Bug#632875: Bug#583734: Use forked git repository for wmaker source
- To: Andreas Tscharner <andy@vis.ethz.ch>
- Cc: Gennady Kupava <gb@bsdmn.com>, 583734@bugs.debian.org, Gürkan Sengün <gurkan@phys.ethz.ch>, Gabriele Dini Ciacci <dark.schneider@iol.it>, Andrea Gelmini <andrea.gelmini@lugbs.linux.it>, 632875@bugs.debian.org, Andreas Metzler <ametzler@downhill.at.eu.org>, wmaker-dev@lists.windowmaker.org
- Subject: Bug#632875: Bug#583734: Use forked git repository for wmaker source
- From: Axel Beckert <abe@debian.org>
- Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 18:12:46 +0200
- Message-id: <20110830161246.GT29875@sym.noone.org>
- Mail-followup-to: Andreas Tscharner <andy@vis.ethz.ch>, Gennady Kupava <gb@bsdmn.com>, 583734@bugs.debian.org, Gürkan Sengün <gurkan@phys.ethz.ch>, Gabriele Dini Ciacci <dark.schneider@iol.it>, Andrea Gelmini <andrea.gelmini@lugbs.linux.it>, 632875@bugs.debian.org, Andreas Metzler <ametzler@downhill.at.eu.org>, wmaker-dev@lists.windowmaker.org
- Reply-to: Axel Beckert <abe@debian.org>, 632875@bugs.debian.org
- In-reply-to: <4E5CF12C.2090503@vis.ethz.ch>
- References: <20100530090241.5738.4091.reportbug@shannara.yshara.ch> <20101116200259.28282c51@gdc1.residential.fw> <4CF79FAC.2050105@phys.ethz.ch> <20101202191702.GA31962@a.mx.sbih.org> <4CF79FAC.2050105@phys.ethz.ch> <BANLkTi=2=zn7VVkZxZ4L7f-dx1H6oswvoA@mail.gmail.com> <1310410401.9730.5.camel@work.bsdmn.ru> <20110830132132.GS29875@sym.noone.org> <4E5CF12C.2090503@vis.ethz.ch>
Hi,
Andreas Tscharner wrote:
>> So we can and should ignore John's comment about working on packaging
>> the -crm branch... Nobody currently really cares about Windowmaker in
>> Debian.
>
> That's not quite true. The mentioned git repository was updated and
> commit b949a1c4647130202a7b9ff9c50cf1e30fbe454d had a lot of Debian
> updates from Rodolfo García Peñas (kix). Unfortunately kix has no time
> to be the official maintainer for the wmaker package in Debian as he has
> a lot of other packages.
Sounds to me like forming a packaging team to distribute the load of
taking care of wmaker in Debian could be a possibility, as there seem
to be quite some people interested but hesitating.
> Andreas Tscharner andy@vis.ethz.ch ICQ-No. 14356454
Regards from Hönggerberg :-), Axel
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