Re: Orphaning of gutenprint
On Mon, Jan 02, 2012 at 04:59:00PM +0100, Didier Raboud wrote:
> Le dimanche, 1 janvier 2012 15.36:21, Roger Leigh a écrit :
> > Just a reminder that gutenprint is orphaned (#479397), and that it
> > needs a maintainer. There will be a new stable release in a week
> > or so, and I'll set the maintiner to
> > packages.qa@bugs.debian.org unless anyone wishes to
> > adopt it.
> >
> > I'm happy to continue as a co-maintainer, but I don't have the time
> > or hardware to maintain, debug and bugfix.
>
> Although I confess that I don't understand much of the internals of
> Gutenprint, that I don't have access to hardware that needs it; that I don't
> have much time to debug and bugfix, I think it should probably be possible
> for me to maintain it together with Till, if he agrees.
>
> (I think I prefer to have gutenprint "loosely" maintained by myself under
> the Printing Team umbrella, than orphaned; at least that tries to keep all
> printing-related packages under a common umbrella. Finding more manpower
> than mine's is of course on the TODO).
That sounds just fine.
> Till: would you consider maintaining gutenprint together with me in Debian,
> assuming that we could reach a reasonable agreement on the current Ubuntu
> diff? I think that maintaining everything in "Debian first" (or at least
> keeping the diff as minimal as possible) would help bring slightly more
> manpower to that area.
This would also be good. However, some parts of the existing
Ubuntu delta are not appropriate for Debian.
Regards,
Roger
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