2010/11/30 Axel Beckert <a...@debian.org>: > noowner 487125 > retitle 487125 O: apt-rdepends -- Recursively lists package dependencies > kthxbye > > Hi, > > Axel Beckert wrote back in June: >> owner 487125 Axel Beckert <a...@debian.org> > > I must admit, I've lost interest in the package. > > My main urge for adopting it was to fix http://bugs.debian.org/299228 > ("reverse build depends would be really useful") -- until I found out > that there is already a script named build-rdeps in devscripts which > does this already. > > The other point is that -- after looking at the package closer -- I > noticed that despite it's a non-native package, it basically was one: > Simon Law is upstream author and maintained the package, too, but he > has retired from Debian. > > So whoever adopts this package has probably either to fork it or to > continue maintaining it on a patch base only (which would be more or > less the same work), or prod Simon to continue upstream development. > > Guy, Bastien, or whoever takes over this package: All the work I did > on the package so far (mostly fixing minor packaging issues) is at [1] > -- feel free to use it, but I don't mind if you start new from > scratch. > > [1] http://git.debian.org/?p=collab-maint/apt-rdepends.git > > BTW, the upstream website given in the watch file and debian/copyright > do no more work, the new site is http://sfllaw.ca/freesoftware.html. I > changed that already in the above repository. > > I will probably also do a QA upload based on that work, but most > likely only after or close to the Squeeze release (unless the package > has been adopted until then). > > I'm also willing to sponsor this package, but I'm not sure if I would > co-maintain it.
If you sponsor me I can maintain it and merging some ubuntu improvment. Bastien -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktinbqqrw=axqj9qic2ey0dbm3dmlngqxbqh2d...@mail.gmail.com
