Le Thu, Nov 05, 2009 at 06:16:08PM +0100, Paul Gevers a écrit : > > Point taken. I will do what I want to do with lesstif next weekend/weeks > and if nobody steps up to sponsor I will leave it on mentors and on > Alioth and just provide a package at Launchpad [1] for a while.
Dear Paul, do not hesitate to ping the maintainers of packages that depend on lesstif for this task. I am one of them, but I lack the competence for reviewing changes made to a graphical toolkit library. But sometimes the changes are trivial or do not go outsite the /debian directory. In that case, I can sponsor. About removals, the most difficult is to keep momentum, because it often implies a check for activity of the maintainer, and in the case of no answer, it is usually preferred to wait a couple of weeks, and after that moment we end up busy doing something else :) If you help Debian to let lesstif dissapear smoothly, this would be a great contribution. You can look at the result of the command apt-cache rdepends lesstif2. Maybe there are obsolete packages that can already be removed ? For the others, you can as the upstream authors if they have plans to switch to another toolkit. In the case of the packages I maintain, I have seen this two times already, for seaview and clustalw. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
