On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 09:19:24AM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > Hi Vagrant Cascadian, > > I see you are active on ldm package.
indeed. > I also see you as upstream of sdm package. indeed. > This is about sdm which is now maintained by Jonas Smedegaard. > > > Please see > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=449973 > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=462094 seeing a couple unresolved but fairly easy to fix bugs and lintian issues, i offered a in april of 2008 to co-maintain sdm, but didn't recieved a response. > Please reply to this mail while CCing BTS to clarify where is upstream. > > If there is none, please indicate so. (Then maintainer needs to udate > files) there is no current upstream, other than an svn project: svn co http://dev.freegeek.org/svn/sdm/trunk the last upstream release was in january 2005. other than a few minor fixes and code cleanup in 2005, and some changes made in late 2007 to make another upstream release, but that turned out to be more trouble than it was worth. it is pretty much a dead project. > Although being old and seeming to be obsoleted, sdm is still in Debian. > Since sdm uses xdialog only, it is simpler and it may have reason to be > there. although xdialog was removed from unstable/testing a while back, and the likely replacements (zenity/kdialog), pull in a lot of other dependencies. without xdialog, it's only useful for autologin purposes, as there's no user interface. it might be possible to write or find a simple GUI dialog replacement that doesn't pull in so many dependencies(or ironically use ldm-dialog). > But this package upstream looks completely stalled to me. pretty much, yes. though some of that is because it hasn't *needed* much development. > If you think as upstream that it is better to be removed from archive as > upstream or security concern, your comment is appreciated. without some GUI dialog implementation, it's nearly useless. so other than sentimental attachment, i don't see much point for it to remain in debian... live well, vagrant p.s. i am subscribed to ldm's source package, so no need to CC me on bugs reports. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
