Re: Sitebar

[Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com>]

Jon Dowland wrote:
> 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.

I did just that (non-DD) for xpaint, when its DD went AWOL. Is well 
worth the trouble. Problem will be getting a DD uploader, see the 
mentors list.

H





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> [1] <http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/ch-beyond-pkging.en.html#s-mia-qa>