Hi, Over the years, I've uploaded and maintained too many packages in Debian. This has been really highlighted with the disaster that just happened with libdbi. Not only I failed to maintain it correctly before Squeeze was out (the current package in Stable isn't in good shape), but also in SID, it's in a bad state, and it has been like that for months, and I didn't work with the release team correctly to make a good transition for it (even though I had put some efforts on the package previously, noticeably last autumn, where I manage to work out the test system for libdbi-drivers).
These last 2 days, I went on IRC, and found multiple persons not happy with my work on libdbi. And I has the worst reaction that one could have. Instead of taking my time to do it well, I tried to go from one fire to another, and did even more bad work, resulting in a very sad bug report that had to be reopened 3 or 4 times, because I failed to check for it correctly. I tried to fix fast, and uploaded something that wasn't the correct fix, doing it over my phone, while doing some important real life stuff, thinking that it would be ok. That is *not* how I should do (and I know I can do better work), I do realize it. All this wouldn't have so much impact if libdbi wasn't a so important library in the archive. But if you look at the popcon stats, it is installed by really a lot of users, and it has few reverse-dependencies. Now, I do realize the mistakes above, and I don't want this to happen again, as I do feel like I'm hurting Debian. Also, I think I have other areas where I can help better, especially because I don't use libdbi. So: - I'd be glad if someone could take over the maintainership of libdbi - I'd be glad if I could still help with it, because I might have time later on (but just not right now), so one or 2 co-maintainer would be great. - If I find nobody to help within few days/weeks, I'll simply file an RFA, because I don't want to take the responsibility for this mess alone anymore. I sincerely hope I didn't hurt too many users of libdbi/debian with this bad work, and that a solution for this package will be found quickly, with others working on it. If you want to work on libdbi, please get in touch. My sincere apologies for the mess, Thomas Goirand (zigo) -- 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/4e1b4817.9080...@debian.org