Package: wnpp Severity: normal I've just orphaned svgalib by uploading 1.4.x and 1.9.x packages with pending changes to unstable and experimental. I recently contacted upstream to send patches back, but was offered taking over upstream maintainership instead because he is not interested in it anymore, and while I've never considered this an issue, right now I cannot be bothered spending that time maintaining this for Debian...
Whoever takes this, should ideally have at least notions of low-level graphics programming, x86 assembler and shared libraries. Also during my maintainership, got the packages to build from just i386 to linux-any and kfreebsd-any, but there's still reverse depedencies which only build for i386 or i386 and amd64. The new maintainer might want to handle such transition, which might also require taking a look at Packages-arch-specific. The package description is: svgalib provides graphics capabilities to programs running on the system console, without going through the X Window System. It uses direct access to the video hardware to provide low-level access to the standard VGA and SVGA graphics modes. Only works with some video hardware; use with caution. . This package contains the shared libraries and config files. regards, guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
