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

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Luis,

On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 12:54:21PM -0500, Luis Rivas wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> 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.

Thanks for the clarification which is helpful to draw a reasonable
decision whether we can keep the package or not.
 
> I'm CCing César Mauri, the upstream developer, just in case he wants
> to add something to the discussion.

César, if you would be willing to spent some time into the packaging for
Debian while we would be happy to help you in packaging questions we
would consider keeping the package inside Debian.  Otherwise I'm afraid
that we need to drop it from the Debian mirrors.

Kind regards

      Andreas. 

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