Just some additional information: Two month ago I asked on d-devel for help on a rewrite of svn-buildpackage [1]. This is still a valid idea an can be found as branch 0.7 in the repository. Since exactly *nobody* contacted me -- not even with criticism of constructive ideas -- I was tempted to look around a bit. Right now I'm trying to figure out if vcs-pkg can take over the packaging job of svn-buildpackage some time. But my offer still stands: if someone is interested in redesigning svn-bp -- let's see if we can make it happen. Hauke [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2009/03/msg01134.html On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 05:09:40AM +0300, Eddy Petrișor wrote: > 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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