Re: Bug#446030: RFA: kbd -- Linux console font and keytable utilities
[ If you reply please send CC to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 05:40:44PM +0100, Michael Schutte wrote: > On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 02:10:37AM +0300, Anton Zinoviev wrote: > > I request an adopter for the "kbd" package. > > I’m interested in taking over, but I’m not a DD. I think it would be > the easiest way if you could sponsor my uploads; would that be okay for > you, or do you think that your lack of time wouldn’t allow for it? Not only I can be a sponsor but I will be able to help with the script part of the package if you need. However since this package is part of the core of Debian, I prefer your taking over to be announced first in debian-devel (and thats why I am sending my reply to debian-devel too). Let me remind to the readers of debian-devel that currently there are two console packages in Debian -- kbd and console-tools. Console-tools has no upstream maintainer and because of this the Debian maintainer of console-tools has aready tagged several bugs as non-fix. The console utilities of the installer are entirely based on kbd and not on console-tools. Because of this kbd needs to be properly maintained. I requested adopter for this package because it was never my intention to maintain "kbd". The maintainer of "kbd" is the group "Console utilities maintainers" and when this group reduced to only one member (me) I had to take over. Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bug#446030: RFA: kbd -- Linux console font and keytable utilities
Quoting Anton Zinoviev ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > The transition from console-tools to kbd has been planned for years > and the only reason of the delay is the chronic shortage of console > maintainers in Debian. It seems Alastair supports only console-tools > and for the rest it is only me and Christian Perrier and we both are > doing this only because nobody else does. To be precise, I personnally do no work on kbd... I try to maintain console-common in a very low involvment mode and with very minimal competences for doing so. I have a better activity on console-data (which provide keymaps and console fonts) but also keeping it in maintenance mode rather than being proactive. signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Bug#446030: RFA: kbd -- Linux console font and keytable utilities
On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 01:56:03AM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > > Is there a reason to still keep kbd around? Kbd has upstream maintainer, console-tools is dead. Because of this Alastair McKinstry has already tagged several bugs as wontfix [*]. The transition from console-tools to kbd has been planned for years and the only reason of the delay is the chronic shortage of console maintainers in Debian. It seems Alastair supports only console-tools and for the rest it is only me and Christian Perrier and we both are doing this only because nobody else does. > Is there something in kbd that console-tools doesn't do? Kbd supports large fonts for high-resolution framebuffer modes. Also the utilities of console-tools depend on libconsole. I think because of this it will be difficult to create small size udebs based on console-tools. Anton Zinoviev [*] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=14;bug=52544 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#446030: RFA: kbd -- Linux console font and keytable utilities
On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 02:10:37AM +0300, Anton Zinoviev wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: normal > > [Please add me to your CC list.] > > I request an adopter for the "kbd" package. > > Actually it was never my intention to maintain "kbd", but its > maintainer was the group "Console utilities maintainers" and it seems > currently I am the only member of this group... :) Is there a reason to still keep kbd around? Is there something in kbd that console-tools doesn't do? Kurt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#446030: RFA: kbd -- Linux console font and keytable utilities
Package: wnpp Severity: normal [Please add me to your CC list.] I request an adopter for the "kbd" package. Actually it was never my intention to maintain "kbd", but its maintainer was the group "Console utilities maintainers" and it seems currently I am the only member of this group... :) Here are the reasons why I am unable to maintain "kbd" properly and why a new maintainer is wanted: 1. I have absolutely no experience in compiling utilities like the utilities in "kbd". I am not sure I will be able to fix any compilation errors if such errors occur. 2. While I have some experience in the script part of the package, I can not effectively watch these scripts because their effect is canceled by the scripts in the package console-setup (which I maintain). 3. (This is not a kbd-related problem.) Recently I am unable to process the email messages I receive as promptly, as a Debian maintainer should do. I think the package is currently in a more or less clean state. I haven't fixed #443645 and #443606 because I think the new maintainer should decide what should be done (these bugs are easy to fix but they allow two alternative solutions). There are patches in BTS about #190385, #190386 and may be #190387 but I haven't tried to fix things I don't understand. As of #399531, in BTS there is a suggestion how to fix. And the only bug without a solution in BTS is #437248. Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
