Hi Graham, On 24-12-12 10:41, Graham Inggs wrote: > The openmotif package has recently been orphaned since the maintainer > is MIA.
Not quite, the maintainer said he didn't have time anymore. It is a detail anyway. > I have been working on a new packaging of the LGPL motif from scratch > using dh. Why from scratch? Take the good things from the current package, but indeed, I would like to switch to dh(1) as well. I am currently working on getting the current package fit for multiarch and hardening enabled. > I would like to see the openmotif package renamed to motif What do others on this list think? I think openmotif as the source package name is a fine, but I don't really care. The only thing that I like about keeping the name is that the history of the package is better linked in the PTS and such. > and replace lesstif in jessie. Let's call it migration to motif and retirement of lesstif. > My motif package will be available in my Ubuntu PPA within the next > day or two: https://launchpad.net/~ginggs/+archive/ppa I do appreciate your effort, but currently Joël Bertrand is the one in the orphan bug [1], stating his intent to adopt (although he forgot to retitle and own the bug). I proposed to him (no response yet) to make this a team effort, do you want to join? I really would like to get the packaging in a VCS, e.g. on Alioth in the collab-maint project. If he agrees, we could start with packaging the next version already in experimental. Although of course, we should be focusing on releasing Wheezy right now. Paul [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=695130
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