Excerpts from Thomas Goirand's message of Tue Jul 12 15:34:05 +0200 2011: > Cc: Clint Byrum who maintains the package in Ubuntu. > > On 07/12/2011 08:01 PM, Angel Abad wrote: > > Hi Thomas, Im Angel Abad, Im Debian Maintainer and Ubuntu Developer. > > > > Im not use libdbi, but I think I can help you to improve the package > > and get it in better shape. > > Basically, we need to close the current bugs, and manage the transition > in Debian. Also, I disabled the postgress test suite from > libdbi-drivers, it would be great to re-enable it (but I have no time to > work on it). > > > I made some probes, and I can help you to run it with dh 7 simplistic > > (6 lines) debian/rules, switch it to 3.0 (quilt) format, and also make > > it multi-arch for experimental. > > I don't think you can switch to a simplistic debian/rules style. It will > simply not work. I tried using the 3.0 (quilt) format, using autreconf > and other tools, it simply didn't work. I finally ended up making a > debian/build folder, copy all files there, build, and finally install > from there. Otherwise, building is modifying so many upstream files, > which either end up in the diff or in the Git. I think it's very goo > this way already. > I just tried building the 0.8.4-5 package with minimal rules and 3.0 quilt, and it built with a couple of extra files (.install files to put the files in the right place). It also uses dh_autoreconf successfully. See attached patch. > As for upstream, I think it would be great if they modified their > Makefile.am and such so that it would clean things correctly. There's so > many built files in the original archive ... > > > If you want my help please ping me, and I can send you debdiffs with my changes. > > > > Regards, > > Maybe a git patch would be better. > > On 09/29/2007 07:11 PM, Mario Iseli wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 02:05:09AM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: > >> Hello, > > > > Hi Thomas! > > > >> 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. > > > > He seems to be inactive for a quite long time. His MIA history is long > > too. I have orhpaned the package due to this and you can pick up the > > package if you want to maintain it. :) > > > > Regards, > > Exactly! I pinged him multiple times before I took over the > maintainer-ship, and had no reply. So I took over, because nobody did, > and it was one of the reverse-dependency of mod_sql. But I don't really > use libdbi. So I maintained it basically to help others, and finally, I > didn't do a good job. Mainly, the issue is the time it took to manage > issues (others complained about it), and this is what I want to avoid in > the near future, which is why I wrote this email to -release and -devel. > I didn't even keep him on Cc: to this email... > > Clint: *never* again ask me to hold on an upload, and especially not > because of an Ubuntu reason. I wont do that again. That's a very bad > idea, which have bring hate from others. I'm not sure what you mean. I asked you to please delay uploading it to unstable 2 weeks before the release of 11.04 as there were other bugs pending and the upload was not urgent. It was just a courtesy, and you agreed experimental was a better place anyway because of the libdbi0-dev to libdbi-dev transition. I'm sorry if this caused you any trouble, but it sounded like a good plan and something we both agreed upon. > > Now, at this point, if we have enough volunteer, I think we should build > a project and a mailing list in Alioth, so that we can maintain > collectively. At least, it should be moved to colab-maint. Feel free to > pull from my repository: > > Vcs-Browser: http://git.debian.org/?p=users/zigo/libdbi.git > Vcs-Git: http://git.debian.org/git/users/zigo/libdbi.git > > and push that in colab-maint. Note that there's currently 4 branches, to > track upstream code vs the Debian additions in different releases: > debian-sid, debian-squeeze, upstream-sid, upstream-squeeze. I'd be more than happy to participate in this maintenance if you feel my input would be helpful! :)
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