Please go and read the material. You will see that even though the
ITP bug was opened in 2007, the debate continues. There have been
some very recent comments on both the ITP bug, and the mail list.
Sometimes the process takes time, and the process is just taking a
while in this case. There are a lot of really smart people involved,
and a lot of factors to consider. I would also invite you to join the
deliberative process, and make your voice heard as a user of Debian.
We are an open community and will welcome the fresh point of view.
The bug I linked you to is an ITP bug. That stands for "Intend To
Package." So, to answer your question, yes. Gerrit intends to
package qmail. The first step in that process is an ITP bug agains
wnpp. Gerrit has already packaged qmail, which is available on his
website, but not in the official Debian archive. Gerrit is a well
accomplished Debian Maintainer that is already taking care of packages
in Debian, and as soon as his ITP is approved, will have a qmail
binary package ready for upload into the archive. I have worked with
Gerrit in the past, and he is very easy to work with, and very
accommodating.
If the ITP ends up not approved, we will stay with the current source-
only package.
Either way, the proper process is already being followed, hence the
closing of this bug.
Cheers!
Jon
On Sep 28, 2009, at 7:36 PM, db wrote:
Ok. I am confused. The previous bug from 2007, was regarding
qmail-source not qmail. It also was not touched for some time now.
Hence, i filed this bug. Sure by all means close this bug. However,
you should note that this was a wishlist report and not a bug report,
as such....
Does Gerrit intend to package qmail ?
2009/9/29 Jon Marler <jmar...@debian.org>:
Well, the merge attempt was an epic fail.
I'm going to go ahead and close this. Gerrit is getting this all
sorted
out, and with any luck, we will have a resolution soon. I'm trying
to stay
out of it and let the process work it's way through.
Cheers!
Jon
On Sep 28, 2009, at 2:39 PM, dave bl wrote:
Package: qmail
Version: 1.03
Severity: wishlist
qmail is not in debian main. there is a qmail-source package in
contrib.
however,qmail 1.03 was released into the public domain as per
http://cr.yp.to/qmail/dist.html . Thank you
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