[Pkg-directfb-devel] DirectFB maintainership status

Fathi Boudra fabo at debian.org
Tue Nov 8 05:01:37 UTC 2016


Hi Adrian,

On Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 10:00 PM, Adrian Bunk <bunk at stusta.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> first of all thanks for your past work on DirectFB.
>
> The last maintainer upload of the Debian DirectFB packages was
> in 2012.
>
> Unfortunately it is already too late for getting something more recent
> than 1.2 into stretch, but even for buster it will someone will have to
> work on bringing DirectFB in Debian back into good shape.
>
> Does anyone from you existing DirectFB maintainers intend to work
> on the package again?
>
> Alternatively, it would also be OK if you would state that there is
> noone left active among the DirectFB Maintainers, and that I can orphan
> the package for finding new maintainers.

As far as I know, I've been the last one working on DirectFB. I
uploaded 1.4.3 to experimental and that's it.
I should have orphaned the package earlier. It's more than time to
find a new maintainer.

> Thanks
> Adrian
>
> --
>
>        "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out
>         of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days.
>        "Only a promise," Lao Er said.
>                                        Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed
>

Cheers,
Fathi



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