Hi, On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 09:34:25PM +0100, RISKO Gergely wrote: > On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 10:21:45 +0100, Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Package: ippl > > Version: 1.4.14-3 > > Severity: wishlist > > > > New ippl package versions say that the package will be removed. > > > > I still consider the package useful and will immediately repackage it > > after you had it removed. > > > > Please consider putting up the package for adoption instead of having > > it removed. > > > > If you want to get rid of it now, I am willing to take over > > immediately or to co-maintain. > > Of course, you can take it. > > But please, understand that this package is totally unmaintained by > upstream and in the current state it do more bad things, than right. > Probably a user thinks that it logs connection, but every 10th doesn't > get logged and so on. See the bugreports, try to fix them.
I do neither have the knowledge nor the time to fix upstream bugs. My offer to take over is just to preserve the current state of affairs, keeping an even remotely useful package available. I will document the bad things and show them prominently, but the code won't diverge too much from upstream. > I think it is a better idea to write an ulogd module that accepts > ippl.conf old config files and generates the same logformat. I think > that it is easy to write this and it will be more bug free than a > native code (without even using libpcap or whatever). If I will write any code in the near future, it will be for my rewrite of logrotate. If you still intend to drop the package after sarge's release, there should be a version with me as Maintainer in sarge (since the BTS and other resources are connected with the _unstable_ package). If you are willing to keep the package with me as a team, I'd suggest having an alioth project, with a mailing list as maintainer and the two of us as uploaders in sarge to ease handling bug reports. What do you think? Greetings Marc -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | lose things." Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 621 72739834 Nordisch by Nature | How to make an American Quilt | Fax: *49 621 72739835 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
