Re: looking for package maintainer
Quoting Michael Wiedmann <mw@miwie.in-berlin.de>:
> I am looking for a volunteer maintainer for a new Debian package.
>
> The program is a X11 GUI frontend for the address database of
> a 3Com Palm Pilot. Up to now it is available in source (GPL)
> and as a Solaris binary only.
Since I got quite a few replies to my posting (I really didn´t
expect this!), I will try to clarify a few things with this public
posting:
- The application in question (pi-address) is a X11 based GUI
frontend to the address database of a 3Com Palm Pilot.
- It uses ´libpisock.a´ from the pilot-link package for the
communicaton with the Pilot.
- For the GUI I use Qt, the C++ class library from Troll Tech
(I *really* don´t want to start a discussion about this here,
just take it as a fact). As a consequence of this, the
upcoming Debian package IMHO would be part of the ´contrib´
section.
- As a consequence of this two points above, the maintainer
needs the development versions of the pilot-link and qt1g
packages.
- I started this little private project about 15 months ago
and the program has already reached a very stable status and
most of my users are quite satisfied with it.
- Because of lack of spare time continuing development is limited
to bug fixing and implementation of new features which doesn´t
need much work to do. There will be now more than 1 release
per month, hopefully much less depending on the bug reports
I get ;-)
- The current distribution is done as a source code archive,
which is accessible on a public ftp site.
Because there are many users using Solaris (Sparc), I build a
a Solaris binary and make it publicly available through the
same ftp site.
The master ftp site is located in Berlin, Germany and unfortunately
has only a slow internet connection.
There is a regulary updated mirror site in the US which has a much
faster connection.
- Sorry, until now there is no ´autoconf´ support!
(This is one of my own first topics on the TODO list!)
- I am willing to support the upcoming Debian maintainer with any
help I can give, of course including changing source code, Makefile,
etc. if this is necessary to make the package build process more
´fluently´.
- Except the binary the package would consist of included documentation
in form of a FAQ in HTML and ASCII.
A systemwide configuration file is also part of the source code
distribution.
A - dummy - manpage already exists.
So, if there are still questions to answer, don´t hesitate to do so!
Please answer to this mailing list so everybody answered me after my
first posting knows what´s going on and hopefully we will finally
find a person responsible for the pi-address Debian package.
Regards
Michael
--
Looking for an X11 based Address Manager?
Have a look at http://www.in-berlin.de/User/miwie/pia/
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