Bug#279757: Status of freewrl debian package?

[John A. Stewart]

John; I hope to find (again) someone to build and distribute FreeWRL on Debian and Ubuntu systems. Stan, the last person,  went and found a real job at a gaming company. Oh well! I have sent a message to the FreeWRL mailing list, asking for anyone who packages for Debian or Ubuntu to step forward; hopefully someone will, which will take me off the hook for more work. Could someone please explain what the status of freewrl for Debian is? Looking at the cryptic emails in the mailbox for this bug it seems as if there was an aborted attempt by Stan to creat a package and in the last week or so the upstream author of freewrl John A. Stewart has stepped in to take ownership. Does this please the upload of a freewrl package is imminent? I hope so!  I've been developing an based application (slowly) that generate X3D and VRML for the last few years.  It hurt when Debian dropped freewrl.  (I wasn't in a position to become maintainer.) ----------------------------------------------------------- John A. Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Systems and Technologies -          Systemes et technologies des reseaux Communications Research Centre Canada  |            Centre de recherches sur les communications Canada 3701 Carling Ave.  |  3701, avenue Carling PO Box 11490, Station H  |  CP 11490, succursale H          Ottawa ON K2H 8S2   |  Ottawa (Ontario) K2H 8S2 http://www.crc.ca