Hello, I would like someone to sponsor an adoption/hijacking or NMU'ing of a more recent version of "dvipng" than is available in the Debian archive. I have prepared an NMU of dvipng containing the latest version from upstream and have been trying to contact the previous maintainer as noted below. The NMU would close 330540, 346181, 327130 and 346084 in addition to 338807. Regards, Kapil. On Fri, 07 Apr 2006, I wrote to 338807@bugs.debian.org: > I have packaged dvipng version 1.8 and put in under > > http://www.imsc.res.in/~kapil/debian/dvipng/dvipng_1.8-0.1.dsc > > The relevant diff to build against upstream is enclosed. I also sent the following mail to the Maintainer on Sat, 06 May 2006: > I have been tracking the Debian package of "dvipng" which you maintain > since this package is quite useful for the package "tex4ht" which > I maintain. > > I notice that you have not updated the package for a while. > > Would you be interested in uploading a new version or having me as a > co-maintainer for the package? In case you so wish I am also willing > to adopt this package. I need certain features of "dvipng" that have > become available after version 1.5. I also sent the following mail to the sponsor of the previous upload on Tue, 16 May 2006: > As you had sponsored the uploads of dvipng which is maintained by > Brian Furry, I am e-mailing you. > > I had filed a patch to #338807 against dvipng and also e-mailed Brian > Furry directly but have received no response. > > Basically, the current Debian version of dvipng is 1.5 and the > upstream version is 1.8. The latter version fixes a number of the bugs > that have been filed on dvipng on the BTS. > > Hence, it would be nice if some way was found to upload a recent > version of dvipng to Debian. I maintain "tex4ht*" and those packages > use (though they only Recommend) dvipng. Hence my interest. > > Thanks and regards, > > Kapil. > > P.S. I have packaged dvipng version 1.8 and put in under > http://www.imsc.res.in/~kapil/debian/dvipng/dvipng_1.8-0.1.dsc
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