On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 7:44 PM, Jay Berkenbilt <q...@debian.org> wrote: > ****** > > Please reply to me directly (or CC me on replies) as I am not > currently subscribed to debian-devel. > > ****** > > 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 could take care if you sponsor me. Bastien > 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 > > -- 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/BANLkTimobUr3yY09=ALU=uqa3wwkr+t...@mail.gmail.com
