[pkg-fso-maint] fso: state of packaging?

[Nikita V. Youshchenko]

> Another issue is that FSO changes everything ever now and again, and one
> loses touch with what upstream is doing. Joachim mentioned that he "lost
> the overlook a bit".
>
> I instead did not dare to look at the packages that Heiko has made
> because I completely lost upstream. There is such a tangle of packages
> and libraries with similar names, some of which are alternatives, some
> of which are outdated, some of which are the future but do not work yet,
> or break some application that everyone is using unless we update it to
> somesuch version only found in someone's personal git plus the patch
> posted in another mailing list a month ago. Or something like that.
>
> I would welcome a summary of what packages are now needed for what, and
> I guess that it would help more than myself.

Seconded.
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 197 bytes
Desc: This is a digitally signed message part.
URL: <http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-fso-maint/attachments/20090914/74742ea0/attachment.pgp>