On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 02:12:21PM +0100, Axel Beckert wrote:
>Hi Anibal,

Hello Axel

>do you need a co-maintainer for fping?

Please add yourself as co-maintainer and upload a new upstream version
of fping.

>A new upstream version has been reported three weeks ago
>(http://bugs.debian.org/658230, Cc'ed) which includes all patches from
>the current package -- which btw. was uploaded as NMU by me more than
>two years ago.
>
>I also know David Schweikert, the new upstream author (Cc'ed), from
>the time we worked at the same university, and we're still in contact.
>
>Today David informed me, that fping 3.1 will be released soon and will
>offer to use Linux capabilities instead of setuid. (Which will likely
>need some two-way packaging for the non-linux architectures in Debian.)
>
>P.S.: I would also maintain fping alone in case you lost interest in
>it.
>
>               Regards, Axel
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Cheers,

Aníbal



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