Le vendredi 03 octobre 2008 à 16:11 +0200, Stefan Hornburg (Racke) a écrit : > > I find it annoying that after the sympa-drama before the etch release, > > we are now likely to run into another sympa-drama. Sympa is not an > > unmaintained software package: upstream is active, responsive and AFAIK > > willing to help. There's absolutely no reason why sympa should be in a > > crappy state in Debian. > > At the time I took over Sympa maintenance the scripts were written in > a convoluted and complicated manner. To be honest, this hasn't changed > much. > > If I would've been any wiser (and enough time to spent), I would started > Sympa packaging from scratch. As a side note, file inclusion in Sympa > configuration is a missing feature as packaging is concerned. > > > > > In #354355 (the "etch sympa-drama bug"), Stefan Hornburg refused several > > times to consider co-maintainance for sympa. I'm not sure if Jean > > Charles Delepine is still interested in co-maintaining it, but maybe we > > should try to convince Stefan to accept co-maintainance now. > > > > Maybe we could even avoid a sympa problem before the squeeze release. > > Jean seems to be vanished from the radar. > > Jonas Smeedegard put an effort for better Sympa packaging on git.debian.org. > It's quite likely that I team up with him after Lenny release. >
I also have access to Racke's internal CVS, but unfortunately, I'm not available on a stable pace to contribute much either :( There's definitely a manpower/availability/dedication problem for this package, which is unfortunate. Just my 2 not so useful cents, -- Olivier BERGER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www-public.it-sudparis.eu/~berger_o/ - OpenPGP-Id: 1024D/6B829EEC Ingénieur Recherche - Dept INF Institut TELECOM, SudParis (http://www.it-sudparis.eu/), Evry (France) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
