Re: Third-party patches when upstream is MIA

2009-09-27 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 5:12 AM, Ryan Kavanagh wrote: > Thanks Paul, will do. Are there any source packages that use CDBS and have > both > a binary package of the "vanilla"/unpatched sources and a binary package of > the > patched sources? I doubt it and I'm not sure that CDBS is flexible eno

Re: Third-party patches when upstream is MIA

2009-09-27 Thread Ryan Kavanagh
Hi, Sorry for the wait. On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 10:38:13AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > While the upstream website is gone (but still on archive.org), their > code and bug tracker are located at sourceforge.net so they are not > gone. Please consider contacting the admins to ask for access to the > p

Re: Third-party patches when upstream is MIA

2009-09-21 Thread Ben Finney
Ryan Kavanagh writes: > I currently maintain the 'slingshot' package in Debian, however, > upstream appears to be MIA, website no longer exists, etc, etc. > However, I have received a patch from a user that fixes issues […] > I am wondering how to best distribute these changes. You have at least

Re: Third-party patches when upstream is MIA

2009-09-21 Thread Paul Wise
While the upstream website is gone (but still on archive.org), their code and bug tracker are located at sourceforge.net so they are not gone. Please consider contacting the admins to ask for access to the project. If they do not respond, please consider taking over the sourceforge project so that

Third-party patches when upstream is MIA

2009-09-21 Thread Ryan Kavanagh
Hi list, I currently maintain the 'slingshot' package in Debian, however, upstream appears to be MIA, website no longer exists, etc, etc. However, I have received a patch from a user that fixes issues (no crashes at help / welcome screen, remove deprecated pygame warnings, etc.) and adds features s