Hi *, On Sat, Sep 10, 2005 at 05:50:39PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > Hi all, > > Currently Matt Zimmerman is maintainer of the debian package for Hercules. > Unfortunately there has not been an update of the packages since February > 2003 and the latest 3.02 version has yet to be packaged. > > Because there is a long standing RC bug open against the package (that > even has a patch) [1], it has been removed from testing and is now being > processed for complete removal by the Debian QA project. > > IMO it would be a great pity to loose this package, as Hercules is a great > help, amongst others for development and testing of the Debian Installer > (for which I mainly use it myself). > > So the question is: should Hercules get a new maintainer and is there > anybody willing to take that job. > > The main problem with packaging the new version appears to be that the > upstream source contains some unversioned shared libraries [2]. I would be willing to invest some time in maintaining this package. I have some background in using mainframes from my university time. We did such evil things like running curses on 3270 terminals and writing non-preemptive multithreading libraries on CMS. Cheers, Peter (p2).
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