Bug#768532: ITA debmirror
A new maintainer of mature software like debmirror never knows which line of the existing code, a line that *looks* inelegant or pointless, might actually fix some obscure bug from seven years ago for a guy who (say) uses debmirror over AX.25 in Nepal. One has to be careful about that. For this among other reasons, I do not plan to redesign the software, but to maintain it in its current form. There seems to exist a newer package named aptly. I do not know much about that, nor even if it conveniently does (or at all does) what debmirror does. Nevertheless, its developer seems enthusiastic enough; so, if you should happen to require an overall redesign, then you might investigate that package. signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#768532: ITA: debmirror
For reference, the bug report (with patch) to which I referred yesterday was #787760. signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#768532: ITA debmirror
That is, if you wish to help, let me know at t...@debian.org. (E-mail to that other address won't reach me.) signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#768532: ITA: debmirror
I am hardly the ideal maintainer for this package. Nevertheless, * I have used the package for years; * the package is implemented in Perl, a language with which I am familiar and which I often use; * I have recently spent some hours to learn a little about the package's software internals; * among the package's outstanding bug reports is one with a patch by me; * the package has a not insignificant number of users; * the package has now been orphaned six months; and * no other maintainer seems to be stepping forward to adopt the package. So, I'll adopt it, at least for now, and we shall see how it goes. If the adoption does not work out, then I'll orphan the package again, and we'll be no worse off than we now are. I miss former maintainers Frans Pop (deceased) and Joey Hess (retired), two of my favorite DDs of all time. Those were important DDs, giants of Debian; whereas I am so unimportant a DD that (despite my having been a DD ten years), 90 percent of the project's members have never heard of me. That's just as well, and I'll not fill Frans' or Joey's shoes; but still, after the great have left, the less must carry on. If you wish to help, let me know. signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#768532: ITA: debmirror
Control: retitle -1 ITA: debmirror Control: owner -1 x...@rxsoft.eu Hi, I will take care of this useful package and also of the upstream part. Let me know if someone disapprove. Regards, -- Maxime Chatelle (xakz) gpg: 5111 3F15 362E 13C6 CCDE 03BE BFBA B6E3 24AE 0C5B pgpYPa8Xu9WZ3.pgp Description: PGP signature