Re: removal of sdm source package
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On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 11:36:04PM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote:
>Hi,
>
>On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 04:29:13PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>> >What is your plan and thought? Please let us know.
>>
>> My plan is to keep the package alive. I dislike its successor by
>> same author, ldm, due to its coding style - e.g. hardcoding ssh
>> client options inside a tiny C program.
>>
>> I am right now preparing a new packaging release fixing all bugs
>> against the package, including removing the watch file, acknowledging
>> that upstream project is dead.
>
>Good luck.
Thanks :-)
>I do not like seeing broken testing package hanging for long tome just
>to keep package name for you to upload a whole new program after long
>delay, though. So I am looking for new one to e uploaded soonish.
>Thanks in advance.
Sorry, I did not understand above - please rephrase.
>> >(I did not see you have followed up any open bug reports on this
>> >package. Your last upload of this package is in 2006. This is some
>> >package which claims to help security and this does not look nice
>> >situation and attracted my attention.)
>>
>> Please note that none of the bugreports are security-related.
>
>If maintainer is active, I would like the maintainer to reply even with
>short message so everyone else knows what maintainer is doing. Silence
>as a maintainer cause worry.
Acknowledged.
>This is true especially when package is broken in its main
>functionality due to missing dependency.
Please note that the bugs that I did not respond to in a long time was
not related to main functionality.
I certainly agree that silence is bad, but the bug regarding lack of
Xdialog was filed by Vagrant as a direct consequeence of your contacting
him about upstream URL not working.
Kind regards,
- Jonas
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