[Debian-med-packaging] Changes to adun.app

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Yavor,

On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 05:37:47PM +0200, Yavor Doganov wrote:
> > Thanks a lot for work on this package.
> 
> Many thanks for the upload.

You are more than welcome.
 
> > I'm somehow in a similar position as you
> 
> Can you find someone who can help me?  Or direct me to a specific
> mailing list where I can ask for help?  I need just a user with this
> knowledge, he doesn't even have to be a Debian user.  Just for
> consultations from time to time.

One major purpose of the Debian Med project was to enhance the
communication between developers and users and the mailing list
debian-med at lists.debian.org is supposed to be the communication channel.
I admit that *very* few users are using this chance and that chances
that one of the popcon-reported users is lurking there tends to zero.
You can send a mail to the mailing list anyway (no need to subscribe
as per Debian list pollicy).
 
> > That's true and I'm afraid at some point in time we might need to
> > remove the package from Debian.
> 
> As long as we can cope with the bugs I don't think we should go in
> that direction.  Much to my regret many GNUstep packages share
> adun.app's faith and the number of patches is growing.

I know you are very engaged in GNUstep and I really appreciate your
effort.  However, I'm afraid that the problem you are describing above
might be related to the fact that many people consider GNUstep a dead
horse and got off.  So my assumption is that it is not very probable
that this tendency will revert.
 
> My ultimate plan as pkg-gnustep maintainer is to create a meta-project
> upstream, collecting all abandoned GNUstep packages and maintaining
> them on a voluntary basis, making regular upstream releases.  That
> way, they won't rot and at least will continue to build/run with the
> current toolchain and GNUstep libraries without the overhead of
> maintaining patches at distro level.  It would be beneficial for all
> distros that provide GNUstep packages, including the *BSD folks.
> 
> The project could have strict rules that if/when the original authors
> declare interest in their package, maintenance would be handed to them
> immediately.  Something like a "rescue" project, similar in spirit to
> Debian's QA Group.

I agree that the benefit would be good for all distributions but I'm
afraid you will stay quite alone with this valuable project. 

Kind regards and thanks again for your work

      Andreas.

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