Package: wnpp Severity: normal The quilt package needs supplementary maintainers in order to be well maintained. The main maintainer Martin Quinson has not enough time to do all the required work. Simon Horman is co-maintainer but I haven't seen him doing anything on the package (and the last mention in changelog dates back to Apr 2007), Simon shall we remove you from the Uploaders? I am the third maitainer listed in Uploaders but I joined only to work on the integration with new source package formats (and with build system in general) and would like to see the package in a better shape but I don't have the time/will to do all the usual work.
There is lots of work to do: - update all the patches for the new upstream version (and we have 22 patches) Martin Quinson started this work but he has not yet pushed his work in a public branch, hopefully that mail will remind him to do it - document all the patches and submit them upstream even if they have been not very receptive to some of them a few years ago (in particular the rewrite of backup-files in shell apparently) - go through open bug reports and forward them upstream as well The package is currently maintained in git. If you have any question, please ask. The package description is: Quilt manages a series of patches by keeping track of the changes each of them makes. They are logically organized as a stack, and you can apply, un-apply, refresh them easily by traveling into the stack (push/pop). . Quilt is good for managing additional patches applied to a package received as a tarball or maintained in another version control system. The stacked organization is proven to be efficient for the management of very large patch sets (more than hundred patches). As matter of fact, it was designed by and for Linux kernel hackers (Andrew Morton, from the -mm branch, is the original author), and its main use by the current upstream maintainer is to manage the (hundreds of) patches against the kernel made for the SUSE distribution. . This package provides seamless integration into Debhelper or CDBS, allowing maintainers to easily add a quilt-based patch management system in their packages. The package also provides some basic support for those not using those tools. See README.Debian for more information. -- Raphaël Hertzog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
