Dear David, > > It is somewhat disheartening to see a bug that I've opened in > > 2011 still unchanged in status---even though I've provided > > solutions over the years. The last time the maintainer, David > > Martínez Moreno, made a release was in 2010.
I realise that the tone of what I wrote could be interpreted as being somewhat combative; I did not intend to come across that way. I _am_ grateful that you have packaged ViewVC in the past. What worried me is that there were many vulnerabilities patched between version 1.1.5 (in Debian) and 1.1.22 (current) that I think did not make it into the Debian package---and so I've been packaging it at least for myself, to protect my own servers... > [...] I saw that viewvc and memcached are falling behind, so I > started working in viewvc some hours ago and I even put a repo up > in Alioth to give people visibility and also to allow > collaboration in case this happens again. Excellent! > As you can imagine I do not want this to keep happening. I am now > going through your changes but I don't see a lot of new things now > as the last time (for 1.1.5). I'm still cleaning the tarball and > the bitrot that accumulated over time, but I hope to have finished > by tomorrow. No, there wasn't much that needed to be changed in the debian directory, as far as I remember. And most of the changes in the upstream code itself were for either vulnerabilities or for bug fixes. The rate of development of ViewVC has also slowed down these days... And I think most SVN die-hards might eventually move over to Git anyway :-) > I hope that having a public repo with the changes will prevent > this disconnection from happening, as you would need to apply for > a -guest account in Alioth and you might change yourself the > source, and I (or any other DD) could upload a new version. Again, very good! > I hope to have solved some of your concerns with the above. > Thanks anyway for your unconditional support and stubbornness > updating this bug. :-) Ah, well, it's to do with scratching one's own itch :-) Yours truly, John Zaitseff -- John Zaitseff ,--_|\ The ZAP Group Phone: +61 2 9643 7737 / \ Sydney, Australia E-mail: j.zaits...@zap.org.au \_,--._* http://www.zap.org.au/ v -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
