Dbus-c++ Debian package maintainership.

[Luke Yelavich]

Greetings all.
Recently a new version of libffado was uploaded to experimental, which was synced to Ubuntu natty. With the new libffado revision, there were 2 new dependencies added, libconfig and dbus-c++. I am working to get these new dependencies into main, and whilst doing so, it was noted that dbus-c++ is currently orphaned in Debian. One requirement for packages being included in main for Ubuntu is good maintenance attention both in Ubuntu and Debian.

I have checked Ubuntu and Debian, and including libffado, there are 2 packages in total that use dbus-c++, the other package being gnote. Since I suspect that libffado is the more actively developed of the 2, I am wondering whether the pkg-multimedia team should consider taking over maintainership. I think that its in the team's best interest to do so, due to the the dependency from libffado. Since I am a member of this team, I'd be happy to help maintain the package, and would request sponsorship from a member of this team when an upload is required.

If the team decides to not maintain this package, then we need to either make sure the package gets a maintainer in Debian from somewhere, or, we talk to Upstream about alternative solutions. I understand and accept in advance any reasons given to not take over maintainership of dbus-c++.

Thanks for your consideration.

Luke