I am hardly the ideal maintainer for this package. Nevertheless,
* I have used the package for years;
* the package is implemented in Perl, a language with which
I am familiar and which I often use;
* I have recently spent some hours to learn a little about
the package's software internals;
* among the package's outstanding bug reports is one with
a patch by me;
* the package has a not insignificant number of users;
* the package has now been orphaned six months; and
* no other maintainer seems to be stepping forward to adopt
the package.
So, I'll adopt it, at least for now, and we shall see how it goes.
If the adoption does not work out, then I'll orphan the package again,
and we'll be no worse off than we now are.
I miss former maintainers Frans Pop (deceased) and Joey Hess (retired),
two of my favorite DDs of all time. Those were important DDs, giants
of Debian; whereas I am so unimportant a DD that (despite my having been
a DD ten years), 90 percent of the project's members have never heard
of me. That's just as well, and I'll not fill Frans' or Joey's shoes;
but still, after the great have left, the less must carry on.
If you wish to help, let me know.
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