Hi Arno, On 09/10/12 23:41, Arno Töll wrote: > Hi Simon and Peter, > > could you please enlighten us a bit regarding the state of dma in > Debian. Looks like, Peter actively maintains it (at least for some bugs) > but does not seem to be interested to upgrade the Debian package to a > new version. This is, at least, how it looks, given you didn't upgrade > it in over two years, while Simon keeps releasing new versions in github.
Yes, that's an unfortunate situation. > On the other hand there seems to be some patch exchange between you two, > and the Debian package carries lots of patches which seem to have ended > up upstream as well. I have integrated all patches that I thought would benefit dma. The remaining patches added too much complexity in my eyes. > That said, I am not sure what you two consider upstream: > * https://github.com/corecode/dma This is upstream. > * https://gitorious.org/dma This is an old repo, and unfortunately, due to limitations of gitorious, I can also not remove it. > To me it looks like Peter maintains a private set of patches to dma as > of 2010, which diverged to Simon's branch. > > Could you please tell us, what's going on here? As it looks to me, the > situation regarding Debian does not look ideal. For more than two years I've been trying to talk to Peter to get the Debian package updated, but did not receive any answer so far. Out of desperation I started maintaining my own debian/ directory at some point, in the hope that Peter would have it easier to update the package. I am extremely disappointed with the current situation, but I don't know how to fix this issue. Maybe somebody in Debian could take over maintenance of the package? Thanks for checking in, simon
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