[Skencil-users] [Skencil-devel] Debian packaging removal

[Igor Novikov]

Hi Bernhard!

Unfortunately it's impossible to resolve all issues for 0.6.x branch
on package maintaining level. It seems you need to revitalize 0.6.x
development
to fix problems under tk8.5 and tk8.6

-- 
Regards,

Igor Novikov
sK1 Project
http://sk1project.org

On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 11:27 AM, Bernhard Reiter <bernhard at intevation.de>wrote:

> Hi,
> I just saw that Debian has removed Skencil, because the lack of a
> maintainer. Thanks to Daniel for maintaining skencil so far!
>
> He wrote in:
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=537259
>
>  I'm orphaning skencil due to lack of interest in this package.
>
>  This package is, from the debian point of view, in good shape and is
>  pretty easy, makes it ideal for any New Maintainer. In case a non-DD
>  maintainer wants to take this package over, I'll offer to sponsor it.
>
>  However, skencils upstream has disappeared two years ago and skencil
>  definitely needs some love upstream wise. Any potential taker should
>  therefore like to work with tcl/tk. Upstream did start porting to gtk at
>  some point, however, that disappeared as well.
>
> So it seems to be easy to adopt the package if somebody wants to.
>
> I am still using Skencil occasionally. So it would be cool to keep it
> in Debian. Also if it is working nicely, why not keeping it in there?
>
>
>
>
>
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