On Wed, Jan 05, 2022 at 03:26:13PM +0200, Timo Aaltonen wrote: > On 4.1.2022 20.48, Thomas Dickey wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 04, 2022 at 11:46:03AM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote: > > > Package: x11-utils > > > Version: 7.7+5 > > > Severity: normal > > > > > > Dear Maintainer, > > > > > > * x11-utils copy of luit was superseded by luit 2.0 in 2013. > > > * mentioned this several times to developers in X Strike Force > > > * developers did not reply to those comments > > > * developers could have suggested a way to address the issue > > > > > > As a solution to that, I propose to create a new package "luit2", > > > > Actually, the package should be named "luit", but the executable "luit2". > > > > Hi, so are you going to maintain it? sure - if I have a sponsor for the uploads. Keep in mind that I'm the upstream developer for several programs, but have been involved with Debian mainly by interaction with the developers who package my programs, e.g., ncurses, xterm, lynx, vile, dialog, vttest, cproto, diffstat, libcdk5 (there's another half-dozen). I recently was reminded that byacc wasn't being kept up to date, and decided to remedy that. luit's one of five programs that weren't up to date -- in Debian. A reminder to Santiago Vila got dialog updated, and someone offered to work on tapecalc. byacc and luit are what I've been working on this week - see https://mentors.debian.net/package/byacc/ https://mentors.debian.net/package/luit/ https://mentors.debian.net/package/x11-utils/ (further improvements are contemplated...) > If not, I don't see a point in creating a separate package for it. And I > could only find a single message about luit from you (feb 15th 2021) on my > local archive of debian-x messages since 2011.. I've discussed it more than once with other developers (Julien Cristau and Sven Joachim) over the past ten years, and gotten no response. I don't recall talking to you before. -- Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net> https://invisible-island.net ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net
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