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Re: Zephaniah E. Hull (warp@debian.org) MIA ?



On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 02:37:34PM +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> On 2004-03-11 Bill Allombert <allomber@math.u-bordeaux.fr> wrote:
> > Is Zephaniah E. Hull (warp@debian.org) is MIA?
> > his last upload is nearly one year ago.
> 
> > He maintains GPM which is an important piece of software. The sid
> > version is the same as the woody version and has some problematic bugs.
> > Also GPM upstream has changed and there have been several new upstream
> > versions (latest is 1.20.1, I think).  
> 
> I have talked to him on #debian-devel about a week ago and have asked
> whether he was going to update the gpm package to the new upstream. I
> think[1] he said he did not intend to because many of the patches did
> not apply and it would introduce more fixes than bugs. I suggested to

isn't "introduce more fixes than bugs" the desidered behaviour for a
patch? perhaps you mean "more bugs than fixes" ? :) if not, I'm a little
confused

filippo 
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