Since upstream is effectively dead, for Debian's purposes, you have the same responsibilities as upstream.
Given the above, why not take over the upstream project. The mailing list still seems active so theoretically upstream could give you admin access to the sourceforge project and you could work on the code there and produce new releases. At the same time you could invite the maintainers of id3v2/libid3 in other distros (run whohas to find them) to join upstream and merge their patches so that you won't be alone. I can't really see a "right" answer here, everything requires a lot of work or is a suboptimal solution. I also that there are quite a few id3 related command-line tools and libraries in Debian, it would be nice to unify all of those into one library: http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=id3 You might want to mail the maintainers and upstreams of all the relevant ones, some might be willing to join libid3 upstream. In case you are thinking of dropping libid3, the following are the reverse deps and reverse build-deps that would need to be ported or dropped. You might want to talk to their maintainers and upstreams: # Broken Depends: clam: libclam1.4 [alpha amd64 armel i386 ia64 mips mipsel powerpc s390] djplay: djplay [alpha amd64 armel hppa i386 ia64 kfreebsd-amd64 kfreebsd-i386 mips mipsel powerpc s390 sparc] easytag: easytag gmediaserver: gmediaserver id3v2: id3v2 intone: intone [alpha amd64 armel hppa i386 ia64 kfreebsd-amd64 kfreebsd-i386 mips mipsel powerpc s390 sparc] kid3: kid3 kid3-qt liblicense: liblicense3 ripperx: ripperx splay: splay [alpha armel hurd-i386 i386 powerpc] tagtool: tagtool # Broken Build-Depends: clam: libid3-3.8.3-dev djplay: libid3-3.8.3-dev easytag: libid3-3.8.3-dev flac: libid3-3.8.3-dev gmediaserver: libid3-3.8.3-dev id3v2: libid3-3.8.3-dev intone: libid3-3.8.3-dev iripdb: libid3-3.8.3-dev (>= 3.8.3-5) kid3: libid3-3.8.3-dev (>= 3.8.3-4.2) kwave: libid3-3.8.3-dev (>= 3.8.3-4.2) liblicense: libid3-3.8.3-dev ripperx: libid3-dev splay: libid3-3.8.3-dev tagtool: libid3-3.8.3-dev -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/BANLkTi=_4fts-bmac_uw075yjgp7irm...@mail.gmail.com
