Re: dictd: no activity last 12 months

2006-12-07 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, 8 Dec 2006, Yauheni Kaliuta wrote: I can take it if nobody wants since I use it (not too active, but) and have goot contact with the current upstream maintainer. But I do not like to ask people (to sponsor the package this case), so it's better if there is somebody else. If you are fai

Re: dictd: no activity last 12 months

2006-12-07 Thread Yauheni Kaliuta
On 12/5/06, Helmut Wollmersdorfer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Andreas Tille wrote: > Hijacking the package? My packaging skills are too poor. I can take it if nobody wants since I use it (not too active, but) and have goot contact with the current upstream maintainer. But I do not like to ask

Re: dictd: no activity last 12 months

2006-12-05 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 5 Dec 2006, Helmut Wollmersdorfer wrote: My packaging skills are too poor. ... In my case, www.nomen.at has 133 languages at the moment, and I need some minor multibyte/UTF-8 improvements of the last upstream versions. At least I will have to compile it myself after waiting another few

Re: dictd: no activity last 12 months

2006-12-05 Thread Helmut Wollmersdorfer
Andreas Tille wrote: Hijacking the package? My packaging skills are too poor. I have to admit that dict support is kind of weak inside Debian. But for dict_d_ it's worse. There seemed to be no interest in dict-wn wn is a nice thing and IMHO underestimated. But in the case of wn I my

Re: dictd: no activity last 12 months

2006-12-05 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 5 Dec 2006, Helmut Wollmersdorfer wrote: What are the usual possibilities to solve this problem? Hijacking the package? I have to admit that dict support is kind of weak inside Debian. I decided to drop the dict-wn package for reasons I explained in http://lists.debian.org/debian