[Pkg-tcltk-devel] tdom package

[Massimo Manghi]

On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 10:49:58 +0300, Sergei Golovan wrote
> On 1/30/08, Massimo Manghi <massimo.manghi at unipr.it> wrote:
> >
> > It seems that Debian discontinued tdom's support
> > after etch was released.
> > I'm maybe wrong, but I don't remember this was
> > due to some incompatibility in tdom's license.
> 
> AFAIK, it was removed from Debian because it was unmaintained and 
> out-of-date.
> 

a tdom-0.8.2 was released in august 2007.

> >> 
> I can't speak for Debian as a whole but I think that simply 
> "preparing the package" is not enough. The package should be 
> maintained. If you want to look after it (keep in sync with upstream,
>  fix bugs, satisfy Debian policy requirements etc.) it would be OK 
> for me to be a sponsor and upload it to Debian.
> 

this is exactly what I meant.

> For a start you might look at repository
> svn://bamboo.nes.ru/debian/tcl/tdom/trunk
> I've started to hack tdom but never had time to complete it. (It 
> needs some changes in a description, changelog, and currently it doesn't
> comply to Debian Tcl/Tk policy).
> 

thank you

-- Massimo