Bug#572372: O -> ITA: wdm -- WINGs Display Manager - an xdm replacement with a WindowMaker look

[Agustin Martin <agmartin@debian.org>]

On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 02:10:59PM +0200, Axel Beckert wrote:
> Control: retitle -1 ITA: wdm -- WINGs Display Manager - an xdm replacement with a WindowMaker look
> Control: owner -1 !
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I intent to adopt the wdm package.

> Agustin Martin wrote in 2010:
> > On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 08:28:47PM +0100, Jan Hauke Rahm wrote:
> > > The current maintainer of wdm, Vlad Shakhov <lumpen.intellectual@gmail.com>,
> > > is not active anymore.  Therefore, I orphan this package now.
> > 
> > No, I do not intend to adopt this package, but have some changes ready for
> > it.
> 
> Agustin: You've made over a dozen of QA uploads for wdm in the past
> few years and showed quite some continuity. So even if you don't want
> to adopt the package as the sole maintainer, maybe you would like to
> join me as co-maintainer of Debian's wdm package?

Hi, Axel, nice to hear that someone is adopting wdm.

I did some QA on it because I used it regularly and wanted to have it in
Debian, mostly for similar reasons than you. The box I was using at that
time was not the best to run full gnome and friends nor had room for
them.

Most of my changes were packaging changes to keep wdm in testing. I did not
intend to adopt it because I do not think my skills are enough for the
internals of a package like this one. Also, since it started as a fork of
xdm, a number of problems once present in xdm and now fixed might still be
in wdm. And upstream seemed missing, one more reason.

I noticed that you are doing a nice packaging work with wdm. I still use
wdm in one of my boxes, so I'd happily help testing changes in it, but apart
from that I do not think I will be of much help with wdm.

Regards,

-- 
Agustin