I wrote: > Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote: > > > Now, what I can offer is that if you are interested in the package, want > > to take responsability for the changes, and want to fix the problems in > > the long term (including maybe switching to the fork in github, which > > seems more lively), I will ask you to prepare a new upload fixing these > > and maybe other problems, and will then try to help and sponsor your > > changes. > > > > Does it sound interesting? > > I wasn't aware of the github fork, thanks for mentioning it. > > [...] I guess my best chances are to offer my patches as pull > requests on github. I'm doing that now. > > If/when they are accepted, you might consider uploading that version > to Debian. Until then, a Debian upload of the old version with my > fixes seems like a waste of time. (I've been using a patched > packages for many years now anyway, nobody else seems interested, > and as you said, it would only fix the issues in Debian.)
My patches (plus a bugfix to them by Olivier Sohn) are now pulled into this repository, as well as my fork https://github.com/frankheckenbach/ftgl (ATM both are identical; ulrichard doesn't really want to "take over" the library, as he wrote in the mail CCed to you, so you might want to use my fork). So can you use it make a Debian upload, or what else do we need to go on? Any opinion from the original developers (still CCed)? Regards, Frank
