Hi, I'm Charlie Zender, primary author of the netCDF Operators (NCO). Brian Mays maintained the Debian NCO package for a number of years until about two years ago. We thank him for pioneering NCO in Debian. However, Brian has not kept track with the upstream version for about two years. We (another NCO developer, Rorik Peterson, and I) encouraged Brian to keep in sync with NCO releases numerous times.
I followed these procedures for contacting inactive maintainers: http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/ch-beyond-pkging.en.html#s-mia-qa A month ago I formally asked Brian to sponsor me and Rorik as the Debian NCO maintainer. We heard nothing so two weeks ago we sent a followup to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Again, no response from Brian. Martin Michlmeyer verified that Brian has been busy and tried to contact him as well. Still no word. I am now formally asking that Debian transition NCO maintainership to me and Rorik Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> over some reasonable timescale. Rorik and I are both Debian users. We implemented what we feel is a high-quality, up-to-date, Debian compliant, package for NCO and have been distributing from the NCO homepage: http://nco.sf.net#dbn http://nco.sf.net/src/nco_2.9.6-1_i386.deb http://nco.sf.net/src/nco_2.9.6-1.dsc http://nco.sf.net/src/nco_2.9.6-1.tar.gz Please verify for yourselves the quality of the packaging and let us know what you decide and whether we need to make any changes. We are very eager to begin regular updates of NCO to Sid. Thanks, Charlie -- Charlie Zender, [EMAIL PROTECTED], (949) 824-2987, Department of Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine CA 92697-3100
