Re: devfsd also (was: NMU of sitecopy ?)
On Wednesday 10 January 2001 06:40, Brian Frederick Kimball wrote: > The devfsd package could also use an NMU or two. It has apparently been > ignored by Tom Lee for months. Almost all of its bugs appear to be > fairly trivial, and he's only responded to one of the 11 open bugs (and > that response was three months ago). > > I'm not trying to 'dis' Tom; he may very well have good reasons for his > current withdrawal from debian. Its just that SOMETHING needs to be > done with his packages. Currently I have enough work to do. In about a month's time I will be prepared to take over the devfsd package as it's an area that I am interested in (and it shouldn't be too difficult to maintain - I don't anticipate the need to make any major changes). If someone else wants to do it then I'd be happy to send them patches and to test out new versions before they release them. In this case I am not interested in doing NMU's. I'll either take it over in Feb (if Tom is willing to give it to me and no better qualified person volunteers) or send patches and do testing for whoever is maintaining it at that time. -- http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/ Bonnie++ hard drive benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/postal/ Postal SMTP/POP benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/projects.html Projects I am working on http://www.coker.com.au/~russell/ My home page
devfsd also (was: NMU of sitecopy ?)
The devfsd package could also use an NMU or two. It has apparently been ignored by Tom Lee for months. Almost all of its bugs appear to be fairly trivial, and he's only responded to one of the 11 open bugs (and that response was three months ago). I'm not trying to 'dis' Tom; he may very well have good reasons for his current withdrawal from debian. Its just that SOMETHING needs to be done with his packages. -- belief, n: Something you do not believe.
NMU of sitecopy ?
Tom, the sitecopy package is heavily out of date. sitecopy in sid is at 0.9.10 (the upstream release as of Apr 2000). Since then, there were more than ten new upstream releases with various major improvements. The most recent upstream version is now 0.10.12. The bug page for sitecopy lists various bugs as open that already have been fixed by you, (e.g. #55156, which was fixed by 0.9.10-1), and bug reports that were subsequently fixed in NMUs have not been touched by you when you uploaded 0.9.10-1. I filed a report about a new upstream version some three months ago (#74548), and got no reaction so far. Likewise for #71077 (124 days old) and most other bug reports, where you never showed any reaction (at least nothing is recorded in the BTS). As reaction to #71077, you wrote on Sep 07, 2000 that you uploaded 0.10.4 to Incoming for woody. This package never arrived in woody, but you didn't seem to care. Tom, are you still with us, and are you still interested in maintaining this package ? Then, please take this as a strong reminder that there are some people who are interested in this package. If I don't get a reaction, I will bring up the issue how to take away this package from the current maintainer, and I'll upload an NMU RSN. Gregor
