Stefan Ott wrote:
I'm curious: you say the jabber package was "orphaned from under me" but you are still the official maintainer - what's happening there?
I would have to look back through the bug reports, but there was a report not too terribly long ago that was asking for an update. I responded that there was some discussion between myself and the various other Jabber related package maintainers about how to proceed. Immediately following my response, the initial reporter put the Jabber packages up for adoption.
In case you want/need a helping hand with the package, let me know. I'm not a dd but I do some packaging. If you *want* to orphan the package, I'm sure we'll find people to adopt it. If you *don't* want to orphan the package, even better! :)
Ideally, I don't want to orphan the packages, but they do need quite a bit of work. All of the existing transports that I'm the maintainer of need to be removed from the distribution, they have all been replaced by alternative versions. The problem there is leaving the users of the transports without some means of migrating to the newer transport versions.
However, I need to be honest with myself and Debian. Due to both personal items (my wife's death in April) and project issues, I really don't have much motivation to work on Debian related items at this time, nor am I likely to in the near(ish) future.
Add to this that I'll likely have more day-job related work to do in the near future and it really doesn't appear that I can honestly say I'll have time to work on the packages. So, I have not fought the previous package orphaning, though I do find it rather rude.
I would be more than happy to try co-maintaining the package with you. But honestly don't know how much time I can muster toward it. Initially, I fear that my contribution would be little more than sponsorship and review of your packaging/changes. If this is acceptable to you, I'd be willing to give it a shot.
Other than that, are there any particular reasons left for not shipping 1.6.x with lenny+1?
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