Re: hwtools maintainership
Ok, I'll take it.
I'll try to have a new upload ready tomorrow.
Unfortunately, because of it's nature, it may have problems that only
show up on certain machines. I'll do my best to manage this properly.
--
Raul
On Sat, Nov 27, 1999 at 10:48:06PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I really think you should adopt hwtools.
>
> It is a troublesome package. It builds from different sources, some of which
> are unmaintained upstream, some OTOH release frequently. It deals with
> hardware, sometimes on low level. I don't even want to think how hard would
> it be to maintain this package if it was decleared to work on all
> architectures.
>
> Just because it doesn't get recompiled and can't have RC bugs (consists of
> many small parts so you can't ever say most of the package doesn't work :)
> doesn't make it ready for release.
>
> If it doesn't get properly maintained RSN, I'll have it removed from potato.
> Partly because the QA group members really have more important things to
> do than to keep getting back and fixing one package. OTOH, the package
> appears to be quite used (if not usable :), so the users would surely miss
> it if we just pulled it.
>
> So, the best solution would be to have someone interested and competent
> maintain it. Please take it.
>
> --
> enJoy -*/\*- don't even try to pronounce my first name
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