Bug#279757: Status of freewrl debian package?

John;

I hope to find (again) someone to build and distribute FreeWRL

on Debian and Ubuntu systems. Stan, the last person,

went and found a real job at a gaming company. Oh well!

I have sent a message to the FreeWRL mailing list, asking for

anyone who packages for Debian or Ubuntu to step forward;

hopefully someone will, which will take me off the hook for

more work.

Could someone please explain what the status of freewrl

for Debian is?

Looking at the cryptic emails in the mailbox for this bug

it seems as if there was an aborted attempt by Stan to

creat a package and in the last week or so the upstream author

of freewrl John A. Stewart has stepped in to take ownership.

Does this please the upload of a freewrl package is imminent?

I hope so! I've been developing an based application (slowly) that

generate X3D and VRML for the last few years. It hurt when

Debian dropped freewrl. (I wasn't in a position to become

maintainer.)

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John A. Stewart

alex.stewart@crc.ca

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