Mergeant package unmantained

[Akira TAGOH]

Hi,

First, I apologize to not maintaining the package well. and
thank you for Ccing this mail to me. I haven't had a time to
read a lot of mails now.

>>>>> On Thu, 1 Jul 2004 05:52:05 -0300,
>>>>> "GRM" == "Gustavo R. Montesino" <grmontesino@ig.com.br> wrote:

GRM> #define IANADD
GRM> On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 12:39:28AM +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote:
>> On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 12:32:14AM +0200, Cesar Martinez Izquierdo wrote:
>> > Hello, I don't know if this list is the proper place to report that.
>> > Mergeant package is in a very bad shape.
>> >  It has several unsolved old bugs, there are new versions of the program that 
>> > are unpackaged, etc.
>> > It seems that it's no longer mantained.
>> > I think that it should be orphaned so that another mantainer can do a proper 
>> > work.
>> 
>> It's group maintained by a large number of people, the GNOME
>> maintainers, though the mailinglist isn't at the 'maintainer' field, so
>> they don't recieve the mails sent to bugs on this gnome-db2 package.

GRM> Actually, the source for the mergeant package isn't at the GNOME Team
GRM> svn repository, so it isn't really maintained by the team.

I thought it was already in. but you are right. since I've
added it to the GNOME Team package list, I agreed to
maintain it as the team-- I forgot where it's on. Sebastien?

GRM> I've some interest in the gnome-db packages
GRM> (libgda/libgnomedb/mergeant), and would love to help maintaining them as
GRM> GNOME Team maintained (or not) packages.

Please go ahead then.

Thanks,
--
Akira TAGOH  : tagoh@gnome.gr.jp  / Japan GNOME Users Group
at@gclab.org : tagoh@gnome-db.org / GNOME-DB Project
             : tagoh@redhat.com   / Red Hat, Inc.
             : tagoh@debian.org   / Debian Project