Peoples,
The Xalan library from the Apache people was recently put up for
adoption, and as it's something I use fairly heavily I figured the time
had come to look at becoming a debian developer. So I am adopting the
package.
The package has been left idle for quite some time, and the upstream
source has moved two versions. I have also made some changes to the
.deb build process (in particular splitting out a documentation package).
Three questions :
1. (And I bet you get this a lot) I would be eternally grateful if
someone would sponsor the package whilst I look at officially becoming a
developer (assuming that it's possible for me to do so).
2. (Related to 1) I'd be grateful if someone could cast their eye over
what I have done and make sure I haven't done anything stupid. I have
changed the rules file quite considerably, so even though it gets
through lintian I'll bet something is wrong somewhere.
3. There is a package called libapache-mod-xslt that is created from
Xalan. The mod_xslt that is used is a sample in the source code. I.e.
I do not believe it was not something the developers ever envisaged as
being a fully supported module - rather it was an example as to how
someone might go about setting up such a thing.
Is this a good thing? Should a package be something that is known to be
fully supported to get into stable?
Packages and source available at
http://www.ozemail.com.au/~berin
With thanks.
Cheers,
Berin
