[DebianGIS-dev] Maintainance of package gpsdrive

[Bilal Akhtar]

I agree about that I should become an uploader for the package but let
the team remain the maintainer.

As for the squeeze being frozen problem, I think it would be better to
package one for squeeze+1.

Bilal Akhtar.

On Sat, 2010-08-21 at 14:43 +0200, Johan Van de Wauw wrote:
> I can only can only speak for myself, and I'm not involved with
> gpsdrive: any help with our packages is definitely appreciated.
> However I think it may be useful to keep the package under group
> maintainership, because some dependencies are shared (I see
> libmapnik/openstreetmap icons/...)
> Maybe the best way is to keep debian gis as the maintainer and add you
> as an uploader? This is the way that it is done for most packages,
> including the current gpsdrive package.
> 
> Apart from that: debian/squeeze is frozen now - you/we should decide
> if we ask a freeze exception for the package (but then I guess it
> should be there very quickly - and of good quality) or whether we fix
> the bugs in the old package and build a new package for
> experimental/squeeze+1? Are there perhaps reasons why the package was
> not yet updated?
> 
> 
> On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 12:58 PM, Bilal Akhtar <bilalakhtar at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> > Dear team-members,
> >        It appears that this team is the maintainer of package gpsdrive. Many
> > bugs are open in gpsdrive, and the package is badly out-of-date. I would
> > like to take over as the maintainer of this package.
> >
> > What are your opinions?
> >
> > Bilal Akhtar.
> >
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