On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 11:59:30PM +0100, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > On Thu, 03 Nov 2005 the mental interface of > Sven Luther told: > > > On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 11:16:48PM +0100, Elimar Riesebieter > > wrote: > [...] > > > I filed a bugreport to fix it. It is the job of the maintainer > > > to implement it;) > > > > Yeah, ok, a quick reality check here. The mol maintainer died > > tragically in july, leaving the package all but abandoned, i did > > jump in because nobody else did and because mol was blocking the > > 2.6.12 kernel transition, and because i used to work with Jens on > > the 2.6 powerpc kernel packages. > > AFAIR this was Martin Loschwitz?
Nope, Jens Schmalzing. > > I don't use mol and am not interested in being the sole maintainer > > of it, except to make it build with newer kernel packages, and did > > write so when i announced the mol 2.6.12 packages here, so read > > the mailing list archive. > > So we need an interested maintainer! Indeed, but many could participate in the team work, which is the aim of the alioth project. > > The alternative being naturally to kick mol from the archive, or > > at least the mol-modules, so they don't interfer with the kernel > > packages, as mol seems abandoned upstream and there is no real > > interest in doing real maintainership of them for debian, altough > > Otavio proposed himself. > > I noticed the inactivity of upstream. At the moment we have a > solution to patch mol-source running tiger. The maintainer has to be > found here (or at debian-devel ....) and the upstream push at > mol-general or something. Indeed, but i believe if no default maintainer is found a grouping of users and not-really-interested DDs like myself could handle this package. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
