Hey I have done some work on the recently orphaned libircclient package, (O/ITA: at [1]), updated it to the latest release, updated packaging to current standards, and amongst other things made it Multiarch aware, and enabled hardening in the build. (It hadn't been updated since 2009 previously, so there were quite some stuff to do). See [2] for details on my changes. This involves a minor transition (If I've got it right, two packages are reverse dependencies of libircclient.) I have tried it out with megaglest [3], which builds and runs fine and I am testing the other reverse dependency pokerth [4] right now (Those builds are quite massive...) But I am not a DD and need a sponsor to get it uploaded. Would anybody be interested in this, and perhaps help out getting a freeze exception so that we don't have to be stuck with this aged package for a complete release cycle? Regarding team maintenance - The two packages that depends on libircclient are games-team maintained, but I don't know about libircclient - IRC clients are used in quite a lot of places other than games, right? Do you think there is any chance to get this into Wheezy? (CC'ing my standard sponsor - Are you interested in this, or are you busy with release-related work, Niels?) Help would be very much appreciated - /Andreas gusnan@gusnan.se [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=674882 [2] http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-maint/libircclient.git [3] http://packages.debian.org/megaglest [4] http://packages.debian.org/pokerth
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