It will not have escaped the attention of the Project that dpkg hasn't been very well maintained of late.
Klee seems to have dropped out of sight; I presume he's too busy doing paid work or something. I'm currently very busy with the leadership role and a couple of other free software programs (userv, about which I'll be giving a paper at the Linux Kongress, and sauce - `software against unsolicited commercial email', an as yet unreleased SMTP-receiver with some totally fascist checking). I think we need someone to coordinate getting releases out, making minor fixes (like the debian-changelog-mode.el thing), etc. The third member of [EMAIL PROTECTED] is Michael Alan Dorman. I haven't seen much from him recently (most recent message from him on debian-devel on the 30th of March). Michael, are you there ? Are you planning to put out a new dpkg release any time soon ? If Michael is not available I'd like volunteers to manage the dpkg source tree. Whoever does this job I'd like them to fix minor and packaging bugs as maintainer (rather than non-maintainer) releases. They'll be authorised to close bug reports they have included fixes for or which are obviously bogus. They should accept simple patches to correct uncontroversial bugs from anyone, but anything else should be vetted by me or Klee, and only Klee or I should close nontrivial `mistaken' bug reports. When this is done and I have a libc6 development environment (which I don't atm) I want to get back into doing development - and particularly, bugfixing. Ian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
