Hello, I am trying to decide what to do with one of my packages, fpm.
Put simply, the situation is as follows: * I have added a number of (some of them rather big; eg importing from gpasman) changes to do stuff that should really be done in upstream code. * I have heard rumours that upstream have made some of these changes, but different and incompatable way to the way I have made the changes. * There is an important bug against fpm, where it can currupt user data, if the user does certain operations in a particular order. Bug #158016. * I have tried forwarding this bug upstream, but so far got no response. * Just to make matters more complicated, it seems I somehow misread the initial bug report. Don't read my theory as to what the problem is, use the text of the bug submitter instead! * There has not been a new upstream version since July 2000. This version is labeled "beta version". * There has not been any activity on the mailing lists in ages (well... none since I first subscribed at least). * There are also two other bugs: no man page, and gpasman is only imported when running fpm on the second time (which is specific to the way I have implemented importing from gpasman, which is probably different in upstream's code). So does anybody have better contacts with the upstream authors then I do? Or does anyone have good ideas on how to deal with any of these bugs? If so, does this person have any sudden urge to take over maintaining fpm? (If not, I will continue maintaining it; I feel though that somebody else might be able to do a better job at it then me). -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
