On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, Ian Jackson wrote: > 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.
I am willing to do this. I have already done a cvs co on the source. I would just need to have the ability to upload my changes. > 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. Doesn't sound too dificult. I have started getting good as of late regarding debian/rules et al(I am working on converting egcs debian/rules to debhelper, without having anything special in the file(requires a few simple patches to debhelper)). Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
