[pkg-bacula-devel] Does the mtx package still have an "upstream" maintainer?

[Carsten Leonhardt]

Hi James,

I'm the Debian package maintainer of mtx.

> I'm writing to you because https://repology.org/project/mtx/versions
> suggests that you may work on the `mtx` package for some distribution (of
> Linux or *BSD).  Or, in some cases, I believe you maintain adjacent
> software or packages or have sent patches.
>
> As far as I can tell, the "upstream" package for the mtx(1) tool is
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/mtx/ but this seems to be very quiet.  I
> can't tell for sure whether this is because the requirements are very
> stable or because the maintainer has lost interest or no longer has time to
> work on this.   At any rate, it seems that mail to
> robertnelson at users.sourceforge.net bounces.
>
> Have any of you been in contact with Robert in the last few (say, 5)
> years?    Is there an alternative "upstream" source project?

I've never been in touch with Robert, but have been with Will Sutton,
see https://github.com/zombielinux/MTX

He's accepted the Debian patches we carry, but there seems to be some
discrepancy between the stable version we are using in Debian and the
development version that Will cloned to github. I was planning to come
back to that sometime after the next Debian release (Debian is in
pre-release freeze at the moment).

Are you by any chance considering to take over upstream maintenance? :-)

Regards

Carsten