Re: Idea for maintaining packages up for adoption

[Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>]

tim hall <tech@glastonburymusic.org.uk> writes:

> I'd like to confirm this. A recent case in point was noteedit - a simple
> MIDI editor, which lost its maintainer last year, but still retained an
> active user-base. There are also multimedia applications that remain in
> active development by Linux Audio Developers, who provide up to date
> debianised packages, but have not entered into NM or are still
> prospects. I wonder whether the CDD framework could be used to provide
> foster homes for these packages.

There are, at least, bugs filed against noteedit, although other than a
translation update, none of them have patches.  (But given that two of
them are asking for a new upstream, patches may not be required.)

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Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>