Puredata package

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Sep 13, 2010, at 8:15 PM, Felipe Sateler wrote:

> On 13/09/10 19:59, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>>
>> On Sep 13, 2010, at 7:47 PM, Felipe Sateler wrote:
>>
>>> On 13/09/10 16:15, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>>>> Also, the lack of puredata-dev makes it a bit more complicated
>>>> (its in collab-maint/puredata.git awaiting attention from the
>>>> Maintainer).  These two are quite important so I wanted to get  
>>>> them in
>>>> now, then when/if puredata-dev arrives, I'll amend them  
>>>> appropriately.
>>>
>>> What sort of wait is this? I see IOhannes is Uploader of that  
>>> package;
>>> are you just waiting for somebody to upload it?
>>
>>
>> We are waiting on the Maintainer, Paul Brossier, to review and upload
>> it.  In the last email I got from him on August 3rd, he said:
>>
>> "Right now I think too many changes have been made in the git  
>> branch for a
>> single upload. I will go through them and prepare an upload for  
>> next week."
>>
>> IOhannes and I have proposed to him moving the 'puredata' package to
>> pkg-multimedia, Paul was not adverse to the idea, but I haven't heard
>> anything from him since then.
>
> Please try pinging him again. I think we could move the package here.


Honestly, I think he's heard it enough about it from IOhannes and me.   
I think it would be helpful if others could start the discussion with  
him.

hc

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