Hi Daniel,
Thanks a lot for maintaining these in good shape.
On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 11:24:17PM +0200, Daniel Leidert wrote:
> x-post
>
> Hi everybody,
>
> I was part of the Debian XML/SGML team [1] for quite some time and it
> was fun maintaining the whole DocBook toolchain. Unfortunately I'm not
> using it anymore and thus have lost interest in these packages. Now
> after Jessie has been released, I'm finally stepping back as maintainer
> and as a group member of the team.
>
> This means, that all docbook*, sgml*, xml* packages are effectively
> _orphaned_, because there isn't any other active member in this group
> anymore (with the exception of the libxml2 maintainers and probably a
> few other packages).
Actually, I see very few DDs working on document processing tool chain
including tex.
> The good news is, most of the packages really don't require much
> attention. There are packages, which have not been touched since Wheezy!
> The exceptions probably are:
Very true.
> I hope, fresh blood will revive the team and lead to fresh ideas for the
> policy, the catalog system and the whole XML/SGML core of Debian.
I hope so too. (I am maintaining debiandoc-sgml ...)
Osamu
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