Bug#188167: I would have also taken it, feel free to make use of what I've done so far
Dear Yooseong, (and dear Mattia)
I was also intending to adopt the package (I had in fact contacted
Robert van der Meulen some weeks ago). Since I am not yet a Debian
developer, I asked a developer I knew (Bernhard Link) wether he would
sponsor it. He agreed in principle, only asked me to change its
maintainer scripts to use debconf. I've done that in the past weeks, and
also contacted the upstream developer, cleared some questions and
packaged the new version.
The package is near ready, the only thing is that I haven't set up
pbuilder yet and only built it on woody. Therefore, I have not contacted
Bernhard again (which I do now by Cc-ing him). Also, I have not yet
signed keys with anybody.
If you like, we can combine our efforts. Anyone could sponsor me taking
it over, if you think that is less work for you (or because you want to
introduce someone new to Debian), or I could just hand over what I've
done so far to Yooseong (or anybody) - you may freely use everything, of
course.
I have put what I have done so far on my web page,
http://www.kuesterei.ch/. There is one peculiarity about this: Upstream
numbered the pre-release-Versions of 0.94 just as we number Debian
Versions: 0.94-1, 0.94-2. Therefore I decided to use the (publically
unused) version 0.93 for the pre-0.94 stuff. The packages for 0.94 that
are also on the web page are my very first try, the ones I gave to
Bernhard first.
Bye, Frank
--
Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel
Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie
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