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On Tuesday 04 July 2006 13:07, Enrico Weigelt wrote: |
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> * Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o> schrieb: |
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> > perhaps i wasnt clear enough: |
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> > it doesnt matter who the maintainer of gpm in Gentoo is until |
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> > this is resolved upstream |
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> The upstream seems to be quite dead at the moment. No traffic |
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> goes through the lists, the last release quite old and lots of |
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> patches outstanding. |
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Nico is alive, he responds from time to time ... i also have git commit access |
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so things posted to the list i can review |
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i dont see any outstanding patches on the mailing list |
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> So I'm planning to jump in, if the situation doesn't get better |
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> in the next days. |
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i dont know what you mean by "planning to jump in" but if you mean you're |
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planning on making your own "releases" of gpm, well good luck ... Gentoo will |
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be following Nico's releases since he is the maintainer of gpm |
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> BTW: libgpm is an fork-off from gpm, which just contains the client |
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> stuff. Maybe it will evolve to an more generic mouse library, ie. |
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> supporting other interfaces, like sysmouse directly. |
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my point is it shouldnt be a fork |
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-mike |