[Pkg-openldap-devel] Re: the .org proposal or "join forces"

[Russ Allbery]

Matthijs Mohlmann <matthijs at cacholong.nl> writes:

> Ok, what I wanted done for this package is:
> - Move to a patch system like dpatch or quilt
> - Move to dh_install instead of copying around files.
> - Understand how the maintainer scripts work in detail.
> - GnuTLS patch for the 2.3.* version. (And make the patch generic so
> that newer versions of OpenLDAP doesn't require a large modification to
> the patch)

Upstream is working on official support for GnuTLS, which should make the
last point much easier when complete.  I'm not sure what their timeframe
is, though.

I'm going to be a little busy with other projects through the end of the
year, but I'm willing to do bug triage and similar work on the package, as
well as do uploads if other people are busy.  My co-worker, Quanah
Gibson-Mount, is one of the OpenLDAP upstream developers and wants to
learn how to do Debian packaging, so after the start of the year I'm going
to work with him on that and see if he's also interested in helping with
this package.

If someone could add me to the OpenLDAP project in Alioth, that would be
great.  Thanks!

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Russ Allbery (rra at debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>