On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 03:53:51PM +0200, Arno Töll wrote: > Hi, > > On 11.09.2012 00:45, Simon Schubert wrote: > > 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. > > This sounds like an unfortunate state, indeed. Peter, could you please > elaborate your rationale to maintain your own set of patches to dma > specific to Debian, which might considered to effectively be a fork > instead of upgrading upstream releases? > > > 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? > > I understand your frustration, but as a peer-driven community, we have > limited possibilities to overrule a package maintainer. This can be > done, but if so it must be considered as a very last step. > > Maybe, for now, let's try to work out everyone's arguments and positions.
Hi, Sorry about this... again (as I have indeed apologized to Simon about this situation in the past). The truth is, I've been meaning to update dma earlier this year, but a very high-pressure work project took up all of my energy and left me with no free time to speak of from last October till mid-August. In the past week I have tried to pick up my Debian work and, yes, I will indeed try to update dma to a (much, much) more recent upstream version very soon. Apologies again, and thanks for the patience to you both (and anyone else who might be listening in)! G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.net r...@freebsd.org pe...@packetscale.com PGP key: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint FDBA FD79 C26F 3C51 C95E DF9E ED18 B68D 1619 4553 When you are not looking at it, this sentence is in Spanish.
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