libdbi in Debian being outdated and seems orphaned: can I take over the package?
Hello,
Bellow is the mail I received from the upstream of libdbi. The current
maintainer, David Parker, is Cc: to this message, so he can reply if he
is still interested in doing the maintenance.
If David is not willing to continue maintaining it, I can try to take
over the package.
The last entry in the Debian changelog is "Tue, 20 Jan 2004", which is
quite old. And there's this "quite annoying" bug with no reply from the
current maintainer:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=312115
which made the lib removed from Etch.
I have never maintained shared libs before, but I have some packaged
that I maintain already, it seems to me that I can do it, and I'm
willing to learn and spend the time for it (as a side note, I'm still
searching for sponsors for some of my packages to fix the bugs). I also
want to maintain libminiupnp (ITP for miniupnpc is already done, but
it's going to be renamed as such), so I will learn anyway.
Best regards,
Thomas Goirand
Markus Hoenicka wrote:
> Hi Thomas,
>
> thanks for the heads up. I was not aware that libdbi is eligible for
> being kicked out of Debian. I'm pretty sure the other maintainers aren't
> either, so I've cc'ed the developers list too.
>
> Unfortunately I'm not in a position to maintain the Debian packages
> myself as I do not run Debian on any of my boxes currently. I'm afraid
> that none of the other developers runs Debian either (if you do, please
> speak up now!). I'd greatly appreciate if you could lend us a hand in
> keeping libdbi in Debian.
>
> I've checked the status of the package. It is badly outdated as we've
> switched to 0.8.x eons ago. Moreover it lists David Parker as package
> maintainer. He is one of the original developers of libdbi but he has
> been inactive for several years now. I believe we need to find a
> different maintainer for libdbi0 and the driver packages.
>
> Let me know if you need further input from my end, or if I have to
> actively do something from my end in order to update the packages and
> keep them in Debian.
>
> regards,
> Markus
>
>
> Quoting Thomas Goirand <thomas@goirand.fr>:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am a Debian maintainer, and I did a Debian package for
>> libapache-mod-log-sql, as you can see here:
>>
>> http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=thomas@goirand.fr
>>
>> Unfortunately, it has been asked to me to remove the build of the
>> libapache2-mod-log-sql-dbi as there are many unsolved problems in the
>> current Debian libdbi package, and that maybe the libdbi package will be
>> removed from Debian.
>>
>> First, are you aware of that? Are you willing to ask for an update, or
>> take over the current maintainer in Debian? I think it would be silly if
>> your package was removed if it's maintained.
>>
>> If you don't want to spend the time on building and maintaining the
>> software so it's uploaded to Debian, let me know, I can spend that time
>> for you.
>>
>> If you do have the time, I think you should send a mail to the
>> debian-mentors@lists.debian.org so your package is updated in the
>> unstable distribution, and then reaches the current testing. I can help
>> you by letting you know the normal procedure on how to do it.
>>
>> In any case, let me know.
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Thomas Goirand, GPLHost CEO
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