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Bug#543841: Adopting giflib package in debian



On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 09:23:48PM +0100, Thibaut GRIDEL wrote:
> Dear Daniel, Toshio,
> 
> I saw that giflib has been orphaned recently in Debian, and as I am a
> user of that library thought it would be good packaging exercise for me
> to adopt it.
> 
> My humble use of giflib is available here:
> http://boats.berlios.de
> 
> During this week-end, I started importing the latest 4.1.6 package and
> current debian specific files, and fixed various tidbits around.
> 
> The result of my work is published here:
> http://git.debian.org/?p=collab-maint/giflib.git;a=summary
> 
> I am now in the process of uploading to mentors and seeking a sponsor to
> effectively become a maintainer for giflib.
> 
> I am looking forward to hearing from you.
> 
Would you like upstream commit access as well?  I'm afraid that I have very
little time to spend on it and this is also the only thing I still have even
a remote interest in that is a C code base so having some people who use it
and can care for the code base better upstream would be great.

-Toshio

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