[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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