On Fri, 20 Sep 2013, Tobias Frost wrote:
Yeah, I get it. I guess I wanted to make sure there was going to be a sponsor before I spent that time. I've used this package for years without a maintainer by just modifying the source.Am Donnerstag, den 19.09.2013, 16:08 -0400 schrieb Jon Daley:Yes, I saw the debian-lintian errors. And I can take a look at those - I wanted to see if I had the packaging procedure down correctly before attacking those. (and those issues have been around for years, so I wasn't making anything worse by not touching them yet)Well, a lintian-clean package attracts more sponsors :) And as a maintainer you have not too much be afraid to make you package worse but brave to improve it to the state of the art.
Mmmh, if upstream is gone this is a hint to think about if the lifecylcle of the package comes also to a end. Popcon says around 500 installs, (with a big jump going up early this year); so IMHO the package is still useful for quite many users.I have no plans to stop using it. I use it for work, and it saves gobs of time - I send the output straight to my customers, and have some crobjob/expect scripts that do some interesting statistics, like paid vs. unpaid tasks, and daily, monthly, annually reports, etc. I'd guess if no sponsor shows up, then I'll just distribute the debs myself, though that would certainly cut into its popularity.