Re: The disgrace of (the) Kompozer (package maintainer)

2009-09-07 Thread John Vivirito
On 09/04/2009 04:50 PM, Caroline Ford wrote: What you need to do is work out the package name of the version in jaunty. I looked on packages.ubuntu.com and it ends with 0ubuntu6. This means that there is a maintainer in Ubuntu (and unusually not in Debian). it does seem that the fixed

The disgrace of (the) Kompozer (package maintainer)

2009-09-04 Thread Patrick Goetz
We are currently using Jaunty 9.04 (64 and 32-bit) on our production desktop systems. A few weeks ago a user asked me for a recommendation for an easy to use html editor, and I suggested KompoZer. (Suggestions? I think I've tried most of them and found them lacking; the original Netscape

Re: The disgrace of (the) Kompozer (package maintainer)

2009-09-04 Thread Markus Hitter
Am 04.09.2009 um 18:10 schrieb Patrick Goetz: Now, is it finally appropriate for me to say WTF? Instead of writing hundreds of words to a mailing list, how about filing a needs-packaging bug, how about creating a PPA with this newer version? We're glad you found a non-working package. Is

Re: The disgrace of (the) Kompozer (package maintainer)

2009-09-04 Thread Martin Pitt
Patrick Goetz [2009-09-04 11:10 -0500]: If a package isn't really being maintained, then it shouldn't appear in any of the main repositories. Exactly, that's why it is in universe, not in main. There simply isn't an Ubuntu maintainer for it. As to turn this into something productive, I

Re: The disgrace of (the) Kompozer (package maintainer)

2009-09-04 Thread Caroline Ford
What you need to do is work out the package name of the version in jaunty. I looked on packages.ubuntu.com and it ends with 0ubuntu6. This means that there is a maintainer in Ubuntu (and unusually not in Debian). it does seem that the fixed version is in karmic so we need to arrange a