RE: Do we need a new Lintian maintainer ?
On 19-Jul-2001 Jérôme Marant wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> It has been a while since lintian has been updated and it seems
> that Sean (shaleh) has not more time to work on it (Sean, can you
> confirm?).
> Lintian is one of the most important tools in Debian allowing us
> to check if our packages follow the latest version of the policy
> That's why one must ensure that lintian is always up-to-date.
>
> It would be logical if policy people or QA people could take it
> over. Some people mentioned Colin Watson who did a great job with
> bringing a lot of patches. What do you think about this Colin?
>
So, here's the whole scoop.
I can no longer do my Debian hacking at work, which took away most of my free
time for Debian. On top of this my gpg key is stuck on a hard drive. I have
to take my machine apart, pop in the new drive and get the key off. So I have
not uploaded anything in some time. I am hoping to have the ability to fix
this over the coming weekend.
That said, yes I have seriously considered handing lintian over to a new
steward. I can not even irc from work (damn firewalls) which makes talking to
everyone on #debian-devel more difficult. If people want to approach me about
taking over lintian I will discuss it with them.
It deeply saddens me that I have lost my time for Debian. This project has
been a part of me since I started hacking. Married life has taken more time
than I ever expected. At the moment I have no plans of leaving the project.
If someone takes over lintian I only have a few packages left to hand off.
blackbox and friends have a slow development process which I track anyways so I
would like to keep them.
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