On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 07:00:50PM +0100, Bastian Kleineidam wrote: > On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 02:41:44PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > > I'm looking for a new maintainer for linbot. > > I'd like to adopt it.
Great! > > The new upstream version is called webcheck > > There was a threat of a lawsuit over the linbot name (according to the > author of linbot). So I assume we have to rename our package too (not > only the .deb package, but also the source package name)? That's correct, and was my plan before I ran out of time. I think a "Provides: linbot" for upgrade purposes would be OK though. > > It would help if the new maintainer's knowledge of Python was better > > than mine (not hard) in order to fix some code problems in coordination > > with upstream. > > No problem, I am the maintainer (and author) of the linkchecker package, > another link checker written in Python :) *grin* > Did you already work on new packages or should I just get the old .deb > sources and the new .tar.gz and update them? I've got some preliminary work lying around in my home directory; when I get back from my parents' (tomorrow) I'll see if any of it's valuable and if so pass it on to you. I've also got a couple of e-mails with the new upstream that I can pass on. Thanks again. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
