Bug#487125: Lost interest in adopting apt-rdepends
noowner 487125
retitle 487125 O: apt-rdepends -- Recursively lists package dependencies
kthxbye
Hi,
Axel Beckert wrote back in June:
> owner 487125 Axel Beckert <abe@debian.org>
I must admit, I've lost interest in the package.
My main urge for adopting it was to fix http://bugs.debian.org/299228
("reverse build depends would be really useful") -- until I found out
that there is already a script named build-rdeps in devscripts which
does this already.
The other point is that -- after looking at the package closer -- I
noticed that despite it's a non-native package, it basically was one:
Simon Law is upstream author and maintained the package, too, but he
has retired from Debian.
So whoever adopts this package has probably either to fork it or to
continue maintaining it on a patch base only (which would be more or
less the same work), or prod Simon to continue upstream development.
Guy, Bastien, or whoever takes over this package: All the work I did
on the package so far (mostly fixing minor packaging issues) is at [1]
-- feel free to use it, but I don't mind if you start new from
scratch.
[1] http://git.debian.org/?p=collab-maint/apt-rdepends.git
BTW, the upstream website given in the watch file and debian/copyright
do no more work, the new site is http://sfllaw.ca/freesoftware.html. I
changed that already in the above repository.
I will probably also do a QA upload based on that work, but most
likely only after or close to the Squeeze release (unless the package
has been adopted until then).
I'm also willing to sponsor this package, but I'm not sure if I would
co-maintain it.
Regards, Axel
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