Package: wnpp Version: N/A; reported 2009-05-15 Severity: normal It has been about a year and a half* since svn-buildpackage hasn't been uploaded, the 0.6.24 is waiting in collab-maint's SVN for an upload for quite some time now. I am slowly but surely giving up on maintaining packages in SVN and, thus I lack the motivation to maintain the package. http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/collab-maint/deb-maint/svn-buildpackage/trunk/ Since there are multiple fixes for it and still people are using it and neither I nor Eduard Bloch had the time to maintain it properly I have decided is high time for this package to find another dedicated maintainer. People interested in maintaining it should be aware that there is a non-interactive way of running the scripts and these must be kept functional and there are several ways the scripts bend to accommodate native and non-native packages. There are some patches in the BTS and some of the scripts could use some love or maybe a full rewrite once the bug count lowers. Since the scripts were written in perl, a perl-er is desirable as a maintainer (I don't consider myself a perl coder and, as I understood, Eduard wrote the scripts in his early perl days, so you might expect some code horror). I really hope someone will step up fast to take over maintenance, since this is an important package for many people. *OTOH, there was a stable release with a long freeze during this time -- Regards, EddyP ============================================= "Imagination is more important than knowledge" A.Einstein
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