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****** I recently became a father of twins and, as such, have less time to work on packages than I used to. While I do plan on keeping some of my packages, there are others I'm interested in finding new maintainers for, if anyone is interested: * ICU: This is ICU4C. I sent another (lengthy) message about it. * xerces-c, xerces-c2: These are two versions of Xerces-C (http://xerces.apache.org). These are generally pretty low effort to maintain, and upstream is helpful and responsive. xerces-c2 is an older version that is no longer really being maintained, and backporting security fixes to it can be very hard, but so far, there hasn't been anything major. xerces-c is the 3.x series and is actively maintained upstream. Note that xerces-c2 has an orphaned reverse dependency (xalan), which you may occasionally need to NMU, though I think I only had to do that one time. * libxml-xerces-perl: This is a Xerces-p, a perl interface to Xerces-c. As far as I can tell, it is dead upstream, and there are better alternatives. At one time, it was the only perl module capable of doing XML validation with both DTD and schema support and with the capability of providing values for default attributes when doing validation, but I haven't actually tried to determine whether that's true for about six or seven years. If no one wants this, I may orphan it or request removal. * psutils: This is a collection of tools including psnup and ps2ps. They are pretty popular, but the project has been dead upstream for a while. psutils is part of all the major distributions, and we all have various patches. I put some effort into trying to synchronize with other distributions a while ago. Our psutils package includes a few other tools that are not strictly part of the upstream distribution, and every now and then, someone posts a bug report asking for some additional utility to be added. Some of the time, there's a licensing reason or some other reason why it won't work out (so you have to be careful when analyzing these requests), but every now and then it works out. I'll wait a few days to give people a chance to reply. For the xerces packages, I'd probably give preference to the debian SGML/XML group or to other groups maintaining stuff from apache. -- Jay Berkenbilt <q...@debian.org> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110509134418.3226111191.qww314159@motoko.argon.local