On Sat, 2012-03-31 at 06:55 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: normal > > I've just orphaned svgalib by uploading 1.4.x and 1.9.x packages with > pending changes to unstable and experimental. I recently contacted > upstream to send patches back, but was offered taking over upstream > maintainership instead because he is not interested in it anymore, > and while I've never considered this an issue, right now I cannot be > bothered spending that time maintaining this for Debian... > > Whoever takes this, should ideally have at least notions of low-level > graphics programming, x86 assembler and shared libraries. [...]
Thanks for your work, but isn't it time we quietly got rid of this library? Video memory and mode setting should be managed by the kernel, not by applications. It's bad enough that we had the X server doing this for years (and still do on some hardware). Ben. -- Ben Hutchings I'm always amazed by the number of people who take up solipsism because they heard someone else explain it. - E*Borg on alt.fan.pratchett
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