Bug#93277: ITP: slang-utf8

[Taketoshi Sano <sano@debian.org>]

Hi.

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In <E14mcY9-0002ZE-00@riva.ucam.org>,
 on "Mon, 09 Apr 2001 15:21:49 +0100",
 with "Re: Bug#93277: ITP: slang-utf8",
  cjw44@flatline.org.uk (Colin Watson) wrote:

> Taketoshi Sano <sano@debian.org> wrote:
> >slang-utf8 is a modified version of Debian newt packages (slang1
> >and slang1-dev as binary packages) to build the i18n version of
> >woody boot-floppies.
> 
> Same goes - can't this be rolled into the Debian slang package? If the
> maintainer isn't responsive to patches, I'd think an NMU might be
> appropriate for something essential to boot-floppies.

If you can, then please do so for us.  Then I'll happily use it
instead of creating my own.  I'll just do what I can do now.

Or, if the Maintainer, Jim Mintha, already worked on this patch
as Enrique did for his newt pacakge, then It'll be better for us.

I think the maintainer judges if it can be merged or not.
And It seems me that he does not have any intention to do so
now since he has not commented the discussions on debian-boot
list most of which are copied to him.
So I think that the separate (forked) package is better since 
the NMU should not be done against the will of the maintainer.

Regards.
-- 
  Taketoshi Sano: <sano@debian.org>,<sano@debian.or.jp>,<kgh12351@nifty.ne.jp>