Juan Cespedes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 11:36:50AM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > > * Adam Lazur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20010503 23:37]: > > > I plan on adopting the ill maintained screen package. It currently has > > > ~50 open bugs, many of which are fixed by the new upstream version > > > (3.9.8) which has been out since September of 2000. > > > > Err, I'm not convinced it's a good idea if a new maintainer hijacks an > > important package like screen, especially considering that its > > maintainer recently got more active again (e.g. he uploaded syslinux > > and responded to some bug reports).
New maintainer or not, it needs someone to pay attention to it (as it is an important package, no?). I use it on a daily basis and feel I'm qualified to deal with packaging it. > I have been *very* busy during the last months, but I think I am > beginning to have more time to spend on Debian. > > I am currently working on a new version of screen which will probably > be uploaded during the next week. > > Please forgive me for any inconvenience I could have caused; it has > been all my fault. I was unaware that Juan had recently come out of hibernation. Juan, are you interested in the changes to the package I have already made? I migrated the build to debhelper, and have debconf almost setup to do the prompting for incompatible version stuff. Regardless, I'll close the ITA. -- Adam Lazur, Cluster Monkey 5FE0 559F 37E9 B8BB 8354 B5BF B70C 7A33 F7E9 0FF1
