[Debian GNUstep maintainers] Re: evening courses

[Gürkan Sengün]

Hello Eric,

> These days, I made a decision:
> in September I will register myself into evening class.
> It means I will be busy (and probably tired) every evening of the week,
> and  will have no time to continue to maintain Debian packages.
> I'm sorry but there is no solution, I have to resign from Debian
> maintenance (in September, not now).
> I hope Hubert Chan can maintain the GNUstep Core packages. I will help
> him as far as possible. It seems very motivated...

That is a sad thing to hear. I wish you all luck on your way, you've been
a great maintainer. I hope you'll still have some time to at least follow
where GNUstep is going. Thank you.

> In August, I can release the latest version of GNUstep if wished.
> But if there is an ABI change, It mean rebuild all GNUstep packages. And
> if later, it decided to make GNUstep FHS compliant, you will have to
> build all GNUstep packages again.
> Maybe it's best to wait a bit ?
> Gürkan, you will have to rebuild nearly all these packages, do you want
> to risk to rebuild them twice ?
>     Eric

I don't know, certainly I don't want to risk rebuilding all the things twice.

I will help Hubert do the testing of scattering files apart according the
FHS. Should it be possible by only doing changes on gnustep-make,
that's fine for Debian. If it is not possible technically to do so, I
hope GNUstep can still stay in Debian, also for etch.

If not, I plan to maintain gnustep core outside of Debian using / as root.
(I might even do that, so I can further improve the livecd.gnustep.org
anyways)

Yours,
Gürkan