Dear mentors, Much to our regret the maintainer of the core GNUstep libraries has resigned recently [1]. Hubert (uhoreg) has been instrumental for the survival of this not-universally-loved technology in Debian, and has been keeping up with the good work for a few years. As it happens sometimes, his interest is concentrated elsewhere nowadays, and we, the remaining (non-DD) GNUsteppers, are meeting certain difficulties in finding sponsors, especially in view of the forthcoming non-trivial libgnustep-gui0.17 transition, which will be combined with the removal of the dependency on Defoma in gnustep-back-common (which only makes it harder).
[1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.gnustep/1440 I kindly ask anyone who is interested to consider sponsoring the below packages, and eventually future uploads of core GNUstep (-make, -base, -gui, -back), hopefully plus other less important ones. Thanks in advance! In case my message sounds presumptuous and out of place, please accept my apologies. A few people (DDs included) encouraged me to seek for a general sponsor on this list, and TBH, there's not much left to do... The packages below consist of 4 non-core Objective-C libraries, for which we promised the release team to fix them to depend on the actual core GNUstep libraries, enabling them to figure out how to schedule binNMUs for GNUstep transitions themselves (until now, we were informing them manually, which is confusing for them and needless to say, error-prone and tedious in general). cynthiune.app is not a library but a regular application; the upload fixes RC bug related to the libmpcdec6 transition. gnustep-netclasses/1.06.dfsg-4: It builds these binary packages: libnetclasses-dev - Objective-C framework for socket programming with GNUstep (devel) libnetclasses0 - Objective-C framework for socket programming with GNUstep (libs) - dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/g/gnustep-netclasses/gnustep-netclasses_1.06.dfsg-4.dsc pantomime1.2/1.2.0~pre3+snap20071004+dfsg-2: It builds these binary packages: libpantomime1.2 - GNUstep framework for mail handling (runtime library) libpantomime1.2-dev - GNUstep framework for mail handling (development files) - dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/p/pantomime1.2/pantomime1.2_1.2.0~pre3+snap20071004+dfsg-2.dsc renaissance/0.9.0-3: It builds these binary packages: librenaissance0 - GNUstep GUI Framework - library files librenaissance0-dev - GNUstep GUI Framework - development files renaissance-doc - GNUstep GUI Framework - documentation The upload would fix these bugs: 558954 - dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/r/renaissance/renaissance_0.9.0-3.dsc steptalk/0.10.0-3: It builds these binary packages: libsteptalk-dev - The GNUstep Scripting Framework (development files) libsteptalk0 - The GNUstep Scripting Framework (library files) steptalk - The GNUstep Scripting Framework The upload would fix these bugs: 553859 Note: We'll probably build adun.app's plugins starting from next upstream release and one of the plugins depends on the StepTalk framework; hence the library split. (It is a Debian Policy violation as it is anyway, although some maintainers disagree about this assessment.) - dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/s/steptalk/steptalk_0.10.0-3.dsc cynthiune.app/0.9.5-8: It builds these binary packages: cynthiune.app - A free software and romantic music player for GNUstep The upload would fix these bugs: 292910, 476381 - dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/c/cynthiune.app/cynthiune.app_0.9.5-8.dsc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
