Bug#216212: O: smsclient
Package: wnpp
Severity: normal
smsclient is a program for sending short messages to mobile phones or pagers
by using modem / isdn gateways (it calls the gateway with modem and sends
the message).
Problem here is, it was virtually unmaintained by upstream for years. Until
recent i even was the upstream - with the work delegated to another person
(who did next to nothing). The source is bad and i was about to make a complete
clean rewrite, but due to a couple of reasons this plans vanished, and in fact
i'm for now are just unable to continue the work (complete rewrite would
take months, no modem, ...).
I know that there is a not too small userbase of this package out there,
therefore i refrain for now from just removing the package from debian - which
would otherwise be the correct solution. Maybe someone out there is
interested in adopting the package (to clarify: this does not mean that the
new maintainer should do the rewrite, but a couple of bugs in the current
package need to be fixed). If no one is interested i will probably have the
package removed from debian in a few weeks. In the current state it should
not appear in our next release.
This all is the result of personal failure, and i should have done this
much earlier. I shame for my bad maintenance of this particular package and
hope that this will at least act as a warning example for others.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux zeus 2.4.19 #2 Fri Dec 6 03:45:09 CET 2002 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE@euro
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