Hi, On Fri, 23 Apr 2010, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > I hate aptitude due to its dreadful user interface, and a while back I > was willing and able to maintain dselect if it could be disentangled > from its Siamese-twin relationship with dpkg. However, SOME people, who > REFUSED to maintain dselect themselves, were very insistent that dselect > was "more than a front end". > > It's a goddamned front end. Only it's *BROKEN* because nobody was willing to > hand it over to anyone who would maintain it. I hope that changes soon.
I don't know what you are referring to but we are definitely interested by disentangling it from dpkg and we are actively looking for someone that is willing to maintain it. It will take some time to get disentangled but there's no reason you could not work with us towards that goal. So what about starting by providing a patch for this issue? BTW, it seems weird because versioncompare() is already shared between libdpkg and dselect so it's something less obvious. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Like what I do? Sponsor me: http://ouaza.com/wp/2010/01/05/5-years-of-freexian/ My Debian goals: http://ouaza.com/wp/2010/01/09/debian-related-goals-for-2010/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
