Bug#286456: Man page no longer maintained?
Hello Helge and Junichi,
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 09:11:22PM +0200, Helge Kreutzmann wrote:
> quite some time ago I provided a patch to the advi man page which did
> not receive a single reply. Is this man page no longer maintained?
the problem is rather that the package itself is practically
unmaintained. There is a new upstream version available since
quite some time, and noone of us cared so far to update the package.
I think there are several reasons for this:
- noone of the pkg-ocaml team seems to use advi any more
- the previous version of advi contains a long list of debian patches,
and most of them do not apply to the newest upstream version. So
updating the package would mean quite some work, and probably good
knowledge of advi.
- There is a security issue with advi, so one needs to carefully patch
the upstream source here.
Would you (Junichi and/or Helge) be interested in taking over
maintenance of advi ? be aware that this will require, for the reasons
outlined above, require some skills in the OCaml language.
-Ralf
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Ralf Treinen
Laboratoire Preuves, Programmes et Systèmes
Université Paris Diderot, Paris, France.
http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/~treinen/
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