On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 08:22:51AM -0800, Daniel Moerner wrote: > I am willing to adopt scheme48. I currently maintain ypsilon, an > R6RS Scheme interpreter that is waiting in NEW. Ypsilon only > supports amd64 and x86; I still use scheme48 on my powerpc and armel > machines.
Cool, let me know what you need from me to action that. > I do have a couple of questions about the package: > > First, is there a reason why debian/scheme48.1 is shipped when > doc/scheme48.man is present in the source? I don't remember; I think it's just that upstream added a manpage and I haven't removed the Debian-specific one yet. The reasons for that could be 1) I'm lazy; or 2) our manpage still contains more useful information than upstream's. I think (1) is more likely. > Second, have: > > bugfix-wait-for-child-eats-100%-cpu.diff > honor-destdir.diff > > been forwarded upstream? Probably not; IIRC I inherited those from the previous maintainer (Jorgen Schaefer, a.k.a. "forcer" on Freenode). AFAIK I haven't communicated with the s48 upstream maintainers at all. > Third, is debian-user-name.diff needed? IIRC the purpose of that patch is to say "built by Debian" instead of "built by <currently logged in user>" when you boot scheme48. > If this patch is necessary, I plan to change it to give the hostname > of the buildd used to build the package, which is how emacs does > it. That seems reasonable to me. > What would be the name presented if the patch wasn't applied? Whoever is logged in at the time -- so probably something like "twb", "Trent W. Buck" or most likely "root". I don't remember if it uses the UID or EUID. > Fourth, I presume that pkg-scheme48 is a dead group? I certainly have no involvement with it. I think it was set up when Jorgen was co-maintaining scheme48 with another DD (Emilio?). > I would have no issue with starting a pkg-scheme group, or at least > a way to coordinate scsh with scheme48. scsh is also orphaned, because even back when I was using s48 I was trying to drop my scsh dependencies. You may wish to adopt scsh as well :-) > Thanks for orphaning a package that is not a mess. You're welcome, although probably if I were you the first thing I'd do is move it to dh(1) ;-) > Have fun with Haskell! (If I remember our IRC convo correctly...) Right: most of my work is on Darcs at the moment (both as DM and with upstream). I'll probably also have to ITP a bunch of Haskell libs as Darcs starts to rely less on in-house hacks and more on external libraries... eek! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org