Bug#207849: O: fpm

[Manuel Estrada Sainz <ranty@debian.org>]

On Sat, Aug 30, 2003 at 02:45:52AM +0000, Brian May wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Version: unavailable; reported 2003-08-30
> Severity: normal
> 
> 
> Unfortunately I am currently maintaining too many packages
> to keep track of, and do not have time to tack over the role
> of being the upstream & Debian maintainer of this package.
> 
> (upstream is dead).
> 
> It would appear that the co-maintainer is in a similar position.

 I am until next Monday. But after that I'll have more time.

 I'll adopt it as soon as I get it building and fix the most fixable
 bugs.
 
> I would expect that the release critical bugs against fpm would
> be easy to fix given the time.

 We'll see.

> The idea behind fpm is a pretty good one though, and I don't know
> of any other alternative to it.

 I also plan to implement some of the ideas of http://dpasman.sf.net/
 but that will probably take much longer, in the mean time I'll adopt
 fpm and try to keep it in shape.

 Thanks for maintaining fpm until now

 	Manuel

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