[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#750910: Status of sitplus (Was: Bug#750910: sitplus: Please update to use wxwidgets3.0)

[Luis Rivas]

2014-08-22 2:55 GMT-05:00 Andreas Tille <andreas at fam-tille.de>:
> Hi Luis,

Hi, Andreas.

> I had another look into sitplus 1.1.0 upstream and it seems there is a
> split between libsitplus and sitplus.  From the download file layout
> libsitplus looks similar to our packaged sitplus 1.0.3 and the upstream
> sitplus-1.1.0 has a structure which I would consider "broken"
> considering that the root of the source tree is featuring only the dir
> /usr.  Luis, you have spent some time into packaging sitplus but did not
> responded to later pings.  It would help if you could raise your voice
> about your future plans with sitplus.  If you stopped your engagement
> I'm afraid we can not keep this software inside Debian which would be a
> shame.

My familiar situation has changed a lot since I packaged sitplus for
the first time. I'm afraid I have very little free time, and I don't
feel I can commit into maintaining this package anymore. I'm very
sorry about that, and I would like to volunteer for this, but I just
don't have the time.

I'm CCing César Mauri, the upstream developer, just in case he wants
to add something to the discussion.

> I also noticed that upstream is providing packages targeting at Squeeze
> which is lagging a behind current Debian development.  Perhaps there is
> some chance to join forces here with upstream to provide recent upstream
> versions on recent Debian releases.  However, if nobody volunteers for
> this job I would ask ftpmaster for removal from Debian since I have
> neither time nor the required background to test for this package.
>
> Kind regards
>
>      Andreas.

Regards.

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