Re: mol modules for kernel 2.6.14
On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 11:59:30PM +0100, Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
> On Thu, 03 Nov 2005 the mental interface of
> Sven Luther told:
>
> > On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 11:16:48PM +0100, Elimar Riesebieter
> > wrote:
> [...]
> > > I filed a bugreport to fix it. It is the job of the maintainer
> > > to implement it;)
> >
> > Yeah, ok, a quick reality check here. The mol maintainer died
> > tragically in july, leaving the package all but abandoned, i did
> > jump in because nobody else did and because mol was blocking the
> > 2.6.12 kernel transition, and because i used to work with Jens on
> > the 2.6 powerpc kernel packages.
>
> AFAIR this was Martin Loschwitz?
Nope, Jens Schmalzing.
> > I don't use mol and am not interested in being the sole maintainer
> > of it, except to make it build with newer kernel packages, and did
> > write so when i announced the mol 2.6.12 packages here, so read
> > the mailing list archive.
>
> So we need an interested maintainer!
Indeed, but many could participate in the team work, which is the aim of the
alioth project.
> > The alternative being naturally to kick mol from the archive, or
> > at least the mol-modules, so they don't interfer with the kernel
> > packages, as mol seems abandoned upstream and there is no real
> > interest in doing real maintainership of them for debian, altough
> > Otavio proposed himself.
>
> I noticed the inactivity of upstream. At the moment we have a
> solution to patch mol-source running tiger. The maintainer has to be
> found here (or at debian-devel ....) and the upstream push at
> mol-general or something.
Indeed, but i believe if no default maintainer is found a grouping of users
and not-really-interested DDs like myself could handle this package.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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