On 19-Jul-2001 Jérôme Marant wrote: > > Hi, > > It has been a while since lintian has been updated and it seems > that Sean (shaleh) has not more time to work on it (Sean, can you > confirm?). > Lintian is one of the most important tools in Debian allowing us > to check if our packages follow the latest version of the policy > That's why one must ensure that lintian is always up-to-date. > > It would be logical if policy people or QA people could take it > over. Some people mentioned Colin Watson who did a great job with > bringing a lot of patches. What do you think about this Colin? >
So, here's the whole scoop. I can no longer do my Debian hacking at work, which took away most of my free time for Debian. On top of this my gpg key is stuck on a hard drive. I have to take my machine apart, pop in the new drive and get the key off. So I have not uploaded anything in some time. I am hoping to have the ability to fix this over the coming weekend. That said, yes I have seriously considered handing lintian over to a new steward. I can not even irc from work (damn firewalls) which makes talking to everyone on #debian-devel more difficult. If people want to approach me about taking over lintian I will discuss it with them. It deeply saddens me that I have lost my time for Debian. This project has been a part of me since I started hacking. Married life has taken more time than I ever expected. At the moment I have no plans of leaving the project. If someone takes over lintian I only have a few packages left to hand off. blackbox and friends have a slow development process which I track anyways so I would like to keep them.
