[Pkg-pciutils-discuss] the orphaning of pciutils

Matt Taggart taggart at debian.org
Sat Apr 1 03:25:16 UTC 2006


Hi Anibal,

Remco failed to mention when he orphaned pciutils that he agreed to let a few 
of us adopt it as a team and maintain it via alioth. Right now that is Matthew 
Wilcox and me and the project is,

http://alioth.debian.org/projects/pkg-pciutils/

We've made some good progress getting the package cleaned up, updated to the 
latest upstream, and willy has been working with upstream to get a lot of the 
Debian differences either merged or resolved in another way so that we can 
reduce the size of the diff. There has also been some work to get rid of the 
libpci shared library since it was providing little value and upstream is not 
willing to commit to a fixed ABI. We have a plan for transitioning the few 
packages that use the .so off of it and splitting it off to an oldlibs package 
for 3rd party applications that still need it. We haven't done an upload yet 
because since we're making some fairly big changes we're still testing.

How about joining the alioth team and helping us maintain it?

Thanks,

-- 
Matt Taggart
taggart at debian.org





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