[Resending to the bts as my mail to pkg-gridengine-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org is not being handled and I don't like waiting so long.]
Hi [Please keep me in CC in replies, I am not subscribed to the list] As I am trying to get rid of lesstif2 in Debian [LESSTIF], I was looking into doing an NMU on bug 714661 [MOTIF], which requests replacement with motif. Normally, this would have been a rather trivial change which has been done in Ubuntu already [UBUNTU]. However, in Debian it is blocked by bug 701446 [FTBFS]. Luckily that bug points to a patch, great. Then I noticed the other serious bug 709852 [POSTINST] and as it is simple I could fix that too. Furthermore I noticed the request for help [HELP]. After this rather long introduction, let's get to my points/questions: 1. I got the impression from some responses on the list and in the bts that removal of gridengine from Debian is considered. Would that be better as a whole for Debian, or is that just driven by the lack of upload possibilities of the current people involved? If the latter, see point 4. 2. I only have access to one laptop. Can I still test this package properly? What would I need to do? What testing do you consider useful? 3. Can somebody explain me how (step by step) to get git to give me a decent directory layout? I expect the standard layout where I can see upstream code with the debian packaging in the ./debian subdirectory. I do not understand the git layout and gave up. But I rather like git and want to use it. 4. If the above three questions are answered satisfactory, I am willing to help with the packaging of gridengine (not that I use it, but I like the concept and popularity of this package shows it deserves some love ;) ). I feel I must say however, that my skills and knowledge of c are rather poor. So I can focus on the packaging stuff, but others would have to be responsible for bug fixing and the like. Last disclaimer, my first prio is to get rid of lesstif2. Kind regards, Paul [LESSTIF] http://release.debian.org/transitions/html/motif.html [MOTIF] http://bugs.debian.org/714661 [UBUNTU] https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gridengine [FTBFS] http://bugs.debian.org/701446 [POSTINST] http://bugs.debian.org/709852 [HELP] http://bugs.debian.org/703256
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