On Sun, 20 Jan 2013 22:33:27 -0600 Paul Johnson <paulj...@ku.edu> wrote:
> BLT needs fixing RIGHT NO. No more delay. blt is orphaned. This means that it does not have a real maintainer at the moment. Please consider adopting this package if you are interested in it. Please see bug number #664092 for more information. http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/orphaned http://packages.qa.debian.org/b/blt.html BTW always use the original bug title as the subject of emails like this because comments on bugs in orphaned packages go to a mailing list which covers several hundred packages. > If the maintainer of this package is not a blt user, I can understand > that this does not seem like a big thing. But, speaking bluntly, blt is > an old piece of software that is barely (if at all maintained) by its > original author. Nevertheless, we are heavily dependent upon it in our > research. All the other distributions except Debian have patched this > thing. Lets step forward. please. Those best placed to fix software are those with an interest in having it fixed. It sounds like this is your scratch, you'll need to fix it - without the attitude. > I first ran into this problem when I was an Ubuntu user. Here's the bug > report about it there. > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/blt/+bug/359857 > > It seems obvious to me this should have been done in Debian in 2010. If > Ubuntu did it, why not Debian. Because nobody cared enough about it to assign it any of their free time. Right now, most people are more concerned about fixing the release and this bug is not release-critical, so it is unlikely to get fixed any time soon unless you do the work. > For details on the fix, please skip down to: > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/blt/+bug/359857/comments/9 > > I did not write the fix. The Fedora blt maintainers wrote two patches > for blt in 2010. Since then, I have been applying those patches to blt > packaging on my Ubuntu and Debian. They work fine. Please look at providing a package via mentors.debian.net - there is help via the mailing list and IRC for preparing the package itself. http://mentors.debian.net/intro-maintainers > Please let me know what is holding us back on this. There is no maintainer, there is nobody interested in doing the work and as a result, the package remains orphaned. I have no personal interest in anything Tcl related and I won't be fixing it. The mentors system is expressly for your situation where you want this fixed but for a sponsor to upload the fixed package, you need to do the work of preparing it as per the mentors guidelines. If you are going to do the work via mentors, then you should adopt the package, following the mentors guidelines for adoption. If you don't do the work, the package and the bug will have to wait until someone else is sufficiently interested and motivated to care about the package. That's the reality of an orphaned package. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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