Hi Jonas. First of all, I'd be glad if you "hijack" the packages, but I'd like to explain to you their current situation:
- etoys: it has some important bugs related to the way the squeak image is bootstraped. Now it's impossible to technically confirm that the whole image is free, because it's impossible to rebuild the image from scratch. There is an effort in the squeak community to make that possible, but the steps are being taken very slowly. That's why I haven't updated that package. Redo the package with the new image is easy and can be done pretty fast, so you won't have problems with this package. -squeak-vm: I'd like to continue maintaining this package, but there was inside the squeak community some people (Bert among them) who didn't like the way I do the package because they have done a different debianization. The problem is the way the package is focused: I focused it to use Squeak in education, so I added desktop integration, mime types and launchers for kde/gnome. They focused the package in using squeak to develop, so the launcher is console based, allowing more parameters to launch squeak in different ways. Trying to solve this problem I created an alioth project: https://alioth.debian.org/projects/pkg-squeak/ , I added the "other" people as administrator and developper and upload my debianization (that includes some fixes for the current package in Debian). That was seven months ago, and since then, no one has added anything or argue anything in the mailing lists. So, I'm a little frozen with the package, as I could do a new upload with "my" debianization, but I would like to do it together with the rest of the people who have worked on it inside the Squeak community. I've used Squeak a lot , and know pretty well the image and smalltalk, but about the vm, I do know that there are people there who know much better its insides. Squeak is a really weird project inside the Debian rules, and its debianization have some problems that are really hard to solve inside Debian. So, now you know the situation, and can decide: you can continue what I did and ignore the problems that both, Debian and Squeak communities are raising, or try to fight against the giants of the different egos to fix them. In any case, you have my support if you hijack the packages, or if you want my help to do new uploads. Cheers. José L. 2009/12/1 Jonas Smedegaard <d...@jones.dk> > Package: etoys > Version: 3.0.1916+svn132-2 > Severity: wishlist > > Hi, > > Bert Freudenberg announced a new version recently, and also at earlier > occasions mentioned that this package and the underlying squeak-vm seems > unmaintained for quite some time. > > Would it be ok with you that I "hijack" these packages and move it to be > team-maintained under the umbrella of the OLPC Alioth team? > > > Kind regards, > > - Jonas > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: squeeze/sid > APT prefers unstable > APT policy: (500, 'unstable') > Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) > > Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-rc8-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) > Locale: LANG=da_DK.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=da_DK.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash > > Versions of packages etoys depends on: > ii squeak-vm 3.10.3+svn1902.dfsg-1 The Squeak Smalltalk System > (virtu > > Versions of packages etoys recommends: > ii etoys-doc 3.0.1916+svn132-2 Documentation for etoys > > etoys suggests no packages. > > -- no debconf information > > >
