If you read their downloads page they actually have some debs on their own site, maybe instead of getting another lot of packages around the world, convince them to get a sponsor and upload it to debian directly...
Heres some links: http://people.debian.org/~mpalmer/debian-mentors_FAQ.html - how to get a package sponsor. http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ - what they need to read to even get consideration http://www.debian.org/doc/maint-guide/ - information for them on maintaining their package to debian standards On 30/05/05, Yavor Doganov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > > * Package name : gajim > Version : 0.7 > Upstream Author : Yann Le Boulanger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Vincent Hanquez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Nikos Kouremenos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Alex Podaras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * URL : http://gajim.org/ > * License : GPL > Description : a GTK Jabber client > > Gajim is a promising Jabber client that uses the xmpppy library. It is > written in PyGTK and supports multiple accounts, service discovery, > transport registration, TLS and GPG, emoticons, popup notification and > many other useful features. Although not yet fully GNOME HIG compliant, > upstream developers are very active and are improving the program quite > rapidly. > > IMHO Gajim is in a better state than some other clients already packaged > (such as gabber/gabber2 and cabber) and many people are using it. > Upstream are maintaining Debian packages which seem to be in order. All > free Jabber clients should be in Debian, this would speed up the > inevitable death of all proprietary IM protocols. > > -- > Yavor Doganov > Free Software Association - Bulgaria http://fsa-bg.org > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: 3.1 > APT prefers unstable > APT policy: (500, 'unstable') > Architecture: i386 (i586) > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash > Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-2-386 > Locale: LANG=bg_BG.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=bg_BG.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- N Jones
