Re: Sitebar

[Jon Dowland <lists@alcopop.org>]

On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 11:45:49AM +0100, Josep Serrano wrote:
> Any debianites are using sitebar?
> 
> I do and I wonder why it is stalled in version 3.2.6-7 since last
> year:(http://packages.qa.debian.org/s/sitebar.html)
> 
> I tried contacting the maintainer but had no answer. Is this package
> dead?

How long ago? See "Dealing with inactive and/or unreachable maintainers"
in the Developer's Reference[1].

> There are a few open bugs in the current debian version. The actual
> stable version at sitebar.org is 3.3.7. Can we expect any updates to
> the debian package?

[ I note a 5-month old bug indicating the new upstream version ]

If the maintainer doesn't wake up then you will have to wait until
someone else does the package -- a NMU (non maintainer upload) by a
different developer or by a non-DD (e.g. you) sponsored by an existing
DD.
 
[1] <http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/ch-beyond-pkging.en.html#s-mia-qa>

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Jon Dowland
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