[DebianGIS-dev] mapnik update to 0.7 and corresponding issues

[David Paleino]

On Friday 19 February 2010 19:29:51, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 06:37:03PM +0100, Christophe Sauthier wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 6:17 PM, Francesco P. Lovergine
> >
> > <frankie at debian.org> wrote:
> > >But for that mapnik is currently not under DebianGis
> > > umbrella, but individually maintained by
> > >
> > >  -- Dominic Hargreaves <dom at earth.li>  Mon, 19 Oct 2009 23:28:32 +0100
> > >
> > > As you can see, it is not updated since a few months, I'd suggest you
> > > to contact him by email and verify what are his programs about the
> > > package. Possibly moving to team maintainance too. It'd be nice
> > > having it under the common d-gis repositories to improve team
> > > maintainance and avoid singletons ;-)
> >
> > Acually as I mentionned, he was maintining it but he handed over this
> > team some months ago (I was in CC of various email exchange). I am
> > CCing him in order to try to understand.
> 
> Indeed so. You can see from
> <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=551281>
> that David Paleino agreed to adopt this package in October last year,
> and I also note that there has been some activity in
> <http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-grass/mapnik.git;a=summary> since
> then.

Yes, I've been very busy with real life :)

> I suggest that anyone interested ping him for an update. Myself,
> I would like to have an upload so that I'm no longer incorrectly
> listed as Maintainer (surely it is generally polite to upload to
> change Maintainer shortly after ITA?)

I don't think doing un upload just to change Maintainer is a good thing to do. 
That's why I didn't make an immediate upload.

> but otherwise I'm not interested in this package any more.

I'm sorry if you still bothered by mails regarding it.

I'll manage to do an upload of 0.7.0 ASAP.

Sorry,
David

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