Bug#96267: wnpp: ITA: screen
* Adam Lazur <laz@clustermonkey.org> [20010503 23:37]:
> I plan on adopting the ill maintained screen package. It currently has
> ~50 open bugs, many of which are fixed by the new upstream version
> (3.9.8) which has been out since September of 2000.
>
> I emailed the maintainer about adopting the package on Feb 21st and have
> not received a reply.
>
> I am currently not a Debian developer, but Eric Gillespie, Jr.
> <epg@debian.org> has agreed to advocate and sponsor me.
Err, I'm not convinced it's a good idea if a new maintainer hijacks an
important package like screen, especially considering that its
maintainer recently got more active again (e.g. he uploaded syslinux
and responded to some bug reports).
--
Martin Michlmayr
tbm@cyrius.com
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