Svante Signell, le Wed 11 May 2011 08:43:58 +0200, a écrit : > However, I don't know if there exists an active upstream for this > package.
Most probably not. PVM is pretty much dead as a communication protocol: the EuroPVM/MPI conference (at last!) got renamed to EuroMPI for instance. > Yes, I know, but it is frustrating to see how much of the very good time > and effort people spend by writing patches, and then see them hanging in > the BTS forever. Do you have any good solution to propose? Talk with upstream, indeed. > I have had better experiences with upstream than DMs so far. But > packaging of the upstream versions does not seem to happen too fast > either, not even for sid and wheezy is still far away. When upstream has applied a patch, you can ask DMs to cherry-pick. They're much more keen on applying upstream patches since they'll get the change by next release anyway. > Maybe I should apply to be a DM myself or at least do the packaging > and having a supporting DM as uploader. Don't hesitate to. In the particular case of PVM, I'd say a Debian-only patch could be uploaded via a NMU without getting anybody angry. Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
