Bug#1020698: O: dlocate -- fast alternative to dpkg -L and dpkg -S

[Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>]

Hi!

[ Sorry, should have CCed Craig, doing that now. ]

On Fri, 2022-09-30 at 04:07:05 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> On Sun, 2022-09-25 at 16:19:08 +0200, Tobias Frost wrote:
> > Package: wnpp
> > 
> > The current maintainer of dlocate, Craig Sanders <cas@taz.net.au>,
> > is no longer maintaining this packages.
> > 
> > Maintaining a package requires time and skills. Please only adopt this
> > package if you will have enough time and attention to work on it.
> > 
> > If you want to be the new maintainer, please see
> > https://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/#howto-o for detailed
> > instructions how to adopt a package properly.
> 
> Hmm, if this is really unmaintained now, although given that this is a
> native package it is not clear to me, then given the relationship and
> namespace usage, I think this would fit nicely within the dpkg suite.
> So I'm willing to take this one if so.

Just to clarify, I'd would only ever consider taking this on, if the
upstream status is also really "unmaintained".

Thanks,
Guillem