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Maintainer of package joystick may be missing
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| laszlo kajan 2007-09-25, 1:28 pm |
| Dear Debian MIA Team,
I made a small patch for the jscal.c in the joystick package.
I then tried to contact the maintainer, Edward Betts (edward@debian.org)
on 09/17/2007, with no success.
As recommended on the page 'Debian Developer's Reference Chapter 7 /
Dealing with inactive and/or unreachable maintainers', I tried to gather
information on Edward Betts:
- his debian home page http://people.debian.org/~edward/ does not seem
to have content newer than 08-Dec-2005
- according to
http://asdfasdf.debian.net/~tar/bug...d%40debian.org, he has
not uploaded anything for two years
- there are 2 patches against hist joystick package that are not
included, the latest dates from 01 Nov 2005
- searching for Edward Betts on google, I have not noticed anything
after 2005
Unfortunately going to the developers' LDAP database
(https://db.debian.org/) did not yield the date when he last posted to a
Debian mailing list (this was suggested in the Developers' Reference).
Please show me the way I can have my patch included in jscal.c of the
joystick package. I believe it is useful and I immediately wanted to
share it with others. This however turns out to be a lot more difficult
than I expected. Edward Betts seems to be unavailable for almost two
years now, and so there is nobody to apply my - or the other 2 in the
queue - patch to the source.
I thank you for your kind help in advance.
Best regards,
Laszlo Kajan
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| Paul Wise 2007-09-26, 7:33 am |
| On 9/26/07, laszlo kajan <kajla@bioinfo.pl> wrote:
> I then tried to contact the maintainer, Edward Betts (edward@debian.org)
> on 09/17/2007, with no success.
That wasn't very long ago.
> Please show me the way I can have my patch included in jscal.c of the
> joystick package. I believe it is useful and I immediately wanted to
> share it with others.
You could try submitting it upstream, but that looks just as inactive:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=3063
Eduard Bloch, one of the people listed in joystick debian/copyright is
active within Debian.
http://packages.debian.org/changelo...rrent/copyright
Perhaps if you contact him, he would be willing to commit the patch
upstream and know how to contact Edward.
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bye,
pabs
http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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| Aníbal Monsalve Salazar 2007-09-26, 7:34 am |
| On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 05:24:14PM +0200, laszlo kajan wrote:
>Please show me the way I can have my patch included in jscal.c of the
>joystick package. I believe it is useful and I immediately wanted to
>share it with others.
Please file a bug report (including the patch) against the joystick
package.
Aníbal Monsalve Salazar
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| laszlo kajan 2007-09-27, 7:38 am |
| Dear AnÃ_bal,
I uploaded the button and axis remapping patch against
joystick/20051019-1.1. This most recent patch also includes updates for
the jscal manpage, documenting the new command line arguments.
Thank you for your help.
Best regards,
Laszlo Kajan
AnÃ_bal Monsalve Salazar wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 05:24:14PM +0200, laszlo kajan wrote:
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> Please file a bug report (including the patch) against the joystick
> package.
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> AnÃ_bal Monsalve Salazar
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