Hi, I hope that sending this as copy to debian...@lists.debian.org and debian-rele...@lists.debian.org is the way to go and that this is not disturbing some already busy lists. Forgive me if that is too much.
It seems that the maintainer of the package has not been seen since 2005, and that the co-maintainer is not interested in the package anymore, as per: http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2009/02/msg00413.html In this, he wrote: "I was only working on it on behalf of OLPC. Since I'm no longer with them, I don't really have any interest in working on it. I would suggest giving it to someone who has a use for it." Barry deFreese told me on #debian-mentors that he "will orphan it shortly". As the package is very important to us (we use it to bootstrap CentOS VMs from a Xen dom0 and resell it to our customers), we wish to take over maintainership. I am comfortable with Debian packaging, while my employee, Manuel Amador, is comfortable with python and RPM things. Together as a team, we will (hopefully) be able to maintain yum correctly in Debian. We have created a specific email address for communicating about the package, this forwards to rud...@rudd-o.com (Manuel Amador's address) and tho...@goirand.fr (myself): yumpack...@gplhost.com Please write to it for any concerns about the yum package in Debian. I'll feel an ITA as soon as I see that the package is orphaned. Last thing: we have prepared a new package with the latest version from upstream (as the current one was really not working well, with lot's of bad printing, and sometimes hanging for minutes doing nothing) in here: ftp://ftp.gplhost.com/debian/dists/lenny/main/source/yum_3.2.21-1~gplhost1.dsc Of course, we will change the version number, but as this is in our repository for the moment, the version above is ok. Anyway, we would need to close the ITA number, so we would need to update the package whatever happens. Thomas Goirand -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
