* Tomasz Buchert <tomasz.buch...@inria.fr> wrote: > retitle 695231 ITA: libcgroup -- Library to control and monitor control > groups > owner 695231 ! > > Hi Jon, > I'm intending to take libcgroup over. Recently I have a lot of work, so > I will be able to work on this only around Xmas. > > Will you sponsor the future uploads or, even better, will you allow me > to do it directly as I'm DM?
Absolutely, I love this plan! I'll sponsor a few uploads and if things look good then it's all yours. Here is some fair warning: libcgroup is a bit of a nightmare at the moment. Both from a packaging standpoint (the initscripts are no longer installed), and also from an upstream development standpoint (at least as it relates to debian packaging). Specifically, upstream seems to target fedora (and hence systemd) for the most part. Since it's a system-level library, the differences in development environment make for some surprising headaches. There are also some inherent race conditions in the existing implementation. I feel obligated to mention these issues so that you know what you're getting into. It is these additional issues and time requirements that make the package too much for me at the moment. That said, I'm more than willing to advise and help out when/where I can. Packaging development is maintained in collab-maint on alioth using git. The entire history is there. So git-buildpackage is all you need. If you're still interested, I will forward the relevant email threads I have had with Serge - he has been maintaining this package in Ubuntu. There are some differences there, and I encourage you to compare. Ideally we could create a debian package that Ubuntu could merge without modification, but there is some work to get to that point. Let me know what you decided, and thanks for the interest! -- Jon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20121213195405.GA17206@quintessa