On 2009-01-02 11:01:52.00 Ingo Saitz <ingo.sa...@stud.uni-hannover.de> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 12:22:57PM -0500, Barry deFreese wrote: > > Popcon is fairly high but while working on a patch to build it with > > Gtk2, I got in contact with the upstream developer who thinks it should > > no longer be needed and he has certainly done no development on it > > recently. (In the last 10 years in his words). > I'd like to question that decision. If the package has a high popcon > rating, there clearly IS demand from people. Maybe the author does not > have any use for it anymore, but that is no reason to deny any use of > the package. I'm afraid that I must have missed a few details of your plan w.r.t. gtkfontsel: - Who is going to maintain the Debian package? - Who is going to take over upstream development? - Who is going to port to gtk1.2 very soon? For reference: - the package has been orphaned for a year, - no-one stepped up to maintain it, - upstream is no longer interested, - it has bugs, - we are not keeping gtk1.2 post-lenny. Mind you, maybe the typical ways of configuring applications using fonts have advanced beyond needing "a nice utility for browsing, previewing and selecting an X11 font to insert its correct name via the X clipboard into a configuration file." Kind regards T. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
