Hi Debian package maintainers, I write you this mail because your packages either depend directly or indirectly on lesstif2 [0]. I recently became co-maintainer of lesstif2, with also upstream commit rights, but it turned out that the usual sponsors of Debian packages are not interested in helping lesstif2 to get into a (maybe slightly) better state. On the mentors mail list it has been even suggested to have lesstif removed from Debian [1], so some activity on this package might help keeping it in. As a last attempt from my side, I am seeking a sponsor for lesstif from the people that depend on it for their packages. The alternative question would be if your package would think about moving to an other windowing/widget/ui toolkit? I am looking for a thorough check of my packaging and preferably a sponsor for the new version 1:0.95.2-1. The new upstream version is only the incorporation of a lot of patches already incorporated in the current version of lesstif2 in Debian. The packaging has been updated as well (changelog at the bottom of this mail [4]). Lesstif2 has been moved to collab-maint [2], because the original maintainer, Sam Hocevar, agreed that I could co-maintain lesstif2 with him. However, Sam Hocevar, hasn't responded to my last e-mails about checking the packaging and uploading (his priorities seem to have moved on from lesstif). I build the package and uploaded to m.d.n [3]. I would appreciate comments. lesstif2 builds these binary packages: lesstif-bin - user binaries for LessTif lesstif-doc - documentation for LessTif lesstif2 - OSF/Motif 2.1 implementation released under LGPL lesstif2-dbg - lesstif2 debugging files lesstif2-dev - development library and header files for LessTif 2.1 The upload would fix this bug: 409093 With kind regards Paul PS: If your package is considering moving away from lesstif, I would like to know as well. If there is no-one interested in helping lesstif, I think it is indeed best to have it *decently* removed. [0] LessTif, made by the Hungry Programmers, is a free (LGPL-ed) version of OSF/Motif; it aims ultimately at binary compatibility with Motif 2.1. [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2009/11/msg00079.html [2] http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/collab-maint/deb-maint/lesstif2/ [3] The package can be found on mentors.debian.net: - URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/l/lesstif2 - Source repository: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable main contrib non-free - dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/l/lesstif2/lesstif2_0.95.2-1.dsc [4] lesstif2 (1:0.95.2-1) unstable; urgency=low [Sam Hocevar] * Acknowledging past NMUs. Thanks to Aaron M. Ucko and Paul Gevers, who now co-maintains this package (Closes: #396199, #479779, #503361, #314440, Closes: #43640, #87745, #356017, #496081, #330057, #439186). * debian/control: + Add Paul Gevers to the uploaders list. + Update Vcs fields. [Paul Gevers] * New upstream release (dropping deprecated patches) - 020_bad_integer_cast.diff (solved upstream) - 020_unsigned_int.diff (included upstream) - 021_xim_chained_list_crash.diff (included upstream) - 031_fix_inverted_scrollwheel.diff (included upstream) - 031_shutup_xtungrabbutton.diff (included upstream) - 040_fedora_accelkeys.diff (included upstream) - 040_fedora_c++fix.diff (included upstream) - 040_fedora_text.diff (included upstream) - 050_cvs_invalid_pointer.diff (was from upstream) - 050_cvs_1773603_invalid_pointer_TextOut.c.diff (was from upstream) - 050_cvs_1773603_invalid_pointer_List.c.diff (was from upstream) - 050_cvs_1773603_invalid_pointer_Label.c.diff (was from upstream) - 050_cvs_1773603_invalid_pointer_LabelG.c.diff (was from upstream) - 050_cvs_class_initialize_DialogS.c.diff (was from upstream) - 050_cvs_attachbottom_Form.c.diff (was from upstream) - 060_update_manpages (included upstream) - 071_fix_crash_on_ESC_Traversal.c (included upstream) Remaining patches (updated descriptions, conform current DEP3 proposal): - 000_bootstrap_script.diff (updated, in sync with upstream CVSMake) - 000_libtool_linking.diff (leave as is, debian specific, path) - 010_rebootstrap (updated, see also 000_bootstrap_script.diff) - 020_missing_xm_h.diff (not included upstream yet) - 020_render_table_crash.diff (in upstream cvs) - 020_xpmpipethrough.diff (not included upstream yet) - 030_manpage.diff (not included upstream, debian specific, path) - 031_use_X11_Xtos_header.diff (in upstream cvs) - 040_fedora_XxxxProperty-64bit.diff updated to prevent segfault on i386 when copy/pasting. Updated with courtesy from Hans de Goede (Fedora) (in upstream cvs) - 080_fix_spelling-error-in-binary (not included upstream yet, updated) Added patches - 030_manpage_Virtualbindings to fix manpage-section-mismatch (lintian) - 005_libtool_LT_HAVE.diff to fix a libtool error: possibly undefined macro: LT_HAVE_FREETYPE and LT_HAVE_XRENDER - 005_libtool_obsolete.diff to fix autoconf warnings about obsolete MACRO's. - 040_fedora_PutPixel32.diff fixes PutPixel32 crashing on 64 bit completly, with courtesy from Hans de Goede (Fedora) (Closes: #409093) (in upstream cvs) * debian/control - Update policy to 3.8.3 (no changes needed) - Add ${misc:Depends} to all depends fields (lintian) * debian/rules - Add DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE and DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE to CARGS in line with /usr/share/doc/autotools-dev/README.Debian.gz - Removed CARGS without-freetype-config without-fontconfig-config because freetype is a build depend and configure can't cope (bug?) - Removed deprecated dh_desktop call * Create debugging symbols for lesstif2 (-dbg package) * Added README.source to confirm to policy 4.14 (lintian) * Fixed categories in debian/lesstif-bin.desktop (copied by accident from an other package). -- Paul Gevers <paul@climbing.nl> Wed, 21 Oct 2009 08:58:30 +0200
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