Bug#220353: tkbibtex should not be packaged without contacting upstream first

[Tobias Toedter <t.toedter@gmx.net>]

Hi,

I intended to package tkbibtex already some months ago. After I made contact 
with Peter Corke, the upstream author, he said that he doesn't want to have 
his program included in Debian.

The reason for this was that he already had some bug reports from users and 
wasn't able to resolve the bugs/feature requests. He feared that the 
distribution within Debian would increase the userbase, so that he would get 
even more bug reports.

We agreed that he'll come up with a list of bugs to be resolved before 
tkbibtex should be included in Debian. I offered to help him with the bugs, 
but he hasn't gotten back to me since then.

So basically I would suggest to every prospective maintainer of tkbibtex to 
contact Peter first, before doing any packaging work. He might have changed 
his mind, I haven't had any correspondence with him for quite some time.

I don't use this program any more, so I'm not that interested in packaging it 
myself.

Cheers,

-- 

Tobias

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