Zack Weinberg writes:
> On 7/4/07, Ludovic Brenta <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> Shaun, your last upload of monotone to Debian is from March 2007, and
>> testing and unstable still carry 0.31 (0.33 is in experimental). Are
>> you planning to continue maintaining the packages in Debian? If not,
>> I can sponsor Richard, as I am a Debian Developer and an everyday user
>> of Monotone.
>
> Shaun's ability to work on Debian is very limited at the moment.
>
> Richard's snapshots are not currently suitable for direct inclusion in
> Debian (there's been no effort to mark Debian bugs closed, and there
> are a small number of places where an official package needs to
> diverge from the snapshots.
>
> I've actually prepared an 0.35 package suitable for Debian just
> yesterday - you can get it from http://mrtock.ucsd.edu/~zack/debian/.
> It'd be great if you could check that and upload it.
I suggest you and Richard merge your packaging scripts. They are in
Monotone itself, so that should be easy :)
> Longer term, I understand that Shaun is interested in having someone
> take over the package -
He should file a bug against wnpp stating he's looking for a
co-maintainer, or orphaning the package. I did look for such a bug
and didn't find one. So, I'll await his reply.
> perhaps that could be you, in collaboration
> with me and Richard. I'm not interested in running the NM gauntlet
> myself, but I'd be happy to take on some of the work in maintaining
> this one package.
OK. I'm willing to sponsor the package but not to do the actual
packaging work, so, if Shaun is willing to hand the package over, it
soulds like we've got a deal :)