Hello Florian - Thank you for pointing the problems out. The only excuse is that this is my very first attempt to contribute to the Debian project and I hope future ones will be more successful. :-) I didn't know I had to check the unstable in order to get the most recent version, so I ended up with version 4.2.6 without all the patches.
I am still willing to take over the package maintenance. If that's ok, what should be my next step? I can obviously take 4.2.7-4 from unstable and release it as 4.2.7-5 with updated Maintainer's header. Is that the right way to go? Florian Ernst wrote: > Hello *, > > On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 08:02:49AM -0400, Alexander L. Belikoff wrote: > >> I'm looking for a sponsor for (previously orphaned) xboard package. :-) >> > > As far as I know the previous maintainer I pretty much doubt this is > what he intended: you appear to ignore quite some of the package's > history, including the last four uploads, thus silently dropping most > of the past improvements. And even some older patches such as the > lowtimewarning are reverted. As I was considering picking this up > myself again I'm really not amused. > Please redo your packaging from scratch, basing on 4.2.7-4 as present > in Unstable. In the current state your packaging should most > definitely _not_ be sponsored. Besides, it wouldn't get into the > archives anyway due to bad versioning. > > Slightly confused, > Flo > Regards, -- Alexander L. Belikoff http://www.belikoff.net PGP/GPG fingerprint: 907E E5C6 7BA7 195A 5B38 0DD4 E14F 9428 C03A 787A (http://pgp.mit.edu for the key) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
