Re: Bug#421560: two removal suggestions awl and gem

[IOhannes m zmoelnig <zmoelnig@iem.at>]

Andreas Henriksson wrote:
> On mån, 2008-09-01 at 21:06 +0200, Thomas Viehmann wrote:
> > - gem: multiple RC bugs with NMU proposal without comment for more
> > than
> >        two months, but also seems in bad shape from looking at the
> >        non-RC bugs: a segfault unsanswered by the maintainer for
> >        8 months, a new upstream version (that looks like a bugfix
> >        release) wishlist without maintainer reaction from June.
> >        I'm CCing NMUer to be or not to be Andreas if he has any
> >        insights.
>
> Removal seems best from my point of view as well. Noone apparently cares
> enough about the package to even offer to test the fixes.

as the upstream maintainer of gem i would eventually volunteer to do the 
debian packaging;
however, i don't know the timeline for lenny (apart from the freeze), so 
i don't know whether this is a good idea to do right now.

i will try to check out the patches in question asap.

fgmasdr
IOhannes