Re: future of dbmail in Debian
On Mon, Mar 04, 2013 at 11:04:03AM +0100, Sergey Spiridonov wrote:
> Hi Debian
>
> I am using dbmail package [1] at home and at work for many years
> already. I just noticed that dbmail is not in Wheezy and is also
> kicked out from Sid (for i386). I found bug [2] telling that
> maintainer is not responding.
>
> 1. http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/dbmail
> 2. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=672643
>
> What is the current status of that package?
>
> I found that dbmail project is still active. There is even ready
> package from dbmail developers to install in Sid [3][4]. So why
> dbmail is not in Wheezy and not even in Sid? What needs to be done
> to get it back in Debian?
>
> 3. http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.mail.imap.dbmail/14263
> 4. http://debian.nfgd.net/debian/dists/sid/main/binary-amd64/mail/
>
> If the problem is that package maintainer is not responding, can
> somebody else upload it please?
This is one of the main reasons why people become maintainers.
See:
http://www.debian.org/devel/join/
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