to take over a dead project on Savannah and Launchpad (where mail-notification are hosted), as used to be the case on SourceForge... In the meantime though, would any one like to sponsor the NMU? Regards, Stephen
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