Bug#98594: [wnpp cleanup round] Please confirm interest in ITP of Debian package
Frederik Dannemare wrote:
Hi,
wnpp needs a little cleanup. Thus, your ITP will be retitled to an RFP
in 30 days, unless the original submitter, current owner, or somebody
else within that 30 day time frame confirms interest in the ITP by
actively working on packaging.
Confirmation of interest is sent as follow-up to <ITP#>@bugs.debian.org
and preferably CC me. That way it's easier for me to track which ITPs
should be retitled (alternatively, do the retitling yourself (and CC
me). Thanks in advance.
Justification: ITP was submitted more than 1000 days ago, and there has
been no real activity/progress for a long, long time.
Actually, i produced working packages of webcdwriter and are actively
using some (old) version of it.
If you think I'm being unreasonable or if you believe that I, in any
other way, have wrongfully addressed your particular ITP with this
mail, let me know.
No, not necessarily.
The rest of the story:
- a *vital* component of webCDwriter is a Java applet which can(could)
not be compiled with anything available in Debian.
- most of the paths are(were) hardcoded, and Policy-incompatible
- the CDWserver source is a mess, and so almost impossible to patch
I will have to take a look at it again and see if it is really worth the
work. I have received very few questions on this, so i assume there is
not much interest to begin with.
Either way, i'll try to throw some work at this during Christmas.
Best,
J.L.
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