Hi there, I've been working on the orphaned Kleandisk package in the hopes that I could find a sponsor and take over maintaining it. I've been able to get it compiling against the KDE3/QT3 in unstable, and I've been working on cleaning up the remaining lintian errors.
I also contacted the upstream author and after a delay of a few weeks he wrote back telling me that he does not currently plan on developing Kleandisk any more. This makes me wonder what, if anything, I should do... Should I go ahead, find a sponsor and patch the current version to work with KDE? Should I file a bug report against Kleandisk and send my patches to the QA Group so that the current version can stay in unstable for the time being? Should I refrain from patching it and count on it being pulled once KDE3 gets stabilized? Should I notify the QA group that the upstream author doesn't plan on developing it any more? I like Kleandisk and find it quite usefull, but it does have some noticeable flaws that need to be worked out. I wouldn't, for instance, let my wife use it in it's current form, but I do think that it has potential. Even so, I'd rather not take over a package with a dead upstream as my first package. TIA John Lightsey
