(I've sent this email on debian-mentors, then realized it possibly doesn't make sense, since I'm not really asking for sponsorship / help in packaging, but ideally for a competent choice on the matter, possibly by someone knowing denemo. Please CC followups to me.)
Hello, the situation of the package denemo is perfectly described in the following: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=513285 Notice that today if a Debian user wants to use denemo, the best thing to do is certainly to use the package at [1], as far as: - you use i386 - you don't care about installing a binary package without source, poorly packaged (several lintian errors) and not provided by any repository Moving from that sad situation (on a quite popular package - > 500 popcon reports - in particular considering that being the version distributed with debian so obsolete and the upstream debs packages very recent, probably lot of people just install from source), I wanted to update the existing package to last denemo version, 1.8.6. In the attached email, sent to the current maintainer, I explain the details. The short mail from Gunter was the answer to my precedent (14 days before's) email asking "may I ask you to comment on the bug report #513285 ?". Since I didn't receive an answer from Gunter to the forwarded email (after 15 days), I'm resending here to get some enlightenment. I'm afraid NMU is not the key word here, since I'm changing version and packaging tools (however, doing a NMU that doesn't bring in last upstream version would be pointless, and I personally won't learn CDBS). Just to be clear, I don't want to blame Gunter for anything: he's just busy, stop. I just want denemo in debian, so I'm asking "what to do?". thanks Pietro Battiston ------- Messaggio inoltrato ------- > Da: Pietro Battiston <too...@email.it> > A: Günter Geiger <gei...@xdv.org> > Oggetto: Re: Denemo > Data: Sat, 01 Aug 2009 10:36:00 +0200 > > Il giorno mer, 22/07/2009 alle 20.11 +0200, Günter Geiger ha scritto: > > Hi, > > > > No, it is ok to ask for my comment. I just do not have the time > > currently. > > > > Best, > > > > Gunter > > It would be useless to debate on how much time it takes to write "I do > not have the time" on a bug report vs. in a private mail, so it's not > what I'm writing you about. I have repackaged the last denemo: 0.8.6. It > is lintian clean, works, I reapplied both your patches, added a patch > which upstream still didn't adopt and which shows the icon on Linux, > wrote a manpage for the now included smfsh and updated copyright and > watch file. You can find the dsc at: > > http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/d/denemo/denemo_0.8.6-1.dsc > > Just tell me what to do now. > > Currently the package contains the original changelog with my add-on > (and several of the currently open bugs as "Closes" - there may be more, > but for them I'll ask confirmation to the submitters once the package is > available). However, truth is that I completely repackaged denemo, > without using CDBS (I tried, but I just dropped it because I didn't have > enough time to learn how to fix problems with what to my very very > personal taste seemed a crippled system). That's why I figure as a > maintainer. However I'm not particularly interested in being it, I only > want a working denemo in debian as soon as possible: so, while the > current thing is just ready to be sponsored, please feel free to decide > the form you want the upload to take - NMU? You sponsor me? You silently > adopt my repackaging and put still your name as maintainer? You orphan, > I adopt? You orphan, I ITP? > > Notice that I would warmly appreciate if in a way or another _you_ could > upload the package and spare me the boring job of finding a sponsor. > > But most of all I would appreciate a fast response, whatever it will be. > > thank you > > Pietro
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