Bug#619846: RFA: sam2p -- convert raster images to EPS, PDF, and other formats

[Stefan Fritsch <sf@sfritsch.de>]

Hi Tanguy,

sorry for not responding so long.

On Wednesday 15 June 2011, Tanguy Ortolo wrote:
> > Upstream has been mostly inactive for some time.
> 
> Did it? I see that a project has been started in Google code to
> take over its maintenance: was that your initiative or is their a
> real new upstream?

There have been two new upstream releases since then. It seems the 
author has found more time for sam2p again. I had nothing to do with 
it.

> 
> > sam2p has a tendency to FTBFS with most major new gcc releases.
> > Therefore, the new maintainer should have some C++ knowledge
> > and the ability/willingness to dig into some hand-crafted build
> > system.
> 
> Unfortunately this is not really in my skills. Ideally this should
> be upstream's job so I think what is mostly needed is a new
> upstream… If someone can be found to handle the coding work, I
> would be glad to do adopt the package.

If you are still interested, I think it would be great if you would 
co-maintain the package. You could do the normal maintenance and I 
could help you with coding (if upstream does not handle it).

Cheers,
Stefan