Re: Is Brian Nelson MIA (Was: Bug #409421 libqwt-dev: Please update to 5.0.2)
Hi
On Wednesday 18 November 2009 14:11:44 Andreas Tille wrote:
> the request for uploading a new upstream version is 2,5 years old and
> did not deserved a single response from the maintainer. While this is a
> wishlist bug it should be fixed anyway because other packages depend
> from newer versions of this library.
The bug report can be closed, please take a look at:
http://packages.qa.debian.org/q/qwt.html
I and Fathi packaged libqwt5 and decided to make a new package since it was
very different from the old one.
libqwt5 contains -qt3 and -qt4 ports in the same package.
>
> Similar situation with #350489 which is tagged patch but no response
> from maintainer seems that he has lost interest. Leaving alone a
> library unmaintained might result in security issues.
>
> So I wonder whether it is time for an NMU or even a highjack of the
> package.
I don't see any need in upgrading the Debian package for Qwt version 4 unless
if some user requests it.
In fact I got python-qwt4 removed from Debian since the upstream support was
limited and I didn't want to request support just for the Debian packages
sake.
Regards
Gudjon
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