#define IANADD On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 12:39:28AM +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 12:32:14AM +0200, Cesar Martinez Izquierdo wrote: > > Hello, I don't know if this list is the proper place to report that. > > Mergeant package is in a very bad shape. > > It has several unsolved old bugs, there are new versions of the program > > that > > are unpackaged, etc. > > It seems that it's no longer mantained. > > I think that it should be orphaned so that another mantainer can do a > > proper > > work. > > It's group maintained by a large number of people, the GNOME > maintainers, though the mailinglist isn't at the 'maintainer' field, so > they don't recieve the mails sent to bugs on this gnome-db2 package.
Actually, the source for the mergeant package isn't at the GNOME Team svn repository, so it isn't really maintained by the team. > Gnome maintainers, how are things going with this package? I agree with > Cesar it doesn't look too well, and as it is now, it isn't ready to be > included in Sarge (indeed, it's in sid only). I'm cc'ing the maintainer there, so that he may answer this :) > Are you as a team still interested in this package? If not, you should > indeed consider asking for adoption of it. I've some interest in the gnome-db packages (libgda/libgnomedb/mergeant), and would love to help maintaining them as GNOME Team maintained (or not) packages. -- Gustavo R. Montesino GPG Key BACAB6C2
