IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
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.
checking andreas's "gem-nmu.diff" from msg#35 in bug#421560 (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=35;filename=gem-nmu.diff;att=1;bug=421560), everything seems to be fine.
as upstream author i would therefore say, these patches are fine to include. the new upstream release of Gem addresses bug-report #454731; mfg.asdr IOhannes