I perfectly understand what experimental is. I mean rather another problem: the new package version has been realised, and this version maintains different charsets in locales. This option is very important for not-Englishspeaking users. But maintainer is lazy to commit this version to Debian.
The version in experimental hasn't any extravagant dependences or problems with building/upgrade/compatibility with previous versions. As far as I understand maintainer placed it into experimental only because the new version (0.9.15) in original is also called RC2:1.0. Probably he supposed that RC would soon be replaced with Release, but it may take a few years more. In the context of Etch release I think it is very important to work on maintaining of UTF-8 and internationalization on the whole. Especially as the upstream version gives such possibility. The question is: what can be done if maintainer doesn't busy himself with the package and doesn't answer the messages and bug-reports? It is impossible to make a commit while maintainer hasn't denied his responsibility, but it would be very desirable to solve the problem. On 20:46 Tue 13 Feb , Greg Folkert wrote: GF> On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 01:30 +0300, Dmitry E. Oboukhov wrote: >> Hi! >> There's the following problem with the fluxbox package. >> >> The locale in the etch distributive ia already set into UTF-8 as >> default. Fluxbox has been maintaining UTF-8 for a long time. >> >> From July in experimental/ there had been 0.9.15version with >> full maintaining of UTF-8. >> >> But in spite of the sent bug >> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=397482 >> maintainer shows no sign of life and doesn't pay attention on >> personal messages. GF> Dmitry, experimental isn't for putting things into Sid or Testing or GF> Stable. GF> I am sure yoush hasn't done a thing with it, as Experimental packages GF> don't need to be maintained, period. GF> Experimental is experimental. If you don't understand what the word GF> means, please go look it up. In terms of Debian, it MAY be used for GF> testing new ways to package things. It may also be used to put newer GF> versions into the pool without screwing up a freeze. But your July issue GF> is far before the Etch Freeze. GF> Which in turn means (to me) it was either a courtesy thing that got put GF> in Experimental, or that it isn't as easy as you'd think to "fix it up" GF> to get that or a newer version into Etch. Perhaps, doing the upgrade GF> from Woody-Etch would break, or maybe the version in Sarge is completely GF> incompatible and has to be handled gingerly and is causing lots of GF> heartache. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
